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Will they ever see sense
'Obese' banned in school letters - MSN Odd News | MSN UK News - news & weather


so what next, if a patient has a terminal illness will your doc say your life will be very short instead? you dont have cancer, you have a very nasty illness

wtf


Mart

Tam the bam

They only said obese was to be banned, nothing saying, fat, round, little **** is banned though!

Abdabz

That is absofeckinlutely bonkers...

To be obese is to be fat beyond a defined limit.

A fat kid isnt always a concern but an obese kid is.

Where will this ludicrous politically correct mumbo jumbo end?

Humph

Leslie

So many of them have their heads up their own obese *****!

Les

Holy Ghost

hang on a sec, i'm the last one to defend PC idiocy but the point here surely is that they are dropping the word 'obese' and substituting it with 'very overweight' - the latter i'd say is far more hard-hitting and self-explanatory, rather than 'obese', which is strictly a clinical medical term that is overused and misunderstood.

ie your 'child is very overweight' translates as 'your kid is a fat lard-****, please be a parent and do something about it ...' from a plain english perspective [and also thinking about parents who may not be the sharpest tools in the box - and there are plenty of them as our many youth societal ills demonstrate], it's long overdue.

phil_wrx

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i choose "slightly round buffet worrying child"

AndyC_772

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Hang on... they want to get schools to tell parents how big their kids are. WTF?!

Where do they think the kids are when they're not at school?

Does any parent honestly not know this accurately enough already?

What next, what colour their hair and eyes are? How many limbs they've got?

Kieran_Burns

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may be they'll start including Photo IDs with the end of year report card so the parents can confirm whether they're talking about the right child.

magepaster

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I think Obese is better and much harder hitting than "very overweight"

Calling a fat kit "very overweight" is like saying chocolate is brown.
Calling them obese, indicates (to me) that the kid is likely to suffer health issues due to being Spherically challenged.

Kieran_Burns

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The easy answer is to get the BMI chart and point to the red bit and say "you're there, you are. Fatty"

dpb

Shirley an easy,completly neutral approach would be to fit stainless bars to the school entrance at the designated width

Anyone who cant make it thro the gap goes home for the day/week/year

richs2891

I just like the word fat - covers everything from slight overweight to very overweight.
Thinhk some people need to stop the pampering and say it like it is - he / she is a fatso and needs to lose some weight.

Richard

Kieran_Burns

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My (half joking admittedly) point was that the BMI actually SAYS obese. So you don't need to say it yourself. Just go:

You're here. Look at that word at the top. Digest. Second thoughts... too much digestion going on, just remember it

Mifo

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its **** like this that makes this country a joke.

this is what this government worrys about, not actual issues. They just invent problems with all this PC bullsh1t.