EU court rules fatness now officially a disability

[Stubby]

From the age of 15 up to the age of 50 I had a 24" waist a 6 pack 15" biceps and all the self look at me stuff that goes with it . Then at the age of 50 I was smashed to bits by a car . I am 62 now and have a 32"waist 12" biceps ( on one side only , nothing worth measuring on the other ) and skinny legs . . I want to be as active as my brain tells me but my physical condition wont allow it . What I describe to you is lame compared to people who were fit as a butchers dog but have suffered debilitating injury's serving their country . I did claim incapacity benefit for a time , I was in a wheel chair . Being how I was I wanted to get back to how I was before but that will never be . There are genuine cases out there . Not every one is a genuine case but some are . ......

[Billhook]

From the age of 15 up to the age of 50 I had a 24" waist a 6 pack 15" biceps and all the self look at me stuff that goes with it . Then at the age of 50 I was smashed to bits by a car . I am 62 now and have a 32"waist 12" biceps ( on one side only , nothing worth measuring on the other ) and skinny legs . . I want to be as active as my brain tells me but my physical condition wont allow it . What I describe to you is lame compared to people who were fit as a butchers dog but have suffered debilitating injury's serving their country . I did claim incapacity benefit for a time , I was in a wheel chair . Being how I was I wanted to get back to how I was before but that will never be . There are genuine cases out there . Not every one is a genuine case but some are . ......

 

 

I do not think anyone here is saying that there are not genuine cases. and those people should be given all the help possible. Many of them, including yourself, have a good attitude to life and do their best to overcome their problems and all the best to them for that.

 

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I went to Skegness the other day which must be the mobility carriage centre of the universe. It is really quite dangerous to walk down the street window shopping as you are likely to be mown down by one. Many of them seem to be enormous girls who are still in their thirties.

 

I also spent a week cycling around Copenhagen recently. What a contrast! Firstly I am quite fit and cycle regularly and I was trying hard, but unsuccessfully, to chase the beautiful blondes with their hair streaming out behind, but I could barely keep up with the grannies on their bikes. There is only one speed which is full speed!

Not a mobility carriage in sight in the whole week and there was one old man who must have been in his nineties, riding a tricycle.

On the front was a special frame in which he carried his crutches!

Now that's what I call spirit!

[TIMON]

I went to Skegness the other day which must be the mobility carriage centre of the universe. It is really quite dangerous to walk down the street window shopping as you are likely to be mown down by one. Many of them seem to be enormous girls who are still in their thirties.

 

We really do live in a very sick world...

NHS mobility (or obesity) scooters for people who are gorging themselves literally to death on food.

 

Then millions starving to death without access to clean water.

 

I think mankind in general has become disabled.

[Bren.]

I did 😔

Man that's rough, of all the pleasures of life, the enjoyment of food would be in my top 5 of ones I wouldn't want to lose.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

The really worrying thing (I think) is the acceleration in rates of registered disabled in the UK. I did have a quick look to see if I could find the figures to compare '70s. '80s, '90s, '00s. Couldn't find what I was after but I recall looking it up a while back and finding an exponential increase.

 

So what does that tell us? As a nation we're getting sick real quick and in ever increasing numbers? If so, what is the government doing about it? If not, what is the government doing about it?

 

I still believe the greatest crime is being committed by those that have the choice and they choose to deprive those that don't have the choice.

[Mull]

The really worrying thing (I think) is the acceleration in rates of registered disabled in the UK. I did have a quick look to see if I could find the figures to compare '70s. '80s, '90s, '00s. Couldn't find what I was after but I recall looking it up a while back and finding an exponential increase.

 

So what does that tell us? As a nation we're getting sick real quick and in ever increasing numbers? If so, what is the government doing about it? If not, what is the government doing about it?

 

I still believe the greatest crime is being committed by those that have the choice and they choose to deprive those that don't have the choice.

 

 

You actually sound a bit left wing!

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

You actually sound a bit left wing!

 

 

You must have been having a quiet night looking up old threads last night fella?

 

Don't be too shocked, your assessment is fairly accurate and I accord with Big J's following observations.

 

I absolutely and fundamentally support the provision of a welfare safety system in a so called advanced society.

 

But that's not what we currently have in UK.