The tribe suggested that we all watch ‘fat teens cant hunt’ on bbc three and we all went to the zoo’s security office to watch the tv there and a great time was had by all (we have pg tips tea here).
But – It made many in the tribe homesick of the jungle .
So on with the point and please meet Danielle who is age 17 (yes really), and is morbidly overweight according to the human vets. And so spent a few days trying the hunting shooting and fishing thing in the jungle where no fast food exists with a tv crew. Car crash tv at its finest i mean what could go wrong ! nothing at all, as Danielle is a perfect demure size for the jungle.
Bananas in the Falklands could inform you of an interesting graphic novel named ‘Third World War‘ * by Pat Mills (of Marshall Law ** fame) and Carlos Ezquerra. But that would rather be moving off the point.
As always theres the pretty diet doctor (the science bit), and a pee drinking human *** to hand.
Right I dont think i introduced the human tribe who had to put up with lard lady and her friends. And thats probably the place where ‘Third World War’ link becomes valid.
So rather than doing ‘gorillas in the mist’, its ‘fat people in the mist’, perhaps as i advised the other monkeys the quieter life is to be found in the zoo after all the bloody jungle seems to teaming with tv crews and human beings doing something silly or other these days.
All the worlds a zoo it seems.
I bet the mosquitoes had to go on a diet after doing Danielle too.
* and ** are well worth glancing at
*** well you know its ‘the thing’ apparently humans do in the jungle.
I see you too are becoming a reality TV junkie, although I sense you’re trying to dilute the blame for watching it by making it a group decision. But no matter, isn’t that how most of us get sucked into these viewing habits? Time was, I’d never seen a reality show but that didn’t prevent me from poo-poo’ing them on some wooly and ridiculous notion of my intellectual integrity. But then, talk of them pervaded the office, I made a conscious decision to take a peek, or risk being marginalised and seen as the work-place misery. And I found it was fun, both the watching and the discussion afterwards. So, bravo to you for getting in there no matter what you think your reasons are for doing so. Like the rest of us, you’re subject to the same social influences. Mwoooah! I love you Bananas :-)
Comment by Inmate — November 20, 2007 @ 10:40
Am I becoming de-sensitised to fat people or is the pic you’re showing of a large girl, but not the “oh my god, look at the size of her” kind.
[pause while I go look up the precise definition of morbid] …
I’m back… well, I can only assume “morbidly” in the overweight sense is a synonym for “unhealthily”. A value judgement perhaps? After all, she has that stereotypical jolly look that we come to expect from fat people, so perhaps people of that size, although expected to live shorter lives, are experiencing a quality of life we can never know? Like the obsessive and slim gym patrons with food issues are in control?
Fatness is a designer issue.
Comment by Inmate — November 20, 2007 @ 12:22
Inmate ‘Fatness’ in this case maybe a design issue for some, but these teenagers are on the iffy side of things with an increase diabetes risk, etc etc.
At age 17 no human should have spare tyres, or stretch marks. Maybe its a mental failing but compared to the locals there ‘big’
As to watching the ‘wrong tv’, we came from the jungle and its nice to see it now and again. I’m rather surprised you did not get some of the jokes in the post.
Comment by bananasfk — November 20, 2007 @ 13:26
With a little re-arranging, plus artistic licence, the title, “fat teens can’t hunt” can be re-arranged to read, “fat cunts – teens”. It doesn’t stand close scrutiny though.
Comment by stonker — November 21, 2007 @ 14:43
Stonker yes it could, but then many people would not know what im going on about.
Does the Betty Ford clinic take mosquitoes as clients ?
Comment by bananasfk — November 21, 2007 @ 15:46
Actually, the title really threw me! “Cant” refers to a sloping surface as in “the road cant is around 30 degrees” so I was trying to picture a sloping hunt. But “cant” also refers to a stock phrase that has become nonsense through endless repetition – so, for a moment, I’m trying to figure out why “hunt” should be cant.
Then I realised that some illiterate twit had omitted an apostrophe! ;-)
Comment by digitalsky — December 6, 2007 @ 15:38