26 Cheerleaders + 1 Elevator =

Boomer23 · August 7, 2008

FAIL!

Eagle1855 · August 7, 2008

dammit, I really wanted to make a Heaven joke until I read their ages. Now all I can think about is Hell.

Boomer23 · August 7, 2008

dammit, I really wanted to make a Heaven joke until I read their ages. Now all I can think about is Hell.

I was going to do the same

Censored by Laurie · August 7, 2008

“Take the sign seriously,” Ms. Weldon said. “There are signs everywhere: No more than 15 people or 3,000 pounds.”

3000/26 = 115.39lbs. I have a very hard time believing that the mean weight of 26 14-17 year old cheerleaders is more than 115. I've got 2/1 odds saying that atleast one of these cheerleading parents figures that out and sues.

Cerebus · August 7, 2008

“Take the sign seriously,” Ms. Weldon said. “There are signs everywhere: No more than 15 people or 3,000 pounds.”
3000/26 = 115.39lbs. I have a very hard time believing that the mean weight of 26 14-17 year old cheerleaders is more than 115. I've got 2/1 odds saying that atleast one of these cheerleading parents figures that out and sues.

According to this study, the average weight of a 15 year old American girl is just over 134 pounds. Up from 124 in 1966.

What is interesting is that between 1966 and the date of the study the average weight for American men went from 166 to 191 pounds, and from 140 to 165 for American women.

untbowler · August 7, 2008

umm his point is 15 people, which last time I went to school was less than 26, so who cares about the 3000lb limit they had to many people in the elevator. If anyone should be paying damages it should be the parents because they have a bunch of nitwits who can not read. Pay the repait bill.

KingDL1 · August 7, 2008

umm his point is 15 people, which last time I went to school was less than 26, so who cares about the 3000lb limit they had to many people in the elevator. If anyone should be paying damages it should be the parents because they have a bunch of nitwits who can not read. Pay the repait bill.

I still think there should have been pictures, of something that stupid

KRAM1 · August 7, 2008

I wonder where everyone's hands were?????

OK, I returned recently from a trip to Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Estonia, and I am now a firm believer that the U.S. is the fattest nation on earth! WOW...the difference in the "average person on the street" and their body size between these countries (at least where I was) and the US was simply staggering! If the US, as a nation, does not do something about its "fatness" we will surely "sink"! And, I mean for people to take personal responsibility about their own health. We do not need the government mandating anything else and setting up a bunch of "food nazi's" to tell folks what they can and cannot eat. Peole need to take personal responsibility and eat less and better food. A little "junk food" is not bad at all, but moderation folks, moderation, and exercise. Get up off your "duff" and DO SOMETHING! Just MOVE!

greenminer · August 7, 2008

I wonder where everyone's hands were?????
OK, I returned recently from a trip to Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Estonia, and I am now a firm believer that the U.S. is the fattest nation on earth! WOW...the difference in the "average person on the street" and their body size between these countries (at least where I was) and the US was simply staggering! If the US, as a nation, does not do something about its "fatness" we will surely "sink"! And, I mean for people to take personal responsibility about their own health. We do not need the government mandating anything else and setting up a bunch of "food nazi's" to tell folks what they can and cannot eat. Peole need to take personal responsibility and eat less and better food. A little "junk food" is not bad at all, but moderation folks, moderation, and exercise. Get up off your "duff" and DO SOMETHING! Just MOVE!

No soup for you!

KingDL1 · August 7, 2008

I wonder where everyone's hands were?????
OK, I returned recently from a trip to Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Estonia, and I am now a firm believer that the U.S. is the fattest nation on earth! WOW...the difference in the "average person on the street" and their body size between these countries (at least where I was) and the US was simply staggering! If the US, as a nation, does not do something about its "fatness" we will surely "sink"! And, I mean for people to take personal responsibility about their own health. We do not need the government mandating anything else and setting up a bunch of "food nazi's" to tell folks what they can and cannot eat. Peole need to take personal responsibility and eat less and better food. A little "junk food" is not bad at all, but moderation folks, moderation, and exercise. Get up off your "duff" and DO SOMETHING! Just MOVE!

I been considering this for many years and I think a person should be taxed by the percentage of fat they carry, with a bottom at 10%. There were some studies on how much obesity is costing this nation, the price tag was staggering.

Eagle1855 · August 7, 2008

There were some studies on how much obesity is costing this nation, the price tag was staggering.

More diseases can be linked to obesity than anything else. It's one of the biggest problems with health care and it's completely avoidable!

Censored by Laurie · August 7, 2008

I been considering this for many years and I think a person should be taxed by the percentage of fat they carry, with a bottom at 10%. There were some studies on how much obesity is costing this nation, the price tag was staggering.

Wouldn't such a tax be a back-handed way of putting government regulations on the fast food, snack food, dessert and all pilsbury-based industries?

How dare you impede with the free-market, sir. If the invisible hand intended us to be thin he would've mandated it, through his profit Adam Smith

Cerebus · August 7, 2008

How dare you impede with the free-market, sir. If the invisible hand intended us to be thin he would've mandated it, through his profit Adam Smith

Profit?

KRAM1 · August 7, 2008

Interesting thoughts here. It does "gall" me a bit to have to cover with my taxes the costs associated with the by-products to our society of an overweight population.

Here's an observation for you to ponder. I wonder if anyone else has noticed. When my wife and I go out to eat these days it is hard for us to sit in a booth as opposed to a table. Why? Well, it seems to me that there is much more room between the seats in a booth and the table in most restaurants with booths these days? Why? To accomodate the increased SIZE of the average American restaurant patron these days. My wife and I can hardly reach the table these days without having to lean forward or sit on ther edge of the seats. Has anyone else notived this subtle change in seating around the country? By the way...it was not the case during our recent visit to Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Estonia...and we noticed! Hmmmmmmmmmm <_<

I will say, that the "average" person we encountered in Estonia, while "thinner" than the average American, was not as thinh as those in Denmark, Sweden and Finland. I can only assume that was due to the Soviet nutrition influence on Estonia during its domination by the Soviet Union.

These are only non-scientific personal observations, but it was darn hard to not notice all the "smokin hot" young ladies I saw in Denmark, Sweden, etc. My wife noticed that I noticed too...just in case you were wondering. :bangin:

Censored by Laurie · August 7, 2008

Profit?

You win todays punny hidden word compition.

KingDL1 · August 7, 2008

Interesting thoughts here. It does "gall" me a bit to have to cover with my taxes the costs associated with the by-products to our society of an overweight population.
Here's an observation for you to ponder. I wonder if anyone else has noticed. When my wife and I go out to eat these days it is hard for us to sit in a booth as opposed to a table. Why? Well, it seems to me that there is much more room between the seats in a booth and the table in most restaurants with booths these days? Why? To accomodate the increased SIZE of the average American restaurant patron these days. My wife and I can hardly reach the table these days without having to lean forward or sit on ther edge of the seats. Has anyone else notived this subtle change in seating around the country? By the way...it was not the case during our recent visit to Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Estonia...and we noticed! Hmmmmmmmmmm
I will say, that the "average" person we encountered in Estonia, while "thinner" than the average American, was not as thinh as those in Denmark, Sweden and Finland. I can only assume that was due to the Soviet nutrition influence on Estonia during its domination by the Soviet Union.
These are only non-scientific personal observations, but it was darn hard to not notice all the "smokin hot" young ladies I saw in Denmark, Sweden, etc. My wife noticed that I noticed too...just in case you were wondering.

When I was in Bulgaria it was hard to find a person under 40 that was even a little heavy, and not many over 40. It got to be a game with me and my buddy after a while when we were not drooling over the hot girls there.

But on the bad side everyone smoked like fiends.

forevereagle · August 7, 2008

Profit?

He did know how to make money.

August 7, 2008

Ahhh good with the bad.

They smoke more too. And smoking decreases appetite... increases cancer... which decreases weight. Just saying.

Also, *ALL* industrial nations have obesity problems. Your observations, while valid in some cases, are just colloquial.

Like being in NYC or Miami you see less fat people than in Hattiesburg, MS. A visitor to NYC may think that the US isn't as fat as reported. Just like an American visiting a large city like Paris or Luxembourg. They don't see the beer chugging sausage eaters in the country.

* Worldwide 400 million adults are obese and 1.6 billion are overweight.1
* Worldwide, 155 million children are overweight, including 30-45 million obese children.2
* Obesity levels have risen sharply across the globe. Even in those countries that have historically had lower rates of obesity, there is now evidence of increasing overweight.3
* In the Americas, the United States is by far the fattest country: 31% of adult males and 33% of adult females are obese.4
* Croatia has the largest portion of obese men in Europe, at 31% and Albania the most obese women, 36%.4
* In Lebanon, 36% of men are obese, the highest proportion in the Eastern Mediterranean and Jordan has the highest female incidence at 60%.4
* The most obese nations of the world are in the Western Pacific:
o in Nauru 80% of men are obese, 78% of women;
o in Tonga 47% of men and 70% of women are obese;
o in Samoa 33% of men are obese and 63% of women.

Also note that BMI is what is typically used for obese studies. Asian countries can't have the BMI applied... a 36" waist on an Asian dude is like a 40" waist on a white dude.

Here is good article about Europe: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe...,478303,00.html

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