[kathrynhr]

I'm speechless.

Family who are 'too fat to work' say xxx163;22,000 worth of benefits is not enough - Telegraph

Excerpt:

... The Chawners, haven't worked in 11 years, claim their weight is a hereditary condition and the money they receive is insufficient to live on.

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 "money they receive" is the British equivalent of welfare. 30,000 pounds is currently equivalent to $43,347.77 (source: xe.com conversion).

[jsconyers]

It's sad. This is becoming an epidemic. I am sure once this story or similar ones get more exposure, we will see others claiming "hereditary obesity."

One thing that's bothered me for a while now is seeing young children that are obese. I make it a habit to go to the gym on a regular basis (3-5 times a week). I don't follow a strict diet, but I do watch what I eat. I understand people have legitimate health issues that could cause obesity, but ones that don't will ride this wave to get money for nothing.

What classifies one as "too fat to work?" Are there standards, or is it a case-by-case basis?

[kathrynhr]

I don't know how it works. Maybe one of our British members will chime in.

I can't imagine what someone like Nick Vujicic would say in response to the claim that being fat somehow disqualifies one from work.

[ezrunner]

Wirelessly posted (3G= Chuck Norris Speed)

Friggin absurd

They can work, plenty people work from home

I exercise regularly as well

Very small percentage of people have a genetic weight problem very small%

What BS

[test54]

I heard about this on the Radio yesterday and was shocked about the so-called children especially.
Its pretty sad.

[ezrunner]

Wirelessly posted (3G= Chuck Norris Speed)

I'm gonna try this so I can collect disability from the US gov't

Just Kiddin

[test54]

They claim that they both cannot lose weigh because healthy food costs too much and that they don't know how to lose weight. I'm glad England has some of the same issues we do over here.

[mriff]

My God. It's called a treadmill. No sympathy here.

[ndub33]

Originally Posted by test54

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph...y_1367600c.jpg

They claim that they both cannot lose weigh because healthy food costs too much and that they don't know how to lose weight. I'm glad England has some of the same issues we do over here.

One Bag O' Salad =$3.49.
One bottle WishBone 1000 Island =$1.49.
Call it $5.50 with tax.

Also call it "Lunch for a week".

[DacyJ]

Wirelessly posted (supercalifragilisticexpialidoc)

Top Ramen noodles, damn you can buy a pallet for like 9 bucks and they have 0 trans fat. I eat a package every damn day for lunch.

[test54]

"We have cereal for breakfast, bacon butties for lunch and microwave pies with mashed potato or chips for dinner," Mrs Chawner told Closer magazine

I had to look up Bacon Butties - so incase you didn't know either



(admittedly a Giant Bacon Buttie)

[mriff]

These folks are as bad as the Octo-Mom.

[dmead]

looks like the bacon butties have have enlarged more than their butts.

[Jadey]

I'm going to make one point, and one point only. Because if I really get started here, f***, I will NOT be able to stop.

Quote from fat lazy bastards who are ripping off the tax money I pay every month:

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The family claim to spend £50 a week on food and consume 3,000 calories each a day. The recommended maximum intake is 2,000 for women and 2,500 for men.

"We have cereal for breakfast, bacon butties for lunch and microwave pies with mashed potato or chips for dinner," Mrs Chawner told Closer magazine.

"All that healthy food, like fruit and veg, is too expensive. We're fat because it's in our genes. Our whole family is overweight," she added.

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YOU'RE FAT BECAUSE YOU LIVE ON FOOD MADE OF CARBS, SATURATED FAT AND MORE SATURATED FAT.

Grow your own vegetables in the Garden of the free council house you are living in.

Or better still, give me your address. I will chase you bastards around with a metal stick. If I catch you, I hit you. KEEP RUNNING. Rinse and repeat every day. In two months, you won't BE so fat.

[test54]

Originally Posted by Jadey

Or better still, give me your address. I will chase you bastards around with a metal stick. If I catch you, I hit you. KEEP RUNNING. Rinse and repeat every day. In two months, you won't BE so fat.

lol, thats probably the only approach to take at this point.

[ezrunner]

Wirelessly posted (3G= Chuck Norris Speed)

After hearing what their diet consists of

You are fat lazy Arses
Who want everything for nothing

I have an inkling to fly over there visit jadey and then go and administer Marine Corps boot camp style PT to those jerks

[Jadey]

Let's do it EZ. I'll help you.

[jsconyers]

Emma, said: "I'm a student and don't have time to exercise" she said "We all want to lose weight to stop the abuse we get in the street, but we don't know how."

You don't want to know how! The information on dieting and exercise is readily available.

[clubchucker]

Originally Posted by Jadey

Or better still, give me your address. I will chase you bastards around with a metal stick. If I catch you, I hit you. KEEP RUNNING. Rinse and repeat every day. In two months, you won't BE so fat.

I feel kind of bad...I just laughed my ass off at something posted in the "sensitive discussions" area...but now THAT was funny.

I have a better idea to save the UK taxpayers money though; after looking at their pictures, just buy the entire family plane tickets to Ohio-they'd fit right in. They look like every Wal-Mart employee at my local store (not that I go there much).

[juwaack68]

Originally Posted by Jadey

YOU'RE FAT BECAUSE YOU LIVE ON FOOD MADE OF CARBS, SATURATED FAT AND MORE SATURATED FAT.

Grow your own vegetables in the Garden of the free council house you are living in.

Or better still, give me your address. I will chase you bastards around with a metal stick. If I catch you, I hit you. KEEP RUNNING. Rinse and repeat every day. In two months, you won't BE so fat.

How pathetic. GET UP! Walk around your house? And there is no friggin way they are ONLY eathing 3,000 calories a day. I think they are missing a zero in that number.