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newm55 · 10/07/2012 17:40

Probably not new news as such but the Sun has a posting on facebook about "hardcore unemployed have to do 6 months voluntary work or lose benefits."
Sorry can't do links.
Many of the comments are so bigoted its untrue.
comments like
Sorry but if they want dole money, then they should have to work a 40hr week or like the slef employed who receive NO Handouts an 80 hr week like the rest of us! That would make em go get a job,......oh, I forgot, maybe not, they get more on benefits than doing a real job!
You work shy parasites should be careful what you post in an open forum!!! Do you think DSS etc don't monitor it? Hope you all get made to EARN your handouts!!
Although I have never claimed benefits in my life I know people who are really struggling to live on £71 per weeek. Yet they already do 3 days a week voluntary work and previously worked for 20 years before being made redundant. (Not a workshy parasite)

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crescentmoon · 10/07/2012 17:46

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JamieandTheOlympicTorch · 10/07/2012 17:48

It's the Sun. Thick people read the Sun. Unfortunately, clever, manipulative people write it.

lolaflores · 10/07/2012 17:52

Whilst the few indulge live off the majority, it is in their interests to fan the flames of discontent.
Come the revolution sisters and brothers.
Why are there no comments about the obscene behaviour of Barclays et al?
we seem to be happy to castigate those who are through no fault of their own most of the time out of work, yet will not raise our eyes a bit further up the feeding chain to wonder at the immorality of another minority?

WorraLiberty · 10/07/2012 17:53

But why bring it here OP?

You're just spreading their shite around the internet instead of keeping it to Facebook.

gothicangel · 10/07/2012 17:59

what WorraLiberty said,

CoteDAzur · 10/07/2012 18:04

Why can't you do links? It's clearly explained next to the smileys at the bottom of the page.

lolaflores · 10/07/2012 18:05

But it is out there? We do need to address it even if it is a million miles awway from our own opinion. If only to reassure ourselves that it does not speak for us

CoteDAzur · 10/07/2012 18:05

And you read the Sun. And you follow the Sun's Facebook page - did you "Like" it, then?

All of the above is just not looking good for you, OP.

WorraLiberty · 10/07/2012 18:06

Yeah but why drag more shit here from Facebook?

I would have thought the most sensible thing to do is answer the morons on Facebook.

newm55 · 10/07/2012 18:07

Did want to put a comment on facebook but would rather not have my friend's see I got riled by the idiots who read the Sun. Time to unlike Sun methinks. Only liked them to enter a comp!!

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lolaflores · 10/07/2012 18:08

There is really no need to read it dear heart. As someone very wise said
"Don't wrestle with pigs. They might enjoy it and you'll only get muddy" or something.

WorraLiberty · 10/07/2012 18:09

'Dear heart'? Fuck me... is that you Miss Marple? Grin

JuliaScurr · 10/07/2012 18:11

Poor old Bob Diamond. Not getting his C£20 million, only getting £2 million now.
His actions quite possibly led to firms folding and hence redundancies.
Anybody spot anything wrong with this situation?
lola I'm right with you

lolaflores · 10/07/2012 18:13

Worra I am between murder investigations at the moment. So thought i would pop in and see how all the gels are doing.
Julia you with me? I can whip a barricade up in a trice

SoleSource · 10/07/2012 18:15

Youtube

JuliaScurr · 10/07/2012 18:31

Summon the partisans, lola
I feel a general uprising is in order
I've got a stop the cuts banner and a vuvuzela
Read it and weep, Cameron

lolaflores · 10/07/2012 18:33

Right you are. Just get the kids to bed, see you at Euston to start menacing the multitudes.
Oh, forgot, Eastenders is on at 8pm. Can we do it tomorrow?

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happybubblebrain · 10/07/2012 18:44

www.barbie.com
Just having a go at links.

happybubblebrain · 10/07/2012 18:44

Ooooh it worked.

lolaflores · 10/07/2012 18:46

And yet we continue to dump shit on the heads of the people least responsible for the crap we are all in. The media want us to turn on those who by default are seen as the root of all evil when they are just scapegoats.

right, I've got a good pile of rocks here. Ready when you are

lolaflores · 10/07/2012 18:46

happy don't want to be a pain, but did you mean to do that here?

happybubblebrain · 10/07/2012 21:48

Yes, I've never known how to do it before, but now I do.
Thanks CoteDAzur - that's been puzzling me for years.

happybubblebrain · 10/07/2012 21:49

Lola - you're not a pain Grin.

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