If giraffes lived in the US
© Thomas Mangold
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Discussion
Hello again!
since i commented, there’ve been a hell of a lot more good comments, and well said anotheramerican! coudos to you!
Hello again!
since i commented, there’ve been a hell of a lot more good comments, and well said anotheramerican! coudos to you!
Oh and another thing. Australia may well be the fattest country, but america is far more populated, so percentage wise, it may well not be the fattest country, but i bet it still has more fat people!
lmao, I just spit out my french fries and pepsi all over the screen. I would love to see more “American animals”
mr. giraffe gets the award for best post
Now this is going to get interesting;
In the USA 31% of people over the age of 15 are obese (with a BMI of 30 or higher) now that is very large (an average person with the hight of 5’8″ would be larger or equal to 200 lbs).
USA is followed by Mexico with 24% of the same age group of people being obese.
Mexico is closely followed by the UK at 23%.
Slovak Republic and Greece are the next highest at 22%.
Now when thinking about this think of people around you. In the USA if you are normal and get a group of 10 people with variation aside usually there will be 3 obese people in that group. Now thats only obese, think of the other overweight people that are there as well (with just over 60% of that same group of people being overweight). So this means that 3 people around you are overweight (some might be borderline so it’s not very noticeable), 3 of them are obese and another three are normal or underweight. Now I live in Australia where 22% of people are obese and just over 50% are overweight. I see the overweight kids teasing the skinny kids, now seriously when did the world turn so that normal people are teased because now they are the minority, so we can stop calling them normal. So these new normal kids will pick on the minority. So they can now use these:
“haha look at the skinny kid he doesn’t sweat when he eats” or “we would beat you up but we can’t catch you” so there you go, does that make everyone feel better about being American, British, Australian whatever. But we can’t do anything about it because that is their lifestyle choice. “You can lead a fat kid to the cafeteria but you can’t make them buy a salad…”
Pro-tip: This is NOT how to post a protip.
Damn, it’s just one of many stereotypes. Some people just need to learn that no matter what, you ARE NOT better than anyone else. Being American especially does not make you better than anyone else. Unfortunately, that’s another American stereotype.
I’m American and the picture is funny. I’m not offended by it because our country is the fattest there is and it’s our own fault, no reason to be upset by other people calling us out.
If you want to impress people with meaningless internet banter, try to be mature about it because NOBODY gives a shit about what you think, especially on the internet.
Read this comment again:
Bumbandit said:
Fat yank assholes can’t take a joke
awesome… !
In Germany we would say: “auweia!”, what means: “oh my gosh!” and I remember a reportage I saw in TV. A journalist prognosticated that in Germany after 10 years the people were as fat as in USA. That was seven years ago. The German people of today are as fat as in USA.
It seems, McDonald & Co. came to Africa now…
Photoshopped
The picture is funny, but the caption sucks. America? C’mon, folks, let’s not be bitter because America is big and successful. Jealousy is unbecoming.
And btw, I’m an American, and I’m mostly German, and a little French. No English or African. (Where did African come from?)
Oh, and not only would the Allies have lost WW2 without America (Lend-Lease, people? I mean, seriously…WTF? Debtors have short memories, or maybe the British educational system is a shitty as the American system) but Europe was rebuilt after WW2 free of charge – the Marshall Plan. Let’s let bygones be bygones, but if you really want to be resentful, you owe us your asses. And your mom’s.
But that’s really beside the point. People have problems, and so do societies – alcoholism, a nanny state, obesity, corruption, drugs, it doesn’t matter whether you live in Caracas or London or NYC, everyone has something that needs cleaning up in their own backyard.
So, get off your high horses people. Oh, and stop talking shit about America. You need us, because we’re a nation of consumers. We stop consuming, you lose a big customer base. So maybe obesity isn’t such a bad thing after all, huh?
Besides, if you keep up the shit-talking, we’ll fucking nuke your sorry asses.
‘Oh, and not only would the Allies have lost WW2 without America…’
no they wouldn’t, the ussr would have won on its own without anyone else.
sorry but what the fuck is this about nuking everybodys asses??? i will admit that america droping the bomb on japan probably saved alot more lives (although it was droped on inocent people and was a ver bad thing to do im not saing that it was good) by ending the war there and then rather than having amerca fight their way through the pretty much imposible defencive islands of jepan – i mean look at the losses from iwo jima alone – but still thretening to nuke evrybody is not going to solve anything, have we forgoten completely about the cold war and the fear everybody lived in then??? didnt think so. seriously though this is a funny picture but the comments are much funnyer especially
MICHAEL J. SCHMITZ said:
HELP HOW DO I TURN OFF CAPSLOCK.
i nearly pissed myself
lmfao
any way awesome picture and maby evrybody should just get out of their own asses and except this as another peice of humorus photoshoping
I nearly died laughing after I read billdave’s comment. Hitler mustaches on kittens, har! Also, as an American, I’m personally going to nuke every last person on earth. Including myself. So there.
I agree, Americans are out of control with the eating and lack of activity.
The stress has a lot to do with it as well.
I live in Brooklyn, NY
Everyday I just shake my head at the gross, and classless people I see.
The entire world is laughing at the US.
SUPERSIZE lol
As always, the comments ‘outweigh’ the picture for entertainment.
Get a grip on all that righteous indignation.
Oh wait, that’s another American trait isn’t it?
Or was that a stereotype too?
I can’t tell the difference any more.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA FAT FUCKING YANKS HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH EAT MORE BURGERS USA MAYBE ONE DAY YOUR COUNTRY WILL SINK INTO THE WATER AND THE WORLD WILL BE A BETTER PLACE!
It is an interesting picture, and tread much in the same satirical direction with my art. I feel that it stands alone without the comment. It is a prejudice statement and stoops what could be profound to a low and shameless level. Every developed and well off nation has this problem in common; overcomsumption. You could touch more with your views if executed with less prejudice.
The USSR did amazing things during “The Great Patriotic War,” however, they severely fucked their land and population when they did it. To be honest, WWII wouldn’t have been won by “The Allied Front” without every involved nation, so everyone stop being little bitches.
To the main point of the page, the picture, it is a point, but also a bit lame as a true political comment, not really that funny or clever.
*sigh* yet another ignorant generalization.
It’s really funny to see how Americans get sooooo upset over something so petty. Take it with a laugh, for crying out loud.
Think about this:
It’s a picture of a fat giraffe,
and I see that Russia’s role in WWll, the invention of the internet (not solely an American intention, by the way), the Nazi’s (wtf?) and a whole host of other things are being drawn in that are completely out of context.
I have seen this same caption stating “effect of Mcdonalds after over a decade in South Africa” (Americans, that’s a country at the bottom of a really big continent, look in an atlas) (and an atlas is a book containing many maps of places around the world)
Many Americans are insecure and over-sensitive, overtly so.
These comments stand as yet another testament to the idiot nation, a title that a few are giving to the whole.
Love you morons, always good entertainment, and for those of you with a good sense of humour, feel sorry for you for sharing a country with those losers.
(and just to rile you up a wee bit more: dumbasses)
hahahahahahahaha. oh hey assholes, I’m American too, but I still think 90% of the people in this country are some combination of stupid/fat/deserve to die.
you assholes who get so easily offended, and make comments like the ones above, YOU are the ones that make Americans look like idiots to the rest of the world. You think you’re so fuckin high and mighty just because you live in the USA but what you don’t realize is that our country is greedy and racist and wasteful. Get your head out of your ass and stop acting like you’re hot shit. if this picture offended you it’s probably because you’re fuckin fat, so get off the internet and go exercise or something. hahahaha.
what he said
Its sad really that people eat till they drop regardless of the country they are from. The sad truth is that in the US people have horrible eating habits and the largest concentration of obese people. Be that as it may, I think the USA is an amazing country and if people chose to eat till they drop it’s their right to do so.
So, the Mighty Mother Russia could have won the war, eh?
No, they couldn’t. Not without the American supplies that were shipped to the USSR at great cost to us. Yeah, you were pushing back the Nazi’s from Berlin, but let’s be serious, it was only due to the Russian winter and the two-front ware that Russia turned back the German push eastward in the first place.
As to why we’re talking about WW2 – didn’t you know all internet rhetoric turns into a discussion of Nazism? Reductio ad Hitlerium, or something like that. On a more serious note, it’s actually because most of Europe still resents America’s contributions (or actions, not everything we did was constructive) in WW2 and especially afterward.
And yeah, we Americans should just get over people shit-talking. Great plan. Just ignore international resentment and the overriding hate of all the rest of the world. Talk about arrogance and pride. Would you rather indignation or indifference?
And yeah, a lot of Americans know where South Africa is. Most of the world knows where it is, in fact – you want to know why? Because it was the last remnant of a BRITISH empire that was the lovely home to one of the most vile institutions of the 20th century, apartheid. Let’s not call the kettle black, my friends. Look at how angry the Brits get when another country dares to not let the sun set on their faces.
Hypocrisy, I say. Hypocrisy!
And finally, I reiterate; shut the hell up, or we’ll nuke everybody. Maybe the moon too, just for the hell of it. We own it, after all.
Actually no one owns the moon under the Outer Space Treaty. It’s a bit weird but it makes sense, saying that no one owns any celestial body and no one can make weapons in outer space, so there can essentially be no war in outer space. However that doesn’t stop them making them, they just can’t use them. But as in owning it, no one does, unlike Antarctica where some countries own sections but not on the moon because it has no ownership.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty thats a link to the treaty.
These comments are even funnier than the original image!
See everything 10 times bigger.
Alas, all I can do is sit here and mourn my wasted sarcasm, wasted upon the unwashed rabble never to be regained.
Nuking the moon was a hyperbolic boast, akin to all the other “We’ll nuke you” statements. Internet arguments do not establish, dictate, or affect American foreign policy. Just ’cause we say we’ll nuke you doesn’t mean it’ll happen, or indeed, that we are taking anything or anyone (including ourselves) seriously. Or, for that matter, that anyone is taking us seriously. Seriously.
I’m gratified to live in a country that has recognized the sanctity of outer space and the celestial bodies. (If only they had more respect for more earthy bodies!) Actually, it *is* interesting to know that we’ve all agreed to not militarize space. Makes me get a good-of-humanity fuzzy feeling inside. All hail the UFP!
Fat animals are funny. People who make fun of fat people by calling them Americans are not.
People who make fun of Americans by calling them fat? Well, we don’t have to worry about them, as they will soon be nuked. In the asses.
Hello, once again, and i love the horse even more. That is hilarious, im surprised it can even jump!
see, this is why people hate us. you all suck
Fatness started in America therefor you should accept the consequences and laugh at the funny fat giraffe…
Damn fat yank giraffes!!
Troy said:
Just another jealous non-American. You wouldn’t even have a computer to post your bigotry if it weren’t for Americans, nor an Internet to post on. In all probability, without American’s, you’d probably be goose-stepping under a swastika or wearing Japanese pajamas saluting the Rising Sun.
Don’t forget (or maybe u’ve never known this) that a Bulgarian living in America invented the Computer, not Americans!
There realy are a lot of fat lazy dudes but there are some not that lazy and kinda sporty…so there are 2 sides.But mostly there are fat people…! xD
Troy, I’ll bet you a $100 bucks you computer was made in china.
so true!
Com’on people! 99% of Americans are ignorant and Fat your are fuckin waste our world
If God wanted us to be anorexically skinny, he would not have given us skin that stretched. The bigger the cushion, the better the pushin!
If you don’t like the fact that so many people want to be anti american, then do something about it.
You’re pretty much hated in the UK as a nation, if not as individuals. In fact, pretty much everyone thinks you’re just a consumption led, ignorant bunch of war mongers.
USA! USA! USA!
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Seriously………the whole “we’ll drop a nuke on your ass” thing, erm….go on then, do it….im sure you can right cause you have your very own “drop a nuke” button right!? Are you really that stupid? Why threaten to drop nukes, you cant……dumbass.
this is photoshoped… NOT REAL GUYSS!!!
I’m not fat! I’m big boned (and your mother and sister love it when I put the stuffing to them)!
>Fuck you assholes,
>so some americans are fat, not all of us are, insult >american and we’ll come nuke your fucking country you >fuckin twat stick mother fucking dick sucking whores
Yep. Americans will think of themselves better than anyone or they will nuke you. We rest our case.
Netherlands? Where’s that again?
SHUT UP
Here’s the deal:
1-Yes, we have issues with obesity.
2-Good photoshop job.
3-FUCK YOU THIS WAS A REALLY CHEAP JOKE
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Try less shallow insults.
“Americans are fat” is pathetic.
Ah lighten up y’all. USA is becoming a land of extremes – Supertoned or Obese. The aggression being shown towards the US here is down to foreign policy over the years. And frankly, North Korea or PAkistan are the ones most likely to be doing the nuking any time soon.
Food surplus creates obesity and worldwide, people in lower economic classes are generally obese ‘cos they eat bad, cheap food. Obese people are everywhere as are dumb bastards. Does America have a monopoly on dumb fat people? no. But they definitely have a large part of the market it seems. This thread was hilarious though, thank you. Mr. Giraffes was the best post.
As a unicellular organism, I take great offense at the suggestion that we have English/American/whoever people to thank for the internet! You arrogant assholes! You are all descended from my kind and therefore it is amoebas like me you have to thank! You would all be nothing without us!!
Well, accept for the creationists. You’d still be here, hiding from dinosaurs.
Funny picture and good photoshop work.