I'm a wobble-bottom, feather-bed me!

amcluesent

More than two thousand obese people claim benefits because they are too overweight to find a job

The numbers claiming disability benefits on the grounds that they are incapacitated by obesity have nearly doubled from 1,100 when Labour came to power to 2,040 last year.'

The annual cost to the taxpayer of paying the £89.80-a-week incapacity and severe disablement allowance to those with obesity as a “main disabling condition” now stands at nearly £10 million a year.

Nice one! Cheers! Pass the chip-buttie!

FAO anyone silly enough to work and pay sky-high tax in England's socialist utopia - you plonker!

wageslave

I wish you had just left it at the thread title, anything after that was bound to be a disappointment.

For phrase of the year, you have my vote. Unreservedly and forever.

I don't care what Cleavers comes up with.

carolt

Bad thread title, but good point.

I'm too lardy so I can't work has got to be one of the most pathetic excuses I've ever heard. Up there above 'my cat ate my homework' and 'the wrong kind of leaves on the line'.

Anyone else think of some really stupid 'ailments' they can use as the reason they can't get off their !!!!!! and work?

Prize for the best pathetic excuse!

Kohoutek

amcluesent wrote: »

FAO anyone silly enough to work and pay sky-high tax in England's socialist utopia - you plonker!

Exactly, Brown's Britain is like a nightmarish inverse American Dream – you're the sucker if you work or apply yourself in any way. Surely this can't go on with tax hikes and austerity on the horizon?

sjaypink

Ermmmm........


.........bit scared to say, but...........

if I was 44 stone I'd have trouble working............?

:cool:

lostinrates

I think in some cases it might not be the fat that makes it less possible to work, but any health issues behind it. Just seeing me you'd probably not realise what was going wrong inside, just a normal plump person.....now my pills have changed I'm struggling on super low calorie diets again, I'm already finding it hard to get through the day...hence on here more today ....just too darn tired...yet for me the first and most depressing syptom has always been weight.

silvercar

carolt wrote: »

Bad thread title, but good point.

I'm too lardy so I can't work has got to be one of the most pathetic excuses I've ever heard. Up there above 'my cat ate my homework' and 'the wrong kind of leaves on the line'.

Anyone else think of some really stupid 'ailments' they can use as the reason they can't get off their !!!!!! and work?

Prize for the best pathetic excuse!

Dealing with "the cat ate my homework":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwghabw4N80

dandy-candy

Omg that is so pathetic! Going by his BMI my husband is "morbidly obese" but he still works 6 days a week and at 45 years old can out snowboard any 18 year old by miles, is there no end to the excuses these people come up with??

carolt

I'm not saying that fat people shouldn't claim disability benefits, if the weight is a symptom of some underlying problem, obviously.

I'm referring to people with no other underlying health issues, who are just fat because they eat far too much.

Most obese people cope just fine with work - or if they don't, it's got precisely nothing to do with their weight.

It's just another excuse.

sjaypink

Desertfox wrote: »

Don't go ruining amcluesent sound bite with logic sjay.

Sorry.

He was right.

Round them all up, shoot the scum & and use the evidence of their sheer greed for lipstick & bubble gum

carolt

silvercar wrote: »

Dealing with "the cat ate my homework":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwghabw4N80

Love that!!! :rotfl: