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Kasz216 on 17 November 2008
Omega_Phazon_Pirate. said:
"I could understand how arrogance could be met with backlash, but never have I seen a thread with so much bashing of one country."
Well when someone makes a thread that gives off the vibe "we're so much better than all of you," that can't be met with surprise.


"It's funny being from Canada, you'd think there would be so many staunch similarities between us, but when I drive down into the US, I just have to marvel at all the incredibly overweight people who go into all night buffet steakhouses, and drive enormous SUV's."
That's a bit of a low blow, but world wide obesity is unfortunately increasing. I read somewhere by like 2050 about 9/10 people in Britain would be Obese.
In Canada as of 2004, it was about in it's high %20s while in the States it's about low 50s/high 40s.

Seems like Canada's obese is expanding faster then....

In 2007 according to the WHO 61.1% of Canada is clasfied as obese.

In the US it's 74.1%


WHO = World Health Orginization.



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Gobias on 17 November 2008

Are you serious?

I'd say more like 3/10 Canadians are fat, 6/10 seems a little intense.



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The Ghost of RubangB on 17 November 2008
Kasz216 said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:

I haven't really had good experience with fruit pie yet. I'm sure there out there somewhere. I don't think everybody in the world can be that crazy. All my favorite pies are like... pumpkin pie, lemon merengue pie, and uh... cheesecake.

If apple pie is supposed to be the quintessential American food, then I guess America is a big lie. This isn't going off-topic. All these things relate to America.

I think America's strongest point is its musical exports (rock and roll, jazz, hip hop, the blues, R&B, gospel, Motown, John Cage, etc.), and its weakest points are its film exports, reality television, America-centric education and news, apple pie (and other foods), and bomb exports. We export a lot of crappy bombs to places that don't need them. It's kinda weird.

Film was invented in America, which was neat, but quickly monopolized and brought to a standstill, so all the good films for the next couple decades were from France, Germany, and the Soviet Union. Fucking Edison.

I'll give America props for inventing video games, the internet, Polaroid cameras, the integrated circuit, and the California roll. The idea to use avocado to replace fish when it was illegal to sell raw fish was rad.

The worst thing of all though is American toilets, and the fact that Americans don't clean their asses right. Dry paper? DRY PAPER? Hahahaha.

Pumpkin's are a fruit... scientifically speaking.

But pumpkin pie isn't a thin layer of crust filled with chunks of slimy pumpkin, like so many other fruit pies that just don't do it for me.

 



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The Ghost of RubangB on 17 November 2008
Gobias said:
Are you serious?

I'd say more like 3/10 Canadians are fat, 6/10 seems a little intense.

There's way more fat people than you'd expect.  The ones you see outside are only obese.  That' the tip of the iceberg.  There are countless millions of super-obese glued to their couches and TVs.  If you break into 1,000 houses in the middle of the night and see everybody sleeping, you'll get a better idea of how truly fat everybody is getting.



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pastro243 on 17 November 2008
Kasz216 said:
Omega_Phazon_Pirate. said:
"I could understand how arrogance could be met with backlash, but never have I seen a thread with so much bashing of one country."
Well when someone makes a thread that gives off the vibe "we're so much better than all of you," that can't be met with surprise.


"It's funny being from Canada, you'd think there would be so many staunch similarities between us, but when I drive down into the US, I just have to marvel at all the incredibly overweight people who go into all night buffet steakhouses, and drive enormous SUV's."
That's a bit of a low blow, but world wide obesity is unfortunately increasing. I read somewhere by like 2050 about 9/10 people in Britain would be Obese.
In Canada as of 2004, it was about in it's high %20s while in the States it's about low 50s/high 40s.

Seems like Canada's obese is expanding faster then....

In 2007 according to the WHO 61.1% of Canada is clasfied as obese.

In the US it's 74.1%


WHO = World Health Orginization.

 

 Man, thats a lot of fat people, I guess too much Mc Donalds does hurt. Here in my country poor people tend to be more fat since they dont eat healthy food, its more expensive.



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pbroy on 17 November 2008

America is awesome!!! n_n

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Gobias on 17 November 2008
The Ghost of RubangB said:
Gobias said:
Are you serious?

I'd say more like 3/10 Canadians are fat, 6/10 seems a little intense.

There's way more fat people than you'd expect.  The ones you see outside are only obese.  That' the tip of the iceberg.  There are countless millions of super-obese glued to their couches and TVs.  If you break into 1,000 houses in the middle of the night and see everybody sleeping, you'll get a better idea of how truly fat everybody is getting.

 

Damn, you've opened me up to a whole new world of fat people.



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hsrob on 18 November 2008

@Kasz216

I'm having a look for the stats now but i'm pretty sure those are stats for overweight and obese combined.



hsrob on 18 November 2008

This is from the Canadian Bureau of Stats (or whatever you call it).

"According to the 2004 CCHS, 23.1% of Canadians aged 18 or older, an estimated 5.5 million adults, had a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more, indicating that they were obese (Table 1) (see What is BMI?). This is significantly higher than estimates derived from self-reported data collected in 2003, which yield an obesity rate of 15.2% (see Methodology makes a difference). Another 8.6 million, or 36.1%, were overweight."

The totals add up to 59.2% and this is from 2004, so it stands to reason that it would have increased further by 2007. Nonetheless it is a ridiculously high rate and it's no longer even limited to the Western world.



SuperSteveyLes on 18 November 2008

If you are an immigrant, it costs 20, 000 grand or something like that if you want to live in the US. So in other words you need to be an employer of a prettty good standard. Not good if you can only clean the school halls.



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