A funny state of being.

I was watching Tv at work earlier today when a person with weight issues was described as being "morbidly obese".

This amused me alot. And it wasn't because this person is having problems with their weight, as funny as that can sometimes be, but because they had reached such a new level of fatness that the simple term "obese" was no longer accurate enough to describe them.

It's like seeing an ugly person and thinking "wow, they're ugly" then five minutes later seeing someone who looks even worse and thinking "wow, they're incredibly ugly".

The thought of people crossing some kind of imaginary barrier whereby simple terms are no longer sufficient in describing them appeals to the inappropriately funny side of me, and I will always do an extra chuckle to myself when I hear someone described as morbidly obese, terribly ugly or disgustingly smelly.