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Title: HA! Can't laugh now!
Post by: Unknown Target on January 20, 2005, 12:06:28 pm
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=541&ncid=751&e=6&u=/ap/20050120/ap_on_he_me/eu_obesity

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The Commissioner fears the 25-nation European Union will be going the same way as the United States. "We made fun of Americans in a way. It is a European problem now," Kyprianou said in an interview with London's Financial Times.  


True, you guys may eat less of it than us (according to the article), but one out of every four? That's still a lot :p
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Post by: Tiara on January 20, 2005, 12:11:04 pm
Lol! :D

But at least the EU is taking it seriously. I've yet to see something happen in the US where obesity is making this look like a slim blonde on coke with anorexia.
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Post by: Genryu on January 20, 2005, 12:13:12 pm
Don't remember the exact numbers, but you're still in front of us by a large margin :p
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Post by: Fineus on January 20, 2005, 12:20:12 pm
**** it, let natural selection take its course I say. If people are really that incapable of controlling their own weight then they deserve to become fat, slow and incapable of breeding.

Alternatively, ship half the food in Europe over to Africa and even the balance out. I'm sure there are a lot of starving nations in those areas that could do with it.
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Post by: aldo_14 on January 20, 2005, 12:23:49 pm
I say we brand fat people with the cause of their fatness; i.e. 'lazy' or 'stuffs gob', etc.  With the exception of fat people who are actively trying to lose weight, because that would be unfair.
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Post by: Ghostavo on January 20, 2005, 01:48:33 pm
What about those trying to actually gain weight? Does this make it more dificult, or not? :nervous:
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Post by: Unknown Target on January 20, 2005, 01:49:22 pm
*laughs at fat people who blame their fatness on the corporations*

If you take it all with a grain of salt, it's actually sorta funny in a sick way :)
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Post by: IceFire on January 20, 2005, 01:55:35 pm
Its odd but every time I go across the border into the US....the size of the people there increases.  The average size.  I mean, some people are just as slim as I'm accustomed to...but its really rediculous sometimes.  I think to myself, these people I'm seeing aren't just a little heavy, or the type of bigger boned person that you run into (those people arent' necessarily fat either)...these people are enormous...it interferes with their ability to move...nevermind walk or run.

Yeesh.
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Post by: Unknown Target on January 20, 2005, 01:59:20 pm
I agree, I travel to the mainland occasionaly, and I go from a mostly fit, 95% black population, to a mostly fat/anorexic 99% white population.

It's just strange. You either get the huge people who don't really care that they can't fit into bus seats, or the anorexic people who think that unless they fall through the cracks in said bus seats, no one will even look at them.
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Post by: Gank on January 20, 2005, 02:21:46 pm
Think the figures for the US are something like 2 out of 3. Interesting how recently joined countrys have the worst problem, you'd have thought they'd be better off.
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Post by: Ford Prefect on January 20, 2005, 02:21:57 pm
*Has the ability to eat to the brink of death and not gain weight thanks to his high metabolism.* :yes:
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Post by: Grey Wolf on January 20, 2005, 02:36:57 pm
The numbers from the CDC about American obesity were off. Also, the 2 of 3 is overweight, not obese. Obesity is far lower, at approximately 1/3.
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Post by: Corsair on January 20, 2005, 02:39:44 pm
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Originally posted by Ford Prefect
*Has the ability to eat to the brink of death and not gain weight thanks to his high metabolism.* :yes:
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Post by: Scuddie on January 20, 2005, 03:56:12 pm
What the vast majority of people fail to understand is that there is a significant difference between being overweight and overfat.  Weight number by itself doesnt tell anything as far as how fat a person is.  Hell, I weigh 380 and I have tons less fat than most 300 pound people I know.

Plus, the taller, and bulkier you are, the more body fat your body demands.  I also always hate it that across the board, 5 pounds is considered vanity pounds.  Reality check, for a person my size, vanity pounds are more around 15-20 pounds.

I also hate the Olsen twins.  That doesnt really have any relevance to the topic, but just thought I should bring it up.
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Post by: Gank on January 20, 2005, 04:03:41 pm
muscle is heavier than fat, a well built person can weigh as much as someone much bigger mass wise than them. That said 21 stones kinda big :p
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Post by: Rictor on January 20, 2005, 04:04:32 pm
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Originally posted by Kalfireth
**** it, let natural selection take its course I say. If people are really that incapable of controlling their own weight then they deserve to become fat, slow and incapable of breeding.

Alternatively, ship half the food in Europe over to Africa and even the balance out. I'm sure there are a lot of starving nations in those areas that could do with it.


:nod: :nod:
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Post by: aldo_14 on January 20, 2005, 04:16:45 pm
Or ship fat people off to Africa, and reintroduce cannibalism!
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Post by: Unknown Target on January 20, 2005, 05:04:21 pm
But they';re mostly fat, which us unedible :p
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Post by: Janos on January 20, 2005, 05:10:21 pm
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Originally posted by Unknown Target
But they';re mostly fat, which us unedible :p


But it burns well.
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Post by: ZylonBane on January 20, 2005, 06:44:32 pm
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Originally posted by Scuddie
Plus, the taller, and bulkier you are, the more body fat your body demands.  I also always hate it that across the board, 5 pounds is considered vanity pounds.  Reality check, for a person my size, vanity pounds are more around 15-20 pounds.

I hate the fact that I've never, ever heard the expression "vanity pounds".

Oh wait, no I don't.
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Post by: Scuddie on January 20, 2005, 06:54:48 pm
Vanity pounds are the ones that nobody cares about.  140lb woman:  OMG, d00d I w3igH 5 m0re pwnz tehn I d1d 5 y0orz 4G0.  I g8tt3 get r1d uv it!!shift1!1!!eleven!

...I have no idea why that woman would be talking in 1337 speak, it just came to my head that way.
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Post by: Drew on January 20, 2005, 09:23:15 pm
if %40 of all the girls arnt fatasses, that still gives us pretty good odds of finding a hot chick.


Iv got a hyper motabolizm, so i started eating those 1400 calorie doube angus cheeseburgers at hardees.  Iv never been so happy.  Hell i ate 2 of those things.
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Post by: adwight on January 20, 2005, 10:21:21 pm
All of you with your hyper metabolisms make me sick.  I'm not saying im fat, which I'm not, but I actually have to watch what I eat, or else I will get fat.
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Post by: Flipside on January 20, 2005, 11:20:20 pm
Heh, I was in Mc Donalds today, one of the rare occasions, and this kid came in. Apart from being cursed with hair from the Wonderyears, this sprog couldn't have been older than maybe 5. He had a pot belly on him already that made him look pregnant.

I think something should be done about it, because fat 5 year olds with faces like concussed fish put me off my meal. ;)
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Post by: icespeed on January 21, 2005, 04:51:11 am
it's all to do with the society. i don't think it should matter whether you're fat or not, if people want to die of heart disease and stroke at the age of fifty cos they're fat, that's their problem, they've had plenty of warning from doctors and even infomercials.

besides, don't diss the anorexics, it's not their fault they look up to hollywood airheads without a brain cell between them.
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Post by: Unknown Target on January 21, 2005, 05:45:31 am
I use my metabolism, and eat what my body wants. Lucky for me, I can't get fat :)


And it sorta is their fault, especially when they're skinnier than starving kids in Africa, and still think they're fat.
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Post by: Tiara on January 21, 2005, 06:51:40 am
*eats surimi sandwich*

:D
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Post by: Flipside on January 21, 2005, 06:54:29 am
If coffee with 3 sugars and Galaxy Bars were illegal, I'd be dead from undernutrition within a week ;)
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Post by: ZylonBane on January 25, 2005, 11:32:28 pm
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Originally posted by Tiara
*eats surimi sandwich*

And is this a brag or a lament?
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Post by: Knight Templar on January 26, 2005, 12:15:56 am
*brags about eating cheerios*
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Post by: Swamp_Thing on January 26, 2005, 07:48:51 am
Fat people are a blessing for the soap industry.
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Post by: vyper on January 26, 2005, 07:55:50 am
And the scrubbing brush industry...