German bureaucracy: part 1 of lots

[neonbabelfish]

I think it says barrel loads about the German mentality that a friend of mine was taking part in Ju jutsu at a German national level and weighed a kilo too much to enter for the weight category she'd been weighed as at the start of the year, and was so instructed to jog the kilo off over the course of the day. When she was 100g off the weight limit

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[nuchtos]

That first paragraph doesn't sound like a specifically German thing. I've heard stories of powerlifters in the US going to even further extremes to make weight (shitting it out, pissing it out, sauna-ing it out, even spitting it out) before they can compete in the weightclass they've entered for.

[thedinster]

Ugh, tell me about it...