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Mar 19, 2010
The case against daylight savings time.
At some British hospitals: No sitting allowed for friends and relatives of patients. Flowers are not allowed either.
Woman holds the Guinness World Record as the world’s fattest mother. She is consuming 12,000 calories in a quest to become the world’s fattest woman.
9 Responses to “The Cost of Daylight Savings, No Sitting Allowed, and One Woman Striving to Weigh 1,000 Pounds”
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March 19th, 2010 at 11:36 am
Great photo. But it’s also fairly gross.
March 19th, 2010 at 11:56 am
This lady has a web site, where viewers pay to watch her antics – mostly eating while wearing a bikini. I don’t believe she actually weighs 600 pounds (I would have guessed 400). I also assume her professed desire to weigh 1,000 is a PR campaign to attract viewers with a morbid curiosity. If she achieves a weight of 1000 pounds, she would likely be disabled, bed-ridden and unable to walk.
March 19th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Devon: that information makes the whole story even moe gross.
March 19th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
Sounds like British hospitals really are like the DMV.
March 19th, 2010 at 12:41 pm
The article about Daylight Savings Time has two opposing points of view. One proposal is to abandon DST altogether. The other proposal is to adopt DST all year round.
I’m in favor of either proposal. They both have a nearly identical effect, as far as I can tell.
March 19th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
People paid to watch this woman eat?
March 19th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
The prohibition against sitting might have something to do with the fact that NHS hospitals have had problems with basic laundry. According to the Times Online, at Mid Staffordshire, conditions were so bad that patients’ relatives took soiled sheets home to wash.
March 19th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
Devon, I’m having trouble visualizing this woman in a bikini. I suppose it was a yellow polka dot bikini? And also that it was istsy bitsy, teeny weeny? I think it would just disappear under rolls of fat. No?
March 21st, 2010 at 5:29 pm
With respect to the fat lady, the article does not describe her health-insurance status. If her “job” is to sit in front of a webcam eating junk food for Internet subscribers, I guess she’s self-employed. Fortunately for her, she’s in NJ, where it is illegal for insurers in the individual market to charge actuarially fair premiums. This lady would pay the same premium as everyone else. This will soon be the law throughout the U.S., when insurers can no longer “discriminate” due to pre-existing conditions.
Isn’t “fairness” great?