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

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I do like laughing at tragedy! Romeo and Juliet is one of the funniest books of all time, IMO. But I'd rather not laugh at my friend's suffering, and I'm too tired to ... um, something... :-P

Meanwhile, you should remake your Indiana Jones snakes icon to flash to a plane! *grin*

[freakylynx.livejournal.com]

Wish I knew how to make these sorts of icons so I don't have to steal them from other people :P

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I do. it's not too hard in photoshop if you already know how to use it. prod me in a week if I haven't done it by then :-P

[l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com]

hehe, i agree about R&J. although i have to confess that my most vivid memory of it from 8th grade English was watching the 1969 movie version, in which there is a lengthy shot of Romeo's bare ass, and a brief shot of Juliet's bare boobs, both of which were extraordinarily shocking and giggle-worthy to a classroom full of 13-year-old girls.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

is that the version where Romeo's wearing stockings and a large codpiece (or was it just that he stuffed his stockings?) and running through the fields? that one cracked me up.

[l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com]

oh, the movie opens with a couple men of the Capulet household wearing some sort of brightly colored spandex outfits and large/stuffed codpieces...the spandex things were half yellow and half red, one leg each color, but at the crotch they switched. very giggle-filled scene, it was. i don't remember running through fields, but then i missed a day of class while we were watching it.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that's totally it! *grin* Awesome.