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Contrary1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 01:10 AM Original message |
Obese man dies after 8 months in home recliner |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 01:13 AM Response to Original message |
1. why did they say he wouldn't be able to get up from there ? |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 01:53 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Physics. |
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K8-EEE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 01:56 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. plus he would be too big for the chair...stuck in it! |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 03:22 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. Stuck *to* the chair implies worse problems than just the weight.. ugh. (nt) |
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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 02:07 AM Response to Original message |
4. Wasn't there an obese person whose skin grew into the sofa |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 03:16 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. That was a Nip/Tuck episode... |
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dugaresa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 10:03 AM Response to Reply #8 |
22. it was based off of a real event |
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juno jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 03:33 PM Response to Reply #4 |
30. One relatively recent real life event featured a toilet seat. Ugh. n/t |
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Beregond2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 02:18 AM Response to Original message |
5. Meanwhile, his wife kept bringing him food of course. |
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Electric Monk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 02:26 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I had the same thought while you were posting that |
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Electric Monk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 02:24 AM Response to Original message |
6. Somebody kept bringing him food, or he would have lost weight |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 03:39 AM Response to Original message |
10. He gained 250 lbs in 8 months!? |
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katkat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 07:48 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. yeah |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 08:20 AM Response to Reply #10 |
17. I read in another thread that calories in vs calories out doesn't affect |
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Barack_America (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 12:37 PM Response to Reply #17 |
29. If people can create their own energy, our energy crisis might be solved. |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 03:52 AM Response to Original message |
11. Recliners: not only ugly, but lethal. (nt) |
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katkat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 07:50 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. in defense of recliners |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 08:01 AM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Idiocracy |
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Sanity Claws (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 07:54 AM Response to Original message |
14. So eight months of excrement were there? |
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crazyjoe (921 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 07:58 AM Response to Original message |
15. he was ashamed he didn't have health insurance |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
18. Possibly a freeper? |
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azmouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 09:47 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. I guess this guy never heard that gluttony is one of the deadly sins. |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 09:45 AM Response to Original message |
19. That's really sad... (RIP). If he was stuck, I'm surprised |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
21. this really bothers me because I see it happening in my own biological family |
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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
23. Very, very sad. How tragic family members didn't intervene. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 10:14 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. After a relatively short period of exposure to a bad smell... |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 10:13 AM Response to Original message |
24. Yikes. How the hell did she clean the chair under him when he pissed and shat himself? |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 10:27 AM Response to Original message |
26. Behind every immobile obese person |
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Hell Hath No Fury (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:07 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Absolutely! |
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Owl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
28. wow. just wow. |
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