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[–] [email protected] 62 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 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 6 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 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 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 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kecessa 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Yea they gave Bono the record when Randy clearly won

[–] casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer 45 points 6 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 6 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 6 months ago (1 children)

I want "bullshit" for a thousand, Alex.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 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 6 months ago

1 Guinness award plaque

Get Guinness Award

Eat the plaque

Refuse to elaborate

Leave

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Citation needed...

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Bakkoda 9 points 6 months ago

Getting knots in my stomach just thinking about it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I'm sure it flew right down his throat.

[–] peteypete420 15 points 6 months ago

This man wiped his ass with steel wool.

[–] Titou 10 points 6 months ago

Common lunch in France

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

And for dessert he ate a dozen drones.

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

...and a waffer theen meent

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Still better than Taco Bell

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 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 6 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 6 months ago
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