Looke posted:

uk threat level raised to critical, armed forces to replace armed police protecting parliament and other places of importance

OwlFancier posted:

What's your opinion on the historical sovereignty of Taunton as regards Minehead's territorial claims?

SteelMentor posted:

It was a sad day in South Shields when they closed the two Greggs literally next door to each other



Never 4get

learnincurve posted:

What's that chicken and bacon thing they do, I like that one.

I am rather fond of the good old egg and cress on white bread supermarket sandwiches though, unless they try and make it fancy by putting it on bread with bits in it, come on lads, most people are buying it because it's the cheapest option no need to mess with it.

SteelMentor posted:

It was a sad day in South Shields when they closed the two Greggs literally next door to each other



Never 4get

Looke posted:

WHATA RE YOU GOING TO DO THEN RATJACULATION?

nopantsjack posted:

I like how virtue signalling has now come to mean telling racists to gently caress off, which to be honest is it's own reward.

Kinda surprised people aren't picking up more than sixers for this stuff, what do you need to do to be banned?

Zephro posted:

All pundits: "The terrorist threat today is unprecedented!"

Oberleutnant posted:

Well I wonder what the DWP have been up to this week

https://twitter.com/SiobhanONeill/status/868196386059284482

.....oh

Oh dear me posted:

Where are you?

I'm in Cornwall and there's been amazing continuous lightning and hardly any noise at all.

learnincurve posted:

HOW??? You don't even seem to understand that a pensioner in disability benefits can easily afford stuff.

Let's play the living on benefits game.

Young man 22, university degree, no dependants, one bed flat in a northern town with rent of £80 a week in council tax band c.

£57.90 a week jobseekers. -£1.78 in council tax -£1 water rates. Leaves £55.12 per week to live on. Token meters which people on the dole can only get have a .25p a day standing charge on them so take away £3.50. That's £51.62 left before you even turn on a hot water tap.
Going to the job centre is £3, gas and electric £10. Now we are down to £38.62. Want to attend a job interview and keep a phone on so the employer can contact you? That's another £3 bus trip and a Giff gaff contract is £2.50 a week. Now we are at £33.12.

£4.73 a day. To buy food, clothing, furniture, white goods, bus fares and so on. I also didn't give this hypothetical young man a maxed out credit card or overdraft fees. That's another £5 a week, and drops the poor lad to £4 a day to live on.

Now how insignificant does that £3.75 lightbulb feel?

serious gaylord posted:

Okay here we go, because you're again being utterly ludicrous in picking the worst possible example you can to back your argument up. I won't even get into the fact that a single 22 year old university leaver is incredibly unlikely to have a one bed flat all to themselves without a family support network to turn to while unemployed, but whatever we'll go with it because its the only way to get you to shut up.

£57.90 a week jobseekers.
Council tax reduction scheme means he'd qualify for 0 rating and as such won't have to pay anything towards it.
Change to a token meter that has no standing charge (ebico) or a supplier with a lower standing charge. British Gas also offer a standing charge rebate scheme to people on jobseekers, but lets go with whats in the place my mates just moved into which is 15p a day. £1.15 a week.
He's a single man, and since i get through about 20 quid of electricity and £25 of gas a month with 2 people in my place, one of which loves half hour long showers. I'm going to pull you on that example too. A single person would use significantly less, so 25 quid a month at most. £5.25 a week
Bus fares, a weekly ticket would be much cheaper, and again supposing this man is an orphan with no family or friends to help him, theres a 7 day pass for £13 available in my area. All the bus journeys to interviews and job centers they'd need.
Phone. Credit only. £10 a month. So £2.50 a week.
Thats £38.25 for a weeks worth of food/incidentals for a single man. My weekly shop is just over £40 for 2 people. Working on the assumption that your man didn't move into an unfurnished flat with 0 possessions of his own already before suddenly being on job seekers thats perfectly doable to live on while only replacing things that go wrong. Which in the case of white goods is very rare, and if it truly does, there are services that provided massively discounted or even free white goods for people on benefits.
Lets also bring credit cards and overdraft fees into it, because a phone call to the providers would get the charges stopped and a payment plan of either a few months deferral (which is the usual course of action) or a closure of the account to be repaid at a nominal amount of a few pounds per month in true hardship cases.

But again, your example is just flat out ridiculous. In reality your man would be living at home and wouldn't be liable for half the poo poo you've got him down for.

You're just wrong.

OwlFancier posted:

Why do people bother with cress in an egg sarnie?

Lord of the Llamas posted: