Public Health minister thinks we don’t understand the word obese.
Anne Milton, the new public health minister, that heavyweight ministerial position that neither you nor I knew existed until she decided to say something nonsensical this morning, has decided that the word “obese” might confuse us and that doctors should instead just tell you you’re fat.
Anne reckons it’s about time doctors stopped talking in that crazy “technical jargon” and told us straight.
She said: “If I look in the mirror and think I am obese I think I am less worried than if I think I am fat.”
Yeah well that’s because you’re an absolute moron. The word obese has far more impact that fat. Fat is everyday, fat is mundane, fat is: “Oh you know, Sarah the fat girl who works in marketing the one with the lazy eye and the limp… yeah she fancies you!”
“Does she? Tell her I don’t date fat chicks.”
Obese is medical and sterile. It’s hospital and heart attacks. It’s a problem. It’s all those waddling twats on ITV2 and BBC3 on TV shows called “Fat Farm,” “Diet Doctor” and “The Great Big Wheezing Obese Shootout at the Okay Coral” — maybe not that last one (though it would be awesome to see morbidly obese people re-enacting famous shoot-outs from the Wild West.)
Milton’s comments just show the contempt with which the Tories regard the broader public — they’re suggesting that the average person doesn’t understand the word obese and they do. Oh and by the way Anne, shut up.
