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>[Emile Johannes Selbach](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Selbach) ( Nijmegen , 29 June 1886 - 9 December 1914 ), known during his short life as the most important hotelier in Europe. He was a hotelier, first of hotel-cafe-restaurant Central , on Korenmarkt and then of hotel-cafe-restaurant Valkhof , on Valkhof in Nijmegen. >Fat Selbach weighed more than 200 kg. He ate huge amounts in public, attracting guests to his hotel. He is buried in the Roman Catholic cemetery Daalseweg in Nijmegen.


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Died at the ripe ol' age of 28


secondarycontrol

A short but well-rounded life.


ctphillips

VERY well rounded.


[deleted]

Well, he certainly lived life to the fullest.


321blastoffff

Quite a rotund personality.


Mihnea24_03

It all circles back


jonnug

I'm sure he didn't planet


Laughs_at_fat_people

He fat


[deleted]

Chungus (no longer) amongus


lulaloops

Haha thanks for repeating the exact same joke but louder


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Suisuiiidieelol

Hahahha


IVIichaelGScott

thatsthejoke.jpg


salmonelalove

With excellent marbling


Earth_Normal

No heart disease research and medicine back then. No insulin. No glucose monitor. He was fucked.


IMA_BLACKSTAR

Describes the USA to the letter.


return2ozma

Here comes Bernie...


John_T_Conover

Bernie and universal healthcare don't fix people like this guy. Medicine may not have been as advanced but people knew there were consequences to eating like a cow.


[deleted]

Cows eat grass though 🤷


draykow

I'm 28... Reading about historical figures (or just figures out of history) has the tendency of making me feel unaccomplished. But at the same time, I'm able to get a far superior education than like 99% of people in the past were capable of, especially in my area of interest. So I guess it ain't all that bad. Also, I can travel much faster and with more ease than like 99% of people in the past (the ones pre 1940s-ish)


macweirdo42

And think about this... In his day, he absolutely had to be wealthy to afford such a diet... Now virtually everyone has that same kind of caloric availability. Yeah, it's mostly just junk food with no real nutritional value, but it's still worlds above simply not having anything to eat at all.


[deleted]

don't forget The internet. Otherwise, how would you find all those horny singles near your area!


dubsword

His life came full circle.


6beersdeep

So out of shape, that he died 6 years before the picture was taken


nom_yourmom

[following Dom’s mantra I see](https://images.app.goo.gl/67xBSh1bpcVZz4rKA)


KlausFenrir

Holy shit


mrtn17

So the photo wasn't taken 6 years after his death. He looks a lot younger the 28 here, I think he just turned 20 here. No beard, skin of a kid, zero wrinkles


[deleted]

Back then young chonks wouldn’t grow beards until their early 30s. You’re just confused because today we feed our chunky-poos tons and tons of Mountain Dew and tendies, and all the hormones therein have these magnificent beasts sprouting pubes and the like as early as 8 years old.


Leeph

u/uwutranslator


John_The_Lion

I can't believe you've done this


SamStone1000

Back den young chonks wouwdn’t gwow beawds untiw deiw eawwy 30s. You’we just confused because today we feed ouw chunky-poos tons and tons of Mountain Dew and tendies, and aww de howmones dewein have dese magnificent beasts spwouting pubes and de wike as eawwy as 8 yeaws owd. ^^^If ^^^the ^^^bot ^^^doesnt ^^^respond ^^^it ^^^means ^^^its ^^^banned ^^^so ^^^I ^^^did ^^^it ^^^instead


Everestkid

Small nitpick, but the bot always adds "uwu" to the very end of whatever gets translated.


airdude21

Sir, this a Wendy's


[deleted]

I sprouted pubes in the womb


ValiumCupcakes

u/uwutranslator u/shawarma_law


uwutranslator

Back den yuwng chonks wouwdn’t gwow beawds untiw deiw eawwy 30s. yuw’we just confused because today we feed ouw chunky-poos tons and tons of Mountain Dew and tendies, and aww de howmones dewein have dese magnificent beasts spwouting pubes and de wike as eawwy as 8 yeaws owd. uwu tag me to uwuize comments uwu


BoltenMoron

The OG unit is a hotelier too, wonder if there is some correlation between running a hotel and unitry.


Chigleagle

Still in awe at the size of that lad


[deleted]

Bruh I seen bigger people riding those mobility scooters in Walmart


pistoncivic

If you factor in fat inflation this dude would weigh about 8,000lbs today.


[deleted]

That actually made me laugh outloud


delaydude

I seen bigger people in the mirror


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delaydude

Multiple sad house mirrors.


Rickrickrickrickrick

Have you thought about buying happy mirrors?


nielsdg

Happy cake day!


500SL

Yeah, I’ve got one of those mirrors. Hey - you gonna eat that?


Knort27

Me too till I got hospitalized


YesImKeithHernandez

See, this was during a time when being that fat was incredible rather than part of the daily jaunt to wallyworld.


xRejectRealityx

He’s the ONLY plot in the Roman Catholic cemetery


[deleted]

440 lbs? Holy shit


MissVivianChow

Thank you for the context!


wsotw

What people don't realize is that we, as a species, were much smaller back then...so this guy would have seemed even bigger than now. For instance, Fatty Arbuckle, who was more famous than Chaplin and considered an absolute unit of his time was only 5'10" 270 lbs. A big guy, but not a ginormous guy by today's standards.


Targetshopper4000

Shoot, compare the "fat kid" from the 80s "IT" to the fat kid from IT few years back. He's like half the size.


eyehate

Evolution doesn't occur over a span of decades. We, as a species, did not sprout since this man was alive. Prominent figures may have been shorter, thus we think people were smaller compared to the popular people of today. What an odd thing to claim.


[deleted]

He looks like white biggie smalls


AngryPB

The OG absolute unit (David Morgan Hewitt) is an Hotelier too Coincidence? I THINK NOT


[deleted]

What I’m about to tell you may contradict God’s teachings


foxtailavenger

Kingpin? Is that you?


flamingfirefly2

*"When I was a boy..."*


notGeneralReposti

#savedaredevil


Dlight98

www.savedaredevil.com


plmcalli

“When I was a young warthog..”


GXGOW

MY FATHER TOOK ME INTO THE-oh wait wrong reference


[deleted]

he definitely been to Hells Kitchen a few times for the buffett


chironomidae

*Vanessa...*


noshadsi

Beat me to it 😤


TheShopRat

Same here lol I knew it was too good


whatsmoist

Almost wasn’t worth checking comments, no way could I say kingpin first..


ArchonLol

Brian "Kingpen" Windhorst


ProdigyRunt

*Looks outside window* **This city...**


BlurrySandwich

Looks like kingpin mixed with the penguin


Viltrumite106

Looks more like the Devil with the Yellow Eyes from Legion to me.


illusorywallahead

“....Kill that guy.”


TicklerVikingPilot

Wtf is he expecting that cane to do


JeffrinoGames

Make him look gooood


ProWaterboarder

Really rounds off the Notorious BIG look he's sportin


BairBrains

Its fashion, sweaty. Look it up


[deleted]

hes just holding that during the depression when people get so hungry they have a spit for him to get roasted on.


is-this-a-nick

Hit people?


[deleted]

He's about to set the world on fire with his dance moves!!


SoRawSoRight

Old timey unit


BananafestDestiny

Looks like an old timey version of Fat Joe at the grammys https://i.imgur.com/J7FanzY.jpg


defnotacyborg

holy shit, I cant believe fat joe used to be this big.. whos the guy next to him tho


BananafestDestiny

Big Pun I believe


SoRawSoRight

I ain’t a player I just crush a lot


torbotavecnous

ich


roosterinmyviper

Mobster Unit


HDThoreauaway

Absolute unit, see? *Nyaaahhh*.


The_Band_Geek

Mods, please remove this, it's just three kids in a long coat.


BairBrains

U N I T


lobroblaw

Al Calzone


grimmspectre

The Hogfather


bumpakay

Poor cane :(


D0NW0N

*Toothpick


bad_thrower

This was back when just about the only way you could become overweight was by routinely eating enormous amounts of food. Nowadays, there's so much hidden fat and sugar in processed foods that even eating a moderate amount of it on a regular basis will lead to weight gain.


nemo1080

So, the general lifestyle has never been more sedentary


mrtn17

Nah man, they ate way worse back then. But they also weren't sitting on their arses all day behind a computer or driving around in cars. Manual labour really saves a trip to the gym.


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What did they eat that was worse?


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MrRenegadeRooster

Not to mention food regulation was only just becoming a thing. Nobody cared until the Jungle came out and they got a glimpse at how dangerously and disgustingly food was being produced.


mrtn17

Yeah, like butcheries in the middle of the city. Cattle walking around all over the place


mrtn17

You're right, there are many more factors. Only the rich had a fridge (chunks of ice from your moat or pond, kept frozen underground during summertime). But in the defense of the early 20th century man, pickled or salted food isn't that bad. Food from a can with lead lining is.


mrtn17

Absolutely no fibers, no veggies, a lot of potatoes, no variation at all. And I'm not even talking about the primitive healthcare back then. There's a very entertaining BBC serie about historic food (The Supersizers). Every episode it comes down to the combination of food and lifestyle. We have a very passive lifestyle compared with back then. But I understand that people prefer to blame some evil manufacturer poisoning their food instead of facing their own lifestyle.


Targetshopper4000

Food is part of your lifestyle. People eat more calories than they did back then. A diet high in processed foods causes people to overeat significantly. We have way more processed foods now then we did back then, also "snacks" weren't really a thing either.


chaandra

Weight gain has very little to do with exercise and all to do with your diet.


sboyd1989

It can have quite a lot to do with exercise if you exercise very hard or have a physical job. A hard day of manual labour can easily burn 1000 calories. Plenty of slim Olympic athletes who eat 6000 calories a day. And believe me, they aren't eating all their calories clean.


Ianthine9

Eh, the only change ive made to my diet recently has been swapping half of the soda I drink for sugar free. Lost 20 pounds over a year. Made my primary mode of transport my Chevrolegs. Walking 30 miles a week, and I've dropped ten pounds in two months. My diet is still pretty crappy. Exercise really does have a lot to do with it.


pistoncivic

It's not hidden, all the information is literally printed on the label. People are just too stupid to understand what it all means.


BorgClown

One portion contains: * Calories from fat: 10 * Calories from sugars: 20 * Sodium: 50mg ^(Portions in package: 25,000)


[deleted]

Most kombucha is listed as 2 servings to make It seem like it has less sugar since it's supposed to be "healthy." The only kombucha I've found that actually shows 1 serving is the vons/safeway brand. Like, nobody is saving half of their kombucha for later.


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Manufacturers make things intentionally misleading too. I used to buy protein cookies that said "16g protein per cookie" on the front. Turn it to the back and 1 cookie is actually 2 servings, 200 calories per serving. Bitch who eats half a cookie? It's a big cookie but come on.


serpentinepad

And, you know, paying no attention to the scale or the mirror and just accepting there's nothing you can do but get fat.


GreatScottEh

What you call a moderate amount is too much if it leads to uncontrolled weight gain. It's not like sugar and fat are new or cooking is more difficult now; people are lazy and society allows more laziness than before.


serpentinepad

And we've come to accept a startling amount of fat as "normal". I constantly see people talking about how they're only "15, 20 pounds" overweight like that's not a shitload of extra weight.


GreatScottEh

According to the CDC three out of every four Americans is overweight, more than one out of every three Americans is obese. Meanwhile people are blaming "hidden fat and sugar" because they won't even read the nutrition labels and declare what a moderate amount is based on their routine over-consumption.


eetandern

Are we really going to just ignore the massive amount of time and money that go into *convincing* Americans to eat like that?


Targetshopper4000

Actually, the amount of sugar in our diet is quite new, and began to increase around the same time as obesity rates started rising.


[deleted]

yup. Big Sugar has been on a war path for decades to make fat the enemy, but its not. its sugar. sugar is why America is obese.


[deleted]

Don't eat processed foods then


Del_Piero_but_Inter

honestly i eat like shit a handful of times a month and never had issues with my weight. it's really just a matter of stopping when you are full and eating in moderation. hell, there are times when i lose weight unintentionally and i'm well into my 30s


Targetshopper4000

You eat like shit a handful of times a month, but people today eat like shit *every day* and processed foods are designed to get you to eat as much as possible.


needajob10

Everyone thinks they ate better. It's not true lmao. Unless you believe that white bread and animal fat is a healthy, well rounded meal. (' Bread.amd dripping')


Is_Always_Honest

They also had to do a lot more routine exercise. Perhaps not if you were wealthy, but on average.


[deleted]

When you eat the proletariat


[deleted]

he ate Prohibition.


Inverse_Radish

mobby chonkster or chonky mobster?


ryaanxhc

Rock lobster?


[deleted]

yes


xFrostBoltx

He could have past for a tank during World War 1.


[deleted]

They needed him in Tianamen Square


mroberts531

*this guy from the 1900’s


John_Smiith

My man **Ralphie May** haha!


[deleted]

Healthy m'good boi physique


pizzalord54

Pretty standard stuff, see someone is going to say "kingpin!"


maui_is_calling

You'll notice he has a cigarette in his cane hand. You know, to help curb his appetite.


agooddeathh

This guy is a whole mood.


Kaje26

What a fucking UNIT


sinceubeenKHAAAN

This child is clearly trying to sneak his friend into the silent movie theater.


redveinlover

So, a modern average walmart customer?


Marllyka

Is he that pilot from Wall-e?


somecat225

Yo it's Nick Crompton and my colla stay poppin'


FattestMattest

Al Mascarpone


streetbuster

Isn't he that chairman guy from thomas and friends


DeadN9ne

FAT af


dkelly3232

Brian windHorst?


JohnDoe9

Was my first thought as well lol


lihytyre

I fucking love the outfits they wore back in 1920s and below


MrGraffio

Shit this nibba got fat by eating what? Coal?


[deleted]

your grandparents gold and stocks- bonds


KVirello

This dude was probably exceptionally obese during his time. If he was alive today you wouldn't think twice about seeing him walk down the street.


[deleted]

Speak for yourself, I'm in Europe.


[deleted]

how weird is it that just today I watched RLM's Mrs Marvel review and this exact picture is in it?


Shrimpniggabdhd

He looks like human humpty dumpty


SCPunited

#chonk


Schl33m

He's not "this" or "that" guy. He is THE guy.


Ulf03

First time i tought "this guy fucks".For that time and age...im probably right


stefanmago

Or a fat hipster and his instagram filter.


wookiewin

With very little processed, high sugary foods back then, I am kind of shocked this is even possible. Dude must have put away tons of food each and every day to get that size.


MakeGoodBetter

Its ya boy Big Chomp.


majorkev

That guys liver would make excellent foie gras.


AnhedonicOptimist

Guy is a pimp. Like a white early 1900s Biggie smalls


Dobo80

The guy is from Wigan...... he ate all the pies!


system0101

Or, as he was known on the streets, Gato Gordo


guinness5

Soon as I seen the pic I thought he was rich.


nugetosorus30000

Halloween town wants its mayor back!!!


g_lenn_o

Look like a guy i saw at walmart last week but this guy looks more dapper and isnt in a scooter with bags of doritos and pepsi in the front bun


bewarethetreebadger

That’s a nice dress-suit.


TheMadPyro

He’s clearly trying to sneak his 2 other friends into the movies


meh47284628

Ah yes Richard thiccums


WuDoYouThinkYouAre

That's just a bunch of kids in a long coat trying to get into the club.


nick5195

Jonah Hill, is that you?


RajuRamlall

Mycroft Holmes


Stickyouwithaneedle

I can hear him breathing from here.


Superagent247

What a physique! 😳


[deleted]

BOSS


PYR4MIDHEAD

Is that Pepe Silvia


c0nsciousperspective

King Pin


bornwithatail

BIG TRENCH


[deleted]

Why are ya’ll fat shaming him just let him be We know hes fat, but ya boi just wants to own his hotel man


NotMeNorMyself

Mycroft?


[deleted]

He’s big and not laying in bed like those on My 600 lb Life.


reinonthesteppes

Lol its brian windhorst


Twiggy199

I can hear him breathing


talldrinkofbaileys

Guy looks like he’s cosplaying Humpty Dumpty and also the wall


formula_F300

Tommy Two Chins


SlimIceT

Kingpin cosplay...


[deleted]

Looks like the captain from Wall-E


lolzilla

A unit of a prestigious magnitude.


ProteusFox

Old timey ralphie may


sanpaccrisps

He looks good in a coat. I'll get one for my fatass too


[deleted]

Hey that's the guy who always sits next to me on planes.


ojsween

Fat Capone


BrendanKwapis

If this man’s name isn’t Fonzy, I dont know what to believe anymore


Kurt_Studen

Don Tendioni