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From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax on 4 Aug 2006 06:26 Eeyore wrote: > > joseph2k wrote: > >> Eeyore wrote: >> >>> John Larkin wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:04:26 +0100, Eeyore >>>> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> This is the kind of attitude that makes the USA so truly loathesome. >>>> We like it! >>> Which only goes to show how out of sync the USA is with the entire rest of >>> the world. Along with gas-guzzling SUVs, 400 lb human beings and all that >>> other nonsense too. >>> >>> Graham >> ISTR that the _UK_ has the record with 650 lbs > > It does ? News to me. > > >> and Japan in second with a 550 lbs sumo wrestler. > > You don't routinely see them very often tough. > > Graham Here are the record holders, and their nationalities http://www.dimensionsmagazine.com/dimtext/kjn/people/heaviest.htm The rest of the world outside the US barely gets a mention Dirk
From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax on 4 Aug 2006 06:30 Eeyore wrote: > > John Fields wrote: > >> On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:26:26 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax >> <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> John Larkin wrote: >>>> If so, how do you explain what a mess the world had been for, say, the >>>> previous 1000 years? Could it have been, just maybe, somebody else's >>>> doing? >>> As opposed to the mess it is now? >>> Just shows that the US has changed nothing. >>> In 1000 years the only thing the US will be remembered for will be the >>> moon landings. Not its brief shot at empire before the Chinese dominated >>> the globe. >> --- >> Yeah, like we're just going to sit back and let that happen? > > What exactly do you plan to do about it ? Stop buying Chinese goods - not! Dirk
From: Eeyore on 4 Aug 2006 06:39 Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote: > Eeyore wrote: > > > > joseph2k wrote: > > > >> Eeyore wrote: > >> > >>> John Larkin wrote: > >>> > >>>> On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:04:26 +0100, Eeyore > >>>> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> This is the kind of attitude that makes the USA so truly loathesome. > >>>> We like it! > >>> Which only goes to show how out of sync the USA is with the entire rest of > >>> the world. Along with gas-guzzling SUVs, 400 lb human beings and all that > >>> other nonsense too. > >>> > >>> Graham > >> ISTR that the _UK_ has the record with 650 lbs > > > > It does ? News to me. > > > > > >> and Japan in second with a 550 lbs sumo wrestler. > > > > You don't routinely see them very often tough. > > > > Graham > > Here are the record holders, and their nationalities > http://www.dimensionsmagazine.com/dimtext/kjn/people/heaviest.htm > > The rest of the world outside the US barely gets a mention Damn, that's scary ! How do ppl actually manage to get *that* big without having a clue something's wrong ? I expect they blame it on their genes of course ! Graham
From: Frank Bemelman on 4 Aug 2006 06:54 "Dirk Bruere at NeoPax" <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> schreef in bericht news:4jglujF7v52jU2(a)individual.net... > Eeyore wrote: >> >> John Fields wrote: >>> --- >>> Yeah, like we're just going to sit back and let that happen? >> >> What exactly do you plan to do about it ? > > Stop buying Chinese goods - not! I'm told that China has enough dollars in the bank to *buy* the entire USA ;) And probably enough to buy Europe as well ;) -- Thanks, Frank. (remove 'q' and '.invalid' when replying by email)
From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax on 4 Aug 2006 06:55
Eeyore wrote: > > Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote: > >> Eeyore wrote: >>> joseph2k wrote: >>> >>>> Eeyore wrote: >>>> >>>>> John Larkin wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:04:26 +0100, Eeyore >>>>>> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> This is the kind of attitude that makes the USA so truly loathesome. >>>>>> We like it! >>>>> Which only goes to show how out of sync the USA is with the entire rest of >>>>> the world. Along with gas-guzzling SUVs, 400 lb human beings and all that >>>>> other nonsense too. >>>>> >>>>> Graham >>>> ISTR that the _UK_ has the record with 650 lbs >>> It does ? News to me. >>> >>> >>>> and Japan in second with a 550 lbs sumo wrestler. >>> You don't routinely see them very often tough. >>> >>> Graham >> Here are the record holders, and their nationalities >> http://www.dimensionsmagazine.com/dimtext/kjn/people/heaviest.htm >> >> The rest of the world outside the US barely gets a mention > > Damn, that's scary ! How do ppl actually manage to get *that* big without having a > clue something's wrong ? I expect they blame it on their genes of course ! One bite of a Big Mac is enough, so I hear. Society made them do it! Dirk |