Controversial...
Was just listening to Jeremy Vine's show on R2 and they had an obese family of 4, totalling 80st in weight. One was 15st so lord knows what the rest were like.

Their argument is essentially that they claim £x a year benefits because they're all too fat to work because their obesity is hereditary.

Discuss...
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 2 Apr 2009, 13:53, 22 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Fat cunts

Lock them in room and they can eat each other, last one alive wins
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 2 Apr 2009, 14:01, Reply)

I know
quite possibly the fattest man in England.

He looks like a yank in a burger bar - he has to get trousers made to fit and I swear you'd get 6 chubby lager drinkers in each leg (well, ok, 3 in each).

Yet...he still goes to work. He even washes up at the pub on Sunday's for an extra few quid.

I saw those that you mention on the BBC website, and this bloke would eat them all for breakfast and then go for a fry up.

So how is it that they are too fat to work, yet this bloke who is bigger can still get off his fat arse and earn a few quid in the week and do extra at weekends?
(dchurch bah, Thu 2 Apr 2009, 14:17, Reply)

People like this make it difficult for the people who do have problems with hereditary obesity.
Even if you don't eat a great deal, if you eat the wrong things and don't move off the sofa then you will get fat. It's pure ignorance and laziness on their part.
( girlinthehole, Thu 2 Apr 2009, 14:18, Reply)

Lazy fucking fat cunts
how old is the 15st one?

because 15st ain't that much.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 2 Apr 2009, 14:19, Reply)

@Vipros
It is if you're only 4ft.
( girlinthehole, Thu 2 Apr 2009, 14:25, Reply)

I am as fond of a pie as the next man and could easily do with losing a stone or two
but that's unforgiveable - they are lazy thieves.

Just how hard have they tried to get a job or lose weight?
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Thu 2 Apr 2009, 14:29, Reply)

The report I read
said that they get 22k in benefits, roughly equivalent to a 30 grand salary and they say it's not enough and they need more because "vegetables are too expensive"

I shop in Sainsbury's, not known for being the cheapest of supermarkets, but even there it's the vegetables that are the cheapest foodstuff by far. What they meant to say was "all those pies and cakes and junk food we fill our gaping, drooling maws with every hour of every day are expensive". Lazy, fat cunts.

I am fully behind the Welfare State as an institution, it's vital for State benefits to get to the people that need them and these freebooting, workshy fuckers are draining it for no good reason.

They are *not* too fat to work, whether it's hereditary or not. It's not like sitting behind a desk and working a mouse needs you to be in Olympic shape, is it?
( Kroney, Thu 2 Apr 2009, 14:40, Reply)

Veg
is even cheaper at green grocers.

Took the kids out a while ago on a picnic. Went to a butchers/bakers/green grocers and a little farm shop.

In total I spent 15 quid. We were still eating it 4 days later there was so much of it.

If I'd gone to MacDonalds 15 quid would have just about done it for the 4 of us, and we'd have been hungry for real food within the hour.
(dchurch bah, Thu 2 Apr 2009, 14:49, Reply)

everyone who has said something in this thread is right
they should be culled to feed other, less fortunate families.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 2 Apr 2009, 14:57, Reply)

I'm 15 stone
but at (almost) 6ft that only puts me in the slightly porky zone (i'm quite well built as well as being a bit tubby). But if you were only 5ft tall then 15st would be seriously lardy.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Apr 2009, 14:59, Reply)

Even at 5ft, I don't think that 15st
comes even remotely close to being "too fat to work"

I want to pummel those fuckers in the face.

I was a bit over 16st a while ago, and had been for a while. I was a fat cunt, and it was my own fault so I didn't whinge about it. Instead I started on the "smoke yourself thin" diet, which helped a great deal.

Contributing in taxes, rather than living of the hard working.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 2 Apr 2009, 15:01, Reply)

I'm 14 stone and 8 pounds and as fit as a butchers dog.
Ok I'm nearly 6ft tall and built like a brick shit house but I used to be a lot bigger and put in the hard work to shift it.

They are just lazy.
( girlinthehole, Thu 2 Apr 2009, 15:13, Reply)

I can't
get my head round it.

Why wouldn't you want to do something else, other than sitting in front of a no-doubt huge TV screen watching Jeremy Kyle or similar bollocks eating pizza and burgers all day.

You could hardly look back on your life and say "I'm really proud of what I did in my life" could you?
(dchurch bah, Thu 2 Apr 2009, 15:24, Reply)

Obese Family here
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7970491.stm
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Thu 2 Apr 2009, 16:51, Reply)

Regrettably
The conclusion that I reach from reading Himjims link is that these are people who aspire to celebrity, and are getting themselves plastered all over the media by exploiting possibly the only real talent that they have - getting fat.

I feel neither outrage nor sorrow for this misbegotten family and their spurious claims upon the state. They've achieved - in a minor way - the accolade that they've sought and are doubtless basking in the opprobrium that their media exposure has helped bring on.

This isn't a cry for help, it's a cry for publicity and the fact that I'm sitting here typing this now illustrates that it's worked.

Or I could take my Wurzel Gummidge media-cynical head off, put on my rather less tolerant head and say "Lazy fat cunts. From fucking Burnley, so I expect little better."
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 2 Apr 2009, 18:02, Reply)

Are they from Burnley?
Well that says it all.


*shakes head*


Can I also say that being fat is not a crime nor should the person be victimized for their size but.........sitting on your arse all day at my expense and making excuses for the fact you're a lazy cunt is.
( girlinthehole, Thu 2 Apr 2009, 18:48, Reply)

BGB
I'm fat.

I shouldn't be - I'm paid to march up and down a very big warehouse all day, and when I finish I take my two very energetic dogs for at least a four mile walk because they need it.

But I'm not idle, which is probably the point here.

I suppose that an exercise regime for my flabby guts might resolve the problem because there's certainly no excess on my legs or arse.

So no - being fat certainly isn't a crime, but being a lazy, attention seeking chav - like these people - certainly ought to be.

Bemoan your taxes now but think what folk like this will load upon the NHS in years to come.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 2 Apr 2009, 19:08, Reply)

@Dissapointed.
What you have there is your common or garden beer belly : )
( girlinthehole, Thu 2 Apr 2009, 20:25, Reply)

But I don't drink beer!
Wine. Can you have a wine belly?

A Sainsbury's cheese belly?

A pickled onion belly?

I'm fairly certain that you can't have a Rothman's belly.

They're my only vices so why am I still fat?
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 2 Apr 2009, 20:43, Reply)

Ok then you're just apple shaped.
Big belly and skinny legs. Quite common in the male populace. As long as you're healthy, but beware of heart issues because you're storing your fat near your heart.
( girlinthehole, Thu 2 Apr 2009, 21:07, Reply)

Apples don't have legs...
Are you not thinking of chickens?

Despite the fat tummy I had a full medical a couple of weeks ago and, much to my surprise, turned out to be in utterly splendid order.

Obviously that's a superficial check up, failing to take into account deeper malaise...
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 2 Apr 2009, 21:33, Reply)

Hmm. Saw that story a while back
Such families tend to give those of us on benifits for an actual genuine reason (I.e trying to find work, disability ect) a seriously bad name. And as for the price of veg? It's a damn sight cheaper to buy some veg, a couple of tins of tomatoes and maybe some lean meat than it is to buy a ready meal or cake. I know this because that's what I buy, being massively poor and all. I couldn't afford to buy readymeals every day. And while fat is a hereditory issue, yes - that doesn't mean that nothing can be done about it. While they may never be stick thin, I'm pretty sure if they bothered to eat properly and maybe took up some exersise they'd certainly be a lot healthier if not much more skinny. To be honest what I realy hate about this story is the fact that some people seem to assume that damn near everyone on benifits is like this, without of course realising that if this was the case the family in question would be such a normal thing that the story would not have made the newspapers.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Fri 3 Apr 2009, 8:42, Reply)