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Do morbidly obese chicks look daft no matter how smart they are?
Before all of you answer with hate and in a rude way to try to get under my skin, I want you to know that I'm asking here because I need honest opinions and that this is my first time here. Here is the thing, I love a lady friend of mine because she has a beautiful face and is very compatible with me but has maybe 3 chins. I know there is more to love than the physical. She has a great personality. The problem is she is most likely well over 200 pounds. I know that she is smart, but she just looks un intelligent to put it lightly. She asked me to be her Valentine and I told her I just want to remain friends. Then she started to cry. I have known this girl for five years and she is about 3 years older than I am so I feel it to be strange and condescending to tell her to lose some weight. Even if she were only slightly obese I would be less critical. And I know that its a very sensitive issue. My question is, what do I do and what do you think about how I feel?
Obese Brit who could be world’s fattest man reportedly due to go under the knife to get op – Yahoo! Canada News
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Wed Oct 21, 10:14 AM
By Raphael G. Satter, The Associated Press
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LONDON – A Briton who could possibly be the world’s fattest man is due to go under the knife in an attempt to cut his weight, The Sun newspaper said Wednesday.
The tabloid said that 48-year-old Paul Mason weighs nearly 1,000 pounds (450 kilograms) – which it claimed made him the world’s heaviest man. However Guinness World Records said it had no immediate confirmation of Mason’s weight.
The title of world’s fattest man had been held by Mexican Manuel Uribe, who weighed in at 1,235 pounds (560 kilograms) in January 2006. But Guinness spokeswoman Amarilis Espinoza said Uribe has since lost a lot of weight and that Mason might now trump him.
“We’re looking into the claim now,” she said.
The Sun said that Mason lived in the ground floor of a specially modified bungalow in the town of Ipswich in eastern England.
Mason once appeared in a British TV program called “Tax the Fat.” The program shows a bespectacled Mason lying in bed as he’s quizzed about his state by The Times of London’s restaurant critic, Giles Coren.
“I’ve been stuck in bed now for about eight years now … nine. Something like that,” Mason says.
The Sun said Mason relies on a team of seven health workers to keep him clean and free of bed sores. It said he was due to be transported to St. Richard’s Hospital in southern England, which has a specialist unit that treats the morbidly obese, in the coming weeks. The Sun said he was due for “drastic stomach surgery” but gave few other details.
The TV show put the cost of Mason’s care to the taxpayer at about 100,000 pounds ($165,000) annually, while The Sun said costs over the past few years had passed the 1 million pound mark.
Neither the show nor The Sun’s reporting could be independently verified.
Attempts to locate contact information for Mason and his family were unsuccessful. St. Richard’s Hospital referred questions to the area’s health service authority, NHS Suffolk.
The service was quoted in The Sun and elsewhere as defending Mason’s operation as “lifesaving” surgery.
In the television program, Mason said he wished he weren’t a burden on medical services.
“It eats away inside of you,” he said. “Why should they spend money on you, when you see these other cases?”
But he said he had been powerless to control his size.
“I didn’t want to be like this,” he said.
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