Dear Auntie Beryl
I was called ‘big boned’ by a nurse this morning! She was calculating my BSI rating when she made the off-hand remark. When I questioned what she meant, she responded by telling me that there was nothing to worry about, and that I was within the ‘statistically normal’ category. Apparently, she explained, the categorisation criteria does not take into account race or ethnical background. I am a Caucasian, middle-class, middle-aged man. Was she taking the piss?
Regards
Big Boned, Sorrento
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Dear Big Boned
My sister has hips like a garbage dumpster, but weighs a little under 65 kilograms. You’d be hard pressed to categorise her as statistically normal – unless you belonged to a parallel universe inhabited by dry, hollow, vessel-like, bloated beings that bleat through crooked, sunken apertures. I hope this helps….
