Fatties gonna fat....

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...its-fat-work-use-pay-3-000-dream-wedding.html

Stephen Beer and Michelle Coombe claim they are too fat to work
Steve, 45, weighs 31 stone and his partner Michelle, 43, is 23 stone
Couple claim more than £20,000 benefits each year because of weight
Were filmed by makers of Channel 5 show Benefits: Too Fat To Work
Producers followed them as they organised their wedding ceremony
It included canapes and a buffet provided by their favourite kebab shop
They're also seen enjoying £12 takeaway to celebrate losing a few pounds
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(gotta love the daily mail sometimes)

Though I'd usually advocate leaving people to chose how to live thier own lives I do wonder if some people on benefits might benefit from more of a nanny state approach - I mean there is do seem to be a big proportion of complete cluster****s out there... I can understand someone piling on a few pounds as they get older or perhaps through depression... but when you're at the point where you need carers to help you get dressed and can't walk/stand for more than a few minutes... well someone else is also enabling him to maintain his status as a disgusting waste of DNA... it isn't like he's able to waddle down the shops on his own and buy a bunch of pies.

Ditto to the scumbags who spend 25% of their disposable income on cigarettes and alcohol... there is a reason why schools are having to set up breakfast clubs for kids - it isn't necessarily 'austerity' 'the bedroom tax' or the evil Tories... it is commonly deadbeat parents who are unable to perform simple tasks like budgeting....

I do wonder if some sort of food voucher scheme could be introduced in place of a portion of benefits both to deal with the fat people who are so disgustingly fat they need carers and to also deal with the kids who are being sent to schools on empty stomachs. If they can't manage to look after themselves independently then maybe in the extreme cases the state does need to get involved... else it will cost us more in the long term.
 
Is Minosonill Soup what I think it is? Or something else?

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Fat *******s wanting both Beef and Turkey.
 
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Where's elmarko to absolve them due to their obviously deep seated psychological issues?
 
Probably a human right to be a blob.

I can't understand it I am overweight but it's completely my fault and I can easily do something about it(as I am).

Besides if someone is single I don't see why they can't spend 25% of their salary on fags and alcohol. If they've earnt it and they're paying into the system you can do as you wish as far as I'm concerned. If you're living off the state it's different. Assuming the cause of your woes are your own.
 
I am a strong believer that schools should be teaching life lessons to kids from early ages.

We feed the mind with maths, science and history but very little on nutrition, healthy eating, exercise, mortgages, debts, taxes, politics, etc. My daughter is 3 and will chose grapes and banana's over chocolate any day.

You're right in that dead beats don't manage money etc, but what if no one ever taught them how or the importance of it? it is a viscous circle where the kids end up like the parents.

Fyi, food vouchers etc would get sold for less than face value.

People should also be encouraged to grow more of their own fruit and veg.
 
AHarvey said:
I am a strong believer that schools should be teaching life lessons to kids from early ages.

We feed the mind with maths, science and history but very little on nutrition, healthy eating, exercise, mortgages, debts, taxes, politics, etc. My daughter is 3 and will chose grapes and banana's over chocolate any day.

You're right in that dead beats don't manage money etc, but what if no one ever taught them how or the importance of it? it is a viscous circle where the kids end up like the parents.

Fyi, food vouchers etc would get sold for less than face value.

People should also be encouraged to grow more of their own fruit and veg.
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Yeah I agree with you quite strongly. Although these people have a duty to themselves to look after themselves, there is a huge lack of education in nutrition, and I also think that the government should do more to regulate extremely unhealthy food.

Perhaps they could subsidise vegetable farming and nutritional education, and try and cut out shops like Iceland that make it far too easy for people to gorge on frozen crap.
 
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Fyi, food vouchers etc would get sold for less than face value.
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Yup probably... but some sort of additional solution ought to be explored instead of just letting them get on with it

these fat people with carers could perhaps have a portion of their benefits docked in return for a meals on wheels type service supplied by the carers(it might not reflect the true cost of such a service but getting them to lose weight would be a long term saving) - only getting their full benefits back once they've actually lost weight and can manage to walk/get dressed by themselves

ditto to the disorganized types who can't feed their kids a simple breakfast... extra funding for schools to provide breakfast for kids who have gone without and reduce the parents' benefits to cover it
 
Some large couches they have there. Look how small the two stick figure presenters look in the final picture. Reminds me of austin powers.

I don't eat the most healthy diet and i don't do any exercise but how someone gets to that fatness must take serious effort. You have to just be eaten a lot the whole time and never move. They probably also justify each other behaviour.
 
I have ditched friends because they've ended up like that. Not because of issues, but sheer gluttony. People who earn a decent living but end up having to go to special shops because they can't find clothes in normal places.

It's disgusting. I'd love to take some of these people for a lovely scenic drive through Africa and show them what some people have to live off, and yet these porkers simply eat and eat and eat. There is quite literally zero excuse for it. I'm hardly athletic myself but I at least have a bit of self pride. If I ever allowed myself to get that fat I'd put a bullet in my brain.

Obviously some people have eating disorders or turn to food during periods of hard ship but getting to that size out of sheer greed and lack of self control is disgusting.

Doing it on the taxpayer's expense is really just the icing on the cake. These people need help, not more food.
 
How much of it is poor education? As I was ogling cheap meat in Morrisons yesterday ( 1/3 off per kilo IIRC) I noticed a woman with a couple of young kids also looking at the meat, and obviously confused. I had to explain to her what it actually meant, and the price per kilo shown wasn't the total cost of the meat.
She didn't actually have a clue how to work it out, and to me that's a serious lack of life skills.
 
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