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Arm Wrestling Machine Recalled for Breaking Arms

Posted by samzenpus on from the step-right-up-and-lose-a-limb dept.

Lucas123 writes "After three players broke their arms while wrestling with a Japanese arcade machine, the manufacturer promised to remove all 150 of the mechanized appendages. Said game maker Atlus' spokeswoman: "The machine isn't that strong, much less so than a muscular man. Even women should be able to beat it.""

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  1. Re:Are you out of your mind? by fractoid · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    +1, Pure Awesome

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  2. Re:"Even women should be able to beat it" by Forge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The formula used to calculate BMI breaks down once the subject is very tall. The most breathtaking example was when someone punched in Michael Jordan's stats and was told he was overweight. Patrick Ewing (At 7'1" 350 Lbs) was listed as Obese.

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  3. Re:"Even women should be able to beat it" by fractoid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When I stopped working out, my BMI had me as clinically obese. I've got a fair bit more fat now, and don't look as good, but I'm back down to 'healthy'... time to hit the gym and get phat again! :P

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  4. Re:Strapped on? by alfs+boner · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Repeat after me, "I am not entitled to a large network of friends. No one should be forced to like me or associate with me. If I want to meet people and gain friends I will have to make myself more appealing to those people in some way."

    Now, continue repeating that until you stop being a jackass.

    I am a geek now, I have always been a geek. My definition of "Party" has always been slightly different that many other peoples. There was no shortage of social opportunity for me. I was just pickier about which ones I chose. There is NO REASON for the people I chose not to socialize with to have to allow me to participate in their group activities.

    Bah. Why am I even responding to you...

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  5. Re:Are you out of your mind? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    HOW CAN YOU SAY THIS!!!!

    What about Superman! He could kick any woman's ass! Haven't you read anything about him? Don't you know your country's history?

    Actually, the worst thing about this is that our current foreign policy IS actually run on Hollywood-type 'reality'. We are GOODIES, the rest of the world are BADDIES, and if you shoot the baddie you win the game and the film ends. That, more than anything else, is what is wrong with the Iraq war.

  6. Re:"Even women should be able to beat it" by dal20402 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You don't even have to be tall, just muscular.

    The BMI formula says that Ichiro Suzuki, at 5'9" and 172 lbs. is (marginally) overweight.

    (I'm also muscular, 5'9", and 180 pounds... but I'm afraid I'm not as vivid an example.)

  7. Re:"Even women should be able to beat it" by oliverthered · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You'd be surprised how 'fat' you have to be to be overweight, it's not actually that fat atall.
    You don't even have to be that fat to be obese.

    And being a little underweight is defiantly better for you than being a little overweight.

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  8. Re:"Even women should be able to beat it" by MPHellwig · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well that is not true, the best weight is when you feel the fittest, healthiest and have a proven good condition. Everything else is really unimportant.