Discuss You're not obese,you're fat. at the The Intelligence Cell forum within the The Army Rumour Service website; Originally Posted by The_Snail
Had your jabs? Oh, and it only takes one hand.
I ...
"What goes on in the gym - stays in the gym". Fatbadge 061108 (Blowing out of his ricker)
"Haribo is not Breakfast" Mrs OriginalPhantom 190409
"It's Daddy's hat" - Mini VH, Eastenders' Cricket Match 300809
"I love you Dale" Woodandy3 040909
[smallbrownprivates] 11:53 pm: belsen survivors look obese next to you 03/04/10
"I just want to whack their heads" Bootiful 060810
"Sorry Dale but with a gun at my head (and a plank strapped across my arse to stop me falling in) you would get the best twenty seconds of your life. " Mushroom 1829hrs 070411.
"FutureSIB is the product of a vicious rape by Dwight Yorke. The shitcunt" Steven Seagull 1639hrs 02/11/11
(Love the photo - it raised a laugh- very rare at the moment).
Gardening? What? Peas and that? Yeah alright not bad, I've 'andled tomato sauce before now.
What bus goes to your 'ouse? Don't worry about not laughing I do that most days ... unless I see a gonk or a smurf. They're good.
Gardening? What? Peas and that? Yeah alright not bad, I've 'andled tomato sauce before now.
What bus goes to your 'ouse? Don't worry about not laughing I do that most days ... unless I see a gonk or a smurf. They're good.
"What goes on in the gym - stays in the gym". Fatbadge 061108 (Blowing out of his ricker)
"Haribo is not Breakfast" Mrs OriginalPhantom 190409
"It's Daddy's hat" - Mini VH, Eastenders' Cricket Match 300809
"I love you Dale" Woodandy3 040909
[smallbrownprivates] 11:53 pm: belsen survivors look obese next to you 03/04/10
"I just want to whack their heads" Bootiful 060810
"Sorry Dale but with a gun at my head (and a plank strapped across my arse to stop me falling in) you would get the best twenty seconds of your life. " Mushroom 1829hrs 070411.
"FutureSIB is the product of a vicious rape by Dwight Yorke. The shitcunt" Steven Seagull 1639hrs 02/11/11
"What goes on in the gym - stays in the gym". Fatbadge 061108 (Blowing out of his ricker)
"Haribo is not Breakfast" Mrs OriginalPhantom 190409
"It's Daddy's hat" - Mini VH, Eastenders' Cricket Match 300809
"I love you Dale" Woodandy3 040909
[smallbrownprivates] 11:53 pm: belsen survivors look obese next to you 03/04/10
"I just want to whack their heads" Bootiful 060810
"Sorry Dale but with a gun at my head (and a plank strapped across my arse to stop me falling in) you would get the best twenty seconds of your life. " Mushroom 1829hrs 070411.
"FutureSIB is the product of a vicious rape by Dwight Yorke. The shitcunt" Steven Seagull 1639hrs 02/11/11
The Government is right to call fat people fat and thick children thick
A horizontally-challenged individual
There’s a bracing new honesty in the Coalition’s approach to personal descriptions. The health minister Anne Milton has just said that it’s better to call obese people fat because they’re more likely to do something about it. And the Education Secretary Michael Gove has added that “rich, thick kids” are overtaking poor, clever children by the age of six.
Both of them are spot on. There were some pretty stupid children at my expensive prep school and public school who sailed into good universities and good jobs, entirely because they had been coached so extensively. And part of the reason they did so well is because they were constantly treated as stupid: put into the lowest sets, shouted at, told how hard they’d have to work in order to get into their next school, university, law school, or solicitors’ office, or whatever the next stage might be. They were never allowed to coast by being told that it was fine, they were just differently enabled; why not just play some ping pong instead of doing remedial Latin?
The same goes for being fat, as my colleague Andrew Brown has wisely pointed out before. Using words like obesity gives fatness a pseudo-scientific, pseudo-medical camouflage that allows the fat person to put their self-indulgence down to an unavoidable disorder; as opposed to an utterly avoidable greediness, treatable with the ancient prescription - “Stay off the Chips. Daily.”
Language is a powerful tool for evasive action. The Anglo-Saxon word – like fat or thick – is the brave, direct one, which tells the truth. The Latinate word – obese or challenged – is the cowardly, indirect one that lets the sufferer off the hook.
As always, George Orwell got it right. “Bad writers, and especially scientific, political, and sociological writers, are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones, and unnecessary words like expedite, ameliorate, predict, extraneous, deracinated, clandestine, subaqueous, and hundreds of others constantly gain ground from their Anglo-Saxon numbers.
It is often easier to make up words of this kind (deregionalise, impermissible, extramarital, non-fragmentary and so forth) than to think up the English words that will cover one’s meaning. The result, in general, is an increase in slovenliness and vagueness… The inflated style itself is a kind of euphemism.
A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details.”
Catch a train to a plane
to a place overseas.
Over clouds over fields
over rivers and trees.
And they're serving me coffee
to put me at ease.
'Cos I'm drifting without you
borne on the breeze.
From my home!
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