this post was submitted on 28 May 2024
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[–] [email protected] 62 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (3 children)

"Gastroenterologists who X-rayed Lotito’s stomach said he was capable of consuming 2 pounds per day, according to his Guinness World Records entry."

I often read things and think about them and realize that it's so absurd I can't believe anyone tried to pass it off as true, and this is one of them.

Gastroenterologist: "Oh yeah, that stomach can consume metal, I know because..." Because what? You've been trained to identify stomachs that can digest metal using X-rays? What day of gastroenterologist school was that?

Go Google abdominal X-ray. You can't even tell where the stomach is, it's just a cloudy area.

"Oh yeah, that cloudy area there can definitely digest metal, I can tell just by looking at it. I'd say it can digest, say, a pound and a half easily. Probably two pounds. Probably not two and a half though, I can tell just by looking at it that two pounds would be too much. "

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Maybe they made multiple X rays and looked at how much the iron in his body decreased

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Or maybe, and this may sound a little crazy but maybe the guy didn't eat an airplane

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6259445/

Iron toxicity from a patient that literally just took too many supplements.

You know how they say everybody has about a nail's worth of iron in their body?

It turns out that you definitely don't want a pound of it in your stomach.

Also turns out that a lot of other metals are the same kind of thing. Not gold though, it's generally not chemically active, so eat all the gold you want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

So what you’re saying is it was a gold cessna

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

They should have given him an MRI scan to be completely sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Now look at an x-ray of an abdomen with a metallic object in it. Seems pretty plausible thata person could look at an x-ray containing a bunch of metal and approximate how much of it there is.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It was also in the Guinness book of records at some point.

[–] Kecessa 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't confer much credibility if we're being honest

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Yea they gave Bono the record when Randy clearly won

[–] casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer 45 points 10 months ago

He was also entered into the Guiness Book of Records for "strangest diet."

He ate the award plaque they gave him.

[–] VicksVaporBBQrub 32 points 10 months ago

Dr: You can get your iron supplement in pill form at the local Walmart.
Guy: Oh? That's nice. Does it have any artificial sweeteners?
Dr: It's plain.
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I want "bullshit" for a thousand, Alex.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (3 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito

As fake as hell as this sounds, no this guy was for real. Check out his list of total objects consumed.


At least:[3][8] [citation needed]

  • 45 door hinges
  • 18 bicycles
  • 15 shopping carts
  • 7 TV sets
  • 6 chandeliers
  • 2 beds
  • 1 pair of skis
  • 1 computer
  • 1 copy of the textbook Gravitation by Misner, Thorne and Wheeler.
  • 1 Cessna 150 light aircraft
  • 1 waterbed (full of water)
  • 500 metres (1,600 ft) of steel chain at once
  • 1 coffin (with handles)
  • 1 Guinness award plaque
  • Assorted razors and bolts
[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

1 Guinness award plaque

Get Guinness Award

Eat the plaque

Refuse to elaborate

Leave

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Citation needed...

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I wonder if he had to work up to it, or was just winging it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think he just went for it without thinking about it, plane and simple

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Bakkoda 9 points 10 months ago

Getting knots in my stomach just thinking about it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I'm sure it flew right down his throat.

[–] peteypete420 15 points 10 months ago

This man wiped his ass with steel wool.

[–] Titou 10 points 10 months ago

Common lunch in France

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

And for dessert he ate a dozen drones.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

...and a waffer theen meent

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Still better than Taco Bell

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (18 children)

idk what you internet people are always complaining about, Taco Bell is great. It's easily the best of the lowest tier fast food joints and that's a perfectly acceptable niche to occupy.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Was he the guy known as Monsieur Mangetout (Mr Eat everything, probably mangling the spelling), or was that someone else?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago
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