Ugh.

[asterroc]

How will he even get on a plane?!

[Maunal] Uribe [1,200 lbs] made an impassioned plea for help earlier this year on Mexican television, saying he weighed a more normal 290 pounds until age 22 and did not know what happened to him.
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No one has managed to find suitable scales for Uribe in years and estimates of his weight are made partly by tape-measure.

He kept fucking eating, that's what! Yeah I know obesity is a problem, but it's not all biological folks, it's a mental problem as well.

On the flip side, I think it's awesome that they have to do an order-of-magnitude estimate to determine how much he weighs - I presume they measure an average circumference, assume a spherical cow and density equal to water, and calculate!

Comments

[sammka.livejournal.com]

Actually the thing I was really thinking of was GREAT JOHNS. Which are larger TOILETS, not just seats.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Ooh, they have new open front toilet seats! Honestly, I've never gotten the point of those, it's just so public restroom-y.

Sorry, but I don't think the Big Johns will catch on in Japan, leader of toilet technology. They're too small there. Just look at NYC subway train seats.