Free laptops for all! Well, some...
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http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1101...
It's not like the country is bankrupt or anything!
Regardless of the social rights or wrongs of this...
How many of these will be getting robbed by the scrote next door, flogged down the pub or just plain f
ked? I despair...
It's not like the country is bankrupt or anything!
Regardless of the social rights or wrongs of this...
How many of these will be getting robbed by the scrote next door, flogged down the pub or just plain f
ked? I despair...Aside from the fact once again its beople who couldnt keep their legs closed, live off benifits and dont appear to want to work getting the things, why a laptop. Im pretty confident that any computer of the same spec as the laptop is going to be far cheaper, and less nickable.
And wtf do they really need them for? I mean all librarys these days have computers, id much prefer the money went towards more computers in librarys, meaning anyone, not just befit leeches could use them. Also makes the possibility of theft/flogging them for cider not possible.
But hey, im single, ive paid my taxes for 3 years, im entitled to fk all because i chose not to squeeze out kids and watch jeremy kyle all day instead of working 
And wtf do they really need them for? I mean all librarys these days have computers, id much prefer the money went towards more computers in librarys, meaning anyone, not just befit leeches could use them. Also makes the possibility of theft/flogging them for cider not possible.
But hey, im single, ive paid my taxes for 3 years, im entitled to f
k all because i chose not to squeeze out kids and watch jeremy kyle all day instead of working Reading stuff like this annoys me, then I step back and think...
How many of them (Shannon Matthews Mum types) will have the opportunities I've had and do all the cool stuff I do?
I'm sat here with my 3 year old laptop, thats lost all my music twice, planning 4 months off work to drive 1 of my cars to Oz!
They can have a crappy laptop, but they'll still be sat in their crappy house, with no exciting plans this year except maybe when the next baby arrives.
(I might change my mind after I get my tax bill in a couple of weeks
)
I reckon most of us readers are quite blessed, we just don't realise it half the time
How many of them (Shannon Matthews Mum types) will have the opportunities I've had and do all the cool stuff I do?
I'm sat here with my 3 year old laptop, thats lost all my music twice, planning 4 months off work to drive 1 of my cars to Oz!
They can have a crappy laptop, but they'll still be sat in their crappy house, with no exciting plans this year except maybe when the next baby arrives.
(I might change my mind after I get my tax bill in a couple of weeks
)I reckon most of us readers are quite blessed, we just don't realise it half the time
selwonk said:
...if they organised it and bought it bulk they could get the price down.
Government procurement :rolleye:Like all those companies that use specialist travel companies to book flights etc when you could do it cheaper yourself. No wonder the country is f
ked - we're surrounded by horrid chisellers 
Rach* said:
I reckon most of us readers have worked fking hard to get were we are so we can pay for these scrotes
EFAking hard to get were we are so we can pay for these scrotesSorry Rach, but there is only one reason I've got what I've got, and that's because I spent every feckin minute of every feckin day slogging my guts off to get it. If I didn't have to pay for other people to be given luxury items maybe I wouldn't have to.
Rach* said:
Reading stuff like this annoys me, then I step back and think...
How many of them (Shannon Matthews Mum types) will have the opportunities I've had and do all the cool stuff I do?
I'm sat here with my 3 year old laptop, thats lost all my music twice, planning 4 months off work to drive 1 of my cars to Oz!
They can have a crappy laptop, but they'll still be sat in their crappy house, with no exciting plans this year except maybe when the next baby arrives.
(I might change my mind after I get my tax bill in a couple of weeks)
I reckon most of us readers are quite blessed, we just don't realise it half the time
I disagree, I don't think some of us are 'blessed' - I think we perhaps got up off our ar$es, struggled, made sacrifices so that we could afford the little pleasures in life - whilst we now watch the terminally lazy get given what work to pay for on a plate!How many of them (Shannon Matthews Mum types) will have the opportunities I've had and do all the cool stuff I do?
I'm sat here with my 3 year old laptop, thats lost all my music twice, planning 4 months off work to drive 1 of my cars to Oz!
They can have a crappy laptop, but they'll still be sat in their crappy house, with no exciting plans this year except maybe when the next baby arrives.
(I might change my mind after I get my tax bill in a couple of weeks
)I reckon most of us readers are quite blessed, we just don't realise it half the time
Would you rather be a scruffy smelly slob and have hand outs? Or be yourself?
I know I'd rather have what I have and be proud of what I've achieved and worked my tits off for too.
I'd hate to be a stupid, uneducated, baby machine with a mahoosive wizards sleeve getting hand outs from the "posh people". They can have a couple of quid from my wages, I'd only spend it on yet another pair of shoes (shoes they couldnt afford)
I know I'd rather have what I have and be proud of what I've achieved and worked my tits off for too.
I'd hate to be a stupid, uneducated, baby machine with a mahoosive wizards sleeve getting hand outs from the "posh people". They can have a couple of quid from my wages, I'd only spend it on yet another pair of shoes (shoes they couldnt afford)
Rach* said:
Would you rather be a scruffy smelly slob and have hand outs? Or be yourself?
I know I'd rather have what I have and be proud of what I've achieved and worked my tits off for too.
I'd hate to be a stupid, uneducated, baby machine with a mahoosive wizards sleeve getting hand outs from the "posh people". They can have a couple of quid from my wages, I'd only spend it on yet another pair of shoes (shoes they couldnt afford)
I'd rather be myself and have my taxes be used to give genuine help to the genuinely needy. I'm not sure why that isn't an option? Why does the fact there are selfish lazy slobs in the world mean we have to give them rewards for their lack of effort?I know I'd rather have what I have and be proud of what I've achieved and worked my tits off for too.
I'd hate to be a stupid, uneducated, baby machine with a mahoosive wizards sleeve getting hand outs from the "posh people". They can have a couple of quid from my wages, I'd only spend it on yet another pair of shoes (shoes they couldnt afford)
I wonder how many circa 10yo kids living in poor circumstances might actually benefit from an initiative like this; maybe even help give them an option not to follow Ma/Da's path onto the dole? Issues like this are emotive but the vitreol this thread has generated in short-order is remarkable!
Edited by bluetone on Wednesday 11th March 21:04
I posted on this a few months back, thought it was worth a re-giggle..
1.4m children '..need access to internet porn..' says Brown
1.4m children '..need access to internet porn..' says Brown
selwonk said:
I earn a good screw and me and the missus have a laptop each. No way could we justify £600 though. It's a joke. £300 will buy a perfectly good laptop and if they organised it and bought it bulk they could get the price down.
Giving out free laptops is one thing (a thing I happily support in many cases).Giving out prepaid cards with £600 of credit, to be spent on laptops and accessories, is quite another. £400 would buy a perfectly decent laptop - and a whole stack of bits and pieces to go with it.
Funk said:
I posted on this a few months back, thought it was worth a re-giggle..
1.4m children '..need access to internet porn..' says Brown
Very good.1.4m children '..need access to internet porn..' says Brown
Related topic; if you want a good, free screening/filter to block your kids hitting dodgy sites on your own home 'pooter, check out K9 from Bluecoat.
Ironically, 'Rebecca Cook, 32' sums it up nicely. After getting her free laptop (which she paid an extra £50 to 'upgrade' - isn't she supposed to be unemployed and on benefits?) she said:
"I would never have bought one if it wasn't for the scheme because I couldn't justify spending that amount of money of something that wasn't a necessity."
It still isn't for you, love. It still isn't.
"I would never have bought one if it wasn't for the scheme because I couldn't justify spending that amount of money of something that wasn't a necessity."
It still isn't for you, love. It still isn't.
600 quid?! I'm a computer programmer (student) and my laptop was £350 two years ago and the one before that was a 10 year old £40 ebay special.
Certainly seems the way to get slik clothes, Sky telly, trampolines and now laptops is to get more bellends than weekends until you're have a litter.
(then grandchildren to 'support' 13 years later)
Certainly seems the way to get slik clothes, Sky telly, trampolines and now laptops is to get more bellends than weekends until you're have a litter.
(then grandchildren to 'support' 13 years later)
Edited by SunderJimmy on Wednesday 11th March 21:13
Pesty said:
"Oldham" ahhh say no more
fk off.Oldham has hugely high unemployment because the town was built on cotton spinning.
In 1910 there were over 200 cotton mills in oldham each employing around 500 people.
During the wars these mills were given over to Uniform production.
Meanwhile the cotton spinning contracts were given to mills in India for the duration.
After the war a large number of workers were brought in from the Indian sub-continent to fill the gaps left by the dead locals.
Then the companies realised it was cheaper to keep the mills in India and close the ones in England.
Oldham is a working class town with a large hardworking population. Unfortunately, that population's industry moved abroad.
Now the town is too big for the amount of local industry to support.
A large part of the wealth of the North West was built on the back of Oldham, about time they got something back. Instead of people taking the piss.
Edited by cazzer on Wednesday 11th March 21:18
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