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michaelr 07 Aug 06 - 01:25 AM
Matt_R 07 Aug 06 - 01:39 AM
Liz the Squeak 07 Aug 06 - 02:07 AM
GUEST 07 Aug 06 - 06:47 AM
The Sandman 07 Aug 06 - 06:55 AM
Wilfried Schaum 07 Aug 06 - 06:55 AM
jacqui.c 07 Aug 06 - 07:14 AM
Emma B 07 Aug 06 - 07:16 AM
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GUEST,LEJ 07 Aug 06 - 08:06 AM
Mr Red 07 Aug 06 - 08:14 AM
Liz the Squeak 07 Aug 06 - 08:36 AM
GUEST,is Dave The Guest 07 Aug 06 - 08:40 AM
LilyFestre 07 Aug 06 - 08:45 AM
Liz the Squeak 07 Aug 06 - 08:45 AM
Alice 07 Aug 06 - 09:52 AM
Divis Sweeney 07 Aug 06 - 10:05 AM
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Big Mick 07 Aug 06 - 10:18 AM
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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: michaelr
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 01:25 AM

Women's asses are getting bigger

You say that like it's a bad thing.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Matt_R
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 01:39 AM

^ AMEN


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 02:07 AM

I have family photographs from the days before TV, sofas and junk food - many from the 1920s and a few from just before WWI.

Know what? Barely a skinny woman in them (well OK, there is one woman who resembles Twiggy, but she died of leukemia 6 months after the photo was taken). Compared with my ancestors, I look like a half starved waif.

These were working women - dairymaids, seamstresses, parlour maids, cleaners, servants and farmers wives - no sitting around watching TV, no hamburgers, no doughnuts, no glossy magazines telling them how they should be.... they were all real women, with real lives and real bodies.

Womens' asses aren't getting bigger, mens' attitudes are getting smaller.

LTS


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 06:47 AM

Only in Canada or worldwide ? See these guys moaning are Canadians.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: The Sandman
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 06:55 AM

An ass is a quadruped of the horse family. or a dull stupid fellow an arse is the posterior part of an animal.English came first American followed after.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 06:55 AM

A funny thread, indeed, and I enjoyed a lot of the witty contributions.

An observation I made as a young man in a German town with a US garrison: the American soldiers' wives were visibly stronger in the lower parts of the body. Now by the global expansion of Macdonald's, Burger King et al. we can observe the same phenomenon with our women over here, too. About other countries I can't say so much, but the beautiful British female Mudcatters I have met at Hull are - how shall I say? - at least unfat.
But gentlemen, what is wrong with a well (or more) rounded lower end? It is appreciated since the early stone age, as shown by a 25.000 year old statuette, now preserved in the Vienna Museum of Natural History (back side not shown, unfortunately). And they had no fast food chains.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: jacqui.c
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 07:14 AM

Luckily we all have differing views about the beauty or otherwise of the human form. Whilst aesthetics does matter to some degree I do try to look at the PERSON inside the body rather than the wrapping.

Saying that, I would agree that there are quite a lot of people who could do with covering up their weaker points. Conspicuous wobbly bits on either male or female don't really do anybody any favours.

I presume that Canadian Observer, Frank Joiffe and assorted Guests would be able to provide photos of their own svelte good looks. Put up or shut up boys!


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Emma B
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 07:16 AM

a vision of beauty 1630

does anyone know why peoples feet are getting so much bigger these days? - surely we can't blame that on McDonalds too!


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: kendall
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 07:30 AM

It doesn't take much to wind some people up!


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: GUEST,LEJ
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 08:06 AM

Good point about the Burger culture. It's bloody stretch marks I hate. Since cut off jeans became fashionable we seem to be them exposed daily. Why expose them ?


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Mr Red
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 08:14 AM

fact - womens feet aren't getting any bigger (after the age of about 28) but the range of shoe sizes on offer in shops IS getting bigger.

And tall young people look to be more numerous. It is diet and chemicals and healthcare ..............

As for womens back bottoms - if men told the truth about "does my bum look big in this" - well - none of this would have happened. OK guys who is the bravest?


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 08:36 AM

I've always liked Reubens.... and Botticelli....

LTS


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: GUEST,is Dave The Guest
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 08:40 AM

I don't think Brakn is in danger of rape - even in his very fetching dresses..................


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: LilyFestre
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 08:45 AM

Mr. Red,

   I beg to differ about foot size. Have you seen the size of the feet on girls in the middle schools? In addition, breast development and the arrival of the menstrual cycle is appearing MUCH earlier in girls...has tons to do with the chemicals in our food and in the air we breathe...and that's a fact.

Michelle


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 08:45 AM

Venus is the Goddess of love and beauty according to some?

Rubens obviously approves... Venus according to Rubens.

LTS


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Alice
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 09:52 AM

Skinny models in advertising have warped the image of "ideal" women. It is totally unnatural for women to have the figures of adolescent boys. If you look inside the fashion industry, you realize that designers consider models "hangers" for their clothing creations to hang on for display. The focus is on displaying fashion creations, not having real women wearing clothing that fit real women. The models themselves don't really look like their photos. In the art department, their legs are extended to unnatural Barbie doll lengths and all kinds of adjustments are made to waists, breasts, necks, etc., before printing and publication. There is a backlash movement now with some companies using real women in ads without computer distortion.
That said, we are almost all affected by extra weight as we age because metabolism slows over time. Processed food and too-large restaurant portions combined with sedentary lives don't help us be healthy.   For the guys complaining about having to look at overweight women inappropriately dressed, check out all the overweight men inappropriately dressed.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 10:05 AM

All women that I know are beautiful within, that's all that counts. If you go through the members photo's you will see we have really lovely women, each and everyone of them(Sent in my photo three months ago, didn't appear !).
The mature women turn heads, the fashion industry women who send these skinny women onto cat walks aren't skinny themselves.

All women have beautiful qualities, it's great discovering them.

I know a lot of men who would fit into big ass, big gut and big head, so lay of our women. Mudcat women have always been lovely to me. Treasures each and everyone of them.

Divis


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 10:14 AM

Skinny models in advertising have warped the image of "ideal" women

Who's "ideal" though? It seems to me that there are women who feel they ought to look like that but I'm not aware of many males who find these people physically attractive and I know I don't.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Big Mick
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 10:18 AM

Given the effects of medication and age on meself, I certainly am in no position to talk about women. But this discussion raises a much larger issue. What is the role of physical looks in the larger issue of beauty and desirability?

I know that for me, looks play a part, but not a big part. Neither does age. How many times have I sat and just been completely enamored of a mature woman, long in life experience, self assured, talented, and just been completely attracted to her? There is a group of Mudcat women that I have never met 3D, but based on their sharing of themselves here, their views, that I would love to have dinner with, and I could care less if they are wide, slim, blue, black, yellow, grey, one legged, five legged, gay or straight, Catholic, Protestant, Agnostic, Wiccan, or Atheist. They are so fascinating to me that I just would like to share time with them.

I guess if that is the purpose of this thread, to encourage one to examine shallowness, and reassess what constitutes real beauty and attractiveness, then I am onboard.

Mick


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Metchosin
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 10:19 AM

Because the fashion meat market of western society eventually ran into difficulties over its continued obsession with pre pubescent boys, they thought they could further disguise their fear of the generous female form by sticking silicon injected tits on them.

The taut skin bulges of the end "product" now closely resemble the breasts of pregnant or lactating females. A bizarre concept of feminity to impose on an otherwise bandy legged, flat assed figure based on the Barbie doll. The final ideal has no grounding in the reality of the true human adult female form.

Fortunately, no matter how hard some may try, most females are never going to naturally resemble males in drag. We've developed asses as a counterbalance to the natural endowment of our mammary glands.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Metchosin
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 10:22 AM

jeez Alice, I should have checked further posts before I pasted my rant. Great minds think alike. LOL


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Alice
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 10:25 AM

Interesting article about how there are BIG PROFITS in creating an unattainable skinny, young image for women. It drives the cosmetic and diet products industry:

From a Canadian site, Media Awareness Network
Beauty and Body Image in the Media
Quote...
"...50 to 70 per cent of normal weight girls believe they are overweight."


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Alice
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 10:29 AM

Guest 10:14 am
A man once told me he'd rather have a girlfriend five pounds underweight than five pounds overweight, so I think the advertising industry has molded the preferences of some men and boys just as it has influenced many women and girls.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Alice
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 10:40 AM

As I work in advertising and also am a graphic artist, I know first hand how much images are manipulated.

HERE IS A GREAT EXAMPLE of how a photo is completely retouched before going to print. Gives you an idea of how different the actual bodies and faces of models are different than the photos we see in print.
Mouse-over the image and you see the original photo before being retouched.

Face - original photo and retouched for print
http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/bikini/bikini1.html

Body - original photo and retouched for print
http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/bikini/bikini2.html

Look at how even her arm is made thinner as well as her waist and hips, while her breasts are made to look larger. And, of course, the entire
surface of her skin is smoothed out of pores to look like a plastic surface.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: *daylia*
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 11:24 AM

Migod, Alice, thanks for the pics. What an eye-opener!

Y'know, why not make education re image manipulation mandatory curriculum from sixth grade up -- or rather, first grade in this era of "bras" and microminis for kindergarten kids!

I'm sure it would save the boys alot of grief too. How many guys could hope to attain porportions like this? Even after years and years of weight training, special diets and body building ...


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: jacqui.c
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 12:16 PM

And little girls and boys think that these images represent an attainable goal.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Flash Company
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 12:19 PM

Interesting thread! A lot of truth in there from all sides.
Some observations from the last 12 months.
We went to Telford last spring, I can honestly say I had never seen so many overweight people in one day as I did in Telford Shopping centre.
My darlin' Sheila had some kind of stomach bug last summer and was off her food for about six weeks. In the end I had to give her quite a talking to. At our age, losing weight from the face is not a good move, you never put it back. And, as I told her, her bum started to feel like a bag of spanners,(Happily, that has recovered.)
Comment about Foot sizes is interesting. S is UK size 41/2B, and the only place we can buy shoes the right size is on the internet. Most shops now think that D is a narrow fitting!
However, what goes round comes round, As Liz says, Rubens would have loved present day asses.

FC


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Grab
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 01:45 PM

LtS, maybe there weren't many *thin* women back there. But that's the same way that (until WWF and body-sculpting) you didn't find a thin wrestler. I'd lay any amount of money that those women had muscles on their muscles. Not sculpted like your gym-goer, but *strong*.

And I'd also lay long odds that none of them were anything like the size of the aisle-bollards that you see in shopping centres these days. The women who can't actually walk because they're too fat to unstraighten their legs, so they kind of lurch along by leaning alternately left and right, like walking a wardrobe round a corner.

There certainly are men who get themselves grotesquely fat too, but it seems to be rarer for men to get to that kind of massively obese stage than women. It may just be down to the fact that men generally burn more calories per day than women, I guess. Certainly men are taller, but even allowing for that, I've never seen a man where two of them side-by-side would block a supermarket aisle. But I've seen a few women that size, and I've seen plenty more who are well on the way there.

And we're talking morbidly obese here, right? It's not like having a few pounds to lose - we're talking 50-100 pounds to lose. You don't get that by accident.

That's what surprises me, you know - the fact that they don't seem to realise it. I noticed my waist band getting tight last year, so I decided it was time to start doing more exercise and keeping a closer eye on what I ate. Emma had the same experience this year. But when you can't fit into size 20 clothes, either you're about 7', or you've got a serious medical problem, or you've eaten so much food and done so little exercise that you've made yourself dangerously fat. Given that the first two are maybe 1% of the population, that leaves all the other fatties as the authors (or consumers) of their own disgusting shape. And sorry, but that much fat really is disgusting (whether it's on a man or a woman).

Lest people misunderstand, I like a well-rounded female body. I can't stand these stick-thin creatures they say are attractive. But there's a difference between "well-rounded" and "morbidly obese", and that difference is about 50lbs of pure fat.

Graham.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 02:05 PM

Flash Company remarks on finding a lot of overweight people in one shopping center....

I do find that certain areas/situations are different. A number of years ago, a friend & I had occasion to be on two different college campuses on two successive weekends.

In Fort Collins, Colorado, we were amazed by the number of slim, 'cute', coeds wandering about. The next week, in Omaha, Nebraska, we were startled by the proportion of ummmm...'hefty' coeds in tight jeans.

Now, we didn't do any fancy demographic research to figure out the realtionship of town and school to relative figure type, but it 'might' be interesting. I have read that the deep south, with certain dietary habits, has a larger proportion of...well, largeness....and I'm sure that educational levels are relevant too.

Maybe there's a thesis there for somone.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Emma B
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 02:10 PM

an interesting article from the UK press


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 02:36 PM

"There is more scepticism about the claims made for the connection between weight and disease, and about the idea that fat is a chosen state. People do not choose to be fat in any meaningful way; most of those who try to change their body mass fail."

Sorry, and I don't mean to be cruel, but the plain fact is as my uncle, who was a prisoner of the Japanese said "There are no fat people in a prison camp". He knew very well the relationship between calories consumed and weight. he would laugh at the above statement.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Emma B
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 02:37 PM

from the same journal - it's our own fault sisters!


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 03:01 PM

it's true, people are getting disgustingly fat and unfit.

Part of it is that people just have no real idea of correct nutrition. Or exercise.

If I were running things (as would be sensible) I'd mandate proper school meals being served in all schools, and teach nutrition and physical education (in a larger sense than just gym - I'd give a real education on the needs of the body) in schools and to adults.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Emma B
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 04:22 PM

Guest 2.36 pm - of course there is a connection between calorie intake and weight although, as someone who suffered a severe emotional trauma and lost over 2 stone in 3 months while consuming the "reccommended daily intake", it is not so obvious as we might assume!

The problem is that the preoccupation with an unobtainable (for most people) "ideal" does appear to be making eating disorders worse - if I might quote from the above (rather lengthy article)

"Studies have shown that, while 25 years ago the average model weighed eight per cent less than the average American woman (and, yes, Twiggy was abnormally petite in her day), today's model weighs 23 per cent below the national average. This points up the fascinating paradox that, while we are desperate to keep up with our ever-shrinking celebrities, the average woman is actually getting bulkier. We're round like melons and fat like sausages, despite obsessing about our lardy arses every day. Fat lot of good it does us. While our icons are running the distinct risk of slipping between the cracks in the pavement, we're turning into bollards. Thirty-eight per cent of British women are now classified as overweight, and one in five is obese. If we resemble anyone, it's not Posh Spice. It's Elton John.

As long ago as 2000, the BMA, in its report 'Eating Disorders, Body Image and the Media', noted that the extreme thinness of celebrities was 'both unachievable and biologically inappropriate', observing that the gap between the media ideal and the reality appeared to be making eating disorders worse. 'At present, certain sections of the media provide images of extremely thin or underweight women in contexts which suggest that these weights are healthy or desirable,' it stated, recommending that normal women in the upper reaches of a healthy weight should be 'more in evidence on television as role models for young women'. Television producers and those in advertising should review their employment of very thin women, and the Independent Television Commission should review its advertising policy, the report recommended. Six years on, the converse has happened."

the same article also reinforces the dreadful effect upon the physical and emotional health of children as young as 10 that jacqui refers to!


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: skipy
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 04:24 PM

Bring it on!
Skipy


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 05:10 PM

I resent being told I'm like Elton John... I'm FAR butcher than him!

LTS


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 06:11 PM

Emma, are you suggesting that women get fat because they can't get anorexic like the celebs? I agree totally that the media image of women is grotesque, some of them are beginning to look like my uncle when he came home from Japan.Cliche: two wrongs don't make a right.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: The Sandman
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 06:27 PM

womens brains are getting bigger but surely you dont all.own a donkey or as they say in Norfolk a dickey. are womens dickeys getting bigger. ass is a donkey or dickey or four legged quadruped.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: GUEST,Old Guy
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 09:13 PM

Longer needles needed for fatter butts - Health Care - MSNBC.com
Fatter rear ends are causing many drug injections to miss their mark, requiring longer needles needles to reach buttock muscle.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10240921/


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 05:44 AM

Standard, beauty and all that fuss -
let's remember what Socrates said some millennia ago:
There is no woman so ugly that she hadn't at least seven beauties.
How true.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: The Sandman
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 12:09 PM

well if womens arses are getting bigger lets all celebrate.I like all sizes.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 12:16 PM

From: GUEST,Old Guy - PM
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 09:13 PM

Longer needles needed for fatter butts - Health Care - MSNBC.com
Fatter rear ends are causing many drug injections to miss their mark, requiring longer needles needles to reach buttock muscle.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10240921/

If the above is true then we will be needing other things longer as well !


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 03:56 PM

It's not how deep the pond is, but how you wiggle the worm that gets the fish....

LTS


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 04:13 PM

Male... female... it doesn't matter....

fat people are gross


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 03:55 AM

I read an article in my local paper some time ago about obesity which suggested that almost a third of the women in our town were obese. Looking around after this I realised there must be some truth in it.
What I find strange is that some of them are my friends and I had never noticed! Perhaps that is because it does not really matter one way or another how heavy or light or fat or thin people are......
Are the people on this thread who are critical of overweight people the playground bullies of the past when there was maybe one of two overweight kids in the school. Shame on you! Let he/she who is perfect cast the first criticism.
Best wishes, Mike.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Grab
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 08:01 AM

Mike, don't be fooled - it really *does* matter. Check the stats for risk of heart disease, strokes and diabetes caused by excess body fat, and you'll see why it matters. Excess weight is every bit as damaging to your health as addiction to cigarettes, drink or drugs. They're all hard to kick once you've got in that state, and there may be societal pressures that make it more likely for some people to resort to these as a distraction from everyday life, but ultimately it's *your* choice to get in that state in the first place, or *your* inability to recognise that your behaviour has got to that dangerous point. For drink, it might be inability to do without a "breakfast beer". For fat, it might be inability to walk a couple of miles, or inability to fit into clothes with less than a 50" waist.

In the UK, fat people are directly pushing up your taxes by increasing the cost to the NHS in treating these conditions. In the US, they're pushing up your Medicare bills. Let he/she who has to pay the health service bill for Fatty's various lard-related illnesses cast the first criticism. And in that spirit:-

"Get some exercise and quit eating cakes!"

Graham.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: Mr Yellow
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 08:05 AM

LilyFestre

I think you will find Mr Red was referring to the size of a woman's feet visa vis age. The referrence to shoe sizes on offer in shops is clearly a coded method of saying "average" which hardly describes one woman but does refer to "women". And does imply that the "average" size of all parts of human anatomy is increasing.

I think I know what Mr Red means.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: *daylia*
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 08:28 AM

One third of women are overweight? Hmmm, I've been doing a little private research over the last couple days. Of the 11 adult women in my family, 4 (or approx 36%) are noticeably overweight. At the mall yesterday, of the 37 women (including teens) I saw, 9 or 25% were overweight. And watching the passersby on my street last night I counted 9 adult women, 2 of whom were overweight. That's less than 25%.

According to my local unofficial observations, on average, 25-36% of adult women are overweight. So if you find the looks of them so awful and offensive, how about directing your gaze to the other 63-75% instead? Presto! no more EEEEEEEEWWWWWW.....

Minding your own business would no doubt spare you all that useless negativity and irritation too, makeing you a happier, more pleasant person to be around.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: jacqui.c
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 08:31 AM

Graham - where does that argument stop? Do we say the same of smokers, alcoholics, drug addicts, speeding drivers..... You could even have a case against sportsmen of all kinds for the sports injuries that take up medical time and money, and what about those gardeners?

The one person who is really affected by obesity is the obese person. I would agree that this is of concern from a general point of view as it does not bode well for the health of the next generation, who, we are told, may be the first generation of childern to die before their parents, but I would take a guess that, in the majority of cases, those fat people would be happy to lose weight. Problem is, with the myriad number of 'miracle diets' that have been in circulation for so long a lot of people have f****d up their metabolism and have lost the will to try again. That, along with the societal pressures you mentioned can make it very difficult to get back on the wagon.

I think a crucial factor here is to increase education in schools about proper nutrition. We could also do with less of the fancy cookery programmes that seem to saturate the media and get back to showing that a healthy diet can be interesting. Unfortunately it seems,from looking at the contents of supermarkets,that the 'good' foods are less advertised and more expensive than the crap that really has less nutrition value than the calories it contains.

If you want support to try and lose weight it costs - Weightwatchers and others of their ilk are not free. For those on a tight budget this is not something that they can easily finance and the same goes for gym membership. Many GPs in the UK don't have the time or resources to give the kind of support required here.

Education has got to be the key. That and allowing less advertising of the junk food that seems so attractive, and so cheap. Maybe advertisers should have to state the true calorific value of the product that they are advertising and compare that against the reccomended daily calorie allowance for the average person. That might just act as a short sharp shock for some.


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Subject: RE: BS: Women's asses are getting bigger
From: *daylia*
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 08:49 AM

I suggest doing exactly what's been done with cigarettes. Make it a law to cover all junk and fast food packaging with huge red-letter warnings ie

EATING THIS GARBAGE CAUSES OBESITY, ACNE, CANCER, DIABETES, TOOTH LOSS, HEART DISEASE, IMPOTENCE, HYPERACTIVITY and MOST GRIEVOUS UGLINESS

Include pictures of crying families at funerals, absolutely miserable-looking people shaped like billowing mounds of bread dough with their rotten teeth falling out, covered with skin eruptions, in hospital beds wired up to a room of monitors etc etc etc.

Hey, while we're at it how about making it a law to paint 3-D pictures of mangled bodies and smashed wrecks on the hoods of all new cars? And red-letter warnings on all the gas pumps too ie

THIS PRODUCT POLLUTES THE ENVIRONMENT, DESTROYS THE ATMOSPHERE AND KILLS BABIES WHILE SUPPORTING INTERNATIONAL OIL MOGULS AND OTHER RELATED TERRORISTS


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