June 20, 200719 yr Don't know if this should go in the music forum, but...Man gets sick benefits for heavy metal addiction A Swedish heavy metal fan has had his musical preferences officially classified as a disability. The results of a psychological analysis enable the metal lover to supplement his income with state benefits. Roger Tullgren, 42, from HÃÆÃâÃâässleholm in southern Sweden has just started working part time as a dishwasher at a local restaurant. Because heavy metal dominates so many aspects of his life, the Employment Service has agreed to pay part of Tullgren's salary. His new boss meanwhile has given him a special dispensation to play loud music at work. "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." Roger Tullgren first developed an interest in heavy metal when his older brother came home with a Black Sabbath album in 1971. Since then little else has mattered for the 42-year-old, who has long black hair, a collection of tattoos and wears skull and crossbones jewelry. The ageing rocker claims to have attended almost three hundred shows last year, often skipping work in the process. Eventually his last employer tired of his absences and Tullgren was left jobless and reliant on welfare handouts. But his sessions with the occupational psychologists led to a solution of sorts: Tullgren signed a piece of paper on which his heavy metal lifestyle was classified as a disability, an assessment that entitles him to a wage supplement from the job centre. "I signed a form saying: 'Roger feels compelled to show his heavy metal style. This puts him in a difficult situation on the labour market. Therefore he needs extra financial help'. So now I can turn up at a job interview dressed in my normal clothes and just hand the interviewers this piece of paper," he said. The manager at his new workplace allows him to go to concerts as long as he makes up for lost time at a later point. He is also allowed to dress as he likes and listen to heavy metal while washing up. "But not too loud when there are guests," he said. The Local spoke to an occupational psychologist in Stockolm, who admitted to being baffled by the decision. "I think it's extremely strange. Unless there is an underlying diagnosis it is absolutely unbelievable that the job centre would pay pay out. "If somebody has a gambling addiction, we don't send them down to the racetrack. We try to cure the addiction, not encourage it," he said. Henrietta Stein, deputy employment director for the SkÃÆÃâÃâÃÂ¥ne region, is also puzzled by the move; "an interest in music" is not usually sufficient to qualify for wage benefits. "Certain cases are confidential but in general there is always a medical reason that is well-documented," she said. Tullgren currently plays bass and guitar in two rock bands and says that he tends to get a lot of positive reactions for daring to be himself. "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.Now where's my check? :uhh: My Tip.It Times Articles (10 and counting) || The Varrock Library Author Index projectDo you dare to dream? - Part 19 added. || The Hospital (WIP) - New story!Necromagus looks like a viking ... with glasses.
June 20, 200719 yr No, it's not the Heavy Metal Disability. It's that he can't hear anything form listening to it. :-w
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June 20, 200719 yr Author No, it's not the Heavy Metal Disability. It's that he can't hear anything form listening to it. :-wDid you actually read the article? He gets to play the music while he works, wear clothes that fit the music and time off to go to concerts. Doesn't sound like he's gone deaf to me. My Tip.It Times Articles (10 and counting) || The Varrock Library Author Index projectDo you dare to dream? - Part 19 added. || The Hospital (WIP) - New story!Necromagus looks like a viking ... with glasses.
June 20, 200719 yr You guys, this is no laughing matter. I can think of nothing worse than being an aging, greasy, metal-form of the "hippy". Seriously. I'd rather have cancer. The popularity of any given religion today depends on the victories of the wars they fought in the past. - Me!
June 20, 200719 yr Seriously. I'd rather have cancer. Ghost: I am prejudice towards ignorance, so that would explain why I appear to be so.
June 20, 200719 yr The little girl who couldn't feel pain was better. until she clawed her own eyes out.
June 20, 200719 yr The world is getting a little bit crazier by the day. This isn't 'real', right? cant be real, heavy metal isnt real music Doctor of Dental Surgery-2014Medical Doctor-2018?Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon-2024?
June 20, 200719 yr The world is getting a little bit crazier by the day. This isn't 'real', right? cant be real, heavy metal isnt real music It is now. But we can all point fingers at Scandinavia because they did it. :-$ Damn you Lordi. Me doing staff.
June 20, 200719 yr LOL! Duude I wish I could get paid for a disability like that. :lol: Quick Nadril, lets get addicted to MMO's and use it as our disability. Sig by IkuraiYour Guide to Posting! Behave or I will send my Moose mounted Beaver launchers at you!
June 20, 200719 yr The world is getting a little bit crazier by the day. This isn't 'real', right? cant be real, heavy metal isnt real music Oh well tell that to the eurovision song contest voters :P lordi ftw
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June 20, 200719 yr The little girl who couldn't feel pain was better. Dammit Viktor every time i visit a thread you already speak exactly what was on my mind... i was just about to say nearly the same thing anywhoo, i found that story rather entertaining. addicted to heavy metal, spending thousands a year, disturbing customers, and losing s job? sounds just like a smoking addict! in that case, lets give all smoking addicts the same treatment and help pay their salary -.- [hide=]tip it would pay me $500.00 to keep my clothes ON :( :lol:But then again, you fail to realize that 101% of the people in this universe hate you. Yes, humankind's hatred against you goes beyond mathematical possibilities.That tears it. I'm starting an animal rebellion using my mind powers. Those PETA bastards will never see it coming until the porcupines are half way up their asses.[/hide]Apparently a lot of people say it. I own. http://linkagg.com/ Not my site, but a simple, budding site that links often unheard-of websites that are amazing for usefulness and fun.
June 20, 200719 yr The little girl who couldn't feel pain was better. no that is much worse. if you cannot feel pain then you will not know if you are injured or need tending to, and therefore you could die from something horrible without even knowing you had it because you cant feel what it does Never take life too seriously, nobody gets out alive.
June 20, 200719 yr The little girl who couldn't feel pain was better. no that is much worse. if you cannot feel pain then you will not know if you are injured or need tending to, and therefore you could die from something horrible without even knowing you had it because you cant feel what it does would make dying easier though...
June 20, 200719 yr That just goes to show that the working world really is going into the [cabbage]ter. ~~Let The Dragon ride again, on the winds of time~~I've always felt as if I'm the only person who can understand the concept of sarcasm on the internet.
June 20, 200719 yr jeezus...people are only getting stupider...im gonna go start a thread about all those stupid lawsuits..that actually won! IGNORE THESE FOUR WORDS
June 20, 200719 yr Swedes... :P But seriously, this whole "addiction = disability" is bs. "Help me, I'm addicted to candy bars! Give me benefits so I can go buy more!"
June 20, 200719 yr Us at tipit here should file for disability benefits for being addicted to runescape. Hmmm, mabie we could be allowed to play rs at work......
June 20, 200719 yr The world is getting a little bit crazier by the day. This isn't 'real', right? cant be real, heavy metal isnt real music It is now. But we can all point fingers at Scandinavia because they did it. :-$ Damn you Lordi. Lordi = NOT Heavy Metal... at all. Ghost: I am prejudice towards ignorance, so that would explain why I appear to be so.
June 20, 200719 yr You guys, this is no laughing matter. I can think of nothing worse than being an aging, greasy, metal-form of the "hippy". Seriously. I'd rather have cancer.Yah that's true, although I wouldn't rather have cancer. :|
June 20, 200719 yr I don't even know what to write... I'm just so ticked off at that guy and his therapist. Where did they get their college degree? A community college?
June 20, 200719 yr ugg......I just imagined that 42 year old wearing all that crap :cry: Swedish Death metal owns....so I can't blame him :P still pathetically ridiculous Listen to the mighty words of Bloodredsword. Tip it MGC Xbox live leader board!
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