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Originally posted in the Politics Forum... As per request, I've made this subject available for jennypie to go wild on :D
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Family who are 'too fat to work' say £22,000 worth of benefits is not enough
A family of four with a combined weight of 83 stone say they are "too fat to work" and need more than the £22,000 they currently receive in benefits.
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.
(Here's the big 'WTF?' moment)
"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." |
Here's a Bacon Buttie.
And to think taxpayers are enabling this ENTIRE FAMILY to be irresponsible and lazy... |
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| terrytutone |
| Gross. I believe that we're on our way to a much healthier society though. Perhaps within the next decade eatting junk will be as socially unaccepted as smoking. |
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| Orko |
| quote: | EU bans use of 'Miss' and 'Mrs' (and sportsmen and statesmen) because it claims they are sexist
Using 'Miss' and 'Mrs' has been banned by leaders of the European Union because they are not considered politically correct.
Brussels bureaucrats have decided the words are sexist and issued new guidelines in its bid to create 'gender-neutral' language.
The booklet warns European politicians they must avoid referring to a woman's marital status.
This also means Madame and Mademoiselle, Frau and Fraulein and Senora and Senorita are banned.
Instead of using the standard titles, it is asking MEPs to address women by their names.
And the rules have not stopped there - they also ban MEPs saying sportsmen and statesmen, advising athletes and political leaders should be used instead.
Man-made is also taboo - it should be artificial or synthetic, firemen is disallowed and air hostesses should be called flight attendants.
Headmasters and headmistresses must be heads or head teachers, laymen becomes layperson, and manageress or mayoress should be manager or mayor.
Police officers must be used instead of policeman and policewoman unless the officer's sex is relevant.
The only problem words that do not fit into the guidelines are waiter and waitress, which means MEPs are at least spared one worry when ordering a coffee.
They have reacted with incredulity to the booklet, which has been sent out by the Secretary General of the European Parliament.
Scottish Tory MEP Struan Stevenson described the guidelines as 'political correctness gone mad'.
He said: 'This is frankly ludicrous. We've seen the EU institutions try to ban the bagpipes and dictate the shape of bananas, but now they seem determined to tell us which words we are entitled to use in our own language.
'Gender-neutrality is really the last straw. The Thought Police are now on the rampage in the European Parliament.
'We will soon be told that the use of the words "man" or "woman" has been banned in case it causes offence to those who consider 'gender neutrality' an essential part of life.'
West Midlands Conservative MEP Philip Bradbourn is calling on the Secretary General to reveal who authorised the publication of the booklet and how much it has cost.
He described it as 'a waste of taxpayers' money' and 'an erosion of the English language as we know it'.
'I will have no part of it. I will continue to use my own language and expressions, which I have used all my life, and will not be instructed by this institution or anyone else in these matters,' he said.
'I shall also expect the many translators who sit in the European parliament to translate accurately the language I use. I find this publication offensive in the extreme.
'The Parliament, by the publication of this document, is not only bringing itself as an institution into more disrepute than it already suffers, but it is also showing that it has succumbed to the politically correct clap-trap currently in vogue.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/wor...ims-sexist.html |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Haha omg. My hatred and disgust truly knows no bounds. People like this are a gigantic infected boil on society's ass. |
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| Yohan |
wow. what a bunch of ing oxygen thieves. loved how they tried to justify their laziness fatness
they deserve to be shot, then taken outside and twatted with a stick repeately |
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| petro |
| Hopefully one day we'll find a good use for fat people, like organ harvesting or pothole filler. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Just the sight of their stupid fat ing edematous faces fills me with so much rage. What the are they smiling about, other than fleecing taxpayers of their money? That cow on the right actually looks proud of herself. ing slobs. |
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| Yohan |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
Just the sight of their stupid fat ing edematous faces fills me with so much rage. What the are they smiling about, other than fleecing taxpayers of their money? That cow on the right actually looks proud of herself. ing slobs. |
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Jennie, take a pic of yourself right now. I want to see your rage face :disbelief |
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| DigiNut |
| The one on the left appears to have three asses. If so, that probably is some kind of disability. |
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| kotsy |
| :whip: :whip: :whip: :whip: :whip: :whip: |
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| FunkyCrew |
ing knobs
I'd make them ran around the block till they'd start sweating with blood |
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| Ania_xox |
Just a modest proposal...
They could be aid workers for third world countries and donate their bodies to starving cannibal tribes.
Or generate income for the state by swimming around in a pool and calling it British Sea World. |
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