To think that people living on welfare shouldn't be running off every five minutes for a new tattoo or piercing?

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I'm probably going to get shot down for this, but I just had a little disagreement with a woman I know. She posted a photo on Facebook of a rather large tattoo on her forearm that she'd just had done. Last month she had skin divers put in her chest and hand. The month before she had another shit tattoo.
This individual is single and has two children. She hasn't worked a day in the last decade, but is living off the state. Am I being a bitch by thinking she should spend the money she receives on feeding the children and keeping a roof over their heads? I noted that she feeds her boys Pot Noodle for dinner but makes sure she's got her fags too. It just annoys me.

Yes, nceccoli. You are absolutely right. My three sisters and I were brought up in horribly deprived circumstances with out father away at sea for months on end. He drank his mMy mum was a work horse and was out 7 days a week working on the land come rain or shine.

They are lovely boys but will grow up to be feckless, lazy, fat useless idiots like their mother

Silver tongued devil.

Dawndonnaagain if you're going to quote quote in full. I said some women perpetuate cycles of abuse by entering into numerous relationships and having children with a series of abusive men. I question why such women do not even try to learn from experience. Try to exercise some caution in later relationships. Just try. Is it just bad luck that SOME women end up in a series of abusive relationships or is there some reason they are choosing relationships with a particular type?

Yes, nceccoli. You are absolutely right. My three sisters and I were brought up in horribly deprived circumstances with out father away at sea for months on end. He drank his money away and sent nothing home. My mum was a work horse and was out 7 days a week working on the land come rain or shine. Things were grim and I clearly remember mum going out to pick Brussels in the snow with both hands full of chilblains.
I got my first job at 14. I got a scholarship to a private school when I came from a council estate. My kids will know better.

Redpoll

State benefits I am afraid are not for tattoos,phones,cars broadband or anything outside of that which sustains health, that was the charter as it was intended all those years ago.

Broadband is a necessity if you are on JSA and looking for jobs. You have to keep an online diary of your job seeking activities to fulfil the criteria to claim the benefit.

Furthermore, how many jobs do you apply for these days via an application form or visiting company premises? Virtually none. All vacancies are online. I saw a part time bar job at Wetherspoons in Camden advertised online yesterday.

Don't even think of job seeking using the computers in your local library. You can only use them for an hour every day in my local library (London Borough of Brent). Then you have to endure countless screaming kids who run riot thus making if difficult to concentrate. Shit parenting is alive and well in affluent Queen's Park. If you are applying for some jobs it can take you several hours to complete the online application form and complete a 1000 word personal statement.

Take your head out of your arse love.

I hope to God you never have to claim benefits.

Nice "friend" you are

Sorry, I hit post early. And have been celebrating my birthday with a few wines.

Lol at picking brussels with cillblains. Did you live in hole in t" road?

OP

My three sisters and I were brought up in horribly deprived circumstances with out father away at sea for months on end. He drank his money away and sent nothing home. My mum was a work horse and was out 7 days a week working on the land come rain or shine. Things were grim and I clearly remember mum going out to pick Brussels in the snow with both hands full of chilblains.

Let me get my violin.

I remember me old dad walking 20 miles in the snow with no shoes on to get a bucket of coal.

Yeah, you do that crosscuntry

I'll go and get my chequebook

Absolutely agree that in today's world broadband is not a luxury and is a necessity

Ha! Yes, pretty much. Our house was falling down. And funnily enough I am northern, hailing from Barnsley.

Exactly cross-country
This whole thread reminds me of that dreadful program a few years back called something like "we pay your benefits". They used a example of a single person living with relatives in a room full of Tech paid for by said relatives.
They didn't use a single person in a council flat struggling to pay all her bills etc on 70 quid.
Most people on benefits can't afford tattoos.

These examples are rare but tar everyone with the same brush.

I bet the fat lazy tattooed chavvy entitled bastatds enjoyed them brussels at Xmas while all you had to eat was a tin of spam

OP

Will the chequebook belong to your husband?

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Dontactlikeyouknowme

I grew up in a northern mining town. My sister and I used to run after the coal lorry and pick up any pieces of coal that fell off the wagon.

Tis where I learnt to run fast!

They are lovely boys but will grow up to be feckless, lazy, fat useless idiots like their mother

No true a word said and we don't even know the person.Its all in the description.

By God there could be some change if the government put there mind to it.

Exactly and that is why the government should not have arguments with these people over the liberties of such but merely control them to the social standard the working class expect.

It's easy to sit in judgement some say- You fucking right it is and that is what I do every time given the chance.

The more people that shame the idle class and the more they are excluded from there so called God given rights as they think their right to be the better this country will be.

I would say to anyone even if it is close family berate them until the tears roll if they choose that path in life.

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No true a word said and we don't even know the person.Its all in the description.

Wow, how insightful are you?

I'm still laughing at the picking brussels with chilblains.

The whole thteadcwas worth it for that line.

OP

I thought you might be more sympathetic if you hail from Barnsley. So many areas of high unemployment. Grimethorpe, Athersley etc. I know the town well.

Did you live through the miners strike and the subsequent unemployment that decimated the town?