AIBU to thing this 'benefit man' is disgusting

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I saw a man who lives in my street whom I know to be in receipt of benefits and he actually smiled! It was totally brazen visual display of happiness.

Does he not realise that benefit claimants are only entitled to three facial expressions and they are 'downtrodden' 'guilty' and 'pathetic gratitude to the taxpayer.'

I think that for the unemployed to have a second of joy in their life, however momentary is a personal slap in the face to hard working people and their hardworking families and not to mention their hardworking pets.

leave the bastard

honestly though, where do these people get off? smiling - who the fuck decided smiling was allowed? was THAT on his claim form? huh?

i'd like to see another page or 7 added to benefit claim forms where the claimant has to draw the facial expressions they'll be using whilst in receipt of these benefits - any deviation from the agreed melancholy and simpering will be met with immediate withdrawal of funds, confiscation of any goods purchased and a mask to wear instead

I bet he had the audacity to be standing there wearing proper clothes and shoes like normal people wear rather than an old sack and rags on his feet. The thieving rob-dog.

oh dear, I was working for years AND getting DLA - for a mental disorder at that, it's not even a real disability is it? sorry sorry

that was to thumbwitch (I even get the low mobility component without limping) they randomly made me reapply a few years ago and the forms had changed and were (not that I filled them in the first time, I just signed them) and they reduced it to middle care, right when I actually needed the money (but then I realized I would be much better off with about £6 a week in ESA instead of earning any actual money!

probably best not to mention the horses, it's bad enough that I smile so much and feel happy and lucky to be alive isn't it?

I need help, I am a lone parent BUT am a student too, I get higher rate bursary from the university, am I benefit scum or not? I've been stuck in a silly half grin as I'm not sure if I'm entitled to a full smile or instead I should be spending my time looking at my reflection in my flatscreen tv in disgust?

Is it plasma or LCD ihatecbeebies?

(mine is LCD, I know my place. I also like the brighter picture)

Mitchie if you're getting DLA it's best to just chop off a leg or something, just to so you look like you deserve it. I would suggest just a finger or toe, but nowadays that just won't cut it, only an entire limb will do. If you could leave a bleeding stump and wail piteously all the time that would also help.

Mitchy, you need to look more deranged, obviously. Actually, carry on with the smiling - smile at anyone and anything - that should cover it!

Oh and What Cailin said too. Mind you, missing a limb won't entitle you to lifetime DLA - someone on here (and I'm sorry I can't remember her name) has to get re-checked every few years, in case her leg's grown in or something.

They are giving their benefit children free ponies now, with MY TAX. No wonder the bastard was smiling.

We have cut back on smiling altogether in our house and we all work our fingers to the bone. If we can't afford to smile and can manage to do without it it is a disgrace that this feckless scumbag can't. I bet he would put smiling before feeding his own 19 ill-begotten children.

Bring back hanging.

I know this is a joke thread but I know someone who actually did start snipping his toes off with scissors, he probably only did it to see if he could get the high mobility component? Then just pretended to be in the grip of some psychotic delusion or other? Because I bet it's easy to scissor through your own flesh and bones. Must have been so painful.

Wish people had some sort of idea.

Mitch - yup, a family member read that astral projection could satisfy all physical needs with regards to eating drinking etc so deprived themselves of sleep and meals for a week to see if this was true...definitely the actions of someone who was putting it all on for the sake of a few quid.

Wow that's awful Mitchie. FWIW I never came across the benefit bashing thing until I moved from Ireland to England. I know it probably exists in Ireland but among everyone I know the attitude is that benefits are there to be claimed and you should try to get whatever you are entitled to. For example when I quit my job, due to stress, everyone was advising me on what I could do to get the dole, how long I had to wait etc. There was no shame at all in it. Equally my friends and I would have long conversations on what you had to fill out to get tax relief on certain things (when I last lived in Ireland you could claim tax relief for every bloody thing, even your bins) and how you could get tax back etc. People would talk about girls getting pregnant to get flats etc (and it did happen) but more in "isn't that sad" sort of way, rather than in an angry way. I was really surprised at the vitriol against benefit claimants here. All I think is that if your life has gone that way then something must have gone wrong for you and rather than being out on the street starving you're being looked after. I have no problem with it.

(Oh Mitchie - yowch - poor bugger. :( )

It's an LCD but I watch Jeremy Kyle on it...

Oh and where I lived there was a block of council flats that were an absolute disgrace so the whole community, council and non-council residents included, campaigned to have them rebuilt. The feeling was that no-one deserved to live like that and that the government should be ashamed to house people in that way. It worked and they built gorgeous houses that everyone was proud of. In the area I lived in there wasn't as much of an "us and them" mentality WRT to less well off people or people on benefits, where you got your money was considered a private matter (unlike everything else!) and wasn't commented on.

he's probably giggling to himself about This Morning, that quick witted Eamon Holmes is just hysterical in his opinion

I don't even get a free house though, or free council tax or prescriptions. Don't think I'm doing it right?

You'll have to remove your head Mitchie, it's the only way to go.

How very dare he? Probably just off to meet his dealer before going to the pub to buy some knock-off car parts to sell at a profit. Or to the canine beauty parlour to inspect pooch's newly-painted claws. Or going to Spain to bring back a suitcase full of ciggies to sell in said pub.

In the Victorian Times, scum like this would have been hauled off the street and hauled into the workhouse. Never did them any harm. Get them back in workhouses.

Smiling, I ask you. I'm a bit pissed off that they breathe the oxygen that my taxes pay for tbpfh. Now they have the cheek to smile? Gone to the DOGS.

YANBU.

I exploded in a miasma of self righteous rage when I read your o/p.

HOW DARE HE???!!!!!!

The audacity, I mean that's YOUR TAXES that are paying for his happiness.....bloody disgraceful. I bet he has loads of kids at home too.

This country has gone to the dogs but I don't care cause I'm going to emigrate to sunny Greece soon and get out of this broken country.

I CANNOT AFFORD TO SMILE. MY HARDWORKING FACE OF WORK WOULD CRACK AND WHO WOULD PAY TO FIX IT?

Was it a forrin looking smile?

I was actually looking for the 'like' button at the bottom of the OP. Spends too much time on facebook.