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AIBU to be a bit shocked....

74 replies

Kirk1 · 06/10/2010 14:55

at myself for reading the Daily Fail?
Specifically this article...

I'd love to know how someone on benefits can have a better lifestyle than I do....

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cupcakesandbunting · 06/10/2010 17:33

Excellent username catfunt :)

I also love Jezza. I allow myself to watch it one morning a week. It's great. He's such a snivelling little toad, I don't know how anyone could have sex with him...

toddlerama · 06/10/2010 17:48

Ok, she probably got paid £500 for doing it but that small amount would not tempt me to make a tit of myself!

I have made a tit out of myself for considerably less. To be fair, if she feels no shame about being on benefits why would she consider that making a tit of herself? She probably feels quite proud of her standard of living! But agree with the other posters...Brighthouse and Capital One have paid for her lifestyle. Not benefits. Feel very sorry for that family when it all comes crashing down.

toddlerama · 06/10/2010 17:48

As for sex with JK....did you have to go there? I feel sick.

HalfTermHero · 06/10/2010 17:54

I just hope her kids don't bear the brunt of the article in the schoolyard. You might expect some ill feeling towards the family in the aftermath of her revelations.

oldraver · 06/10/2010 17:56

nickschick... I have to disagree. Yes maybe if you have one or two children and are on income support I would imagine it is a struggle

This woman with 5 children will be getting CASH IN HAND £370 per week Shock

cupcakesandbunting · 06/10/2010 18:05

Imagine him in the throes of passion "It's time to put SOMETHING ON THE END OF IT. Will, those all-important condoms please."

gentlyfalling · 06/10/2010 19:27

PMSL at cupcake ^ Grin

HumphreyCobbler · 06/10/2010 19:34

god even I don't read the DM and I AM a Tory voter

I don't read the Guardian either though.

All newspapers lie and make stuff up to suit their agenda, don't believe any of them.

Nancy66 · 06/10/2010 20:05

Humphrey - that's bollocks. They can't just lie and make stuff up, it would cost them a fortune

scottishmummy · 06/10/2010 20:13

shes a munter.plastic tits.nae job.bling weans

what an achievement

ledkr · 06/10/2010 20:24

can we go back to jezzer briefly please?We saw him at Cheltenham races and he was practically growling at anyone who so much as glanced at his pretty wife. Very strange since to hear him banging on about trust.

cupcakesandbunting · 06/10/2010 20:24

They don't outright lie (well, not all the time) but they are in the business of twisting and manipulating stories to suit their agenda. I never believe a word of it. I regard most newspapers to be as credible as the shitty gossip mags that I almost never buy.

cupcakesandbunting · 06/10/2010 20:25

ledkr was hevery short IRL? He strikes me as having Napoleon syndrome.

JezK · 06/10/2010 20:31

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ledkr · 06/10/2010 20:32

not sure about short but was sort of puny and inadequate. Having worked with addicts for years i particularly like his methods for getting people to detox. ie shouting at them before alittle light humiliation. I would try it but i like my teeth!"Now will you be quiet madam"

cupcakesandbunting · 06/10/2010 20:33

Oh hi Jez! Any tips for Royal Ascot?

defyingravity · 06/10/2010 20:38

Tut tut, you really do need to get cured. COme on - buy a decent paper - I'll buy you one. You can't read the Daily Hate, really you can't. Its embarrasing!

CheerfulYank · 06/10/2010 20:46

I've never seen Jeremy Kyle...will google and return! :)

CheerfulYank · 06/10/2010 20:48

Ah, a Maury Pohvich style man then. Ugh!

HumphreyCobbler · 06/10/2010 20:55

Nancy66 - have a read of Flat Earth News

it is a real eye opener. Written by a well respected Guardian journalist.

I admit my post was slightly tongue in cheek, but only slightly.

HumphreyCobbler · 06/10/2010 20:56

sadly it doesn't cost them a fortune, although it should

the DM is particularly bad, although the Times and the Guardian also come in for a lot of flack

GypsyMoth · 06/10/2010 20:58

lol...those ctc and cb figures are not even correct for 5 dc....and i should know!!

YouHaveVeryMadBanners · 06/10/2010 22:37

They are, of course, going to find the most outlandish case they can.

Does not make a good news story to say "single mom of 3 struggles to make ends meet one benefits" now does it!

To be perfectly honest, things like this do not bother me, I do not see it as "my money" paying for her lifestyle. It is money I never see anyway!

Let her live her life as she sees fit, if you start to let stuff like this bother you, you end up with one huge headache, and it will not change anything. People will always cheat any system, or make such a choice, if that is how they choose to live their life. The only bad thing, is that it taints with the same brush, every other single person on benefits.

MaMoTTaT · 07/10/2010 01:09

I'm afraid "you" did pay for it though Wink (ie I didn't stick on the credit card like that daft bint did!)

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