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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (34241)	5/10/2005 5:38:18 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 90947

Oh, well, I didn't know it was over. My inbox just indicated I hadn't replied to it. Do you want to go on ignore? That might help, assuming SI ever gets ignore working correctly. New twist on the "US and its attitude towards weight" subject: I just realized the other day, while ordering something online, that I am now XS according to certain major US retailers. Which is kind of funny because I didn't lose any weight since I was S in the US, about two years ago. Then again, I had also dropped from M to S similarly, without any weight loss on my part, but hey... If US retailers want to adjust their size norms according to the growing volumes of the population, what can you do? Don't get to feeling TOO superior. The problem of obesity is spreading. And on more than just an individual basis. For example, it is much more common in Mexico than it used to be. I haven't checked out Canada lately; it may be happening there too. Let me ask you a question: has the relative priceiness of your clothes increased? I don't know about European manufacturers, but American manufacturers are famous for false labelling: the more you pay, the smaller the label size, even though it encloses the same bulk. "They haven't heard of facelifts and tummy tucks in Europe?" Of course "they" have. I was talking about my personal preferences, as indicated by the use of "I" in the sentence "...the natural aging process, which I don't intend to tamper with." Dear lady, you MUST get with it! And don't worry about the operative and anesthetic risks: if you die, you have nothing to worry about and if you live, you've got nothing to worry about. BTW, did you know that between 1950 and 2000, the US had 56 Nobel Prize winners in Physics and France had only 2? I am sure there is a reason why you think Nobel Prize in Physics is very relevant to the subject of attitudes towards physical beauty/fat in US vs France, but I just can't see it :-) Oh. We switched to the superiority Europeans love to assume they have over we American mongrels. (Remember that term? It was popularized by a European genius named Adolph Hitler (Schicklegruber was his mother's name and one he used for quite a while, but just didn't have the right ring to it.) He was an Austrian paperhanger turned military whizz who proved himself the best general the Allies had. Anyway, to answer your question, no, I hadn't heard that before. I did hear several others that try to argue racial superiority over other groups by pointing at number of awards won at this or that. Well, considering that Europeans love to presume intellectual superiority to Americans, maybe it does have some relevance. We can try some other categories if you wish. How about wine? I think my home state will do just fine against France.