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AIBU to thing this 'benefit man' is disgusting

76 replies

ComposHat · 03/02/2012 01:55

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.

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ComposHat · 03/02/2012 13:09

His smile did look a bit asylum seekery. Perhaps he was happy as he'd polished off a tasty roast swan for elevenses or was thinking about the gypsy palace he was building in Romania. WITH MY TAXES!

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verytellytubby · 03/02/2012 13:11

OP wish I could like your post.

SuePurblybilt · 03/02/2012 13:12

Yes, that smile that says 'I have experienced incredible and heartbreaking atrocities and unimaginable fear and sadness in order to humble myself at the bureaucratic feet of your country in the hope I will be safe. I have done this purely for the lease on a council flat in Brixton and to suck up YOUR TAXES FROM WORKING AND PAYING WORK TAX. You, by an accident of birth, are entitled to despise me'

That smile? The bastard.

ComposHat · 03/02/2012 13:13

verytelly too kind!

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MitchieInge · 03/02/2012 13:13

gypsy palace in Romania sounds fun doesn't it? Hope it is lovely and gaudy

oh dear I just used my (free) iPad as an ashtray

Pixel · 03/02/2012 18:43

He was probably on his way to steal the bronze off a war memorial. So he doesn't even need your hard-earned taxes!

SuePurblybilt · 03/02/2012 18:48

That's right, Pixel, I bet he was. Or deface some pictures of the queen.

stillfrazzled · 03/02/2012 18:50

I have just laughed out loud on the train, which is clearly a massive breach of etiquette.

But I am on my way home from work so does that make it OK? I will snarl at the next mendicant I see to make up for it.

OhTootles · 03/02/2012 18:53

I bet his smiling because my hard earned wages are supporting his 6 dc to 6 different women and keeping them all stocked up on nicotine, lager and sausage rolls.

JuliaScurr · 03/02/2012 18:56

Blardy furriners, they come over here, mussin' with our women, watching our plasma screens and wearing them out, smiling like there's no tomorrow - we can't afford to smile and we're higher rate tax payers so we can't even claim asylum and my only child can't afford a sibling so we had to sell our legs but we can't get DLA Blue badges

JuliaScurr · 03/02/2012 18:58

And the last time we had a Greggs sausage roll we had to share it with a single mother of 23

GreenEyesAndHam · 03/02/2012 19:04

I'm so annoyed that I didn't see this thread earlier.

I could not find a benefit scrounger to get incensed at for love nor money- I went and checked outside both Greggs shop and nowt. In the end I had to go shout and shake my fist at Eastern Europe on the map in Althams Travel Agents window.

What is the world fecking coming to, I ask you

GreenEyesAndHam · 03/02/2012 19:08

And I don't even know where Eastern Europe IS exactly

GoingForGoalWeight · 03/02/2012 19:10

Greeneyes - Grin

I'm a benefit claimant, laugh at me!

GreenEyesAndHam · 03/02/2012 19:15

And ? are those?are you wearing ?shoes?? Are you telling me now that my taxes are buying you such fripperies as FOOTWEAR??

Grin
SuePurblybilt · 03/02/2012 19:21

If any forriners want to come and mess with this woman, I'll look upon applications favourably. I like an accent.

RabidEchidna · 03/02/2012 19:23

Maybe he just received his free goat Grin

GoingForGoalWeight · 03/02/2012 19:23

Christian Louboutin's, the real thing, still change for dinner at The Ritz, Opera, black cab home! Will be a struggle until my next payment of taxpayers lovely dough in the morning :( They just don't work hard enough, that's their problem.

KalSkirata · 03/02/2012 19:33

Smiling? Clearly he wasnt disabled enough then. Everyone knows real disabled poor scroungers cant smile. I bet he grins when no-one is looking.
Report him and get his free goat taken away.

headfairy · 03/02/2012 19:41

weeping at this thread

:o

RabidEchidna · 04/02/2012 16:17

HULLY GOAT THREAD

Pixel · 04/02/2012 16:42

GreenEyesAndHam thank you so much for using the word 'fripparies'. I recently had to try and convince dd that it was a real word, she insisted I'd made it up until I forced her to go and look it up in the dictionary. I now use it as often as I can as it makes her roll her eyes in a teenagery way. Grin

fuckingvalentinesday · 04/02/2012 17:35

go to hullygullys thread whoever gets bennifits is a fucking cunt answers all there and lots of goat talk Grin

RabidEchidna · 04/02/2012 17:37

Follow the link to the goats Grin

fuckingvalentinesday · 04/02/2012 17:59

baaaaaaaaaaaaaah