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Former public health minister Anne Milton today urged “large bottomed” commuters to slim down if they want to sit on narrow train seats.
The Guildford MP, who has campaigned against obesity, managed to get a seat on the 7.34am from her constituency today. But she soon tweeted about being squashed by a man with a massive arse.
She tweeted: “Seats free on 7.34 but in the middle seat of 3. Small bottomed man to my left but a very large bottomed man to my right who is asleep with his arms crossed on his ample stomach which makes that squashed feeling seem so much worse somehow.”
Ms Milton, who has highlighted the struggle to get a seat on commuter services, added that the man “roused from his slumber” as the train was waiting outside Waterloo. Following her 35-minute journey, she told the Standard: “If you are going to sit on one of those seats for three people, you need to take up one third of the seat. If your bottom is bigger than a third then you need to reduce its size.”
Ms Milton, who trained as a nurse at Bart’s and is married to a doctor, was public health minister from 2010 to 2012. As a minister, she suggested GPs should tell people they are fat rather than obese to help them to lose weight. Some health experts warn that using the word “fat” can stigmatise people who are overweight.
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http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/mp-feels-the-squeeze-sitting-next-to-large-bottomed-passenger-on-train-9902944.html
The Guildford MP, who has campaigned against obesity, managed to get a seat on the 7.34am from her constituency today. But she soon tweeted about being squashed by a man with a massive arse.
She tweeted: “Seats free on 7.34 but in the middle seat of 3. Small bottomed man to my left but a very large bottomed man to my right who is asleep with his arms crossed on his ample stomach which makes that squashed feeling seem so much worse somehow.”
Ms Milton, who has highlighted the struggle to get a seat on commuter services, added that the man “roused from his slumber” as the train was waiting outside Waterloo. Following her 35-minute journey, she told the Standard: “If you are going to sit on one of those seats for three people, you need to take up one third of the seat. If your bottom is bigger than a third then you need to reduce its size.”
Ms Milton, who trained as a nurse at Bart’s and is married to a doctor, was public health minister from 2010 to 2012. As a minister, she suggested GPs should tell people they are fat rather than obese to help them to lose weight. Some health experts warn that using the word “fat” can stigmatise people who are overweight.
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http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/mp-feels-the-squeeze-sitting-next-to-large-bottomed-passenger-on-train-9902944.html
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Some health experts warn that using the word “fat” can stigmatise people who are pie chomping tubby blooters.
Fixed it. |
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the MP in question looks a lot like one of the monsters in carry on Screaming in the link. Surprised she doesn't scare off salad dodgers on the early morning trains.
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obviously not a Sir Mix-a-Lot fan
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We are all in this together
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It's the Goldilocks Syndrome. A real-life version of the 'law of averages'!
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Wasn't annie Goldilocks??
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I'm afraid that one went right over my head.
 Any chance of a clue?  |
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Apparently Ronnie O Sullivan, paid a vist to the "Mars" factory some years ago,
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Wrong bl00dy thread^^^^ annie former forumite once called goldielocks, unless my old and dopey memory is playing tricks on me.
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No, Annie was a big hairy man called Keith, he admitted as much one night when he'd been at the lighter fluid.
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MPs paying attention to the size of commuters bottoms. I always wondered what they did all day.
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It's no joke having to sit next to one of these lard arses on a plane.
They should make people declare their weight when they buy a ticket and if they're too heavy tell them to f'off. And just in case they've lied, weigh everybody who looks likely at the airport, and tell them to f'off there and keep their money as a punishment for being fat and ugly. |
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Samoa Air says charging passengers by weight is 'concept of the future'.http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/02/samoa-air-pay-what-you-weigh
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Pretty obvious stuff really.
We are charged for excess baggage weight so why not a fat arse tax too? |
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Where do you set the threshold? I suggest a very generous size 8 for women and a lardy 34 inch waist for men. Anything over, you're in the hold.
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Sponegbob16 hours ago
If there's enough room for Frankenstein's forehead there's enough room for my fat ar*e |
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It couldn't be that the seats are smaller and narrower than they used to be on trains and planes, so that the operators could optimise income, could it?
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STUDYFORM,
Yes that comes into it as well as restricting room to keep down prices. If you want more room and are prepared to pay more for it okay, but don't expect someone who is slim to be squeezed for room and pay the same as a lard arse for their ticket. |
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could've just been the MP tweeting a thinly disguised "I'm travelling on a cattle truck with the plebs and not in 1st Class", whilst simultaneously having a pop at the salad dodgers...
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Crippen,
Once again favouring "those who can afford it". Changing "Optimising profits" to "keeping down prices". You really are a sneaky troll aren't you? Always trying, and I quote from you on other threads, to get under people's skin. Tut, tut. |
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why don't these MP's just take taxi's? On second thoughts...
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If a man had tweeted about being sat beside a fat-arsed woman, he'd have been sacked.
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