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File this under "huh? and "what the...?"

From Mike Nelson's (Rifftrax, Mystery Science Theater 3000) Facebook updates:

Michael J Nelson
‎"Adult baby" is cleared of Social Security fraud. Whew, well, now he can get back to living a normal life. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/18/man-living-as-an-adult-baby-is-cleared-of-social-s/?page=all#pagebreak

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/18/man-living-as-an-adult-baby-is-cleared-of-social-s/

Something that makes this even more bizarre is his demand that Sen. Tom Coburn apologize to him for the investigation. This guy is a piece of work and I can't believe our precious tax dollars are being wasted on him...

Pretending to be a baby gets you disability allowance?

corpsesarefun wrote:Pretending to be a baby gets you disability allowance?

Sadly enough...yes. Even though the man was able to design and build adult sized "baby" furniture for his to use.

In the article it says that he suffers from mental and physical issues which make it difficult for him to maintain employment. He just happens to have this whole man baby thing he likes to do. We can't really say for sure if he does deserve government money without knowing the specifics of his case.

It isn't clear that his disability was being an adult baby.

Hmm. I think I may have physical and mental disability stemming from the fact that I played a game called Warhammer 40k. I now genuinely believe that I'm a Space Marine even though I acknowledge that I'm not and I feel that everyone else living in my country should pay for me to sit around at home maintaining this delusion.

Oh, and I'm suicidal and I may off myself if you don't.

If he can do some woodwork and maintain a website he can work at least part time.

So i should get Social Security Disability benefits cause I like to be spoon fed and taken care of like a baby. I think I should be considered unable to maintain a job because people like this make me want to gouge out my own eyeballs out of the sheer frustration, not very good for the workplace. I'm off to file my disability claim!

dogma wrote:It isn't clear that his disability was being an adult baby.

I have to assume that it was, otherwise the article is devoid of facts and, as a result, pointless.

daedalus wrote:
I have to assume that it was, otherwise the article is devoid of facts and, as a result, pointless.

Well, it contains plenty of fact, but it isn't clear that many of them are related to the nature of his disability. In any case, I suspect that the "adult baby" thing is a symptom of that disability, and not the disability itself.

corpsesarefun wrote:If he can do some woodwork and maintain a website he can work at least part time.

That might sound plausible, but honestly who would hire someone like that or retain them?

dogma wrote:It isn't clear that his disability was being an adult baby.

Yeah, by looking at the guy I would presume he is morbidly obese, and is claiming disability because he has an arse like a Rhino.

Personally, I dont think we should give any obese people disability. And we should tax them more. 1 dollar per month for every pound over 200 you weigh!

gak, if I had my way, I would lock them in a cage and only give them bread and water until they were skinny enough to squeeze through the bars for freedom!

There needs to be a mental health check on this guy.

Is his baby identity something the state mental health teams need to rid him of. If yes he needs help and needs to be cured.

If no then he isnt mentally ill and ought to look for work. If he cannot give evidence he is looking for work his benefits should be stopped until he does.

This baby-man has been on disability since he's about 16 years of age, so there's a lot more to it than just what people are seeing now all these years later.


Here's another weird one that seems a little more clear cut:

http://tosh.comedycentral.com/blog/2011/10/20/the-movement-is-growing

mattyrm wrote:

dogma wrote:It isn't clear that his disability was being an adult baby.

Yeah, by looking at the guy I would presume he is morbidly obese, and is claiming disability because he has an arse like a Rhino.

Personally, I dont think we should give any obese people disability. And we should tax them more. 1 dollar per month for every pound over 200 you weigh!

gak, if I had my way, I would lock them in a cage and only give them bread and water until they were skinny enough to squeeze through the bars for freedom!

Does your eloquence know no bounds? Anyway, here is another story about this guy before he was investigated. He clearly has mental issues, but I doubt that they are anything debilitating. He claims he can't hold a job because of "trauma from childhood" and "several mental disabilities", and he also threatened to kill himself if SSI payments were stopped. He needs to see a professional, and get off disability.

mattyrm wrote:

dogma wrote:It isn't clear that his disability was being an adult baby.

Yeah, by looking at the guy I would presume he is morbidly obese, and is claiming disability because he has an arse like a Rhino.

Personally, I dont think we should give any obese people disability. And we should tax them more. 1 dollar per month for every pound over 200 you weigh!

gak, if I had my way, I would lock them in a cage and only give them bread and water until they were skinny enough to squeeze through the bars for freedom!

uh, feth you? Its not like big people CHOOSE to be big.

Yes, I'm a fat guy. I also have a full time job, and am working on a bachelors degree ATM. Tax us more? why? We have enough problems without people like you saying dumb crap like that. You think we like the fact that we can't go out in public without morons like you saying crap like this, or muttering it under your breath?

I agree, its not a reason to be on disability... but come on. It doesn't give you a license to be an ass to everyone who is overweight.

Horst wrote:

mattyrm wrote:

dogma wrote:It isn't clear that his disability was being an adult baby.

Yeah, by looking at the guy I would presume he is morbidly obese, and is claiming disability because he has an arse like a Rhino.

Personally, I dont think we should give any obese people disability. And we should tax them more. 1 dollar per month for every pound over 200 you weigh!

gak, if I had my way, I would lock them in a cage and only give them bread and water until they were skinny enough to squeeze through the bars for freedom!

uh, feth you? Its not like big people CHOOSE to be big.

Yes, I'm a fat guy. I also have a full time job, and am working on a bachelors degree ATM. Tax us more? why? We have enough problems without people like you saying dumb crap like that. You think we like the fact that we can't go out in public without morons like you saying crap like this, or muttering it under your breath?

I agree, its not a reason to be on disability... but come on. It doesn't give you a license to be an ass to everyone who is overweight.

I see someone hasn't heard of Mattyrm's style of wit.

Chowderhead wrote:I see someone hasn't heard of Mattyrm's style of wit.

It catches us all off guard every once in a while.

Chowderhead wrote:
I see someone hasn't heard of Mattyrm's style of wit.

I don't think idiocy qualifies as wit, but to each his own.

This will be juicy.

To be fair, you do choose to be fat.

If you live a sedentary lifestyle you put on weight.

I've not been doing a lot recently and being back at Uni and all the drinking that goes with that i'm getting a tad fuller round the waist.

I have resolved to go the gym as I don't want to end up as a fleshy leviathan of a man.

Medium of Death wrote:This will be juicy.

There is no validity to the statement that big people don't choose to be big, plenty of fatties are that way because of their health habits. While a small minority may have a disability or legitimate health problem that causes obesity, let's not pretend like that is the real reason the majority of Americans are now overweight. It's because "we" like to eat fast food and "we" do not like to exercise.

Chowderhead wrote:

Horst wrote:

mattyrm wrote:

dogma wrote:It isn't clear that his disability was being an adult baby.

Yeah, by looking at the guy I would presume he is morbidly obese, and is claiming disability because he has an arse like a Rhino.

Personally, I dont think we should give any obese people disability. And we should tax them more. 1 dollar per month for every pound over 200 you weigh!

gak, if I had my way, I would lock them in a cage and only give them bread and water until they were skinny enough to squeeze through the bars for freedom!

uh, feth you? Its not like big people CHOOSE to be big.

Yes, I'm a fat guy. I also have a full time job, and am working on a bachelors degree ATM. Tax us more? why? We have enough problems without people like you saying dumb crap like that. You think we like the fact that we can't go out in public without morons like you saying crap like this, or muttering it under your breath?

I agree, its not a reason to be on disability... but come on. It doesn't give you a license to be an ass to everyone who is overweight.

I see someone hasn't heard of Mattyrm's style of wit.

Ahaha!

You dont "choose" to be big huh?

What, does matty break into your house and squirt liquidized cakes down your gullet while your asleep?

Ill tell you why I feel strongly about it.

1. People in the UK chastise drinkers and smokers and say "Oh they should pay for their own treatment!" whilst neglecting fatties, even though that third option costs us the most, and is IDENTICAL (addictive, but entirely self inflicted)

2. Cos fatty matty is prone to weight gain! I only have to look at a cupcake and my arse jiggles for a month!

I used to come home on 6 weeks leave, put 20 lbs on, and then have to bust my chops and eat 1000 calories a day for a few weeks till my uniform fit again, I fething love pies and cakes and booze, but I show some self control. Nay, I force myself to show some. gak, I would love to be able to drink beer every day and eat pies, but them's the breaks.

And clearly I was only fething about by the way, I would have thougt it was clear thanks to my wording, but gak, Im a modern human and its 2011, I have some obese friends and don't refuse to speak to them and lock them in my cellar, but seriously, don't go getting defensive like its somebody else's fault. If your fat, its your own fault.

I never give people any sympathy when something is self inflicted. Alcoholic, smoker, gambler, drug addict?

Matty doesn't care. Its your fault, sort your own life out and stop feeling sorry for yourself, and im sorry, but having more chins than a Chinese phone book puts your right up there with the junkies and the smokers.

Its your own fault mate, don't get angry at me because your lacking a little self control. Just go on a diet!

mattyrm wrote: What, does matty break into your house and squirt liquidized cakes down your gullet while your asleep?

Yes he does.

How can you afford all those round trips to the States?

Matty delivers the good stuff as per.

Excellent.

dogma wrote:It isn't clear that his disability was being an adult baby.

Isn't it clear that I'm gonna just completely f*** your ass up if you don't take three steps back?



Anyway, Adult Baby guy will likely have a reality TV show in the near future.

Also, I don't think there's really an excuse to be really overweight. I say this because my legs hurt from running right now, and I hate running.

I would also enjoy a big mac and half a cheesecake right now, but I'm going to tell myself no.

Seriously though, Im not trying to be a spanker about it, Im just having a craic, but do really fat people think that they are built differently to the rest of us?

Thanks to food being scarce when we evolved, we are trained to like high value foods that are filled with sugar and fat. Now they are in abundance, we are killing ourselves, Monkeys will kill each other for honey for example!

I fething love In N Out Burger, Ben and Jerrys ice cream, beer.. If I didnt struggle to fit into my jeans, thats all id fething eat!

But Monday - Thursday I run and get on my infernal rowing machine for emotional 10k efforts for at least an hour a day, and eat about 2000 cals a day, just so I can eat gak and get leathered all weekend and keep my weight at a steady 185. If I get up to 190, then its diet time and cursed running shoes until its gone, and then, back on the weekend binging and eating crap routine.

Thats how most 30 something men who aint super fat live. All of us like stuff thats unhealthy, So i find fat people's "its not my fault" argument very childish and irritating.

I LOVE PIE AND CAKE.






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Monster Rain wrote:

Also, I don't think there's really an excuse to be really overweight. I say this because my legs hurt from running right now, and I hate running.

I would also enjoy a big mac and half a cheesecake right now, but I'm going to tell myself no.

See, that's pretty much just what I typed, but much more eloquently put.

Dudes, this was just supposed to be a weird little story that was good for a laugh, not the kind of acrimonious crap one sees in the News & Rumors forum. So much for a little comic relief. *sigh*

BrassScorpion wrote:Dudes, this was just supposed to be a weird little story that was good for a laugh, not the kind of acrimonious crap one sees in the News & Rumors forum. So much for a little comic relief. *sigh*

B..B.... but I LIKE acrimonious! :(