I know a guy who was lamenting being unemployed and then he finally got a job
but he worked out that he was only £87 a month better off and that the commute wasn't worth it so he quit and went back to benefits.

I wanted to slap him around a bit.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:39, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

This is why a lot of folk are on benefits
The jobs they could get if they could be bothered to get off their arses often pay only a fraction more than the benefits they were on.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:44, Reply)

That was top of my list of things I wanted to see a change in when looking at manifestos this year
benefits overhaul so people couldn't take the piss.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:46, Reply)

Same here
I know a couple of people who genuinely deserve the benefits they're on (for medical reasons), but there are too many people who take the piss.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:49, Reply)

Yeah me too, a girl I know was just about to have her baby when her bloke fell down the stairs and put his arm through a window, slicing all his tendons
so he couldn't use his hand. They had so much trouble getting the council to pay their rent while he recovered, yet there are fat lazy slags next door who seem to get it all for free.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:53, Reply)

When I was with my ex, I looked into buying a place here, that was part ownership
They said I'd have to be registered on the council housing list, even though I didn't want a council flat. I tried to apply, and they said I earned too much, but I only just earned enough for the banks to lend me the mortgage required for the part ownership. Catch 22.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:01, Reply)

really it was because they didn't want your type living there.

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:05, Reply)

Probably true
That was during the awkward period of my life where I insisted on punctuating my sentences with groin thrusts.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:11, Reply)

Oh labs,
Cheers for the NIN help, I was out all day yesterday and today, but I'll check it out tonight.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:47, Reply)

I haven't been here much of this afternoon so I don't know if you've been around or not
but I'm still going to say it.

YOU'RE UP EARLY!!

hehe
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:48, Reply)

Haha
Nah, been shopping for studenty stuff for my new house. I've been up before 12 everyday this week. I'm well proud of myself.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:49, Reply)

very well done!
I'm impressed.

By studenty stuff do you mean a microwave and a home-distillery?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:54, Reply)

Not quite.
Non-iron sheets and a desk lamp. stuff like that.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:57, Reply)

Who irons their sheets? Sod that.
Oooh desk lamp. Kinky.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:00, Reply)

I found some chain in homebase that I wanted
But mum wouldn't buy it for me. Especially after I said I was sure I could find a use for it locking up innocent young men in my bedroom.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:05, Reply)

I try not to say things like that to my mother
it might give her a funny turn.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:05, Reply)

She's fairly used to me now.
She thought I was joking, bless her.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:11, Reply)

Yeah.
Also rope is much better. No annoying jingly noises when they're struggling to escape.
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:06, Reply)

Those plastic tie things are the best.
No knots to undo.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:12, Reply)

Less options. Only wrists and ankles.
Bo-ring!
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:13, Reply)

can't really see that there's that many options to tie someone down
apart from wrists and ankles
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:14, Reply)

Oh ye of little imagination...

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:14, Reply)

most probably
restraints freak me out so it's not something I really research
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:17, Reply)

Never tried them
But I read Bizarre magazine, and see some odd things at work. I like to think I'm a little educated in such things, but certainly no expert or indeed practitioner.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:19, Reply)

I read an article in Bizarre
about Shibari. It looks quite pretty but I couldn't imagine ever being the sort of person who was fine with putting their liberty in the hands of someone else
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:23, Reply)

For Bizarre, that's pretty tame.
Sadly you can't un-see anything. If I could, Genki would be at the top of that list...
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:27, Reply)

Round the waist, to a chair?

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:15, Reply)

I guess
that's not the best though is it?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:17, Reply)

Hogtied, for starters, is better
(never done it mind you)
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:18, Reply)

Also elbows
They're like your arms' knees.
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:17, Reply)

Into a bit of shibari are we?

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:14, Reply)

Nah.
I saw them at Reading one year and they were shit.
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:15, Reply)

Boom boom!
Interestingly, don't Wiki 'shibari', the pic is NSFW for nipplage.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:17, Reply)

Hah
Agreed.
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:18, Reply)

I know people who do...
not me I hasten to add. I can't remember the last time something got ironed in my house.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:05, Reply)

I thought you meant getting kinky with a desk lamp for a moment there
and I was just thinking "how?!"
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:06, Reply)

to be honest, I probably know people who do that too

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:09, Reply)

My mother does
But mother is an OCD level clean and tidy freak.
I didn't iron anything at uni.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:10, Reply)

I haven't ironed anything in my life
Don't own one.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:12, Reply)

we weren't allowed irons in our rooms
it was a reasonable excuse for no ironing
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:12, Reply)

You have to iron sheets?
Oh, god, what have I done?! I'm a crinkly linen owning monster! Don't look at me... DON'T LOOK AT ME!
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:06, Reply)

there's no point in Applebite ironing them with what she will be getting up to on them probably minutes later.

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:06, Reply)

The scarlet jezebel!

(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:08, Reply)

Cheers love
I like that.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:11, Reply)

It was either that or brazen hussy.
The Victorians could insult like nobody else.
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:12, Reply)

Brazen hussy's a favourite of mine

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:12, Reply)

I'll bet it is
You vigorous, ha-penny knee-trembler chasing ragamuffin.
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:14, Reply)

mine too
I tend to favour painted jezebel rather than scarlet though
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:53, Reply)

I prefer the first one.
Cos I like red.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:13, Reply)

I see no point in ever making my bed for this exact reason.

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:09, Reply)

You're welcome
Figured you were busy, as you didn't reply.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:48, Reply)

Oui,
I was out eating caramel slices and watching Scott Pilgrim.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:50, Reply)

I envy you
But yeah, let me know what you think of the NIN stuff.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:52, Reply)

*salutes*
Will do cap'n!
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:58, Reply)

If he quit
surely he isn't eligible for benefits? Or at least not as much?
(Bazongaloid, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:45, Reply)

he's eligible for a punch in the throat

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:46, Reply)

he's just put a facebook status about not having any weed or money
He is actually a really nice guy though, just needs some direction.

Comes from Milton Keynes you know...
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:47, Reply)

what a shitty set of circumstances
Surely though, not being sat on your arse all day smoking weed saves you a lot of money, so he'd have been a lot more than £87 a month better off?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:55, Reply)

Trudat.
His status said "weed gets you through the times with no money much better than money gets you through the times without weed" so I pointed out that he has no money because he has weed.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:58, Reply)

haha
I said that the other day.

The reason I have no money is because of obscene mortgage and weddings savings though.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:04, Reply)

I'm skint because of my debt to the Yakuza

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:07, Reply)

that's understandable
need any help?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:08, Reply)

Only if you've got a spare pinky finger knocking around
She'll probably need some duct tape too.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:09, Reply)

I'll see what I can do
*rummages*
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 17:10, Reply)

I thought that but the job required him to get 3 buses so he was able to argue that commuting wasn't cost-effective

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:46, Reply)

It fucking well is
It's circulating money in the economy! He gets paid from private sector work on which he pays tax and which in turn he spends on buses who also pay tax and buy fuel which raises tax. This is how economies work. They should have told him to fucking starve and then punched his cock to boot.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:55, Reply)

I know, I know, I did tell him that I would have no respect for him if he did quit
apparently he is fine living without my respect.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:57, Reply)

I support this motion

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 16:57, Reply)