The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for March 25, 2022

Do you like to win easy.

Add them up and take the average.

I’m surprised that the scale is still “working” after the first time Gladys steps on it!!!

/SHMIRK/

That’s also how she does her blood sugar testing.

If you subtract the lowest from the highest, then you can always say you’re losing weight.

I’d buy a more reliable scale.

Fast from liquids and food for 12 hours. Shower and dry off thoroughly. Weigh when the moon is overhead. Use the highest floor in the house. Doctors offices have higher gravity, so make sure you tell the nurse.

Why does she weigh herself when she is fighting?

Of course you do

Would she get a lower reading if she inhaled helium before stepping on the scale?

If it was a talking scale it would say: one at a time, please

It depends on what matters more. I’d be interested in trend, so using the lowest (consistently) is fine.

Weigh in the filled bathtub… displaced weight. Great weight. Soggy scales but they will dry.

Doesn’t matter if you lie to yourself anyway. “Dat’s what I always do and they never catch me.”

Obviously Brutus is sneaking up behind her and putting his foot on the scale while she weighs. Pay backs!

Oh, what a tangled web we weave – when we set out to deceive. Especially ourselves. Called lying.

sounds good to me… for me though, I just avoid the scale. :D

I have an electronic scale, and I don’t really believe it. I think the memory in it just displays the last numbers because I have tested it. I really don’t care but the old mechanical scales seemed more trustworthy. None of them ever matched the one at the Doctors office anyway and that is the one that always got my late loving wife and I in trouble.

Take the average weight, since it probably sees you coming you old battle axe.

My doctors usually test my BP the same way. Somewhere there is low number in there. You just have to know how and where to look. Like not taking the BP reading after the weigh in. They never get that right.

I’m convinced there is no such thing as an accurate bathroom scale. I tend to have one that consistently provides me with a morale building lie.

“Girl talk!”

Duh

As do I…..

Seems reasonable. Everyone knows scales usually show a little extra because the working mechanisms are usually stuck.

With many modern piezoelectric scales, the first time you step on the scale, it just wakes it up and the reading is not calibrated. The zero calibration occurs after you step off the scale, so you have to step on for a second time to get a calibrated weight. The first display can be five to ten pounds off your real weight. If you just want a comforting number, write it down on a piece of paper and cover the display with it.

I find that additional readings become slightly lower as I remove items of clothing, one at a time, in hopes that one sock will be found to have added an extra half-pound. :)

our scale worked just fine the last time i used it and that’s why it was put away in a closet somewhere…