The only thing I find that was truly wrong is the mix of Vodka, which I assume is 80 proof, and powdered electrolyte, which I assume makes it 79 proof, and passing it off as wine, which may be 1/2 that proof.
So we are expected to believe that this one girl ate all that? Or even half that?
That would be the same as her eating, say, four steaks and four plates of pasta, plus whatever other gunk he put in, at one meal? And not noticing that that was a boatload of food?
Anyway, this supposed event is email glurge. Why believe it when almost nobody on this board believes any of the other email glurge that we post and laugh at every day?
IIRC, TDF riders can sustain an intake of c.6,000kcal/day, as cited in Noakes’ Lore of Running book. The person with the most impressive sustained calorie intake is the ultrarunner Yiannis Kouros who (again IIRC) could sustain an intake of c.8,000kcal/day for several days of continual running.
If the woman in the story could take in 9,000kcal in one sitting, then she is either the size of a small planet or it was a leisurely meal, taking several days to complete while she jogged around the table.
I found the story funny - it was obviously either completely invented, or exaggerated for comic effect. I’m surprised at the gullibility of the participants in this thread.
I don’t think you’re overreacting. That’s messed up.
I had my gallbladder out a few years ago, and it made my system kind of irritable - If I have a bit too much scalloped potatoes, for instance, it’s Montezuma’s Revenge for me that night.
If Mr. AFG did to me what this guy did to his girlfriend (and I know he wouldn’t), he’d be out on his ass in the cold so fast. I would NOT find that funny.
I’ve been to EHOWA and there’s some funny stuff on there, but this isn’t one of those things.
Whoops - looks like I skimmed a bit. Seems the story’s most likely bogus. Scary thing is though, I don’t doubt that there’s some wacko out there who could possibly try this, and there’s gotta be a nutjob reading this somewhere, thinking, “Ha ha! I’m gonna do that!”
Well Alcohol is a drug, and by your reasoning you could justify slipping acid into someone’s koolaid. Sorry I don’t buy it.
It’s not up to him to babysit, but he does have some responsibility, such as not intentionally misrepresenting a high proof drink for a low one, especially as the taste was intentionally misrepresented, and vodka + cherry electrolyte is not a common drink that people have experence with.
With thess factors, I would place full blame on him if she took in a lethal does, which it would seem she may have been approaing very quickly.
I’m not saying she shouldn’t take respnsibility, if she notices she is getting hammered, but the quick intake along w/ the electrolytes, and food may have delayed this till it’s too late.
As for the dinner, I have no issues with it. If he slipped exlax into her food, then yes, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Who on earth wouldn’t notice that the drink in the decanter tasted nothing like wine and a lot like vodka? Even mixed with things, vodka has a distinctive taste. And as far as ‘misrepresenting’ it, it’s not like he put it into an empty bottle that used to contain wine, or told her that it was non-alcoholic.
My impression was that he didn’t intend it to be mistaken for wine, he referred to it as ‘makeshift wine’ because most people drink wine rather than vodka with their dinner.
So nobody noticed that when the girlfriend dug into the dessert, she said, “Mm! Chocolate mousse!”
So either she thinks chocolate mousse is low-calorie, in which case she is too dumb to be a Ranger’s girlfriend, or all the crap y’all are pitching about how the Ranger poisoned her with a mega-calorie meal without her knowing about it, is bullshit.
I’ve eaten MREs. They can’t be used as poison.
It’s a bullshit story. And most of you are over-reacting to it.
If the story it true or not, it really doesn’t matter. I see the only thing he did wrong was to basically spike her drink, you disagree, I can live with that.
I will say again that the character’s intentions in making the meal do not matter. He’s STILL a fucking dickrag just for laughing at his girlfriend’s illness and suffering, He’s a DOUBLE dickrag for gloating about it on the internet.
(I know the story is bullshit. The CHARACTER is a dickrag)
I somehow missed this, though sometimes you can’t help laughing even if you also are concerned. But (if this really happened) he would be a richardrag for posting the story w/o her consent.
Not experiencing foaming raving farts 30 minutes after eating, I must defer to those who do. My apologies to the unfortunates who lack that tiny little enzyme.
However, I don’t think that’s really what was at work in the story.
Wild, with a side order of idiotic, not to mention extremely insulting to all the women who could kick my butt (mathematically speaking), for a start.
But then we live in a world in which (no cite) Naomi Wolf’s book The Beauty Myth was slated for being “exclusionary towards women who are unable to read”. (Please note the lack of a significant comma after the word “women” before you – not you, catsix – get on my case about women’s literacy.) Wild, indeed.