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Posted by starsearcher on Mar-07-2005 19:54:

Fancy a turban?

Here's another one for the record books...

quote:
50-year-old Nihag Major Singh an Indian Sikh, wears a turban measuring 425 metres (465 yards) and weighing 32 kg (70 lbs) before praying at the holy Sikh Shrine of Sri Harmander Sahib in the northern Indian city of Amritsar March 5, 2005. Singh is attempting to make a Guinness World Record for having the longest turban. REUTERS/Munish Sharma

Posted by 4-play on Mar-07-2005 22:06:

OMG!!!!! 32 kgs balancing on you head!!! Now thats a task!

Posted by Jem_hadar on Mar-07-2005 22:41:

Man, id hate to be encumbered like that on my head...

i dont even like wearing hats!

Posted by fiya on Mar-07-2005 23:15:

probably hiding weapons in there

Posted by hardcore trancer on Mar-07-2005 23:23:

quote:
Originally posted by fiya
probably hiding weapons in there

yes and he is on his way to Washington.

Posted by dallastar on Mar-07-2005 23:30:

I would fancy anything BUT a 70 pound turban on my head!

can u say massive headaches and neck cramps

Posted by Jem_hadar on Mar-07-2005 23:47:

quote:
Originally posted by dallastar
I would fancy anything BUT a 70 pound turban on my head!

can u say massive headaches and neck cramps

Girls with large or exceptionally large breasts complain about how annoying they can be or the back problems they cause, which is often the case and very true

now can u imagine how much worse thats gotta be to have that kinda wait stuck on the top of ur head instead of in ur boobs on ur chest! 70 lbs. is ALOT

i gotta think that that much weight on ur head would be even harder on ur neck than that much wait on chest woudl be on ur back. and looking past the "neck cramp" issue, thats gotta restrict your head movement (or at least cause u to be more delibert and cautious when moving, turning, etc. your head)

but ive never worn one, so maybe you just get used to it and its really not a big deal at all...

ps. anyone know how much teh wieght of hte avg. turban is ? how much heavier is this one to the average one

Posted by Goashem on Mar-08-2005 00:07:

damn how do you walk into a room, or under a tree branch, or a flying aircraft?

Posted by dallastar on Mar-08-2005 00:09:

well I must agree

hmmmmm.........Big breasts on a woman would NEVER amount to 70 pounds - just to let you know!! At most 15 pounds. Beleive me, I KNOW!!!

Also if you have huge breasts, that make you uncomfortable there is a way for Ontario's Health Care system to pay for an breast reduction.
so women don't have to live in PAIN!

I would guess that a normal Turban's weight woudln't amount to more then 5 pounds. This is a giant sized Turban shown, I think for a laugh! But I am not certain on the normal weight of a Turban, a) i don't really care and B) I am not apart of the Mahommedan race...

the weight of a turban - google it!
This is what I found when I googled it!!!

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ARTICLE FOUND ON TURBANS
TURBAN, the name of a particular form of head-dress worn by men of Mahommedan races. The earlier forms of the word in English are turbant, turband, and tolibanl or lulipant, the latter showing that variant of the original which survives in the name of the flower, the tulip. All these forms represent the French adaptation of the Turkish tulbend, a vulgarism for dulbend, from Persian didband, a sash or scarf wound round the head. The Moslem turban is essentially a scarf of silk, fine linen, cotton or other material folded round the head, sometimes, as in Egypt, round the tarbush or close-fitting felt cap; sometimes, as in Afghanistan, round a conical cap; or, as among certain races in India, round the skull-cap or kuttah. Races, professions, degrees of rank, and the like vary in the style of turban worn; distinctions being made in size, methods of folding, and color and the like (see INDIA: Costume). At the end of the 18th and beginning of the igth century, a species of headdress somewhat resembling the true turban in outward form was worn by ladies of western nations, chiefly for use indoors.

also found this!!!

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Purple Turban of Brilliance
Ac: 0
Armour: 1
Weight: 0.500 kg
Material: cloth
Magic: Intelligence +2
Shimmering Turban of Heaven
Ac: 2
Armour: 5
Weight: 0.5
Material: cloth
Magic: Constitution +2, Charisma +2, Xray Vision
Protected: resist fire +30, resist electricity +30, resist cold +30
Vulnerable: resist weaponmagic -20
Turban
Ac: 0
Armour: 1
Weight: 0.5

Posted by Surreal JRS on Mar-08-2005 01:09:

Jebus 32 kg! Someone is going to need a chiropractor soon!

Posted by dallastar on Mar-08-2005 01:10:

quote:
Originally posted by SurrJRS
Jebus 32 kg! Someone is going to need a chiropractor soon!

that's exactly what i was thinkin'

Posted by nycionx on Mar-08-2005 01:20:

thats impossible. how can u balance something on ur head thats almost as tall as the CN tower? its bullshit

Posted by DJ_Elyot on Mar-08-2005 01:23:

Wow. That's crazy... I think 425m is almost as big as the tallest building in the world.

Posted by Jem_hadar on Mar-08-2005 01:34:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ_Elyot
Wow. That's crazy... I think 425m is almost as big as the tallest building in the world.

its bad that i cant really picture how tall that is in metres, but if u convert it to feet, i have a MUCH clearer idea

Same w/ height, i know we use the metric system over here, but still... i NEVER EVER think of myself in terms of cms or metres... When an aussie chick friend of mine told me how tall she was in cms (160 i beleive) i was like WTF... u honestly think of urself in those measurements. i was lost. it flabergasted me! LOL

i cant even begin to imagine the heights of ppl using metres. im all about the feet and inches baby

strange how i dont identify w/ that naturally since its our offical unit of measure!

Interesting note: weather tempure outside, i of course think of it in terms of degrees C only (if u told me a degrees F temp id natural try to figure out the degrees C conversion of it)... YET... when i think of temperaure of water, i think in degrees F...

so if u told me a pool was 20oC.. id unconciously in my head try to figure out whut that is converted into terms of degrees F and only then id understand how warm or cool the pool was!

Posted by Fir3start3r on Mar-08-2005 04:30:

Re: well I must agree

quote:
Originally posted by dallastar
Purple Turban of Brilliance
Ac: 0
Armour: 1
Weight: 0.500 kg
Material: cloth
Magic: Intelligence +2
Shimmering Turban of Heaven
Ac: 2
Armour: 5
Weight: 0.5
Material: cloth
Magic: Constitution +2, Charisma +2, Xray Vision
Protected: resist fire +30, resist electricity +30, resist cold +30
Vulnerable: resist weaponmagic -20
Turban
Ac: 0
Armour: 1
Weight: 0.5

So obviously he has the Gleaming Turban of Omnipotence...

seriously though.....DAAAAAAAAAMN....

Posted by DigiNut on Mar-08-2005 05:46:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ_Elyot
Wow. That's crazy... I think 425m is almost as big as the tallest building in the world.

No kidding eh... move over CN Tower, your rank has been usurped by a dude with a big-ass turban!

Posted by Surreal JRS on Mar-08-2005 09:45:

quote:
Originally posted by DigiNut
No kidding eh... move over CN Tower, your rank has been usurped by a dude with a big-ass turban!

I wonder if it has flashing beckons at the top so planes don't crash into it!