Comment about the article: "Forget Bumble Bee- He should sue his barber."

Heh. I was gonna ask what he brushes his hair with...a leaf blower?

Billy's dad is a fish packer.

No one could figure out what was ailing Porrazzo until his doctor ordered a "heavy metals" blood test in October

Sir, we've found unusually high concentrations of Pantera in your blood as well as trace amounts of Anthrax.

mmmm, think I'll go make a can now. The albacore kind, not the cat food kind.

air_wx: GAT_00: Meh. Unless it expressly says on the cans of tuna that excessive eating may cause mercury poisoning, he's got a case.

Big Tuna actively fought against adding mercury warnings on the cans a few years ago in California.

"Hhhmmmmmmmm....big tuna...aahhhrrllgghh..."

shivashakti: You know, with today's easy access to information, it would have been incredibly easy to look this stuff up. I mean, it's practically common knowledge that too much fish causes mercury poisoning.

Particularly certain kinds, tuna being one of them.

Regrettably, common knowledge is powerless against personal injury suits.

shivashakti: You know, with today's easy access to information, it would have been incredibly easy to look this stuff up. I mean, it's practically common knowledge that too much fish causes mercury poisoning.

Particularly certain kinds, tuna being one of them.

Just ask Jeremy Piven

shivashakti: You know, with today's easy access to information, it would have been incredibly easy to look this stuff up. I mean, it's practically common knowledge that too much fish causes mercury poisoning.
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I don't think it's really -that- common knowledge. I keep myself pretty well informed and I didn't know that this was a problem.

And I doubt anyone would start looking at heavy metal poisoning as the cause of some ailment I'm having, either.

Unless there are specific warnings on packages of tuna, I think they guy is right to be pissed and probably has a good case.

he and his roommate and workout partner, Roland Muccini

Roommate and workout partner. Uh huh. NTTAWWT.

he and his roommate and workout partner,

*cough cough* Houseboi *cough cough*

Ivan Yankinov: //I'll add this for no reason at all

It looks like he has two extra heads embedded in his arms.

Ivan Yankinov: /Always worked out his arms
//Nothing Else
///Seen him fark some dude up over bad coke

Why would you want to make yourself that disproportionate? I guess I still think of bodybuilding in Greek terms of creating a beautifully proportioned machine, rather than excess for the sake of excess.

And, yeah, that's a guy who looks like he likes the smell of Bolivian marching powder.

nitefallz: 400 pound bench press? bullshiat.

While I agree that it's unlikely, especially at his age, I know quite a few guys that have hit that target or exceeded. Most of them ended up playing college football and were linemen of some sort. Though there was a kid at my HS who was ~5'9" ~200 lbs who hit a 400 lb bench press. He was a monster linebacker and ended up playing at Howard. I wouldn't have believed he could do it were it not for my ass being it in the weight room when it happened. It's not impossible to get that high of a bench press, but it's very difficult, time consuming, and almost utterly pointless.

theoneontheleft: FTFA: a "dangerously high" mercury level of 23 micrograms per liter, more than twice the normal amount.

That "twice the normal amount" doesn't make sense for some reason. This implies that over two years he goes from a normal ~12 to a dangerously high 23 ug/L, and all of a sudden he has these problems. But usually with these things you discuss orders of magnitude of differences in levels, not a mere factor of two. Anyone?

They made the mistake of combining incompatible data from the FDA and the CHDP, Chinese Health Discussion Panel.