Comments on: “Disabled” Fat People Demand More

By: Caveman

Caveman — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:49:23 +0000

Re: fat people at Walmart…

Yea, I’m one of those fat people with a handicap plate. Both of my knees were wrecked while in the Marine Corps 32 years ago. I occasionally run into one of the dumb-ass omniscients that ‘know’ what’s wrong with me and just have to tell me about it.

It’s good to know that the two years of recovery and decades of daily pain would go away if I just exercised some self control. Thanks buddy!

By: Trish

Trish — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:10:19 +0000

Wayne–
That $43,000 is a good $16,000 more than my family gets, and we manage to keep going on that. (I mean gross, too, and the mortgage and car payment, but I concede there are only three of us.)
I don’t know what’s gotten into people. Or maybe I do know, and I just don’t want to admit it.

By: WayneB

WayneB — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:32:45 +0000

“So “fruit and veg” are too expensive but bacon and microwave-ready convenience foods are cheap and affordable?”

I don’t know about the bacon, but if the “pies” they are referring to are like Pot Pies, they can be had VERY cheaply.

On the other hand, $43,000 is nearly my GROSS salary, on the take-home from which I support MY family of 4, as well as having to drive to work every day and maintain the car I drive. I’d like to know what their other bills are like, and why, because I could make quite an easy living on that kind of money and not having to work.

By: Artruen

Artruen — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:07:01 +0000

This is not that amazing a story, in any walmart parking lot, you watch a few ‘handicapped’ people get out of their cars and you can’t help but think ‘when did morbid obesity become a handicap? These folks need to walk the parking lot. I don’t.’

By: Trish

Trish — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:19:03 +0000

Jeepers. Change the hair color of the one on the right, and that could be me. I’m not disabled. I’m fat because I take in more calories than I burn off. My family was shamed to have to get an emergency food stamp allotment last year. We spent $80 and a month of our lives trying to get a $127 “emergency benefit.” We had to sell some of our personal possessions just to pay the bills.
Maybe I need to move to England, too.

By: J David

J David — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:40:26 +0000

Rachel’s been pretty busy trying to get broadband, and laughing at the road signs and canned goods…pretty funny stuff!

By: skell

skell — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:51:13 +0000

So “fruit and veg” are too expensive but bacon and microwave-ready convenience foods are cheap and affordable?

With reasoning like that, no wonder the youngest daughter says they all want to lose weight but “we don’t know how.”