Thread: weight poll
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Old 10-07-2007, 01:25 AM   #62
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Originally Posted by lumberjim View Post
how would you weigh someone's head...if you wanted to go about it. short of weighing, beheading and re-weighing?

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Originally Posted by lumberjim View Post
stop picturing that. right now. im not doing it
Agreed, it is quite inefficient. Why weigh, behead, and weigh again, when you could just behead and weigh the head?

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 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.
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