O.m.f.g.

tim_mcf · 02-Oct-06, 04:33 PM

http://online.wsj.com/public/article...html?mod=blogs

My favorite quote from the article:

"Now waiting on line at the buffet is no problem," she says. "You just sit there."

EliteLift · 02-Oct-06, 08:24 PM

lol! as shocked and annoyed as that made me, that was still really damn funny. i'm really hoping i never see anyone so fat or lazy they would rather ack like a disabled person.

**.V.** · 02-Oct-06, 08:43 PM

Is shooting the fat cow that runs into people and over their toes with the electic chair cart in the store allowed - like we owe them something because they can't get off their fat butts.

Remember, I can say this because I was one of those fat sorry SOB's who got to big to lift himself from the floor. As I was hurting my knee lifting the 650 pounder the other day, he was being all pitiful saying, "you just don't understand, you've never been overweight". When I found out he took to the chair and the rascal at 275, to the bed at 325 - I let him have it. Yeah, been there, done that, got the really big damn tee shirt for it, did something about it. Unlike some of them I meet, I even had an excuse - that's why I know there is no excuse.

People that lazy end up on disability, drawing a disability check, free food via EBT cards or food stamps and getting free healthcare because the let themselves get so bad.

**gymgirl** · 02-Oct-06, 08:57 PM

i see people on these things at my grocery store all the time. i never really judge them because, well i don't know the full story. they are overweight, but i always assumed there was something causing them to not be able to walk. obviously there are people who need these scooters; but i never really thought people would be on scooters just becuse they are lazy.

tim that quote was my favorite too. unbeliveable.

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Originally Posted by a_welch503

Remember, I can say this because I was one of those fat sorry SOB's who got to big to lift himself from the floor. As I was hurting my knee lifting the 650 pounder the other day, he was being all pitiful saying, "you just don't understand, you've never been overweight". When I found out he took to the chair and the rascal at 275, to the bed at 325 - I let him have it. Yeah, been there, done that, got the really big damn tee shirt for it, did something about it. Unlike some of them I meet, I even had an excuse - that's why I know there is no excuse.

People that lazy end up on disability, drawing a disability check, free food via EBT cards or food stamps and getting free healthcare because the let themselves get so bad.

welch, i've been meaning to tell you, i LOVE your story. i think what you have done is wonderful. it takes a very strong person to make a change like that and stick with it. you didn't make excuses, you made changes. i've always wanted to say things like that to those who complain and say 'poor me', but you actually have every right to tell people it can be done, you've been there done that- who can argue with that?

**.V.** · 02-Oct-06, 10:31 PM

No g-girl, it took a very weak person who didn't want to be a very weak person anymore. In my work, I've learned that the majority of those people do it just for the medicaid and welfare - that's what ticks me off the most...the way they play the system. Yes, I do say the majority because you see them in a wheelchair while out in public but riding 4 wheelers and stuff like that when out of the public eye - until their sorryness catches up to them and they get so that they really are confined to the wheelchair.

Yes, there is good money in it too. I'm organizing my end of year paperwork starting now so that I'm ready to do my taxes in January. I crunched some numbers and saw that if I had kept going the way I was, accepted the chair, stopped working, went on disability - between the social security, my retirement (with disability option) I've paid into since I was 14 when I started working, and my disability insurance I've been paying since I was 18 I would be raking in a little over 3K more each month than I am now by working 24 hour shifts. Then there's the medicare for the disabled, the medicaid for the disabled (I wouldn't get the medicaid because I own my home and it's paid for and I planned ahead for retirement, choosing to be poor now so that I can be rich when I'm old and have time to enjoy it).

Funny, the ones that sit home and draw disability get rent paid, get free medical care, get food bought, drive new vehicles. I work my butt off, struggle to keep good health, and drive an old Nissan.

EliteLift · 03-Oct-06, 01:54 AM

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Originally Posted by a_welch503

Funny, the ones that sit home and draw disability get rent paid, get free medical care, get food bought, drive new vehicles. I work my butt off, struggle to keep good health, and drive an old Nissan.

i couldn't agree more. it is so odd to me that some people would use are species vast technological advances as an opurtunity to waste away. even if its makeing your life financially easy, you might as well be locked in a cage in my opinion.

etothepii · 06-Oct-06, 10:19 AM

Just one more thing that proves humanity is doomed.

**Lady C** · 08-Oct-06, 02:09 PM

I thought this was appropriate for this thread. This is what I think of when I see all the people lined up at the "All-you-can-eat buffets"