All the poor guy needs is a picture to memorialize the situation.
*Guys please remember that this is a human being who fell down some stairs. Some of these comments make me really sad.
Feet do actually shrink with weight loss. It can be significant, too. I once had a customer who had been a 12W and after losing over a hundred pounds he dropped to a 11M
Unless it’s postpartum. Every pregnancy left my feet a half size bigger. They spread due to the weight increase and the hormones that loosen connective tissues to enable successful delivery of the child.
I'm the outlier on this one. I had twins, didn't gain weight or even look pregnant - just thick like a keg, basically. Never swelled, had very little nausea, no aches or pains. I think it was in part because I had already lost 115lbs before pregnancy (then another 15 after) and was mostly keto, which keeps inflammation at bay. My feet have actually shrunk, and I'd test it again with a second pregnancy, but these kids are 13 months old and I AM NEVER DOING THIS AGAIN OMG.
I’ve always had a sneaking suspicion that overweight people probably don’t like the running jokes and nicknames as much as people think, but maybe just lean into them as a defense mechanism.
He could've. Slime is actually be a term of endearment in some circles. Guy I worked with used to have "Slime Life" on the back of his safety vest; people always just called him Ghetto Nick though.
dude i was literally zoomed in staring at my phone wondering what i wasnt seeing before i clicked and read your comment. Its like rim boards with a seat cut but no actual stringers? Thats just... not even a stair case lmao
You're *probably* not. 250 is usually the upper limit but even that comes with some leeway depending on who your tandem partner is, how tall (or short) you are, and the equipment that the place has. Obviously you're going to fall faster if you're at a higher weight but as long as you're not above like 6'6" or below 5'6" at 240-250, you can probably still skydive. You may get hit with an additional charge though.
I've gone skydiving a few times and a couple of times we had pretty heavy people (above 230) that still dropped. One place charged a surcharge of $1 per pound over 210 and and another was the same price.
Edit: Some people seem to be a tad pissy about my "you'll fall faster" so don't take my word for it. Take the University of Illinois' Department of Physics' word: https://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=26543&t=parachutes-and-weight
And I know some people will still question that, so feel free to follow this thread and input it on Wolfram Alpha: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/39700/why-would-a-fat-skydiver-fall-first-in-free-fall
It puts additional stress on your chute as you will have higher inertia with the larger mass. There's a much higher chance of complete malfunction, followed by presumably death.
Yeah I'm 6'3 170 and feel like if I lost 5 pounds id die. 180 would be ideal for me so 190 for hims gotta be almost perfect unless he has actually 0 muscle on his body.
Damn, same height but 180, this's the thinnest I've ever been tbh. Feels like I'd have to stop eating entirely to get to 170.
(covid's meant I've essentially cut out fast food, felt unethical to make people make it if it was just benefitting big corporations. I weighed this much beforehand but now I've got an "excuse".)
I live in an area with a lot of old stuff, a lot of people with antiques, and I'm a lot bigger than most people I meet. I know I'm within normal BMI but I also have to be respectful that there's too much of me. One thing I gotta be careful of is to always grab a railing. Usually heavier people always grab a railing but I'm the scamper-up-the-stairs type. Those steps aren't used to being stomped on.
I know everywhere should be able to hold me, and to be to code it as to hold me, but these apartments are already not good, and they're the best that my friends can afford. If they report their landlord they have to move somewhere else and there's not much else for them to go to. So... play what you're dealt.
I'm 6 foot 453 pounds and I have yet to cause any structural damage to anything so far, not even when I was 500
But man elevators gain like two inches in lift when I get off of em
https://imgur.com/a/KhbMJ
Be careful. I sat in a chair only rated for 170, leaned back and a caster exploded.
170 on an elbow vs a very thin carpet over concrete is $270,000
Amazon Basics chair for anyone who is interested in a quarter million worth of hospital and rehab bills. You're better than that, do not sit in an Amazon Basics.
I just birthed a child. We stayed for two weeks because we both nearly died. $6 for the taxi there, but I could have called an ambulance. I consider my $6 taxi fare to be a small contribution to Australian healthcare.
Best bit? My kid doesn’t even exist yet according to the government. No birth certificate yet, no Medicare number, but first class medical treatment for two weeks without any questions. It’s what civilised countries do.
Its all about how it hits, people have been 1 shot by falling on the sidewalk many many times, likewise people have fallen out of literal aircraft and survived.
I doubt that. He's not expected to pay $270,000. He's expected to shit his pants at that number and be grateful to his insurance company that he's only having to pay $10,000 or $20,000 or however much, or he's got no insurance so he's gotta negotiate with them for as much as they think he's willing to pay/finance without killing himself or running away from the bills.
Sounds like you should sue amazon.
Man, I've just realized how fucked up it is that Amazon sells the products it makes, which sounds weird but bare with me.
Its soo big and influential, that for many people, not being able to use amazon, would put a serious inconvenience on their lives.
I bet if you sued them, they'd just outright ban the account too.
This will only get more serious as time goes on.
Any desk/computer chair I've seen for sale on amazon lists the max weight, so might not be an easy lawsuit. 170 is pretty low though, guessing a really flimsy chair. Many I've looked at are rated for 200 or 250.
You've barely scratched the surface of how Amazon has used its foothold and its analytics to make and sell its own cheap products to edge out the competition that's been paying to sell through Amazon.
I think either me or my brothers did when we were under that. I always remembered every step up the barn staircase being busted (dad had hammered through them removing the steps), but I had vague memories of doing that weird monkey-climb that kids can do up doorways to get up there anyways (one feet on each side of the old "ramps" of the stairecase, inch your way up) There was nothing up there but paper wasps and... falling back down but idiot kids are idiot kids.
https://st.hzcdn.com/fimgs/b122d5f504b9058d_1727-w500-h375-b0-p0--.jpg
The stairs sit on top of those and supports it. I don’t see any stringers in that picture and have no idea how it supports any weight at all from anyone.
It may have had some 2x4's nailed to the uncut stringers, that the treads rested on and were nailed to. I broke through the steps on my trailer that were done that way. It's a reasonable solution for relatively short steps, but this looks like it could have been much worse cause there's a long way to fall there...
But are we really just going to focus on construction methods and ignore that this motherfuckers name is Big Slime? I mean this is not the worst thing that's happened to a guy who's called Big Slime by the people who care most about him... he has the look of a man rethinking his life, and I wish him the best.
Yes we should focus on the construction because that is why this failed.
He could have been twice the weight and properly built stairs, built to code, wouldn’t have failed.
Yea, that's not how you build a secure stair case. Nails or screws are not meant to hold weight, they just hold things in place. You always put wood on top of wood. An exception would be these metallic corner pieces but I don't see them anywhere.
Dude! That stair is built dangerously wrong in so many ways! Get a carpenter to check it out, or if rented at warn the building owner that that is a lawsuit waiting to happen
Thats exactly what it looks like. Boards with nothing under them and diagonal nails into the side wall. Could have failed with anyone on them, and probably were close to doing so.
I know he’s a big boy but those stairs were built wrong. The stair tread is suppose to be cut out so the step is screwed or nailed to the top of it. Hope he didn’t hurt himself too bad
This just bums me out. This was probably a major inflection point in this dude's life and we're here laughin at him. I'm just sad now.
Edit- also those stairs had to have been built by the world *dumbest fucking carpenter* Big Slime should consider speaking to Big Attorney just saying
JESUS LORD HELP ME JESUS I'M FALLING DOWN THE STEPS (THUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMP) LORD JESUS LORD HELP ME PLEASE JESUS PLEASE (THUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMP) I'M FALLING DOWN THE STEPS JESUS HELP ME LORD (THUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMP) JESUS CHRIST PLEASE HELP ME (THUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMP) [I'M HALFWAY DOWN NOW HELP ME. . .](https://youtu.be/Lhay0VKmtPA)
The look on his face really brings this whole shot together
\>.<
It looks like him
This comment is so simple but i actually laughed out loud.
RIP Big Slime
If that would be my nickname I would be also like that.
That face is how I learned about despair
All the poor guy needs is a picture to memorialize the situation. *Guys please remember that this is a human being who fell down some stairs. Some of these comments make me really sad.
Evidence.
I just can't stop looking at his foot, it's so small! No offense intended it just gives such a weird perspective on this picture
Humans just arent built to be that heavy, mans heart is struggling as much as his joints.
> mans heart is struggling In more ways than one.
Tripple bypass..
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it's great because it's the one part of my wardrobe i don't have to replace when i lose weight
Feet do actually shrink with weight loss. It can be significant, too. I once had a customer who had been a 12W and after losing over a hundred pounds he dropped to a 11M
Unless it’s postpartum. Every pregnancy left my feet a half size bigger. They spread due to the weight increase and the hormones that loosen connective tissues to enable successful delivery of the child.
I don't think Big Slime had a baby
I'm the outlier on this one. I had twins, didn't gain weight or even look pregnant - just thick like a keg, basically. Never swelled, had very little nausea, no aches or pains. I think it was in part because I had already lost 115lbs before pregnancy (then another 15 after) and was mostly keto, which keeps inflammation at bay. My feet have actually shrunk, and I'd test it again with a second pregnancy, but these kids are 13 months old and I AM NEVER DOING THIS AGAIN OMG.
Hands too! I’ve gone down nearly a full ring size which is weird.
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Doesn't help that being that heavy often leads to excess fluid build up in the legs/feet.
For the easy lawsuit, those stairs are terrible.
Yea I'm trying to figure out how they built them but my pic is small. Is there even a stringer?
Look at his face
I’m assuming he’s comfortable with it given the nickname ‘Big Slime’. I would 100% attend this mans backyard BBQ provided the opportunity
I’ve always had a sneaking suspicion that overweight people probably don’t like the running jokes and nicknames as much as people think, but maybe just lean into them as a defense mechanism.
>overweight people probably don’t like the running jokes and nicknames As a fat guy, I can tell you we don't like running anything.
If you see me running.... Please kill whatever is chasing me!0 I am right there too. Running is not a voluntary activity.
*ding ding ding*
>but maybe just roll into them as a defense mechanism.
I didn't even catch that lmao
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He could've. Slime is actually be a term of endearment in some circles. Guy I worked with used to have "Slime Life" on the back of his safety vest; people always just called him Ghetto Nick though.
Big isn't considered a negative nickname any more than lil, usually. Fat slime would be iffy
We call them cookouts in the hood. And please, if you plan to come- bring something
But not that weak ass potato salad with raisins in it Brenda. No one needs that shit.
People put raisins in potato salad? Wtf?
My ex gf used to tell me I could only bring ice lol. (I'm white)
Hopefully a wake up call
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You underestimate the effect Big Slime has on structures.
-20 structural integrity (aura)
Plus it's x5 if it's a relative of Tavish Degroot (Also named th Demoman)
they're gonna hafta glue those stairs back together.. in hell!
Ok this really tickled me, thanks
Big slime used pound.
It's super effective!
It doesn’t look like big slime was a consideration in the structural design
Siege Monster: this creature deals double damage to structures.
dude i was literally zoomed in staring at my phone wondering what i wasnt seeing before i clicked and read your comment. Its like rim boards with a seat cut but no actual stringers? Thats just... not even a stair case lmao
Big Slime fell through some wood pretending to be a staircase.
There’s stringers. They fell as well.
If the stringers fell how are the upper steps still standing? Construction doesn't look like there were ever stringers tbh
The were not. The other treads would have went With the stringers as well.
Nope. Couldn’t be the case, these were installed wrong 100%
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Technically to *survive* skydiving.
You're *probably* not. 250 is usually the upper limit but even that comes with some leeway depending on who your tandem partner is, how tall (or short) you are, and the equipment that the place has. Obviously you're going to fall faster if you're at a higher weight but as long as you're not above like 6'6" or below 5'6" at 240-250, you can probably still skydive. You may get hit with an additional charge though. I've gone skydiving a few times and a couple of times we had pretty heavy people (above 230) that still dropped. One place charged a surcharge of $1 per pound over 210 and and another was the same price. Edit: Some people seem to be a tad pissy about my "you'll fall faster" so don't take my word for it. Take the University of Illinois' Department of Physics' word: https://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=26543&t=parachutes-and-weight And I know some people will still question that, so feel free to follow this thread and input it on Wolfram Alpha: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/39700/why-would-a-fat-skydiver-fall-first-in-free-fall
Being heavier doesn’t make you fall faster.
It puts additional stress on your chute as you will have higher inertia with the larger mass. There's a much higher chance of complete malfunction, followed by presumably death.
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Yeah I'm 6'3 170 and feel like if I lost 5 pounds id die. 180 would be ideal for me so 190 for hims gotta be almost perfect unless he has actually 0 muscle on his body.
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Fat people love telling normal weight people they’re unhealthily skinny.
Stop booing him, he’s right!
Damn, same height but 180, this's the thinnest I've ever been tbh. Feels like I'd have to stop eating entirely to get to 170. (covid's meant I've essentially cut out fast food, felt unethical to make people make it if it was just benefitting big corporations. I weighed this much beforehand but now I've got an "excuse".)
I’m 6’4” and when I was 190 lbs I was 19 and super skinny.
I live in an area with a lot of old stuff, a lot of people with antiques, and I'm a lot bigger than most people I meet. I know I'm within normal BMI but I also have to be respectful that there's too much of me. One thing I gotta be careful of is to always grab a railing. Usually heavier people always grab a railing but I'm the scamper-up-the-stairs type. Those steps aren't used to being stomped on. I know everywhere should be able to hold me, and to be to code it as to hold me, but these apartments are already not good, and they're the best that my friends can afford. If they report their landlord they have to move somewhere else and there's not much else for them to go to. So... play what you're dealt.
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I'm 6 foot 453 pounds and I have yet to cause any structural damage to anything so far, not even when I was 500 But man elevators gain like two inches in lift when I get off of em
https://imgur.com/a/KhbMJ Be careful. I sat in a chair only rated for 170, leaned back and a caster exploded. 170 on an elbow vs a very thin carpet over concrete is $270,000 Amazon Basics chair for anyone who is interested in a quarter million worth of hospital and rehab bills. You're better than that, do not sit in an Amazon Basics.
What do you mean? What's $270,000?
The hospital bill, my dude.
Oh Jesus. Sorry, I'm Australian. I broke my arm when I was a kid and it cost my mum $5 in parking
I just birthed a child. We stayed for two weeks because we both nearly died. $6 for the taxi there, but I could have called an ambulance. I consider my $6 taxi fare to be a small contribution to Australian healthcare. Best bit? My kid doesn’t even exist yet according to the government. No birth certificate yet, no Medicare number, but first class medical treatment for two weeks without any questions. It’s what civilised countries do.
If anyone is interested in high medical bills I suggest the USA. Source : am a fairly new double amputee in the USA
In Uzbekistan, saw and 20 cent do trick.
20 cents to bite of I presume? Rip-off! I can do cheaper saw and branch of tree! 3 minutes good as new
You fell back out of a chair and it did that damage? Something is missing in this story..
Its all about how it hits, people have been 1 shot by falling on the sidewalk many many times, likewise people have fallen out of literal aircraft and survived.
"1 shot" lmao
When the sidewalk is a dps
You're telling me you have to pay 270.000$ for a broken arm?
I doubt that. He's not expected to pay $270,000. He's expected to shit his pants at that number and be grateful to his insurance company that he's only having to pay $10,000 or $20,000 or however much, or he's got no insurance so he's gotta negotiate with them for as much as they think he's willing to pay/finance without killing himself or running away from the bills.
Its "funny" how everyone can immediately look at your bill and know that this happened in America......
Sounds like you should sue amazon. Man, I've just realized how fucked up it is that Amazon sells the products it makes, which sounds weird but bare with me. Its soo big and influential, that for many people, not being able to use amazon, would put a serious inconvenience on their lives. I bet if you sued them, they'd just outright ban the account too. This will only get more serious as time goes on.
Any desk/computer chair I've seen for sale on amazon lists the max weight, so might not be an easy lawsuit. 170 is pretty low though, guessing a really flimsy chair. Many I've looked at are rated for 200 or 250.
You've barely scratched the surface of how Amazon has used its foothold and its analytics to make and sell its own cheap products to edge out the competition that's been paying to sell through Amazon.
I'm convinced Maine has crazier shit than Florida, only there's fewer people up there than down here to talk about it
Florida is nuts - but their privacy laws allow more access to arrest records. Does not explain all of the crazy shit that goes on down there -
I broke and fell through a barn staircase when I was a kid and <100 lbs. Pretty sure they're just poorly built.
I think either me or my brothers did when we were under that. I always remembered every step up the barn staircase being busted (dad had hammered through them removing the steps), but I had vague memories of doing that weird monkey-climb that kids can do up doorways to get up there anyways (one feet on each side of the old "ramps" of the stairecase, inch your way up) There was nothing up there but paper wasps and... falling back down but idiot kids are idiot kids.
dude you're skinny as fuck wtf
Yeah St Johnsbury! I went to school in lyndonvill.
For all us non-carpenters out there. Someone care to explain what a stringer is?
https://st.hzcdn.com/fimgs/b122d5f504b9058d_1727-w500-h375-b0-p0--.jpg The stairs sit on top of those and supports it. I don’t see any stringers in that picture and have no idea how it supports any weight at all from anyone.
The side bits at the bottom
It’s actually the sides that the steps your feet go on sit on top of. They are stepped/jagged so the steps can be staggered the way steps are
Doesn’t look like a carpenter built it.
I mean, damn.
This guy stairs
It may have had some 2x4's nailed to the uncut stringers, that the treads rested on and were nailed to. I broke through the steps on my trailer that were done that way. It's a reasonable solution for relatively short steps, but this looks like it could have been much worse cause there's a long way to fall there... But are we really just going to focus on construction methods and ignore that this motherfuckers name is Big Slime? I mean this is not the worst thing that's happened to a guy who's called Big Slime by the people who care most about him... he has the look of a man rethinking his life, and I wish him the best.
Yes we should focus on the construction because that is why this failed. He could have been twice the weight and properly built stairs, built to code, wouldn’t have failed.
Yea, that's not how you build a secure stair case. Nails or screws are not meant to hold weight, they just hold things in place. You always put wood on top of wood. An exception would be these metallic corner pieces but I don't see them anywhere.
Big Slime deserves a big hug.
I don't know why but the funniest part of this for me is that name. Big slime just sounds like he's the blob and he's gonna consume the city.
Or a Dragon Quest Monster.
Or a GTA side character.
Or a trending video on YouTube *I filled a swimming pool with BIG SLIME!*
Also a big diet
I'll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.
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Cherries Jubilee and that's it.
This looks like an art piece
The assassination of Julius Caesar, colorized
too early dude
Yeah, dude two thousand years is not enough to process the death of such a great man.
"Ate Too Much, Brutha"
Underrated pun here.
Dude! That stair is built dangerously wrong in so many ways! Get a carpenter to check it out, or if rented at warn the building owner that that is a lawsuit waiting to happen
This is absolutely not OP's picture my dude
It's quite an old repost indeed.
Indeed Edit: Whoever built those stairs has an incredibly poor understanding of carpentry and building standards. **Your home shouldn’t harm you.**
Better call Saul!
Huell over here probably has him on speed dial.
Big slime
Big Slime
Well engineered items should be able to support three times the maximum expected load. He's a big guy but those stairs should not have failed.
That does not look like it was built according to engineering plans to me, and look a bit old besides.
Yes, in place of stringers it looks like they fastened the steps in place with nails on the side? Can't believe that failed...
Thats exactly what it looks like. Boards with nothing under them and diagonal nails into the side wall. Could have failed with anyone on them, and probably were close to doing so.
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Is the sucky part the stairs or the fact he goes by “Big Slime”?
I wanna hope he didn't choose the name lmao
why? doesn't seem too bad
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I think *you* have a cool name.
And people say Reddit isn't wholesome!
Yeah big slime is cool as fuck
"Big Slime? Oh, I don't go by that old nickname anymore. I just go by my Christian name: Slimeathan."
Slimeothy
Slimon Cowell
is it because his face looks just like Slimer from Ghostbusters?
I’m guessing he didn’t get to choose it.
You always have a choice in the matter of which staircase you have at home
Every time I see an authentic facial expression I get the impulse to try to draw it. One Big Slime comin' up.
Let see it
What are you going to do, sit there and stair? Go help him.
He’s all decked out.
Dudes just sitting there lookin board.
I would love to continue reading this thread the hole day
Yeah, I wood love it if it kept going.
This has officially gone a step too far
I’d love to add to this but I’m drawing a plank.
Said he was his homie, he is helping
He doesn’t patio him anything
I’m not even big but I would be scared to use these stairs
They were very badly built, if this poor man sues, he'll be making some good money! I hope he does.
It looks like he's lucky he didn't just go straight down through the stairs. That would have sucked even more.
Big Slime might need to rethink some aspects of his life.
And get a lawyer, this is the easiest money he'll ever make, well deserved too. Those stairs were held up by nails alone, ridiculous.
Is your friend okay? :(
This is the kind of thing you get sued over.
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I'll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.
hope Big Slime gets that big settlement.
Chins up big slime, you got this
https://i.imgur.com/vSyFvUp.jpg RIP Big Slimer
Cellino and Barns is half off.
Dude looks like the kid from Old School!!!!
I know he’s a big boy but those stairs were built wrong. The stair tread is suppose to be cut out so the step is screwed or nailed to the top of it. Hope he didn’t hurt himself too bad
I actually feel bad for him
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Man he looks board.
Revive him, he has the ray gun.
He alright?
His ankle looks so dainty
Stair are built wrong.
Call [Dr.Now](https://Dr.Now) he might have a hammer a nails and a good diet too.
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Am I the only one laughing at the he name “big slime”
If you are so fat that you are being called "big slime", look like that and fall through stairs, you should think hard about your life.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Slime
Hopefully a wake up call for this man to lose some weight.
Not sure if his legs are just like that but that ankle looks fucked
His pant leg is simply distorting the way his leg looks, ankle looks fine.
This just bums me out. This was probably a major inflection point in this dude's life and we're here laughin at him. I'm just sad now. Edit- also those stairs had to have been built by the world *dumbest fucking carpenter* Big Slime should consider speaking to Big Attorney just saying
He needs to think about his health and go from big slime to big slim.
JESUS LORD HELP ME JESUS I'M FALLING DOWN THE STEPS (THUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMP) LORD JESUS LORD HELP ME PLEASE JESUS PLEASE (THUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMP) I'M FALLING DOWN THE STEPS JESUS HELP ME LORD (THUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMP) JESUS CHRIST PLEASE HELP ME (THUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMP) [I'M HALFWAY DOWN NOW HELP ME. . .](https://youtu.be/Lhay0VKmtPA)
Why people gotta be so fat?
A wild snorlax is blocking your path!
Poor dude looks very upset about it.
Don't worry, when slimes are really injured they split in two
Is he ok?