When I lived in England, there was a truly noticeable number of overweight people shambling across the streets. Is it just that they are so much more pale there and stand out more? Or is it just that American fatsos stay cooped up in their efficiency apartments/churches?

//Maybe it's still considered a status symbol there, and nobody told me about it.

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Well fuck. I'm eating some bread with olive oil and Italian spices and I looked on the back of the oil bottle. 1 table spoon of this shit is 21% of my daily fat.

Fuck, this is like my favorite snack, too.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Australians and British are catching up to American obesity rates, though. Welcome to the club, fatties.

Nope, apparently we're already fatter than you. I don't believe that though.

You know those people who are so fat that you can't help but stare at them in astonishment? The ones where you wonder how they get out of bed, or eat, or shower, or fit into a car? I've seen perhaps two of them in Australia in my life. In America I saw hundreds of them in a few weeks.

We just like to consolidate for ease of amusement.

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Originally posted by Banora Well fuck. I'm eating some bread with olive oil and Italian spices and I looked on the back of the oil bottle. 1 table spoon of this shit is 21% of my daily fat. Fuck, this is like my favorite snack, too.

Olive oil with bread is great. The fat is mostly monounsaturated, which is supposed to be good for your heart.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On //Maybe it's still considered a status symbol there, and nobody told me about it.

Excuse my obvious naivety here, but being fat used to be a status symbol in America?

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Originally posted by Domesticated You know those people who are so fat that you can't help but stare at them in astonishment? The ones where you wonder how they get out of bed, or eat, or shower, or fit into a car?

Try living with one, or, sharing the same sleeping room with one for three months.

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Originally posted by Domesticated Nope, apparently we're already fatter than you. I don't believe that though. You know those people who are so fat that you can't help but stare at them in astonishment? The ones where you wonder how they get out of bed, or eat, or shower, or fit into a car? I've seen perhaps two of them in Australia in my life. In America I saw hundreds of them in a few weeks.

My neighbor is one of those. Seriously, she is the fattest person I've ever seen. It's nasty as fuck. She would be 300kg, easily. So many layers of drooping fat

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Originally posted by Domesticated Excuse my obvious naivety here, but being fat used to be a status symbol in America?

Perhaps. But I was referring to England and its historical propensity towards post-Victorian values at some point.

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You have more fat people, true.

But for whatever little gain in quantity that is, we sure as hell make up for it in quality.

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Originally posted by Banora Try living with one, or, sharing the same sleeping room with one for three months.

Surely if you get to a certain weight, your arms and midriff get so fat that you're unable to wipe your own anus and have to resort to getting a towel and using it in a kind of back and forth motion sliding between your genitals and your bum with the ends of the towel in your left and right hands?

Yeah, at least our corpulent are jovial about it.

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