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Posted By BarryS
While on a course regarding access to buildings and risk assessment etc the lecturer made reference to the medical? or at least technical? phrase for people who are overweight - said it stemmed from usage in the US.
Anyone know what phrase is (and it's not obese)
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Posted By Bill Bircham
Corpulent??
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Posted By Paul Leadbetter
Dimensionally challenged?
Paul
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Posted By Paul Gildernew
Fat ?
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Posted By Gordon Thelwell
LOL:
Persons who are short for their weight?
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Posted By BarryS
I think the word sounded like beriatric? or something phonetically similar???
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Posted By Nigel Souster
Lardy?
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Posted By Paul Lister
The word is "bariatric"
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Posted By Andy Petrie
big boned
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Posted By John Allen
Bariatrics = the branch of medicine that deals with the causes, prevention, and treatment of obesity. Hence a bariatrician is a doctor who specialises in that branch.
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Posted By fats van den raad
I think I should report this post to the moderators on the grounds that it is direspectfull to all of us upon whom gravity has decided to have a bigger effect!!
bariatric???? I've never heard of it, and having been of a slightly... ahem.... "rotund" configuration for a considerable time, I thought I have heard them all.!!
PS I am in shape...... round IS a shape!!
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Posted By Richard Mathews
I’m big boned, especially around my abdomen.
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Posted By fats van den raad
I'm gonna have to use this one in conversation....
I'm not fat, I'm bariatric" I can already hear the understanding sighs of sympathy from the semi-litterates who doesn't have a clue what I'm talking about... and the follow on conversations...."have you heard... Fats is bariatric..... yeah... apparently just positively diagnosed yesterday... shame poor man... and his poor wife, what must she be going through.... I don't know if they can treat it... some kind of chemotherapy I suppose.... Poor man... and so young and handsome......."
Can't wait to use it!!!!
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Posted By Roger the Dodger
how about fat b******
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Posted By BarryS
Thanks you folks, my mind is at ease now.
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Posted By Andy Petrie
fats,
just heard you have contracted bariatricitus, my deepest sympathies. Have the doctors told you how long you got?
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Posted By Liam Mc Conalogue
Thanks guys for the laugh especially Fats' last posting. I needed that as I just got out of a quite heated/ fighting the H&S corner meeting- I won on points in the last round.
Fats why not kick off a bariatric society website.
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Posted By Seth Pierce
SALAD DODGER usually goes down well with those of the anti-atkins, anti-calorie controlled diet lifestyle.
Hope this helps.
Maybe you could build this into your application form i.e. Can you fit through a standard fire door without the use of grease?
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Posted By Jim Walker
From the few IOSH meetings I've attended; if we had a bari-thingy special interest group it would be the largest in the institute.
From
A Fellow Sufferer (and here was me thinking it was because I was idle and ate too much).
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Posted By John Webster
So, what is the PC term for all you non-bariatric people out there then?
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Posted By Laurie
I don't care what you call me.
If it's green, unpeeled or uncooked it's meant to fed to animals!
Laurie
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Posted By Pete Driver
Horizontally challenged?
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Posted By Rob T
Funnily enough I used to know someone who was so bariatric that when she sat around the house, she sat AROUND the house!
How about humungous or pie gobbler?
Hey but I don't think Bariatric van den Raad or Bariatric Domino/Waller quite has the same ring do you? Nothing wrong with a few extra pounds - look at rugby front rows.
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Posted By Heather Aston
Not sure that bariatric can be used to describe the overweight person themself. It literally means "weight treatment" and is used as a medical term as in for example "bariatric surgery" (cutting out the fat bits) or bariatric medicine (medicine for fat people)
The people who need bariatric surgery are described as "morbidly obese" - i.e. sufficiently lardy that it puts their life at risk.
It's a bit like using the term orthopaedic to describe someone with bones.....
Personally I would say Lard a**e......
Heather
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Posted By Mike Craven
Who's eat all the pies
Who's eat all the pies
You bariatric, You bariatric
You've eat all the pies!!!!!!!!
Hmmm can't see it catching on with the guys on the terraces, but I'll be listening carefully when watching the football tomorrow!
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Posted By Pete Driver
What are you trying to say:
The refs a fat bariatric
No, doesn't rhyme.
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Posted By Brian Dawson
I'm one of the poor saps you lot get paid to advise (and a safety rep too). Half the time you talk about ethics and the other half take the [expletive deleted]. It is a public forum and you don't do your so called profession any favours.
Some of us work with 'bariatrics' and to be honest it's not a fun condition. And why has no one mentioned the serious manual handling problems they create?
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Posted By Tom Clark
On the subject of 'Manual Handling' or is that 'People Handling' (to be PC). I used to be a Firefighter and can tell you that if we came across people with this 'bariatric' problem (if you see it as a problem that is) and had to effect a rescue. Then they would be dragged out - if it meant going down stairways they would be alive,but with a blinding headache. We would try and be gentle of course. So I can see the problem this condition can inflict on others.
Tom
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Posted By Merv Newman
Since we are all trying very hard to be politically correct, in phrases such as "To man a ship", "man" is the Old French word for hand and is thus not a referent for the sex of the person doing the manning.
Chairman, chairwoman, chairperson ok. But one does not "womanhandle" nor "personhandle".
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Posted By Tom Clark
I've done the 'womanhandle' bit Merv - it only gets you into trouble :-)
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Posted By Laurie
I was once at a meeting when a social worker came in and said she'd been "personning the switchboard"
I swear before all that is sacred to me that that is true!
Laurie
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Posted By Pete Driver
We could start talking about the different types of humour in the world and why some people always take everything seriously and why others sometimes like to have a laugh.
And the research that shows that permanently uptight people die earlier.
Or we could just put it down as a fact of life!
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