BIG bottoms banned in Beijing: China prepares Olympic hostesses

[emad]

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They are all roughly the same height - five foot six to five foot seven and a half.

They are all good-looking, and they all have “good physique”, a point picked on by delighted Chinese newspapers who are reporting that big bottoms had been banned.

They have a maximum weight - eight stone nine pounds - and the ratio of their upper to lower bodies must be 11:13.

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The 32 chosen to parade in the high school gymnasium yesterday, all aged 16-19, marched in step, sometimes carrying trays with practice bottles of water, sometimes making in unison elaborate hand gestures intended to direct imaginary spectators to their seat.

They knelt together - with knees arranged exactly to instructions - waved together, and, in an echo of old-fashioned British girls' boarding schools, they showed off their deportment, standing still for five minutes with books on the heads and clutching a sheet of paper each between their knees.

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Girls are expected to smile continuously, showing if at all possible a recommended six to eight teeth, something it is possible to practise by inserting chopsticks in the mouth sideways.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/10/wchina110.xml

[redqueen]

1. Ugh.

[DS1]

2. how boring

[MissB]

3. Nothing like a little conformity to set them apart.

:rofl:

[Bicoastal]

4. THIS JUST IN: Sir Mix-a-Lot Boycotts the 2008 Olympics...

...Film at 11.

[guitar man]

8. beat me to it

"my anaconda don't want none unless you got buns hon...." :D

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Eight stone and nine is 121 pounds

Someone 5' 7 1/2" and 121 pounds would have a BMI of 18.67 — just .17 greater than the World Health Organization's standard for being under-weight, and just .67 greater than the minimum BMI in the ban by the Pasarela Cibeles in Madrid.

And note that 121 pounds is the maximum weight.

:eyes:

[NewJeffCT]

9. Chinese tend to be thinner than westerners, though

I don't think 5'7" 121 is all that unusual in China, especially among teenagers.

[Blue_Tires]

6. cancel my ticket, then

and i thought salt lake city had some draconian measures

[XemaSab]

7. Good physique?

They're too damn skinny to have "good physique."

I'm surprised they didn't rule out girls with feet below "silver lotus" status too. :eyes:

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. Good point

BIND those tootsies!

:eyes:

[edbermac]

11. The Chinese have a problem with big booties??

Another example of why communism is a threat to the Free World. :patriot:

[EstimatedProphet]

12. Fucking communists!

[Bucky]

13. That 3rd girl in the right column is 2 inches taller than the average. She must be shortened

A two inch thick cross section removal from each of her legs will correct this blemish and the scars should heal by April.

[AllegroRondo]

14. Its like a Robert Palmer video

but scarier