Americans and obesity

MIN2511 · 16-01-2008 03:50AM #1

Do you think Americans are obese because they feel guilty about Hiromisha, so they have embraced the sumo culture?

AARRRGH · 16-01-2008 03:51AM

Yes.

Terry · 16-01-2008 04:05AM

I feel guilty for being an arsehole. That's why I'm obese.
It has nothing to do with my bad diet and lack of exercise.

Reku · 16-01-2008 08:44AM

Maybe it's due to guilt over consuming more than their fair share of the world's resources, e.g. food.:p

togster · 16-01-2008 08:49AM

They are all fat båstards...yes

ejmaztec · 16-01-2008 10:52AM

It's because of the arms race. Their elbows move faster than anybody else's, so they can get more down their necks. However, with certain exceptions, this doesn't explain why the rest of the world's population is also fat.

baztard · 16-01-2008 11:49AM

Report in the papers today that half of Irish adults are over wieght. Take the piss out of the yanks for being obese while we still have the chance, as in a few years time we'll be just as bad as them

ScumLord · 16-01-2008 11:53AM

Ireland picked up all Americas bad habits awful quickly even though we knew going in how bad these habits are. We're greedy, fat, arrogant, loud, we have no respect for the environment. If it wasn't for the fact we're in Europe I'd say we'd be much worse than we are.

We have no excuses, the Americans where the first to live that lifestyle and can say they didn't know any better but we did and dove in head first regardless.

Lux23 · 16-01-2008 11:58AM

I heard it was something like 70% of Irish men are overweight and 50% of irish women are the same and something like 1 in 4 children are overweight or obese. Slag off the americans all you want but we are heading in the same direction. Its sounds horrible but go to Blanchardstown Shopping Centre and sit at the entrance for 30 minutes and the amount of obese people you will see is shocking!!

Kur4mA · 16-01-2008 12:05PM

MIN2511 wrote: »

Do you think Americans are obese because they feel guilty about Hiromisha, so they have embraced the sumo culture?

Is that some dodgy food dish they created? I reckon it's because a lot of them don't exercise enough and eat a lot of junk food. That's like saying you're a fat **** because you kicked someone in the face one time. Your statement is completely stupid really...

gillyfromlyre · 16-01-2008 12:17PM

My cousin Jethro lives in Oklahoma and he says that its not a problem in the south,he says its all "em paie eautin folks out roun da eaust coast n em rich layabouts thats a hangin roun california ways thats a stuffin food dawn der gobs four want a doin thangs"

Reku · 16-01-2008 12:29PM

Lux23 wrote: »

I heard it was something like 70% of Irish men are overweight and 50% of irish women are the same

Damn, our honesty on the topic of weight is making males look bad, whereas at least the women know to answer:
(real weight/2) + 4 = weight to answer when someone asks.:p

You Suck! · 16-01-2008 12:30PM

If the Americans feel guilty about a Japanese dish, then just what is it that modern Ireland feels guilty about?

16-01-2008 12:32PM

I blame McDonalds. We should all sue them for making us fat.

RedPlanet · 16-01-2008 12:35PM

gillyfromlyre wrote: »

My cousin Jethro lives in Oklahoma and he says that its not a problem in the south,he says its all "em paie eautin folks out roun da eaust coast n em rich layabouts thats a hangin roun california ways thats a stuffin food dawn der gobs four want a doin thangs"

Then he is dumb too!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4436638.stm
Most the fattest states in America are all along the south

18AD · 16-01-2008 12:37PM

I think they're getting fat because they're preparing to become a space migrating civilisation. So they increase their fat stores to handle the incredibly long journeys. Being fat poses no limitations when there's no gravity.

Everyone else is just stupidly following suit.

Yeah...
AD.

Dragan · 16-01-2008 12:40PM

RedPlanet wrote: »

Then he is dumb too!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4436638.stm
Most the fattest states in America are all along the south

It's all those deep fried foods they keep eating see.

Lux23 · 16-01-2008 12:44PM

farohar wrote: »

Damn, our honesty on the topic of weight is making males look bad, whereas at least the women know to answer:
(real weight/2) + 4 = weight to answer when someone asks.:p

That study was based on something where people were actually weighed as opposed to ask their weight. Im assuming that I look at men far more than you do and they are on average all a bit chubby, not unattractive though.

The Real B-man · 16-01-2008 12:44PM

Take a good luck at Ireland we are just as bad

gillyfromlyre · 16-01-2008 12:52PM

RedPlanet wrote: »

Then he is dumb too!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4436638.stm
Most the fattest states in America are all along the south

Yes, he is a real dummy, he thinks hes mr slim but hes a porky sack of crap, funny accent tho

wasabi · 16-01-2008 12:59PM

Dragan wrote: »

It's all those deep fried foods they keep eating see.

I recently ate a meal out in the sticks in Tennessee (i.e. the South). It consisted of fried catfish and three types of fried carbohydrate - chips, onion rings, and hush puppies.

Hush puppies, for the uninitiated, are when they take all the little bits of batter that fall off the other things they're frying and mold them into a ball.

Most of the customers in this particular establishment were hugely overweight, no surprise there!

Dudess · 16-01-2008 01:17PM

kyub wrote: »

Is that some dodgy food dish they created? I reckon it's because a lot of them don't exercise enough and eat a lot of junk food. That's like saying you're a fat **** because you kicked someone in the face one time. Your statement is completely stupid really...

You Suck! wrote: »

If the Americans feel guilty about a Japanese dish, then just what is it that modern Ireland feels guilty about?

Lol! You're both taking the piss aren't you?!

RedPlanet wrote: »

Then he is dumb too!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4436638.stm
Most the fattest states in America are all along the south

America's fattest city (as of three or four years ago anyway) is in Texas - Houston I think. Designed in a way that's very difficult for pedestrians (lack of footpaths, freeways rather than streets), too hot to go outside a lot of the time, insane junk-food culture - all-you-can-eat restaurants, massive portions, eating competitions! I was watching a documentary about this and there was a guy showing off his collection of eating trophies - one for polishing off a steak the size of a small cow etc. Sad really. None of the above are excuses for such unhealthy lifestyles but they are offered as explanations over there.
There was an item on the news recently about a 900lb woman over there who was going for a gastric bypass. I find it so bizarre that she LET herself get to 900lbs - why not get alarmed by, say, 300lbs?!

RonMexico · 16-01-2008 01:23PM

Ireland is just as bad. Look at all the muffin tops wobbling along the streets, its like being trapped in Willy Wonkas Flesh Factory.

Jesus Wept · 16-01-2008 01:25PM

Reminds me of 'All you can eat - Pete', a legend in these parts.
If you can eat the 72oz steak and the extras etc in an hour, you eat for free.
Pete did it in 12 minutes.
Not an American. Canadian though eh.

Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8W18qeyQ0A

Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyCqy4Rbi4Q

Dudess · 16-01-2008 01:29PM

RonMexico wrote: »

Ireland is just as bad. Look at all the muffin tops wobbling along the streets, its like being trapped in Willy Wonkas Flesh Factory.

No way is Ireland just as bad. A lot of people are overweight here, but there are barely any human mountains like those in the States.

Lux23 · 16-01-2008 01:33PM

Dudess wrote: »

No way is Ireland just as bad. A lot of people are overweight here, but there are barely any human mountains like those in the States.

But we are starting to see them more and more. I remember when I was at school obese kids were a rarity now if you see ten kids walking down the street 3-4 of them are overweight or obese. It doesn't look like its going to change for the better either. Irish People feed their children muck and then blame the government when they are fat for not building enough playgrounds.

ejmaztec · 16-01-2008 01:34PM

Dudess wrote: »

No way is Ireland just as bad. A lot of people are overweight here, but there are barely any human mountains like those in the States.

When the weather heats up a bit, visit Belly - sorry - Ballybunion on the Kerry coast. It's hard to pick out whether there are sunbathers or washed up Minky whales on the beach:)

RonMexico · 16-01-2008 01:34PM

Irish mountains are always going to be inferior to American ones. I have seen plenty of grossly overweight people in Ireland. Maybe not in the 900Ib category but it won't be long.

Reku · 16-01-2008 01:45PM

Lux23 wrote: »

That study was based on something where people were actually weighed as opposed to ask their weight. Im assuming that I look at men far more than you do and they are on average all a bit chubby, not unattractive though.

Clearly my attempt to poke fun at the archaic stereotype of a woman never admitting to a shoe size larger than 4, an age higher than 27, how many sex-partners she's really had and her actual weight was a complete failure....
*hangs head in shame*:(

ejmaztec · 16-01-2008 03:05PM

Are any of those "Speak Your Weight" machines still around?

"One at a time please"

MIN2511 · 16-01-2008 04:48PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

Are any of those "Speak Your Weight" machines still around?

"One at a time please"

Very funny...
I haven't seen them around now

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