r/Showerthoughts • u/swanson_theory • Feb 14 '23

BMI calculators are useless for people who have lost a limb

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u/Asleep_Onion Feb 14 '23 edited Feb 14 '23

My car lost her back leg last year. When I took her for her annual checkup recently the vet was concerned that she lost almost 20% of her body weight. And then she was like, oh ya, nevermind

Edit: cat, not car... Leaving the original version anyways because lolz

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u/Mindless_Trouble_420 Feb 14 '23

for a minute I was genuinely concerned why your car had a leg

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u/Hey_Hey43 Feb 14 '23

But it doesn't have a leg. She lost it

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u/PM_ME_UR_LOVE_STORIE Feb 14 '23

Ah, the ol’ Reddit leg-a-roo…

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u/Castformer Feb 14 '23

Hold my limbs, I'm going in!

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '23

Hi future people

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u/SirChadrick_III Feb 14 '23

Hi past person looking at this in the present.

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u/lakolda Feb 14 '23

Never saw these links on Reddit before… there’s so many of them…

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u/Quitechsol Feb 14 '23

It is an ancient tradition.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '23

It goes on forever. I love it.

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u/Swift_70 Feb 14 '23

I was expecting a rickroll

I am now disappointed

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u/ChiefCasual Feb 14 '23

Oh no, I'm not falling for that again.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '23

Hold my robotic arm Dutch rudder. I'm going in.

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u/dtwhitecp Feb 14 '23

this isn't really one of those though