Must admit, bit of a shock to read about this:
BBC NEWS | Politics | Prescott tells of bulimia battle

You don't really expect it of men in their late middle age? And I must confess a very mean part of me said inside- not much physical evidence of weight loss eh? But good on him for coming out about it.

Wow...that is a brave thing for him to admit. Good on him for his attempt to destigmatise it.

Re the loss of weight (or lack therof), if I'm not mistaken, bulimics often don't lose the weight they're trying to by purging. The extent of binge eating in some cannot be offset that easily.

This has got to be a wind-up, surely?

It's a huge myth that bulimics are skinny. People with bulimia AND anorexia will have more evidence of weight loss. Bulimia's a binge/purge thing most of the time, and more common in times of stress (and how fucking stressed must Prescott's job have been?).

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And yeah, I remember Debbie Martin in Neighbours being pretty chubby when she was bulimic.

It is a brave thing for him to admit. Can anyone get a picture of him where he shows his teeth?

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so the list of things john prescott is not good at now goes like this:

speaking
driving
working
being married
fighting
eating

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He was okay at fighting.

Pretty much everyone on the BBC forum was mocking him when I read it yesterday. e.g. "he's just making excuses for that £4,000 food allowance he was claiming" etc.

I find it hard to be mean about it, and this is pretty much the only time that I've ever felt anything other than utter disdain for the man. I'm glad he's recovering.

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Deux hommes font une promenade amicale. L'un des deux porte un parapluie à son bras.
Il se met à pleuvoir. L'homme n'ouvre pas son parapluie et l'autre lui demande pourquoi.
- Parce que ça ne servirait à rien, lui répond son ami. Il est plein de trous.
- Alors, pourquoi l'as-tu pris?
- Parce que je ne pensais pas qu'il pleuvrait.

Prescott's political career was nowhere near as bumbling and retarded as the press made out. Look into it. Personally I quite admire the man.

I was about to say vis-a-vis the BBC forum, that is pretty mean putting up bad shit about him in public, and then realised I'd done just the same. Ooops.

what I loved about him when he was in politics was that (backbenchers aside) he was the only one in parliament you sensed knew what working class was. the rest were either all lawyers who went to oxford or cambridge or, in the case of labour and lib dems particularly, ditsy hippies from privileged middle class backgrounds.

watching the tories take the piss out of him for his background was always entertaining as he was incredibly sharp-witted. the one-line replies he had a habit of coming out with were side-splittingly brilliant, especially when the camera would give you a brief flash of the vacant looks on the opposition benches. occasionally they would jeer back at him but he just wasn't fazed by it.

nobody takes the piss out of john prescott better than john prescott - it's that self-depreciation that i think most like about him. incredibly self-aware and without that snobbish air of importance that most MPs appear to have.

and yeah, a great fighter. that right hook he landed on that tosser who splattered him with an egg was great.

the story of blair at the party conference when it happened is pretty funny too. he went out and protected him in front of everyone without understanding he had assaulted someone. he pretty much got him off the 'hook' and then saw on tv what he had done.

wasn't prescott a boxer, anyway?

The Sun's columnists are being well rude about him, it's really horrible.

note: I only read The Sun when I find it abandoned on trains. It's good to read from a variety of news sources, ok?

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I like that, despite this, he's always been in favour of social liberalism. It'd be very easy for someone like him to humour the lowest common denominator, but he doesn't.