You Will Select The Girl is Hot or Fit For Sex

When faced with a girl on the bus, which word automatically comes to mind? Maybe it's a case of national pride, but I know where my allegiances lie...

That man or woman that you see every evening on the bus ride home, do you think that they are “hot”, or “fit”?

If you think they are the former then the chances are that you live in North American (or watch too many North American TV shows) but if you think they are the latter then it’s pounds to pence that you hail from the British Isles.

There isn’t much that Britain has still got going for it but the natives use of the native language can, on rare occasions, speak with searing honesty about the world we live in and help transcend the pale verbiage that our language has become.

So while distinguishing between the uses of “hot” and “fit” may not seem all that consequential in the grand scheme of things, there is in fact some value in exploring the difference between those two small sounds.

First take the time to say both words out loud.

‘Hot’ can only be uttered as an exaggerated sigh that somehow serves to emphasize the unavailability of the object of desire.

It is, at its heart, an adolescent term that conjures up images of distant college athletes and nubile cheerleaders who forever frolic on the faraway playing fields but never venture toward the seats of the bleachers (let alone to that space beneath the bleachers that is, if only symbolically, a yawning chasm of sexual opportunity).

“Hot” is all Letterman jackets and white frilled pom-poms, clichéd objects that serve as tired fetishes rather than actual, unadulterated, desires.

Now say the word “fit”.