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Only in Amerikka...
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| Shakka |
Oh, wait this isn't America, but it sure sounds like it could be.
We're too fat. Give us more money that we're entitled to.
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Philip Chawner, 53, and his 57-year-old wife Audrey weigh 24st. Their daughter Emma, 19, weighs 17st, while her older sister Samantha, 21, weighs 18st.
The family from Blackburn claim £22,508 a year in benefits, equivalent to the take-home pay from a £30,000 salary.
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 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.
Each week, Mr and Mrs Chawner, who have been married for 23 years, receive £177 in income support and incapacity benefit. Mrs Chawner is paid an extra £330-a-month disability allowance for epilepsy and asthma, both a result of being overweight.
Mr Chawner gets £71 a month after developing Type 2 diabetes because of his size. He was on a waiting list for a gastric band last year, but a heart condition made the operation unsuitable. Their daughter Samantha receives £84 in Jobseekers' Allowance each fortnight while Emma, who is training to be a hairdresser, gets £58 every two weeks under a hardship fund for low-income students.
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." |
What would Charles Grassley say? Oh, that might've been a bit-over the-top. |
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| jerZ07002 |
Damn - that's one ugly family! |
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| pmoisse |
| quote: | Originally posted by jerZ07002
Damn - that's one ugly family! |
+1!!!
I'm amazed that they can take themselves seriously. If you're unemployed, get off your ass and put down the "bacon butties" and go for a walk ALL DAY. |
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| Spam |
| quote: | | "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. |
Are you ing kidding me?
"We can't buy healthy food so we eat greasy bacon butties and pies. But the fat is in our GENES!"
Instead of getting a food allowance, they should be FedEx'd some lettuce and tomatoes. |
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| Shakka |
Bacon butties...
There is just a wee gray area between bacon butties and a fruit smoothie. |
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| The17sss |
| you should send this story over to the c0r... I guarantee jennypie will go ballistic when she reads it. |
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| Shakka |
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
you should send this story over to the c0r... I guarantee jennypie will go ballistic when she reads it. |
I don't traffic there. I don't know any of them. Don't want to be hit by the occasional "ZOMG!" "ROFLMAO" or "ORLY?"... |
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| Spam |
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
you should send this story over to the c0r... I guarantee jennypie will go ballistic when she reads it. |
We just had a 'fat debate' over in the TOTA (toronto) forum 2 months ago. She had a hey-day with it roflmao.
I'll move the story over there just for her ;) |
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| Magnetonium |
, that family should be embarassed of its pathetic existence, no offense.
Those idiots earn more money than I do! And I live on my own, working minimum wage jobs and in college (paying for it myself) working hard to keep up with no less than 90% average. And pay rent.
like this family pisses me off. But then again, millions of my fellow Canadians are on welfare who shouldn't be ... |
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| djjoshuaallen |
| id nail the one on the far left:tongue3 |
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| sean5 |
| why the k's in america? |
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