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Two-Panel Cartoon Accurately Displays Progress of TVs, Your Waistband

linalella — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:34:05 EDT

I'm still trying to overcome the shock after reading some of the comments above. I found this on ABC news (and I'm sure you can too, if you google):

In America, the number of obese adults has doubled in the past ten years, and the number of grossly obese people (overweight by 98 pounds or more) has grown even more. One in eighty American men and one in two-hundred women now weighs more than 294 pounds, a leap of 50 percent in four years. A growing number of people over the age of forty are now developing late-onset (or Type 2) diabetes, but have you noticed that there are very few obese seventy-year-olds? Sadly, they don't live that long.

linalella

Two-Panel Cartoon Accurately Displays Progress of TVs, Your Waistband

linalella — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:30:38 EDT

You idiots! No wonder some nations have a huge weight problem, like the US. If all you can think of is "oh, no, I don't think them there folks were any thinner in 1990... now give me some more of them there McDonalds...!"

Read this:
As of 2003, there are an estimated 300 million obese adults worldwide - up from 200 million in 1995.

(The Economist)

And if you want to know more: [www.theglobalist.com]

Problems do not go away by ignoring them. Especially this one.

linalella

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HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:46:19 EDT

@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!

HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak

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HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:45:32 EDT

@iPhony: Well, I did just pull the figure out of my ass, so yeah.

Still, 50% ain't much less.

HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak

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A Puckish Satire of Contemporary Mores — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:27:49 EDT

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.

A Puckish Satire of Contemporary Mores

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DJTripleRRR — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:52:31 EDT

We haven't gotten fat because TV's have gotten thinner. We got fat because of Mac Donalds! DUH!

DJTripleRRR

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minjae0810 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:45:24 EDT

wow they had cordless tv's back then?

minjae0810

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shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:31:42 EDT

@HeartBurnKid: But now we have rail thin super models to even it out!

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

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92BuickLeSabre — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:05:03 EDT

@iPhony: For what it's worth: Check Table 2.

92BuickLeSabre

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iPhony — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:58:56 EDT

@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]

iPhony

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HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:38:46 EDT

@iPhony: Apparently, you have no idea just how widespread cocaine was in the '70s and '80s. EVERYBODY used it.

HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak

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iPhony — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:19:55 EDT

@HeartBurnKid: DOWN 70%? You don't get out much do you.

iPhony

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92BuickLeSabre — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:09:23 EDT

@Ryanraven: Always remember, ending up old is the best case scenario.

92BuickLeSabre

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Ryanraven — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:58:09 EDT

Damn i was born in 1990. No offense buy ya'll old..

Ryanraven

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shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:53:18 EDT

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.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

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sqeakytoy of the apocalypse — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:45:15 EDT

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?

sqeakytoy of the apocalypse

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CTJoyce — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:42:47 EDT

@92BuickLeSabre:

Indeed. And back in the 90's there wasn't this crap "reality" show business. Except on MTV.

CTJoyce

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HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:42:01 EDT

@shamoononon: Not to mention cocaine use is down 70%... now that's how you stay thin!

HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak

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Akmed — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:38:09 EDT

cry... because those TVs back then are probably more expensive than the ones now..

Akmed

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92BuickLeSabre — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:36:06 EDT

@remps: Whatchoo talkin' bout Willis? (Wrong decade but whatever...)

By my count, 8 of those 14 shows were sheer genius!

92BuickLeSabre

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remps — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:05:01 EDT

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.

remps

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thechansen — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:04:06 EDT

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.

thechansen

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shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:58:43 EDT

@iPhony : Perhaps they should have put 1980, since then the average American diet has increased by 500-800 calories and exercise habits decreased.... fatties!

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

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ninjatales — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:56:27 EDT

For every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction.

ninjatales

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92BuickLeSabre — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:42:59 EDT

@B and Kilcannon: Agreed. Funny cause it's true, until you stop for a second and realize it's not necessarily true.

92BuickLeSabre

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redrabbit — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:41:44 EDT

This is humorous, yet true <3

redrabbit

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workingonyourinvoice — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:40:13 EDT

@rdldr1: Great, now I'm depressed.

workingonyourinvoice

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iPhony — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:35:45 EDT

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.

iPhony

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rdldr1 — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:35:22 EDT

You must be SOL if you are fat and have an old CRT TV.

rdldr1

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itchytooth — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:30:52 EDT

If that belly is good for anything, it's laughing.

itchytooth

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tucker — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:25:39 EDT

guess i'm not buying that OLED tv from sony - i'd bust my britches.

tucker

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dry-roasted-peanuts — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:25:25 EDT

Laugh. Losing weight is easy (the method at least), shrinking a TV is hard.

dry-roasted-peanuts

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Passions — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:25:02 EDT

Someone should Photoshop that to 1980.

Passions

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macorange — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:24:30 EDT

The size of your waistline is directly proportional to the number of horizontal lines of resolution your TV has. More lines = more blubber!

macorange

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Hiphopopotamus — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:23:21 EDT

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!

Hiphopopotamus

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Kilcannon — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:21:06 EDT

I'm pretty sure people were still really fat in 1990...

Kilcannon

Two-Panel Cartoon Accurately Displays Progress of TVs, Your Waistband

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:17:24 EDT

I don't remember people being super-thin in 1990.