“You are what you eat” – Obesity Bill proves it!

• Dodgy Bill has been dodging this question for over 5 years already.

Bill Shorten says switching to electric cars is like eating less* Big Macs

(* ‘fewer’ in modern English, ancient English, Pidgin and every other dialect)

‘You know what, mate, you are a great athlete’, he said to Nova’s morning host, ‘but if you had a friend who was perhaps on the large side, the chubby side, and they had 10 Big Macs a day … there’s a cost to not eating the Big Macs’. ‘But in the long term it’s an investment isn’t it? The idea that you can get positive change from putting nil effort in’. ‘I’m going to use this example of the exercise. Sure there’s a cost to exercising but there’s a benefit. Now which do you measure? The cost or the benefit or do you accept that it’s all part of a total package’.

Source: Daily Mail Online

We asked our Chief Logician to analyse this statement and she came up with these points:

1. ‘there’s a cost to not eating the Big Macs’.
   Uh no. Actually, the ‘cost’ would be about minus $50.
2. ‘But in the long term it’s an investment isn’t it?’
   Uh no, actually it would be a saving of current expenditure.
3. ‘The idea that you can get positive change from putting nil effort in’. Our logician was stumped but the in-house energy expert came up with the answer: What he means is, that if you build no coal-fired power stations, then eventually industry will cease and you’ll get zero emissions – which Bill regards to be a ‘benefit’. This is straight from the Gillard-school of Economics.
4. ‘I’m going to use this example of the exercise. Sure…’
   Only if voters are stupid enough to vote for you.
5. ‘Sure there’s a cost to exercising but there’s a benefit’.
   So now Obesity Bill has stopped eating 10 Big Macs a day AND started exercising (3km per day – LOL!), he’ll stop emitting carbon. With any luck, he’ll cease manure emissions too.
6. ‘Now which do you measure? The cost or the benefit or do you accept that it’s all part of a total package’.
   Anyone who actually thinks they can explain what Obesity Bill means here, should probably see a Psychiatrist.

 

Another diet…