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[hotel21]

Members being offensive to other members will not be tolerated. Offensive or abusive public threads or private messages will be looked in to and appropriate action taken by the Moderators.

Keep it clean, children....

Otherwise, it will be a wet playtime and detention and lines afterwards....        

[Vamps]

Why is it me that always gets the shitty PMs.......

lol......

From Di, just received......
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Webby
Go Forth and Multiply
Kept It Clean and off the forum
D.
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Is it only and always me....?

lol
 

 

Coz you have the biggest wooden stick (in most threads)   

I thought there was a forum rule about offensive PM's they have been the cause of great unrest iirc in the past...........
 

There is, but admin/mod would need advised formally of them first, rather than a plain post in a thread....   

I was just trying to 'drop a hint' rather than hit the admin button, been keeping out of this, mostly, but watching......

There are probably a number of other authorities that would be more interested in the admissions made in this and other threads, rather than resort to swinging handbags and namecalling.....

And she has no idea what some members do for a living................, not me by the way, not for this anyway....

[Vamps]

Members being offensive to other members will not be tolerated. Offensive or abusive public threads or private messages will be looked in to and appropriate action taken by the Moderators.

Keep it clean, children....

Otherwise, it will be a wet playtime and detention and lines afterwards....        

Is that a punishment........

[JamesV6CDX]

well I personally make websites for a living ... but - I have fixed a couple of Omega's for more than a couple of nameless members who work for DWP..

[webby23]

My best friend of 28 years is actually a Benefit Fraud Investigator for Rushcliffe Borough Council, so she is sailing very close to the wind here tbh

Good job there was no swearing in that PM.......

lol

 

[Entwood]

As I said before .. methinks Di "shoots from the hip" at times .. and has her own personal turbo-powered JCB ... perhaps she should be allowed to think on what has been said .. by everyone.. including her...  and lets just let things settle down overnight ...

No point in winding each other up until something is said that everyone regrets ...

[Hannah Judes Dad]

Members being offensive to other members will not be tolerated. Offensive or abusive public threads or private messages will be looked in to and appropriate action taken by the Moderators.

Keep it clean, children....

Otherwise, it will be a wet playtime and detention and lines afterwards....        

Is that a punishment........

Some people pay good money for that kind of treatment 

[albitz]

The benefits system should be there to provide money for food,heat,basic accomodation etc for those who would otherwise starve, freeze, be homeless etc through no fault of their own.
The system which provides more than this is wrong and is thieving from its taxpayers in order to assist social engineering and/or buy votes.
The individuals who will accept the payments this system will  give them are equally wrong imo and I dont see how they can have any genuine pride or dignity.Particularily people who have recently recieved quite a large amount of money and iirc are very soon about to recieve another large amount.
This money could be put to proper use helping the genuinely needy, or (even more unlikely)left in the wage packets of those who work to keep themselves.Just my tuppence worth etc.

[Elite Pete]

Di ...

You have your views and opinions.. to which you are certainly entitled ...

Others have theirs .. to which they are also entitled.. and they don't have to agree with you or explain themselves.

From recent "happenings" you obviously act on the "spur of the moment" and don't always listen to advice given .... that is also your choice .. no doubts about it ...

However .... you have shown a strong propensity to keep digging even when the hole is getting very deep ... this may not win you much support, and will probably have the opposite effect.

You may have had a tough time recently ... but you have openly bragged about the money coming in ... openly ignored advice on purchase of a car ... desperately cried for help regarding that car (now getting the work done for nowt) .. and then you brag about a job you don't want and £150 worth of free clothes  !!!

There are many on the forum far worse off than you ... you don't HAVE to rub their noses in it.

Sorry to be blunt, but I feel it needs saying to "clear the air" ..

 :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/

Well said

Do you think I would let James come all the way from Cheltenham and do two days work for free, if so you are totally pissed.
Did he look my car over last night and post on here yes he did, but I covered his expenses, even though he did not want a penny. But he did it and I would/could not let him do it for free, the same as if Loo Knee of Elite Pete had come down, they would have been paid all the same.

I think the answer to this is, if you thought you could get away with it, yes.

There was alot of talk on the forum about the car you had bought causing you problems and you needing it to go to France blah blah blah and being honest I really didn't want to do the job but after a few kind words (im a big softy) from other members I had a chat with my wife about loaning my daughters car for the day so the wife could get to work and I agreed to come down and do the job. Now I explained that because you wanted the work doing on the Tuesday (this was Sunday night) that I would have to get genuine Vauxhall parts. The price I quoted was £650 and that was for cambelt kit, water pump, auxiliary belt and tensioner, oil and oil filter, air filter, cabin filter, fuel filter, 6 x spark plugs, 5 litres of Vauxhall long life antifreeze and replacement bulbs for the dash and fuel for the 360 mile round trip.  After spending Monday morning trying to get all the parts together on Monday so I could leave at 6am Tuesday,and arranging to pick my daughters car up, I told you the price to which you replied you couldn't afford it. Now I don't know your circumstances but I now know the Government pays you benefits and probably your council tax and rent/mortgage and you have £13000 sat in your account, seems to me that you are the sort of person that would like something for nothing.

[ScottieMV6]

Sorry but if you have just received £13k then you should not be getting benefits at all. :-/ :-/

[cem_devecioglu]

As I said before .. methinks Di "shoots from the hip" at times .. and has her own personal turbo-powered JCB ... perhaps she should be allowed to think on what has been said .. by everyone.. including her...  and lets just let things settle down overnight ...

No point in winding each other up until something is said that everyone regrets ...

Well said before and wise advise Entwood

[jereboam]

I usually avoid this sort of thread, especially when there is personal abuse flying around.  But when it comes to benefits, I feel that you should take absolutely everything you can get, regardless of whether or not you are currently in need of it.  You spend your working life paying for these benefits, and then you have to fight to get them paid to you. 

You may or may not approve of untested benefits which are paid out on the basis of contributions rather than need.  But they are there for everyone, and if, for your own altruistic reasons, you decline to avail yourself of the benefit, you are effectively subsidising the Treasury.  They will NOT be giving the money you gave them to the needy.  They will be buying carbon offsets or donating to bankers bonuses. 

I'm living entirely on my wife's earnings since I lost my job 18 months ago.  The contributions-based job-seekers allowance stops after 6 months, and there aren't any other benefits available to me as everything else is means tested and my wife earns just about enough to ensure that I'm not eligible for any other benefit.  So we're not destitute by a long way, but we've  got a mortgage we took out when we had a joint income of roughly twice what we have now, and we're faced with having to sell the family home because the benefits system to which we have contributed for most of our adult lives won't help us at all. 

If anyone offered me £150 for clothes, I''d grab it with both hands and be off to the shops like a shot.

[alunonhisown]

Vouchers handed back this morning.
Job Interview cancelled this morning. Let some other poor person who is unemployed get a crack at it.
Appologies posted.
No new clothes, no spare money cos what I sold my house in florida for the US government kept 10% of final selling fee, and that is why I got the tax refund.
But never mind, a lot more peeps are happy now.
I will be ok now they are happy.

[Elite Pete]

I usually avoid this sort of thread, especially when there is personal abuse flying around.  But when it comes to benefits, I feel that you should take absolutely everything you can get, regardless of whether or not you are currently in need of it.  You spend your working life paying for these benefits, and then you have to fight to get them paid to you. 

You may or may not approve of untested benefits which are paid out on the basis of contributions rather than need.  But they are there for everyone, and if, for your own altruistic reasons, you decline to avail yourself of the benefit, you are effectively subsidising the Treasury.  They will NOT be giving the money you gave them to the needy.  They will be buying carbon offsets or donating to bankers bonuses. 

I'm living entirely on my wife's earnings since I lost my job 18 months ago.  The contributions-based job-seekers allowance stops after 6 months, and there aren't any other benefits available to me as everything else is means tested and my wife earns just about enough to ensure that I'm not eligible for any other benefit.  So we're not destitute by a long way, but we've  got a mortgage we took out when we had a joint income of roughly twice what we have now, and we're faced with having to sell the family home because the benefits system to which we have contributed for most of our adult lives won't help us at all. 

If anyone offered me £150 for clothes, I''d grab it with both hands and be off to the shops like a shot.

I'm in the same situation as you but there's a slight difference. I didn't get any benefits because I haven't paid enough national insurance so I got off my arse and put what little talent I have to use. I might only earn enough to pay the bills but atleast I can say I do it legally. I love benefit cheats because they keep my wife employed, without them we may have lost our house but then again I probably wouldn't have let that happen. Where's theres a will there's a way as they say.

[duggs]

Read through it all and am confused as heck !

I gathered, finally, that the 13k was something to do with the selling of the Florida house...which begs the question.

Why on earth did you leave Florida to come back to this old dump of a country