Well, this just about sums it up. Now, the real question: to laugh or cry? [Clubic]

5:10 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Adam Frucci
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B at 05:17 PM on 04/14/08
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I don't remember people being super-thin in 1990.
Kilcannon at 05:21 PM on 04/14/08
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I'm pretty sure people were still really fat in 1990...
Hiphopopotamus at 05:23 PM on 04/14/08
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It's not that people are getting fatter, they are just staunch advocates of the Law of Conservation of Mass - all that extra TV has to go somewhere or the world explodes. You should be praising fatties as heroes!
macorange at 05:24 PM on 04/14/08
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The size of your waistline is directly proportional to the number of horizontal lines of resolution your TV has. More lines = more blubber!
Passions at 05:25 PM on 04/14/08
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Someone should Photoshop that to 1980.
dry-roasted-peanuts at 05:25 PM on 04/14/08
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Laugh. Losing weight is easy (the method at least), shrinking a TV is hard.
tucker at 05:25 PM on 04/14/08
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guess i'm not buying that OLED tv from sony - i'd bust my britches.
itchytooth at 05:30 PM on 04/14/08
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If that belly is good for anything, it's laughing.
rdldr1 at 05:35 PM on 04/14/08
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You must be SOL if you are fat and have an old CRT TV.
iPhony at 05:35 PM on 04/14/08
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There's as many fat bastards now as there were then. Now that youtube is ubiquitous, you just get to see way more lard asses than before.
workingonyourinvoice at 05:40 PM on 04/14/08
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@rdldr1: Great, now I'm depressed.
redrabbit at 05:41 PM on 04/14/08
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This is humorous, yet true <3
92BuickLeSabre at 05:42 PM on 04/14/08
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@B and Kilcannon: Agreed. Funny cause it's true, until you stop for a second and realize it's not necessarily true.
ninjatales at 05:56 PM on 04/14/08
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For every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction.
shamoononon at 05:58 PM on 04/14/08
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@iPhony : Perhaps they should have put 1980, since then the average American diet has increased by 500-800 calories and exercise habits decreased.... fatties!
thechansen at 06:04 PM on 04/14/08
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Dude in 2001, I worked at best buy in inventory. 37 inch CRTs saved me countless hundreds in gym costs. To bad I got fired for abusing the discount.
remps at 06:05 PM on 04/14/08
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And this is what we were watching:

Beverly Hills, 90210
Dear John
Doogie Howser M.D.
Full House
Home Improvement
Herman's Head
Mad About You
Married... With Children
Murphy Brown
Quantum Leap
Roseanne
Saved by the Bell
Seinfeld
Wings

I'd rather be fat and watch Lost and 30 Rock on my 50" Kuro... except for maybe Home Improvement. That neighbor always made me laugh.
92BuickLeSabre at 06:36 PM on 04/14/08
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@remps: Whatchoo talkin' bout Willis? (Wrong decade but whatever...)

By my count, 8 of those 14 shows were sheer genius!
Akmed at 06:38 PM on 04/14/08
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cry... because those TVs back then are probably more expensive than the ones now..
HeartBurnKid at 06:42 PM on 04/14/08
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@shamoononon: Not to mention cocaine use is down 70%... now that's how you stay thin!
CTJoyce at 06:42 PM on 04/14/08
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@92BuickLeSabre:

Indeed. And back in the 90's there wasn't this crap "reality" show business. Except on MTV.
sqeakytoy of the... at 06:45 PM on 04/14/08
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Well of course were fatter, look how much lighter that tv is! We stayed thin by carting those big bastards from room to room. Nowadays, you barely need to use both arms. What kind of workout is that?
shamoononon at 06:53 PM on 04/14/08
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Ha ha, it just came to mind that my TV is like 300 lbs (too cheep to buy anything else). My brothers where pissed when I had to recruit their help.
Ryanraven at 06:58 PM on 04/14/08
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Damn i was born in 1990. No offense buy ya'll old..
92BuickLeSabre at 07:09 PM on 04/14/08
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@Ryanraven: Always remember, ending up old is the best case scenario.
iPhony at 07:19 PM on 04/14/08
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@HeartBurnKid: DOWN 70%? You don't get out much do you.
HeartBurnKid at 07:38 PM on 04/14/08
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@iPhony: Apparently, you have no idea just how widespread cocaine was in the '70s and '80s. EVERYBODY used it.
iPhony at 07:58 PM on 04/14/08
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@HeartBurnKid: I have a pretty good idea how big coke was back then. Cocaine use is just as widespread today as it was then, maybe just not as in fashion. Blow is very much alive and well my friend. Down 70%? Not a chance. The numbers tell a different story:

[www.ojp.usdoj.gov]
92BuickLeSabre at 08:05 PM on 04/14/08
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@iPhony: For what it's worth: Check Table 2.
shamoononon at 08:31 PM on 04/14/08
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@HeartBurnKid: But now we have rail thin super models to even it out!
minjae0810 at 05:45 AM on 04/15/08
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wow they had cordless tv's back then?
DJTripleRRR at 08:52 AM on 04/15/08
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We haven't gotten fat because TV's have gotten thinner. We got fat because of Mac Donalds! DUH!
Check, please at 01:27 PM on 04/15/08
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People were thinner 20 years ago. And thinner still 20 years before that.
By the time we get TV chip implants that plug directly into our cerebral cortex we'll be so fat we won't be able to leave the house anyway.
HeartBurnKid at 07:45 PM on 04/15/08
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@iPhony: Well, I did just pull the figure out of my ass, so yeah.

Still, 50% ain't much less.
HeartBurnKid at 07:46 PM on 04/15/08
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@do tell: Yeah. In fact, if you go back far enough, people were so thin they were actually razor sharp at the edges. 20 years before that, and they were two-dimensional!