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Bails · **Joined:** Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:16 am **Posts:** 957

Big Rob wrote:

Yeah... like everyone who loses their job intends to spend the rest of their life on benefits....

I remember a Daily Mash article from a few weeks ago, taking the piss out of the "unemployed? well just get a job and then you won't be" people.

It had a quote along the lines of 'Helen Archer, a single mother from Salford, said "Raising four kids in a bedsit on £80 a week has been a right laugh, but now it's time to stop the fun and knuckle down. I think I might be a hedge fund manager".

Aha: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/soci ... 201244803/

It always bugs me with the "wah, benefits are really generous cries that the people saying it aren't quitting their jobs to get said benefits, that are apparently handed out on a silver platter.

Andy McDandy · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2012 6:54 pm

A commentator on the Neville Thurlbeck blog (see link on NOTW hacking thread) made the very good point that an awful lot of disability benefits - grants to pay for house alterations to increase mobility for instance - don't really translate into disposable income. People aren't given bags of money, or even blank cheques. They're given specific amounts of money to spend on specific things. And quite often the work has to be done in advance and the money claimed back once complete. S the entire "X has claimed £20,000 over the last year" thing creates a false impression that they have just been given a lump sum to spend as they wish. They haven't.

Likewise poor families living in expensive areas. End of the day, a home's a home. Someone living on fuck all in the heart of Mayfair probably won't appreciate it at all, as the general cost of living (fuel, food etc) in that neighbourhood is going to be quite high. Whatever perceived advantages such a property would have (location, market value etc) mean nothing to the parent of 9 or whatever who's just glad to have a roof and four walls. Otherwise it's a bit like being on a desert island with a set of silver cutlery - fuck all use if you've nothing to eat.

Coupled Moment · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:35 pm

new puritan wrote:

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....To the Con/Lib government (and in loud words to Nick Clegg) .... cut tax rates, the minimum wage and balance the books with cuts to the benefit 'gravy train'. There is no other solution. Any other schemes do nothing but re-arrange the chairs on the deck ....! In China a factory worker apparently labours at least a 140 hour month for +/- $300 (+/- £200). In the UK the minimum wage suggests a payment of £1,000 pm. Herewith ends the 'lesson'. It is not for the UK government to say what the Chinese should earn ... or that it is allegedly 'slave labour'. It is reality that goods can be imported from China at a fraction of the cost of making them 'at home'. Herewith ends 'lesson two' .
- Dave Kay, Woking, Surrey, 14/3/2012 13:54

First world living costs, third world wages. What could possibly go wrong? Thankfully, most of the comments seem to be fairly sensible.

You have to be a real cunt's cunt to write "Herewith ends the 'lesson'" in a newspaper comment. I'm shocked the pretentious bollock hasn't shoe-horned in a "methinks" or one of the other shibboleths that mark one out as a proper bellend.

Althea · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:43 pm

Methinks he's the end of a bell. Herewith ends the lesson.

ponce on the heath · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:44 pm

Coupled Moment wrote:

..To the Con/Lib government (and in loud words to Nick Clegg) .... cut tax rates, the minimum wage and balance the books with cuts to the benefit 'gravy train'. There is no other solution. Any other schemes do nothing but re-arrange the chairs on the deck ....! In China a factory worker apparently labours at least a 140 hour month for +/- $300 (+/- £200). In the UK the minimum wage suggests a payment of £1,000 pm. Herewith ends the 'lesson'. It is not for the UK government to say what the Chinese should earn ... or that it is allegedly 'slave labour'. It is reality that goods can be imported from China at a fraction of the cost of making them 'at home'. Herewith ends 'lesson two' .
- Dave Kay, Woking, Surrey, 14/3/2012 13:54

"Judicious use of quotation marks" also. I literally cannot make head nor tail of this? Is he advocating communist slave labour or am I just tired?

Dave Kay, Woking Hard, or Hardly Woking. Sorry 14/3/2012 22:44

Big Rob · **Posted:** Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:35 am

Bails wrote:

Big Rob wrote:

Yeah... like everyone who loses their job intends to spend the rest of their life on benefits....

I remember a Daily Mash article from a few weeks ago, taking the piss out of the "unemployed? well just get a job and then you won't be" people.

Incredibly cruel and typical of the mailite defensive arrogance employed to protect those egoes of theirs, which, in turn, enables them to look down on other people.

The total inability to wag a finger at oneself while wagging it at others.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Thu Mar 15, 2012 3:20 pm

This actually comes from the Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... r-muhammad

Which features...

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On Mail Online, a reader identifying him or herself as D Acres of Balls Cross, West Sussex, posted the comment: "This man is disgusting. He should be taken out and put up on a cross. That would teach him not to disrespect this country and its Christian faith." Plainly a fine patriotic Christian, Outraged of Balls Cross.

"D Acres, Balls Cross, West Sussex"? Own up, please.

ezinra · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 3:10 pm

I've noticed these two on just about every hang-em-and-flog-em story of the past few days:

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If there is ever an example of the justification to bring back CAPITAL punishment this is it! this "thing" does NOT deserve to live for what she has done, there is no grey area here, she has admitted it all! HANG HER!

- Mike, A BRITISH FREEDOM PARTY MEMBER SHILLINGSTONE, 6/4/2012 13:36 Rating 8

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I couldn't possibly write want I want to say as it would NEVER be published. Suffice to say Jail is FAR too good for this woman. I hope and pray that these girls can (with the help of their husbands) put this behind them

- Sharon , A British Freedom Party Voter in Shillingstone, 6/4/2012 11:37 Rating 38

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This, I'm sorry to say, is the face of Britain today When Oh WHEN are we going to have a judicial system that can punish the animals who did this properly and effectively? Forget sucking up to the EU Cameron and start looking after the welfare of the British people; Or Stand down.............. There are others who are more than willing to do the job.

- Sharon , A British Freedom Party Voter and Activist in Shillingstone, 31/3/2012 20:33 Rating 224

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The FACE OF MODERN BRITAIN! How I weep for this country.

- Mike, Br!t!sh Fr33dom Party Member - Shillingstone, 31/3/2012 20:24 Rating 560

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So if this was YOUR daughter being forced into marriage you would be "OK" with it would you? This is NOT about multiculturalism, this is about CHILD ABUSE!

- Mike, British Freedom Party Member - Shillingstone, 31/3/2012 11:33 Rating 193

Is the Mail going to allow this charming couple to plug a far-right organisation with every comment they make?

Gourami · **Joined:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:51 pm **Posts:** 2005

Probably

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 7:09 pm

This...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2126223/Virginia-beach-plane-crash-F-18-hits-apartment-building.html
... is supposedly moderated.

But they're letting all sorts of shit through. And if you complain about the abusive ones nothing is done.

Surely they're not expecting loads of hits with their Yankee and Brit fucktards arguing like fuck over it? No, can't be.

Gourami · **Joined:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:51 pm **Posts:** 2005

Like this you mean?

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Karma has caught up with you Yanks.

- Adrian, Manchester, 6/4/2012 18:37

My thoughts were along the lines of hoping nobody was killed. I must be a pervert or something.

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Obviously someone's ego is writing checks their bodycan't cash.

- CT, London, 6/4/2012 18:37

Whilst the pilot may have had a seizure or fainted isn't is also possible that there was a fault with the fucking plane? Remember that CT? The plane? The pilot isn't fucking Icarus you know. :evil:

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 7:16 pm

They seem to be taking them down now. After they've been up for a good 20 mins - just enough time to get people riled up.

Big Rob · **Posted:** Sun Apr 08, 2012 9:03 pm

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The FACE OF MODERN BRITAIN! How I weep for this country.

- Mike, Br!t!sh Fr33dom Party Member - Shillingstone, 31/3/2012 20:24 Rating 560

Major irony fail....

shyamz · **Posted:** Mon Apr 09, 2012 11:22 pm

I refuse to believe that they have no idea what group that nane refers to, so what is their excuse for been so slow in removing them when they claim to be hardline against other simmilar groups.

satnav · **Posted:** Tue Apr 10, 2012 5:22 pm

Under an article about Alan Davies criticising Liverpool for nor playing on the anniversary of Hillsborough some idiot posed this comment.

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Why is it that the lower down the food chain the more likely you are to take offence? If you refuse to play on a point of principle, fair enough, forfeit the match.
- Al, UK, 10/4/2012 15:43
Click to rate Rating 23

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1refSFQVL

It also looks like at least another 23 people agree with the sentiments.

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