This week's avatar: alternate headings

They are all wearing white.

No surprise there.

Oh, quiet, ya Dancing White Monkey ya.

Lao San, I know about the group wedding thing. Ya knows yer stuff.
I'm just not so sure about that particular group, all at the same time. I certainly wouldn't say it's impossible, but even with such a large populace it seems to me that the odds are awfully long. Obesity is certainly a lot more common than it used to be in China, but it's still far from a large proportion of the populace...especially among adults.

But hey, once every few years I might be wrong.

Wait until you find out they all married the same guy

DD: They all married the same foreign teacher? (OOOps, cross-post)

Japalese Fisto Pumpo!

Better than bran.

I'm not positive, but I think the heavier girls on the bottom are part of a singing group that is all about embracing their size and loving who they are even if they're not stick thin.

Off to baidu for further investigation ...


So they're not the group I was thinking of (千斤组合 if anyone is curious) but I found this article,

http://www.hangzhou.com.cn/20090413/ca1700275.htm

which is about these brides. Apparently 9 new brides of over 150 jin (so 75kg and above) decided to get married on the same day and made an event out of it. One of the brides organized the event and over 200 overweight brides applied to be a part of it and she chose 8 of them. It seems they were basically trying to show China that you don't have to be think to find love and be happy. So it is real afterall.

I'd like to be the shop owner who sold all the material for those dresses

cha-ching in China

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Help me!  Three days left before I get on the plane to fly home to China and those chunky Chinese girls are getting hotter and hotter moment by moment.

In China, I'd have thought , but now I'm thinking

So this is what it's like for a drug addict who can't get a fix.

Welcome back to the candy store, EL

Well, ya saw what I was saying earlier about EL's arrest record, right?

Japalese Fisto Pumpo!
Better than bran.

CP: You a SICK white muthaf**ka, ain't ya?


TLD, kudos on the detective work. So they DID all get married at the same time! Wouldja, wouldja, woo...

. . . to show China that you don't have to be think to find love and be happy.

You don't have to think to find love and be happy?   

You got that right buster 

Haha freudian slip on my part? I meant "thin" of course. Oops!

Nikon's new Wide Distortion Lens TM, with aggressive crossmarketing, hope to tap a new niche market.

 

Weddings in China are a growth industry.