The modern word for it is obese. According to current medical diagnosis, when you are weighed by the general practitioner, your weight is categorised, according to a comparison between your height and your weight. Your reading is classified as one of the following; underweight, healthy, overweight, obese, or extremely obese. The purpose of this chart is to identify possible risk factors derived from a surplus or a absence of stored adipose tissue.
If the chart is representative of the population's weight measurements, then 9 in 24 (about 35%) of adults are of a healthy weight, with the other 15 in 24 (about 65%) either overweight or worse, or underweight.
Walk along any populated street in any ordinary town (excluding large global village centres) and this is hugely evident. In my home town, in the north west, the high street pavements are suitably wide for three people to walk along side by side, or for two high spec mobility chairs to saunter along perfectly well. However, on the usual occasion of using these sidewalks I am, more often than not, obstructed by, or forced to divert my route significantly away from, someone who "suffers" from a category outside of the aforementioned "healthy" weight zone.
Its a jungle out there. On the pavement, I mean.
Any person afflicted in any way with a walking disability, be it through old age, congenital structural problems, or a combination of the two or more undeserved problems that may hinder one's ability to navigate along a pavement without meandering, swaying, pausing spasmodically, reversing, sidestepping, waving an umbrella in my eye, or just generally paying absolutely no attention or consideration to the needs and intentions of other pavement users, are excused on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Overeaters are not in this category.
The law of the jungle does not operate on the pavement. The pavement is the domain of the obese, and the extremely obese. These people do not have any viable or excusable reason why they are as fat as they are. You can see them waddling in and out of Greggs (Britain's most popular pastry shop), moving remarkably swiftly, given their lack of physical prowess, en route to the food outlet, and even quicker as they hot foot it back to the office eating zone to stuff their faces full of their recommended weekly calorie expenditure within a 3 minute hog feed.
These people are the most vociferous when it comes to their figures, and the bodyshapes of others. These people have, in more ways than one, big mouths. Best used for eating, and coming a close second, the ability to excuse themselves with any method of self praise. This is usually something along the lines of "who cares" and "I'm happy with what I look like" or the absolute classic of classic lines, "Its what's inside that counts." "Beauty is on the inside." "Its personality that counts."
All complete bullshit.
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