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Death Clock

#23
unharmed said:
There's no time for us
There's no place for us
What is this thing that builds our dreams yet slips away
from us

Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever....?

There's no chance for us
It's all decided for us
This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us

Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever?

Who dares to love forever?
When love must die

But touch my tears with your lips
Touch my world with your fingertips
And we can have forever
And we can love forever
Forever is our today
Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever?
Forever is our today

Who waits forever anyway?
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Thank you. You just made my day :)
 
#27
Saturday, March 19, 2019

That would make me 54 and some change. But I have to argue some of the 'fat' based assumptions. I am, in fact fat. It's true. But I am in no way as far gone as that ridiculous BMI figure implies.

I always hate tables that judge simple weight vs height. Some people really do have heavier bones than others. Now that gets used as a joke a lot, the idea of an immensely obese guy saying " Uh, I'm just big boned. Really." But if you grow up overweight you DO grow heavier bones to support that weight. You should see my xrays. I have the natural barrel chest that goes with having been a preemie. I have the really thick long bones that go with having grown up heavy. If you put them together you get a guy who is really thin at 240 lbs. But that BMI thing still would say I was fat if I got down to 240 because it makes no allowance for whether that is 240 lbs on an enormous frame like mine of a dainty birdlike frame.

I have a cousin-in-law who is fatter than me...and 80 lbs lighter than I am. He never got heavy till he was 30 or so. He looks like a snake that swallowed a bowling ball. My drummer and I used to go the same gym, sometimes together. At 5'10" and 140 lbs he looked muscular when he was working out because every muscle he owned was right out there on display. It was one of our ongoing sources of amusement that he could look all 'buff?' while bench pressing 125 lbs, But I couldn't while bench pressing 300.

It's not fair. Grrrrrr.
 
#31
Bard2dbone said:
...I always hate tables that judge simple weight vs height. Some people really do have heavier bones than others. Now that gets used as a joke a lot, the idea of an immensely obese guy saying " Uh, I'm just big boned. Really." But if you grow up overweight you DO grow heavier bones to support that weight. You should see my xrays. I have the natural barrel chest that goes with having been a preemie. I have the really thick long bones that go with having grown up heavy. If you put them together you get a guy who is really thin at 240 lbs. But that BMI thing still would say I was fat if I got down to 240 because it makes no allowance for whether that is 240 lbs on an enormous frame like mine of a dainty birdlike frame.
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That's what I'm talkin' about, Bard! I'm 5' 11" and bare-ass nekkid, I weigh 195 pounds. I have a 32" waist, 45" chest, 18" arms and I bench press well over 300 pounds*, but again, according to that BMI indicator, I'm obese. Aaarrrrrgh!

*Not that I'm braggin' or anything. ;)
 
#33
Bard2dbone said:
Saturday, March 19, 2019

That would make me 54 and some change. But I have to argue some of the 'fat' based assumptions. I am, in fact fat. It's true. But I am in no way as far gone as that ridiculous BMI figure implies.

I always hate tables that judge simple weight vs height. Some people really do have heavier bones than others. Now that gets used as a joke a lot, the idea of an immensely obese guy saying " Uh, I'm just big boned. Really." But if you grow up overweight you DO grow heavier bones to support that weight. You should see my xrays. I have the natural barrel chest that goes with having been a preemie. I have the really thick long bones that go with having grown up heavy. If you put them together you get a guy who is really thin at 240 lbs. But that BMI thing still would say I was fat if I got down to 240 because it makes no allowance for whether that is 240 lbs on an enormous frame like mine of a dainty birdlike frame.

I have a cousin-in-law who is fatter than me...and 80 lbs lighter than I am. He never got heavy till he was 30 or so. He looks like a snake that swallowed a bowling ball. My drummer and I used to go the same gym, sometimes together. At 5'10" and 140 lbs he looked muscular when he was working out because every muscle he owned was right out there on display. It was one of our ongoing sources of amusement that he could look all 'buff?' while bench pressing 125 lbs, But I couldn't while bench pressing 300.

It's not fair. Grrrrrr.
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I hear that. I'm 5'10, 240. I've got a bit of a gut, but nobody has ever thought I was fat, or even "big". I'm just on the upper end of that "average" people seem to have. Built like a small truck, surely, but I've seen guys who are 210lbs look twice as big and/or twice as fat as I am. It's BS, mostly.

If I "slimmed down" to 190, I'd still be "overweight" but I would be wire and bones. BMI my ass.
 

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