Whoa!
One moment of grumpiness on my part and it spawns this debate!

No, I don't actually entirely believe it to be true, there are a lot of people in this country that genuinely need the benefits system through no fault of their own. I just get grumpy when a girl two years older than me has 5 babies and gets a free house. I'll earn my own house, in time.

Yes, I'm not exactly slumming it as a Cambridge PhD student, I do have it a lot better than most people at the moment so I should stop sulking really. Until you consider the 14 hour days in lab, the fact that I've worked every bank holiday so far this year, in fact my supervisor could have me in every day of the year except Christmas day if he wanted and unlike you people with real jobs I don't get paid overtime. So when I work a 60 hour week, my hourly pay actually drops to less than minimum wage. I do apologise for being spoiled though.

And the cost of the protein? I use that over about 3 months, and that's all I use, so at £200 a quarter my research is about as cheap as it gets. And it's paid for by my private funding body, and if anyone wants a cure for any of the horrible diseases in this world, that's just what research costs. It just makes me extremely nervous about breathing when I make up my starting material...
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 11:03, 3 replies)

waaaaaaaaaaambulance for petite chien....

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 11:59, closed)

So your complaint is there aren’t enough homeless children on the street in the UK?

"....so I should stop sulking really. Until you consider...."

jesus.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 4 Aug 2011, 13:11, closed)

Well,
as defences go, this didn't really help did it?
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 13:13, closed)

Not really....
As usual my writing skills let me down. Science = good, English not so much.

What I meant was, I should stop sulking because there are a lot of people in dire need out there and it's not getting any better under our "wonderful" current government. However, I also work hard. These points are not related.
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 13:25, closed)

You’re hard working with a placement at one of the most prestigious universities in the world, you’ve pretty much won the lottery of life already. Why would you waste a moments thought on how the underclass live their lives?

My background is council estate, various placements with foster parents, left school without a single exam to my name. I’ve probably got a different view to you.

I don’t begrudge a single penny of the 40K+ a year I pay in tax (did you see what I did there) that goes to people who’ve not managed to dig their way out. It’s hard to put in words the crushing weight when the expectation of every single person in your life is that crap is the best you can hope for. Or how hard you have to work to beat the ever so nice middle class boys and girls with their ‘tick all the boxes’ CVs, and expectations of success.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 4 Aug 2011, 14:07, closed)

my god
this thread has been awesome. You and Clay have made some great points. I'm glad to find out that not everybody in this damn country is a neo-Thatcherite scumbag who thinks taxation is unfair and that the vulnerable should fend for themselves.

Maybe that long overdue cultural backlash isn't as far off as I imagined.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 14:40, closed)