I'm seriously ****ing annoyed

The Enbalmer wrote: »

Roger Hassenforder wrote:

He even pays lower rate VAT on his cake when he stops.

Most cyclists,especially the MAMIL variety look like they're fond of the cake alright.

When the weather improves we'll be treated to the sight of hundreds of them,straining through their disgusting lycra and maliciously blocking roads.

You’re dead right. Starting to sweat a bit too much in the winter gear now. Can’t wait to shed the arm and leg warmers and get into shorts and fingerless gloves. Where do you drive? We’ll form a 25km/hr peloton so you can get a good gawk at us.

Idbatterim wrote: »

I’ve been saying it for years.

and you are still just as wrong from what i can see.

Idbatterim wrote: »

Hundreds of thousands struggling , big hit to their standard of living to pay for the legions of wasters in this country.

interesting. i thought the money we pay that is called tax goes on a lot of different things? as for these legions of wasters, where are they as i haven't come across very many wasters in my life time. no doubt there are some, of course there are, but legions of them? if there were genuinely such then we would be engaging with them on a minute by minute basis every time we go out the door. as for us taking a hit for these mythical legions of wasters, you do realize don't you that even if they didn't exist we would still be paying the same rates of tax?

Idbatterim wrote: »

Free rent , medical card , free few hundred a week etc ...

there is no free rent. rent allowance i believe does not cover the full rent. some working people i believe are also entitled to a medical card if they mete the criteria. the couple of hundred one may get if they meet the criteria and then most probably don't even get that on wellfare, is for general living expences. only if one has children may they get more but it's certainly not a profitible way of living for those in reseat and the money is for the children.

Idbatterim wrote: »

go watch skint Britain to see how their “welfare state” is run.

and yet people over there are still ranting about the wellfare state as well. people everywhere rant about the wellfare state, until they actually have to use it. in fact, technically, even when working, they are benefiting from parts of the wellfare state. children's allowance, hospitals, schools, roads, etc.

Idbatterim wrote: »

Then you have that spineless snake varadkar jacking up welfare the last few budgets, to the tune of more euro than a worker on 30 odd thousand received in a usc cut. At a time of full employment as fg keep telling us ...

do you seriously think most people on wellfare are getting anything near 30 grand? not a chance. about 10 perhapse if they are lucky.

wiggle16 wrote: »

Bannasidhe wrote: »

It's getting so bad a FB friend of mine has set up a rescue for all these stray houses.

Suppose it's better than packs of free houses and free buggies roaming the streets, attacking people. But still.

The noise put of those bike bell door bells ringing all over the place! Could you imagine? !

The Enbalmer wrote: »

Pinch Flat wrote:

You’re dead right. Starting to sweat a bit too much in the winter gear now. Can’t wait to shed the arm and leg warmers and get into shorts and fingerless gloves. Where do you drive? We’ll form a 25km/hr peloton so you can get a good gawk at us.

No,I'll probably be in work when the purple-puss brigade are weaving their wobbly way around the roads.

Having said that,I did,completely by accident send a cyclist flying into a hedge up by glendalough. The fat fool took a corner on the wrong side of the road and clipped my Saab on the front.
The wail out of him as he went airborne was a sound that will stay with me for a long time..a sort of high-pitched,women's shriek peppered with swear words.

Of course he insisted he pay for the damage to my paintwork and it was for this reason that I abstained from giving the craven lump a few kicks up his bloated behind.

We get 2 extra weeks stautory holidays to cycle per annum. Paid for from “road tax” as well. That on top of tax free bikes makes it a great hobby to take up.

How do you find the Saab for spares these days? Heard a lot of the vectra parts are compatible. Pretty handy in fairness. GM know their stuff:

Dante7 wrote: »

I have worked and paid taxes for over thirty years so far. I took a leave of absence to raise my child as a single parent and to be a full time carer for my terminally ill parents. My Mam eventually got her stairlift after a lot of fighting. She got to use it four times before she died. Me and my siblings (who are also taxpayers), would have discussed this, and other help we were looking for, possibly within earshot of people like yourself. I hope you weren't too traumatised.

At least you could be with you parents, I couldn't. My father fought for 2 years with bone cancer. It's though but I'm sure that this thread doesn't target genuine issues like this.
Although everyone losses someone at some point, that doesn't necessarily mean we should all be entitled to free everything, that's why we need to be financial responsible and have savings, for situations like this.

Thank you OP for this post, feeling the same. Was waiting for a while to read this.

Bob Harris wrote: »

There was a single mother in Dublin 22
She had so many houses shes didn't know what to do

I heard she had 15 children and they just gave her one house per child. Much handier and avoids overcrowding etc.

what about the squeezed middle though?

oceanman wrote: »

what about the squeezed middle though?

I squeezed me middle and a fart popped out,

Tacklebox wrote: »

What about the pet food allowance ?

They cut that in the recession. Only those who have diabetic pets can get it now. :mad:

Sardonicat wrote: »

My neighbour gets that for her pug, and I know for a fact it's not diabetic! She uses the free money to buy drink and feeds the dog Mc Donalds! What about all the normal, working dogs that pay tax all their lives with diabetes? Where's their free money ?

And their 4eva kennels.

Where are these puppies fathers, that's what I want to know? And I can guarantee you that where there's more than one litter to a bitch they'll all have different fathers.