So this is quite a short post about MRI scanners. An old hockey club friend of mine works as a cardiac physiologist at a hospital in Hampshire. This is true to the best of our knowledge – 10 years on or so.

If you’ve ever had an MRI scan you’ll know that they’re known for being noisy and very claustrophobic, that is a tight tube you get slid into. I’ve had one, it was not pleasant.

So, my friend was telling a group of us that obviously really fat people can’t go in them, there’s a risk of getting stuck or people really freaking out.

(so this is sort of the gist of the conversation, I can’t remember it word for word)

US: So, where do the fat people go? Is there a special fat MRI scanner?

Her: Oh yeah, they get sent to the special extra-large one.

US: Oh right, where’s that? Like, Southampton? Basingstoke?

Her: The Zoo. They get sent to the zoo, where the rhinos and tigers get their scans.

US: *cry laughing*