http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/01/21/ai ... tml?hpt=C2

Look at us....this is fucking pathetic.

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Presumably the third living South of the mason dixon and East of Arizona.

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Hold my beer and watch this...

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"Go out and run 'em."
- Lindy Ruff, 23 Feb. 2007

XC - there are plenty of plumpers up north and out west, too

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We're fat because we don't smoke nearly enough. Fuck going to the gym, fuck dieting, and fuck Pilotis - just smoke. Works in Europe. We were a thin country until the anti-smoking shit got going about 40 years ago, and nobody did aerobics, belonged to a gym, owned a treadmill, went jogging, ate sugar free/fat free/carb free food or drank light beer.

What did we do? We smoked. Ate fried eggs and bacon for breakfast. Had a cheeseburger with fries for lunch. Had some fried chicken and mashed potatoes for dinner. Drank beer, martinis and scotch. Often times with lunch as well as dinner and at night.

Oh, but we smoked...and not ultra lights, either, but full nicotine, full tar Pall Malls and Lucky Strikes. We ate less and sped up the metabolism. It worked then, and it could work again now.

Let the smoking revolution begin.

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Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, when you're perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, 'cause I get better looking each day. To know me is to love me, I must be a hell of a man. Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, but I'm doin' the best that I can.

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"Go out and run 'em."
- Lindy Ruff, 23 Feb. 2007

I would usually take you in jest etc, but you've mentioned the smoking claim twice now. Do you actually believe that one is better off to be a smoker and skinny, or fat and nicotine free?

It's just an appetite suppressant

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When I was a boy I spoke as a boy, I understood as a boy, and I thought as a boy; when I became a man I took that boy outside and shot him.

Tar lungs or clogged arteries...

Take your choice

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"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." ~ Han Solo


We truly are not worthy of Miller!

Well, good for air france. I especially like the part about not letting people board if the plane is full and they are too fat, I am SICK of having fat sweaty motherfuckers spill over into my seat, that shit is NOT cool. If your fat ass cant fit in a single seat, dont impose your blubbery excess on my already tiny area.

I don't smoke, but I wish I did...I'd be in much better shape. Too late for me, though, unless I want a divorce. According to the American Cancer Society, in the past 15 years smoking is down by over 20%, while obbesity has skyrocketed by 48%. As a result, they are now focusing their cancer prevention efforts on obesity instead smoking.

Here's an interesting article on the health benefits of smoking: http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl ... oking.html

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Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, when you're perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, 'cause I get better looking each day. To know me is to love me, I must be a hell of a man. Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, but I'm doin' the best that I can.

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"Go out and run 'em."
- Lindy Ruff, 23 Feb. 2007

I wasn't trying to refute his point, I'm just saying that we're fat all over, not just in the south.

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So we can blame fat people for rising air fare costs?

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"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." ~ Han Solo


We truly are not worthy of Miller!

Disneyland had to rebuild "It's a Small World" a couple years ago because fat ass Americans were bottoming out the boats.

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Hold my beer and watch this...

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"Go out and run 'em."
- Lindy Ruff, 23 Feb. 2007

I've always been very slim, but I've always had to work very hard at it. This means I need time to work out. Since I've moved out with my girlfriend and we've had to pay for rent, all the bills, tuition and go to school, I havn't had any time to work out, so I'm gaining chub.

Fuck America and its work first mentallity. It's obviously not the only reason, but its a reason that is definetly not talked about enough. People spend there whole day working, going to school, and running errands, so they don't have enough time to prepare a healthy meal. Also, after going to school from 7am till 5pm and then working from 9pm till 6am, I just don't want to deal with trying to work out. I need some "me" and me and my girlfriend need some "us" time or else we'll go insane and fucking kill ourselves.

Fuck you America. I've fallen into "the trap"

Yeeeaaaah, we're fat. Don't forget, too, one study done within the past couple of years that compared fitness tests of 10-year-olds in 1998 with those of 10-year-olds in 2008. 95% of 10-year-olds in 1998 would beat the average 10-year-old in 2008. PATHETIC. I was a fast runner when I was ten... If I were ten today, I would be amazing.

This goes back to something I said once elsewhere: that when I was a kid, Augustus in the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory looked fat to me. He was supposed to be the token chubby kid, and to me and to kids in the '70s, he was. Put him up against kids today, though, and he does not look even the slightest bit fat at all. Obesity beginning in childhood has only been a problem probably the last five years.

Another study states that the average lifespan for an American citizen born in or after the year 2000 will very likely be 95-100+... If he doesn't develop diabetes due to obesity. The fact that that had to be mentioned was depressing.

As for me, I have no fear of ever becoming obese; even for those in my family who are largely inactive, nobody has ever been that overweight. My parents are still thin. When my father came to see me at work while I was home, one of my coworkers asked me if he was my boyfriend or my brother and was genuinely confused at the look I gave her. Heart attacks don't run in my family, either, but my grandfather has had a stroke; I plan on not eating foods high in saturated fat once I graduate from college (can't help it now, with the crap they have in the dining room) to combat the risk of developing blood clots due to arteriosclerosis.





That is so sad.

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Miles to go before I sleep

‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

Yeah, Americans are fatasses. In other news, the Pope is Catholic.

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hockey Night in Buffalo

It's the ease of access to food and kids not getting outside to play. You become fat at age 5 or between that playing video games and eating fast food, you really think they will try to lose that weight at age 30?

Fast food places should have a weight limit to eat there, if you're obese you're denied.

But the definition of obese doesn't mean a person is fat or actually huge. It's really the medical definition of it which is wrong.

If you are 6 foot tall but weigh in at 210 you're considered obese. But a person who is 6 foot could easily weigh in at 210 if they are built and work out. so the obese stat should change t body fat, because someone who is 6 foot and 210, but has a high body fat and don't work out, is being a lardass.

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Doesn't BMI take into account body fat percentage? Or maybe when I did the body fat calculation, it took into account BMI. I don't remember.

Last I checked, 5'10", 150 pounds, <10% body fat. Boo yah.

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