From today’s international headlines:
This could never happen in the US, and may even be illegal, according to some right to privacy and discrimination laws.
This is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard of. I am big boned and muscled, there is no way in hades I could get down to a 33 inch waist. 35 is my absolute limit.
[quote]beebuddy wrote:
This is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard of. I am big boned and muscled, there is no way in hades I could get down to a 33 inch waist. 35 is my absolute limit.[/quote]
Yes, but are you Japanese?
Perhaps those numbers were taken to represent only the Japanese population, who are proportionately smaller than your average American fat slob.
But I do agree that waist size alone is useless, without taking height, waist to hip ratio, or body frame into consideration, also.
[quote]beebuddy wrote:
I am big boned …[/quote]
That is what all the fatties say. I think we should all chip in for two airplane seats for you so we can ship you to Japan. They will get you fit. 
The article says that the equivalent guideline for American white males would be a 40" waist. That doesn’t seem so unreasonable.
40" is fat as hell, or bulk as hell
you pick
I think fat
[quote]HangerBaby wrote:
40" is fat as hell, or bulk as hell
you pick
I think fat[/quote]
That depends on the individual. Gunter Schlierkamp has a waist at or over 38" in contest shape on stage and he isn’t even one of the ones with a “GH gut”. He’s just very tall and fucking huge. There is no doubt he is over 40" in the off season…and he’s still not FAT.
These random guidelines are retarded because they do not take individual circumstances into consideration.
Every Japanese person on the planet isn’t tiny.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
beebuddy wrote:
I am big boned …
That is what all the fatties say. I think we should all chip in for two airplane seats for you so we can ship you to Japan. They will get you fit. ;)[/quote]
I was going to type “big boneded” but I wasn’t sure if I was spelling it right.
[quote]beebuddy wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
beebuddy wrote:
I am big boned …
That is what all the fatties say. I think we should all chip in for two airplane seats for you so we can ship you to Japan. They will get you fit.
I was going to type “big boneded” but I wasn’t sure if I was spelling it right.[/quote]
Any spelling is correct…just like breasteses
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Every Japanese person on the planet isn’t tiny.[/quote]
Which is one of the reasons the idea is so ridiculous. Even those enormous sumo guys are in peak shape. They train and eat all day long.
The funny thing is that the lowest hanging fruit, so to speak, is the sheer lunacy of trampling on people’s rights like that. I mean, I am not pro or anti fat, but the government shouldn’t be able to fuck with people like that. That’s what “education” is for.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Any spelling is correct…just like breasteses[/quote]
For breasteses I would have used a double-s somewhere. Like this… breastesses or breastesess, or maybe even breastessess.
You can see how massive Gunter’s hips are in this pic. Mine are similar. I have broad hips and shoulders. I naturally look big, which is good, but the hips hinder the tapered look to the point that my back has to be THAT much bigger in order to achieve it. Gunter has done a good job, but you can still see how his genetics predispose him to having a large waist when you look at where the bikini string lies.
[quote]beebuddy wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
beebuddy wrote:
I am big boned …
That is what all the fatties say. I think we should all chip in for two airplane seats for you so we can ship you to Japan. They will get you fit.
I was going to type “big boneded” but I wasn’t sure if I was spelling it right.[/quote]
I have a big boner is the correct spelling.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
beebuddy wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
beebuddy wrote:
I am big boned …
That is what all the fatties say. I think we should all chip in for two airplane seats for you so we can ship you to Japan. They will get you fit.
I was going to type “big boneded” but I wasn’t sure if I was spelling it right.
I have a big boner is the correct spelling.[/quote]
How about, I am a big boner? No arms. No legs. All boner.
Most people with over a 40" waist are fat. I’m sure the waist-measure people would be able to look at Gunter and use their own discretion as to whether or not he qualifies as fit.
I’m also fairly certain they would be too afraid to call him fat.
[quote]Vicomte wrote:
Most people with over a 40" waist are fat. I’m sure the waist-measure people would be able to look at Gunter and use their own discretion as to whether or not he qualifies as fit.
I’m also fairly certain they would be too afraid to call him fat.[/quote]
Again, bullshit. These are like the guidelines in the military. I’ve seen people who are NOT fat who just measure out wrong because they are big who still get put on fat loss programs or kicked out as a result.
The same is going on here. They ignore those who fit outside of the guidelines and let them suffer the consequences, they don’t bother accommodating them.
Everybody knows military intelligence is an oxymoron.
[quote]beebuddy wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
beebuddy wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
beebuddy wrote:
I am big boned …
That is what all the fatties say. I think we should all chip in for two airplane seats for you so we can ship you to Japan. They will get you fit.
I was going to type “big boneded” but I wasn’t sure if I was spelling it right.
I have a big boner is the correct spelling.
How about, I am a big boner? No arms. No legs. All boner.[/quote]
big throbbing boner…
So I take it sumo wrestlers will not be part of japanese culture henceforth?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Vicomte wrote:
Most people with over a 40" waist are fat. I’m sure the waist-measure people would be able to look at Gunter and use their own discretion as to whether or not he qualifies as fit.
I’m also fairly certain they would be too afraid to call him fat.
Again, bullshit. These are like the guidelines in the military. I’ve seen people who are NOT fat who just measure out wrong because they are big who still get put on fat loss programs or kicked out as a result.
The same is going on here. They ignore those who fit outside of the guidelines and let them suffer the consequences, they don’t bother accommodating them.[/quote]
Doesn’t not fitting into the “norm” have bigger implications in Japanese society than it does here also?
From my understanding, being different in just about any way is not at all accepted in Japan. So I would guess there would be even less acknowledgement of physiological differences.