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  • Metranil_Vavin
    Metranil_Vavin Posts: 5,025 Forumite
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    ..and Andy committed suicide in front of his PC donchyaknow...
    Metranil dreams of becoming a neon,
    You don't even take him seriously,
    How am I going to get to heaven?,
    When I'm just balanced so precariously..
  • System
    System Posts: 178,371 Community Admin
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    willber wrote: »
    Yes you are. I have no intention in posting on a public forum exactly what we get, from whom and why. All it will end up with are further posts of disgust and dismay from those on here that see welfare claimants as being lower than the dog s**t that gathers on your shoes. I'm certainly not going to provide the bullets for others to fire at me.
    Suffice it to say that I would have to earn £60,000 a year to match what we receive from the state in terms of benefits, allowances and other sundry payments allied to those with a record of sickness/disability.

    And we too are off next week to the Forest of Dean with our caravan for a mini holiday courtesy of the CSMA with members discount and the added advantages of being disabled.
    http://www.csmaclubretreats.co.uk/holidayparks/whitemead/index.php
    I'm sure one on your many previous AEs posted it at some point, eh Andy? How long before this AE gets banned too...
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  • mountainofdebt
    mountainofdebt Posts: 7,795 Forumite
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    Personally I wouldn't like to base my lifestyle on income dependant on a politician's whim.

    Just like the NHS, the benefit system has developed (and has therefore changed people's expectations) into something it was never designed to do - and as a result will cause its own downfall.....if not in this govt's lifetime but certainly in the next
    2014 Target;
    To overpay CC by £1,000.
    Overpayment to date : £310

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  • Metranil_Vavin
    Metranil_Vavin Posts: 5,025 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    you can be whoever you want to be on teh interweb.
    Metranil dreams of becoming a neon,
    You don't even take him seriously,
    How am I going to get to heaven?,
    When I'm just balanced so precariously..
  • Bogof_Babe
    Bogof_Babe Posts: 10,803 Forumite
    you can be whoever you want to be on teh interweb.

    You can even be several people at once :rotfl:.
    :D I haven't bogged off yet, and I ain't no babe :D

  • Dunroamin
    Dunroamin Posts: 16,908 Forumite
    willber wrote: »
    Yes you are. I have no intention in posting on a public forum exactly what we get, from whom and why.

    Why change the habit of a lifetime?
  • SandraScarlett
    SandraScarlett Posts: 4,133 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I find some of Andy's posts quite amusing, especially when his new AE is first born. ;) He starts off trying to disguise his usual style, but then post by post, it starts to creep back in.

    Sooner or later, the tell tale clues appear. The fact that his wife is older, so they got Pension Credit as soon as they were able to, the huge amount they receive in benefits, the fact that he was/is able to command a fantastic salary etc.

    The only thing that changes is if he is getting DLA at the current time. He's posted recently (brother was in prison for manslaughter) that he fancies getting a mobility car, cos cars are expensive. ;)

    With other AEs, he may already be getting DLA HR. I think as Rotoguys he posted a lot about people who wouldn't get a car once PIP was introduced, and he was pleased, cos he was very disabled, unlike other people.

    Then as someone else, he posted that "in case I don't continue to get HRM in future, I'm buying a car myself now and keeping the money", you never know what he'll say!

    Enjoy your break in your caravan, pretend or real, paid for by tax payers, thanks to your benefits!

    xx
  • davholla
    davholla Posts: 523 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Bogof_Babe wrote: »
    Braggers like Willber should be aware that what they post on a public forum can and will find its way onto the desks of some very senior MPs, and will no doubt be taken into consideration for future benefit changes. They do themselves no favours with this constant boastfulness. Smugness is not only ugly, but in this case pretty damn stupid and pathetic.


    If his posts cause the system to change he is doing us a favour
  • Metranil_Vavin
    Metranil_Vavin Posts: 5,025 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    I just wonder what the point of it all is?

    Is it just boredom? Keeping creating new AEs, post stuff that winds people up to get a reaction of some type?

    Or is there more to it? Someone trying to make a political point of some kind?

    If the latter Id be more interested to know what that is than all the silly games, but hey ho..whatever floats your boat.
    Metranil dreams of becoming a neon,
    You don't even take him seriously,
    How am I going to get to heaven?,
    When I'm just balanced so precariously..
  • Dogger69
    Dogger69 Posts: 1,183 Forumite
    davholla wrote: »
    If his posts cause the system to change he is doing us a favour

    His posts feed the view that benefit claimants are money grabbing liars - that is not going to change the system for the better!
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