Big Fat Imagination

The article and now the numerous reports on television that I wrote about yesterday have my mind racing a mile a minute. My imagination is a powerful thing and I have everything from fat people only buses and water fountains, to skinny people running away from fat people afraid of catching ‘fat’ as though it were a virus, going through my head. To me some of the visions I have are hilarious (especially the one where the skinny people are running, because in my head I’m chasing them with my hands like the claw, and growling”), but some of them make me sad. They make me sad because history has proven that people are hateful, and can’t wait to jump on the next big group think (again a great visual of a brain shaped bus with all these people jumping on board as it drives by).

It seems to me that this is a case of the media going way to far and reporting fucking irresponsibly. Why is this study not being reported as something to laugh at…it should be. The average weight gain for the participants of the ‘study’ was 5-10lbs. How does this not make people question BMI as a respectable measurement…if 5 lbs pushes you over the edge into the ‘obese’ category doesn’t it make you think that perhaps BMI is a crock of fucking bullshit? (there’s a whole other rant waiting to happen here!) Seriously, it’s laughable that this was reported as an accurate finding. People all over the world are right now trying to figure out how to break up with their fat friends, or to start spending less time with them…or maybe they are thinking of ways to make their fat friends more active (nothing like some good ole’ fashioned patronizing).

Or maybe, just maybe, people all over the world found this to be as big a lark as I did, and are having the same problem with their over active imagination, and are having visions of an old VW Bus – with a drum set, and the name (in groovy 70’s writing) “Band Wagon” painted on the side, driving down the street, and all these people are jumping on as it drives by, while other people are throwing food at them…