Is being fat a disability?

[hilts]

Some ignorance here.

A friend I grew up with had a rough upbringing.
His way of dealing with the abuse was by comfort eating.

26st Gaz got to.

I managed to get 6st off him with diet & exercise but he went back to old habits sadly.

He's like a alcoholic. He can eat and eat and his brain doesn't tell him he's had enough.

He has a genuine disability, one in which he can not just easily help himself.

I had him in the gym for many years, he eat what I eat, drank what I drank, had him doing all the sports I did.
He lost 6st but crept back into old ways.

He can work, walk and so on but obesity disables him in many ways you would only realise if you became obese or lived with someone who is obese.

Did he expect special treatment on buses though? that seems to be the conundrum here

 

[TCIB]

Fat c**t should've moved to the back seat. Double whammy of exercise and engine heat burning off calories.

Then everyone is waiting for the lard arse to get off the bus, the bus driver should have just driven past or around the fat ****

cuntbucket

Fucking fat ****, well your not now but still gonna call you it :-D

 

[TangerineSteve17]

Some ignorance here.

A friend I grew up with had a rough upbringing.
His way of dealing with the abuse was by comfort eating.

26st Gaz got to.

I managed to get 6st off him with diet & exercise but he went back to old habits sadly.

He's like a alcoholic. He can eat and eat and his brain doesn't tell him he's had enough.

He has a genuine disability, one in which he can not just easily help himself.

I had him in the gym for many years, he eat what I eat, drank what I drank, had him doing all the sports I did.
He lost 6st but crept back into old ways.

He can work, walk and so on but obesity disables him in many ways you would only realise if you became obese or lived with someone who is obese.

Hmm that still doesn't qualify. An alcoholic doesn't have a disability, he just has a dependence. They are both in the mind. It isn't really physical.

Now then, an obese schizophrenic... that's a conundrum. But you wouldn't want him sitting next to you on a bus, so that solves itself.

 

[BigOscar]

It's the classic case of being easier to just get up and let them have their way than to challenge them and risk making a complete nob of yourself if there is something wrong with them. Very little to be gained, plenty to lose .Your best case scenario is making a fat person feel bad about themselves, so you don't have to get up and move about 5 feet. That's not exactly a win in my book.

 

[hilts]

It's the classic case of being easier to just get up and let them have their way than to challenge them and risk making a complete nob of yourself if there is something wrong with them. Very little to be gained, plenty to lose .Your best case scenario is making a fat person feel bad about themselves, so you don't have to get up and move about 5 feet. That's not exactly a win in my book.

I tend to look out of the window or pretend i don't speak english, works with pensioners and tubbed up women

 

[Why Always Ste]

Some ignorance here.

A friend I grew up with had a rough upbringing.
His way of dealing with the abuse was by comfort eating.

26st Gaz got to.

I managed to get 6st off him with diet & exercise but he went back to old habits sadly.

He's like a alcoholic. He can eat and eat and his brain doesn't tell him he's had enough.

He has a genuine disability, one in which he can not just easily help himself.

I had him in the gym for many years, he eat what I eat, drank what I drank, had him doing all the sports I did.
He lost 6st but crept back into old ways.

He can work, walk and so on but obesity disables him in many ways you would only realise if you became obese or lived with someone who is obese.

Did he expect special treatment on buses though? that seems to be the conundrum here

Well he drives so no and in general he never expected special treatment... just the nature of his character really.
But he is disabled in ways such as in the work environment. Management more likely to promote healthier staff over him.

Disabled as he wanted to retrain but due to his obesity he was not allowed to do the HGV license due to his health.
So he can drive a car but not an HGV?

And out in public, he would be discriminated against, the comments he would get from people in the street, hurling abuse at him in reference to his obesity.

if he had a choice he'd look like me, slim and so on but that's never happened for him, been obese since he was about 8yrs old.
I got to know him as he's my mates younger brother.

 

[stony]

So this morning I was catching the bus to work.

On the bus hops a rather rotund gentleman in his mid forties. Probably weighing 140 to 150 kgs. He was large and in charge. The bus was probably about half full, there were ample seats everywhere. However, there are seats near the front of the bus that are reserved for the disabled, pregnant mothers, the elderly etc. Usually they're occupied by able bodied people, however whenever I've seen an expectant mother or someone on crutches come on board the people occupying these seats have stood up to make them available for them, as they should.

Anyway, the large gentleman comes on board and stares at these seats for about 20 seconds resulting in the people occupying them vacating them for him.

Is his request being unreasonable? I mean is being overweight a disability or an affliction that should warrant such preferential treatment? Or am I being too judgmental? Am I a fatist?

How do you know he wasn't disabled and fat ?

If he was disabled he would have one of those blue peter trolleys with wing mirrors, indicators, roof and two months shopping hanging off the side(usually lidl)

That's right, because all disabled people drive around on spacker wagons.

 

[TCIB]

Get your mates dog from back in the day stony, stick a pic of a cat on them and see the fuckers run :-D

 

[stony]

Some ignorance here.

A friend I grew up with had a rough upbringing.
His way of dealing with the abuse was by comfort eating.

26st Gaz got to.

I managed to get 6st off him with diet & exercise but he went back to old habits sadly.

He's like a alcoholic. He can eat and eat and his brain doesn't tell him he's had enough.

He has a genuine disability, one in which he can not just easily help himself.

I had him in the gym for many years, he eat what I eat, drank what I drank, had him doing all the sports I did.
He lost 6st but crept back into old ways.

He can work, walk and so on but obesity disables him in many ways you would only realise if you became obese or lived with someone who is obese.

Hmm that still doesn't qualify. An alcoholic doesn't have a disability, he just has a dependence. They are both in the mind. It isn't really physical.

Now then, an obese schizophrenic... that's a conundrum. But you wouldn't want him sitting next to you on a bus, so that solves itself.

Mental illness is a real thing. Just because you can't see that someone is ill it doesn't mean they aren't in pain.
This past year I've witnessed first hand someone suffering from mental illness. Give me a physical ailment every day of the fucking week.

 

[Why Always Ste]

Just so close to leaving this fucking forum....

The ignorance of some cunts on here.

My friend is disabled due to his obesity.

if you think different,PM me right now and come and meet me and I'll introduce you to Gaz and you can see how he lives his life.

you fucking twats