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It's a disgrace that in such a supposedly civilised nation there is a growing underclass that cannot even afford food. Food banks are a great idea, but there should be no demand for them in the UK.

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:23, 5 replies, latest was 11 years ago)
^Commie

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:25, Reply)
This thread is really missing Rory's input at the moment.

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:25, Reply)

this thread your mum

alt: your wife isn't missing his input right now
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:28, Reply)
I dun a great zing on you in the last thread, but nobody seemed to notice
/needy
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:40, Reply)
go on, link me up
i'll validate you like a parking pass
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:49, Reply)

5.9.83.79/questions/offtopic/post2199705
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:52, Reply)
only if you reproduce with them
which I have no intention of doing.

HA!
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:56, Reply)
This,
No-one in a civilised and wealthy country should go without food, water, healthcare, shelter and education.

+ciggies and sky TV
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:25, Reply)
+ two weeks in Spain every summer, a massive telly & a DFS sofa on credit.

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:26, Reply)
I have a feeling that
a lot of the bin divers are doing it as a "lifestyle" choice as well as a need.

Freeganism, I think
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:27, Reply)
There is some of that, but I suspect the majority are doing so because they have to.

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:28, Reply)
^^the cunt is a fucking web designer FFS

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:33, Reply)
*Freelance* web designer
Would you employ someone who looked like they spent last night going through the bins outside Iceland?
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:35, Reply)
Actually, the more I think about this...
I'm a web developer and I work mostly from home...people maybe think that I am like this cunt. Sad times.
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:44, Reply)
If it helps, I think you're a cunt.
xx
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:50, Reply)
Thnx bbz xxx

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 11:07, Reply)
A "freelance web designer" who lives in a squat
In other words, a middle-class tree-hugger type who says he wants to "smash the system", thinks the world should come to him, but doesn't want to do any work.
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:38, Reply)
It's probably his own fault.

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:39, Reply)
I don't get it, he's not 'too proud' to say he eats of bins, but is to say that he's unemployed.
I don't think you can realisticly design websites from a squat.
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:56, Reply)
this is the vast majority of the squatters that i have to deal with at work
some genuine sad cases, some genuine communes who have beliefs, but mostly middle class drop out druggiez.
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:57, Reply)
I'm not convinced that there are many people who can't afford food, if they changed their spending habits.

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:30, Reply)
I bet they smoke

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:33, Reply)
You're an idiot then.

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:34, Reply)
What makes you say that?
Perhaps I should have qualified that with "in Britain".
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:35, Reply)
Well, leaving aside the fact that there are many people who cannot afford to feed themselves and their family properly, perhaps I should qualify it by saying it would be a disgrace if there were *any* people "in Britain" in this situation.

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:39, Reply)
I'm not convinced there are many people in Britain who, if they changed their spending habits, couldn't afford to feed their family.
Whether or not it would be a disgrace if there were such people in Britain is moot.
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:42, Reply)
I'm sure queuing at a food bank is the immediate first choice for these lazy people.

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:43, Reply)
He is clearly aware that you don't just turn up to food banks looking for a snack but need to be referred to them
but he doens't let that stand in the way of his argument.
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:45, Reply)
How does one end up in the situation of needing to be referred to a food bank?

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:47, Reply)
Your doctor, or social worker, or the police identify people who are in serious trouble and refer them

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:50, Reply)
I see. Are their finances and financial obligations and habits assessed?

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:51, Reply)
The DWP also issue referrals. So yes.
You fucking spastic
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:52, Reply)
That doesn't necessarily mean they assess their financial habits.
But you seem terribly upset. You might find a cup of cocoa and a lie-down helpful.
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:55, Reply)
Nah, they just choose people who look a bit grubby

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:52, Reply)
Poor Monty.

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:54, Reply)
I bet he stinks now lusty isn't there to give him his bed bath.

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:55, Reply)
he smelt fine when we saw him on fri
but i'm fairly sure he would have stunk by the time he got up on sat morning
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:56, Reply)
I'm seeing him on Friday, you have reminded me to take a nose peg. Thanks.

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:56, Reply)
As do Job Centres I think.

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:51, Reply)
I'm not.

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:47, Reply)
But you are by impication convinced that there are some people in britain who cannot afford to feed their family's even with changed spending habits
but apparently you're cool with that. Most likely because you're a cunt.
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:44, Reply)
No. I'm saying I'm aware of them - homeless drug addicts, for example.
I didn't say I'm cool with it at at all.
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:46, Reply)
So why, when you are aware that people in 21st Century Britain are actually starving to death
are you saying that people that are nearly starving to death should stop complaining and just budget better. They should never have anything fun, they shouldn't have anything to look forward to, they shouldn't have new clothes, they should just budget for their food and simply exist hand to mouth until they die.
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:49, Reply)
Because they're below me and they need to be shot.
And I'll be willing to bet a food bank that the majority of them are pretty ugly, too.
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:50, Reply)
if they can't afford their kids
they should eat them. both problems solved.
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:49, Reply)
This.

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:50, Reply)
You are a fucking idiot.

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:51, Reply)
That's a modest proposal

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:52, Reply)
It would stop you shagging them I suppose.

(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 10:54, Reply)
I think that people prioritise having things like mobile/ media accounts etc.
but when you think of how much energy bills, etc. are then it is not as black and white as that.
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 11:19, Reply)

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