the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[General_Failure]

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/lax/142248974.html

[Father Demon]

I got home last night from work, and my lawn seemed unkept.  The landscaping hadn't been updated either.

I'm not sure why this is.

[Zanshin]

If you wait long enough, it'll probably take care of itself.  That's what I'm holding out for.  It's like a staring contest.

[Wingspan]

we've been in our house since late september...and i havent bought a lawn mower yet.

i pay this kid in the neighborhood who is 13, $10 to mow...$5 for the edges too...i'm looking forward to when he is 16 and i can just pay him in beer.

[mussa]

Mario LIVE!

that was great 

[ice grillin you]

[Zanshin]

we've been in our house since late september...and i havent bought a lawn mower yet.

i pay this kid in the neighborhood who is 13, $10 to mow...$5 for the edges too...i'm looking forward to when he is 16 and i can just pay him in beer.

That's a deal.  In my neighboorhood, kids don't do that...and you can't get a landscaper for less than $35-40 a week.  And I just can't bring myself to do that.

[Wingspan]

we've been in our house since late september...and i havent bought a lawn mower yet.

i pay this kid in the neighborhood who is 13, $10 to mow...$5 for the edges too...i'm looking forward to when he is 16 and i can just pay him in beer.

That's a deal.  In my neighboorhood, kids don't do that...and you can't get a landscaper for less than $35-40 a week.  And I just can't bring myself to do that.

the kid (and his brother) must make a killing on our street. they do about 5 or 6 houses that i can tell.

$60 a week for a 13 or 14 year old is a goldmine for that age. from what i remember anyway.

[MURP]

[Diomedes]

That's farging hilarious.  I'd like to think someone was clever enough to actually carry that sign, rather than just photoshop it.

[SunMo]

Wal-Mart Worker Finds Man Glued to Toilet

The Associated Press

SALISBURY, Md. - A 20-year-old was found by a Wal-Mart employee in the bathroom Sunday night after he sat down and was glued to the toilet seat.

The man, whose name was not released by police, was taken to the hospital late Sunday night, said Lt. Cheryl Rantz of the Salisbury Police Department.

"The man had gone into the bathroom and sat down," she said. "He was banging on the wall when the employee came in."

Rantz said the man was treated and released.

that's why you don't go to the bathroom at WalMart

[PhillyPhanInDC]

Man weighing 1,200 pounds seeks life-saving surgery in Italy
May 3, 8:16 AM (ET)
By Phil Stewart

ROME (Reuters) - A Mexican man who at 550 kg (1,200 lb) is possibly the heaviest person in the world hopes to travel to Italy for a life-saving operation to shed weight.

Manuel Uribe, bedridden for the past five years, cannot stand on his own and will need a special flight to take him from Monterrey, Mexico to Modena, where a surgical team has offered to perform an intestinal bypass free of charge.

"I can't walk. I'm can't leave my bed," the 40-year-old Uribe, who weighs the same as five baby elephants  , said in a recent telephone interview.

"I'm trying to reduce my weight a bit right now so I can be in the right condition for the operation."

Uribe made an impassioned plea for help earlier this year on Mexican television, saying he weighed a more normal 130 kg (290 lb) until aged 22 and did not know what happened to him.

The broadcast drew the attention of doctor Giancarlo De Bernardinis, who visited Mexico with a medical team to examine Uribe in March.

Bernardinis, whose biggest patient to date weighed 350 kg (770 lb), told Reuters he plans a gall bladder, intestinal bypass procedure that will allow Uribe to pass food more quickly without so many calories being absorbed.

Bernardinis planned to perform the surgery in Modena as early as this month, although a Mexican health official doubted Uribe would be ready for a trip to Europe that quickly.

MEDICAL MYSTERY

Uribe's case puzzles doctors since his cholesterol and blood-sugar levels are normal, despite his extreme obesity.

"His heart works very well. He has some respiratory difficulty because of his obesity, but in strict terms, he's well," said Marco Anibal Rodriguez Vargas, the director of hospitals in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon.

Rodriguez Vargas said Mexican hospitals still hoped to treat Uribe themselves, but added Uribe would ultimately decide what to do.

Uribe said it was just a matter of time before he went to Italy: "Are we going? Yes. We're going. But the doctors will decide when."

The operation would last four to five hours and would likely require Uribe to spend one month in Italy.

"He will always be heavier than normal but certainly not like he is now ... We would be satisfied even if he weighed 150 kg (330 lb) after two years," Bernardinis said.

No one has managed to find suitable scales for Uribe in years and estimates of his weight are made partly by tape-measure. Guinness World Records 2006 only said it was aware of living people weighing over 508 kg (1,120 lb).

The record for the heaviest man ever is held by Jon Brower Minnoch, who died in Seattle in 1983 after reaching a record 635 kg (1,400 lb). He was in his early 40s.

Uribe hopes to avoid that fate. His wife, horrified by his increasing size, feared the worst and abandoned him more than a decade ago.

"She left me because she must have thought I was dying," Uribe said.

"Thank God, I'm still alive and hopefully will be able to take care of this problem."

[ice grillin you]

if thats real thats some farged up shtein

[Father Demon]

I got home last night from work, and my lawn seemed unkept.  The landscaping hadn't been updated either.

I'm not sure why this is.

Got home on Tuesday, and miraculously everything was taken care of.

I still can't figure out why it wasn't done before....

[mussa]

thats amazing that fat guy's heart is working normal and cholesterol and blood sugar levels are fine.