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gazz
Joined: 13 Oct 2008
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 Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:16 pm Post subject: Obese or big boned? |
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This story makes me sick! (something they could do with doing) - bar eating a normal diet + exercise!
So how would you class these people? Yeah you don't know their BMI but just at a glance.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1162503/The-real-telly-tubbies-X-Factor-failures-83-stone-family-claim-simply-fat-work.html
This sort of shi* pisses me off soooo much. When I was at uni I did a summer job working for a supermarket. A couple of people were so fat they couldn't stand up for more than 5 minutes. They couldn't even work on the checkouts because they couldn't fit under them!!!!
The most upsetting thing was one of them was only 17! Meanwhile I have to pay my taxes (when in the UK) to feed them!  |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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That's retarded. I've known people bigger than them who could work fine. Of course they're not going to get out from in front of the TV when the government is giving them 22'000 pounds a year to sit around on their arses.
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| Asked why they don�t simply go on a diet, the jobless Chawner family who are so obese their neighbours call them �the telly tubbies� insist: �We don�t have the time.� |
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| Mr Chawner said: �We love TV. It�s on from the moment we get up. Often I�m so tired from watching TV I have to have a nap.� |
Don't have the time for a diet, eh? Hereditary my ass. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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governments legislating how much people can eat or weigh 
as long as it's a free country, mind your own business |
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Perceptioncheck
Joined: 13 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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| I once bought some pears, but they tasted funny. |
Good lord. Surely this is a joke. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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They haven't worked in 11 years...Yet of their �22,508 a year in tax-free benefits - equivalent to a �30,000 salary - Mr Chawner said: 'What we get barely covers the bills and puts food on the table. It's not our fault we can't work. We deserve more.'
The family claim to spend �50 a week on food, including chocolate, chips and pies, and consume 3,000 calories each a day. The recommended maximum intake is 2,000 for women and 2,500 for men. |
Viva the welfare state. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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| In retrospect, the whole thing seems like an Onion article. |
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gazz
Joined: 13 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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A note for anyone not from the UK. This article is from the Daily Mail -they aren�t the biggest fans of Labour!
But as for the mind your own business reply - that's a fair comment but how can it be right that people get given money for eating and crapping?
They have no real medical condition that will stop them from working!
I used to catch the same bus as people who had REAL, REAL disabilities - the sort of people who with the best will in the world could not work in a mainstream environment.
The local council had a special unit where they went to work and basically made the minimum wage. They worked in a simple assembly line.
But a couple of years ago they closed it because it wasn't 'economically feasible'. These people were crying because they could no longer work!
The short fall in employing 20-30 people with these serious disabilities was about 150,000 pounds, an amount that 7-8 of these types of families earn in a year! |
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oldtactics
Joined: 18 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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| And you can be sure that the NHS will be providing them with new heart valves and hip joints when the time is right. |
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ReeseDog
Joined: 05 Apr 2008
Location: Classified
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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| ...and consume 3,000 calories each a day. The recommended maximum intake is 2,000 for women and 2,500 for men. |
3000 kCals ain't that much. Plenty of folks do that every day who aren't at all fat. The secret might be in the exercise.
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| 'What we get barely covers the bills and puts food on the table. It's not our fault we can't work. We deserve more.' |
Check out the Obama plan, everyone.
You diggin' this, Gopher? |
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sharkey
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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is that you in your avatar? cause that picture annoys me |
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missty
Joined: 19 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
governments legislating how much people can eat or weigh
as long as it's a free country, mind your own business |
Yeah, tell that to the tax payers. Why should I have to pay for someone to sit on their arse all day? |
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zeldalee13
Joined: 08 Nov 2008
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:13 am Post subject: wot? |
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| They haven�t worked in 11 years, claiming their weight is due to a hereditary condition. |
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| Yet of their �22,508 a year in tax-free benefits - equivalent to a �30,000 salary - Mr Chawner said: �What we get barely covers the bills and puts food on the table. It�s not our fault we can�t work. We deserve more.� |
This type of entitlement psychology drives me bonkers!
My only consolation is that they're British... |
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zeldalee13
Joined: 08 Nov 2008
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:16 am Post subject: Re: wot? |
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| They haven�t worked in 11 years, claiming their weight is due to a hereditary condition. |
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| Yet of their �22,508 a year in tax-free benefits - equivalent to a �30,000 salary - Mr Chawner said: �What we get barely covers the bills and puts food on the table. It�s not our fault we can�t work. We deserve more.� |
This type of entitlement psychology drives me bonkers!
My only consolation is that they're British... |
"We deserve more." Blurghx1000! |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:06 am Post subject: |
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I've worked with people who were fatter than any of them.
How easy is it to get benefits in Britain anyway? |
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trish91198
Joined: 21 Dec 2008
Location: Jukjeon
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:56 am Post subject: |
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| I once bought some pears, but they tasted funny. |
I agree...pears do taste funny.
How about some strawberries? Oranges?
Bananas are always cheap. |
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