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Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!0
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Live in t' corridor? Luxury!Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!
When I were a lad we used to live in t'ole in t'road, and thought ourselves lucky to have a manhole cover to keep t'rain off!"When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson0 -
ruggedtoast wrote: »And there we have all the predictable griping from the anti child forum curmudgeons.
Almost no one can afford to pay for their children while they are children, that is why the vast majority of people send their kids to NHS doctors and State schools.
Unless they are boomers, looking forward to a bumper pension and stella house price rises, over the longer term most people pay will pay in more than they take out.
Then maybe just have a couple of kids? I don't think you'd have the same overcrowding, they'd still get to enjoy having children even if they were on low incomes and the rest of us wouldn't have to hear them whining.0 -
So that's a teaching assistant living with a civil servant on benefits & so far they're at four kids & counting.
And just to get this right, it's THEM who're complaining? Not the taxpayers who appear to be funding 100% of their existence?
Rather than whine about it perhaps they could have considered holding off on maybe the 4th child until they could, er, afford to pay for it themselves?
Free houses in Dorset sound great. Can we all have one?
I wish I could thank this twice.0 -
MacMickster wrote: »Live in t' corridor? Luxury!
When I were a lad we used to live in t'ole in t'road, and thought ourselves lucky to have a manhole cover to keep t'rain off!
You had a manhole cover! What were you, middle class! :eek:0 -
Aye. Round our way we probably were!RenovationMan wrote: »You had a manhole cover! What were you, middle class! :eek:
"When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson0 -
As long as we, as a species, keep breeding like rabbits, our living spaces will get smaller and smaller. We'll need more and more land to grow food, and more and more land to build homes. Meanwhile some couples keep having children and can't afford larger homes.
Something has to give and we are beginning to see what that is.Be careful who you open up to. Today it's ears, tomorrow it's mouth.0 -
I always think of this clip when I see threads like this.
Perhaps the parents should explore one of the fifteen choices of contraception available in the UK, and find which one works for them before burdening the planet with yet another mewling cabbage they cannot house.
SHAMEFUL POST.
You should hang your head in shame.
A child is a miracle, but you with your shrivelled joyless little heart that can barely pump blood to your brain refer to them as a "mewling cabbage"
SHAMEFUL MAN.
That these six people thanked you too. Dreadful. I would be ashamed to thank such a wretched piece of writing.- Bennifred
- chewmylegoff
- grizzly1911
- JonnyBravo
- Percy1983
- Sapphire
You may none of you approve of these parents method of providing for their children, i.e. benefits, but they are entitled to do so and knew they would be able to when they had them. They are not being irresponsible you just don't personally like them because they claim benefits, so your minds are full of prejudice.
It is not like someone in the 3rd world having 10 children knowing 7 of them will die due to starvation.
Awful prejudice, even by the low standards of this forum.0 -
ruggedtoast wrote: »SHAMEFUL POST.
You should hang your head in shame.
A child is a miracle, but you with your shrivelled joyless little heart that can barely pump blood to your brain refer to them as a "mewling cabbage"
SHAMEFUL MAN.
That these six people thanked you too. Dreadful. I would be ashamed to thank such a wretched piece of writing.- Bennifred
- chewmylegoff
- grizzly1911
- JonnyBravo
- Percy1983
- Sapphire
You may none of you approve of these parents method of providing for their children, i.e. benefits, but they are entitled to do so and knew they would be able to when they had them. They are not being irresponsible you just don't personally like them because they claim benefits, so your minds are full of prejudice.
It is not like someone in the 3rd world having 10 children knowing 7 of them will die due to starvation.
Awful prejudice, even by the low standards of this forum.
Do you actually believe this rubbish you come out with, where nobody has to take any responsibility for their own actions.0 -
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