British Health Authorities are worried about the fitness (and fatness) of the general population, and they have produced new advice for health professionals (there are now so many of them that doctors and nurses is longer an adequate description) to help them to help people to lose weight.
The latest idea is that a person's waist measurement should be no more than half his height.
The guidance urges these health professionals to be 'sensitive and positive' when bringing up the subject of waist measurements, and to ask permission before raising the matter.
But how can anyone ask permission to talk about something when they can't specify what it is? How to mention the (almost literal) elephant in the room?
I suppose the approach would have to be:
There is one other thing I really should mention, if I may...
which is clever, even if the slight sneakiness of it may cause resentment.
Still, it's only slightly sneaky...
The trouble is, elephants never forget.
Word To Use Today: elephant. The Greek word elephas means ivory.
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