Morpheus Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 (edited) On benefits many years ago but was never in the house. Always on the golf course and since i was lucky enough to be chosen to represent my golf club the club secretary allowed me to pay my membership fee on a monthly basis which was great as being on benefits i simply couldn't afford to pay it all at once. He was also my PE teacher when i was at school so i guess that helped as well. When in the house i wasn't allowed to lie in bed and learnt how to cook basic stuff like spuds, meat and so on which was great for my mother and father as they had a ready meal cooked for them when they came home from work. Downside was that i had to come off the golf course to have the dinner ready. Even while on benefits i started to get the odd gardening job to do (declared of course) and that eventually ended up being my main source of income for the next 30 years or so. I do have a great deal of sympathy for those who are on benefits and continually apply for jobs but don't even get an answer back. That must be absolutely soul destroying. However where my sympathy ends is when you have those people who have been claiming Disability Benefit and have been caught defrauding the system, or those who simply don't want to work and hide behind the benefit system. If you can't get a job get yourself into a routine of getting up at the right time in the morning and actually go on a course to improve your chances of gaining employment. A friend of mine who works in the local Social Security Office has told me that there are now a great diversity of courses available to the unemployed and he cannot understand why he has had to threaten several people with losing their benefit because they simply didn't want to take advantage of what is available. Edited October 31, 2013 by Morpheus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Avenue Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Been on the road today and earlier on needed to fire the laptop up and get some wifi . I thereby pulled over and nipped into a weather spoons. Sweet Jesus, broken Britain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Best cure for a hangover? Sprite, scientists claim My hangovers are getting worse so I'm going to check this claim over Chrimbo. 'Chrimbo'? Sort yourself out. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StigVillan Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Weather Spoons? Fork Lightning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted October 31, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted October 31, 2013 http://www.takethislollipop.com/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 (edited) http://www.takethislollipop.com/ wtf is wrong with you It got the wrong location anyway, lol. I put a fake location for my FB address :-) Edited October 31, 2013 by AVFCforever1991 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted October 31, 2013 Moderator Share Posted October 31, 2013 It asked for permission to access my facebook account. "Eh, no". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 It asked for permission to access my facebook account. "Eh, no". I just used my other account, where all the info is fake.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted October 31, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted October 31, 2013 It asked for permission to access my facebook account. "Eh, no". It doesn't hack you or anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 (edited) Edited November 1, 2013 by AVFCforever1991 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Best cure for a hangover? Sprite, scientists claim My hangovers are getting worse so I'm going to check this claim over Chrimbo. I find Pepsi max is best for me but sprite also works ... Anything fizzy really Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StigVillan Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 http://www.takethislollipop.com/ Oh. My. God. That brought up photos of my daughter and it hit me like a sledgehammer. Totally acceptable, but Christ that's awful... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/forget-london-visit-birmingham-new-york-magazine-tells-readers-that-englands-second-city-outdoes-the-capital-8916466.html Wowsers. Positive press for Brum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 I like the way they try and shoehorn spaghetti junction in at the end there as some sort of tourist attraction. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Has anybody got that Timehop app, that accesses all your social media and stuff to tell you what you were doing on this day 'x' amount of years ago? Made me sad seeing my Korea halloween pics popping up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 http://www.takethislollipop.com/ funny enough the photo's of me it picked involved me drunk in a pub with tampons stuffed up my nose , standing on a rotating dance floor in Reflex Broad street in front of a man wearing a costume with "Willy man " written on it it and jumping up and down on a bouncy castle with my 2 kids on my back it sorta re-affirms my point from the facebook thread that as a snap shot of my life it's still exactly what I want at my funeral .. just some random and irreverent insight into my rather random and irreverent life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morley_crosses_to_Withe Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 I like the way they try and shoehorn spaghetti junction in at the end there as some sort of tourist attraction. And it's got a library! Yes, a library. A great place to visit for the average tourist. Not only that - Jamelia and a few other musicians were born there. What that means on a tangible, sightseeing level is anyone's guess. And it's got parks. And trees! Lots of trees. And when you're bored of the parks, or the library, or the motorway interchanges, there's...wait for it...a cinema. The article it is referring to must have been written by some wanky hipster. If you're from the US and you decide to visit Birmingham instead of London then you've made a huge error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 1, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted November 1, 2013 It's like saying: "Forget New York City - Des Moines, Iowa is a WAY better tourist destination". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted November 1, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted November 1, 2013 Although it's not. It's like saying, 'don't go to New York, go to Chicago'. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 I just think they're wrongly preying on the stereotype that Americans are gullible fools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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