Making the news today....

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

9 hours ago, nepia said:

Nowt to do with this thread but I think you're talking about the tank-driving prat in Croydon who also stuck a shark through his house roof as a finger to the LA...?

I am easily confused….  😂

[daveatdave]

Man, 52, who started sawing around a 50ft street tree in broad daylight is fined £2,500

WWW.MSN.COM

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A man has been fined £2,500 after his neighbours called 999 when he began sawing down a much-loved tree on Roundhill Road, Kettering, in broad daylight.

 

[eggsarascal]

14 hours ago, Johnsond said:

Couple paid £7k a month in benefits left children living in filth with 36 dogs

APPLE.NEWS

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Officers, unable to breathe due to the stench, found a young girl asleep near a dead dog and...

7K a month on benefits  🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️No wonder people won’t bother working. Pure insanity. 

That is madness, I’d like to see a breakdown of such payments. £1,600 on rent/mortgage, child benefits, and their own £300-400/month. Where’s the rest made up? I’m in the wrong trade!

[AHPP]

£84k. Same as the dolescum MPs. 

[GarethM]

The worst the MPs get upto is cocaine and boys by the hour.

 

One has to wonder how you could do that to you're own kids, unless they were off they're faces on smack ?.

 

Having kids is one of the few things you don't need a license for, admittedly that sounds very Chinese state control.

[eggsarascal]

25 minutes ago, GarethM said:

The worst the MPs get upto is cocaine and boys by the hour.

 

Really.

[eggsarascal]

Williamson in the South and Gullis in the North, Staffordshire ain't half blessed with politicians.

[Sutton]

On 07/11/2022 at 12:26, peds said:

I'm sure there's a word in German for the vague and intangible, sort-of bittersweet emotion that comes from observing people who have yet to come to terms with an horrific truth. They've got a word for everything, those Germans. 

How about Sackgasse? meaning blind alley or deadend but suggesting pig's bladder or windbag

[peds]

1 hour ago, Sutton said:

How about Sackgasse? meaning blind alley or deadend but suggesting pig's bladder or windbag

Ahh, I was hoping for something with a few more syllables to be honest. Similar in nature to this one, for example, plucked at random from the web. 

 

Waldeinsamkeit

We talk about the “solitude of the forest”, that feeling you get when you are walking in a forest on your own. Waldeinsamkeit is a very dear term to the tradition of ascetic monasticism and to the movement of German romance, which promoted the rapprochement of Man to Nature.

[Conor Wright]

10 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

That is madness, I’d like to see a breakdown of such payments. £1,600 on rent/mortgage, child benefits, and their own £300-400/month. Where’s the rest made up? I’m in the wrong trade!

You think the payments are the real issue here? They will probably pale in comparison to the cost (social and monetary) of looking after the kids as they grow up dysfunctional and come to realise the extent of their abuse, then the rehoming/vet bills of the dogs and complete deep clean of the property, probably find them a new house, or two if they split up. good chance of special/extra education required for the kids, social worker etc etc. It will quickly add up to more than the already ridiculous free money.(certainly over a lifetime, spending your childhood sleeping in filth with dead animals isnt a good start)

Scum. They get everything and then look for more while decent people genuinely struggle.