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AIBU to think that at least one of the parents should work

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Adizzylass2014 · 08/04/2015 23:04

My 16 yr old son is friends with a family who have just moved into the close next to ours and we were invited round for coffee. My partner left as he was fuming and I stayed for the sake of my son but I was seething. They are a family of 8 and the mum is pregnant again, they were so brazen and gloated that their 4 bedroom house is paid for by housing benefit (we have the same in the next close and the rent is £800 pcm)
He has never worked and hasn't long been released from prison. The children had all the gadgets from ipad to ps4. She said she has never worked either as she loves to be pregnant and plans on having more. Now you will have seen from previous threads I don't benefit bash but this is disgusting how can this be allowed. My son has been invited by them to go fishing on their boat, i don't want him anywhere near them. my partner works damn hard to pay the rent and our band f council tax and these people not only get everything given to them but they openly gloat about it. This is what is wrong with this bloody world Angry Angry

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Inertia · 10/04/2015 13:07

I wonder whether the goat can vote.

Salmotrutta · 10/04/2015 13:31

Maybe they are Stiffy Goats - I seem to have lost the ability to do links now Hmm but there's a YouTube video of them.

Salmotrutta · 10/04/2015 13:32

Oh, and yes, a bloated goat would still float in a moat.

ouryve · 10/04/2015 15:00

It seems you don't even need a real goat, in this day and age
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.coffeestainstudios.goatsimulator&hl=en_GB

Lweji · 10/04/2015 15:42

Glad to see this thread is attracting the very best of MN again. :)

(can't think of any goat puns)

HoneyDragon · 10/04/2015 17:27

Goat simulater is BRILLIANT. I luffs that game.

Lweji · 10/04/2015 19:29

They really want to sell that game, don't they? Grin

HoneyDragon · 10/04/2015 19:34

As a sales pitch, it works.

You get to steal hats for your goat from the hat shop. Putting goats in hats brightens the worst of days.

ragged · 10/04/2015 19:44

I wanna pic of boat before thread goes >

Salmotrutta · 10/04/2015 19:51

ragged - we need TalcAndTurnips here to draw us a goat in a boat on a moat eating oats whilst wearing a hat.

Then the thread can go poof!

CalamitouslyWrong · 10/04/2015 20:00

Could this be the boat?

AIBU to think that at least one of the parents should work
CalamitouslyWrong · 10/04/2015 20:02

Or this?

AIBU to think that at least one of the parents should work
ragged · 10/04/2015 20:03

That housing benefit calculator says £185 in my area for a 4 bed house, about 50 quid below the lowest weekly rent. With 8 kids you might get £100 week in CHBen, I think? Just need a few MN chickens to feed them and heat the place, I suppose, with the other 50 quid.

ragged · 10/04/2015 20:03

lol @ Xposts.

CalamitouslyWrong · 10/04/2015 20:04

The book already exists.

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AIBU to think that at least one of the parents should work
Salmotrutta · 10/04/2015 20:09

LOL Grin

Inertia · 10/04/2015 20:41

Next door's goat stole my petticoat.

That's what's wrong with the world.

Lweji · 10/04/2015 20:57

I'd watch this.

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