Americans account for 15% of World Population, in Weight

Eating habits make Americans three times as heavy as normal human being

Is oil the real reason for the Iraq invasion? Do Americans use too much energy? The first question will always remain debatable, unless of course you ask the always subtle, intelligent and courteous Dick Cheney (just forget he shot one of his friends in the face with a shotgun). I’m not about to ask mister Cheney for his opinion but he does however belong the the fast growing percentage of overweight Americans. Thanks to the new hippopotamus like beings (Hippopotamus Sapiens?) obese citizens of the States now account for 15 percent of the world population, counting in human flesh that is.

In absolute terms the United States with its 300 million inhabitants constitutes some .05 percent of the world population. As many Americans are eating so much fa(s)t food on a daily basis they now weigh, on average, about three times as much as a normal human being. William McClinton, spokesman for the ANO
(American Nutrition Organization) says that not only are Americans decreasing their lifespan they are also creating a bad reputation abroad. In Europe for example it is already common knowledge that if you see an obese person walking around it must be an American.

Fast food is consumed by the truck load by the average American family. Polls conducted by the Health Institute of North America (HINA) show that most American teenagers cannot tell the difference between processed and organic foods. Almost half of those interviewed thought vegetables are bad for your health and were invented by the communists as a tasteless dietary supplement for the poor.

As the saying goes “The bigger the better”. Only in America.

Russische Meisjes doen de “Vilena”

Nieuwe trend symbolisch voor Rusland

Wie begon er mee? Waarom is het zo populair? Wie kan ‘t weten, Rusland is een verwarrend land. Wellicht heeft het allemaal te maken met de zware last die de Russen uit het verleden permanent met zich meedragen, dan kan je nog wel vooruit blijven kijken maar ze blijft een monstreus en onafschijdelijk deel van iedere Russische ziel.

Bron: English Russia

To Twitter or not to Twitter

That is not the question, but what is then?

Last night Ashton Kutcher posted a snapshot of his half naked wife’s rear end. Had anyone else taken the shot they would have been a rich (wo)man by now. Money was not the point however (was there a point at all?) and the shot was published on Ashton’s own Twitter account. Someone happened to pick up on the shot being “published” and thus the spreading of the word began. If you ask me, that’s wat Twitter is about, spreading the word and not conversing with your best mates as some had thought when the whole thing started.

No doubt Twitter incorporates two of America’s biggest virtues; it’s cheap and it’s easy. So why isn’t Twitter working out to be what it was set out to be? There are many things Twitter isn’t doing that it “should” be doing, making money and making conversation between people it’s primary use. There is however at least one thing it’s doing very, very well. The site functions as an immense organism that produces bits of information useful to practically anyone. Whereas Google and Yahoo deliver search results mostly based on more static information such as websites with established content Twitter is a more dynamic and “capitalistic” whole. Constantly refreshed and growing like mushrooms it’s content is always up to date. Not willing to debate the usefullness of the content (how usefull is a newspaper heavily “subsidized” by advertisers?) I would like to point out that in the information age something is only worth anything as long as it’s new and it need not necessarily be news. Anything can be news these days and so almost any kind of information can of use to almost anyone. There’s a market for everything.

So what is Twitter to be? Recently Sky News appointed it’s own Twitter Correspondent and it would be no surprise to anyone if CNN is next to create a Tweetdesk, or something. Certainly Twitter is part of a trend but should it’s popularity ever vanish surely the end will be signaled on Twitter first.