An upstanding piece of research
I came across a drop of research the other day which is quite frankly amazing.
I would advise you to sit down before reading it.
Or there again, maybe not.
You see, ‘Too much sitting’ is linked to tens of thousands of deaths each year. On the face of it, this may seem ridiculous but I have been giving it some thought and of course logically they are correct. In fact I would suggest that the casualty rate is far higher by many factors.
As an example, how many of the people killed in road accidents were standing at the time? Yes, it’s more than probable that they were all sitting. In fact the various gubmints have made it mandatory to sit and to wear a seatbelt to make sure the victim was sitting. I would imagine there is a case there to bring the various gubmints to court to be tried for mass slaughter?
Of course plane crashes fall into the same category too. I think it’s a fair bet that all pilots [and indeed co-pilots] were happily seated as they plunged to their deaths and killing their passengers [who of course were instructed to sit down before the crash to ensure their mortality].
The list of deaths while seated worldwide must extend to many millions annually. Something must be done. Laws must be introduced to compel people to stand at all times. Chairs, park benches and indeed all forms of devious means to get us to sit, up to and including low walls, must be consigned to landfill and made illegal.
Sitting is indeed the new tobacco
Pretty well all of those who died in the last five years wore underwear: evidently wearing underwear is the most dangerous thing we can do. There! Amazing research. Can I have my research grant now, please?
You want a grant to sniff around people’s underwear? Kinky!
Remember Stanley Green (Protein Man)? An addendum to his famous sign listing ‘undesirable’ foods bore the message ‘AND SITTING’.
Hah! Hadn’t heard about him. I just looked him up. I’m not sure whether he was advocating sitting or denouncing it. A somewhat ambiguous message?
Aw geez, they have been harping on that shit for awhile here. The Pa department of health has been running commercial s stating that old stand by, sitting is the new smoking.
What a pack of crap it is. People have been sitting at their desks for generations now but all of a sudden it’s as baaaaad as smoking. First off prove that smoking is bad and don’t give me the I don’t like the smell of it.
What a pile of bullshit!
Everything is as bad as smoking these days. This whole “research” thing is a complete farce.
So how many lives will O’Leary save when/if he installs his “half sitting/half standing” places for Ryanair passengers? The Man is obviously dedicated to the furtherance of humanity. Nobel prize in the offing? I understand his idea was formed while watching a video of the pop singer Little Richard playing his piano while standing up, while being driven in his limousine which, allegedly, is registered as a private hire taxi so he can travel in the Dublin bus lanes. Truly a man of the people visionary.
If he insists on his pilots standing then the fun will start? Luckily I’m not on any flight paths!
I could say that people who are sitting are sitting on their butts and if we didn’t have butts then there would be no sitting since one cannot sit without a butt therefor perhaps we should ban butts so there would be no sitting and the world would be a safer, healthier place…
…butt I won’t.