uziq
Member
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the typical obsession of the daily mail class: BENEFIT CLAIMANTS.

yes i’m sure queuing up to give benefits’ claimants a kicking will solve the housing crisis, the cost of food, and social harmony.
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
+1,810|6076|eXtreme to the maX
I'm still a believer in just creating jobs instead of paying people to sit on their bums vegetating - subsidising their wages to pick crops for example.
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
uziq
Member
+492|3422
that's neat.

but building new affordable housing stock at a rate that is comparable to a growing population probably makes sense, too.

make it private affordable housing for all i care. i'm not proposing you house benefits claimants and pay their bills, tout court (though there will be cases when that is a necessary and good thing for society to do). just build enough affordable housing full-stop. people generally need to get jobs in order to get mortgages.
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
+1,810|6076|eXtreme to the maX
People do need houses, that is true.
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
uziq
Member
+492|3422
wherein the problem is that it's much harder to talk the banks into giving first-time lender mortgages than it is to queue up, yet again, with the monied interests and landlords in the daily mail, and give the underclass a good booting. 'it's all your fault! you feckless poor!' or to scaremonger about 'immigrants' undercutting the cost of food (which again, LMAO).

the whole system of domestic banking is invested in property prices continuing to rise. widespread building of affordable housing, that is, looking at housing as a SOCIAL GOOD rather than as the bank's MAIN area of speculation, is a political hot potato for this reason: it involves confronting the banking system.

but oh well, dilbert has the simplistic answers to everything, and it involves teeing off on society's poorest, bottom rung.
RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,736|6707|Oxferd Ohire
Mr Dickensheets was paged. I laughed
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uziq
Member
+492|3422

Dilbert_X wrote:

I'm still a believer in just creating jobs instead of paying people to sit on their bums vegetating - subsidising their wages to pick crops for example.
According to a report on deprivation in Southend-on-Sea, where 35 per cent of children live in poverty, ‘low-paid jobs do not seem a viable means of removing parents from poverty, even when in receipt of benefits and tax credits.'
https://democracy.southend.gov.uk/Data/ … t21336.pdf

oh well, i'm sure it sounds good to blame the poor in your tabloid comment sections.

Voting against feeding deprived children sounds like the stuff of caricature. Yet 322 MPs voted down a motion to extend free school lunch provision over the Christmas holidays. [Marcus] Rashford’s unflagging, public disgruntlement led to the decision being overturned. The Tories have talked themselves and others into associating need with deceit, incompetence and laziness; this is the morally bankrupt endpoint of the persistent demonisation of welfare recipients as ‘scroungers’ and ‘fraudsters’. Derisory food parcels may be the product of incompetence and profiteering, but those factors are underwritten by wilful neglect, part of a deeper punitive ideology. Shame, misery and hunger are seen as just deserts.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55641740

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unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,053|6742|PNW

It really is a seductive sort of rhetoric for some, isn't it. There's about a zillion articles exploring why the poor are so utterly loathed, even by other poor and people barely above their station.
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3690
It's pretty crazy how modern text apps have premade replies based off of what the other person types.
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RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,736|6707|Oxferd Ohire
Yea
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SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3690
👍
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RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,736|6707|Oxferd Ohire
Mornings seem darker this week, like my eyes aren't as well adjusted to seeing in the dark as every day up to last friday. Peoples headlights don't seem blinding as much either so win/lose
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pirana6
Go Cougs!
+682|6261|Washington St.
You got the Scarlett Fever like Mary Ingalls
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3690
How old are you? My eyesight started to get blurry at a distance at the age of 28.
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uziq
Member
+492|3422
that's because you took up that devil onanism.
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3690
Oh God. I got a call from the solar panel people just now.

The guy's name was Han and he was asking about my house. I told him my wife and I own the house but we are getting divorced. I told him my wife cucked me with a man named Hank. He said "I know how that feels. I recently found out my fiancée has been cheating on me with one of my best friends. So I have been kind of down this week"
https://content.fortune.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/170902540.jpg?resize=1200,600
I didn't have the nerve to keep trolling him after that. I apologized and he kept trying to sell me solar panels. I eventually admitted to trying to waste him his time and he told me to have a good day anyway.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
uziq
Member
+492|3422
one month now until i shoot off.

i'm handing in my formal resignation to bf2s and exiting this roman shell. probably about time to stop grinding the same tired arguments into paste.

i'm sure i'll post some pics and send a postcard.

toodles!
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3690
You will still be on bf2s. You and Dilbert will even be in the same time zone thus facilitating your mutual combat.
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Superior Mind
(not macbeth)
+1,755|6663

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Oh God. I got a call from the solar panel people just now.

The guy's name was Han and he was asking about my house. I told him my wife and I own the house but we are getting divorced. I told him my wife cucked me with a man named Hank. He said "I know how that feels. I recently found out my fiancée has been cheating on me with one of my best friends. So I have been kind of down this week"
https://content.fortune.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/170902540.jpg?resize=1200,600
I didn't have the nerve to keep trolling him after that. I apologized and he kept trying to sell me solar panels. I eventually admitted to trying to waste him his time and he told me to have a good day anyway.
I called a sporting goods company in Minnesota about making a return and the rep said that we have a new administration which he did not vote for yet wishes them all the best. I said god bless and he told me I was a good man.
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3690
I feel like there is a lot of missing context in your story. Sports, Minnesota, the election... So many questions.
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Pochsy
Artifice of Eternity
+702|5513|Toronto

uziq wrote:

one month now until i shoot off.

i'm handing in my formal resignation to bf2s and exiting this roman shell. probably about time to stop grinding the same tired arguments into paste.

i'm sure i'll post some pics and send a postcard.

toodles!
Change is generally better managed in increments. Too much too fast will make it feel like your world is flipped, and less like you're a new man born again thanks to the baptism of water streaming from your Korean girlfriend's eyes during your first Korean-soil fuck.

All this to say its been a pleasure, and stop by some time.

Last edited by Pochsy (2021-01-23 04:51:41)

The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families
Camm
Feeding the Cats.
+761|4938|Dundee, Scotland.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Oh God. I got a call from the solar panel people just now.

The guy's name was Han and he was asking about my house. I told him my wife and I own the house but we are getting divorced. I told him my wife cucked me with a man named Hank. He said "I know how that feels. I recently found out my fiancée has been cheating on me with one of my best friends. So I have been kind of down this week"
https://content.fortune.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/170902540.jpg?resize=1200,600
I didn't have the nerve to keep trolling him after that. I apologized and he kept trying to sell me solar panels. I eventually admitted to trying to waste him his time and he told me to have a good day anyway.
I get calls from insurance companies asking about an accident that I've had in the past, and I always say the same thing "Ah yes, 3 car pileup, I was actually killed in that accident, so I'm talking to you from beyond the grave." They usually just hang up or ignore it and carry on their script. One guy got me though, he said "Ah sorry to hear that, were you buried alongside your sense of humour?" hahaha.
for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.
pirana6
Go Cougs!
+682|6261|Washington St.

Camm wrote:

One guy got me though, he said "Ah sorry to hear that, were you buried alongside your sense of humour?"
That's awesome
Finray
Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro
+2,629|5758|Catherine Black
so my 27" 1440p monitor is getting RMA'd

this is my desk now
https://i.imgur.com/ujdFkmz.jpeg

A 1680x1050 Asus monitor that John used to use.

Might install BF2 for that heavy nostalgia

(pls ignore coffee rings)

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RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,736|6707|Oxferd Ohire
Use a coaster you barbarian

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