Howmanheyman

Don't rub it in, man!

We're very quick to condemn this stain on humanity for no doubt trying to tuck into her nephew's inheretance from his Mother's death, (I'm guessing), but let's just swap her flimsy claim of not being able to hold a plate of hors d'oeurvre and imagine being at a night out with friends, maybe at a club or some sort of comedy venue for example, imagine the embarrassment if you too, unlike your friends, were unable to hold a plate of, say, English tapas? Maybe we should just hold back on the judging, here, eh?

Just booked up for Cyprus next year. Booked a lovely looking Villa and can't wait. It's a treat as we've had to do without a hol for a couple of years. As an aside, always fancied Florence and quite a few of the European cities mentioned on here from time to time, would love to see Rome but would be worried it might suffer from being a capital with too hustle as I've an interest in the classical world. The Missus has difficulty getting around so always feel we miss out a bit, (notwithstanding the cost of a normal holiday and affording weekend city trips as well).

Is the food 'restaurant prices'? Sorry, like but, again. Why on earth would you pay what you would at a restaurant to have it shoved in a tin foil carton and delivered to your door half an hour or more, later?

Ah well, Stevie, well done on finishing the chemo! Good luck in the gym getting the wee man back into proportion with the rest of you.

I've already told you, man. Chez posts from his laptop in his wallsend flat, wearing only y-fronts, a string vest, surrounded by strewn empty cans of special brew and half full bottles of Glens vodka.

By the way, CT doing really well on his budget, lovely house, new metal detectors, pub nights aplenty, bong parties, Mr Eats from the chronicle tribute act ect. Fair play, Angela Merkel would love his prudence.

Good lad, someone's gotta pay for my 50" plasma TV and benidorm hollibobs.

I'm obviously not as optimistic bearing in mind the injuries, which I added were always a possibility. I wouldn't say we're doomed just yet.

You copied and pasted something which isn't what a couple with two kids would get, I filled out their form for just over thirty grand and they currently pay 17 pound a week. I'll screen shot it later for you when I get in. You and your lass manage fine with 21k and three kids? What happened to your tenants/landlord income? Sell up? Invest in something else?

Anyway, bedtime.

Well there is more unclaimed benefits than benefits obtained by fraud. (Obviously not including tax avoiding fraud which dwarfs the benefit fraud but is obviously a lower priority for some reason?)

Pretty sure there was a calculator on here where the cuts were fucking brutal on people on half of the 30,000?

Ok, that's a valid point, even though it isn't being topped up by the amount you're inferring. What about those on an income far less than that that are losing at least the same amount?

We're expecting to lose £1,300 plus next year in tax credits, FWIW. 'Luckily' for me I'm expecting to go on a new, more anti-social shift pattern that will just about match that loss from next year, the extra pay rise is supposed to compensate us for the extra hours worked/night shift/weekend working we have to do but not now of course, I'll just be standing still. Others won't be so lucky.

You're assuming the other can work.

Anyway, I'm off to bed, early start for a hard working, scrounging animal like myself. Night, night, CT!

£30,000 income and getting £4815 a year on tax credits? Nee wonder the cunts can afford all those 50" plasma tv's.

Same difference, just calculated it on their website.

Anyway, it isn't the 1,720 or 4,815 that CT's obscured screen shot suggests.

Well in the example I've put it's the former.

A couple with two children where one works and the other cannot would receive £17 a week on £30,000 or £900* a year approx. *2015-2016, obviously they'll now get nothing next April, most on a lower income will lose at least £1,300 a year. The gain they'll get from paying less paye is a pittance compared to that loss.

Aye I'm still laughing. You still sticking pins in barbie dolls pretending they're one of your female workmates?

I don't believe in zero hours contracts normally but maybe we should offer him a pay as you play deal?

I remember being at St. Andrews when Kevin Brock went in goal for all of the 2nd half, took a boot to the head from Speedie who had form for doing this to our keepers, was concussed but carried on, he managed to not concede, we won 3-2 which was the half time score and he had no idea if we'd won after the game. Stan Seymour died that night in a brum hotel. #geordiestattohellohello (Brock was a bit of a Walter the softy so maybe there's a place for a Sissoko or a Gouff to get the gloves on in an emergency?)