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Congratulations - you are 9th on the list

Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:56 pm
by Mobius
http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,11964-6982296,00.html

Excellent work you Quad-burger-munching, pop-swilling, beer-bellied Americans! You are the 9th Fattest People in The World!

Woohoo! Go Fatties!

I expect next year though, you will have beaten the Kuwaities and Samoans into their rightful place (below you), and climb to Number 6. Good luck with that!

You still have a way to go to beat the Cook Islanders (Rarotonga) and Micronesians though. So, best you get you eatin' on, and get down for a 9000 Calorie feed at your local Gobble'n'Go.

Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:28 pm
by Immortal Lobster
17th isnt that far down either ;)

In the past, levels of obesity were desired, a queen or king were rated on their quality of living and quality of leadership on how fat they were. not saying its a good way to measure, but its all retrospective :P

Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:28 pm
by Lothar
Your country is only 68.4% obese, so I guess that means you should taunt us and our 74.1% obesity rate, huh?

Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:29 pm
by Unix
It's so easy to hate you.

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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:35 pm
by Krom
Unix wrote:It's so easy to hate you.
I'll second that.

Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:41 pm
by Chaos Death Saurer
Gettin' tired of your America-hating, Mobius.

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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:08 pm
by Firewheel
Krom wrote:
Unix wrote:It's so easy to hate you.
I'll second that.

Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:18 pm
by Topher
At least we're on the top side of the planet.

Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:27 pm
by Immortal Lobster
See, we're trying to keep it balanced with all those pacific islanders down there =P

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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:42 am
by Top Wop
Chaos Death Saurer wrote:Gettin' tired of your America-hating, Mobius.
X2. Why cant be ban this troll already?

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:59 am
by Kyouryuu
STFU Mobius. :x :o :P :twisted:

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:00 am
by Admiral Thrawn
Yea, but we all know who comes first when it comes to sodomizing the sheep

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:50 am
by Kilarin
come now, come now people. Be gentle with Mobius. Pity, not anger. Pity... :)

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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:12 am
by Sirius
Top Wop wrote:
Chaos Death Saurer wrote:Gettin' tired of your America-hating, Mobius.
X2. Why cant be ban this troll already?
Because banning people simply because they annoy you sets a dangerous precedent.

Topher - there is no "up" as far as the universe is concerned. :)

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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:33 am
by Immortal Lobster
Sirius wrote:
Top Wop wrote:
Chaos Death Saurer wrote:Gettin' tired of your America-hating, Mobius.
X2. Why cant be ban this troll already?
Because banning people simply because they annoy you sets a dangerous precedent.

Topher - there is no "up" as far as the universe is concerned. :)

Oh yes there is, every coordinit system uses the North ple of earth to define up in the universe :P

Pices represents the X-axis, and Earths summer equinox is the Y-axis

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:04 am
by Sirius
...arbitrary?

They did that because most people traditionally think of the north geographic pole (well, maybe the solar equivalent) as up, and you have to agree on something for co-ordinate systems to mean anything.

It doesn't mean the universe shares that view (principally because it doesn't have any view).

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:27 am
by Testiculese
We're only ninth? I figured we're number one, going by the battleship asses I see lumbering down to McDonalds.

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:00 am
by Kilarin
Sirius wrote:banning people simply because they annoy you sets a dangerous precedent.
Besides, if you banned all of the annoying people on the DBB...

there wouldn't be any of us left! :D

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:45 am
by Nosferatu
BTW, Penn and Teller have an episode of their show Bull Sh-- on just how full of the show name, health natzies are.

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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:54 am
by Immortal Lobster
Sirius wrote:...arbitrary?

They did that because most people traditionally think of the north geographic pole (well, maybe the solar equivalent) as up, and you have to agree on something for co-ordinate systems to mean anything.

It doesn't mean the universe shares that view (principally because it doesn't have any view).
yes, its quite arbitrary lol, but in our known world its our reference :P

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:46 pm
by Topher
Using the right hand rule along with Earth's orbit, we can tell that North is up and, more importantly, that New Zealand is on the bottom.

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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:17 pm
by Foil
Topher wrote:Using the right hand rule along with Earth's orbit, we can tell that North is up and, more importantly, that New Zealand is on the bottom.
:lol: *Points out that the "right-hand-rule" is really a "right-hand-convention", arbitrarily decided on by Physicists who were likely right-handed*

:lol: *Wonders why anyone on a board named after a 6DoF "There is no up" game would argue otherwise*

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:30 pm
by Kilarin
Foil wrote:*Wonders why anyone on a board named after a 6DoF "There is no up" game would argue otherwise*
Hah, Topher's not alone, I was about to make the same argument, he just beat me to it. :)

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 2:13 pm
by Immortal Lobster
There is also a lef hand rule, or LHR =P

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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:29 pm
by Topher
Immortal Lobster wrote:There is also a lef hand rule, or LHR =P
On the top side of the world we use the right hand rule which only goes to show people who live on the bottom side of the world that use the "left hand rule" are totally bass ackwards.

Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:11 am
by Genghis
Other applications of the RHR:

http://xkcd.com/c199.html

Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:24 pm
by BUBBALOU
Mobi-Zealot you truly need to grow a set... instead of wanking like a lil b!tch

Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:16 pm
by CDN_Merlin
I think he's taking his married life of being OWNED by his wife out on us.

Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:40 pm
by De Rigueur
He does have a point about the problem of obesity.

Maybe he's become like House, constantly in pain from all his injuries and addicted to vicodin.

Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:21 pm
by TIGERassault
I'd like to see the full list, and also the percentage of anarexia in countries too.

Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:06 pm
by Money!
Like the new avatar Topher.

And 75% obese is almost unbelieveable... where I live it seems about 10%.

Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:17 pm
by Firewheel
Have any of us ever seen a pic of Mobi? For all we know, he could be a tub of fat, too. :D

Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:02 pm
by TechPro
For all we know... Mobius could be this guy. But I'm pretty sure he isn't... right?

  • Actually, he isn't. This Link is the page I ripped that pic from. :lol:

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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:26 pm
by Sirius
Topher wrote:Using the right hand rule along with Earth's orbit, we can tell that North is up and, more importantly, that New Zealand is on the bottom.
Right hand rule applies to electromagnetism, not astronomy. :)

FYI, New Zealand ranges from about 37 deg south to 45 - whereas the "bottom" by that token would be no further north than 23.5 deg off the south pole, or 66.5 degrees south. It's a few thousand miles off.

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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:47 pm
by De Rigueur
Firewheel wrote:Have any of us ever seen a pic of Mobi? For all we know, he could be a tub of fat, too. :D

http://www.planetdescent.com/d3help/mobius.shtml

Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:45 am
by Neumaennl
I want to see the full list - in the excerpt Germany is not listed

Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 12:15 pm
by Flabby Chick
It's so cute to see most of you slagging off the messenger without reading what the bloody message is.

....that remind's me of something.

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Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:46 pm
by Lothar
Flabby Chick wrote:It's so cute to see most of you slagging off the messenger without reading what the bloody message is.
I read the message. I just thought it was funny that it was presented in a "OMG America sucks" kind of way from a guy whose country is a whole 5.7% better.

Anyway, it's not like I'm responsible for how much everyone else in this country weighs (nor is Mobi responsible for how much everyone else in his country weighs.)

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Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:17 pm
by Topher
Flabby Chick wrote:It's so cute to see most of you slagging off the messenger without reading what the bloody message is.

....that remind's me of something.
What could it possibly remind you of...oh I get it, it's Mobius!!

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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:00 pm
by Zombie
Neumaennl wrote:I want to see the full list - in the excerpt Germany is not listed
I haven't found the full list yet. Maybe this will help.

http://www.who.int/ncd_surveillance/inf ... e=BCP&dm=5