Ivan Yankinov: Think that's bad..I used to go Clubbing with this guy @ SoundfactoryNYC

I would rather be out of shape and still be able to wipe my own ass than look like that.

shivashakti: You know, with today's easy access to information, it would have been incredibly easy to look this stuff up.

Yeah, but then he only had 26 minutes before he had to be at the gym.

theoneontheleft: normal ~12

12 micrograms isn't "normal". A quick google shows average levels are 0-4 depending on a number of factors.

Dude must be an awful BMW salesman if he's eating 10 cans of tuna a week.

And seriously, heavy metal poisoning is really nothing new in fish, canned or fresh. It's the kind of thing that's mentioned in the evening news every year, like flu shots and the biggest toy each Christmas. That said, in a world of six billion-plus people, statistical likelihood of this occurrence is pretty high. Common sense tells me that eating anything ten times a week will likely culminate in some kind of problem.

McDonalds-Morgan Spurlock
Baby Glue-Octomom
and so on...

theorellior: 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.

Some people have a deep-seated desire to look like Strong Mad, I guess.

im allergic to fish but eat hella hummus, garbanzo beans, and almonds. all the protein, none of the mercury.

Ivan Yankinov: Think that's bad..I used to go Clubbing with this guy @ SoundfactoryNYC

Gregg Valentino, as stupid as his weightlifting practices probably were, didn't get that way from lifting and juice alone. His arms are pumped full of Synthol which, at some point after that pic was taken, migrated to the area arount his heart and lungs and caused him serious problems. He also had a hematoma in his arm that he tried to operate on himself and probably gave himself sepsis. These days I bet his arm looks like the dumpster outside an abortion clinic.

badgerb: Just be thankful he was a fish packer and not a fudge packer.
Eating too much packed fudge could lead to the AIDS,

vernonFL: he and his roommate and workout partner,

*cough cough* Houseboi *cough cough*

I think that's still in doubt...

So does he have to be in the canned meat aisle in 26 minutes?

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

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

I was thinking somebody took some breast implants and put them in that dude's arms.

These days I bet his arm looks like the dumpster outside an abortion clinic.

STOP!! you are making me hungrrrryyy

If it's from the tuna, howcome the roommate isn't sick? Didn't they do everything together?

good lord canned tuna is disgusting.

I worked for a small photo lab in Santa Monica, and one day we were served with a lawsuit.

My boss handed it over to me to review and I started laughing. It was a couple who lived across the street and down claimed that they had mercury poisoning, and they had gotten it from our chemicals. They were suing us and a couple of other businesses around us. They were suing our small store for 10 million dollars.

We were lucky if we had brought in that much in the past 5 years.

Luckily we were owed a favor by a lawyer. He got our property tested, and got into contact with Kodak, the makers of the processing chemicals. The couple claimed that it was because our sewer pipes were shared, so the lawyer went and got the records from the city that showed that we had no shared sewage.

These people also hadn't visited a doctor, they apparently had looked up their symptoms from WebMD. I was surprised they had a lawyer even take the case, but he was probably hoping we would just settle.

The lawyer presented the information to the judge, and it was thrown out immediately.

Ya know, unless those cans had the mercury content listed, I'm gonna say this guy has a case. 10 cans a week is not an outrageous amount of food to eat. I used to work with a couple of guys like that and they don't think of eating the way normal people do. They fuel their bodies. They wouldn't look at that as eating a crap-ton of tuna. They look at it as 6oz servings of protein. Pre-packaged in single-serving, ready-to-eat container. Taste is irrelevant. Texture is irrelevant. Its only purpose is to fuel the body. In fact, the only odd thing about it is that they were eating actual food instead of consuming powdered components.

StormnMormon: Oh thank goodness. For a moment I misread the headline and though it was about John Fitzgerald page, and was struggling because I kind of agree with the merits of the suit (ridiculous eating habits or no, if the mercury in the food caused his problems..and there was no sort of warning about it..)but re-reading the headline and article has relieved me of my burdern.

/if food isn't safe it shouldn't be on the shelves.
//especially if it claimed to be "heart healthy"
///thought that JFP looked old in that pic untill I read the article

You've got a point there. Eating an 8-oz tin of anything once a day or so that is considered as food shouldn't do permanent damage to anyone- haggis excluded.

Teknowaffle: I worked for a small photo lab in Santa Monica, and one day we were served with a lawsuit.

My boss handed it over to me to review and I started laughing. It was a couple who lived across the street and down claimed that they had mercury poisoning, and they had gotten it from our chemicals. They were suing us and a couple of other businesses around us. They were suing our small store for 10 million dollars.

We were lucky if we had brought in that much in the past 5 years.

Luckily we were owed a favor by a lawyer. He got our property tested, and got into contact with Kodak, the makers of the processing chemicals. The couple claimed that it was because our sewer pipes were shared, so the lawyer went and got the records from the city that showed that we had no shared sewage.

These people also hadn't visited a doctor, they apparently had looked up their symptoms from WebMD. I was surprised they had a lawyer even take the case, but he was probably hoping we would just settle.

The lawyer presented the information to the judge, and it was thrown out immediately.

Yep, once again it is proven that frivolous, lazy lawsuits != an honest day's work. Eventually people will learn.

/lol, who am i kidding

Tuna salad sandwiches are f*cking awesome. Just thought I'd leave that here.

nitefallz: 400

Not bullshiat in every case, but certainly bullshiat if you're a sedentary mid-40s guy with a visible double chin and no significant bulk who claims to look like that after dropping a significant amount of weight.

he and his roommate and workout partner, Roland Muccini

It's ok to come out the closet

Noobian Noob: ok but why is he suing the grocery store too?

Because they put it on sale!
His houseboy is on a budget you know.

BaronVonAsshat: Dude must be an awful BMW salesman if he's eating 10 cans of tuna a week.

And seriously, heavy metal poisoning is really nothing new in fish, canned or fresh. It's the kind of thing that's mentioned in the evening news every year, like flu shots and the biggest toy each Christmas. That said, in a world of six billion-plus people, statistical likelihood of this occurrence is pretty high. Common sense tells me that eating anything ten times a week will likely culminate in some kind of problem.

McDonalds-Morgan Spurlock
Baby Glue-Octomom
and so on...

Beer - the majority of Farkers (would you count by bottle or session?)

"Stunt Double" would be a good name for a band. "Mercury Poisoning" would also be a good name for a band.

Maybe he should be working at a Mercury dealership.

cynicalbastard: StormnMormon: Oh thank goodness. For a moment I misread the headline and though it was about John Fitzgerald page, and was struggling because I kind of agree with the merits of the suit (ridiculous eating habits or no, if the mercury in the food caused his problems..and there was no sort of warning about it..)but re-reading the headline and article has relieved me of my burdern.

/if food isn't safe it shouldn't be on the shelves.
//especially if it claimed to be "heart healthy"
///thought that JFP looked old in that pic untill I read the article

You've got a point there. Eating an 8-oz tin of anything once a day or so that is considered as food shouldn't do permanent damage to anyone- haggis excluded.

I disagree. We shouldn't set the bar at "what one idiot might do". By your logic Top Ramen should be removed from shelves because if I went out and ate 10 packages a week for years the sodium would give me a heart attack.

jst3p: I disagree. We shouldn't set the bar at "what one idiot might do". By your logic Top Ramen should be removed from shelves because if I went out and ate 10 packages a week for years the sodium would give me a heart attack.

Well, Top Ramen is required to label the sodium content, not so with mercury.

I researched this when my kids started eating sushi (my fault.. love the stuff). I don't remember exactly where I found the info, but tuna was always near the top of the list of mercury levels and salmon was near the bottom. I think lake fish in general were safer than seafood.

The weird thing is that the composite Yzziefrog posted above is much better-looking than either of 'em.

You lose JHP's stupid facial expression, and Mercury Dude's awful hair, and you get something which is still marginally douchey thanks to the clothes, but not in the upper echelons.

jtown: Ya know, unless those cans had the mercury content listed, I'm gonna say this guy has a case. 10 cans a week is not an outrageous amount of food to eat. I used to work with a couple of guys like that and they don't think of eating the way normal people do. They fuel their bodies. They wouldn't look at that as eating a crap-ton of tuna. They look at it as 6oz servings of protein. Pre-packaged in single-serving, ready-to-eat container. Taste is irrelevant. Texture is irrelevant. Its only purpose is to fuel the body. In fact, the only odd thing about it is that they were eating actual food instead of consuming powdered components.

This. I bet there are a lot of gym rats eating 10 cans or more of tuna a week. Most workout+diet nutrition guides involve a lot of tuna dishes because it is low in fat.

There absolutely should be labels if there is significant mercury. It is far from 'common knowledge'

Ugh, his urine must taste horrible.

pxlboy: jst3p: cynicalbastard: StormnMormon: Oh thank goodness. For a moment I misread the headline and though it was about John Fitzgerald page, and was struggling because I kind of agree with the merits of the suit (ridiculous eating habits or no, if the mercury in the food caused his problems..and there was no sort of warning about it..)but re-reading the headline and article has relieved me of my burden.

/if food isn't safe it shouldn't be on the shelves.
//especially if it claimed to be "heart healthy"
///thought that JFP looked old in that pic until I read the article

You've got a point there. Eating an 8-oz tin of anything once a day or so that is considered as food shouldn't do permanent damage to anyone- haggis excluded.

I disagree. We shouldn't set the bar at "what one idiot might do". By your logic Top Ramen should be removed from shelves because if I went out and ate 10 packages a week for years the sodium would give me a heart attack.

how much of that sodium do you cut out when you drain the noodles?

Who drains Top Ramen?

jst3p: cynicalbastard: StormnMormon: Oh thank goodness. For a moment I misread the headline and though it was about John Fitzgerald page, and was struggling because I kind of agree with the merits of the suit (ridiculous eating habits or no, if the mercury in the food caused his problems..and there was no sort of warning about it..)but re-reading the headline and article has relieved me of my burdern.

/if food isn't safe it shouldn't be on the shelves.
//especially if it claimed to be "heart healthy"
///thought that JFP looked old in that pic untill I read the article

You've got a point there. Eating an 8-oz tin of anything once a day or so that is considered as food shouldn't do permanent damage to anyone- haggis excluded.

I disagree. We shouldn't set the bar at "what one idiot might do". By your logic Top Ramen should be removed from shelves because if I went out and ate 10 packages a week for years the sodium would give me a heart attack.

In high school my latchkey-kid self would eat the following every day for an afterschool snack, and sometimes dinner: Two packages of ramen, well drained, one flavored-salt package from the ramen (both was too many), one can of tuna in oil, drained. Mix well and eat before going to someone else's house and drinking until his mom came home, or going back to high-school drama rehearsal. I still remember my mother's spice drawer jammed with the leftover chicken-flavored salt packages. And yes, I had the metabolism of a hungry teenager.

Cagey B: I am pretty aware of mercury concentrations in fish, but foodstuffs with, you know, mercury in them should be labeled as such.

Uh, why?

It's not added, it's tuna! They have a high level of mercury because they're high in the food chain.


If you want them marked, why not mark them "high in the food chain" so in case you couldn't figure it out, you'd know tuna has all the shiat they eat in them (not just mercury).

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I wonder how polar bears should be marked...

Cagey B: labe

Exactly. I hope he wins millions.

Tiny Jr: I researched this when my kids started eating sushi (my fault.. love the stuff). I don't remember exactly where I found the info, but tuna was always near the top of the list of mercury levels and salmon was near the bottom. I think lake fish in general were safer than seafood.

It has to do with how long lived the fish is and how high on the food chain. Tuna lives for quite a while and is basically a top predator, very few animals besides humans eat them. Salmon only live for a few years and while being predators themselves they are no where near the top.

/heavy metals work their way up the food chains pretty well. Small species get a bit into their system, bigger fish feed off them and the concentration goes up in the predator. That repeats until you get to the top. The longer lifespan just means they have longer to accumulate mercury.

I'm curious about why a 48 year old man is still concerned with his bench press. If he has so much interest in health and fitness he might want to try something a bit more practical at his age.

highwayrun: In high school my latchkey-kid self would eat the following every day for an afterschool snack, and sometimes dinner: Two packages of ramen, well drained, one flavored-salt package from the ramen (both was too many), one can of tuna in oil, drained. Mix well and eat before going to someone else's house and drinking until his mom came home, or going back to high-school drama rehearsal. I still remember my mother's spice drawer jammed with the leftover chicken-flavored salt packages. And yes, I had the metabolism of a hungry teenager.

For over a year I lived on Mac and Cheese, can of tuna and frozen peas and corn mixed in. Could make it by the ton and heat it up whenever I got hungry.

The two images of "bodybuilders" that others linked are most likely injecting a chemical named synthol into their muscles. It is an oily substance that was originally developed by a sane person to "spot fix" asymmetry for competition. They are using WAY too much.

Look at the freaks on GIS.

sjcpjh1: I'm curious about why a 48 year old man is still concerned with his bench press. If he has so much interest in health and fitness he might want to try something a bit more practical at his age.

You should see him at the gym, he's like a kid out there!

Sounds fishy.

spawn73: Cagey B: I am pretty aware of mercury concentrations in fish, but foodstuffs with, you know, mercury in them should be labeled as such.

Uh, why?

It's not added, it's tuna! They have a high level of mercury because they're high in the food chain.


If you want them marked, why not mark them "high in the food chain" so in case you couldn't figure it out, you'd know tuna has all the shiat they eat in them (not just mercury).

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I wonder how polar bears should be marked...


Who thinks like this?