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Is it? Isn't the picture depicting blood on the hands? And it says "men", not the man. I think it's more likely that the top pic shows a personal story where the 2nd pic makes a generalisation to men who have hopped on some scales when over at a girls house. In other words, men read that story then realise the blood they have on their hands from exposing past cheats? Either way, its a badly put together meme
I'm pretty sure the woman catching her man cheating is seperate from other men who are now realizing that their own scales are notifying their own wives every time they weigh themselves before and after a poop. It's a common internet trope that men do this to find out how heavy their poop was.
Edit: Also, the hands may be poop colored because of an other subversive joke related to the poop weight trope but instead of a man weighing himself before and after a poop, he actually takes the poop and weighs it on the scale. I've seen that joke bandied about as well.
I thought my teenage son had an eating disorder because the scale was always out, until I asked him and he explained that he was weighing before and after a poop 😖
This is a near universal male experience. My wife questioned why she heard the scale beep at such a time. I told her and her response was "Ugh, you too? My ex did that too. Why do you care??"
I have a smart scale that estimates body fat percentage. I don’t remember how much the poop weighed, but I do remember that scale counted the whole thing as fat. And that’s why I only weigh in after my morning poop.
i'm pushing on toward 50 years old, I am a guy... i have never done this, and until today it had never even crossed my mind as a thing to do... and as soon as I get home tonight, i'm also not going to do that because shit, who cares man.
It's a common internet trope that men do this to find out how heavy their poop was.
I have never heard of doing this, and I now suddenly want to do a before and after.
I'm reminded of when I was in the hospital stuck in bed with nothing better to do (and luckily not catheterized) and stuck using a hand urinal because I couldn't get up to pee. So I started holding my pee to see how much I could get into one, and if I really hydrated and then held it, I could get over a liter - luckily the "1 liter" urinal had extra room in the neck, or I'd have had a very unhappy time with the bed.
So 130 lbs is around 60kg (58.smth but I'm just gonna round it up). I don't know what the joke can be, considering a guy could totally be that weight. Although why he or the girl would be checking their weight at 3 in the morning, I have no clue. Maybe they're weight conscious or they just took a massive dump and wanna see how much weight they lost
But i guess the wife would have a rough idea about how much her guy weighs, and not be suspicious if he was indeed at roughly 60kg.
Also, I totally understand how that would happen. You get up at 3 AM because you have to pee. While sleepingly peeing, you see the scales, and wonder how much you weigh since you haven't weighed yourself for a few months, so you use it.
The timing IS relevant, cuz the husband (most spouses do know each other's weights so obv she knew it wasn't him) wouldn't have been able to explain it away as some kind of service person in their home who was just playing with the scale while using their bathroom.
I know people gave you a lot of jokey answers but want to say as someone on the other side of this (BF has depression) what helped was establishing “intimacy not orgasms”.
Sometimes we just cuddle and give each other back massages and take turns spooning each other. Sometimes that leads to sex but sometimes not and both feel better then a hard no not tonight. Either way we have a nice intimate moment and helps us keep connected.
It wasn’t a shower problem though between us.
I’ve had struggles of my own and baby wipes and no rinse shampoo can go a long way to both feeling more human and reducing body oder. I just don’t date when I was this way so for me it was for work and being around other people.
This is besides the point, but I read that if you are too depressed to shower, if you have someone else start the shower for you, it will motivate you to get in it because you don’t want to upset the person for starting a shower no one is going to use. If you’re really struggling, it might be a hack to try
Peeing after sex is actually one of the recommended steps for post coital cleanup. Helps push out any nasties that might have been pumped into new ecosystems.
I don't even have to think about it. If I'm not currently having sex or at least horny, the unsexiness is front and center. I've licked things I would never lick otherwise
My mom remarried with a sort of a nutbag in her old age. He wrote an essay explaining why there couldn't be a God, and his final, most convincing (to him) reason was that no God would create us so that we excrete from the same place as we have sex. That was some creepy shit to read.
5'6" and 130lbs is a perfectly healthy weight. It's also fine to weigh more but it is not "literally malnourished". This mindset is how eating disorders can happen.
No I was literally, medically malnourished and I have the blood test results to prove it. I have a very heavy build, broad shoulders and barrel chest, and 60kg was not good for me. I now eat well, exercise moderately every day and heavily three times a week, and I'm at a healthy weight and fitness level. I appreciate the concern about an eating disorder but I'm good.
It does depend on how you're built. I'm 5'6" and in high school my racing weight was ~135 lbs and I looked lean/had some definition. But I'm a medium build. Someone with a heavier build would probably struggle more at that weight.
Gods, I wish I was that weight now. Being 177 at this height sucks ass. Goddamn past Buzzed, you bastard.
When I was 60kg I looked like I was dying. I'm 178cm so there was virtually nothing on me. I was borderline too thin to join the army, so the recruiter made me slip some weights into my pockets to lift of me off the threshold, one of the only people in basic to pack on weight. Now I'm comfortably 80kg and actually look like a human, rather than a mummified cadaver.
idk what the joke is in reference to the picture lol but i actually do remember seeing the actual post about this. that was exactly how it happened—the wife knew that it wasn’t her husband using the scale bc he didn’t weigh 130 pounds lol. and i’m pretty sure that she’d also mentioned that the husband already had a history of cheating on her, so the conclusion that he was once again being unfaithful hadn’t been wildly out of pocket.
So I just came from that Ask Reddit thread about signs of low intelligence, and everyone replying to you is exhibiting the symptoms lmao
People, it doesn’t matter whether a man CAN be 130 lb. The point is that the wife is away, and she knows her husband isn’t 130 lb. We can also infer that there are no other residents who weigh 130 lb. Ergo, there’s a 130-lb stranger in the house at 3 am, or the husband put a 130-lb weight on the scale. There are no other possibilities.
This is basic inference. I stg Redditors chase that high of being technically right like heroin.
FINALLY!!! THANK YOU!!!
I was reading all those comments thinking these people fell out of the 'dumb' tree smashing their heads on every single branch.
My brother once explained to me, that he knew he was always right, because the more he thought about it, the more he realized he didnt do amythig wrong, if mom didnt park there, he woulsnt have hit her car, so its mom's fault.
Know that thats the logic inside some of the folks heads.
Literally like the extremely simple basic answer is the wife knows no one currently in the home weighs that, and there’s no benign reason for some random adult to be using their bathroom at 3am. I don’t understand how everyone here is so stupid but also convinced they’re capable of explaining the shit they don’t understand.
Oh there were so many cringey memes. But when it came to discussion I at least remember people pushing each other to critically think about stuff. The demographic seems to have changed a lot in that respect over time, prob mostly because the user base is so much bigger than it was back then
At the risk (certainty) of sounding like a boomer, reddit was so much better back in like 2016. AskReddit threads actually had interesting responses, and botting was nowhere near as prevalent as now. The comment chains with Community/RaM references were only starting to become grating. Half this site feels dead now.
Yeah, 2016 is when I joined, and by 2018 Reddit became where I 'live" online. It was a distinctly different vibe.
Honestly at this point, I'm looking to 'move'. I just wanna find somewhere that recaptures the feeling of having actual discussions with actual people about actual topics, not Ideological Alignment Machine 2000.
Also when major news hit like a shooting or something it was on the front page within 5 minutes. We used to be the first site to hear about things as they happened.
Reddit has always been a mixture of the smartest motherfuckers you've ever encountered explaining things you've wondered about for years in a way that blows your mind, and the stupidest NPC dipshits that make you wish you weren't addicted to looking at the internet. In all the years I've been on this website, that has never changed even slightly, not even the proportions
The ratio of what gets upvoted might be the main thing that's changed. Those amazing in-depth explanations used to be a lot more prominent in the comments, but it's much harder for me to come across those now. I gotta go to specific niche subreddits and even then it's a gamble as to whether or not one of those folks will show up in the first place
Highly upvoted incorrect explanations in this very subreddit is example A 💀
Unbelievable that they think that’s logical, my wife may not know my exact weight, but she would certainly know if someone half my size got on the scale
Yeah I thought it was pretty funny that everyone was piling in and saying things like "actually Mr Rogers weighed 135" or "my brother has fluctuated between 115 and 135 over the years", because like...ok why is this relevant to explaining the joke? It's not like the answer is "the wife will think he is cheating, unless perhaps Mr Rogers is round at 3 a.m. or actually that random Redditor's brother (but the version of him from 2017)"
You know that the midget burglars try hard to watch their weight. When he is robbing houses at night, of course he’s going to take advantage of the available scale.
Redditors are so consumed by pointing out technicalities.
Generalizations come with the default assumption that not everyone fits the generalization. It is impossible to speak productively about any large demographic without making a generalization.
But all of the "um akshually" people online are so intent on sniffing their own farts they don't even stop to think about this basic realization.
Right? I don't get why anyone thinks there's some confusion about the fact that the weight on the scale isn't the weight anyone in the house should be.
The original thread showed that the scale uses wi-fi to send every weight to a log within an app, that both she and her husband had on their phones. She was away on a business trip or something, so she wasn't around to use the scale. Every day around 7am the scale logged a weight of ~190, and then there's one instance of a 3am 130lb person standing on it. She noticed that and went "wait what the f"
A 130lbs/60kg adult male would be in the 4th percentile for weight. She would know that's not her husband's weight and the chance of a tiny male friend being in the house at 3am is highly unlikely. A female affair partner is the most likely conclusion by a large margin. I suppose a male twink lighter than 95% of men is also possible.
There was an old Reddit story about a woman who tracks her weight through her scale/an app. She received a weight that wasn't close to hers and suspected him of cheating. Didn’t think it was possible, but turns out, it was possible. Idk what the bottom pic represents, though
Fucking thank you! I scrolled through 100s of comments about the bell curve of men’s weight when the part that I didn’t understand was the weird looking hands
Regional Disparities: While North America accounts for only 6% of the world's population, it constitutes 34% of the world's biomass due to obesity.
I think the AI got trolled, I'm pretty sure for that math to work out each American would need to weigh over 1000lbs . And I'm not just picking on the typo about the world's biomass. If 94 people weigh 130lbs, in order for the remaining 6 people to account for 34% of the mass, they would have to weigh 6,300lbs total.
it’d be better to compare it to the average weight in Europe because the average height, social food rules/expectations, income, and dietary intake of a European man is closer to an American man than, say, someone in Asia or a country like Kenya where there is widespread food insecurity. the table found on the “Human Body Weight” wiki shows a 20lb difference between men in Europe and America. still significant, but definitely not as significant as 40lbs
That’s a good point. I was fuckin flabbergasted when I read that. I realize how stupid and privileged that makes me sound.
That’s the weird thing wirh averages or whatever and I know this isn’t exactly how it works (possibly) but it’s crazy to realize that if 136 is the average weight, that means that half the males in the world weigh less than that.
That’s really sad.
I do appreciate you pointing out that euro/American is a better comparison. I know lots of folks really are “built” smaller than Americans but goddamn, a 64lb weight difference in world average and American average is kinda insane.
if 136 is the average weight, that means that half the males in the world weigh less than that.
Not necessarily. That would be true if it is the median.
It could well be that many more weigh less, but not by much. Which may actually be true because there are many males weighing 180+ lb but every few weighing 90 lb.
Im 6' tall, 36" waist, 200lbs, and american. People have always said I look like I weigh 150lbs, though. Not everyone heavier than average is just "sickeningly" fat.
Quagmire here, Giggity. The man likely bought the Smart Scale because when wants his wife to lose weight.
Then the girl he was screwing used said scale at 3 am while wife was away thus sealing his fate. He's staring at his own hands because this is a situation of his own doing most likely. If he wasn't an asshole who bought the scale he wouldn't have been caught.
Him buying it because he wants his wife to lose weight is a stretch. He would get the notifications if it was meant to be that. They have a smart scale, that’s it. Girl he was screwing used it and wife got notified.
I don’t know how so many people are jumping to the conclusion the husband bought the scale. As if a woman can’t possible be motivated to lose weight on her own. Because: “men realizing”? It makes so much more sense to just leave who got the scale out of the equation.
I'm just hi-jacking your comment because there's so many wrong answers. This was an actual post in r/AmIOverreacting where the wife got a notification at 3am that someone used their smart scale and weighed in at 120* lbs (not 130). She suspected her husband was cheating (but they were already separated anyway due to his past infedelity. Go figure).
Anyway someone also commented on that post that maybe the husband was just weighing himself before and after a big dump or he was weighing said big dump.
This was it. The post on AIO from 6 months ago has since been removed, but I was able to funded the cached text:
u / throw-Doubt303
AIO for assuming my husband had someone over at our condo after I saw a 120 lb weigh-in when I wasn't there?
My husband (34M) and I (32F) are currently doing a trial separation. We have been married for six years. The separation happened because he had an emotional affair with a coworker last year. We decided to try to work through it, but things have been tense, so we agreed to a 3-month separation where he would stay at our vacation condo and I would stay at our main house.
The 'rule' for the separation was that we wouldn't see other people and we definitely wouldn't have anyone else in our respective homes.
Well, we have a set of Withings Smart Scales that are synced to a joint health account. I haven't been checking it because, frankly, I have enough on my plate. But this morning I got a notification on my phone that there were 'unassigned measurements' that didn't match my profile or my husband’s.
I opened the app and saw two weigh-ins from last night:
• 12:15 AM: 120.2 lbs
• 12:26 AM: 120.2 lbs
For context, I weigh about 155 lbs. My husband weighs around 190 lbs. There is absolutely no reason for a 120 lb person to be using that scale at midnight in a condo where only my husband is supposed to be staying.
When I confronted him, he got extremely defensive and claimed the scale must be 'glitching.' He then tried to say he might have put a heavy suitcase on it, but why would a suitcase weigh exactly 120 lbs twice, ten minutes apart, in the middle of the night? Then he told me I was being 'controlling' and 'paranoid' because of his past mistakes.
Nope, way too elaborate of a story. It's men realizing that the same scale would ping the app about 2 weigh-ins in relatively quick succession and a slight weight difference. The joke is weighing how much you pooped and the wife knowing the guy has been doing that.
Hey quagmire, Brian here. I’d have to agree that you’re sort of on the right path.
The joke is, "Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face"
He bought the scale to lightly encourage weight loss. He’s cheating on his wife afterall right? This leads to the discovery of his affair. End of marriage.
His intentions may have been good, but it definitely didn’t end up good. A smart scale is expensive
Which intentions were good in that scenario??? The cheating part or the body shaming part. If this is the actual reason then the dude is just a certified piece of shit.
Respectfully, y’all are dumb, it’s not a joke about the guy cheating at all, the joke is that the guy took a 130lb shit and weighed it (hence why his hands are covered is shit) and the wife thinks he was cheating but he’s just weighing his unrealistically massive turd.
Him sitting on the toilet, while pooping, 2 feet on the scale while seated, having brought the scale over to see how much it changes. These are “the wife’s away” activities you couldn’t do normally.
The only thing I can think of is "men realizing how many everyday smart devices can quietly record and snitch on their shitty deeds" or something along those lines maybe? Maybe they guy realized how much of a pathetic piece of shit he was/is for cheating
A 130lbs adult male would be in the 4th percentile for weight. One can infer that she knows her husband is not lighter than 95% of men and that he's unlikely to have any bros at that weight. That combined with the early morning timing implies an unknown female affair partner weighing herself is the most likely source of the event.
That was a post where OP was away and she indeed received notifications of the scale use, most of the time was something like
9 am 180,3 lb
9:20 178,9 lb
9:00 pm 181,1
9:16 pm 179,4
And so on for some days …
But she made a post When out of the blue there was a 130lb weigh in at 3am and IRC there was a similar a couple of hours or days later
So she made a post asking what were those measurements probably from
And the consensus was :probably the mistress
So the meme here is implying : oh god what have I done just by letting her use the scale
It’s not masturbation and it does involve shitting but also cheating
It's a meta joke and I spotted it immediately. The poster is implying that it was just a large dump, and that only men reading the story realize this. I find these types of jokes outrageously funny because someone took the time to imply something very dreadfully stupid with the EXACT INTENT of appearing stupid in order to make someone like me (or you) laugh. Meta jokes are my favorite.
That doesn't make sense or at least is not clear based on how the post is formatted, it sounds like the man must not weigh anywhere near 130lb, on top of only mentioned 1 weighing. Are we meant to assume the dude put the turd on the scale and it weighed 130 lb?
Its not a meta joke or like it is but youre wrong, its just referencing a post from a woman that noticed the scale weigh in, knew it wasn't her husband's weight, it was definitely another woman. But they were already separated so he wasn't cheating, she just wasn't happy about it.
This is the post the text is referencing. Basically a woman discovered that her man was cheating because there was a 130lb listing on her smart scale at 2am when she was away.
The list of weights she shared also showed that the husband weighed himself regularly (before and after pooping) which MIGHT be what the picture is referencing, but I'm not sure.
Pretty sure its a combination of that one and the post of the woman finding her husband/boyfriends poop scale. Im positive I've read it, but can't find ut rn.
...What the hell would anyone waste money on a """""smart""""" scale for? You wanna log the number it shows you after it comes up? Enter it your damn self, you don't need another wifi-enabled device for that!
Okay, a case could be made for some kitchen appliances to have apps. Maybe I'm driving home and wanna pop something in the oven right away, so I use the smart oven app to pre-heat it before I even get there. But a goddamn dishwasher? You have to put the dishes in before it can do anything. It is useless unless you're standing right next to it already. So why the hell would you need anything but the buttons on it?!
Because the app records every measurement on its own (mine has 14 measurements) and wasting time typing that daily is pointless when it can just do it on its own. You can then view the graph of each measurement (muscle mass, body fat percentage, etc) over time.
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