weight poll - Page 5

bluecuracao · 10-07-2007, 01:15 AM

OK, fine.

Monkeyboy claims that the rest of your body will exert some force on the scale. I can see that. But I still think it wouldn't be far off the mark.

ZenGum · 10-07-2007, 01:25 AM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

how would you weigh someone's head...if you wanted to go about it. short of weighing, beheading and re-weighing?

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

stop picturing that. right now. im not doing it

Agreed, it is quite inefficient. Why weigh, behead, and weigh again, when you could just behead and weigh the head?

To be charitable, maybe Bluecuracao was suggesting that you do the lie-down-with-your-head-on-the-scales technique. This would give a pretty close reading, if the scales are pretty thin and sit on the floor. Although it raises the question of how much neck should be counted as "head". (cue Linda Lovelace reference

closest thing to a blowjob smilie I could find ).

PS Yes BMI shouldn't be taken too seriously. It makes no allowance for whether the person is 230 pounds of flabby fat or 230 pounds of steely muscle. But it is a starting guide to comparing people's height/weight ratios.

bluecuracao · 10-07-2007, 01:29 AM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum

To be charitable, maybe Bluecuracao was suggesting that you do the lie-down-with-your-head-on-the-scales technique.

You're absolutely right, that's exactly what I was thinking.

Mockingbird · 10-07-2007, 02:01 AM

The average head is about 8 lbs total or something, isn't it?

DanaC · 10-07-2007, 03:04 AM

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Originally Posted by DanaC
My ex used to say, if we ever had kids, we'd better bottle feed em to save em from starvation.:P

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I wonder if comments like this helped him earn the status of "ex".

*chuckles* nah. It was in humour and never meant cruelly.

DucksNuts · 10-07-2007, 06:39 AM

awww c'mon LJ, do it, do it, do it!!!!

And Jinx, take pics!

Aliantha · 10-07-2007, 06:52 AM

I bet his head doesn't weigh as much as he thinks it does. lol

ZenGum · 10-07-2007, 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Aliantha

I bet his head doesn't weigh as much as he thinks it does. lol

Agreed. 40 pounds ... 18kg ... surely not. mediocre "big head" comments aside.

Given that the human body has slightly less density than water, this gives us various ways to approximate the weight of various parts based on their volume.

Easiest is to find a container of water that is about the same size as the body part, in this case, LJ's head. I'm thinking of 4 liter (roughly, gallon) containers as being pretty close to a human head. So we are looking at 4 or 5 kilograms, 10 to 12 pounds.

Also consider that typical human brain capacity is about 1300 to 1400 ccs, 1.3 to 1.4 liters. Roughly triple that (since lots of the head isn't brain) and again we are approaching 4 liters, 4 kilograms, 10 pounds.

If we want to go to greater lengths we could do an Archimedes type measurement. LJ gets into a large bath with just his head above the water, marks water level, submerges head, marks water level, calculates volume displaced, multiply by density of body... but then we have to allow for the hollow places in the head: mouth, sinus, ears etc.

I guess the scales thing would be easier. Please do it LJ, now I am itching to know.

Aliantha · 10-07-2007, 07:15 AM

lol...yes well, for one thing, I need to see pics of him with his head on the scales.

For another, I still think it'll be fairly light on.

ZenGum · 10-07-2007, 07:22 AM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

(snip)

... your wife would leave you for me.

(Snip)

my head weighs 40 lbs alone!

It has just occurred to me, in the context of this extremely selective quotation (apologies LJ), that we are all making a presumption about which "head" LJ was referring to.

That's twice I've needed a big dick smilie.

I'd just like to add that I'm not normally so focused on penis size. Its just been coming up.

so to speak.

Aliantha · 10-07-2007, 07:24 AM

ok, I need to confirm that I was talking about the head on his shoulders. lol I definitely have not been spending time thinking of jimbo's wang on the scales.

Sundae · 10-07-2007, 07:52 AM

For the record, Dana looks like an athlete, not scarecrow skinny, and no sign of an overhang that I was aware of.

lumberjim · 10-07-2007, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Aliantha

ok, I need to confirm that I was talking about the head on his shoulders. lol I definitely have not been spending time thinking of jimbo's wang on the scales.

you lie........

Aliantha · 10-07-2007, 09:59 PM

lol...I do not.

lumberjim · 10-07-2007, 10:15 PM

you got a visual while you typed your previous post.....and if you didn't, you have one now....

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%
Voters: 69. You may not vote on this poll

10-07-2007, 06:52 AM	#67
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	I bet his head doesn't weigh as much as he thinks it does. lol __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

10-07-2007, 07:15 AM	#69
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	lol...yes well, for one thing, I need to see pics of him with his head on the scales. For another, I still think it'll be fairly light on. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

10-07-2007, 07:24 AM	#71
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	ok, I need to confirm that I was talking about the head on his shoulders. lol I definitely have not been spending time thinking of jimbo's wang on the scales. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

10-07-2007, 07:52 AM	#72
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	For the record, Dana looks like an athlete, not scarecrow skinny, and no sign of an overhang that I was aware of. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

10-07-2007, 01:15 AM	#61
bluecuracao in a mood, not cupcake Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 3,034	OK, fine. Monkeyboy claims that the rest of your body will exert some force on the scale. I can see that. But I still think it wouldn't be far off the mark.

10-07-2007, 02:01 AM	#64
Mockingbird Master of hand to mouth living Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Tulsa, Okla Posts: 189	The average head is about 8 lbs total or something, isn't it?

10-07-2007, 06:39 AM	#66
DucksNuts Bitchy Little Brat Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 5,067	awww c'mon LJ, do it, do it, do it!!!! And Jinx, take pics!

10-07-2007, 09:59 PM	#74
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	lol...I do not. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

10-07-2007, 10:15 PM	#75
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	you got a visual while you typed your previous post.....and if you didn't, you have one now.... __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

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