I'm too fat to work! Government moneys please!

[Dire]

Forget AIG - Here's Some Real Outrage

 

Britain brought us the Fab Four. Now we have the Fat Four. If you think American taxpayers have something to scream about, imagine how our friends across the pond feel about this story:

 

Members of a British family of four say they are too overweight to work and they want more benefits. Now that, my friends, is chutzpah.

 

The London Telegraph reports that 53-year-old Philip Chawner, his 57-year-old wife Audrey, along with daughters Emma, 19, and Samantha, 21, weigh a total of 1,162 pounds. That's more than a half ton. The parents haven't worked in 11 years, and the family currently collects nearly $31,000 a year in benefits. They claim their weight problem is hereditary—they do not choose to be this way—and the money coming in isn't enough to live on. "What we get barely covers the bills and puts food on the table," says Mr. Chawner. "It's not our fault we can't work. We deserve more." Well, apparently there is quite a bit of food making it to the table. The Telegraph says each member of the family consumes 3,000 calories a day. "We have cereal for breakfast, bacon butties for lunch, and microwave pies with mashed potato or chips for dinner," says the mother, who adds that healthy foods are "too expensive".

 

Bacon butties? Only the Brits could come up with a name like that. Turns out they're sandwiches.

 

The Telegraph details some of the exact benefits the family receives from the government:

 

Mom and Dad together: $1,000 a month in income support and incapacity benefit.

 

Mom only: $461 a month disability allowance for epilepsy and asthma, the result of being overweight.

 

Dad only: $100 a month for developing Type 2 diabetes--he was on a waiting list for a gastric band but a heart condition stopped that.

 

Samantha: $235 a month in "Jobseekers' Allowance".

 

Emma: $162 a month to help pay for her schooling as a hairdresser.

 

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

 

 

http://www.cnbc.com/id/29755862/

[Desum]

LOL... God dammit i hate my high metabolism.. If i knew i could get money for being fat i'd be spending my weekly allowance on those 100 packs of slim jims that i oh so love.

 

Nonetheless, sucks for those Brits... Though, if Britain has to pay for fatasses, pretty soon American airplane companies will be required to give an extra seat or two per fatty and every fatass will have their own page in the Stimulus Bill.

[Chêvouÿx]

Spoiled

 

Fucking

 

Idiots.

 

 

'Ts about it.

[Dire]

Jesus christ...I have nothing against big people but get the FUCK OFF YOUR FAT ASS before I help you! I know people who are 500 pounds and STILL manage to work!

 

"I'm a student and don't have time to exercise' date='" says Emma. "We all want to lose weight to stop the abuse we get in the street but we don't know how."[/quote']

 

Start walking to school fatty! If you were serious about losing weight, you could do it WITHOUT exercise. Cut-back soda intake and you can seriously lose 10-15 pounds in a month or less.

 

We have cereal for breakfast, bacon butties for lunch, and microwave pies with mashed potato or chips for dinner," says the mother, who adds that healthy foods are "too expensive".

 

Yes! Fruits and veggies are SO DAMN EXPENSIVE now! Jesus christ! Replace your chips with fruits. You can buy quite a few apples, oranges, and bananas for the price of a bag of fucking chips. Unless they're talking about 'smart' food that is processed to hell with salt and other crap - then yeah, thats expensive. Those meals really aren't that much healthier for you anyways.

 

I think the only way that they will lose weight is if they have the government pay for a personal chief lol. This is the ONLY type of situation where I support universal healthcare. Why? Because the government will force them to lose weight. They should make them try to lose weight now but they won't.

 

They deserve the fatty mcfat-fat jokes.

[Chêvouÿx]

To the family:

 

[Dire]

Going to classes does NOT take up your whole day. Her whole day probably consists of classes in the morning, sitting her fatass on the couch and eating chips for the rest of the day. Like i said, if you were serious about weight loss, you would make room for it. And being a student is not a good excuse. I know someone who was going for 25 credits and STILL managed to go to the gym.

[Italian Jew]

How are they not able to work? I've seen some gargantuan creatures working all over the place in the US. They tend to flock towards food jobs, being cooks or fast food employees. Then there are your ornery grocery/convenience store employees.

 

I say cut them off. they will either truly not be able to afford food and lose some pounds, or they will find some work/eat each other.

[Ms. Blargh]

lmao hereditary problem my ass

 

Britain is too nice to its obese

[SpEeD]

How are they not able to work? I've seen some gargantuan creatures working all over the place in the US. They tend to flock towards food jobs, being cooks or fast food employees. Then there are your ornery grocery/convenience store employees.

 

I say cut them off. they will either truly not be able to afford food and lose some pounds, or they will find some work/eat each other.

 

this please

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this please

 

Mwahaha... A cure for world hunger! If they're too fat to work.. lets just take a little fat off their bones