Hooray for the UK. Not content with being just another country with steadily rising obesity one of us has only gone ahead and seized the title of the World’s Heaviest Man. Weighing in at 70 stone Paul Mason is big story in every sense.
Apart from the usual outrage and outpourings of pity and disgust, a story in The Sun claimed that Paul wasn’t a victim of circumstance but had actually set out to become famous for being fat. Looking at his average lunch of 4 large cod, 2 pies, 4 battered sausage, 6 large chips, mushy peas and curry sauce and habit of eating entire boxes of Sugar Puffs in one go one can certainly believe Paul was intent on making his dream come true.
However having now realised his dream Paul’s fame will be fleeting as he has been scheduled for a stomach stapling operation by the NHS who have total disregard for his accomplishment and seem intent instead on trying to save his life.
Whether such surgery will make a difference we’ll have to wait and see, but as we wave off a possibly thinner Paul Mason into obscurity we will always remember him for helping distort the perception of what obesity is even further and for throwing down a challenge to fame hungry fatties around the world.