A Disability Category ALL Governments Should Recognize For Welfare Eligibility

[JohnBckWLD]

Swedish Man Gets Benefits For Heavy Metal Addiction

Originally Posted by The Local: Swedish News In English

...The results of a psychological analysis enable the metal lover (Roger Tullgren, age 42) to supplement his income with state benefits...

"I have been trying for ten years to get this classified as a handicap," Tullgren told The Local.

"I spoke to three psychologists and they finally agreed that I needed this to avoid being discriminated against..."

His heavy metal lifestyle was classified as a disability, an assessment that entitles him to a wage supplement from the job centre...

"Some might say that I should grow up and learn to listen to other types of music but I can't. Heavy metal is my lifestyle," he said.

No mention of what type of metal is currently causing this poor guy's illness. If it's...

SPOILER:

• The Death Metal of Fecal Corpse and their magnus opus "We Gangbanged Your Mom... Again!"
  or
• Grindcore Metal of Funeral Rape and their masterpiece "Chainsaw in the Cunt"
  or
• The Splatter Thrash Metal of Carnivorous Vagina, whose musical & artistic prowess is untouched.

...Then I'm afraid I have to agree with those Nordic bureaucrats & psychologists: This guy's definitely disabled.

[blondebear]

Interesting spoiler ya got there.

[ultrafilter]

I don't really have anything intelligent to say, so I'm just gonna throw out as close as we have to a metal emoticon.

\m/\m/

[Darkhold]

heh I once hung out with a girl who was 'discriminated against' because she was into bad 80's metal. She was a friend of a friend so we ended up in the same groups a few times and even went 'cruising' which is the most boring pastime in the world but she just loved. It was bizarre to hear her go on and on about how people held it against her and how tormented she was. Yeah because guys (and society in general) really has a problem with super hot girls in leather jackets and tight pants. Nobody could care less what she listened to. I hope she gets her disability check as well her lifestyle of sleeping all day and chatting all night in her Faster Pussycat chat room.

Btw this was in 1997 so she wasn't even listening to anything all that different then the crap that other people were into anyway.

[Argent Towers]

Originally Posted by ultrafilter

I don't really have anything intelligent to say, so I'm just gonna throw out as close as we have to a metal emoticon.

\m/\m/

Well played.

[ultrafilter]

From The Onion:

LOGANSPORT, IN—Area music enthusiast Curt Webber, 22, is completely open to enjoying "all kinds" of metal, the self-described eclectic iconoclast said Monday.

"Some people are so narrow-minded and uptight about music, but I'm into a wide variety of bands—everything from Sabbath to Disturbed," Webber said. "Whether it's the old stuff, like vintage Maiden or Priest; new stuff, like Mastodon or the Sword; the virtuosic neoclassicism of DragonForce; the unpolished rawness of, say, Motörhead; a multiplatinum band like the Crüe; an alternative act like Clutch; or just a local outfit like Soldiers of Carnage here in town—power metal, speed metal, glam metal, thrash metal, death metal, nü metal, metal-core, or even Norwegian black metal—it's all music to me, man."

Webber conceded that the one musical style he simply cannot abide is rap metal.