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Dole Cheats on TV3 last night

  • 08-06-2011 08:22PM
    #1
    mirror mirror
    Closed Accounts Posts: 363 ✭✭


    what did anyone think of this program last night ? surely to jaysus it cant be that easy to fiddle ? .:confused:


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  • #2
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    The most shocking thing is that you watched something on TV3 :rolleyes:


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 45,738 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    mirror mirror wrote: »
    surely to jaysus it cant be that easy to fiddle ? .:confused:

    Guitar is easier imo.


  • #4
    Joey the lips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    i wondered that myself...about it being easy to fiddle....

    I wondered also if it was slightly fixed.


  • #5
    mirror mirror
    Closed Accounts Posts: 363 ✭✭mirror mirror


    kfallon wrote: »
    The most shocking thing is that you watched something on TV3 :rolleyes:
    yea i know what u mean .


  • #6
    mirror mirror
    Closed Accounts Posts: 363 ✭✭mirror mirror


    sensationilistic ,


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  • #7
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    TV3 is the Sunday World of television.


  • #8
    D1stant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭D1stant


    Oh twas terrible. Terrible business alltogether

    comment about wasters, the systems to blame, immigrants, bankers, my tax. you dirty feckers

    Feel better now. Cleansed


  • #9
    cesc77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭cesc77


    mirror mirror wrote: »
    what did anyone think of this program last night ? surely to jaysus it cant be that easy to fiddle ? .:confused:

    ask Stradivarius


  • #10
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    It's a great country when people can buy a holiday home in Bulgaria with their dole money.


  • #11
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Complete and utter bullshit. I doubt any of the guys 'interviewed' were genuinely fiddling the system. The scene with your man questioning that fella in the empty parking garage was hilarious. I can't believe they expected people to believe the interviewees were real people.


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  • #12
    mirror mirror
    Closed Accounts Posts: 363 ✭✭mirror mirror


    cesc77 wrote: »
    ask Stradivarius
    whos that when their at home:confused::confused:


  • #13
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    My monocle dropped as I watched it.


  • #14
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    =Took ur job


  • #15
    Toby Take a Bow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Toby Take a Bow


    Saw bits of it. I'd be very suspicious as to how supposedly easy it is to 'fiddle' the system. I can't get rent relief (or supplement or whatever it's called) and come out with the basic €188 a week. Not enough to pay rent, bills, food and all those other lovely/essential things. Holiday homes in Bulgaria?

    If it is the case, then I would think it's such a tiny percentage of people who can do it that it's essentially sensationalist bullsh*t to do an 'investigative' style documentary on it.

    I was in a hospital waiting room earlier. They had a tv3 mid afternoon style discussion programme, when one of the women on it tried to suggest it wasn't representative of normal people on the dole, she was hounded by the others.

    And so it begins. Well done, tv3.


  • #16
    cesc77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭cesc77


    mirror mirror wrote: »
    whos that when their at home:confused::confused:

    A lad that loved a good fiddle,if you know what I mean:pac::pac:

    Sure dont we all?

    Its supposed to be better when you fiddle in the mirror,mirror mirror.:)


  • #17
    El_Dangeroso
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    Toby Take a Bow wrote: »
    Saw bits of it. I'd be very suspicious as to how supposedly easy it is to 'fiddle' the system. I can't get rent relief (or supplement or whatever it's called) and come out with the basic €188 a week. Not enough to pay rent, bills, food and all those other lovely/essential things. Holiday homes in Bulgaria?

    And yet you can afford internet access, pah, to the workhouse with you! :pac:


  • #18
    Dub.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 346 ✭✭Dub.


    hondasam wrote: »
    It's a great country when people can buy a holiday home in Bulgaria with their dole money.

    That guy wasn`t genuine, as he is the brother of one of the production team. Shame on tv3 for using such a blatant plant.


  • #19
    DrHLecter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭DrHLecter


    hondasam wrote: »
    It's a great country when people can buy a holiday home in Bulgaria with their dole money.

    it is to being even the better country when bulgarian can be to buy holiday home in the ireland with your dole money

    I liiike


  • #20
    bmarley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 356 ✭✭bmarley


    sure half the country is screwing our systems. Everyone knows that already.


  • #21
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    mirror mirror wrote: »
    what did anyone think of this program last night ? surely to jaysus it cant be that easy to fiddle ? .:confused:
    kfallon wrote: »
    The most shocking thing is that you watched something on TV3 :rolleyes:
    super_furry wrote: »
    TV3 is the Sunday World of television
    bonerm wrote: »
    My monocle dropped as I watched it.
    cesc77 wrote: »
    A lad that loved a good fiddle,if you know what I mean:pac::pac:
    Sure dont we all?
    Its supposed to be better when you fiddle in the mirror,mirror mirror.
    yez should have seen what was on after it...


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  • #22
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    im invisible wrote: »
    yez should have seen what was on after it...
    Jaysus i caught that show after. Filth and mickeys and everything. It sure was awkward sitting there with a group of girls :pac:


  • #23
    mgmt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭mgmt


    I know of a good few people who claimed the dole when they were students in the North.


  • #24
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    I know a couple of "single" mothers claiming Lone Parents (or whatever its called now), Back to School Allowance etc, and they're living with the kids fathers. They are better off financially than OH and me.


  • #25
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    The show that came on after was better


  • #26
    Mr X11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭Mr X11


    I know for a fact that at least one of the "dole cheats" was in fact an actor.


  • #27
    Mr X11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭Mr X11


    73Cat wrote: »
    I know a couple of "single" mothers claiming Lone Parents (or whatever its called now), Back to School Allowance etc, and they're living with the kids fathers. They are better off financially than OH and me.
    Get a better job so.


  • #28
    murrayp4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 969 ✭✭✭murrayp4


    cesc77 wrote: »
    ask Stradivarius

    Stradiwhovius?


  • #29
    innovation.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭innovation.


    Does anybody know what was going on with TV3 and porn last night? It was all over my facebook. :confused:


  • #30
    cesc77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭cesc77


    Mr X11 wrote: »
    Get a better job so.

    You have an interesting logic in when someone has to raise their game.

    Lets all try our best to be better off than those who do nothing.

    Its ok to be p1ssed off at long time abusers of the system who lead a more leisurely lifestyle than we do.We should be more peeved at the rules which allow the feckless to get away with it


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  • #31
    mad m
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,051 ✭✭✭mad m


    Mr X11 wrote: »
    Get a better job so.

    As the famous words go " Easier said than done"....


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