This blogging is part of my ongoing attempt, in my own small, itsy bitsy way, to encourage Americans, or at least the 3 who read this blog, to draw down on the Strategic Fat Preserve by eating less.I came across an interesting Newsgroup posting by an American who had visited Europe and was shocked by how skinny the Europeans are. I'll copy that below.
But, first I need to tell you that that is Gar the Texan in the photo, in Booger Red's Saloon in the Fort Worth Stockyards, having a Buffalo Butt beer with his wife, Madlen. Gar the Texan met Madlen in Germany. When I met Madlen she was a thin, beautiful young thing. Now, after just a short exposure to both America's food culture and Gar as a husband, the dear girl has greatly contributed to the Strategic Fat Preserve by becoming one of the Balloon People. Shocking.
And now the Newsgroup posting:
"After 17 days, 3600 miles, and 10 countries later, we returned home, and the first thing we noticed was how many fat people there were in North America, compared to Europe. Even in the Bavarian Alps region, an area noted for jolly chubby Germans, the % of fat people was not even close to the average American town/city... At breakfast, we noticed that our fellow travellers, all European, never took more than they needed... a croissant, an egg, just enough till lunch...the portions at the restaurants were not as big, the meat cuts at the supermarkets were smaller...but still, everyone looked so healthy and slim!!! In fact, I think they quietly shoot ugly people in Europe...everyone looked so damn good! In fact, the only fat people we saw were...well...American tourists pouring out of a bus, loud enough to be heard in Mosquito Neck, Iowa (a really really small place) (grin)"
Durango Texas Comment: Regarding the Newsgrouper's comment that he thought "they quietly shoot ugly people in Europe." It's a little known bit of history that, in addition to the known victims the Nazis sent to Death Camps in Hitler's attempt to creat a Master Race of Aryan Perfection, ugly people were also sent to the death camps. I don't know how Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Goring or Joesph Goebbels escaped that fate.
Read the Newsgroup Posting in its entirety here. The writer also comments about how liberated Europeans are in other areas, as compared to us repressed, unliberated Americans.
The was good on several levels. My wife is always complaining about Americans. She's from Germany and she smokes and she doesn't understand why nudity is banned from TV and she always laughs when they alter songs to make them legal for the radio.
ReplyDeleteI often have to tell her that if she doesn't like it she can leave the land of the morally oppressed and fly back to Germany, the new land of the free.
When I run for President in 2012, will these comments hurt my chances?
Yes, Gar, we know your wife smokes. We saw that in the photo of the two of you drinking Buffalo Butt Beer at Booger Red's Saloon. Speaking of your wife, the nerve of her to complain about Americans. I mean, she's a former communist, for gawdsakes. As for her missing nudity on TV. Tell her to watch some of the cable networks for a bare boobie, bare butt fix, like try FX, for instance. Or, you could quit being so cheap and get HBO for her. It's the least you could do, having drug her away from her idyllic German paradise. As for your opinions and your German communist American hating wife hurting your presidential chances in 2012. I'd worry more about you having a diabetic incident in the middle of a debate, thus causing your serious health issues to become a campaign issue.
ReplyDeleteDo you realize that the first time I read this, I didn't even notice my picture? I must pay more attention.
ReplyDeleteAnd, for the curious, my wife is not pictured anywhere on this site. My wife's picture is on one of my sites, but not on my blog. I think she's also pictured on one of Durango's sites. You can find it if you dig around a bit. Or you can wait for me to blog about hot young German women and their fat old American husbands. I'll include photos then.
I asked her mom about this communist accusation you keep making. She says they were socialists. Of course, I thought one was economic and the other was a government, but I don't get paid to think.
If that was not your wife with you having a Buffalo Butt Beer at Booger Red's. Who was it? Does your wife know you've gone out drinking without her?
ReplyDeleteAs for your wife not knowing she was a communist. Communism is socialism. East Germany, which is the part of Germany your current wife came from, was a communist socialist state.
Of course, there is a chance she was born after the fall of communism. I dunno. But that would still make her parental units pinkos. Unless they were part of the underground trying to overthrow the commies.