“Being a professional slob rarely pays – that is until now.
A company is advertising for a couch potato to do nothing and eat more.
It will pay almost £24,000 to a “worker” with a big appetite who is happy to eat 400 extra calories every day in high fat meals such as chips and pizzas, to test the fat binding properties of a weight loss product.
The position is open to men and women and the successful applicant will have their calorific intake and weight closely monitored by medics.
A spokesman for the firm Proactol Ltd said that while their fat binder was already clinically proven, they wanted to test it in the real world.
The job ad, which has already gone up in UK job centres, reads: ‘We know it’s incredible, but it’s true.
We are willing to pay you £23,750 a year to continue doing EXACTLY what you do every single day, and all we ask in return is that you eat 16 per cent more calories a week – or 400 more calories a day – whilst introducing Proactol into your diet.’”
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For £24k I could be persuaded to increase my diet
Goodness… they should’ve advertised that over in America … that’s a nation that’ll jump at the chance.
this just goes to show… the world is a just place afterall and that we are not as close to the brink of insanity as we once thought…
Best…cat photo…EVER!
Euurgh I could not do that.
If they did this in America, the successful applicant would complete the job — and then sue the company for damages and to cover the cost of their health care.
lol piccie
Couldn’t, Shouldn’t, Wouldn’t !!!!!
Like the pic but that’s a TERRIBLE photoshop job on the bowl of crisps!
Excellent point Will… it is a dodgy Photoshop effort! The drinks cans aren’t too great either. : )
I would like to be considerd for the Job Vacancy for a couch Potato thanks. As I have been out of work for the last. 15 months. I feel I am a couch already thanks Stephen Goldstraw.
Humans are currently undertaking massive evolutionary changes.., take gaming for example…children’s thumbs are more “padded” and “thicker” in width because of the amount of game time, which is crazy really..so the UK is getting bigger.,.in the waist size! i’m slim and I would like the oppertunity to do this, as it would be a challenge and an eye opener to how people who are bigger then me differ in their general lifestyle. Are bigger people happy? I’m not, and I seek happiness…will this enlighten me? make me love me for who I am now? I hope this makes sense.
Last year I also heard NASA was paying someone to stay on bed for 6 months or something really exagerated. It was huge amount of money but you really couldnt move out of the bed, not evn for the bathroom.