The Cost of Daylight Savings, No Sitting Allowed, and One Woman Striving to Weigh 1,000 Pounds
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.
Great photo. But it’s also fairly gross.
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.
Devon: that information makes the whole story even moe gross.
Sounds like British hospitals really are like the DMV.
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.
People paid to watch this woman eat?
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.
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?
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?