It's really weird how most non-fat people have very little sense of weight.
Years ago, Michael Landon was on the Johnny Carson show and they talked about "Hoss," the late Dan Blocker, a BHM who with Landon played one of the Cartwright brothers on the show "Bonanza." Carson goes, "Big guy, must have been, what? 250?" Landon smiles and says, "You're missing a hundred pounds of that action, Johnny."
Johnny Carson, who dealt with thousands of people of all walks of life apparently had no clue how much people weigh.
Another example: I just finished reading "Under the Dome" (all 1,100 pages of it) by Stephen King. In it is a truly vile character by the name of Big Jim who, of course, also is fat. King describes how massive his stomach is, how fat he is, his dominating appearance behind a vast slope of belly on numerous occasions, on and on. How much does Big Jim weigh? 230 pounds.
So King, a great researcher, and an author who also wrote "Thinner" that was all about weight, apparently also has no clue how much fat people weigh.
An old friend of mine once said that the general population cannot imagine that any women weighs more than 199 pounds and any man 250.
Have you had similar experiences?
Years ago, Michael Landon was on the Johnny Carson show and they talked about "Hoss," the late Dan Blocker, a BHM who with Landon played one of the Cartwright brothers on the show "Bonanza." Carson goes, "Big guy, must have been, what? 250?" Landon smiles and says, "You're missing a hundred pounds of that action, Johnny."
Johnny Carson, who dealt with thousands of people of all walks of life apparently had no clue how much people weigh.
Another example: I just finished reading "Under the Dome" (all 1,100 pages of it) by Stephen King. In it is a truly vile character by the name of Big Jim who, of course, also is fat. King describes how massive his stomach is, how fat he is, his dominating appearance behind a vast slope of belly on numerous occasions, on and on. How much does Big Jim weigh? 230 pounds.
So King, a great researcher, and an author who also wrote "Thinner" that was all about weight, apparently also has no clue how much fat people weigh.
An old friend of mine once said that the general population cannot imagine that any women weighs more than 199 pounds and any man 250.
Have you had similar experiences?
