Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for May 23, 2011

Even setting foot in a job centre is a bad sign for Andy.

SUSAN NEWMAN might think he suffers from Bone Lazitis but Andy has a long medical history of workaphobia and horizontalosis. He has a doctor’s excuse from socialized medicine.

Well explained Lew! Yup!

Andy you’ll think of anything to keep from getting a job.

Ergophobia is what Andy has, but I don’t know if it’s so much of a fear of work as much as it is disdain for the whole concept.

There we go!

Andy can’t ALWAYS win. Flo must of been telling him that for years.

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how can anyone be expected to perform their work duties with that many phobias, give the poor (excuse for a)man a break

You have to use the right medical terminology, in this case derived from Greek. “Ergonophobia” is the word to use here – an irrational fear of any sort of work…

I hate to get up in the morning to get to work.But if I don´t, I don´t get paid.And I hate that even more.

There’s also that Bursitis that he suffers from that prevents him from lying on one side for too long on the couch.

I don’t know if Andy is afraid of work, per se, but rather he’s afraid it will interfere with his crowded schedule of morning and afternoon naps, darts, snooker, pool, pigeon racing, football, horse racing, etc., followed by staggering home from the pub at the end/beginning of the day.