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ITT: communists and terrurists

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>>606465742

>>606466620
kek
kek
kek

>>606465742
Yeah okay op like what shit hole country do you come from to be so damn jealous?
America was always, and will always be the best damn country ever.

>>606467463
Ahah, look at all that have been posted here you retard !

>>606467463
Let me laugh even more then

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>>606467463
sorry is my satire interfering with your freedom?

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> let's make fun of America for being so fat
> instead of the fattest country in the world

>>606467636
>>606467661

Just because you're butthurt about it doesn't make >>606467463 any less true lol. This thread is full of people who wish they were lucky enough to have been born American citizens. Fall back and stay in your 3rd world countries lane.

>>606467636
>>606467661
Do you faggots even English? you know.. the most common fucking language on the planet..

Brendan Fraser.

>>606466274
asian is so fire

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>>606467912

>>606467795
kek

>>606467981
Actually, counting how many people on this planet speak chinese(mandarin), it is way more common than english

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>>606467949
£15.8*10^9/632000 nurses=25 000 £/nurse
>mfw cannot afford one

>>606468336
Incorrect. Mandarin is the largest native tongue, but English's prevalence as a second language places it firmly in the number one spot. Google it.

>>606468350
Americans don't say "arse." That's strictly a UK thing. Thanks for playing.

>>606467463

Hahahahahahaha

>>606467174
lol india having money to send shit to the moon.

atleast murcia didn't descend from monkeys.

>>606467422
>uk news

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>>606466274
Best one.

>>606468575
I think that's the point, an UK nwespaper making fun of it

>>606466620
The Mexican guy died years ago. But why should that matter? Facts don't matter to you, right?

You guys sure like to obsess over america for hating it so much.

ITT: pussy communists

>>606468673
What did you evolve from if not monkeys

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>>606465742

Funny how even the most obese of Americans still seem to have better teeth than other counties people who have healthy eating habits.

>>606469045
why does the world waste resources making food for these fat worthless niggers

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>>606468949
i descended from ur mom xDDD

shout out to my friend
xXnIgGeRkIlLeRXx on ps4 ps4 master race xdddd
im 12

btw guys why do people have the same name on this site

>>606465742
Need no pics to laugh at murica, they have it going anyway.

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Only available in Florida

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>>606469292

Americunts obsessed with teeth because that's probably the only thing they win at.
You weigh 400lbs but shit your teeth are nice.
Kek

>>606467422
>stone
lost

>>606469409
probably

>>606468801
http://www.westbriton.co.uk/British-girls-fattest-Western-Europe/story-24551262-detail/story.html

>>606468821
Yeah? Then why is the title a quote purportedly from the subject?

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>>606465742
Translation: "A fight over food is the cause of this horrible family tragedy that shocks USA

Boy (13) shot and killed his little brother (6) and hurt his older brother (16) over a food fight"

Holy shit the irony

>>606469841
kek

>>606469633
>>606468821
It's from The Sunday Sport, a british tabloid. I think an anon is trying to make a point about obesity being a problem in the UK as well as the US.

>>606466274
Been in Japan
I can confirm this
You have no fucking idea if a girl is 20 or 40.
It's too risky to talk with them without risking a fuck up

>>606470417
Compared to murica's 55 or 60 %.

eskiso.net

>>606468949
Creationism.

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>>606468801
I haven't even seen an obese person in years and not only do I live in the US but I live in the south.

No one buys clothes from wal mart or any poor franchise like that here. Everyone is normal. Girls are skinny sluts obsessed with social media, guys being swagfag morons only interested in pussy

All these stereotypes just confuse me. America is nothing like any of this.

>>606470757
34%

The US is #2 behind #1 Mexico. Then #3 is New Zealand, then Chile, Australia, Canada, and #7 is the UK.

If we did it by per capita instead of just total number of obeasts the US would be even farther down the list. The Middle East dominates in the percentage game. I'll look up those numbers now.

>>606470417
where's russia?

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>>606471121
Lollylops

Hello americrust
clean ur smeg ok
u wil feel beter
dnt say i did nffin 4 u m8

Pik related amerismeg

>>606471121
wal mart is for poor ppl?

>Haha

>>606471385
if you buy clothes from wal mart, you're either poor or live somewhere with not many options.

>>606471324
americans don't have disgusting uncut dicks. we are all cut.

>>606471218
Kuwait tops the list at a 42.8 percent obesity rate. With almost half of the population obese, Kuwait has a clear lead, with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and the U.A.E. following with obesity rates between 34 and 35 percent.

Obesity isn't just an american problem. It's a world health crisis.

>>606471229
Not much reliable data. Estimates put them ~25%

>>606470417
funny... us norwegians aren't even mentioned. guess we're either skinny, or just not invited

>>606472211
Norweismeg

I just imagine you all to be insane human centipede guy type people, because of how utopian your country is.

Prove me wrong smeggman

>>606472211
who gives a shit. norway is only the 27th or 28th most populous country in europe

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>>606465742

>>606468949
Mermaids

>>606471761
Oh and Pacific Islanders are fucking absurdly obese. 78.5% for the Republic of Nauru. OBESE, not overweight... let that horror sink in for a second. 74.6 for American Samoa. 63.4% for Tokelau, 56% for Tonga, 40.9% for French Polynesia. Pacific Islanders are fat as shit for some reason.

World health crisis.

>>606472211
Norway is like 10% Keep up the good work.

>>606473511
> 78.5% for the Republic of Nauru. OBESE, not overweight

97 percent of men and 93 percent of women are overweight or obese. Can we all just take a moment to reflect on that for one second? Less than 3% of the men on that island have a normal BMI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Nauru

>>606467949
i like how the author of this graphic does not realize that the 15.8 billion dollars are flowing almost entirely in hospitals and doctors.

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>>606467422
This is the kind of shit that boils my blood. Put the fucking fork down and work, you lazy entitled cunts.

On the upside, at least they'll be dead by 50 and the family will have to pay for fucking massive coffins

But yeah. Hurr durr amerifats top kek.

If you have an overweight or obese BMI and you're reading this, I don't care what country you are from. I hate you. I hate your fat clogged disgusting fucking guts and I hope you die tomorrow. If you're not fat you can wipe your ass with an american flag and I still like you more than my fat neighbor.

Fuck fat people. Fuck you all.

>>606468949
A common ancestor hominid of both humans and other primates. Monkeys are a seperate evolutionary trail seperates by hundreds of thousands of years.
So that graphic is correct - we did not descend from monkies - no one did.
How is it that Brits cannot understand this?

>>606472964
At least german planes crash into mountains, not buildings

>>606468336
How about all the Chinese that speak English as a second language? English is the most widespread language.

>>606474025
Well it's euros not dollars so the bill is likely being footed by the NHS.

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>>606468985
>no legend
good job

>>606474489
how does he even fap?

>>606475324
he does it not actively
his fat flabs are constantly rubbing against his member so that it provides passivly constant masturbation

>>606475474
makes sense

>>606465742
my current fetish is my sister and i had a dream a few nights ago, one of those ultrarealistic ones you know?

so we're in her bed, and we're making out, and it feels like we're making out, and then all of a sudden my mum is up at my ear, smiling going LALALALALALAL like really loud

so loud it woke me up and i could still hear it

freaky shit man, true too

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MURICA YEAH!!

>muh freedom
>most incarcerated country on earth

>>606466620
>635kg
>Died at age 42
Bet he and his fucking family were proud.

>>606475211
Filename = Obesity rates in Canada
Red = Obese
Green = Overweight

What's not to understand?

>>606472964
Not sure about Germany or rest of Europe but where I live there must be two people in the cockpit at all time during flight.

>>606467422
Best part is her sandnigger daughter. Fucking european cucks. How can you let these people flood your ancestral homelands? Your forefathers are spinning in their graves.

I am fat amerfag

US "most viewed" porn type: black on white cuckold, fat chicks, traps.
EUR "most viewed" porn type: nice young couples

tells a lot about US tastes.

>>606477331
Incorrect. Lesbians are american's favorite type of porn.

http://www.brobible.com/life/article/most-popular-search-terms-2014/

>>606477796
Lesbians in a country that hates gay's
>Hypocritical?

>>606465742
>part of America
>which is really Virginia and anywhere north of the Mason Dixon line
>anyone who says "FOR MURICA" here gets rekt because they believe America and their "MURICA" are the same when in reality it's completely different

>>606477938
>gay's

Perhaps a bit.

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>>606475253
Lol at Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet

>>606468773
>>606468350
British people are just fucking disgusting, that has always been a fact and at least they know it. There's no point in making fun of them.

>>606477938
Over 50% of the country supports federal legalization of gay marriage, and many of those which don't only disapprove because they believe either
A) it should be up to the individual state to decide if its legal or not
B) the government shouldn't be allowed to get involved in marriage at all, and that its up to the individual and their church to decide who can and can't get married.

Only a very small minority actually hates gays, they just happen to be vocal. I'd say our country has more gays than we have gay bashers. Most people just don't give a fuck. They're too focused on the economy to worry about trivial social issues.

>>606465742
my current fetish is my sister and i had a dream a few nights ago, one of those ultrarealistic ones you know?

so we're in her bed, and we're making out, and it feels like we're making out, and then all of a sudden my mum is up at my ear, smiling going LALALALALALAL like really loud

so loud it woke me up and i could still hear it

freaky shit man, true too

>>606471761
2013 we had in facts more death worlwide from obesity then from starving ...

>>606478374
This is a (semi) good thing. Providing too much seems better than not providing enough.
Obesity sucks, but its better than starvation.

>>606474277
And even if they did, the buildings would probably not collapse since most of europe actually understands structural integrity and how to build buildings out of shit that doesn't crumble as soon as the weather changes a bit.

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>>606474274
That is the point.

>>606476624
Well, we know how to educate and help people who have less than us. Problem is, our youth is becoming contaminated with US media and ideologies, and since most of europe, especially scandinavia, doesn't have a black culture of their own. This makes all the young sandniggers look at the nigger culture of the states, and as you might imagine, this leads to killings, rapes and a bad fucking time for anyone involved.

>>606468949
A common ancestor nigga.

>>606478984
>naively let's sand niggers flood their country
>sand niggers predictably don't assimilate
>blames America

ITT: We pretend america is the most obese country in the world.

>>606467422
>stone
>euros
Autism ftw

>>606474551
that was a pound symbol you illiterate cunt

>>606467174
>>606468673
>india
More like
>We opened up a call center on the moon.
or
>We provide tech support for astronauts

>>606479415
knowing the difference between the symbols for britbong currency and europoor currency has nothing to do with literacy you raging homo

>>606479200
House is British

He died less than a year ago
>calling someone out and getting it wrong

>>606479386
>thinking that article was talking about euros
how dumb are you?

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>>606479594
Cambridge Massachusetts, in England?

>>606479772
Read it again dipshit.

>>606479249
>naively steals tons of niggers
>upset when they don't like white people and they don't try to assimilate
>blames niggers

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>>606467463

>>606479835
Hugh Laurie was born in oxford, England and does not spend all of his time in america. Are you retarded or a troll?

>>606474277
Underrated post served with fucking dubs too

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>>606479846
That is a pound symbol (£), not a euro symbol (€), moron.

>>606465742
I know Europe is a shit country, but why come to an american board to show your butthurt

>>606479944
>Are you retarded or a troll?

he's american...

>>606479835
>Cambridge Massachusetts
spotted the retard

>>606479979
Regardless, still a eurofat. You're ignoring that fact.

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>>606480034
europe isn't a country, retard...

>>606480187
I'd much rather be british than be murrican, as would anyone sensible.

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>>606480123
So am I but I don't go around posting bullshit like that.

>>606480034
Because Americans are stupid enough to think Europe is a country.

>>606480274
Aids.

>>606465742
my current fetish is my sister and i had a dream a few nights ago, one of those ultrarealistic ones you know?

so we're in her bed, and we're making out, and it feels like we're making out, and then all of a sudden my mum is up at my ear, smiling going LALALALALALAL like really loud

so loud it woke me up and i could still hear it

freaky shit man, true too

>>606480289
No one thinks it's a country, he probably meant continent, but you're ignoring the fact of what he said over petty grammar.

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at least in our country when planes wanna hit something its more important then some mountains

>>606474127

>implying anyone cares who or what you hate

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Allright you primitive screwheads listen up!

>>606480034
Ist the magic of internet... 4chan is copying a Japanese board BTW... Where 4chan is located has no importance

>>606480336
>mum
Eurofag.

>>606480491
>huehuehue he's speaking british american, what a moron

>>606479870
>slave labor is naive

We conquered and colonized most of a continent, and then brought over chattel slaves to work the fields. The Africans who now live in the western hemisphere do so because of us. This is true. I don't feel the need to do any mental gymnastics and find a way to blame the UK for it.

But this is not our ancestral homeland. We colonized it. The people spinning in their graves about the current demographics of the US are no kin to me.

>>606465742

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eF4iX9gDhjE

>>606480412

>b-but he meant continent

Another thing that amerifats sucks at: damage control

>>606480561
Are you claiming the UK is not apart of Europe? Also, no one, and i mean no one in america says mum. Nice going retard anon.

>>606480412
no I meant to write country, because ti is such sweet bait that makes the eurofags butthurt

>>606480673
Again, crying over petty grammar, such a pussy ass eurofag trait.

>>606480480
said the butthurt eurotrash typing in american

>>606471756
What makes ppl cut their foreskin off? Family peer pressure?

>>606480772
Nice going then, salute to you. And you succeeded quite well at your ruse.

you people forgot about the fact americans get their dicks mutilated by jews and now cry about lack of foreskin

>>606479200
>>606479835
>>606480123
I personally met Hugh Laurie, he said he was British. He has even been knighted by the Queen.
Americunts are retarded

I absolutely love how everyone is jealous of
America, its cute. Sorry your country is a shit
hole, maybe you could talk to your leaders
about that

America +1

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>>606480897
The guy posting that he's american was more likely a eurofag trolling. Nice bait though.

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>>606480919

>>606472211
Think they're all EU countries? We still love ye.

>>606476451
>>606476685
>there are no fat people in europe le meme

>>606480958
Nope im 100% american, if you want proof let me know

I used to be 500 pounds,
Down to 280 and still losing weight.
>Got sick of not being able to fuck/move/masturbate.

>>606466620
they all died young, but that is unrelated unless you are a bigot.

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>>606479200
funny

>>606479594
>>606480897
>>606480958
>>606481102
retards

it's the same fucking actor

>>606481086
The irony is one of the pics used for the Europe side are american models.

>>606481102
Baiting like a boss.

>>606477938
>one person in a country has an opposing opinion, therefore everyone in that country has this opinion and is a hypocrite if they prove otherwise

Nice logic there, fuckwit.

>>606481102
I can tell you are full of shit because Americans' put an apostrophe in the contraction i'm

>>606472211
that thing to tell if someone is fat or not depends on weight and height , and youve got there only 190-200cm people

>>606480792
Amerifag here. The only thing I hate more than bad grammar and niggers is pussy eurofags being assholes to the people that bailed their asses out of two wars they created all while repeating the mistakes that caused them in the first place. Have fun speaking russian or arabic fuckface. We're not coming this time.

>>606481192
Implying no country in the world other then america has escalators ....low tier bait.

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Are you fucking stupid?
pic related

>>606481139
100 more and you qualify as human.

>>606481263
we don't hate gays in America we just want them to go back to where they come from, Europe.

>>606481381
Yay

>>606481324
He's trolling broheim. He knows they know its the same actor, he's just baiting.

>>606481322
for 6 steps? not here in germany...

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>>606481449
You know those are more so meant for people with major disabilities then lazy fats right? Again, low tier bait. And how do we know this picture even took place in America?

Bunch a of keyboard warrior faggot.. Anyone who uses bmi is an idiot, anybody that compares two individual country's problems is an idiot.. Forget it your all idiofags

>>606474117
Fat people are useless and discussing

>>606481619
>Anyone who uses bmi is an idiot

Fat.

>>606481619
you come off sounding like an idiot bro

>>606481616
>>606481803
/thread

>>606480854
>>606480854
>>606480854
Please answer.

I got mine cut b/c of my mom. She thought that it would be cleaner. Oh my god I'm so wrong, why didn't I know you can peel your foreskin so easily after I've seen nice dick pics. This was the year when GTA: San Andreas got released for PS2.

>>606482010
you seem to have a dick fetish, please take it to /lgbt/

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>>606481619
>your all idiofags
>your all

>>606478306
some are but just for future reference sunday sport is satire

>>606481616
this is all bait you retard....

>>606480919
Yea, that's the beauty of it. We can actually TALK and INFLUENCE our leaders, and not be controlled under a false pretense of freedom.

Remember this, in the countries of Europ that are doing well, the state works for the people.
In the states, the people work for the state.
And your coming argument as to why this is superior only makes my statement, of you being a brainwashed sheep, true.

>>606482110
>petty grammar Nazism, regardless of knowing what he meant
Eurofag

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>>606468350
Lol, its the Sunday Sport, you get more facts in the Onion.

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protip: amerifats are yuropoors

captcha: whath

>>606482189
At least some of it isn't such shit tier bait, that's the point, dipshit.

>>606482190
so many grammatical mistakes, please stop posting you make Europe sound like the dumbest country in Europe

>>606482312
uuum, yes it all is...

America > Australia > Canada > England > ... > Nigerstan > .... > Europe

>>606482190
>The state works for the people in Europe
>Americans are the ones being controlled by a false pretense of freedom

Newspeak is just getting silly these days.

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>>606482211

>f-f-fuck grammar, you opressing Nazi

Jesus christ, americunts stop diggin' yourself a deeper hole...

>>606480424
kek

> proud of "9/11"
> being this amerifat

>>606482493
You are a eurotard aren't you?


Time to eject myself from this thread, it has gone stale.

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>>606475253
Gros lol NKM.

>>606482610
god, I was hoping you would leave

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American schools

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>>606479200

>>606481877
at least they can walk. not like murica fatties

>>606480919
>implying I'd be a jealous of a country where people are crazy enough to shoot you because you looked at them with a funny face
>same for cops

>>606482595
I live in Australia, but okay. I just think being petty over grammar on 4chan of all places is only the level of autism eurofags can bring to the plate.

>>606482591
>>606482321
Great job, you both succeeded in bringing absolutely nothing constructive to the debate.
Keep on clapping your fat little hands together, screaming like sick eagles about how you are the best, friends.

>>606482739
If your country had niggers you'd have that same problem.

>>606482839
but your white people are just as crazy you biggot

>>606471121
Fucking lies anywhere in the u.s. If you go out for 5 minutes you're gonna see a whale

>>606482839
Except the vast majority of people who shoot up schools and go on massacres are fucking white, you retarded fucknugget.

>>606472211
It´s probably because norway isn´t a part of the eu, so they don´t collect data from there.

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>>606482820
>constructive to the debate
>the debate
>debate

>>606482903
You mean the second you walk out your door? I live in UK here.

>>606482820
>Americans are brainwashed sheep
>my European government serves me

How am I supposed to debate doublethink?

>>606479870
Yet you're the one blaming the niggers in the first place. Dumb fuck yuropoor.

>>606483057
>serves
nigger, now you are just putting words into my mouth with your greasy hands.

>>606471229
Russia in Europe... Oh god

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American theology.

>>606480625
Now look what those chattels are doing! Should have picked your own damn cotton and left the niggers in Africa

>>606482933
Niggers are 13% of the population and cause around 70% of the homicides you fucktard. They are a cancer in America much like you.

>>606483361
Hindsight's 20/20

>>606469045

I have never wanted SAUCE so badly

>>606483005
If you go to any store or gas station whatever

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American arrogance.

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>>606483664
we have well deserved arrogance, thank you

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this is how things really are