DLBY -
By american standards, I might be considered fat, but hey, I'm not in america, and pay no attention to its laws or standards. Besides, I play loose head prop fer the local rugby club - ye can't have small lads receiving or trying to play second row now can ye? But hey, I'll take being a fat-n-happy Irishman over a fat-n-ignorant american any day.
I also find it extremely amusing that the fattest nation in the world, with so many fat people, cannot argue their stance, and must resort to 'well....umm...your fat too' as a rhetort in discussions about their weight.
The 'I know you are but what am I' defensive posturing, I think goes well with the americans are also not good at school argument which the stastics already have shown.
Wow, a whole reply and just personal attacks with no mention of the topic, or me last post. I take it since you have nothing to contribute binkie, that you admit americans are fat, and ignorant.
Or are you still arguing that they are not fat, just bad at math?
I mean throughout this thread, you have claimed the CDC are imbeciles obviously for creating the system, the us government for using it, and the media for printing it. OH yeah, and me for posting it here. But you have yet to contribute anything of substance to the discussion other than personal attacks, time and time again, on me. I find it rather amusing - and also the prime indicator you have nothing important to say because you must agree with me - much like your idol ol' gw, when you can't argue facts, attack the messenger. How many times have we seen that in this us administration?
I mean, no matter how you try and bend the math, if ye have 5 fat guys, and re-calculate the CDC's body mass index, you know what? Ye still can't fit those fat bastards in the back seat of a VW. Doesnt' matter how ye bend the books, they still won't fit. And they still look just as fat walking down the street.
Also note, the original article, which binkie has choosen to ignore this whole thread states 1/3rd of ALL patients in america admited to hospitals cannot be x-rayed or other recieve other medical treatments because their fat mass is too THICK OR they are physically too LARGE to fit on the machines. Once again, I find it hard to believe a math problem is causing this issue, especially since medical machinery is used worldwide and only in america do you find these issues happening at this constant, high rate.
Doesn't matter how you 'caculate' it, if 1/3rd of people in american hospitals can't use hospital services because their fat mass is so enormous that even x-ray machines CANNOT PENETRATE their body, or they are so abundantly large they cannot fit into a cat-scan chamber, then its safe to say these people, no matter how you 'calculate' them, are feckin' porkers sure!
But hey, shoot the messenger - sit back, don't worry about it. I'm sure living in a nation of over-weight behemoths who can't find britain on a map and know more about the three stooges than the three branches of their own government is a blessing. Of what sort I don't know...
