Sit on this: the growth of extra-wide deckchairs and king-size
toilet seats  A British deckchair company is widening their
seats due to the population's expanding waistlines - and they're
not the only ones making adjustments Extra-large deckchairs
Extra-large deckchairs are the just the beginning … coffins, CT
scanners and toilet seats are all growing to accommodate larger
people, too. Photograph: Alamy  Britain's last dedicated
deckchair manufacturer is making seats an inch wider to
accommodate the broader bottom. As well as making their single
seaters 23 inches wide, Southsea Deckchairs report more people
buying their Wideboy range, originally devised for two persons,
for single use. If you aren't already saluting the union jack
while listening to Land of Hope and Glory, now's the time to
start. "We recently had a big lad come in and use one as a
standard chair," company boss Stephen Davies told the Sun, "He'd
never fit into a normal one."  What's going on? Well, for
a start, that staple sitcom gag in which