So it’s come to this. Officials at Disneyland have had to shut down the It’s a Small World ride because the tourists have become so heavy they’re sinking the boats. Americans weigh about 25 pounds more than they did when the ride opened in 1964, and the increased tonnage of the passengers is causing the boats to bog down and jam at critical points in the ride. It’s a Small World will re-open in ten months with more buoyant boats, deeper water, and, presumably, chubbier animatronic puppets to represent the United States.
Criminy. Next, we’ll hear that Space Mountain had to close after one of the passengers got wedged in the exit. It’s always depressing to hear about Americans living down to one of the least flattering aspects of their national stereotype. Still, the rest of you shouldn’t feel too smug about this. After all, you’re catching up fast.
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[...] It’s not such a small world, after all (AgentBedhead) [...]
It’s a Big Ass After All. (sorry, couldn’t resist).
I think it’s funny that this article mentions how fat Americans are getting as though only Americans visit Disney.
I live in Florida near Disneyworld and I can assure you that the fattest people that I see walking around are German and English tourists.
Yes, Americans are undoubtedly helping sink the “Small World” boats, But so too is the pasty-white, snaggle toothed, tube top wearing, twenty five stone English Chick screaming at her kid Nigel to stop kicking Mickey in the nuts.
pasty-white, snaggle toothed, tube top wearing, twenty five stone English Chick screaming at her kid Nigel to stop kicking Mickey in the nuts
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
OK, it’s true–Disney World has shrunken since the 70′s. Or maybe it’s just the available walking space, currently occupied by super-size tourists. I thought it a bit amusing that there were SO MANY wheelchairs at Disney World, considering 95% of the chair-riders had no apparent disability other than difficulty hauling their rather large bodies around the vast expanse of Disney World for hours on end.
Nationality? I don’t know, but I’ll take dpatten’s word for it, as there were certainly a hell of a lot of furriners there when I went. In wheelchairs like most of the rest of the guests, of course.
I cannot believe that people can read stories like this and be completely in denial about the biggest danger facing us all: runaway gravity. Americans weigh 25 pounds more now than they did in the 1960s, but yet no one thinks that MAYBE something is going on here? Sure, blame it on potato chips if it makes you feel better, but until we are ready to face the truth about this, nothing will ever get done.
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Anti-American pablum from a multi-national corporation whose only source of revenue is American’s willingness to buy their children DVD’s of the same small waisted girl painted a different color indefinitely. From Agent Bedhead:
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