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(Yahoo)   Figure-conscious Singapore government sets up fat-measuring machines at gas stations and supermarkets   (story.news.yahoo.com) divider line 50
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2005-03-16 10:20:18 AM
Breasts.
 
2005-03-16 10:20:52 AM
This is getting completely and utterly ridiculous. Too many calories = fat.

FFS!
 
2005-03-16 10:20:59 AM
coming to the U.S. in 5...4...3...
 
2005-03-16 10:21:02 AM
I like Ike.
 
2005-03-16 10:21:23 AM
The fark personal chicka 'mscubapin' is troubling for many reasons. not least of all that she looks something like a drag queen, and yet I still think she's very hot in some weird way.

This has nothing to do with Singapore I know.
 
2005-03-16 10:21:47 AM
missed, dammit
 
2005-03-16 10:22:48 AM
mcdonald's i can see, gas stations... not exactly.
 
2005-03-16 10:22:51 AM
nativefloridian

Why bring it to the US? You can tell most Americans are fat just by taking a quick look. You don't need a machine.
 
Ott
2005-03-16 10:23:13 AM
Why not just an asshole teenager who'll point and laugh and say 'fatty fat fat fat'?

and i can't read.
 
2005-03-16 10:23:52 AM
Southwest Airlines interested.
 
2005-03-16 10:23:55 AM
Wait, this is Singapore? Why don't they just threaten to cain any citizen whose BMI exceeds a certain amount?

"Yeah... get fat, and we'll beat you till you're thin."
 
2005-03-16 10:28:48 AM
Singaporean women are ridiculously skinny to begin with. What most of the world considers shapely they consider fat.
 
2005-03-16 10:31:25 AM
In my bedroom, you'll find: "A painting from India, a photograph from Burning Man, cow skull, Las Vegas mask, and bamboo etchings."

But no farking obeseticle diagostical device-alarility

/Been to Singapore - clean - abnormally
 
2005-03-16 10:31:59 AM
If you want to be fat, be fat.

Just don't spill over your seat onto me.
 
2005-03-16 10:32:44 AM
another fat thread....

*wear flamesuit*
 
2005-03-16 10:33:41 AM
Obligatory GIS "Singapore Women":

Also check out singaporewomen.com, although they don't look very Singaporese, and most of them seems to live in Russia!
 
2005-03-16 10:34:15 AM
Now the just need a few guys with megaphones yelling "DON'T EAT SO DAMN MUCH" at every resturant, and they'll be well on their way to whatever crazy Singaporian goal they're going for.
 
2005-03-16 10:34:44 AM
Good move!

Next step, coin-operated liposuction machines next to the vacuums and air pumps.
 
2005-03-16 10:35:31 AM

Needs caption contest?
 
2005-03-16 10:36:22 AM
coming to the U.S. in 5...4...never. Too many SUV driving fatties would complain that they're happy the way they are thanks to Dr. Phil and clinging to past memories of being a high-school quarterback and/or cheerleader, and that this government funded shame campeign is blocking their view of the 10 Commandments.

And where the crap was I going with this??
 
2005-03-16 10:40:34 AM
I submitted this with a much, much worse headline. But this headline isn't good either.

/got nothing
 
Ant
2005-03-16 10:43:19 AM
Fat people = the new Jews.

It's nice to have a convenient scapegoat to blame all of society's problems on, isn't it?

...and before you make any assumptions, no, I'm not fat. I'm just pissed off at all the intolerant assholes who judge people based on looks.
 
2005-03-16 10:45:52 AM
Oh please Ant, fat people clearly don't control Hollywood... yet.
 
2005-03-16 10:46:45 AM
my wife is from singapore. 105 lbs. nice.
 
2005-03-16 10:49:12 AM
Yes, more Singaporean goodness!



Sing... sing out loud... sing out strong...
 
2005-03-16 10:49:48 AM
Ant: Fat people = the new Jews.


They would make a better fuel sorce.

/bags are packed
//probably have to fly Southwest between two fat people
 
2005-03-16 10:50:22 AM
does she hava sister?
 
2005-03-16 10:54:07 AM
BMI is crap.

I am a 29 and change, borderline obese.
I can can bench press well more than my weight do back flips, and run 2.5K in 10min.

Get the calipers out and do a real Body Fat test, mu ha ha ha!
 
2005-03-16 10:54:48 AM
dropdead
They would make a better fuel sorce.
celebrating diversity, arent we?
hopefully you fly between two fat Attas!
 
2005-03-16 10:56:15 AM
I saw a stand in the shopping precinct this afternoon. The sign read "Free Body Fat Check" and there was a guy dishing out leaflets. I assume he wanders up to people and says "Hey, you have a fat arse, try this ...".
 
2005-03-16 11:00:08 AM
 
2005-03-16 11:05:56 AM
I have an Omron Body Fat Analyzer that works really well.
 
2005-03-16 11:06:12 AM
It's the American way. Americans LIKE being fat and spoiled.

If more of us took a cue from our Asian friends on living healthier lifestyles maybe we wouldn't be paying out our arses in health insurance costs due to smokers and fatties.


/lights the smokebomb and ducks away
 
2005-03-16 11:07:39 AM
Oh No!!

Not Again!

Now all the fatties are going to come out saying how complicated it is and how difficult it is to lose weight. Then all the skinnies will come back and argue with them that it's not. Completely missing the point that they are only taking that position because it's so much easier to sit in front of their computers, stuffing their faces, and arguing than it is to get up off of their titanic tushies and do something about it!

Too many exclamation points?
 
2005-03-16 11:07:54 AM
coming to the U.S. in 5...4...3...

never is right...the fat farks would just complain that it's derogatory or offensive to fat people.

stop. farking. eating.
 
2005-03-16 11:09:12 AM
The closest I could see this working in the US at places like Mcdonalds is if the people within the acceptable range get a 'discount', which the government pays for. If the government didn't pay for it, then Mcdonalds could just jack up the prices and discount skinny people to pay the normal prices. One way or another, executing this as a 'tax' on fat people wouldn't work.
 
2005-03-16 11:13:38 AM
If you want to be fat, fine. But props for the initiative to at least encourage a healthy lifestyle.
 
2005-03-16 11:13:44 AM
They had one of those machines in the supermarket I go to. The first customer who stepped onto it crushed it.
 
2005-03-16 11:14:35 AM
Hell where does all the cigarette tax go...it can't cost more than a few nickels a pack to manufacture 20 cigarettes and a box. What are they, 4, 5 bucks a pack? Peopele still buy them. Around here, they buy A LOT of them.

I predict we tax a Big Mac $2.00 extra and sales will stay the same.
 
2005-03-16 11:15:10 AM


Dang, that's a huge woman!
 
2005-03-16 11:15:52 AM
NakedApe

Hahah!!! Was it a "Piggly Wiggly"?
 
2005-03-16 11:16:59 AM
Dang, that's a huge woman!

Or a very small man.
 
2005-03-16 11:19:49 AM
 
2005-03-16 11:40:03 AM
I was in S'pore last year, and I was amazed at the number of 'fat clinics' the place has. Honestly, for a island nation where no-one weighs more than 150lbs, they're obsessed with being thin.

My darling Singaporean wife (120lbs soaking wet) is considered fat over there. Which is weird, because her BMI is spot-on. And she's not fat. :)
 
2005-03-16 11:45:16 AM

Love the SPG references everyone.
 
2005-03-16 11:51:53 AM
Was I the only one that read that headline as fart-measuring machines at gas stations?
 
2005-03-16 12:12:55 PM
Screamingredmenace:

Was I the only one that read that headline as fart-measuring machines at gas stations?

Yes, yes you were. Fart measuring machines can be found in the coin-op showers at truckstops.
 
2005-03-16 12:40:24 PM
Bigger is better! Isn't that what they tell us?
 
2005-03-16 12:59:09 PM
 
2005-03-16 08:38:00 PM
fascisim...gotta love it ..or be jailed and sent to fat camp you slob.
 
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