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France Set To Ban Skinny Girls In Show Of EU Solidarity

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Who says the eurozone doesn’t project a united front? Even as misguided analysts on the sell side throw out reckless language like “redenomination risk” and irresponsibly suggest that the EMU is in fact nothing more than a “collection of fixed exchange rates,” evidence abounds that the core and the periphery are most assuredly on the same page. If you need proof, just look at the convergence in EMU member policy as it relates to the weight of runway models. Here’s more from CBC

The link between high fashion, body image and eating disorders on French catwalks may lead to a ban on super-skinny models.

 

France's government is likely to back a bill being discussed in Paris banning excessively thin fashion models as well as potentially fining the modelling agency or fashion house that hires them and sending their agents to jail, Health Minister Marisol Touraine said on Monday.

 

Style-conscious France, with its fashion and luxury industries worth tens of billions of dollars, would join Italy, Spain and Israel, which all adopted laws against too-thin models on catwalks or in advertising campaigns in early 2013.?..

And while this seemingly flies in the face of the currency bloc’s wholehearted embrace of austerity, officials are fairly certain this is an important step in the global fight against unhealthy couture advertisements: 

Under the proposed legislation, any model who wants to work has to have a body mass index (a type of height to weight ratio) of at least 18 and would be subject to regular weight checks. Health Minister Marisol Touraine says the ban would protect young women who see models as the ideal female form. 

It’s important that eurozone governments focus on these types of issues and we now understand not only why Greek FinMin Yanis Varoufakis felt the need to show his fellow Greeks how much they could be eating at lunch if he weren’t stealing their pensions, but also why it’s critical to ensure that the fine for being skinny is high enough to deter people who were thinking about being thin from actually doing so: 

Health Minister Marisol Touraine says the ban would protect young women who see models as the ideal female form. Plus, many models in France are still in their teens.

 

So, a woman who is 5-foot-7 would have to weigh at least 121 pounds. The normal weight BMI range is around 18.5 to 25. 

 

The law would enforce fines of up to $79,000 US for any breaches, with up to six months in jail for any staff involved, French Socialist Party legislator Olivier Veran, who wrote the amendments, told newspaper Le Parisien.

Finally, the proposed legislation will also put an end to the egregious and rampant practice of encouraging skinniness: 

The bill’s amendments also propose penalties for anything made public that could be seen as encouraging extreme thinness.

And although “the union representing fashion agencies” in France apparently opposes the new law, we suspect it could easily pass in certain other areas of the world where there is no food.

 

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Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:31 | 5904369 JustObserving
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France Set To Ban Skinny Girls In Show Of EU Solidarity

What happened to heroin chic that was so popular in the 1990s?  Since US/NATO invaded Afghanistan, heroin production is up 4000%.  France, please show some solidarity with the Nobel Prize Winner and NATO:

Heroin chic was a look popularized in mid-1990s fashion and characterized by pale skindark circles underneath the eyes and angular bone structure. The look, characterised by emaciated features and androgyny, was a reaction against the "healthy" and vibrant look of models such as Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer. A 1996 article in the Los Angeles Times stated that the fashion industry had "a nihilistic vision of beauty" that was reflective of drug addiction (Wiki)

Heroin Deaths in the U.S. Have Doubled in 2 Years

Oct. 3, 2014

http://time.com/3460809/heroin-death-overdose/

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:36 | 5904389 ACP
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Didn't the Nazi occupation of Paris end during WWII?

Apparently not...but then again, even the Nazis never did anything stupid like this.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:38 | 5904397 MrButtoMcFarty
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Do you know why France planted trees along the Champs-Elysees?

So the Nazis could march in the shade.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:40 | 5904406 Publicus
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Only fatty girls who feast on GE food allowed.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:43 | 5904420 Skid Marks
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I never did like skinny or fatty.

I like top heavy hour-glass gymnast style.

JMHO

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:47 | 5904431 NoDecaf
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No charts?...No gratuitous photos??

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:48 | 5904435 Dr. Engali
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Gratuitous photos have been banned.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:10 | 5904482 Occident Mortal
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I watched a TV show tonight where a guy in the USA killed a sheep in his back yard (quite humanly) and proceeded to eat it. Raw.

It was literally still warm as he was eating slices of liver, heart, belly fat...

He said he eats the entire animal "tongue to tail". He eats it all raw. 1 sheep will feed him for 4-5 weeks.

Now I live in the UK and if anyone tried to do something similar over here there would be a knock at the door and you would be lead away for questioning. Maybe allowed to continue this lifestyle if you had various "permits" or a "license" and even then you would be subject to frequent "health inspections" for hygene.

But in America you have the right to do whatever the hell you please. Sign me up.

Over here, you can buy a plot of land (it ain't cheap) and your not even allowed to build on it until you get "planning permission" and even then you are SEVERELY restricted on what you are allowed to build. Rarely can you build a dwelling on a plot that does not already have some kind of existing dwelling already on it.

The amount of red tape in Europe is insane. It's a complete mystery that anything here ever gets done. Mainland Europe is an order of magnitude worse than the UK. So those guys are really truly f*cked.

They even have laws... LAWS... on how straight a banana can be! I shit you not! As if the banana tree is aware of the legislation in Brussels?! The MEP's are delusional on power. You can only call chocolate chocolate if it is made to a specific recipe. You can only sell ham by the kg (selling food by the lb is illegal).

Self serving arseholes who a writing laws about stuff that has absolutely no grounds for government or judicial time. It's a completely corrupt and sprawling octopus feeding on lobbyists and special interests.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:14 | 5904524 847328_3527
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France is simply following Walmart's lead; i was turned away from there the other day. The guard said no one under 250 pounds allowed inside!

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:26 | 5904571 TeamDepends
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Anatomic political correctness, eh? (swallows the cyanide)

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:57 | 5904659 fudge
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This is coub shows Anatomic Correctness.

http://www.yaplakal.com/forum23/topic1058131.html?hl=

 

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 22:08 | 5904688 Manthong
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That’s a good idea. 

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 23:53 | 5904943 BringOnTheAsteroid
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Oh well, if the EU is going to ban skinny then they sure as hell should ban fat. You want destructive body images then fat beats skinny. Anyway, I'm glad we're putting these highly paid beaurocrats to work doing something useful. Hey, didn't the EU attempt to ban small glass recepticals, on restaurant tables, for olive oil a few years back. You cannot make this stuff up.

OT: We will look back on this period with absolute incredulity when you see serious discussions on every form of media, TV, radio, blogs etc about whether the Fed Reserve will remove the word "patient" from their speech. Just stop for a moment and think about how absurd this has become. It's not even reality anymore, it's satire. 

 

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 04:26 | 5905199 Headbanger
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Can we just ban banning shit!!?

 

Oh wait...

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 07:49 | 5905379 SWRichmond
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Women certainly seem to need a whole lot of protecting from themselves...

Do they wallow in self-doubt?  If so, someone please tell me why we let them vote.

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 08:43 | 5905512 Martian Moon
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Democracy in itself guarantees Statist Disaster

but Democracy + Women Voters = Expedient Statist Disaster

Contrary to popular opinion Hitler spent all his marketing efforts on women and children, not men

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 08:50 | 5905533 Grinder74
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Notice also that all the "Christian" denominations embracing ghey "marriage" first pushed hard for female clergy (including the newly "enlightened" Presbyterians).

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 06:35 | 5905283 winchester
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1.75 meter hight & weight below 55kg is total irresponsability, and dangerous for health.

instead of debating about nipples and tissue why don't you remove all your thumbs stuck in your ass and go riot fed & us gov to stop the escalating to ww3...

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:53 | 5904646 NidStyles
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Don't get it twisted. What he is doing is actually illegal in the US as well.

 

You need building permits in the US as well.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 23:10 | 5904863 A Lunatic
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There are still some counties within certain states where you are free from building permits. I live in such a county....

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 06:23 | 5905275 NidStyles
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I grew up in a county like that. That changed in the 90's when the "county government" came out to tell us that they were going to grace us with a sewer system that we were going to pay for. We ended paying the cost to install and the the service fee, both of which were mandated. The people who refused to pay were fined and the cost got put onto their "property tax".

 

Not sure how you can tax something and still call it property...

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 07:47 | 5905377 SWRichmond
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The Rentier system

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 22:37 | 5904768 MontgomeryScott
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"They even have laws... LAWS... on how straight a banana can be!"

I have found that. overall, most girls like a banana that is SLIGHTLY curved. I'm sure that the girls/women/soft men who write the laws in the E.U. have some disagreement over this. Of course, they are now no doubt writing 'thickness' laws to compensate for their disagreements; as well as 'length' laws. Obsession with 'banana curvature' will lead to 'banana hardness'  and 'banana volume' edicts...

Sometimes, a banana is JUST A BANANA.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 23:12 | 5904869 TheGreatRecovery
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When you have a "social safety net", you have to pay for it, and that makes you look around for people who are "abusing" the net.  If you find them, or imagine you find them, or even merely imagine them, then you outlaw whatever they are doing, or at least whatever you can SEE that they are doing.  Eventually, everything gets outlawed (or made impossible by red tape). 

As Napoleon Bonaparte said, "there are so many laws that no man is safe from hanging".

Once everything is outlawed, people give up, quit acting like family capitalists, and quit inventing stuff on their own.  The only invention which occurs is whatever is subsidized by government, which isn't very much.  Since inventing is the only way technological progress is made, the system bogs down in a rut.

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 01:28 | 5905084 El Vaquero
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But in America you have the right to do whatever the hell you please. Sign me up.

Hehe...Ha...Bwahahahahahahaha!

 

Yes, I can go out any time I want, kill a cotton tail or jack rabbit and eat it, but when it comes to game animals, deer, elk, etc... most hunts are on a lottery system, and if I do get one, I cannot sell the meat.  I could give it away, but no commercial sales.  In Louisiana, a homeless shelter had to destroy a bunch of its meat when one of the homeless complained that it was donated venison.  If you want to have a farm that is "certified organic," holy shit do you have to jump through hoops, and even if you aren't certified, if you want to sell your produce/meat/eggs/etc... you still have to be licensed and often you also have to follow regulations that don't scale down to the more local farmer very well.  Selling raw milk?  You might wind up with an armed raid on your farm, even if you are Amish. 

 

The thing that is "do what you want" is producing your own food for your own consumption, and even that is under attack in some places.  Hell, congress almost passed a bill that would have required me to license my garden that isn't for commercial purposes until somebody got the bright idea to amend the bill.  Then there was the jackassery case in a town in Michigan where they were going to throw a woman in jail because she dared to grow vegetables in her front yard. 

 

Believe me, the US has bureaucrats who would rather people starve than eat uncertified food or have a non-conforming yard.  If food gets tight, they will either relent or, at the very least, be tarred and feathered if not just killed outright.

 

As for building codes, they keep on getting more and more complex.  IMO, a lot of that is makework for bureaucrats justifying their existence.  They've since made it so that all circuits in residential have to either be GFI or AFI, but I remember when they were changing it to make it so that all bedroom circuits had to be AFI (or was it just receptacles?)  The reasoning behind this was that most people who died in house fires died in the bedroom.  They never argued that it was due to faulty wiring in bedrooms, just that people died there.  Maybe because that's where they fucking sleep?  There are tons of cases like that, and the National Electric Code is a book 3" or 4" thick and getting thicker every year.  I'm not an electrician, but I have several sparky friends and sometimes get roped into helping them.  We wired up a friend's house a few weekends ago, and hearing two electricians "yeah, but does the code say this or does it say this...  I think it says that..."  let me know that I needed to ask lots of questions because some of those codes were pretty detailed.  They also said that if you made it look nice and clean, the inspector was a lot less likely to go over your work with a fine toothed comb.  The inspectors are just like anybody else too.  Some are just coasting through their jobs, some are pure business and some are unholy cocksuckers with a chip on their shoulder.  I had one of the latter several years ago with the house well and the drain field on the septic.  He insisted on all sorts of bullshit with the drain field that was unnecessary because otherwise something might get contaminated with "inaerobic" (his word) bacteria.  I didn't like this guy the first time I laid eyes on him.  This was not about safety, it was pure power trip and it oozed from the first time I saw him.  Of course, once he was gone, the backhoe operator did things to satisfy him, then did a bunch of other shit to make the drain field much more robust without telling anybody, but that's another story. 

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 06:39 | 5905285 drdolittle
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If people grow their own food they won't buy it from corporate farms, fuckface. How am I supposed to get reelected without bribes, er "campaign contributions" from the corporatocracy? Popular mandate? Actual representative government? You truly are naive.

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 07:01 | 5905312 Refuse-Resist
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They hate us for our freedom.

 

Your leaders appear to hate you more than ours but we're catching up quick.

 

Who works year round creating new laws and regulations which impose new restrictions on our liberty?  ISIS?

 

No.

 

Rather, we have very well compensated 'public servants' destroying our freedoms every goddamn day and we think it's a good idea to have a class of professionals who do nothing but create new laws every day, every week, every month, and every year.

 

 

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 05:03 | 5905222 FMOTL
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How about we enforce already existing laws (grievious bodily harm assault) on child genital mutilation by those two barbaric cults Islam/Judaism

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 06:40 | 5905288 drdolittle
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duh, that's raciss. You gotta respect other cultures.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:51 | 5904447 A Lunatic
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Where's Robottrader when you need him...??

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:52 | 5904453 Dr. Engali
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He's been banned. You know, freedumb of speech and all.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:54 | 5904461 BlackChicken
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He has been remodeling his mom's basement. AKA his new apartment

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 22:42 | 5904782 Ms. Erable
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I'm sure he's still available; it's just that no one really needs him.

OK, maybe his mom. Just... maybe.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 22:48 | 5904803 MontgomeryScott
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His name was Francis Marion...

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 05:29 | 5905243 Crash N. Burn
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"No charts?...No gratuitous photos??"

 

How about this?

Women's Ideal Body Types Throughout History

 

(Might want to turn down the sound)

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:48 | 5904436 Stuck on Zero
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I speak French and I will volunteer to privately measure every model to see that they fit French modeling standards. Er is that the new ISO 907090 standard?

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 22:11 | 5904701 Zoomorph
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A new type of pig enforcing the corrupt laws for their own benefit.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:08 | 5904504 midtowng
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Girls without curves don't do it for me, and I have to wonder about guys who like that.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:23 | 5904559 OldPhart
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The term is voluptuous.  Nothing better than a voluptuous woman.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 22:59 | 5904825 MontgomeryScott
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Of course, 'voluptuous' doesn't include triple chins, belly basketballs, or neck fat (does it?).

Kankles are not good either, nor is hanging chicken skin from the arms.

Stick women aren't healthy (of course), but McDonald's GMO-fed sheople-women are mostly fucking SICK.

I'd take a woman with little titties over one whose teats hang down below her waist and whose nipples point to the ground (if you can find her waist under the fat rolls that she calls her 'belly') ANYTIME.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 23:03 | 5904836 OldPhart
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 04:47 | 5905210 Gavrikon
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Check the ads to the side on russian women.  One will find EXACTLY the kind of body shape that one is seeking.  Top heavy, bottom heavy, and skinny in the middle.

HELL YES!!!!

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 00:30 | 5905004 Miffed Microbio...
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Mr loves voluptuous as well but I asked him what that meant. He said Rachel Welsh, Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe. I asked if Kim Kardashian was voluptuous. He didn't know who that was but when showed a picture of her he said no, that's fat. So, I guess there is quite a difference of opinion, but I try to keep my figure to the classic version rather than the new modern definition.

Maybe this whole thing is like vanity sizing the do for women's clothing now. Holy God, I gained ten pounds but I now fit into a size 4, I must be hot! If there is spandex in your jeans it's time to face reality and hit the gym.

Miffed

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 01:11 | 5905058 Bro of the Sorr...
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doesnt know who kardashian is? my type of dude.

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 04:48 | 5905211 Gavrikon
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Not into burners of coal, myself.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:35 | 5904593 ForTheWorld
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Different strokes for different folks I suspect. Although, they probably wonder why you like "fat" girls.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 22:31 | 5904760 Lanka
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Many men prefer women with three principal attributes:  Ready, Willing and Able.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 23:03 | 5904834 MontgomeryScott
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I counter your statement.

MOST men are repulsed by women with three basic detriments: Fat, Ugly, and Stinky/skanky.

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 08:23 | 5905447 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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There is two kind of it: wife materials and fun materials.

Guess what is the majority of them now, especially in the West ?

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 03:59 | 5905182 OldPhart
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Grandma's favorite joke.

A woman in her eighties made the evening news because she was getting married for the fourth time. The following day she was being interviewed by a local TV station, and the commentator asked about what it felt to be married again at that age and would she share part of her previous experiences, since it seem quite unique the fact that her new husband was a ‘funeral director.’ After a short time to think, a smile came to her face and she proudly explained that she had first married a banker when she was in her twenties, in her forties she married a circus ring master, and in her sixties she married a pastor and now in her eighties, a funeral director. The amazed commentator asked her why she had married men with such diverse carriers. With a smile on her face she explained, ‘I married one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four to go.’

Her next favorite.

You can't beat widows for flings.  They don't yell, don't swell and are grateful as hell.

Old catholic lady.  My family has always been weird as hell.

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 07:04 | 5905314 Refuse-Resist
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To be certain a willingness for sex adds what, a +2 to a woman's SMV?

 

A feminine disposition (so rare in American women now) adds another +1.

 

A physically beautiful woman with a bitchy attitude and masculine personality doesn't even show up on my radar.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 22:37 | 5904767 Lost My Shorts
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I wondered about that too.  Someone in the fashion industry likes models who look like teenage boys.   Who could it be?  Still scratching my head.  It's definitely not the guys down at the autoshop. 

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 23:48 | 5904934 bearwinkle
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Bingo!

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 04:50 | 5905212 Gavrikon
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Bath House Barry?

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 06:43 | 5905291 drdolittle
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The gay guys in the fashion industry, that's who.

Marylyn Monroe, fuck yea

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 22:10 | 5904692 runswithscissors
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arrow up for your avatar

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 03:55 | 5905179 StychoKiller
Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:44 | 5904422 JLee2027
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Germans like the fat ones.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 22:47 | 5904801 jaxville
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Great ...  So I only get to date fat women when I go to France this Fall ?

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:25 | 5904565 EINSILVERGUY
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Q. How many French does it take to defend Paris?

A. None, its never been tried

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 23:02 | 5904831 stormsailor
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you might be suprised to learn that there were more than  700,000 french casualties (along with 600,000 german casualties in the battle of verdun.

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 05:44 | 5905259 Arnold
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Was it something in the baguettes?

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 08:54 | 5905548 Grinder74
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But what if you don't include the farm animals?

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 04:45 | 5905209 Bossuet
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1914-1918, pertes militaires françaises : 1 397 800

Des commentaires ?

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 06:08 | 5905269 Tall Tom
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Tragic loss due to an intentional failure of diplomacy

 

But resting upon those laurels is nothing to be proud about.

 

In fact your banking classes made money on your ancestor's deaths.

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 08:11 | 5905414 Bossuet
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"But resting upon those laurels is nothing to be proud about"

 

J'ose espérer que vous appliquez cet état d'esprit à votre propre pays !

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 09:25 | 5905663 Urban Redneck
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When you go to a small town and there are far more names on the monument than there are current residents of the town... between Napoleon and the Great War- a statistically significant percentage of the population that should have reproduced... did not reproduce, and a statistically significant percentage of the population that should not have reproduced (due to competition) did reproduce.  In short, the French gene pool is fucked, moreso than some other European countries with lower losses.  

The condition isn't universal, there are still "evolved" Frenchmen, but the problem is endemic, and in an ostensibly democratic country this leads to a tyranny of the devolved untermenschen, and a decreased ability to stand up, and do what is right and needs to be done.

The USSA on the other hand, doesn't have a good excuse for its descent into idiocrisy.

Fri, 03/20/2015 - 15:21 | 5910838 Analyse2
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More precisely World War I cost France 1,697,800 dead and 4,266,000 wounded (of whom 1.5 million were permanently maimed) and 537,000 made prisoner or missing - exactly 73% of the 8,410,000 men mobilized (for a total population of 40 million).

This means that 60% of men between the ages of 18 and 28 died or were permanently maimed.

You can have an idea of what these figures woud represent for the present population of the US:

13,412,000 dead and 33,701,400 wounded (of whom 11,850,000 permanently maimed) and 4,242,000 made prisoner or missing. Can you imagine US reaction to casualties on that scale?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties

And the French DID NOT SURRENDER (The stupid Jay Leno's style jokes are really not funny) …

In fact, these jokes reflect the hate of american warmongers against France. It remains still there, well alive, even in ZH.

They have not forgiven the offence of the firm refusal of the French to join America in Irak, in 2003, and their stale hate still show through "innocent good jokes" about the “surrender monkeys”.

 

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 06:48 | 5905294 samcontrol
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einsshit..

You might want to look back in history more than 75 years you tard/turd.

The way the ussa is right now should be your top priority , not century old french bashing!

Fri, 03/20/2015 - 15:27 | 5910866 Analyse2
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@EINSILVERGUY

The idea that the French surrender and haven't ever successfully defended Paris is a myth.

The French actually defended Paris successfully in 1914. They even used all the taxis to go to the front. If they had failed, WW I would have ended quite differently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_the_Marne

 

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 19:15 | 5907970 Analyse2
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@MrButtoMcFarty

It is so disturbing to owe its independence to the French!

It is why the country that helped the US to defeat the British and gave the Statue of Liberty as a gift deserves much more vile hatred than already displayed within these comments ...

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:46 | 5904428 Mr Pink
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Big deal... Wisconsin banned skinny girls decades ago

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:54 | 5904438 ACP
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Yeah, but that was a self-imposed ban by the heifers themselves.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:07 | 5904484 ZerOhead
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The chief spokesman for the National Organization of Police Associations just came out endorsing any new laws making being too skinny a woman a crime. Says the ladies just need a good spanking every now and then...

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 23:56 | 5904950 GoldenDonuts
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More cheese dear?

 

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:48 | 5904632 TheReplacement
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On the plus side (I'm very punny tonight) there will be more skinny models for none fashion exhibits like porn.

I don't shop for womens cloths so they get what they want and I get what I want. 

WIN-WIN

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 22:57 | 5904820 caconhma
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Holocaust were not stupid. National socialism worked in Germany quite well.

Unfortunately, to many idiots get all of their information from Zionist-controlled mass media Nazi has expelled from Germany.

By the way, Israel is Nazi State too: it is exclusively nationalistic as well as socialistic. However, Israelis do not send Palestinians to gas-chambers but nobody did see gas-chambers in Germany after all. No wonder Zionist-controlled EU prohibits any discussions/questioning of the Holocaust. Are they afraid of something like the truth?

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 05:12 | 5905228 FMOTL
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Yes they even sentence lawyers to 3 years in prison for daring to defend "speach criminals" (Sylvia Stolz). I thought even child killers were entitled to a defence lawyer in a civilized country.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:29 | 5904370 Big Brother
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Let's see here:  25 - 18.5 = 6.5 --> 25 + 6.5 = 31.5...  Eureka! - The U.S. a law fining women who exceed a BMI of 31.5 as a BMI above drastically increases health risks, much which the healthcare costs are incurred by the state.  (We can play this from the other side.)  /* Government will save us! */ //Sarc off

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:39 | 5904405 kaiserhoff
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Don't need no Moo Cows;)

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:49 | 5904439 e_goldstein
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Could we do a trade?

3-5 skinny French girls per obese American sow?

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 22:59 | 5904824 Colonel Klink
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Sign me up.  I'm tired of the 'Murikan heffer.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:29 | 5904373 RafterManFMJ
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Need to ban all models that weight over 160 lbs as well; it's only fair.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:31 | 5904375 nmewn
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So the socialist French have finally lost what was left of their minds and are now openly discriminating against skinny chicks. And if they refuse to pay the fine, then what, jail them, hold em down and force feed em Big Macs or what?...lol.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:36 | 5904392 Wild Theories
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"hold em down and force feed em Big Macs or what?"

if they make a reality show out of it, I'd watch that

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:41 | 5904411 kaiserhoff
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No one ever went broke, underestimating the taste of the American public.

   P T Barnum

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:42 | 5904416 nmewn
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Sponsored by McDonalds ;-)

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:16 | 5904531 ACP
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And Coca-cola. I knew Buffett was somehow tied to this.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:28 | 5904576 Seek_Truth
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Brought_to_you_by_Carl’s_Jr

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:19 | 5904544 logicalman
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I hope to, one day, wake up in a world that makes sense.

Until then, there's ethanol!

 

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 04:37 | 5905200 Ghordius
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the "socialist" French have little to do with that. Fashion is an industry, in Paris, but also in Milan, Madrid and London, and this discussion about "not too skinny" is really old. As the article says, France only joined the bandwagon, led by Spain, Italy and Israel

Doctors say a BMI of 18.5 to 25 is healthy. The average BMI for French women is 23.9, while in the UK it is 26.9.

Anyone with a BMI of 18 is classed as malnourished by the World Health Organisation and the famine level is set at 16.

The iconic Barbie Doll whould have a body mass index of 16.24, btw

In many ways, this thing is not really discriminating against skinny girls. It's discriminating against teenager models

then a BMI of 16 is perfectly normal for a 15-year old (skinny but healthy) girl, while you'd expect her to reach a BMI of 20 when she is 20-years old (and still be skinny and healthy)

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 08:19 | 5905436 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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I wonder how much is the BMI of young Russian or better Asian women...

Let's face it, Western women weight norms have inflated as fast as the balance sheet of centrals banks, especially USA's one...

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 05:44 | 5905258 FMOTL
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I would have thought they could sue for employment discrimination against minimalist flesh impaired people

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:33 | 5904382 logicalman
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The world is heading down the crapper fast and those in power decide to spend time telling us what the acceptable female form is?

Fuck, I couldn't have come up with that with a keg of beer and an ounce of pot.

WTF????

 

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:58 | 5904471 BlackChicken
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Those in power couldn't lead their way out of a wet paper bag.

They rule by show of force; that's what failure brings.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:22 | 5904553 logicalman
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I've got a bigger stick than you, so I'm in charge.

Strange thing is that most humans hand the guy the stick without putting up a fight.

 

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 23:01 | 5904830 caconhma
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The good new this cannot last forever. Nobody can screw up the Mother Nature.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:34 | 5904385 Dragon HAwk
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Let the market Decide....

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:34 | 5904387 bugs_
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Bring us your tired masses, your skinny French girls

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:45 | 5904425 kaiserhoff
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...yearing to bra free...

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:44 | 5904421 kaiserhoff
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I'll drink to that.

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 07:06 | 5905320 Refuse-Resist
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SJWS!  TRIGGER!

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:36 | 5904391 MrButtoMcFarty
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Skinny...chubby....it's the hygiene that counts.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:47 | 5904430 Deathstar
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As long as they stay skinny and pretty, I don't care about their natural scent.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 23:03 | 5904835 Rakshas
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.......let's see you say that after a night of bean burritos and tequilla sunrises........ she might be pretty but she sure smells evil....

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:38 | 5904399 ZeroHedgeFan
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What's next? Banning male models with six pack abs because most men don't have it? This is stupid.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:15 | 5904527 Welfare Tycoon
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Nope, because banning male models would indicate that they actually care about males to begin with.

The current NWO suppresses males to control rebelion and promotes females because lets face it, the great majority of modern females are fucking stupid and will vote for the equally stupid policies of the corrupt politicians that appeal to their feelings, not logic. 

Its a pretty smart thing to do, considering that the females constitute the voting majority in the countries which promote these absurd laws and totalitarian dictatorships to begin with.  

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:23 | 5904557 SmedleyButlersGhost
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I'm confused - should I start doing a situp(s) or not each day?

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 07:11 | 5905325 Refuse-Resist
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Liberty went on life support when women were enfranchised.

 

For most men:  Liberty>>Security.

 

For most women:  Security>>Liberty.

 

Otherwise why did we get Prohibition, seat belt laws, .08BAC, mandatory health insurance, mandatory auto insurance, ubiquitous tracking devices, special laws for 'assault on female' (guys if a woman accuses you of violence or rape, you're goign to have to prove you didn't do it -- and if you're vindicated, the bitch who made the false charge doesn't get punished -- saw it first hand last week).

 

The social justice warriors are winning.  Men are losing. Especially straight white men.  We are the new 'Juden' and if there is ever another cattle car scenario, we straight white males will be the ones marched off for work to make us free.

 

Any viewing of mainstream TV in the US will show this in spades. We're portrayed by the media as either violent rapists, or incompetent nincompoops who can't funtion without a woman or minority to lead us.

FUCK YEAH!

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 08:12 | 5905417 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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The mind of young men is changing, MGTOW, Grass-eater and MRA are the proof.

The result of men saying fuck off ?

Total civilization collapse.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 22:01 | 5904667 Deathstar
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This is the social socialist way, Komrade.

Get used to it.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:42 | 5904414 Deathstar
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There is only ONE word that explains this behavior and it is in the second bold type paragraph.

Can anyone spot the relevant word?

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:46 | 5904429 Dr. Engali
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Socialist

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:59 | 5904661 Deathstar
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Hand that man a kewpie doll!

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:42 | 5904415 franciscopendergrass
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Government: making people feel better about themselves regardless of the consequence.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:43 | 5904418 Tinky
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How about banning oxymoronic euphemisms like "BBW"?

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 07:12 | 5905328 Refuse-Resist
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Amen brother!

 

returnofkings.com

 

 

 

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:45 | 5904424 Tracerfan
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They will jail people to address the issue of 1,000's of skinny girls and allow 100,000,000's of fat women die from fat-related diseases (which makes big profits for Big Food and Big Pharma).

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:50 | 5904444 globozart
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Supervised by a new ministry to be created.

New jobs.

Bullish.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:48 | 5904434 Tracerfan
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A woman who is 5-foot-7 and weighs 120 pounds (to soon be illegal as a model) will on average live a lot long than the average fat woman. 

The EU has become Dumbfu*kistan.


Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:57 | 5904469 silverer
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By now it should be clear that governments don't solve problems, they create them.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:48 | 5904437 Spungo
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Thank god they threw all bankers in jail and can now focus their effort on less important things.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:51 | 5904442 Dr. Engali
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I propose we ban fat glutenous heifers.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:57 | 5904468 GCT
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Doc HUD proposed in 2012 to make it a disability!  I kid you not!

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:51 | 5904445 Tracerfan
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The purpose of this law is not to protect overly thin women; rather, it is to make overweight women feel better about themselves so that big business can profit from their mass murder/suicide by eating the shit food being sold to them.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:51 | 5904448 Deathstar
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I like my girls skinny!

If I wanted to ride a cow, i'd be working on a fuckin' farm.

MooooO!

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 02:14 | 5905123 Colonel Klink
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A-fuckin-men!

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:52 | 5904454 TalkToLind
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Inflation hits the fashion world.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:52 | 5904455 silverer
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What if you are just giving a very thin girl who happens to be thin due to some genuine medical problem or a stay in a concentration camp in North Korea a job so she can buy food and medical care?  The people that need to eat the most are denied an income?  I guess that's totally sensible and fair, what was I thinking?

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:55 | 5904462 wchild
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Damn, I was hoping for more pictures...

 

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:57 | 5904465 MrButtoMcFarty
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It's a tragic thing watching all the Latinas and Asian girls in NYC go obese over the last decade or so....

Fucking tragic.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:56 | 5904466 Dr. Engali
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It all when down hill when Mattel caved to the fat masses and changed the dimensions on Barbie.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:04 | 5904489 Deathstar
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Komrade,
In the new socialist ameriKa(or world for that matter), it is all about feelings! No correct thinking can be allowed.

Political Correctness is the only thing that can be correct.

Get it now?
Na Zdorovie! and pass the spud juice.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:59 | 5904473 Playtime's Over
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What hypocrisy. Skinny girls need luvin too.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:26 | 5904573 logicalman
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Where do I sign up?

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 20:59 | 5904474 kchrisc
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One day the EU will be "concentrating" skinny women in their version of FEMA camps, while the DC US will be "concentrating" fat women.

The banksters need to repay us.

 

"Your weight has made you an enemy of the state."

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:08 | 5904477 YHC-FTSE
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I spent bloody ages trying to zoom into the thumbnail image of the 3 ladies used on this article. To compare their body fat, obviously.... I know it's pathetic, but if you are going to use intriguing thumbnails, for goodness sake provide a larger one in the article.

Edit. For those interested in a larger image:

https://goldenvatl.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/0fc74-weight-loss.jpg?w=670

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 22:07 | 5904684 Deathstar
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Are you one of those moths that like to fly into candles by chance?

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 22:17 | 5904713 Appleseed
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Tineye reverse picture look up can lead to larger verisons

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 04:09 | 5905189 StychoKiller
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All well within (Engineering) tolerance, but I'll take the larger one on the right any day!

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 07:14 | 5905331 Refuse-Resist
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What Order Would You Hit It? WOWHYI?

 

2,1 -- I never even noticed 3.

 

 

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:02 | 5904486 Yancey Ward
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Ah, she finally overcomes racism and weightism to find a career in modelling:

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:04 | 5904492 Niall Of The Ni...
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After the Great Reset, when your typical former women's auxiliary of the FSA is left so destitute and so hungry she'll cheerfully butcher her own children for meat, because no man who still has the wherewithal to do so will willingly give her the steam off his piss, she'll weep for the days when she or any woman in her right mind thought this sort of thing was a problem except in the imaginations of the fattest, ugliest and most frigid of her sex.

Every cloud has a silver lining, I suppose. 

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:07 | 5904503 Prometheus Unbound
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France still has that option: the US, not so much.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:15 | 5904529 SmedleyButlersGhost
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Well - if you're a SHTF believer - do you want a skinny or a really nice meaty 'partner'? Just saying. No - haven't read yet.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 23:30 | 5904911 varnelius
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Depends... are you thinking of possible cannibalism as a future course of action? Then go for it.

If not, it takes a lot of calories to keep an obese body going. Store the calories outside your body and you don't have to bring them everywhere with you (less work, less energy input requirements).

Thu, 03/19/2015 - 06:53 | 5905304 samcontrol
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The skinny hot one, at least i get some decnt fucks before dying!

fucking stupid question!

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:10 | 5904510 Thirtyseven
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I prefer the small (medium is good too) tits, 5'0, 98lbs. look. 

Not into fatties.  Sorry, just my preference.

Definitely had enough DD's flapping around in my face to know that they're really not all that great.

Wed, 03/18/2015 - 21:36 | 5904597 SmedleyButlersGhost
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No down vote from me - but as the bible says - turn the other cheek

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