Watching SKINT ?

stapeley

BBC 1 Amazing ! Two people both with problems trying to start a business , in between smoking dope ! The main person with mental health problems gaining credit although he already owes thousands , just with a simple phone call . Would you want them to fit a bathroom for you ?

rupe34

That depends on the quality of the work - personally I'd like to employ someone who needs the money and is attempting to make something of his life, rather than someone who's got it all together. But thats just me.

Pollycat

I always watched 'SKINT' when it was on previously (2 or 3 series?) and have seen Vernon go through so many problems, I really feel for him.

He's tried so hard to get himself sorted but he just seems to 'go off the rails' at the wrong time.
I think if he maybe had someone to help him out e.g. to stop him buying stuff when he's got a bit of money in his pocket that he'll eventually take into the pawnbrokers he might get somewhere.

Very sad.

bluestaff

Pollycat wrote: »

I always watched 'SKINT' when it was on previously (2 or 3 series?) and have seen Vernon go through so many problems, I really feel for him.

He's tried so hard to get himself sorted but he just seems to 'go off the rails' at the wrong time.
I think if he maybe had someone to help him out e.g. to stop him buying stuff when he's got a bit of money in his pocket that he'll eventually take into the pawnbrokers he might get somewhere.

Very sad.

Totally agree with yer pollycat

GreyPilgrim

Not seen the show but sounds interesting...I'll keep an eye out for it.

I had a wry smile at the wikipedia article about it though..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skint_(TV_series)
Re Bob Steele - "Bob has made numerous live appearances, most notibly at an Irish bar in Birmingham (for which he was paid £20 to finish early)"

pebblespop

GreyPilgrim wrote: »

Not seen the show but sounds interesting...I'll keep an eye out for it.

I had a wry smile at the wikipedia article about it though..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skint_(TV_series)
Re Bob Steele - "Bob has made numerous live appearances, most notibly at an Irish bar in Birmingham (for which he was paid £20 to finish early)"

that was a funny episode!! the poor guy wasn't very good at singing but was trying his best!!

i felt sorry for vernon and thought the bbc should have paid off his debts for appearing on the show. UNTIL i realised he was buying stuff from catalogues and taking it straight to cash converters!

misspoppy

I tuned in thinking it was following someone that was going to sort themselves out!!! I like the chap but you can't help wonder about a lifestyle where he can get credit from a catalogue when he has no money loads of debts and then just pawned what he ordered the day it arrived.

The guy really does try and you can't knock his work ethic ie selling big issue but doesn't the bbc have a duty to help him rather than film him going from one crisis to another?

It also made me think that catalogues deserve all they get when people apply for their CCA and they can't provide one so the debt is unenforceable

stapeley

Seems to me he gets hooked up to some wrong people . Did the plumber he is "working with" have his own problems with gambling ? I have a bad feeling that Vernon may get turned over .