Even though it might sound heartless i'm with the AP on this one.I've no sympathy with anyone who is obese just like i've no sympathy with alcoholics or druggies.At the end of the day it's self inflicted and as for the mickey taking,well that's just life that will never stop cruel as it is.I had quite a bad stammer in my school days(still present but not as bbbbaaaadddd )and i got the p$ss taken out of me on a regular basis but i've learnt as i've got older to control my temper and just shrug my shoulders.I even joke about it myself.I used to work with 3 fellow stammerers and you should have heard the conversations we had!What would be for normal speaking people a 5 mins natter would be half an hour for us lot

I still Laugh when Billy Connolly does the "Broken Ar$e Walk"....
or the "bloke that works on the car park with the big shoe walk"

funny.....in fact the only funny thing on his latest DVD ...an absolute shame how the mighty have fallen....

No joking matter when you're diabetes has caused you to go blind and have you're feet amputated. That's why the eye tests and feet checks are free, so it costs you nothing to stay healthy.

Frankie Boyle,absolute stand up hero

If you dont like his material,dont listen/read it...simple as that.

They ain't free though, are they??.....Taxpayers having to stump up for fattys isn't funny, neither is stumping up for others who abuse themselves.

in the words of the legendary Eric Idle
Slim
A smile, 2 trollies and an excuse me!

Depends whether you beleive in the principle of a National Health Service and how you define 'others who abuse themselves'.
Does that include people with cardio-vascular disease, stroke sufferers, those with cancer, bulimics, anorexics, alcoholics and those with a substance abuse problem?

No, I have no problem with any folk receiving NHS treatment for any ailment, it just hacks me off when I hear people laughing about getting free treatment for their self induced illnesses, as though its a deserved perk......Ironically, these same people then whinge when getting 'picked on' by general society in the form of name calling or simple p!s$ taking.....Surely being called a fat ba**ard is a small price for their little perks?....

i wonder what the root cause of the self-abuse is though? if somebody grows up in awful circumstances, poverty, abuse etc. and falls into heroin addiction are you going to begrudge the funding for the first person who has ever cared for him in his life and who might be his only chance to cure his addiction, get him back into society and get him a job?

sorry angry pirate, read your later post and agree with you

and dj birchy i know you were speaking light heartedly but i doubt many people think the complications of type 2 diabetes are a perk of being tubby

Didnt think much of it to be honest,I generally dont find sketches funny.

Both his DVD's are hilarious,and his book is a good read.

Im going to see him in Sheffield next week,cant bloody wait...

Diabetes isn't just something "fattys" get I wouldn't call Olympic rower Steve Redgrave a "fatty"