I was in McDonalds the other day listening to the annoying bint in the queue behind me ramble on. Half listening, half trying to work out how to drown her I suddently latched onto something she said that actually made me want to slap her in the face.
“I’m fat because I have a hormonal problem and there is nothing the doctors can do”.
Annoying bint, you’re fat because you eat too much!
As a fat person, I really get annoyed when obviously fat people try and hide the fact they are fat. Retaining water, hormonal, big boned… basic biology people, you stick too much crap in your cake hole, you don’t exercise enough to shift it, your body stores it away. You have two options, stop eating crap, or deal with it!
Another really annoying thing is when non-fat people are to ashamed to say “fat”, instead, they go down the “Heavy set”, “big boned”, “chunky”, “gravity challenged”, “outdoorsy” route in case they offend the fat person they are talking about. It’s not politically correct, its stupidity!
Obesity is an interesting phenomenon. Obesity is leading causes of death in the western world, and affects some 25% of the population in the UK, and along with other social diseases like smoking and drinking causes the British tax payers billions per year to treat on the NHS. How long can it last. With the recent buckling of final salary pensions and the government putting pension concerns on the individual, will the NHS be next. As a Brit, I am proud of our free for all health service. O.k. it’s not as good as it used to be but lets face it, immigration and idiots have put a real strain on the country as a whole over the last few years, not just the health service… I’d start going private if I were you 
Oh, and according to the World Health Organisation, I am “Super Obese” yay. Of course this is mostly because I am big boned!
Being fat is a lifestyle choice just like smoking (which I like) and drinking (which I don’t). Choice is the backbone of any democracy. The problem I have is that both smoking and drinking are punitively taxed and food isn’t. Why should I have to go to Belgium for my fags when big-boners can get their food from Asda’s round the corner?
It could be worse, I could be a smoker and a drinker and a burger lover. Oh my God…. now where did I put those diet pills?
You can buy your fags in Asda!
the difference is that you can live without fags, you can live without alcohol, you can live without drugs… food, well you can live without McDonalds, however there is no magic pill that gives you all the nutrients you really need so that McDonalds becomes a luxury choice.
The fact you don’t have time to eat properly, well that’s a choice. The fact you can’t be bothered to eat properly, again, a choice. but you cannot tax all food as a luxury because in it’s basic form it is a requirement.
And you can argue that actually there is a punitive tax on food. You can buy ‘tescos own brand’ but you choose to buy Heinz at 20 times the cost. You can also take this a step further and say that if price includes tax above the actual cost of the item, then you can grow your own potatoes, hatch your own chickens and live on chicken and chips for £2.50 per year. So actually there are choices that reduce punitive style taxing.
Get round the governments stranglehold on your fags… grow your own tobacco plants! Or smoke Gitanes… you can make these at home from napkins and car tyres!!
Thinking back to the blatheringly annoying cow in the queue next to me… If I were to smother her with her own bingo wings while she slept would it look like an accidental death?