How the Other Half Live

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Hi fishingcinema, don't worry I haven't taken offence - it's not me I'm speaking of, it's the mother!!

That's why I wrote "although I would have never acted like this"

mistysmoth

'It's embarrassing with very little cutlery'


Ours is from the £1 shop and serves us well

doraexplorer

mistysmoth wrote: »

'It's embarrassing with very little cutlery'


Ours is from the £1 shop and serves us well

that annoyed me too :mad: you can get cheap ones in all supermarkets.

in fact the whole programme annoyed me. whats the bus driver doing with the wrinkly old bird anyhow? bet she was a doll in her bikini on the sunbed. NOT

it was totally set up, the poor boy going on about being poor.

another thing why did the wrinkly always have leggings on on holiday ? what was that all about i think she a junkie or ex junkie and her legs were all marked from using needles.

"cringe"

dora x

xmaslolly76

Just one thought if these people are on benefits/tax credits is this money they receive classed as income ? Could this come back to bite them in the !!! at a later date?

liam8282

^ Good point seems a bit unfair on other families in the same position.

If one family suddenly gets £4,000 extra cash in a year, surely that should be taken into account somewhere along the line?

doraexplorer

last one on now channel 4 9.00pm. if anyone is interested

wonder if it will be as good as last week .:)

gunsandbanjos

Just watched last weeks on replay. God that woman was awful:o

The well off family seemed really lovely and i'm glad they pulled saggy face up on spending so much on herself! Greedy mare.

jamtart6

Felt sorry for the little boy in last weeks one, and the bus driver dad seemed nice, but agree with all these comments, the mother was awful. i think the rich family felt sorry for the kids, hence the trust fund where the mother couldnt spend it!

the wealthy kids seemed nice too, not stuck up imho

xmaslolly76

This weeks episode was quite good too. Looks like the family are really doing something with the money. They impressed the wealthy family so much he has has given the dad a job on one of his holiday parks to help them get out of london with the kids. Last weeks Mother should be totaly ashamed of herself who buys a computer when your kids need coats and shoes. I go without on a regular basis if the kids are in need of such basic things.

BitterAndTwisted

I thought the African lady with the two daughters featured in the programme a couple of weeks ago was fantastic and her children were delightful. I really couldn't imagine a more deserving family.

I think the programmes are infinitely more instructive and valuable to the wealthier family's children, as intended, than the poorer ones: there's nothing like seeing how most ordinary people have to manage to make you grateful for what you have.

Having said that, I don't think they've actually featured any REALLY poor and needy families but then maybe the real deprivation is having parents who don't know how to budget properly or at all when all around you are families who can and do.

Maybe we could encourage Ch4 to make some proper programmes to help folk on a low income budget and plan and to make-do-and-mend like all we MSE-ers are trying to