Using your benefit money for gambling
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How is this allowed?
On benefits, but visiting a gambling establishment and spending said benefits multiple times a week.
Then moaning to your other gambling benefit plonkers that you don't get enough money.
How on earth can someone be on benefits and be allowed to spunk it all away gambling?
If that isn't bad enough, the novelty crutches that are sometimes forgotten make it even better.
It's crazy!
Then you have the people who are massively overweight, puffing on an inhaler but next minute are outside smoking. They moan about money but always seem to have enough to gamble and buy cigarettes. One even had a holiday to Spain last month.
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king hell. I must be doing something wrong. 
On benefits, but visiting a gambling establishment and spending said benefits multiple times a week.
Then moaning to your other gambling benefit plonkers that you don't get enough money.
How on earth can someone be on benefits and be allowed to spunk it all away gambling?
If that isn't bad enough, the novelty crutches that are sometimes forgotten make it even better.
It's crazy!
Then you have the people who are massively overweight, puffing on an inhaler but next minute are outside smoking. They moan about money but always seem to have enough to gamble and buy cigarettes. One even had a holiday to Spain last month.
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king hell. I must be doing something wrong. PMacanGTS said:
funkyrobot said:
How is this allowed?
On benefits, but visiting a gambling establishment and spending said benefits multiple times a week.
Then moaning to your other gambling benefit plonkers that you don't get enough money.
How on earth can someone be on benefits and be allowed to spunk it all away gambling?
If that isn't bad enough, the novelty crutches that are sometimes forgotten make it even better.
It's crazy!
Then you have the people who are massively overweight, puffing on an inhaler but next minute are outside smoking. They moan about money but always seem to have enough to gamble and buy cigarettes. One even had a holiday to Spain last month.
fking hell. I must be doing something wrong.
You see the effects, but are clearly struggling to decipher the causes. If I were you, rather than getting angry, I'd take an hour or two and think about why people gamble, smoke and excessively eat cheap and nutritionally bankrupt food. On benefits, but visiting a gambling establishment and spending said benefits multiple times a week.
Then moaning to your other gambling benefit plonkers that you don't get enough money.
How on earth can someone be on benefits and be allowed to spunk it all away gambling?
If that isn't bad enough, the novelty crutches that are sometimes forgotten make it even better.
It's crazy!
Then you have the people who are massively overweight, puffing on an inhaler but next minute are outside smoking. They moan about money but always seem to have enough to gamble and buy cigarettes. One even had a holiday to Spain last month.
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king hell. I must be doing something wrong. I guess being on benefits and gambling is no different to the bods at our local council. They take risks with other people's money too.
I'm not getting angry. It just baffles me that a system set up to help people in need is abused so openly in such a way.
I have a recently diagnosed health issue that causes me pain. I have a long term back issue that has caused me problems on and off for over 12 years. I also have mental health and anxiety issues. It has never stopped me trying and I still go to work, despite sometimes being quite anxious and my hip giving me a load of grief. I guess I find it odd that I'm at work earning minimum wage and these shysters seem to carry on without a care in the world.
stuartmmcfc said:
funkyrobot said:
How is this allowed?
On benefits, but visiting a gambling establishment and spending said benefits multiple times a week.
Then moaning to your other gambling benefit plonkers that you don't get enough money.
How on earth can someone be on benefits and be allowed to spunk it all away gambling?
If that isn't bad enough, the novelty crutches that are sometimes forgotten make it even better.
It's crazy!
Then you have the people who are massively overweight, puffing on an inhaler but next minute are outside smoking. They moan about money but always seem to have enough to gamble and buy cigarettes. One even had a holiday to Spain last month.
fking hell. I must be doing something wrong.
Worst “I vote Tory” thread ever.On benefits, but visiting a gambling establishment and spending said benefits multiple times a week.
Then moaning to your other gambling benefit plonkers that you don't get enough money.
How on earth can someone be on benefits and be allowed to spunk it all away gambling?
If that isn't bad enough, the novelty crutches that are sometimes forgotten make it even better.
It's crazy!
Then you have the people who are massively overweight, puffing on an inhaler but next minute are outside smoking. They moan about money but always seem to have enough to gamble and buy cigarettes. One even had a holiday to Spain last month.
f
king hell. I must be doing something wrong. Algarve said:
My dad has worked all his life and kept me clued up on these things till I was old and sensible enough to take over myself. But even with that help I think I'd have been far better learning about this than womens struggle to vote, or the lead up to World War 2 in history classes, or how to bake cakes in home economics.
Unfortunately, I just think some are beyond help. They don't want to change or learn, especially when money is just given to them.On a slightly different note, one of my younger brothers is in a good NHS job and earns more than me and my wife. Yet he is now back at home with mum and dad at nearly 40 years old because he can't handle money. He has loan debts despite being in a council property that didn't cost much to rent at all. Thing is, I can't see him moving on now because he has been back two months and is about to head off on his fourth holiday this year (second in two months), despite promising my parents he will build himself back up financially whilst there. He is beyond help and will still be there when my parents are gone.
Jasandjules said:
funkyrobot said:
How on earth can someone be on benefits and be allowed to spunk it all away gambling?
Boris, is that you? I guess because they are not good with money and dream of the "big win". In much the same way as many people gamble.... You don't have to be rich to have a gambling habit.
It is a shame that they are unfortunate enough to be on benefits, hopefully they will find a way out of that hole.
wormus said:
funkyrobot said:
I have a recently diagnosed health issue that causes me pain. I have a long term back issue that has caused me problems on and off for over 12 years. I also have mental health and anxiety issues. It has never stopped me trying and I still go to work, despite sometimes being quite anxious and my hip giving me a load of grief. I guess I find it odd that I'm at work earning minimum wage and these shysters seem to carry on without a care in the world.
Does this mean those of us who don’t have a health condition and are earning good salaries can look down on you? 
stuartmmcfc said:
BigMon said:
I've got pretty much a full house at PH Bingo here.
I have no love for spongers and scroungers but some of the posts on here are laughable.
Quick hands up then. How many of the posters on here have visited a food bank and 'walked out with carrier bags of food'?
A lot of posters on here have no idea how a food bank works but it doesn’t stop them having opinions on it. I have no love for spongers and scroungers but some of the posts on here are laughable.
Quick hands up then. How many of the posters on here have visited a food bank and 'walked out with carrier bags of food'?
OzzyR1 said:
mike74 said:
Single mum I know of, does the usual 16 hours per week bar work on minimum wage with the rest of her income ''topped up'' by benefits.
A quick look on her facebook page shows the kind of expenditure and lifestyle she seems to be able to afford, including...
Dozens of pairs of designer shoes.
Whole walk in wardrobe (well, spare bedroom) of designer clothes
All the latest tech, i-phones, i-pads etc
Extensive and expensive ''ink''
Regular nights out, city breaks, glamping trips.
Monthly 400 mile round trip to her ''lip woman''
Recently just passed driving test and immediately went out and bought a 16 plate fiesta st line
Set up her own make up brand, which appears to have been (rather predictably) a non-viable business venture and is more of a deluded vanity project.
It sure is a tough life on benefits for these single parents.
Threads on this sort of topic always make me laugh when they crop up. A quick look on her facebook page shows the kind of expenditure and lifestyle she seems to be able to afford, including...
Dozens of pairs of designer shoes.
Whole walk in wardrobe (well, spare bedroom) of designer clothes
All the latest tech, i-phones, i-pads etc
Extensive and expensive ''ink''
Regular nights out, city breaks, glamping trips.
Monthly 400 mile round trip to her ''lip woman''
Recently just passed driving test and immediately went out and bought a 16 plate fiesta st line
Set up her own make up brand, which appears to have been (rather predictably) a non-viable business venture and is more of a deluded vanity project.
It sure is a tough life on benefits for these single parents.
From your description above, it sounds like the person you know is living a dream lifestyle. Similarly, the OP wonders where he has gone wrong in working for a living.
If you are really that envious, there's a quick solution. Quit your job, sign on and you too could be in a similar position.
What's stopping you?
Unfortunately, I see generations of it at work.
For example, there is a grandmother, mother and daughter who visit regularly. Every generation seems to have got fatter, and every generation seems to be more rude. The grandmother is the slimmest (still large though) and is fairly quiet. The mother is rude, but the daughter is something else. Self entitled, nasty piece of work that swears all of the time. She has a triple gut that hangs down below her waist and her face looks like a big red cherry that is about to pop. She is a horrible person that has obviously got used to being given everything and has no intentions of giving anything useful to the world.
For example, there is a grandmother, mother and daughter who visit regularly. Every generation seems to have got fatter, and every generation seems to be more rude. The grandmother is the slimmest (still large though) and is fairly quiet. The mother is rude, but the daughter is something else. Self entitled, nasty piece of work that swears all of the time. She has a triple gut that hangs down below her waist and her face looks like a big red cherry that is about to pop. She is a horrible person that has obviously got used to being given everything and has no intentions of giving anything useful to the world.
I had to laugh today.
I saw one of the moaners who visits my place of work, gambles and then moans she hasn't got enough money leaving McDonald's. She told someone the toilets were now blocked (
), waddled out only half using her crutches, threw said crutches into a brand new BMW, climbed in, struck up a cigarette and drove off.
I saw one of the moaners who visits my place of work, gambles and then moans she hasn't got enough money leaving McDonald's. She told someone the toilets were now blocked (
), waddled out only half using her crutches, threw said crutches into a brand new BMW, climbed in, struck up a cigarette and drove off. Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff