You know, there are two ways to deal with the fact in this world, image is everything. I mean, I was reading a magazine... Weight watchers magazine. I'm guessing it was bought by my mother, who is by far the most insecure about her wight. I'm pretty laid back about my weight. My weight is a medical HORROR. My immune system is almost non-existent, I'm in the MOST dangerous weight category in terms of BMI. And any other way you work it out. If I lost one stone, I would almost certinately die. My weight causes anemia and meant a complaint that should have cleared up in two weeks lasted three months. But my mum is more worried about her weight.... which recent research says is actually the LEAST dangerous weight to be. Anyway, the front cover of this magazine was fucking hilarious. At the top it says "THE UK'S BEST SELLING SLIMMING MAGAZINE!". Fucking hell. You must be
so proud. One of the cover stories is also a laugh riot. "SHOCK REPORT: Is your weight
costing you money?". Now, I'm not an
expert in the field but one way I can think of to decrease the amount of money being fat is costing you is to; not pay WeightWatchers to make you feel bad about it, not buying WeightWatcher's magazines to make you feel bad about it,
not buying expensive WeightWatcher's dieting products. Probably not the best thing to write about. And V was so right when she said being thin is expensive. The magazine then continues to tell you about all the success their customers found after loosing weight. Success. Okay, it's true, I am currently trying to kill myself, and if I lost weight, I'd die but... Success?
At the moment, one girl; let's call her Hannah, or Hannah-hobag, is constantly bullying me about having hairy legs. My legs are actually no hairier than hers, the only difference is I don't shave mine. However she continues to use the fact my legs are abnormally hairy as evidence that I'm a monkey. Now, most science would generally agree that Humans and Monkeys are different species and shaving the legs of a monkey doesn't make it human. I'm pretty sure humans are supposed to be similar to monkeys, but more intelligent. One decent indicator of intelligence is the ability, at the age of 16, to realize you are human because of your genes, not because of any cosmetic procedure. Various people have sugested, to deal with this situation, I shave my legs. You know what I'm ACTUALLY going to do? I'm going to get Hannah expelled. Let's look at the advantages of my way.
| | Leg shaving. | Expelling Hannah. |
| Time cost |
once a week or so for the rest of my life. Time cost, 40 hours a year? Presuming I live for another 3 years (optimistic) that's a lot of my valuable time. |
Half an hour, maybe a whole hour. A whole hour I will take out of my English lesson, which is a waste of time anyway. Thus, adjusted time cost: nil. |
| Money | I need to buy razors and blades and stuff. They're relatively expensive. | Nil. |
| Enjoyability | None. | Expelling a girl who told one of my friends his four month old brother died chocking on his dad's cock? considerable. (Yes, she really said that) |
| Long term affects | I will always be slightly colder, My self esteem will always be slightly lower. My friends will always tease me about it. Negative. | I won't have to put up with the stupid bitch talking about the time she tried to have sex with a ten year old, ever again. (Hannah is actually one or more people, none of whom is called Hannah, and she actually did that. Then admitted it. Voluntarily. Twice. That I know of.) Positive. |
So far, my way wins.
Now, you may be asking, could I really get her expelled? You bet. Let's go over this.
| Me | Hannah | Me |
| Once beat the living shit out of a girl, and someone who tried to defend her (she sat on my lap). She got expelled. I got my bus pass taken of me for the rest of the year. I didn't attend school for the rest of the year (it was July). The school apologized. I once strangled a kid till he passed out on the table. The kid was originally sent to the office for aggravating me. He continued to maintain he had done nothing to me. They didn't believe him. They asked me what he did. I said nothing (he insulted me in Portuguese. Apparently.). I got sent to anger management sessions. Which I enjoyed. | | |
| Earns the school thousands of pounds in benefits both from being a little bit high on the autistic spectrum, then again for being "Gifted and Talented". | Isn't stupid enough to earn any financial help what so ever. Breaks things the school have to replace. The staff have to be paid to run her after school detentions. Has free school meals. | |
| Asked to move forward a year, declined, because I hate that. Already has one GCSE, A*; got 100% in three module tests, 96% in two and 86% in one, which I am re-taking this month. Got 29/30 in one maths module and 18/24 on coursework. Probably aced another maths exam earlier this week. Archived one of the top 1% Yellis and Midyis scores in the country. Brings up the schools achievement average. Will definitely fuck the benchmark up the arse. | Held back a year. | |
| Has 8 schools, closer to her house who will pull up a seat for her in a second if they see her yellis. | Has been expelled from 3 of those schools, rejected from the rest. | |
| | Has been told if she so much as gets a yellow slip, she will likely be expelled. | Is a prefect, and so authorized to give out yellow slips. |
I'm thinking, I win.