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johnivdaly
11/20/09

Errrr nevermind, this was already posted. Damn night crew.

[news.bbc.co.uk]

Lookout, unemployed fat people! A Peruvian gang allegedly lured people "with fake job offers before killing them and extracting their fat.." to sell... as cosmetics.

#tips #unemployment #fatties #murder
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everfade
10/06/09

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Let them scoff at how fat we as a country are getting. We'll see who gets the last laugh when the next ice age is upon us and we are protected by our layers upon sweaty layers of blubber. Genius.
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mommy_dearest
10/06/09

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At about the same time people started eating more at fast food chains (due to the calorie charts, according to researchers), the economy also tanked. So I'm thinking those calorie charts are more powerful than we realize, if they can bring down the economy like that. Scary stuff.
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Spirit Fingers
10/06/09

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I don't know what we expect when people (Oprah) give away free fried chicken. Fried chicken is proven to be the fall of man. I bet if you introduced a Tibetan monk to Kentucky Fried Chicken...the vow of silence and celibacy...gone. Dunzo. Hell, you throw in biscuits, gravy, cole-slaw, and macaroni & cheese and it's really just suicide. Hara-kiri. Seriously. Forget Iranian nukes, just lob copious amounts of salty chicken flesh into our airspace and that'll be it. We'll slide off into the burning hot ocean, but it'll be worth it, right? Right.
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goetz
10/06/09

@Spirit Fingers: In fact, I think obesity is what Faulkner meant by "the last ding-dong of doom." Well, I, too, decline to accept the fat rear-end of man.
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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
10/06/09

@Spirit Fingers: I think it bears mentioning that Oprah gave away Kentucky BAKED chicken... but yea... we're all fatties.
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BeeGee
10/06/09

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I'm living in Germany right now.
Coca cola here tastes different... Why? It is sweetened with SUGAR not corn derived glucose-fructose.

Fast food available at every subway stop and corner cafe (other than the ubiquitous falafel/shawarma) = vollkorn brotchen (whole grain bun, and I'm not talking about supplemented-with-sawdust-whole-grain) with cheese (edam, ementhal, brie, not "american cheese") meat of some kind (or not, lots of Germans are veggie), and lettuce tomato (not see through or colourless)...

Grocery stores are a fraction of the size of a supermarket--even the discounters have fresh veggies that look like veggies. The largest section in it is dairy (real dairy) no hormones even in regular not "bio" milk, but if I want that I can get it EVERYWHERE. And I get my meat at a butcher, who can assure me where it was made and what is was fed. (not because its a specialty item, but because it would be considered 1. insane, and 2. not legal to feed animals GMO crayayzy feed)

Just having a little cake & tea for dessert:
I bought a crappy grocery store marble cake-- the major ingredient: ingredients sugar, flour, and butter, no preservatives, and 2 percent fat cocoa.
The yellow in the marble is from Turmeric...

They also thought I should know that the product contains lactose and gluten, which may cause sensitive people some discomfort.

OH chips (large bag= to american medium) 2EU50 or $3.70US

VERY FEW FAT PEOPLE (except of course for the large, beer drinking business men--but you can find those anywhere)
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meechybee
10/06/09

@BeeGee: Currywurst good.
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BeeGee
10/06/09

@meechybee: Genau!!!
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snugbug
10/06/09

@BeeGee: Meet me at the boulette's stand at Eberswalder Straße + Schönhauser Allee U-Bahn stop. Now!
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BeeGee
10/06/09

@snugbug: Howabout the hunner hut just outside gorlizer park!
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snugbug
10/06/09

@BeeGee: Nee, let's do [www.roccoundseinebrueder.de] if we're gonna do X-berg at all.
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meechybee
10/06/09

@snugbug: Went out of my way to get a Shake Shack currywurst last night — v disappointing. Sausage was good (Schaller & Weber) but the curry sauce tasted like HP. I also missed the little machine they have to chop-up the wurst.
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nozer
10/06/09

@BeeGee: Oh man, exactly. Every time I have left the States for more than a few months I have lost loads of weight. I'm definitely not exercising more and I'm not trying to eat less. It's that food is a fundamentally different thing in other societies. I think it's frustrating that people put all of the blame on personal responsibility because obviously it's important, but it's such a tiny piece of our shit-food-obsessed culture puzzle.

The only thing I can't figure out is why I still live here.
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pukatronic
10/06/09

@BeeGee: No fatties in Germany? Try slumming it down to Neukölln, Berlin with us Poors. There are so many boys with bosoms! I'm constantly thinking, "That kid's got bosoms!" and imagining chasing them around with a towel.
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BeeGee
10/06/09

@snugbug: I used to live around the corner from there!
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snugbug
10/06/09

@pukatronic: It's all that yum Turkish/Middleastern food that's too blame.
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BeeGee
10/06/09

@pukatronic: Too right! I'm slumming it in c-burg this time and have "aesthetic medicine" office around the corner... slimming! the surgical way
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snugbug
10/06/09

@meechybee: Try Lebensmittel in Mitte, Rochstraße 2, +30 27596130. Such lovely yumminess. Good, honest, German cuisine.
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Go Like Hell Machine
10/06/09

@BeeGee: I would like to point out that here in Manila, the grocery stores are larger than I have ever seen grocery stores in the entire United States. Larger than stores in any geographic area of the United States. They're, like, 100 checkout lines or more insane.

That being said, most folks were buying rice, seafood and vegetables, and the majority were hand-carrying baskets, rather than using ginormous carts.
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Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
10/06/09

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It starts in school. The education and the hypocrisy. Not that it doesn't just comes down to cheap food costs less and they only have $2.40 per child, but theriosly.
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BadUncle
10/06/09

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That dog should have casters attached to his paws.
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Tchotchke
10/06/09

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Simple: We make my grandmother our national meal-provider. Everything she makes is charred, vaguely-Germanic, and now that she's developing Alzheimer's, she salts things 6 or 7 times. Her ability to kill one's appetite is astounding.
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goetz
10/06/09

@Tchotchke: I'd rubber stamp that bill.
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goetz
10/06/09

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If only obesity weren't so damn sexy...
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TabithaIapetus
10/06/09

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I blame Sears and their line of Husky Jeans.
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SidAndFinancy
10/06/09

@TabithaIapetus: I blame their Toughskins for my psoriasis.
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Rozelle’s Bagman
10/06/09

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Actually, I'm one of the HFCS tinfoil hats.
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Chip Skylark of Space
10/06/09

@Rozelle’s Bagman: no tin foil hats needed- it's true, all true.
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Rozelle’s Bagman
10/06/09

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Are you going to tweet that?

[www.switched.com]
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scroll_lock
10/06/09

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If it weren't for that slimming black dog collar, you'd notice how fat that dog really is.
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
10/06/09

@scroll_lock: The only difference between us and the animals is the ability to accessorize.
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scroll_lock
10/06/09

@Oy Veh (Informality Reigns): I say we take an iron to those wrinkly areas around his head.
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
10/06/09

@scroll_lock: Botox and restylane will take care of them. My REAL concern are those white paws.. AFTER LABOR DAY!
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scroll_lock
10/06/09

@Oy Veh (Informality Reigns): He's from the south, and you know how lax they are. Just look at that underbite!
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
10/06/09

@scroll_lock: Well, that explains why he was sniffing his sister's butt.
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DennyCrane
10/06/09

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I don't understand why beer doesn't get a Nutrition facts label. It would make my life much easier.
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
10/06/09

@DennyCrane: Beer doesn't have any calories if you drink it out of a glass--they evaporate in the process of pouring the beer out of the bottle. REALLY. I SWEAR.
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nonethewiser
10/06/09

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I lost 220lbs of excess weight almost instantly: It was a called a divorce.
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snugbug
10/06/09

@nonethewiser: Beat it, buster.
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BookishLookish
10/06/09

@nonethewiser: Got any mother-in-law/battle ax jokes, honey?
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nonethewiser
10/06/09

@BookishLookish: A few, but I'm sure you've heard them all!
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