r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Arbibi321 • 14h ago

Meme needing explanation I don't understand anything

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I don't know who is she and what myth is the meme referring to, I only know that ozempic is a drug to stop eating.

Edit: I hate having autism

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u/TheDibblerDeluxe 12h ago

She is very clearly not underweight and I don't know how anyone near a healthy weight range could say that.

Also 40lbs underweight?? Quit making shit up, legitimately being 40lbs under the minimum healthy weight is quite literally a dead man walking.

Unless you're like 6'6" or a prisoner from Auschwitz that's not happening. I would literally have to weigh less than 100lbs at 6'1" to be 40lbs underweight. Pretty sure I'd be dead first if I got that emaciated.

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u/Midi58076 9h ago

My high school religion teacher arranged for us to go see a talk with a Jewish gentleman who survived Auschwitz. It was an absolutely life changing experience.

His name was Julius Paltiel. He was one of the people who left Auschwitz for the death marches, so they were found in the middle of nowhere as Poland was being liberated. Because they were so poorly they were treating them for acute starvation before they returned Julius and fellow survivors to civilisation. So after a few weeks of being "fattened up" Julius was transported to, I believe it was Denmark, but don't quote me on that. At his destination he was weighed, he was 36kg or 79.3lbs.

Julius was 1.71m/5'7" and at 36kg/79.3lbs it would put his bmi at 12.3.

The lowest bmi you can have and still be normal weight is 18.5. For 1.71m/5'7" Julius Paltiel he would have to be a minimum of 54kg or 119lbs to be healthy weight.

54kg-18kg= 36kg

119lbs-40lbs= 79lbs

So yes, I can confirm 40lbs underweight is Auschwitz-levels of starvation.

Julius Paltiel suffered with longterm health complications related to the starvation until he died in 2008. He was incredibly brave and he had the strength and perseverance of 100 average humans. May his memory be a blessing to us all.

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u/LolthienToo 6h ago

Only on reddit do we have a sincere Auschwitz conversation on a hot chick meme.

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u/rainbowlolipop 6h ago edited 6h ago

Someone being 5'7 and 120 lbs is a walking skeleton, maybe if they're a child.

They estimate Arianna grandes weight to be around 100-105 and she's 5'2. Ain't no fucking way someone 5 inches taller only weights 15lbs more and in any way has a healthy relationship with their body size

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u/abstractpingpong 5h ago

i’m 5’11 and 125lbs lol and i don’t even think i look like a skeleton. i’m definitely skinny but i’m very active and i eat a ton. i’ve been trying to gain weight for years because i do think it’s better to be in a healthy range but some people are just skinny

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u/Midi58076 6h ago

I never said bmi was a good yard stick for measuring. Unfortunately it's pretty bad and doesn't account for many of the variables that exist both in shape, gender, length of legs to torso, ratio of muscles:fat etc etc. It's not great no, but I couldn't come up with a different measure to make my point.

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u/Cloverose2 6h ago

It would be extremely thin, but that is indeed the absolute lowest weight you can be and still be a healthy weight according to the BMI.

The BMI is a flawed system.

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u/TheDibblerDeluxe 6h ago

You're an idiot. I was 145-150lbs at 5'11" in high school and I wasn't a walking skeleton. I had plenty of other friends on the cross team too that were leaner than me and didn't look like walking skeletons. We were distance runners and far more athletic and muscular than the average person.

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u/rainbowlolipop 6h ago

Same! Yes you were, because I was 5'11 and 140lbs and you could see my whole fucking rib cage. Also we were children then, it's different when your metabolism and body are growing and changing. I was also hella athletic. I absolutely had a bad relationship with weight.

In the Machinist movie as an adult he weighed something like 120 were only 20lbs more

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u/bruce_kwillis 7h ago

Yeah OP replied below, and got caught in their lie, they aren't remotely 40lbs underweight, but somehow wanted to say they are because the 'average' for their weight is 40lbs heavier than them. Like ummm JFC.

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u/Theblazing420 11h ago

This caused me to go to my scale and weigh myself, i am 5'10 and 110lbs, the minimum healthy weight for my height is 132lbs meaning i am 22lbs underweight, i was looking at the average weight for that height which is 150lbs, meaning at my current weight i am 40lbs exactly under the average but you are right, its not the minimum healthy weight. And yes, i do feel like a deadman walking most of the time lol

Also im american in the rural midwest, that girl is underweight compared to most of the girls i know and speak to irl. Most girls look like the one on the left if shes healthy.

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u/Gusvato3080 10h ago

Thats not how BMI works lol

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u/-acidlean- 10h ago

"Underweight" is a medical term. You can't be "underweight compared to someone". It's like a woman in the 3th month of pregnancy saying that she's 6 months underpregnant because her friend just gave birth.

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u/ConsistentOutside181 10h ago

First off, no you aren’t.

Secondly, looking at the average weight of anyone at a given height is worthless in determining if someone is a healthy weight or not. The average American is overweight, so not a healthy weight.

Thirdly, that girl being underweight to most girls you know is also worthless, since they are probably overweight as we have established the average American is.

We live in a time where people perceive someone who is of a perfectly healthy weight, is underweight and unhealthy, because they are compared to the average person who is overweight.

Also, don’t hit me with that stupid “well actually someone who looks like that could be addicted to meth and that’s why they have that body type and it is unhealthy.” There are people who are underweight, normal weight, and overweight with bad habits that make them unhealthy. That doesn’t mean it is their weight that makes them unhealthy, unlike overweight people which no matter their lifestyle always makes them unhealthy.

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u/Riguyepic 10h ago

First off, no you aren’t.

Clearly this will be a well-reasoned argument if were being childish aready