i've been asked by [legal magazine] to write an opinion piece on squatting...

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 12:43, 5 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

+down and shitting in public

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 12:44, Reply)

They are taking the piss, with your battered knees how can you squat

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 12:45, Reply)

Those aren't Battered's knees, she's just got fat ankles.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 12:52, Reply)

fuck off
you can call most bits of me fat if you like, but my wrists and ankles are like those of a fucking baby fawn.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:00, Reply)

Surely this is perfect for someone with a MASTERS in CREATIVE WRITING from OXFORD

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 12:48, Reply)

you sound like the people at the ASS
"fill the empties not the prisons!"

their website has a massive rant about people "being kicked out of their homes". IT'S NOT YOUR HOME IF YOU DON'T PAY FOR IT.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:00, Reply)

+ UNLESS YOUR DAD BOUGHT IT FOR YOU

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:03, Reply)

i still pay maintenance, tax, utilities, service charge, council tax...
and until he did, i paid rent.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:08, Reply)

All the usual stuff that homeowners pay, you mean?
Just without the mortgage.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:09, Reply)

yes but squatters don't
which i don't think the handwringers quite get
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:12, Reply)

Haters be hating.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:13, Reply)

Don't bring me into it
Wait I thought you said harters
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:14, Reply)

i particularly enjoyed this comment
..."in their world the right of a landlord to wring the last ounce of profit out of an empty building trumps everything, and everybody, else.

utterly sickening" ...

god forbid that people should spend money on an asset and then want to make money out of it.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:16, Reply)

Daddy pays your rent?

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:10, Reply)

no

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:12, Reply)

Paid for flat.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:12, Reply)

Is this true?

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:14, Reply)

ssssssssssh

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:15, Reply)

I don't care, my mortgage is so small its basically free. But at least *I've* paid for it.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:16, Reply)

would you have turned your parents down if they'd bought you a place?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:18, Reply)

Yes,

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:19, Reply)

well, good for you
my dad wanted to spend his money on buying his kids a property. so he did.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:22, Reply)

Who got the best property out of you and your brothers?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:22, Reply)

mine cost more
but that's been evened out in other ways so that we've each had the same

stupid fair father
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:24, Reply)

Yeah, well my Dad wanted to spend his money on his 'new' kids.
So he did.
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:23, Reply)

To be fair to him, they're much less of a disappointment.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:24, Reply)

I don't care.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:25, Reply)

That's the spirit!

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:29, Reply)

should have bought him a condom

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:25, Reply)

What do they pay?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 12:55, Reply)

i get paid in pride

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:00, Reply)

Worst of all the remunerations.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:01, Reply)

But the best of all the Greggs Hat festivals.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:03, Reply)

I was asked by a major financial press publisher to freelance for them
But my boss said it was conflict of interest.

It was highly lucrative as well.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 12:55, Reply)

How did the conflict arise?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 12:58, Reply)

I sign off and approve promotional content.
I may have been in a position where I would have to approve my own articles. Checks and balances innit.

Plus, my work weren't pleased that I'd been approached by a customer. I couldn't jeopardise my full time role for the couple of grand that the work would have netted me.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:02, Reply)

Fair enough.
You'd have to have 20 or so of those gigs to make it worthwhile.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:03, Reply)

shame though
It would have been great for my copywriting portfolio.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 16 Sep 2013, 13:05, Reply)