[Closed] Why are people so big in Huddersfield?

In the town of Huddersfield
There lived a cow that wouldn't yield
The reason why she wouldn't yield?
She didn't like her udders feeled.

Sorry, can't help...

Didn't they invent the game of rugby or something? Maybe it's just in the genes.

I must admit though, I prefer bencooper's post to this one.

Seem to be more of these here than elsewhere?

Where elsewhere?

Do you mean that you've been to Hudd and seen a couple of fat people?

Crikey raises a good point. Can you clarify if you mean big, as in well built muscular. Or just fat?

I wish to know whether to be offended for the people of Hddersfield.

I like chips.

I was considering braving the deep fried pizza option last night but didn't quite have the guts.

And I still don't know for sure what a mock chop is.

...and I suspect that you've driven from south Manchester to Hudd and not got more than 400 yards from your car, so your experience is in no way representative of anything other than your own chubby spotting ability.

There's a handy obesity map here http://www.noo.org.uk/visualisation/eatlas

Can't check that it works on this device.

I was at uni in Hudds, didn't really notice how fat people were but on average everyone seemed a bit shorter than back home (south Staffordshire, not Stoke).

It was noticable on a night out at a weekend, so it wouldn't be the student population that was out rather locals. In Hudds I felt tall compared to everyone, back home I'd be about average

Hora, you are from Huddersfield. You are also a bit tubby. Using yourself as a case study, maybe you could ranswer the op?

Theyr'e even bigger in Cleckhudderlifax. 🙂

Perhaps you're standing too close to them ?

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Big arms, big legs etc. Seem to be more of these here than elsewhere?

Weird. Could it be due to the high number of chip shops?

At GeordieLand they are huge ... end off.

I mean everything and there are not even good chip shops in the city centre. The men yes they like their drinks. The women they will knock you out cold with them thunder ...

i travel around a fair bit for work and really notice the corpulence increase as soon as you leave London.
seems to go hand in hand with the prevalence for middle aged men to keep wearing teenage clothing right through their adult life.
i guess its just a provincial affectation that's the norm outside the capital.

Not everybody's such a smart dresser as you Smith
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Pit Props

MrSmith has a point. Binners has never been near a skateboard or surfing yet looks like hes been 'in'/ dressed for the scene for years dudes.

Pook your going darn tomorrow!

Looks like i'am tiny then at 5'8" and live in Huddersfield ?

I forgot to say the reason why i'am so tiny is because I don't eat fish an chips?

i travel around a fair bit for work and really notice the corpulence increase as soon as you leave London.
seems to go hand in hand with the prevalence for middle aged men to keep wearing teenage clothing right through their adult life.
i guess its just a provincial affectation that's the norm outside the capital.

Oh great, another London is Nirvana, everywhere else is a crapheap post by Mr Smith. As a Londoner myself, it's clear you either only visit the pretty parts of London, or wear a blindfold when South of the Thames.

I forgot to say the reason why i'am so tiny is because I don't eat fish an chips?

Is it because you can't see over the counter?

No your nickname is 'tiny' as you are actually chubalub-ginormous! 😀

Didn't they invent the game of rugby or something?

I think rugby was invented in Rugby!

Mebbies they've just sucked in a load of helium ??

I was considering braving the deep fried pizza option last night but didn't quite have the gut

i travel around a fair bit for work and really notice the corpulence increase as soon as you leave London.
seems to go hand in hand with the prevalence for middle aged men to keep wearing teenage clothing right through their adult life.
i guess its just a provincial affectation that's the norm outside the capital.

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I have those shorts, those shoes are lame though.

Is that Binners and Hora in the photo?

Jack the dog, yeah rugby league was invented in the George hotel in Huddersfield.

Not noticed any more chubbers in hudds than anywhere else though.

Oh great, another London is Nirvana, everywhere else is a crapheap post by Mr Smith. As a Londoner myself, it's clear you either only visit the pretty parts of London, or wear a blindfold when South of the Thames.

Just an observation on regional sartorial trends and obesity (which is confirmed by the interesting fat-map link up there)
I offer no suggestion as to 'crapheap' status of conurbations, I myself reside in a zone 3 SW ghetto (though not for much longer) and am under no illusions regarding its demographic or quality of life enjoyed by its population.

Tomhoward I disagree. The likes of Rochdale etc nearby has blobs or shrivelled/no veg in their life types. But Hudds seems to have big swollen legs/huge upper arm types.

Lard on bread diet?! (Bread n drippin)

Whenever I try to drive through Huddersfield, the car usually runs out of MOT before I get to the centre.

Leeds Kirkgate market area is a good source of large folk, if that's your bag.

i guess its just a provincial affectation that's the norm outside the capital.

If something's the norm everywhere other than one place (London) then it can hardly be an affectation, or rather, the atypical behaviour of metrosexual ponces is the affectation.

Well, they are pretty much up the chubster charts, although not at the top:

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Oh great, another London is Nirvana, everywhere else is a crapheap post by Mr Smith. As a Londoner myself, it's clear you either only visit the pretty parts of London, or wear a blindfold when South of the Thames.

Well according to the stats, the Chubster index is pretty low in London, compared with bits of the North....

atypical behaviour of metrosexual ponces is the affectation.

How do they behave then? ❓

Well according to the stats, the Chubster index is pretty low in London, compared with bits of the North....

And I can see bits of the North that are white like the area round London. Can't you ?

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How do they behave then?

In a condescending and superior manner ?

Can't say really? I try to avoid Shoreditch/hackney/N1 so rarely see [i]metrosexulus-homo[/i] in the wild

Well in that case I think its probably fair to say that you do a convincing impersonation.

London, tis a bit rubbish. Distinct lack of mountains.

Well in that case I think its probably fair to say that you do a convincing impersonation.

Not really, the waist of my jeans are far too high and they are not skinny enough, I don't have enough hair for a trendy hairstyle either.

I'm Huddersfield born and bred and I'm a right scrawny ****er. I'd not noticed that people here were any bigger or burlier, but we are a bunch of proper mingers, I'll give you that. A city's-worth of swamp donkeys, by and large.

Maybe it's just that people aren't so judgemental in Huddy as they are elswhere and larger folk can walk the streets freely without fear of ridicule.
And mintimperial is clearly the exception that proves the rule 🙂