Could everybody who has a grandiose sense of entitlement over the following sectors of society :

[MaggiePie]

those on benefits
single mothers
drug addicts who manage to function and not live in a shanty..

If you feel that you are superior and deserve more, and get the ache when the above people can cobble together enough to get by on, if that pisses you off, then de-register and go and pollute some other forum, cos this used to be a good one where this kind of toxic mindset was very rare.

Thank you.

Maggie your OP doesn't even make sense.

Are you superior because you are not one of the above? Or what?

I've tried to argue with them sea..but as I live in a council house I'm not normal person apparently

I'm not superior I'm saying rein in the begrudgery. Paying taxes doesn't give you more human rights. NOT paying taxes doesn't give you fewer.

Monty27, everybody else understood. Don't worry about it.

WTF does 'humbledness' mean? or do you mean HUMILITY?

FFS.

Please add 'those who have appalling grammar and grasp of accurate English' to the groups being slagged off.

no please don't do that

Read the thread properly.

I am getting sick of the amount of begrudgery and nastiness towards non-taxpayers.

Evidently there are a few people who think that the amount of begrudgery on mn at present is about right, or that any valid point is rendered invalid by having a mistake in it.

I couldn't give a toss about non-tax payers but I sure as hell get pissed off at people who MAKE UP THEIR OWN WORDS!

Right Donnie, well if that's my only crime I'll let that one slide off me. I knew as it was typing it that it wasn't the right word.

Maybe a few people on this thread are comfortable with the recent abundance of threads bitching about those who live in council houses/take benefits etc etc.. That was what the thread was about. I never claimed to have perfect English.

btw, If it's bad netiquette to start a thread about a thread, I think it's also bad form to mock somebody else's English, especially when it's not relevant.

i was personally more pissed off with the amount of copy cat threads taking the piss out of the other op. seemed nasty and childish

Well the OP makes sense to me.

Sounds like MaggiePie is fed up with the threads which often crop up having a go at various marginalised groups.

I think that's fair enough and it's fine to say so, just as it's fine for people to disagree.

I wouldn't waste your breath/typing skills on these threads OP. You get inured to them after a while and some are just so blatantly stupid/ignorant that they're actually funny.

Southeastastra, I haven't seen threads mocking the OP. I'm not mocking any one op. I want to put my finger in the damm here and try and stem the 'normalisation' (sorry Donnie) of a previously unacceptable attitude.

If people take the piss out of my english along the way, I can suck it up.

Janos, yes, you're right, normally I am inured to them and I just shrug. But the volume of them seems increased in the last few days.

Nothing wrong with making up your own words, Shakespeare did it. And I think begrudgery is an excellent word.

I like making up my own words

I used to be a single mother
I used to be on benefits.
I also own a dog AND walk him in the park
And I have laminate flooring and still get Tax Credits which IMO ARE a benefit.
I'm working class

Actually I quite like begrudgery too. Very evocative.

Do understand where you are coming from MaggiePie sometimes it gets to you.

When something like that has wound me up I try to remind myself that people who expend so much emotional energy judging and being envious of others must be pretty miserable.

agree maggiepie, and when I tried to argue my case on a thread about people who live in council houses my message was deleted. (telling the OP to fuck off might have had something to do with that though!) but hey I was tired and grumpy.

It often seems that the listed sections of society have hoarded all the sense of entitlement, leaving none to the rest of us.

[that should start a screeching feast]

Rollmops, what do you mean?

I'm trying to imagine what a screeching "feast" might be like and it's taxing my imagination somewhat.

Not all are blessed with great imagination. Pity.

I am just grateful to the OPs of those threads who single-handedly support the entire welfare state with their taxes.

Cheers!

how dare you tell someone to de-register.who made you editor in chief of mn? as odious as i may find some opinions i strongly advocate individual choice to voice opinions,and post as they wish.frakly some folk get bitty giddy on Mn and yes there are mental posts but well it reflects diverse lively membership

MN is bigger than it used to be, so there are probably proportionately more thick people here, hence the proliferation of that type of thread.

I really don't think the OP meant "sense of entitlement". A sense of entitlement means, well, that you are entitled to stuff (presumably in this context from the state). Most people who do the looking down in this context (or are alleged to look down) aren't entitled to anything from the state.

No Rollmops, nor a sense of humour .

If you are going to aim for a withering put down, or a pithy, biting phrase it works better if what you type actually makes sense.