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Obesity

Big Fat Target

Charles Oliver | 12.11.2015 6:00 AM

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London police are investigating claims that someone is handing cards to passengers on the Tube calling the recipients "a fat, ugly human" and saying they "disapprove of your wasting NHS money to treat your selfish greed."

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

    You don't give out cards. That's unsubtle. You tax the bad things they enjoy until they don't enjoy them anymore.

    1. Suthenboy   11 years ago

      Nah, that is a tax that can be avoided by simply not buying shit.

      It will be a fat tax based on BMI as measured during your mandatory NHS health checks. Pound for a pound?

  2. John C. Randolph   11 years ago

    So, some snotty little twat is going around begging to get someone to kick his ass. Why is this an issue for the police?

    -jcr

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