A bit council (Vol 3)
Discussion
The Mad Monk said:
CoolHands said:
Food poverty. It’s all I ever hear on the radio. But I think this is the reality. I haven’t ever spent 37 quid on dominoes and I’ve been working my entire adult life.
No, nor cribbage or shove ha'penny.kingston12 said:
Totally agree that it is ridiculously profligate, and in her case stupid - she spends the last of her money on something she shouldn’t, and when it fails to deliver she can’t afford to buy anything else.
I still think that anyone with less than £50 to their name would be considered poor in the context of the real (sensible) cost of living in Britain in 2019. She is just making poor decisions by buying things she can’t afford that make her poorer still and increase the risk that she will run out of money altogether.
As has been pointed at above, in this case she has probably become skilled in frittering away the last of her money just in time for the next benefits payment to arrive. Presumably, if that arrives late for any reason, she’ll be living on ‘crisps and stuff’ or going down to the food bank until it gets there.
Thats 25% of the population then. I still think that anyone with less than £50 to their name would be considered poor in the context of the real (sensible) cost of living in Britain in 2019. She is just making poor decisions by buying things she can’t afford that make her poorer still and increase the risk that she will run out of money altogether.
As has been pointed at above, in this case she has probably become skilled in frittering away the last of her money just in time for the next benefits payment to arrive. Presumably, if that arrives late for any reason, she’ll be living on ‘crisps and stuff’ or going down to the food bank until it gets there.
CoolHands said:
Food poverty. It’s all I ever hear on the radio. But I think this is the reality. I haven’t ever spent 37 quid on dominoes and I’ve been working my entire adult life.
We occasionally have a Pizza and Training Lunch at work, there is 5 of us and we order a large pizza each from Dominoes and share round. We get one of the special offers and this only ever comes out at £35 including the drinks. We stuff our faces and there is still some left over afterwards. Agree with the other poster she is not poor but incredbly stupid.
Edited by MWM3 on Wednesday 16th January 22:39
kingston12 said:
The crux of the problem is that more money can actually flow into the bank account that way than from doing a lot of lower level jobs, destroying any incentive to work altogether for those not ambitious/bright enough to look on them as a stepping stone to something better.
The way some benefits are structured, working part time sometimes doesn't actually increase income - e.g. for JSA you get to earn up to £5 a week without affecting the benefit, but any more and the same amount is deducted from the benefit payment. In a minimum wage job a single person would have to work at least 10 hrs a week to see any increase in income - though the cost of actually getting to work etc. could easily wipe out any increase.Not exactly a brilliant incentive to work
S11Steve said:
A good example of why the socialist principle of redistribution of wealth is not a viable or sustainable ideology, Tax the wealthy only to allow the financially inept to live without consequence.
But if, heaven forbid, we put that theory into practice, and gave everybody an equal lump sum and income, within a couple of years we would end up with rich people and poor people again.S11Steve said:
A good example of why the socialist principle of redistribution of wealth is not a viable or sustainable ideology, Tax the wealthy only to allow the financially inept to live without consequence.
This hits close to home. SWMBO ex-best friend is one of these scroungers. Shat out a kid at 18, left the child with grandparents every weekend so she could go out. Never worked a day in her life but went to university in Scotland for free, got the maximum circa £9,000 loan/bursary every year. Graduated psychology and sociology with a low merit classification and has decided there's no point in her working now because she gets so much in handouts from the government, it's not worth her while.She boasts about how much money she gets, which is why my wife and her are no longer friends; where does she think that money comes from? She also went absolutely ballistic because she hadn't paid some council bill and they told her they'd take instalments of £4.50 over the course of...96 months! She went crazy saying how that's it's ridiculous she needs to pay for it, whilst she'd spend £60 of 'her' money on "designer trainers for the wee man" - that will last 3 months. She has zero concept of real money. She would just expect lifts to and from anywhere that took her fancy, I think she thought cars ran on hopes and dreams and cost nothing to maintain.
Can I nominate myself?
I had a Christmas present to exchange for something actually wearable and not of man made fibres, and since I had a second date arranged thought I would combine the two activities. Which meant dinner in a shopping centre.
I don't really do shopping centres, so this was a new experience. Around ten chain type restaurants (Five Guys, Pizza Express etc) stuck between the main shopping bit and the cinema. Most of them had most of their tables 'outside', i.e. in the main pedestrian area of the shopping centre.
Opted for Zizzi's (not my choice) and was subsequently robbed of nearly £30 for a small pizza, about 20p of pasta in a bowl and two Cokes. And it was busy. A cold Wednesday night in Glasgow, in January, and the huge car park was rammed with councilistas spunking £30 on bang average food whilst being watched by reams of passing teenagers taking their council birds to the pictures.
Don't really see the attraction. The date enjoyed it so have her marked down as dangerously council. To be handled with caution.
I had a Christmas present to exchange for something actually wearable and not of man made fibres, and since I had a second date arranged thought I would combine the two activities. Which meant dinner in a shopping centre.
I don't really do shopping centres, so this was a new experience. Around ten chain type restaurants (Five Guys, Pizza Express etc) stuck between the main shopping bit and the cinema. Most of them had most of their tables 'outside', i.e. in the main pedestrian area of the shopping centre.
Opted for Zizzi's (not my choice) and was subsequently robbed of nearly £30 for a small pizza, about 20p of pasta in a bowl and two Cokes. And it was busy. A cold Wednesday night in Glasgow, in January, and the huge car park was rammed with councilistas spunking £30 on bang average food whilst being watched by reams of passing teenagers taking their council birds to the pictures.
Don't really see the attraction. The date enjoyed it so have her marked down as dangerously council. To be handled with caution.
technodup said:
Can I nominate myself?
I had a Christmas present to exchange for something actually wearable and not of man made fibres, and since I had a second date arranged thought I would combine the two activities. Which meant dinner in a shopping centre.
I don't really do shopping centres, so this was a new experience. Around ten chain type restaurants (Five Guys, Pizza Express etc) stuck between the main shopping bit and the cinema. Most of them had most of their tables 'outside', i.e. in the main pedestrian area of the shopping centre.
Opted for Zizzi's (not my choice) and was subsequently robbed of nearly £30 for a small pizza, about 20p of pasta in a bowl and two Cokes. And it was busy. A cold Wednesday night in Glasgow, in January, and the huge car park was rammed with councilistas spunking £30 on bang average food whilst being watched by reams of passing teenagers taking their council birds to the pictures.
Don't really see the attraction. The date enjoyed it so have her marked down as dangerously council. To be handled with caution.
One of the upsides of January - when everyone is either watching the post-Christmas pennies, feeling overweight or simply just wanting to stay at home in the warm, is that a lot of very good restaurants heavily discount their menu, often offering 50% off all food throughout the month.I had a Christmas present to exchange for something actually wearable and not of man made fibres, and since I had a second date arranged thought I would combine the two activities. Which meant dinner in a shopping centre.
I don't really do shopping centres, so this was a new experience. Around ten chain type restaurants (Five Guys, Pizza Express etc) stuck between the main shopping bit and the cinema. Most of them had most of their tables 'outside', i.e. in the main pedestrian area of the shopping centre.
Opted for Zizzi's (not my choice) and was subsequently robbed of nearly £30 for a small pizza, about 20p of pasta in a bowl and two Cokes. And it was busy. A cold Wednesday night in Glasgow, in January, and the huge car park was rammed with councilistas spunking £30 on bang average food whilst being watched by reams of passing teenagers taking their council birds to the pictures.
Don't really see the attraction. The date enjoyed it so have her marked down as dangerously council. To be handled with caution.
It's a great month for eating out!
technodup said:
Can I nominate myself?
I had a Christmas present to exchange for something actually wearable and not of man made fibres, and since I had a second date arranged thought I would combine the two activities. Which meant dinner in a shopping centre.
I don't really do shopping centres, so this was a new experience. Around ten chain type restaurants (Five Guys, Pizza Express etc) stuck between the main shopping bit and the cinema. Most of them had most of their tables 'outside', i.e. in the main pedestrian area of the shopping centre.
Opted for Zizzi's (not my choice) and was subsequently robbed of nearly £30 for a small pizza, about 20p of pasta in a bowl and two Cokes. And it was busy. A cold Wednesday night in Glasgow, in January, and the huge car park was rammed with councilistas spunking £30 on bang average food whilst being watched by reams of passing teenagers taking their council birds to the pictures.
Don't really see the attraction. The date enjoyed it so have her marked down as dangerously council. To be handled with caution.
I had a Christmas present to exchange for something actually wearable and not of man made fibres, and since I had a second date arranged thought I would combine the two activities. Which meant dinner in a shopping centre.
I don't really do shopping centres, so this was a new experience. Around ten chain type restaurants (Five Guys, Pizza Express etc) stuck between the main shopping bit and the cinema. Most of them had most of their tables 'outside', i.e. in the main pedestrian area of the shopping centre.
Opted for Zizzi's (not my choice) and was subsequently robbed of nearly £30 for a small pizza, about 20p of pasta in a bowl and two Cokes. And it was busy. A cold Wednesday night in Glasgow, in January, and the huge car park was rammed with councilistas spunking £30 on bang average food whilst being watched by reams of passing teenagers taking their council birds to the pictures.
Don't really see the attraction. The date enjoyed it so have her marked down as dangerously council. To be handled with caution.
Balmoral said:
It's depressing that so many people live like this as a lifestyle choice, they do the math and decide it's not worth working. Meanwhile there are people who have to decide between feeding the meter or feeding the children.
Exactly - what we see in the media are the outliers. There are plenty of people living hand to mouth, trying to get by and relying on benefits to top up or cover their basic expenses. These are the ones who often have several s
tty jobs and use the food banks. They're basically invisible and lumped in with the scroungers, who sell papers, get click bait and reinforce the view of "undeserving poor".
Labradorofperception said:
Balmoral said:
It's depressing that so many people live like this as a lifestyle choice, they do the math and decide it's not worth working. Meanwhile there are people who have to decide between feeding the meter or feeding the children.
Exactly - what we see in the media are the outliers. There are plenty of people living hand to mouth, trying to get by and relying on benefits to top up or cover their basic expenses. These are the ones who often have several stty jobs and use the food banks. They're basically invisible and lumped in with the scroungers, who sell papers, get click bait and reinforce the view of "undeserving poor".
Read today a single pensioner gets about what a working age couple gets, but it's OK as OAPs vote Tory, the poor don't.
techiedave said:
Thread fail! Nowt wrong with that, IMO.And the bloody Guardian should be ashamed of itself!
SpeckledJim said:
techiedave said:
Thread fail! Nowt wrong with that, IMO.And the bloody Guardian should be ashamed of itself!
SpeckledJim said:
techiedave said:
Thread fail! Nowt wrong with that, IMO.And the bloody Guardian should be ashamed of itself!
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