Why we should fear America

spongtastic
spongtastic Posts: 2,651
edited October 2010 in The Crudcatcher
They're trying to turn our kids into this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlYCVpPo ... ata_player
Visit Clacton during the School holidays - it's like a never ending freak show.

Who are you calling inbred?

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  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    My grandmother was born after that video came out. That's how old it is.
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  • Thewaylander
    Thewaylander Posts: 8,593
    scary part is,

    We are only like 3-5% behind american in terms of obesity and its like 60%.

    When you take the world stats its like half the world are fat bast:@>s

    scary
  • delta5
    delta5 Posts: 265
    :shock:

    more . .
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6j6GcP3-uQ&feature=related
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  • paul.skibum
    paul.skibum Posts: 4,068
    I'll obese your world in a minute.

    But if you look at the BMA figures obese isnt what I'd call obese. Obese is break a chair when you sit down.

    Fat people are immoral. They like putting sausages in themselves.

    mmmmm, sausages.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Thewaylander wrote:
    When you take the world stats its like half the world are fat bast:@>s
    That's very true. It's why we have spring tides when all those fat folk go on holiday. Their extra gravitational attraction causes the seas to rise on the half of the planet where they holiday, and the seas to fall on the shores of their home country.
    But since people are getting fatter in general, it's also the reason why the global sea level is rising, and the reason for global warming.
    All those fat fkucs are drawing the water up from the seabed, and their out of shape, overheating carcasses are warming up the planet.

    It's true. It must be because I just made it up.
  • GHill
    GHill Posts: 2,402
    Thewaylander wrote:
    scary part is,

    We are only like 3-5% behind american in terms of obesity and its like 60%.

    It's not as close as that. Using WHO estimates the USA has 80.5% with BMI > 25 and UK has 67.8%.

    If you class a BMI > 30 as being "properly overweight" it becomes USA = 44.2% and UK = 23.7%.

    My experience of American is that while it has a greater number of grossly overweight people, it also has a lot more super fit people too (although I was living in a college town).
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    There's also a hell of a lot more MASSIVE yanks, as in, well over 6 feet tall an built like brick craphouses as well, it seems.
  • GHill
    GHill Posts: 2,402
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    There's also a hell of a lot more MASSIVE yanks, as in, well over 6 feet tall an built like brick craphouses as well, it seems.

    Yes, yes there is. Walking past the college american football team was more than a bit intimidating, and I'm not tiny.

    I should probably mutter something about their brain cell to body size inverse proportionality...
  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    GHill wrote:
    Thewaylander wrote:
    scary part is,

    We are only like 3-5% behind american in terms of obesity and its like 60%.

    It's not as close as that. Using WHO estimates the USA has 80.5% with BMI > 25 and UK has 67.8%.

    If you class a BMI > 30 as being "properly overweight" it becomes USA = 44.2% and UK = 23.7%.

    My experience of American is that while it has a greater number of grossly overweight people, it also has a lot more super fit people too (although I was living in a college town).

    problem is....BMI is a poor way of determining healthy weight......

    Any calculation that says steve redgrave was overweight at the height of his olympic career is clearly wrong!

    theres more to health than a simple ratio between height and weight.
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  • GHill
    GHill Posts: 2,402
    cee wrote:
    problem is....BMI is a poor way of determining healthy weight......

    Any calculation that says steve redgrave was overweight at the height of his olympic career is clearly wrong!

    theres more to health than a simple ratio between height and weight.

    I totally agree. My BMI shows me as overweight, but I'm in a lot better shape than a lot of my friends who are "normal". Losing the stone or two required to get into that bracket would be very difficult!
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    cee wrote:
    Any calculation that says steve redgrave was overweight at the height of his olympic career is clearly wrong!

    theres more to health than a simple ratio between height and weight.
    You are bang on. I often wonder if the "obesity epidemic" hitting Scotland and Wales is more down to the typical types of jobs available there. I know that in Wales, there's a hell of a lot of "farmhands" and other, heavy manual labour type work, and this tends to mean that the guys doing these jobs are built like brick-shitehouses, making the BMI thing irrelevant.
    There is a lot of fat people, true, but I think too much is made in the press of the amount of people with "unhealthy" BMI.
  • Thewaylander
    Thewaylander Posts: 8,593
    Bmi is total crap i agree.

    But still just looking around most people in the office i work in are a fair bit porky :s
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    I'll pork you in a minute.
  • Thewaylander
    Thewaylander Posts: 8,593
    you haven't got a porkin in you :p
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    You wouldn't know a good porking if it slapped you in the face.
  • paul.skibum
    paul.skibum Posts: 4,068
    I'll slap my pork in both your faces in a minute.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Om nom nom
  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    Delta5 wrote:
    :shock:

    more . .
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6j6GcP3-uQ&feature=related

    I believe she's fron Rhyl
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Nah, Surrey. She's been feasting on too much pheasant and swan, baked in goosefat.
  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    Fat people are in abundance in America, same with overly hench dudes, and normal sized people in America. Through my experience, America and England arn't really that different in size overall.

    Still though, that 7 year old who was 400lbs is just terrible. How would you, as a parent, actually allow that to happen to their kid. They must be living in a council, and living off child benefits.
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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    Nah, Surrey. She's been feasting on too much pheasant and swan, baked in goosefat.

    Babies cooked in dolphin fat with kitten stuffing actually.
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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    MountainMonster wrote:
    Fat people are in abundance in America, same with overly hench dudes, and normal sized people in America. Through my experience, America and England arn't really that different in size overall.

    Still though, that 7 year old who was 400lbs is just terrible. How would you, as a parent, actually allow that to happen to their kid. They must be living in a council, and living off child benefits.

    Fattening her up for their retirement? Yummy.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    cooldad wrote:
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    Nah, Surrey. She's been feasting on too much pheasant and swan, baked in goosefat.

    Babies cooked in dolphin fat with kitten stuffing actually.
    Seriously, leave the dolphins out of it, it's not funny :cry:
  • spongtastic
    spongtastic Posts: 2,651
    MountainMonster wrote:

    Still though, that 7 year old who was 400lbs is just terrible. How would you, as a parent, actually allow that to happen to their kid. .

    Her mother didn't realise that constantly eating more than the rest of the family was making her fat. She didn't seem to notice when she could no longer stand up.
    Visit Clacton during the School holidays - it's like a never ending freak show.

    Who are you calling inbred?
  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    cooldad wrote:
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    Nah, Surrey. She's been feasting on too much pheasant and swan, baked in goosefat.

    Babies cooked in dolphin fat with kitten stuffing actually.
    Seriously, leave the dolphins out of it, it's not funny :cry:

    As you asked so nicely could substitute baby seals instead. Better?
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Seals are fine, yes.
    What kind of seal are you talking about though?
    Navy_Seal-figure-6.jpg

    Or this?
    Seal.jpg

    I'm not too bothered really. I mean the second one was a pretty good singer, but he hasn't released any good material for a while, so no heartache.
  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    This one

    seal.jpg
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    :lol:
    Oh WOW, I just spat my tea all over the desk!

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