They want MORE sir.

[Lord Pikey]

Please Sir, can i have some more?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7982056.stm

Aparently, the benefits given out are not enough to cover basic food requirements as the cost of food as shot up over the last few months

ANNUAL FOOD PRICE RISES
Rice - up 81%
Pork sausages - up 51%
Mince - up 22%
Milk - up 14%

now, before i shout get a job if you want more cash. is this true? Being out of the UK i have not noticed the food price increase? How much has your weekly shop gone up?

[Mr POD]

Lord Pikey said:

Please Sir, can i have some more?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7982056.stm

Aparently, the benefits given out are not enough to cover basic food requirements as the cost of food as shot up over the last few months

ANNUAL FOOD PRICE RISES
Rice - up 81%
Pork sausages - up 51%
Mince - up 22%
Milk - up 14%

now, before i shout get a job if you want more cash. is this true? Being out of the UK i have not noticed the food price increase? How much has your weekly shop gone up?

Yes. In 2007 I could get a weekly shop for about £55.

Now My wife does the shopping and she gets a weekend's shopping for about £80.

[Lord Pikey]

Mr POD,

I think i spotted the problem with your shopping there.

[thinfourth2]

Ah yes good old child poverty again

Well if the underclass spent my fking money on the kids instead a telly bigger then my fking house then there might not be so much fking child fking poverty. Also if that fat idiot hadn't turned babies into a cash crop for fkwits then maybe just maybe the fkwits would stop having more and more fking kids you idiot. Paying them more to have mini chavs means we get more bloody mini chavs

[Mr POD]

thinfourth2 said:

Ah yes good old child poverty again

Well if the underclass spent my fking money on the kids instead a telly bigger then my fking house then there might not be so much fking child fking poverty. Also if that fat idiot hadn't turned babies into a cash crop for fkwits then maybe just maybe the fkwits would stop having more and more fking kids you idiot. Paying them more to have mini chavs means we get more bloody mini chavs

That what you call a viscious circle.

[bluetone]

thinfourth2 said:

Ah yes good old child poverty again

Well if the underclass spent my fking money on the kids instead a telly bigger then my fking house then there might not be so much fking child fking poverty. Also if that fat idiot hadn't turned babies into a cash crop for fkwits then maybe just maybe the fkwits would stop having more and more fking kids you idiot. Paying them more to have mini chavs means we get more bloody mini chavs

Nice rant.

[voyds9]

They could save £46/month by switching from Sky to freeview.

[randomman]

I found that switching to rollies from b un h gold and swapping the blackthorn for white lighening helped...

Also if you hit the kids less you safe a fortune in plasters.

[okgo]

Where's the percentage rise in Tuna?

I have it down as over 50%.

[Blib]

Mr POD said:

Lord Pikey said:

Please Sir, can i have some more?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7982056.stm

Aparently, the benefits given out are not enough to cover basic food requirements as the cost of food as shot up over the last few months

ANNUAL FOOD PRICE RISES
Rice - up 81%
Pork sausages - up 51%
Mince - up 22%
Milk - up 14%

now, before i shout get a job if you want more cash. is this true? Being out of the UK i have not noticed the food price increase? How much has your weekly shop gone up?

Yes. In 2007 I could get a weekly shop for about £55.

Now My wife does the shopping and she gets a weekend's shopping for about £80.

That's just about the percentage rise that I've experienced since the end of 2007 in my weekly food shop too.

[Getragdogleg]

"child poverty"


Can anyone actually tell me what this means ? it brings images of starving begging rag-clad waifs selling matches in the London fog to my mind but I suspect the definition is something very different.

For example, Child C did not have new trainers thie month, Child C does not have a Nintendo DSi, Child C cannot afford 20 lambert and butler this week.

Am i being cynical or realistic ? Is this yet another Govt. phrase designed to play on your guilt and make you less likely to rise up and complain about the state of the country today because, hey, the Govt care about, like, child poverty.

[Orb the Impaler]

Getragdogleg said:

"child poverty"


Can anyone actually tell me what this means ? it brings images of starving begging rag-clad waifs selling matches in the London fog to my mind but I suspect the definition is something very different.

For example, Child C did not have new trainers thie month, Child C does not have a Nintendo DSi, Child C cannot afford 20 lambert and butler this week.

Am i being cynical or realistic ? Is this yet another Govt. phrase designed to play on your guilt and make you less likely to rise up and complain about the state of the country today because, hey, the Govt care about, like, child poverty.

It's like you're reading my mind, man!

[grumbledoak]

thinfourth2 said:

Ah yes good old child poverty again

Well if the underclass spent my fking money on the kids instead a telly bigger then my fking house then there might not be so much fking child fking poverty. Also if that fat idiot hadn't turned babies into a cash crop for fkwits then maybe just maybe the fkwits would stop having more and more fking kids you idiot. Paying them more to have mini chavs means we get more bloody mini chavs

The country's problems in a nut shell. Well said.

[Andy Zarse]

Getragdogleg said:

"child poverty"


Can anyone actually tell me what this means ? it brings images of starving begging rag-clad waifs selling matches in the London fog to my mind but I suspect the definition is something very different.

For example, Child C did not have new trainers thie month, Child C does not have a Nintendo DSi, Child C cannot afford 20 lambert and butler this week.

Am i being cynical or realistic ? Is this yet another Govt. phrase designed to play on your guilt and make you less likely to rise up and complain about the state of the country today because, hey, the Govt care about, like, child poverty.

ps off, don't you know the price of Kentuky has shot through the roof, you hearless sod.

[oldbanger]

Despite "recession busting prices" being advertised everywhere I've noticed a lot of price increases in the past year. There's a few long running threads on the forums of moneysavingexpert.com tracking the price hikes, particularly at the worst offender - Tesco. The biggest price hikes that I've noticed have been on fruit and veg (fresh and frozen), nuts/seeds, eggs, meat and fish. I follow a stone age "way of eating" and try to avoid processed foods, grains and dairy, so I tend not to even look at the junk food aisles.

However, prices have also been drastically raised on value/economy products, and many have been phased out altogether or have been reduced in size whilst keeping the size steady. In some cases the price difference between the economy, standard and organic lines are now a few pence, sometimes the premium stuff is now cheaper.

Basically I have to shop specifically for short dated reduced stuff these days to keep in budget.

[MrV]

oldbanger said:

Despite "recession busting prices" being advertised everywhere I've noticed a lot of price increases in the past year. There's a few long running threads on the forums of moneysavingexpert.com tracking the price hikes, particularly at the worst offender - Tesco. The biggest price hikes that I've noticed have been on fruit and veg (fresh and frozen), nuts/seeds, eggs, meat and fish. I follow a stone age "way of eating" and try to avoid processed foods, grains and dairy, so I tend not to even look at the junk food aisles.

However, prices have also been drastically raised on value/economy products, and many have been phased out altogether or have been reduced in size whilst keeping the size steady. In some cases the price difference between the economy, standard and organic lines are now a few pence, sometimes the premium stuff is now cheaper.

Basically I have to shop specifically for short dated reduced stuff these days to keep in budget.

I am not going to defend Supermarkets as they are there to make a profit despite all the "we care about you fluffy crap they spout"


Two examples I can think of is the price of bread due to a grain shortage last year ,bumper crop and the price stays the same

Fuel going through the roof last year ,all the supermarkets blame increased shipping cost on the rises ,well fuel has dropped but the prices haven't(I suspect the suppliers are tied in to deliver at X price anyway what ever the actual cost of fuel)

I have started to look at the price per 100g/ml now rather than the price to packet as it gives you the true cost

Much as I hate to say it income support looks like it needs to be raised to cover food rises

[Bigdrift]

thinfourth2 said:

Ah yes good old child poverty again

Well if the underclass spent my fking money on the kids instead a telly bigger then my fking house then there might not be so much fking child fking poverty. Also if that fat idiot hadn't turned babies into a cash crop for fkwits then maybe just maybe the fkwits would stop having more and more fking kids you idiot. Paying them more to have mini chavs means we get more bloody mini chavs

[paddyhasneeds]

Getragdogleg said:

"child poverty"


Can anyone actually tell me what this means ? it brings images of starving begging rag-clad waifs selling matches in the London fog to my mind but I suspect the definition is something very different.

I always picture them eating Pot Noodle in front of a 60" Plasma so you're not the only cynical one.

[Mr POD]

Blib said:

Mr POD said:

Lord Pikey said:

Please Sir, can i have some more?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7982056.stm

Aparently, the benefits given out are not enough to cover basic food requirements as the cost of food as shot up over the last few months

ANNUAL FOOD PRICE RISES
Rice - up 81%
Pork sausages - up 51%
Mince - up 22%
Milk - up 14%

now, before i shout get a job if you want more cash. is this true? Being out of the UK i have not noticed the food price increase? How much has your weekly shop gone up?

Yes. In 2007 I could get a weekly shop for about £55.

Now My wife does the shopping and she gets a weekend's shopping for about £80.

That's just about the percentage rise that I've experienced since the end of 2007 in my weekly food shop too.

The following words were not random : Wife, Weekend, Weekly, I

That is to say I buy the cheap alternative to everything. Want some steak ? I'll buy value sausages, she'll buy organic free range corn fed angus aberdeen Sirloin.

[ceriw]

Mr POD said:

Blib said:

Mr POD said:

Lord Pikey said:

Please Sir, can i have some more?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7982056.stm

Aparently, the benefits given out are not enough to cover basic food requirements as the cost of food as shot up over the last few months

ANNUAL FOOD PRICE RISES
Rice - up 81%
Pork sausages - up 51%
Mince - up 22%
Milk - up 14%

now, before i shout get a job if you want more cash. is this true? Being out of the UK i have not noticed the food price increase? How much has your weekly shop gone up?

Yes. In 2007 I could get a weekly shop for about £55.

Now My wife does the shopping and she gets a weekend's shopping for about £80.

That's just about the percentage rise that I've experienced since the end of 2007 in my weekly food shop too.

The following words were not random : Wife, Weekend, Weekly, I

That is to say I buy the cheap alternative to everything. Want some steak ? I'll buy value sausages, she'll buy organic free range corn fed angus aberdeen Sirloin.

Ahhhh - but when she was out shopping for a husband she went for the most wonderful juicy succulent expensive tasty gorgeous specimen she could find. And there you are.
What did you choose??

Edited by ceriw on Saturday 4th April 12:46