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* FatIdiot: '''[[AvertedTrope Averted]]'''. Much of the humour lies in Grenville's [[DeadpanSnarker dry lamentation]] of the inhibitions of, and people's overreactions to, his weight. Rather than making fun of the overweight, the book satirises the media's misunderstanding and misrepresentation of obesity.

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* FatIdiot: '''[[AvertedTrope Averted]]'''.[[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Much of the humour lies in Grenville's [[DeadpanSnarker dry lamentation]] of the inhibitions of, and people's overreactions to, his weight. Rather than making fun of the overweight, the book satirises the media's misunderstanding and misrepresentation of obesity.
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* FatIdiot: '''[[AvertedTrope Averted]]'''. Much of the humour lies in Grenville's [[DeadpanSnarker dry lamentation]] of the inhibitions of, and people's overreactions to, his weight. Rather than making fun of the overweight, the book satirises the media's misunderstanding and misrepresentation of obesity.
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** At the Well Farm launch, on sight of the overweight celebrity guests, the unnamed Prime Minister spitefully hums "[[WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}} Pink Elephants on Parade]]".
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* TrueCraftsan: Grenville, a Michelin star chef, is fascinated by food preparation.

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* TrueCraftsan: TrueCraftsman: Grenville, a Michelin star chef, is fascinated by food preparation. His cookery chapter in ''Cook It, Change It, Dig It!'' includes an informative discourse on eggs.

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* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: The party Jeremy attends after the Well Farm launch. Because he's falling for Jemma, he actually doesn't care much for it, despite being tongued by a member of Gurlz Banned. It's also noted that he'd tried cocaine once before and [[TheLoinsSleepTonight it had rendered him temporarily impotent]].



** In police custody, Grenville forlornly hopes his lawyer will turn out to be a latter-day [[Literature/ToKillAMockingbird Atticus Finch]].
** He later inwardly bemoans being handled like "[[Franchise/HannibalLecter Hannibal]] fucking [[Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Lecter]]", and drily wonders if the police expect him of a [[Film/TheTerminator T-800]]-style assault.



** Unexpectedly [[AnythingButThat caught in her own reflection]], Hayleigh miserably compares herself to ''Literature/AnimalFarm'''s Napoleon.
** In police custody, Grenville forlornly hopes his lawyer will turn out to be a latter-day [[Literature/ToKillAMockingbird Atticus Finch]]. He later inwardly bemoans being handled like "[[Franchise/HannibalLecter Hannibal]] fucking [[Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Lecter]]", and drily wonders if the police expect him of a [[Film/TheTerminator T-800]]-style assault.



** Unexpectedly [[AnythingButThat caught in her own reflection]], Hayleigh miserably compares herself to ''Literature/AnimalFarm'''s Napoleon.
* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: The party Jeremy attends after the Well Farm launch. Because he's falling for Jemma, he actually doesn't care much for it, despite being tongued by a member of Gurlz Banned. It's also noted that he'd tried cocaine once before and [[TheLoinsSleepTonight it had rendered him temporarily impotent]].


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* TrueCraftsan: Grenville, a Michelin star chef, is fascinated by food preparation.

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** In police custody, Grenville inwardly bemoans being handled like "[[Franchise/HannibalLecter Hannibal]] fucking [[Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Lecter]]", and drily wonders if the police expect him of a [[Film/TheTerminator T-800]]-style assault.

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** In police custody, Grenville forlornly hopes his lawyer will turn out to be a latter-day [[Literature/ToKillAMockingbird Atticus Finch]].
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inwardly bemoans being handled like "[[Franchise/HannibalLecter Hannibal]] fucking [[Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Lecter]]", and drily wonders if the police expect him of a [[Film/TheTerminator T-800]]-style assault.
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** In police custody, Grenville inwardly bemoans being handled like "[[Franchise/HannibalLecter Hannibal]] fucking [[Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Lecter]]", and drily wonders if the police expect him of a [[Film/TheTerminator T-800]]-style assault.
** Jeremy's [[RagingStiffie state]] on waking up inspires him to a brief [[Characters/DoctorWhoDaleks Dalek]] impression.
** Waking up in hospital with an attached tube, Hayleigh wonders if she's being turned into some sort of [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Borg]].
** Unexpectedly [[AnythingButThat caught in her own reflection]], Hayleigh miserably compares herself to ''Literature/AnimalFarm'''s Napoleon.
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** {{Averted|Trope}} in the cases of [[BuxomIsBetter Lucy Pinder]], Music/{{Beyonce}} and Creator/ChadMichaelMurray, among others. However, they are only name-dropped.

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** {{Averted|Trope}} in the cases of [[BuxomIsBetter Lucy Pinder]], Pinder, Music/{{Beyonce}} and Creator/ChadMichaelMurray, among others. However, they are only name-dropped.
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* DivorceAssetsConflict: Grenville notes that he got hit particularly hard financially by his divorce. His ex-wife got the house, the good car (TheAllegedCar Gren is stuck with was actually hers originally), and half the restaurant, the other half of which Grenville was forced to sell so he could afford a place to live. He bitterly notes that it's hugely unfair since she was the one who was unfaithful in the first place.
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* AnAesop: The dubious science of scaremongering, self-contradicting health warnings is [[ShownTheirWork explicitly noted]]. The book takes a stand against state interference in our personal lives; the bureaucratic corruption of Britain's National Health Service, and the "true cost of our obsession with how we look" -- which results in overweight Grenville losing his job, and anorexic Hayleigh hospitalized by calcium deficiency.

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* AnAesop: The dubious science of scaremongering, self-contradicting scaremongering health warnings is [[ShownTheirWork explicitly noted]]. The book takes a stand against state interference in our personal lives; the bureaucratic corruption of Britain's National Health Service, and the "true cost of our obsession with how we look" -- which results in overweight Grenville losing his job, and anorexic Hayleigh hospitalized by calcium deficiency.

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