# Young Chinese are 'too fat and masturbate too much to pass army fitness tests'

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 24, 2017, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-chinese-are-too-fat-and-masturbate-too-much-to-pass-army-fitness-tests/794563 "2017-08-24T15:59:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-chinese-are-too-fat-and-masturbate-too-much-to-pass-army-fitness-tests/794563/41 "2017-08-25T17:25:32Z")

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> [@mixdenny](#):
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> How do they even detect this? Is it part of the cough test? Do they X-ray every recruit?
> 
> Dennis

Is this something the doctor can feel when you turn your head and cough?

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**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-chinese-are-too-fat-and-masturbate-too-much-to-pass-army-fitness-tests/794563/42 "2017-08-25T18:15:19Z")

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> [@somepumpkin](#):
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> Quite informative and good to know. I had no idea that one could masturbate too much. And that’s including any definition of _too much_.

[QUOTE=Full Metal Jacket]

Private Cowboy: Tough break for Hand Job. He was all set to get shipped out on a medical.

Private Joker: What was the matter with him?

Private Cowboy: He was jerkin’ off ten times a day.

Private Eightball: No shit. At least ten times a day.

Private Cowboy: Last week he was sent down to Da Nang to see the Navy head shrinker, and the crazy fucker starts jerking off in the waiting room. Instant Section Eight. He was just waiting for his papers to clear division.  
[/QUOTE]

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-chinese-are-too-fat-and-masturbate-too-much-to-pass-army-fitness-tests/794563/43 "2017-08-25T19:19:10Z")

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I wonder if they equate Gold Farming with masturbation?

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