Germans crying in their beer

[FLYBOYJ]

Tell me the street in Irvine that was so bad. I am personally going to go down there and take some pictures of it and post them here.

Go east on MacArthur for a while, I was in a Mobile Station during the day and 2 car loads of gang bangers were just hanging there, homie was on the pay phone while his partner was tagging the back of it.

These guys weren't from there, it was obvious, but the point made, because of the proximity of cites from OC to LA no where is safe...

The last time I remember So Cal being half way decent was in the mid-late 70s. After that it went to sh*t...

 

[plan_D]

Don't mind him, Chris. He actually tried to deny the fact that 57% of California is over-weight.

 

[FLYBOYJ]

The United States of Obesity
Updated: July 2, 2006 1 | 2 | Next » Print Article Email Article RSS / Courtesy of Supermarket Guru
A new study conducted by a group called Trust for America's Health (TFAH), which describes itself as a "non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to saving lives by protecting the health of every community and working to make disease prevention a national priority," says that 24.5 percent of American adults can be classified as obese – which means having a body mass index higher than 30.

The 10 states with the highest obesity rates are Alabama (28.9 percent), West Virginia (27.6 percent), Louisiana (27 percent), Tennessee (27.2 percent), Texas (25.8 percent), Michigan (25.4 percent), Kentucky (25.8 percent), Indiana (25.5 percent), South Carolina (25.1 percent) and, ranking as the most obese state in the nation, Mississippi, with 29.5 percent of its population classified as obese. The study noted that the propensity for girth is more pronounced in the southern US.

"We have a crisis of poor nutrition and physical inactivity in the U.S. and it's time we dealt with it," said Shelley A. Hearne, executive director of the trust.


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The least obese states were reported to be Colorado, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont and Montana. (Hawaii was not ranked in the study.)
Only one state – Oregon – did not show an increase in obesity rates over the past year.

TFAH also said that its study showed that more than 52 percent of adults in each and every state of the union are either obese or overweight.

While the federal Centers for Disease Control Prevention (CDC) does not rank the states the same way as TFAH, the CDC does report that two decades ago there was not a single state where more than a fifth of the population was obese – and now more than 40 states have reached and exceeded that obesity level.

The CDC also is questioning the TFAH study's methodology, saying that the samples varied from state to state, and that many states use differing measurements in determining obesity rates.

The TFAH study also showed a mixed bag in how the various states are trying to educate their children in order to reverse this trend.

For example, only six states have set nutritional standards tougher than those established by the US department of Agriculture – three of them in the past year. Two of them, though – Kentucky and South Carolina – made the list of ten most obese states. So the evidence would suggest that legislators and citizens there are trying to do something about it.

However, more than 20 states in the past year have introduced legislation that would have addressed the school lunch/nutrition issue -- and none of those bills have been passed. Only four states – Arkansas, Illinois, Tennessee and West Virginia -- screen children to see if their body mass index exceeds acceptable levels. And only 23 of the 50 states have received funding from the CDC with which they can develop anti-obesity initiatives (though, to be fair, 39 states applied for funding…which ran out).

The problem is clear: the nation is fat and getting fatter…and short of a kind of national hysteria, there is no credible, concerted effort taking place on a national scale to deal with the problem.

We're not talking about the wringing of hands and the gnashing of teeth, with people blaming companies and companies blaming parents. We're talking about a consistent, logical, measured approach to nutrition education that emphasizes personal responsibility, moderation and exercise. We're talking about a national dialogue and a countrywide educational effort that will raise people's consciousness and create real cultural change.

Without such an approach, the statistics will just grow more alarming as the national waistline expands.

 

[FLYBOYJ]

Adult Obesity Ranking (Number 1 has most fat people)

1 Mississippi
2 Alabama
3 West Virginia
4 Louisiana
5 Tennessee
6 (tie) Michigan
6 (tie) Texas
6 (tie) Kentucky
9 Indiana
10 South Carolina
11 Arkansas
12 Georgia
13 Ohio
14 Oklahoma
15 Pennsylvania
16 (tie) North Carolina
16 (tie) Missouri
16 (tie) North Dakota
19 Alaska
20 (tie) Iowa
20 (tie) Nebraska
22 (tie) Kansas
22 (tie) Illinois
22 (tie) Virginia
25 Minnesota
26 South Dakota
27 Delaware
28 Wisconsin
29 (tie) Washington
29 (tie) Maryland
31 California
32 (tie) Maine
32 (tie) Nevada
34 New York
35 DC
36 Oregon
37 Idaho
38 Florida
39 New Mexico
40 (tie) New Jersey
40 (tie) Arizona
42 Wyoming
43 New Hampshire
44 Utah
45 (tie) Montana
45 (tie) Vermont
47 Connecticut
48 Rhode Island
49 Massachusetts
50 Colorado

 

[plan_D]

No, Joe! Those facts are wrong, all wrong. California isn't over-weight, syscom said so! You're not paying attention.

 

[lesofprimus]

And I can vouch for the obesity in Mississippi.... Fatties everywhere.... I have a bad habit that gets me in trouble with the wife:

Driving down the road and yelling "Slimfast" to all the large-and-prouds, which is a nickname I created for all the fat fu*ks who are fat as hell, yet wear clothing that a nubile 17 year old hottie would wear, including the notorious midriff blubber....

Makes me wonder if these tards have mirrors sometimes....

 

[lesofprimus]

Did I actually type midriff blubber??? Jesus thats dis gusting........

 

[syscom3]

They have the mirrors that distort the middles to make them look thin

 

[syscom3]

Go east on MacArthur for a while, I was in a Mobile Station during the day and 2 car loads of gang bangers were just hanging there, homie was on the pay phone while his partner was tagging the back of it.

These guys weren't from there, it was obvious, but the point made, because of the proximity of cites from OC to LA no where is safe...

The last time I remember So Cal being half way decent was in the mid-late 70s. After that it went to sh*t...

MacArthur and what? Macarthur is a long road.

 

[Tiger]

Can you define "Gang Bangers"? I always though it was people who shagged in groups.

Driving down the road and yelling "Slimfast" to all the large-and-prouds, which is a nickname I created for all the fat fu*ks who are fat as hell, yet wear clothing that a nubile 17 year old hottie would wear, including the notorious midriff blubber....

Those are people on the "Slimfast" diet les, but they think the more of it they drink the faster they loose weight! I guess they gave up buying mirrors when they cracked every time they walked past.

 

[plan_D]

'Gang Bangers' refers to people in gangs, in the U.S.

I know the kind you mean, les, we have our fair share of sumos in Britain. We're fast chasing the US in the over-weight charts.

 

[FLYBOYJ]

MacArthur and what? Macarthur is a long road.

i think it was a MacArthur and Bristol.

 

[FLYBOYJ]

crips

bloods

I did some work with gangs, graffiti prevention and gang identification in the early 1990s when they started infesting my neighboorhood. Here's a great site about gangs, graffiti and gang culture...
Gangs OR Us - Robert Walker - Gang identification expert

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Adult Obesity Ranking (Number 1 has most fat people)

19 Alaska

That is because they need the blubber to keep warm! What I am saying I am moving there!

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I hate people in gangs. They are low life scum and they should all see the same fate as that damn Crips guy what ever the hell his name was...

We are starting to see a real problem in the larger cities in Germany now with Turkish gangs that want to model themselves after these damn crips and bloods and whatever not they call themselves.

 

[Erich]

somehow we have left the origins of the thread have we not ?

by the way Bud sucks .........

 

[Tiger]

What's with those arm signals those guys are doing in that crips picture? Do they have cerebral palsy or something?

Yeah, Bud sucks *** and tastes like piss. I had an awesome cool pint of Badger this evening, very nice.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Its there gang symbols, they are gay and low life scum.

And yes Erich it has gotten way off topic.

Well to get the topic back on beer, I drank a nice Kilkenny today. I have allways liked Kilkenny and I found it for the first time in the local store here, so I had to get some.

 

[syscom3]

i think it was a MacArthur and Bristol.

I am going to check it out. If its run down, I will post pictures to prove you were right.

 

[syscom3]

I hate people in gangs. They are low life scum and they should all see the same fate as that damn Crips guy what ever the hell his name was....

Youre reffering to Tookie Williams (now deceased and has his ashes scattered over South Africa)

And funny thing is he wasnt even one of the origionators of the Crips. The media bought his story hook, line and sinker without investigating. The real gang bangers at the time hated him because his crimes were so brutal and senseless (even to them) they brought the police down on them hard. made it bad for business.