Comments on: BMI calculator for your home page?

By: The Amazing Kim

The Amazing Kim — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:14:16 +0000

But does anyone really recalculate this frequently enough to want it taking up space on their home page???

Yes – people with eating disorders. Calculating the current BMI, calculating the potential binge BMIs, calculating the ideal weight BMI… calculating a bit lower than that, just for curiousity… it’s a fun life.

By: goodbyemyboy

goodbyemyboy — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:07:28 +0000

“You have overweight” is the best part.

By: living400lbs

living400lbs — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:53:59 +0000

Hee!

Stef, I love that you got the red monster icon ;)

By: Stef

Stef — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:36:07 +0000

I can haz overweight?

By: living400lbs

living400lbs — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:04:20 +0000

Lindsay – True!

ChloeMireille – rules 34 & 35?

By: ChloeMireille

ChloeMireille — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:15:01 +0000

*looks up* How did Rules 34 and 35 get all the way over here?

Anyway, what amuses me is that the BMI widget says, “You have overweight.”

I have shoes, I have hair, so I can also have overweight?

By: Lindsay C.

Lindsay C. — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:25:02 +0000

Whatever there is out there on the internet, there’s someone who wants it. Naughty stories involving tentacles and/or characters from Sesame Street, spreadsheets of every known shark attack in recorded history, a 5 page write-up on whether or not embroidery thread can be “backwards” (and the flame war that follows), and yes, BMI widgets for iGoogle pages.

(I’ve seen all of the above and can’t say i’m a happier person for it. But at least i have amusing anecdotes to share at parties, eh?)

What’s scary to me is not that these things exist, but that someone created them because not only did they want them, but they thought other people might want them, too.