The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic resulted in quarantines, and many people got fat. Barbershops were closed, and many people grew their hair long.
   
“Hard to believe that five weeks of uncut hair and unshaved beard would weigh a stone, but who am I to argue with the bathroom scales?” was posted on Twitter by Donal O’Keeffe on April 26, 2020. (One stone equals 14 pounds.)
 
“I would never have believed that 8 weeks of uncut hair would weigh 21lbs but if thats what the scales say then I guess it’s true.” was posted on Twitter by Col on May 26, 2020. “I would never have believed that a few weeks of uncut hair would weigh 20 pounds but that’s what the scale says” was posted on Facebook by Karen Yuter Abrams on May 29, 2020.
 
 
Wikipedia: 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The outbreak was first identified in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019, and was recognised as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020.
         
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Donal O’Keeffe
@Donal_OKeeffe
Hard to believe that five weeks of uncut hair and unshaved beard would weigh a stone, but who am I to argue with the bathroom scales?
7:01 AM · Apr 26, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
 
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JOC
@JnOCallaghan
Replying to @FionnualaGreene
Hard to believe that six weeks of uncut hair could weigh a stone, but who am I to disagree with the bathroom scales !!!
5:43 AM · Apr 30, 2020·Twitter for Android
 
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Tea, tiddies and tunes ♏
@darrenc365
Who’d of thought that 6 weeks of uncut hair would weigh over a stone, but who am I to argue with the bathroom scales…...
2:54 AM · May 12, 2020·Twitter for Android
   
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Col
@countcol
I would never have believed that 8 weeks of uncut hair would weigh 21lbs but if thats what the scales say then I guess it’s true.
3:17 AM · May 26, 2020·Twitter for Android
 
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Stevie-i-e-i-o
@StevieOakley
Who would have thought 8 weeks of uncut hair would weigh 19lbs.. but who am I to argue with the scale.
5:55 AM · May 26, 2020·Twitter for Android
   
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Karen Yuter Abrams
May 29, 2020 at 5:44 PM
I would never have believed that a few weeks of uncut hair would weigh 20 pounds but that’s what the scale says
 
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John Alvarez del Castillo
May 29, 2020 at 10:46 PM ·
I would never have believed that 8 weeks of uncut hair could weigh 14 pounds but, if that’s what the scale says, it must be true. ... ... Thanks, Heather
 
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Megan Delgleize
May 30, 2020 at 12:58 PM ·
I would never have believed that 10 weeks of uncut hair would weigh over 20 pounds, but if that’s what the scale says it must be right. 🤷🏼‍♀️