Posted on 05/29/2014 12:38:25 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
British girls are the fattest in Europe – almost a third are overweight or obese, says a study.
Girls under 20 top a league table of 22 nations in Western Europe, with 29.2 per cent being overweight and obese.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Melinda Gates - Another woman, like Hillary, who has scads of money but can only afford one pants suit!
“Fat” by Weird Al Yankovic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2mU6USTBRE
“We have to look at the environment in which people are living, and the constant pressure to eat unhealthy food means things are particularly a problem for girls more than boys.”
The beginning of this music video reminds of this statement.
Woman Tired Of Hollywood’s Obsession With Perfection
http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/25129175/woman-shows-good-self-esteem-tops-perfection-obsession#ixzz2xeJJd1o4
(FOX 11 - Los Angeles) A Los Angeles woman says she’s tired of Hollywood’s obsession with perfection. So, she’s doing something drastic right in the middle of Hollywood Boulevard to show other women that it’s perfectly fine to be large and have good self esteem.
While you may or may not agree with Amani Terrell’s method, no one can argue with her message of loving yourself at any size. Amani weighs 260 pounds. She knows she has to lose weight. In the meantime, she refuses to be down on herself. She says, “You can not seek validation from other people. This world is very cruel. You must seek validation within yourself and be kind to yourself.”
Amani decided to strip down to her bikini in the very busy Hollywood Boulevard to show the world that women are beautiful at any size. While most people had a positive reaction...some, not so much. One guy yelled that he lost his appetite. Another sarcastically called her “Precious”.
Amani responded like this, “That was very unkind but that’s cool because I love myself.”
Fat chicks rule!!
I don’t know much about Gates’s wife. But early photo’s of the two show them to be a lot like Hill & Bill. Although the Gates looked cleaner than Hill & Bill in the 1960’s.
Tried to find the photo that I referenced, but my memory was faulty.
It was of the early Microsoft staff and Bill Gates. He did not marry Melinda until 1994. I did not realize Gates was so much younger than I am. He was born in 1955.
Here is an interesting bio on Bill Gates.
http://www.biography.com/people/bill-gates-9307520#early-life&awesm=~oFF57WEslIxsrF
Here is the photo that I was remembering. Gates is in the lower left hand side of the photo.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/microsoft.asp
When I used to teach an intro to computers class I would use that photo as part of my “How to use a search engine” class. who are these people? LOL.
So, yeah, when all your peers are large, when they are making all the cute, latest clothes in your size and you are all wearing micro minis with your flesh pouring out the sides--there isn't even that natural competitive drive to work harder to look better.
When I was a youngin'--I remember that come spring all the magazines would feature articles about getting your "bikin butt". And that was what we did--worked like mad to get into bikini butt shape. I have a daughter who is 16 (and thin), I ask her something about it and she thought I was nuts for worrying about such a thing. Times have changed, fat is the new black, I guess.
I remember the era. I drooled over the MIT computers. I was living in NM then.
Built my first PC from floor sweepings in 1982. It was a Z80, dual 5-1/4 floppies, tape drive (no hard drive), 64K (yes K not MB) of RAM, and a green phosphor monochrome monitor.
Yes I remember. Still have that stuff in a corner cabinet in my Ham Shack.
Yap, after they reach 29, time to trade them for a newer model.
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