Zombie Dragon ideas

[Humakty]

Orange : I'm physically quite able, and trained to defend with my bare hands, and as no one is allowed to walk in the street with guns in my country, I feel safe, even at 2 am in a shallow street.
As for french military, I guess France have much over things to care about. (like our Giant Deficit) Anyway I hope europe will one day be able to have a unified military, just so that great powers stops scoffing at us.

Hmm, I've once again made this thread go off limit, so I'll now wack myself a hundred time as a matter of contrition.

 

[Psychic_Llamas]

well if you want to get techincal it was darkform who made the thread off topic, but seeing as it was his own thread i dont have a problem with that

 

[Squirrelloid]

there are hot girls over here, but there are also a lot of over weight ones. Australia has overtaken america as the fattest country in the world now unfortunately

For the record, the fattest country in the world is Nauru, a random pacific island nation whose name I am not remembering. Basically, they happen to be blessed with a lot of phosphate deposits, and so post-WWII some corporations went down there, cut a deal with whatever passed as a government, and everyone in the country got a payout from the corporate activity there on a continuing basis. So you had a population with little need to work (making enough from the corporate payments to live) and thus became extremely sedentary.

The remainder of the top 5 most overweight countries are the Federated States of Micronesia, Cook Islands, Niue and Tonga - the US doesn't even make the list. Which should mostly make you sad.

(Ultimately, the reason all 5 are pacific island countries is a combination of genetics and rapid influx of capital following WWII, negotiated with effectively tribal societies, and thus the entire populace ended up benefiting -> diet changes from urbanization and the ability to purchase fatty processed foods).

 

[Masada]

Short answer Squirrel is your half right, it is genetics, and the rest is culture.

Of those nations: Tonga, The Cook Islands and Niue are all Polynesian by ethnicity with Nauru being a mixture of Polynesian, Micronesian and Melanesian and Micronesia being majority Micronesian. It’s a common practice in Melanesian and Polynesian culture to measure wealth by weight, Tonga, the Cook Islands and Niue all practice this to a varying degree; with Tonga being the standout (the former King of Tonga weighed around 300kg’s), with the Cook Islands and Niue practising much the same on a slightly smaller scale. Nauru is heavily influenced by neighbouring Polynesian states, such that it has adopted similar cultural practices, including correlating weight with wealth. Likewise I’m led to believe that Micronesia has similar practices and a much richer diet than the others.

The main sources of food on all those islands are Taro, Pigs (dogs as well), Sweet Potato, seafood (in many islands this was reserved for special days and the aristocracy) and other tropical fruits and vegetables. Taro which is the staple food, is extremely high in starch (sugars) which combined with the other remaining fare is very high in fat, sugars. Quite simply these are all fattening, imported high fat foods are not really all that different from what is already eaten natively.

I wouldn’t denigrate Nauru, it’s was and is a veritable paradise, you don’t need to spend much time working to gain a meal, and you don’t work much there anyway, the day starts early for Church (depending on faithfulness), the morning is when you get the bulk of your work done, nobody does anything during the hot afternoon and work begins again as it cools down. I will also note that Phosphate mining from there was started by the Germans before the First World War (Nauru was part of the Marshall Islands Protectorate of the German Empire). And from 1970, Nauru controlled the Nauru Phosphate Company; they were also one of the richest nations in the world per capita, comparable to the Oil Sheiks and Gulf States. Aside from slightly higher unemployment, Nauru isn’t really all that different from many other island nations in Oceania…

negotiated with effectively tribal societies, and thus the entire populace ended up benefiting

No, the Tribal Chiefs in many of those islands are corrupt, and the money which is meant to work it's way down really just settles into someones pocket (be it the governments, normally run by the chiefs, or be in your chiefs pockets). And you do not ever object to such conduct.