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(Reuters) Amusing "Flying Doctor" puts in order for bigger aircraft to fly world-class fatass Aussies to hospital   (news.yahoo.com) divider line 44
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veedeevadeevoodee [TotalFark] 2009-01-03 05:20:20 PM  
images.theage.com.au

/ thought Houston was bad

 
pavinrtheway [TotalFark] 2009-01-03 08:39:58 PM  
www.freeimagehosting.net
Whatt???

 
What are these goddamn animals 2009-01-03 08:56:53 PM  
What the bloomin' onion's this now?

 
michaeld5 2009-01-03 09:00:53 PM  
Got a ways to go to catch up with the US.

img.thesun.co.uk

Ken Brumley

 
farkin Bruges 2009-01-03 09:02:04 PM  
He would fit in the TARDIS but they couldn't get him through the door.

 
simpsonfan 2009-01-03 09:04:37 PM  
Make the pro-fat advocates buy the planes.

 
asshatinagetawaycar 2009-01-03 09:07:55 PM  
I'm so fat I use a sponge on a stick to wipe my butt after I use the bathroom.

Not really. That's too much work. I hired a buttwiper to do it for me.

Then I eat another Whopper.

mmmmmm.....*licks lips*...greasy Whoppers.....

 
Snarcoleptic_Hoosier 2009-01-03 09:08:00 PM  
A flying doctor you say?

Perhaps from the Make Aussie Seats Huge brigade?

/DNRTFA

 
Hatman013 2009-01-03 09:08:32 PM  
The one, the only, and the best.

img.dailymail.co.uk

/Tethered Aerial Release Developed In Style

 
DrGunsforHands 2009-01-03 09:11:11 PM  
img141.imageshack.us

 
MorphOSX [TotalFark] 2009-01-03 09:11:16 PM  
But does the plane have boomerang-detection capabilities?

/obscure?
//Dr. Demento fan

 
Bennetton 2009-01-03 09:11:48 PM  
i396.photobucket.com
i396.photobucket.com

 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark] 2009-01-03 09:12:10 PM  
This'll work fine.

tbn3.google.com

 
Wonko Fortytwo 2009-01-03 09:13:26 PM  
It must be all of those Vienna Sausages they barbied.


\Dutch speakin' feriners.

 
CAK757 2009-01-03 09:17:11 PM  
Bennetton, you are gonna need a bigger plane
i350.photobucket.com

 
poldie 2009-01-03 09:20:31 PM  
> The one, the only, and the best.

They're getting some kid to do it next:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/4094067/Casting-Matt-Smith-shows- t hat-Doctor-Who-is-a-savvy-multi-million-pound-brand.html

 
sarcastic664 2009-01-03 09:21:59 PM  
Bigger airplanes? The Royal Flying Doctor Service already flies Pilatus PC-12s. Those things are pretty big as it is.www.bushtracks.com

 
Hatman013 2009-01-03 09:23:55 PM  
poldie: > The one, the only, and the best.

They're getting some kid to do it next:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/4094067/Casting-Matt-Smith-shows- t hat-Doctor-Who-is-a-savvy-multi-million-pound-brand.html


Boooo. (so far)

 
halB 2009-01-03 09:26:35 PM  
The first rule of fat club?

Don't be too fat to leave the god-forsaken, piss-ant, hill-billy, redneck, podunk place you've decided to live.

 
Suede head 2009-01-03 09:26:40 PM  
Didn't Australia recently overtake the USA in the fatarse stakes?

 
Iplaybass 2009-01-03 09:31:13 PM  
I bet I know which country produces aircraft that is capable of carrying fatass people...

 
ActionJoe 2009-01-03 09:34:05 PM  
The doctor?

www.telegraph.co.uk


/Yes, this is the new doctor
//Name is Matt Smtih
///Ugh...so emo

 
lyndsayj 2009-01-03 09:37:09 PM  
OK, look - the Royal Flying Doctor Service is a wonderful organisation that does fantastic work and saves the lives of people who live in the middle of nowhere.. but just how many patients who weigh *more than 140kg* do they get, exactly? FFS.

 
Mandapants 2009-01-03 09:43:45 PM  
ActionJoe: The doctor?


/Yes, this is the new doctor
//Name is Matt Smtih
///Ugh...so emo


You lie.

PLEASE tell me you lie.

/meh

 
ActionJoe 2009-01-03 09:51:32 PM  
Mandapants: ActionJoe: The doctor?


/Yes, this is the new doctor
//Name is Matt Smtih
///Ugh...so emo

You lie.

PLEASE tell me you lie.

/meh


I do not lie. Link (new window)

 
studebaker hoch 2009-01-03 09:53:17 PM  
upload.wikimedia.org

 
GoddessofSnowandIce [TotalFark] 2009-01-03 09:53:18 PM  
I came here for the Doctor Who references.
p-userpic.livejournal.com
I leave satisfied.

farkin Bruges: He would fit in the TARDIS but they couldn't get him through the door.

You win! Please collect your one internetz.

 
the_chief 2009-01-03 10:02:10 PM  
Let them die. Nobody likes ugly people anyway.

 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark] 2009-01-03 10:02:16 PM  
They could use barges...

 
mecaenas 2009-01-03 10:06:34 PM  
Suede head: Didn't Australia recently overtake the USA in the fatarse stakes?

Nope, although suprisingly Saudi Arabia has overtaken the US. On the other hand, Nauru is wiping the floor with everyone.

BBC News - Obesity in statistics (new window)

 
Dunit 2009-01-03 10:21:29 PM  
Suede head: Didn't Australia recently overtake the USA in the fatarse stakes?

Nope. There was a single media story which showed Australia had overtaken the USA but the immediate flurry of contradictory (and far more credible) reports didn't get nearly the same media hype.

 
ravenlore [TotalFark] 2009-01-03 10:22:15 PM  
ActionJoe: The doctor?

/Yes, this is the new doctor
//Name is Matt Smtih
///Ugh...so emo


If emo Ten regens into even-more-emo Eleven, I will be a happy fangirl.

/i REALLY like Tennant

 
blkhwk86 2009-01-03 10:31:25 PM  
michaeld5: Got a ways to go to catch up with the US.



Ken Brumley


OMFG. How the hell do you get that big?!?!?! I mean...wow! Isn't there a time you go "uh...i can't fit in xyz anymore?" I need the eye bleach. And, i hope that guy loses weight in the right way and doesn't die because of it.

 
GalacticCmdr 2009-01-03 10:35:59 PM  
Sigh, I have been RPGing it too much - the first I thought of was the Frying Doctors and the dangers of not speaking clearly when calling for the Flying Doctors.

 
stroebele 2009-01-03 10:39:08 PM  
How can we have all this Doctor Who references and no Billie Piper pics?

//Christopher Eccleston was the best Doctor, at least since I started following Doctor Who.

 
Sarah Jessica Farker [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-01-03 10:55:45 PM  
blkhwk86: michaeld5: Got a ways to go to catch up with the US.


Ken Brumley

OMFG. How the hell do you get that big?!?!?! I mean...wow! Isn't there a time you go "uh...i can't fit in xyz anymore?" I need the eye bleach. And, i hope that guy loses weight in the right way and doesn't die because of it.


they said he had been eating 30,000 calories a day. enough for a normal person to have in a week. every day.

he was hospitalized and put on a strict 1200 calorie a day diet. a pair of surgeries were done to remove the "fat tumors" on his thighs. each surgery removed 200 pounds of flesh from one of his thighs. 200 pounds! that's more than I weigh! (by only a little, tho... gotta work on that...)

I don't know how he's doing now, but in the 6 months or so he was in the hospital, he went from a bit over 1,000 pounds to around 600, most of which was done with the surgeries to his thighs. he was able to walk a few steps when he left the hospital.

I have this info from watching "Half Ton Dad" on The Learning Channel the other night.

I'm technically "obese" but I'm never going to be over 200 lbs again.

 
Fuggin Bizzy 2009-01-03 11:44:42 PM  
asshatinagetawaycar: I'm so fat I use a sponge on a stick to wipe my butt after I use the bathroom.

Not really. That's too much work. I hired a buttwiper to do it for me.

Then I eat another Whopper.

mmmmmm.....*licks lips*...greasy Whoppers.....


You mentioned licking greasy whopper from your lips and wiping your ass in the same post.

Thank you for that. *retches*

 
dancing bear [TotalFark] 2009-01-03 11:48:26 PM  
"DrGunsforHands"

I was operated on using one of those wonderful gizmos last year.

/Just saying

 
Ishidan [TotalFark] 2009-01-04 12:08:31 AM  
lyndsayj: OK, look - the Royal Flying Doctor Service is a wonderful organisation that does fantastic work and saves the lives of people who live in the middle of nowhere.. but just how many patients who weigh *more than 140kg* do they get, exactly? FFS.

Enough, apparently. For us Americans, that's 300 pounds.

I was at an air freight office a few weeks ago. They have a freight scale that can go up to 500 pounds. One huge dude from a freight forwarding company got on it-he was over 400, and not only still ambulatory, but hard at work. I watched him get back into his truck just to see how the suspension responded. Then I realized that he LEVELED IT OFF by getting in, because he had an equally large coworker in the passenger seat. And that was in Hawaii. God help his ass if he ever gets injured, we'd need a pallet jack to pick him up!

 
Cosmic Crab 2009-01-04 12:15:09 AM  
MorphOSX: But does the plane have boomerang-detection capabilities?

/obscure?
//Dr. Demento fan


I'm thinking the same thing.

 
c7hu1hu fh746n [TotalFark] 2009-01-04 12:27:29 AM  
EXTERMINATE

/late

 
Ishidan [TotalFark] 2009-01-04 12:40:53 AM  
30,000 calories a day?

Jesus, did he have some friend come over and drop off an entire duffel bag full of pizzas and big macs every morning? Just chain-eating, washing it down with milkshakes?

 
caramel corn for president please 2009-01-04 02:48:43 AM  
ActionJoe: The doctor?

/Yes, this is the new doctor
//Name is Matt Smtih
///Ugh...so emo


OMGWTF why did they make the Doctor look like an Edward Cullen wannabe?

/wrists

 
Day_Old_Dutchie 2009-01-05 07:05:21 AM  
..Now slowly back.
...and THROW!

Ooooh my GAWD.
I've 'it the Flyin' Doctah.
Heh Heh.
Do you know first aid?

 
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