OK, fine.

Monkeyboy claims that the rest of your body will exert some force on the scale. I can see that. But I still think it wouldn't be far off the mark.

Agreed, it is quite inefficient. Why weigh, behead, and weigh again, when you could just behead and weigh the head? :behead:

To be charitable, maybe Bluecuracao was suggesting that you do the lie-down-with-your-head-on-the-scales technique. This would give a pretty close reading, if the scales are pretty thin and sit on the floor. Although it raises the question of how much neck should be counted as "head". (cue Linda Lovelace reference :sick2: closest thing to a blowjob smilie I could find ).

PS Yes BMI shouldn't be taken too seriously. It makes no allowance for whether the person is 230 pounds of flabby fat or 230 pounds of steely muscle. But it is a starting guide to comparing people's height/weight ratios.

You're absolutely right, that's exactly what I was thinking.

The average head is about 8 lbs total or something, isn't it?

*chuckles* nah. It was in humour and never meant cruelly.

awww c'mon LJ, do it, do it, do it!!!!

And Jinx, take pics!

I bet his head doesn't weigh as much as he thinks it does. lol

Agreed. 40 pounds ... 18kg ... surely not. mediocre "big head" comments aside.

Given that the human body has slightly less density than water, this gives us various ways to approximate the weight of various parts based on their volume.

Easiest is to find a container of water that is about the same size as the body part, in this case, LJ's head. I'm thinking of 4 liter (roughly, gallon) containers as being pretty close to a human head. So we are looking at 4 or 5 kilograms, 10 to 12 pounds.

Also consider that typical human brain capacity is about 1300 to 1400 ccs, 1.3 to 1.4 liters. Roughly triple that (since lots of the head isn't brain) and again we are approaching 4 liters, 4 kilograms, 10 pounds.

If we want to go to greater lengths we could do an Archimedes type measurement. LJ gets into a large bath with just his head above the water, marks water level, submerges head, marks water level, calculates volume displaced, multiply by density of body... but then we have to allow for the hollow places in the head: mouth, sinus, ears etc.

I guess the scales thing would be easier. Please do it LJ, now I am itching to know.

lol...yes well, for one thing, I need to see pics of him with his head on the scales.

For another, I still think it'll be fairly light on.

It has just occurred to me, in the context of this extremely selective quotation (apologies LJ), that we are all making a presumption about which "head" LJ was referring to. :eek:

That's twice I've needed a big dick smilie.

I'd just like to add that I'm not normally so focused on penis size. Its just been coming up. :blush: so to speak.

ok, I need to confirm that I was talking about the head on his shoulders. lol I definitely have not been spending time thinking of jimbo's wang on the scales.

For the record, Dana looks like an athlete, not scarecrow skinny, and no sign of an overhang that I was aware of.

you lie........

lol...I do not. :alien:

you got a visual while you typed your previous post.....and if you didn't, you have one now....

ahuh...and would you like me to describe it?

erm.....noooo. not so much.

I would :)

I'd love to share ducksy, but I'll let jimbo keep his dignity instead. :alien:

Whats with you and that friggen smiley?

I like it. :alien:

Its not a smiley, its her picture! Look at her username, Aliantha. One step off Alientha! Clearly she is an extra-terrestrial. Cool.

I for one welcome our new overlords. :welcome:

You're just afraid we're going to eat you Zen.

Exactly. Another advantage of being so thin. What are you gonna do, feast on the well-built LJ, or pick over my stringy bones?
I'll even help round up the "prime eaters" if you like. :borg:

(It was either interpret it this way or start using our new blowjob smilies ... :bj4: :bj3: :bj: :bj2: .... and why would I be afraid of that? Actually, didn't want to get TOO personal.)

well it's always good to get in with the new overlords, regardless of how you do it.

Some people get very personal on this site. Have you not visited the nsfw threads yet?

Indeed, "some people" do. I try to find my own standards, I try not to offend people, unless it is on purpose and that is very rare.
I see a difference between talking about blowjobs in the abstract, and suggesting to a specific person that they are offering me one.

(on the other hand, I did raise the topic of LJ's penis size, but it was meant in a flattering way).

What is it with you and eating folks, Ali?

I'm not turning my back on you when utensils are around.

I think I'm hungry.

Thus returning beautifully to the thread topic: how is your body shape?

Poetry.

plenty of curves. lol maybe not quite as many as jimbo though.

It might be easier to just lay on a table with the head hanging off the side and the neck in a completely relaxed mode and limp. Place an electronic scale under the head and lift it till it is in a completely neutral position in line with the neck. That should give you a fairly close estimate.

Or you could look here:
http://danny.oz.au/anthropology/note...ad-weight.html

And then we have the complete in depth discussion by people who have already started thinking about the issue:

http://ask.metafilter.com/36836/Head-Weight

I'm in the 50+ lbs overweight club, in spite of eating pretty normally, and walking 2.5 miles a day (to and from work)

I eat pretty normally too.....

....for an entire freaking football team :redface:

Great Link Merc.
I had realized that decapitation won't work because the blood loss would reduce the weight.

I think they have the solution:
"I think the solution probably involves being hung by your heels from a spring-scale with your head in a vat of liquefied heads to achieve neutral head buoyancy, and then subtracting the reading on the spring-scale from the known weight of your entire body." (from Dersins, user at the site Merc links to).

Brilliant! And I reckon we can get a grant to do it, and pass it off as performance art!

Although I am still concerned about the empty spaces in your mouth, nostrils, and ears. So you'd have to keep your mouth open in the vat of liquefied heads and let all that gooey goodness flow up your nose and into your ears...

Hope no one's eating as they read this. :vomitblu:

LJ, please do the scale thing. I do have a big vat of liquefied heads, but I don't have a spring scale. You're my only hope...

I just realized decapitation could work, provided you froze the subject to death (while lying down so as a reasonable amount of blood remains in the head) then removed the head and weighed it, including the frozen blood.

Free food for the homeless. Apply here, one at a time...

OK, I've had my suspicions for a couple of days now, but it's confirmed.

You are a sicko. :alien:

sorry....but the scale i use is at the gym. i'm not trying to lie down on that floor, thankyouverymuch. and not just because people would think i'm a looney.

This from someone who wants to eat people. :alien: :yum:

Last time I give you free advice about English teaching then.

My interest is purely the advancement of human knowledge. And Alien knowledge too I suppose.
:lol:
All in fun.

OK, I just added "Weight of a human head" to the list of potential science fair projects for the kids :D

Thanks, LJ, you have just made the mental image at least three times funnier.

I can imagine the conversations afterwards:
"So I'd just got out of the shower, right, and I went over to weigh myself, and there's this FREAK, right, laying on the ground with his head on the scales! I mean even without the tinea and stuff, what the hell is he trying to do? Look up my towel? What???" :crazy:

Ok, LJ, I'll let you off ... but surely, sometime, you will visit a friend who has a set of scales and a digital camera... pleeeeeaaaaaassseeeeeeee?

Of course, if you do dare to do it at the gym ... legend!

Ok but for pity's sake don't let them read the techniques discussed here ... kids being kids, you know ...:behead:

Dude, you have me rolling in the aisles. I missed the liquified head post before... I am so letting them read it. What's the betting they suggest suspending the 5yo with his head in a vat of ketchup? I might suggest they add some noodles.

:lol:

:lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:
Bahahahahahaha!
well, if you're willing to supervise the cleaning up, the medical treatment, the child therapy, the court appearances ... GO FOR IT!!!
but we MUST have pictures!!!

Just a thought: would a person float in ketchup? Project number two...

I would have responded earlier- but there was a small draft and I blew away.
105 lbs. of hotness!!!!!


Well... ok you got me, I'm just 105 lbs.

Crikey. What happened, some sicko cut off your 40 pound head and drop it into a vat of frozen ketchup and noodles or something?

How tall are you?

damn, I thought I had the lowest BMI in the cellar. You're a serious rival. And ... there can be .... only one...

5 and 2.....Zen.Someone told me that I look like I'm only about 5 though...(yesterday morning)....They had just noticed that I'm "really damb short". Must be the dumpy thick clothes......

My mom deep fried my head in papers and wrapped it with pork,cabbage, and carrots. Cicero Lumpia. (loompia) I bet you have that in Japan even.

BMI Update:

Cicero......... 5'2, 105 lbs ... BMI 19.2

Shall we say: petite?

How do you work out BMI?

I'm 5Ft 7 3/4 inches and weigh 133 lbs...what would my BMI be?

Still working your "small data sets"? Ha Haa!
I am......:D

And:http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/

Dana doesn't like my links anymore......

My BMI is apparently 20.4 which puts me in the low end of healthy. I'm not sure what that really means though....

I would have to be 8'2" to be 20 bmi according to that last link. it says i'm 35.6% i should be dead.

Did she leave it in a smoker?

BMI isn't a percentage. It is your weight in kilograms divided by the square of your height.
There are adjustments for non-metric units, wikipedia explains it well.

I'm just using it to compare the thinness of various people of different heights. I don't advocate BMI scores as a goal or as a very reliable predictor of health. It all depends on whether your weight is muscle or flab. Reading your posts, it sounds like you're mostly muscle.

in PAPERS?

Please tell me that is a typo. Peppers? Capers? The New York Times? Tally-hos? What?

reading my posts, you'd think i had a cock made out of pure gold, and farted diamond dust.

but, srsly..... i'm not mostly muscle.....well....depends on what percentage you need for a majority, i guess.... but, damn. i'm not morbidly obese, either.

Well that would explain why the head weighs 40 pounds, then.

I think majority is anything over 50% ... but I don't think that's really the issue here. If you're happy, and your doctor isn't constantly freaking out, then why worry?

Further thoughts on how to weigh your head:

Hanging by the heels over a vat of liquefied heads would be inaccurate. The inverted position would cause an excessive amount of blood to flow to your head and increase its weight. Therefore, it would be better to float in a vat of liquefied bodies, with some kind of head-harness (a strap under the chin should do it, but a meat-hook up each nostril sounds much more interesting :lol: ) lifting your head out of the goop. Connect said harness to a spring scale and, voila! The (calibrated for apparatus weight) reading on the scale = the weight of your head. You don't even need to worry about keeping your mouth open. The only issue left is where to draw the line between head and neck.

And monster, for the kids' science project, you could replace the liquefied bodies with a water based liquid with the correct density. That becomes step one, calculate your density. First, weigh yourself, and then use a regular shaped bath to calculate your displacement. Do the maths. Then create a solution with the appropriate density. Start with water, and add other chemicals (I have no idea what - ask a chemistry major) to decrease the density as appropriate.

Still, the idea of being suspended by the heels over a vat of liquefied heads ... that is ART... and a smiley we need, but probably won't find.

Mine appears to be 19.9 (???)

My husbands shows as 25, but he is nowhere near overweight...muscular. Hmm.

Does this mean I need to work out more?

35.1 and there is no denying I'm obese

There is a higher category of morbidly obese, but Cicero's link doesn't give that - I may just be slipping under the radar there.

nahh, for what BMI is worth you're both in the healthy range.

But, once again, these numbers are a generalization, and must be taken in context of everything else : % of fat/muscle, blood pressure, resting heart rate, etc etc.

If you do exercise, I guess you'd be aiming at building up, not reducing. Meh, you're doing fine. Watch some TV.