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Health Keeping your body well enough to support your head |
View Poll Results: are you over or underweight? | |||
WAY overweight....50+ lbs heavier than i should be | 16 | 23.19% | |
overweight 10-50 lbs heavy | 25 | 36.23% | |
right on plus or minus 10lbs | 21 | 30.43% | |
underweight | 4 | 5.80% | |
scrawny | 3 | 4.35% | |
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10-08-2007, 08:29 AM | #91 | |
“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
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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
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10-08-2007, 10:00 AM | #92 |
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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)
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10-08-2007, 10:23 AM | #93 |
I hear them call the tide
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I eat pretty normally too.....
....for an entire freaking football team
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10-08-2007, 11:25 PM | #94 | |
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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. 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... |
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10-08-2007, 11:28 PM | #95 |
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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.
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10-08-2007, 11:29 PM | #96 |
trying hard to be a better person
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OK, I've had my suspicions for a couple of days now, but it's confirmed.
You are a sicko.
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10-08-2007, 11:37 PM | #97 |
I can hear my ears
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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.
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10-09-2007, 08:50 AM | #98 | |
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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. All in fun. |
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10-09-2007, 08:55 AM | #99 |
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OK, I just added "Weight of a human head" to the list of potential science fair projects for the kids
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10-09-2007, 08:57 AM | #100 | |
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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???" 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! |
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10-09-2007, 09:00 AM | #101 |
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10-09-2007, 09:29 AM | #102 |
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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.
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10-09-2007, 10:46 AM | #103 | |
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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... |
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10-09-2007, 12:13 PM | #104 |
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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.
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10-09-2007, 01:02 PM | #105 | |
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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... |
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