Now that’s a big inner tube
Jul 17, 2007 Americana
Really fat guys are different from you and me:
Crews rescued a man from the St. Croix River at Fox Landing, near Grantsburg, Wis. after he spent 12 hours stuck in the water. Authorities said the man’s weight was a mitigating factor in his delayed rescue.At about 8:15 p.m. Monday, authorities received a call of someone with a medical condition needing assistance.
According to the Pine County Sheriff’s Office, a group had gone tubing on the river when the tube of a man weighing at least 500 pounds went flat about two miles south of Fox Landing.
When you’re a quarter of a ton, you can’t expect to have the same kind of fun as human-sized people. Believe me, I know about overweight. But 500 pounds — that puts you in a very special class. And that’s not the same class as the one that includes “tubing” as a recreational option, I think.
July 17th, 2007 at 11:31 am
Shouldn’t that be “contributing” and not “mitigating”?
July 17th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
I would say so!
July 17th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
They could have hauled him in a lot sooner if it weren’t for all the do-gooders banging drums and chanting, trying to drive him back into the sea…..
July 17th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
I also heard that a short, balding, Jewish-looking guy walked up to the tuber, and pulled a Titleist out of [a tight spot].
I don’t get the reference. I mean, if you mean me, I wouldn’t get near the thing. And plus I’m a “tall 5′10.” — RDC
July 17th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
I dont know about, and have never been overweight, thank G-d, but I feel sooo bad for really large people.
To the point of absolute empathy gone haywire sometimes.
Should a really overweight person happen to be dining in the same area as me, my hypersensitive sense of empathy overrides by default any functional emotion of the moment.
I end up feeling so bad for the large person and all his dishes and his (no fault of their own) lack of discipline, its all I could do to keep the tears from my drowning out the dinner I know longer want or need.
There’s something about observing a (no fault of their own) lack of discipline in others that is just soo sad/ heartrending/ and tearjerker oriented.
Its almost as sad as personal lack of discipline issues.
July 17th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Well sometimes there is a personal discipline issue as part of the picture, Jaded. But you are being kind, and not inaccurate, to observe that it frequently is not one at all.
On the other hand, 500 lbs. — that takes a commitment.
July 18th, 2007 at 12:14 am
I love being “not innacurate”.
Also, I believe insatiable hunger, whether for food or love is an emotional state of being with its very own corresponding neuronal circuitry nickings and or neurochemical level concerns.
When you say ” committment” you make it sound like its a thought out sequential set of thought processes replete with concerted efforts and lucid reasonings and reasonable conclusions…………
So what are you suggesting the real answer is for emotional states of hunger running amok, maybe due to neuronal circuitry systems gone haywire ?
Why do some find it so hard to stop needing so much food.
Why do some find it so hard to stop needing so much love.
Why do some find it so hard to stop needing so much connection.
Why do some find it so hard to stop needing so much daddys.
Is it active discipline your advocating for inherent neurochemical imbalances or something a little stronger like my favorite hyper helper = adderall. Adderall is actually an appetite suppressant and can basically override the need for meals. Its fascinating how a simple mixture of stimulants and stuff can mess with the mind/ mending stuff and replacing personalities in the process. If taken correctly it can make hyper no more, extra skinny/ docile goody two shoes out of hyperactive runaround persons.
The wonders of modern day emotion dulling and blunting.
Wisk away those whimsical wayward windchimes swinging to no tune in particular, annoying some amusing others. And replace them with rigid icicles standing all focused and obedient deep under the eaves of winters cover.
Its kind of fun playing G-d and creating your own rules for mindgames and mindworks.What should we fix next ?
July 18th, 2007 at 10:42 am
Ron,
That was a Seinfeld reference.
http://www.tv.com/seinfeld/the-marine-biologist/episode/2318/summary.html?tag=ep_list;ep_title;6
I guess it is kind of prejudiced of me to think that a Jewish New Yorker would automatically be a fan of the show.
July 18th, 2007 at 10:45 am
LOL, hardly, Jay. That was my vague suspicion… but then there’s my insecurity again. I have been compared to George in certain respects before. I only saw the marine biologist episode once and didn’t quite remember it — you have now refreshed my recollection!