Who is the safest in a recession - Home Owner or Renter?

SingleSue

Wish someone would teach me then! :rotfl:

Dithering_Dad

SingleSue wrote: »

Wish someone would teach me then! :rotfl:

Don't worry - just another case of !!!!!!? talking out of his hat. I sometimes think he's a writer for the Daily Mail, then other times I think he's unemployed himeself - it'd certainly explain how he finds time to 'rule' the Housing boards.

lostinrates

Isn't it rather the point that people who are busy caring for children/relatives or ill, or busy looking for work, might not have the time to hunt out ways to look for all the benefits and allowances to which they are entitled?

WTF?_2

SingleSue wrote: »

Wish someone would teach me then! :rotfl:

You're too honest.

IME the genuinely needy end up getting the bare minimum. There are plenty of professional dole scroungers living very nicely off of additional allowances for clothing, furniture, transport, education, fuel and goodness knows what.

I know a bloke a good few years back. His dad had been 'on the disability' for about a decade. His sis worked in the local dole office and thus knew all the 'tricks'. They had plenty of money, lived in a decent council house with large extension out the back (to give extra bathroom downstairs and extra bedroom upstairs) and drove a nice new car (a new one every three years). Basically a lifestyle a bit better than the one I grew up in but my dad worked damn hard for it.

There's plenty around where I grew up that have lived practically their entire adult lives on the dole. They have cars, go on a foreign holiday every year, have Sky Sports, plasma screens, go out boozing at the weekends. Dole is a lifestyle for them and they know every trick in the book to keep the money rolling in.

Equally there are plenty of vulnerable people in the system who don't get the care and support that they need .. but it's the spongers who could get jobs but have made the dole their lifestyle that get all the cash and can live well on it.

WTF?_2

Dithering_Dad wrote: »

Don't worry - just another case of !!!!!!? talking out of his hat. I sometimes think he's a writer for the Daily Mail, then other times I think he's unemployed himeself - it'd certainly explain how he finds time to 'rule' the Housing boards.

Poor old 'victimised' Dithering Dad attempts to degrade another thread into a slanging match by injecting another nasty little personal dig at me.

Get over it DD, I'm not biting. Talk to a psyche about your attention cravings is my advice :rolleyes:

Dithering_Dad

!!!!!!? wrote: »

Poor old 'victimised' Dithering Dad attempts to degrade another thread into a slanging match by injecting another nasty little personal dig at me.

Get over it DD, I'm not biting. Talk to a psyche about your attention cravings is my advice :rolleyes:

And so have you, just now. Do you not see it?

SingleSue

You are right !!!!!!... I am way too honest for my own good!

Dithering_Dad

SingleSue wrote: »

You are right !!!!!!... I am way too honest for my own good!

Most people are, or have too much dignity like !!!!!!'s dad to want to live on benefits when they're more than capable of working.

Work isn't just about making money, it's about friendships, achievement, goals. I'd much rather have a full day of work than lounge about on a sofa being worried in case the fraud officer calls round.

lynzpower

Dithering_Dad wrote: »

Most people are, or have too much dignity like !!!!!!'s dad to want to live on benefits when they're more than capable of working.

Work isn't just about making money, it's about friendships, achievement, goals. I'd much rather have a full day of work than lounge about on a sofa being worried in case the fraud officer calls round.

i think you have managed to misread ( accindentally on purpose) !!!!!! never siad it was HIS father on disability benefits, it clearly said someone he knews father. His piece went on to say that they had a better lifestyle than WTFs own family.

Unless you just see !!!!!! has posted something then you want to jump on his back regardless of what !!!!!! is saying.

I personally find this extremely childish.

You have been asked repeatedly to stop biting at 2 posters. It seems like bullying to me.

Surely you should be welll aware of your behaviour if you work in HR

Dithering_Dad

lynzpower wrote: »

i think you have managed to misread ( accindentally on purpose) !!!!!! never siad it was HIS father on disability benefits, it clearly said someone he knews father. His piece went on to say that they had a better lifestyle than WTFs own family.

Unless you just see !!!!!! has posted something then you want to jump on his back regardless of what !!!!!! is saying.

I personally find this extremely childish.

You have been asked repeatedly to stop biting at 2 posters. It seems like bullying to me.

Surely you should be welll aware of your behaviour if you work in HR

I was actually paying his Dad a compliment!! From !!!!!!'s comments he sounds a lot like mine.

Lord almighty, I can't do anything right on the housing forum can I?

The text was: "Most people are [too honest], or have too much dignity like !!!!!!'s dad to want to live on benefits when they're more than capable of working."

meaning, most people have too much dignity (like !!!!!!'s dad) to want to live on benefits....

if I meant what you think, then I'd write "most people have too much dignity unlike !!!!!!'s dad to want to live on benefits....

Jeeze Linz.

p.s. you've just 'bitten' at me, and wrongly. Is the rule on here that anyone can jump on me without reproach, but woa betide DD if he jumps back?

I'd also bring your attention to this thread:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1146585&page=4

"!!!!!!? if you really believe that you're 'above all this nonsense' then why not just stop posting stuff like the above? All it does in inflame everything and it all starts again.

You're doing exactly what you've just remonstrated about in your post (and others you've made recently). This argument is nothing to do with me and I have stayed out of it. You, on the other hand couldn't resist getting involved - it says a lot about your personality.

As I said in another thread, leave me alone and I'll leave you alone. It really is that simple."

Where I'm chatting away about studio flats and !!!!!! comes in and starts 'jumping' on me. I even ask him to leave me out of this without success. Did you or anyone else take him to task for 'jumping on my back in this childish way'? Nope, of course not.