Woman sheds half of her weight after being denied ride on roller coaster
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A 300-pound woman shed half her body weight after being told she was too fat to ride Colossus at Thorpe Park. Admin assistant Kirsty Mewett immediately pledged to slim down and eventually lost half of the weight by ditching takeaways and hitting the gym.
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Fun fact: the abbreviation for pound, lb, comes from libra. Libra is the constellation with the scales, hence the correlation.
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Jeff said:
I hear there are things called "kilograms," and they're part of the "metric system."
I tried to find an explanation for why Britons use "stone" as a measurement of human body weight, but failed. (Basically they just do.) They do however use kilograms for everything else that isn't a human. Confounding.
Check out the big brain on Brett!
Hobbes: "What's the point of attaching a number to everything you do?"
Calvin: "If your numbers go up, it means you're having more fun."
Do they speak English in what?
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My girlfriend is a vegetarian, which pretty much make me a vegetarian.
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HeyIsntThatRob? said:
You a smart little sucka'! That's right!
I think in the family friendly version they showed once, it was "mothercracker" instead of "sucka". ;)
I didn't think a non-profane string of Pulp Fiction quotes was even possible...
Parallel lines on a slow decline.
Can I just vote up the whole second half of the thread? *laugh*
A long quote from Pulp Fiction is difficult to use without profanity, but I think South Park tripled the amount of swears in the entire Pulp Fiction in...I want to say 10 minutes?
"Look at us spinning out in the madness of a roller coaster" - Dave Matthews Band
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