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bogey666
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Korea, the ass free zone
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| . Where do you come off assuming all women who wear a size 10 are overweight? |
that's just common sense, because the only other input factor that's missing is your height.
at an average women's height, at size 10, you're overweight, though it may only be slightly so if you're especially big boned and athletic and/or just have one of those body shapes.
but you're either on the cusp... or over it.
to me, 10 is the cusp, basically.. and I'm one of those guys who likes curves, except I'm old school in the definition of curves... meaning hanging cellulite is NOT a curve, except in pectoral and gluteal regions.
http://images.google.co.kr/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bodyscan.human.cornell.edu/feature_bodyscanner/img/clothing_process/01_05_tryon.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bodyscan.human.cornell.edu/scene26a9.html&usg=__O7Ba4V17A2urE2Nm3jG9_0fWXu4=&h=300&w=460&sz=32&hl=ko&start=2&tbnid=CT9KHnbyOSwN_M:&tbnh=83&tbnw=128&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsize%2B10%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Dko%26newwindow%3D1
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 2:05 am Post subject: |
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Are you talking about a US size 10, an Aussie size 10 or a UK size 10?
They're all different. Certainly if you think a UK size 10 is fat, you must be out of your mind. |
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bogey666
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Korea, the ass free zone
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calicoe
Joined: 23 Dec 2008
Location: South Korea
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calicoe
Joined: 23 Dec 2008
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 6:06 am Post subject: |
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Double post - very, very slow internet.
Now tell me again - why are these women supposed to please YOU?
(YOU as in the collective haters on this site, rather than anyone in particular).
edit added: oh yeah - one other. She's a size 6 but over 40-yrs-old, hahaha.
http://askamakeupguru.com/blog/uploaded/monica_belluci_56_1.jpg |
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Janny
Joined: 02 Jul 2008
Location: all over the place
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 7:43 am Post subject: |
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By Korean standards, I am fat.
By Canadian standards, I'm just fine.
So the moral of the story is......there are no rules. |
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Enrico Palazzo
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Joined: 11 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 8:08 am Post subject: |
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| livinginkunsan wrote: |
For the record, I love women.. just not heifers  |
TOS=Terms of Service. The post above does not equal TOE=Terms of Endearment. It's kind of interesting how folks use words such as heifers, but we don't have the equivalent term for males out there. Perhaps, some of the femmes out there may find it sexist. Anyway, it doesn't seem TOS friendly. Had you said, I just don't like women who are overweight and left it at that, it would have been fine, man... |
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bogey666
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Korea, the ass free zone
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 11:10 am Post subject: |
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| Janny wrote: |
By Korean standards, I am fat.
By Canadian standards, I'm just fine.
So the moral of the story is......there are no rules. |
I think most guys here would agree "Korean standards" are ridiculous.
on the other hand... when I hear "Canadian standards" or "American standards".. I get REALLY suspicious
are we talking like pre 1975 standards.. before the super size me society, when people in North America still looked more or less like people?
or today's blubbery masses??? (some of whom claim that the blubber makes them ahemm.... "healthy"?) |
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AmericanExile
Joined: 04 May 2009
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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| bogey666 wrote: |
| or today's blubbery masses??? (some of whom claim that the blubber makes them ahemm.... "healthy"?) |
It doesn't make you healthy, but it also doesn't make you unhealthy. Although the body does require some fat to be at peak health. In fact, women cannot get pregnant without fat. The amounts required for good health is not so much that it would cause you to think of a person as fat.
There was a point in the history of medicine when being overweight was believe to cause a number of health problems. There were no studies that showed that to be true. It was assumed true. This became controversial, so studies were done. Study after study came back without a causal link between being overweight and diabetes or heart disease or whatever. No causal link. Many doctors still tell their patients that being overweight is bad, but that is changing. What smart well informed doctors now tell patients is to eat right and be active. The fact is a person who is overweight but is active has better core health than someone who is not overweight but is inactive.
People resist this idea because for so long we were told that being overweight is inherently bad. Doctors were just wrong as they have been about other things. How many decades did doctors insist menopause was in women's heads?
Think about it from an evolutionary standpoint. Fat is energy reserves. Humans evolved out of a world where the next meal was uncertain. Carrying fat was good. The human body has evolved to carry significa | | |
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