America Tipping

[Perianne]

If this continues, I am afraid the United States will tip over and fall into the ocean.


Weight Watchers reports earnings Thursday, and even if the numbers aren't good, there's one figure that should make investors in dieting hopeful: 582 million.


That's how many pounds Americans gained collectively in 2015. Through births, immigration and overeating, there has been the equivalent of 1,400 blue whales added to the human biomass of our country in just a year, pointing to the need for groups like Weight Watchers to get the country lean and mean again.


The average American man weighed 196 pounds in November, according to Gallup, up 3 pounds from a year earlier. The average woman actually lost 2 pounds since 2014 and weighed 155 pounds.


It's not me. I weigh 114.

I noticed they only have totals for men and women. What about transgenders?

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/25/americans-gained-over-500-million-pounds-last-year.html

[Jeff]

If this continues, I am afraid the United States will tip over and fall into the ocean.



It's not me. I weigh 114.

I noticed they only have totals for men and women. What about transgenders?

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/25/americans-gained-over-500-million-pounds-last-year.html

Transgenders are not listed cause they don't have a column for IT'S.

And yes I agree Americans are getting fatter and lazier everyday, kids now a days think playing a game of football or baseball only involves a joy stick and a monitor, hell when we where kids we couldn't wait to get outside and play. Today kids have become lazy, they would rather lay on the couch ( or the recliner in their bedroom :rolleyes: ) and make believe they are playing. I blame this on folks being PCed, folks are so busy trying to not hurt anyone's feelings that they are allowing their own kids to get so big it is disgusting, then ya have the parents that believe the computer ( play station, X Box or what ever game it is they are playing ) is the new baby sitter. This Country has gotten away from the way we did things years ago and it sure enough shows.

[CSM]

Transgenders are not listed cause they don't have a column for IT'S.

And yes I agree Americans are getting fatter and lazier everyday, kids now a days think playing a game of football or baseball only involves a joy stick and a monitor, hell when we where kids we couldn't wait to get outside and play. Today kids have become lazy, they would rather lay on the couch ( or the recliner in their bedroom :rolleyes: ) and make believe they are playing. I blame this on folks being PCed, folks are so busy trying to not hurt anyone's feelings that they are allowing their own kids to get so big it is disgusting, then ya have the parents that believe the computer ( play station, X Box or what ever game it is they are playing ) is the new baby sitter. This Country has gotten away from the way we did things years ago and it sure enough shows.

I think it's a bit more complicated than just the access to digital devices. The American citizen has become lazy... we want things given to us (without expending ANY effort on our part) ...everything from participation trophies to the Nobel prize ("I was thinking about world peace..."). Gimme a free cell phone, free college education and a paycheck (that doesn't even require me to work). Ass the PC BS on top of that and we have a society that will very soon end up being conquered (not necessarily through military occupation) or absorbed. We have convinced our society that NOTHING is worth fighting for... even personal principles are situation dependent (sometimes it's ok to tell lies), criminals are victims and victims deserved their fate.... we teach this and more to our children who grow up and pass that on to their children.

Hell, now I don't want to go outside. I think I'll sit here and eat a couple of donuts and play some video games. Then I won't have to think about this kind of stuff!

[NightTrain]

I think I'll sit here and eat a couple of donuts and play some video games. Then I won't have to think about this kind of stuff!


And you can always enter in a cheat code if you don't want to work too awfully hard on that video game.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

I think it's a bit more complicated than just the access to digital devices. The American citizen has become lazy... we want things given to us (without expending ANY effort on our part) ...everything from participation trophies to the Nobel prize ("I was thinking about world peace..."). Gimme a free cell phone, free college education and a paycheck (that doesn't even require me to work). Ass the PC BS on top of that and we have a society that will very soon end up being conquered (not necessarily through military occupation) or absorbed. We have convinced our society that NOTHING is worth fighting for... even personal principles are situation dependent (sometimes it's ok to tell lies), criminals are victims and victims deserved their fate.... we teach this and more to our children who grow up and pass that on to their children.

Hell, now I don't want to go outside. I think I'll sit here and eat a couple of donuts and play some video games. Then I won't have to think about this kind of stuff!

Our socialist/liberal indoctrination system(Public education) very likely sped up that process of lazy slothful
behavior by a couple hundred fold-- just as its designer intended.
Every nation/power in history that became extremely "wealthy" saw this come and destroy most of them--even the longest lasting and maybe toughest one ever- "the Roman empire"!!
One can see it as human nature by looking at famous , fantastically wealthy families , in that usually by the third generation it starts and by the fourth or fifth generation its in full and rotting bloom.
Decay is by nature easy, its the swimming upstream thats hard to maintain.
Its easier to destroy a battleship than it is to build a battleship(building takes time and sustained effort), as one good hit can destroy it.
No one stroke can build it.
They(lib/socialists) deliberately corrupted our building system for our youth(Public Education).-Tyr