Fat, lazy Americans

We're just a terrible, horrible Fast Food Nation, aren't we?

"The nation has fallen into a vicious circle of laziness that we must put a stop to," she added.

And she warned: "If we don't start to take control of this problem, a whole generation will become too unfit to perform even the most rudimentary of tasks."

In the poll of more than 2,000 adults, 15 percent said that, if the television remote was broken, they would rather continue watching the same channel than getting up and switching to another programme.

Oh, wait. That extra "me" when talking about changing the chunnel channel there might have clued you into the fact that we're not talking about the US of A at all. But once we get our own National Health Service, everything will be just ducky.

Yeah.