Fat yanks crush Canberra concrete

Interns with nasty stains on their dresses?

Don’t forget the Oreo cookies!

And twinkies!

… stuffed with burgers and cheese-whip in cans.

This happened last time AF1 flew out of Canberra when Clinton visited several years ago. Damn big yank planes…

I disagree that the feds should have been fixing it anyway, Mr Snow should have been using some of his monopoly profits to fix his own damn runway.

As Bluto would say: “Food fight!”

Thumper, amen to that (eat less, exercise more). It’s amazing in its simplicity, and the fact that unlike other fad diets it actually, you know, works.

Anyways, I just saw that bit o’ chubby Australian data today, was reminded of Ari’s snark and felt the need to throw my own snark on the pile!

Perhaps it’s all the cheeseburgers that yanks eat…

Are you sure? Maybe it was just the Canberra airport crew!

Despite its image as a sports-mad country full of fit, sun-bronzed youth, Australia in reality is battling the bulge and challenging the United States as the world’s fattest nation. …
Obesity rates for Australians have doubled over the past 20 years, with 62 percent of men and 45 percent of women now deemed overweight or obese.

The smart-arsed comment at the end of the article that “Canberra airport is the only airport in Australia to receive federal funding for runway strengthening” was the bit that pissed me off. This work at Canberra should have been done years ago: thank God Bush came and ‘ruined’ the runway, so we might finally get a decent airport.

How much federal money was pumped into Sydney and Melbourne before they were privatised? I don’t think Sydney paid for their new runway in the early-90s……mmmmm, must have been federal government money, eh?!

Bastards!