Odd Question

Adynata
Adynata Posts: 128 Member
edited September 28 in Chit-Chat
Okay, so I'm doing a Computer Animation degree, which requires me to often reference real life images for poses and the like. I google imaged 'woman squatting', and amongst all the usual porn style poses you'd expect with that kind of search, there seems to be a bucket load of women squatting on top of their bathroom scales. I've even noticed an advert on this site that features a woman squatting on her scales.

Um. Okay. Seriously, am I missing something here? Is this some kind of standard weighing technique? Because I've seen too many of these images for it to be some kind of weird coincidence.

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  • Heather75
    Heather75 Posts: 3,386 Member
    I stand on mine. You know. Like a normal person.
  • Adynata
    Adynata Posts: 128 Member
    I know, right? All these skinny women squatting on their scales have started to make me doubt, though. It's like some sort of conspiracy. Surely, this must be the answer to all my weight loss problems.
  • kr3851
    kr3851 Posts: 994 Member
    Maybe their legs are so weak they can't support themselves standing up. Or they get dizzy when their blood has to pump so far around their emaciated bodies, so they curl up to make it easier on the heart....
  • Kelly_Wilson1990
    Kelly_Wilson1990 Posts: 3,245 Member
    I have never squatted on a scale. That is funny. I have seen kids squat on a scale but never adults.
  • cessnaholly
    cessnaholly Posts: 780 Member
    I stand on mine. You know. Like a normal person.

    Funny - Maybe we are doing it wrong. Do you weigh less if you squat? HAHA
  • 1horsetown
    1horsetown Posts: 247 Member
    Maybe they are really REALLY near sighted and too vain to wear glasses?
  • ronda_gettinghealthy
    ronda_gettinghealthy Posts: 777 Member
    no idea why they do that- except if I dont have my glasses on I have to bend down a bit to see what it says---maybe they are all near sighted.
  • HolleeERL
    HolleeERL Posts: 313 Member
    Maybe their scales are equipped with a mirror. LOL! :o)
  • mlemonroe2
    mlemonroe2 Posts: 603
    Maybe their legs are so weak they can't support themselves standing up. Or they get dizzy when their blood has to pump so far around their emaciated bodies, so they curl up to make it easier on the heart....
    :laugh:
  • skinnylizzard
    skinnylizzard Posts: 460 Member
    Hahahahahaha!!!! This cracks me up!!! Maybe they are near sighted and can't read that far away! I have NEVER heard of squatting on a scale!!!
  • PegasusDeb
    PegasusDeb Posts: 665 Member
    I don't know about you, but I'm gonna give it a "squat" tomorrow morning! :happy: Hopefully it will make me a svelt size 6! ha ha ha
  • SkrillexFan
    SkrillexFan Posts: 42
    I feel so stupid for admitting to this but I squat on my scale...
    I don't havea digital scale and one of my eyes are stronger than the other and in addition to that the numbers on my scale are super tiny, so I have to crouch down really low to read the scale.
  • sarah44254
    sarah44254 Posts: 3,078 Member
    Maybe they are really REALLY near sighted and too vain to wear glasses?

    I've done the squatting thing! I am actually incredibly near sighted, and some mornings I am too lazy to put in my contacts, and my glasses are at the other end of the house. I don't want to get dressed THEN weigh, so I try (unsuccessfully) to squat-weigh. It ends up not giving a reading because I am wobbling or have to step off to read it anyway. It's not worth the trouble ... I just suck it up and take the 1 minute extra to put in my damn contacts :P
  • sarah44254
    sarah44254 Posts: 3,078 Member
    I feel so stupid for admitting to this but I squat on my scale...
    I don't havea digital scale and one of my eyes are stronger than the other and in addition to that the numbers on my scale are super tiny, so I have to crouch down really low to read the scale.

    Glad I'm not the only one who can't read that far off. It feels really really far away!!
  • jenellelastchance
    jenellelastchance Posts: 20
    bahbahbahbah this is so funny but now that you say it I know what you mean! Im so going to try it haha! wouldnt it be funny if I weighed like 10lbs less and we have just been missing out haha
  • Adynata
    Adynata Posts: 128 Member
    Fair enough for those that are actually genuinely short sighted. But I don't think that's the point of these images:

    http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=woman+squatting+scales&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1680&bih=925
  • FabOma08
    FabOma08 Posts: 500
    I know! I know! I know! They're trying to get in that last moment of exercise before weigh in!!! Just one more squat!!!!
  • Shutterpillar
    Shutterpillar Posts: 208
    looks like they are trying to ride it... hope it grows wheels and they can ride it like a skateboard.
  • LisaMarieee
    LisaMarieee Posts: 176 Member
    I stand on mine. You know. Like a normal person.
    :laugh:
  • epj78
    epj78 Posts: 643 Member
    Ok - that is odd. Although my 2 year old niece loves playing with my scale and she does squat down on it to look at the display. Maybe they just never grew out of that??/
  • Claible
    Claible Posts: 106 Member
    OK, I absolutely love all the funny reasons why this these pic's are out there. BTW I stand on mine like a normal person too. I would fall off if I tried to squat on the scale.

    I am fairly sure that the reason for the squat is to compose a better picture for the ad. It shows not only the women but what they are doing and why they are showing their emotion. A fully standing woman on a scale wouldn't portray this quite as well.
  • Adynata
    Adynata Posts: 128 Member
    Yes, probably true, though I still find it a little silly =P.
  • perceptualobfuscator
    perceptualobfuscator Posts: 159 Member
    I do if I lack glasses. Sadly, I have such poor eyesight that I can barely see the number even that way.

    I also will if there is very poor lighting or if I think a shadow is being cast. I like accuracy.

    But it doesn't really make that sense for most people to do that.
  • TS65
    TS65 Posts: 1,024 Member
    Oh good god. If I tried to squat like that I'd roll off backwards, hit my head on the toilet and knock myself unconscious. I think I'll just stand thanks!
  • chicpower1
    chicpower1 Posts: 169 Member
    Hmmmm........you know, in Korea that's how they use the potty. They squat. (toilets are holes in the ground). Are these American chics? Cultural difference perhaps?:noway:
  • kelika71
    kelika71 Posts: 778 Member
    Oh good god. If I tried to squat like that I'd roll off backwards, hit my head on the toilet and knock myself unconscious. I think I'll just stand thanks!

    LOL I was thinking this very same thing!!
  • NewVonnie
    NewVonnie Posts: 683 Member
    Oh good god. If I tried to squat like that I'd roll off backwards, hit my head on the toilet and knock myself unconscious. I think I'll just stand thanks!

    HAHA..I was just thinking the same thing..that would be a recipe for disaster for sure.
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