Bums are now too big for toilet seats

OBESE Brits are splashing out - on supersize toilet seats.
They can bear weights of up to 60 stone and at 19 inches wide, have a seating area 75 per cent greater than standard ones.

The £200 Big John seats are imported from America and sold by Derby-based Gordon Ellis & Co - which said sales have doubled in the last two years as the number of overweight people rockets.

Director Steven Evanson said: "People are getting bigger, wider and heavier. Why shouldn't they have a comfortable time when they go to the toilet?

"We tell them, 'Your bums aren't too big - your toilet seat isn't big enough'."

One relieved customer from Manchester said: "My husband required a little more room and was breaking many toilet seats a year - the Big John put an end to that."

Figures show that around half Brits are overweight, with 17 per cent of men and 21 per cent of women classed as obese. Around one in every 11 deaths is now linked to carrying excess fat - the highest number in Europe and 50 per cent more than in France.

Experts fear the number may soon exceed that from smoking

Posted: at 26-07-2011 08:08 PM (12 years ago) | Newbie

Bittersweet I agree wit u but its also becoming a problem down here

Posted: at 26-07-2011 08:37 PM (12 years ago) | Newbie

 

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Posted: at 7-11-2012 08:41 AM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac