Why are dole bashing threads allowed?

Clampdown · 23-02-2016 04:18PM #1

Seriously fcuk these threads why are they not just locked straight away. Most of us on the dole are having a hard enough time and can be very down and isolated from being stuck in the house, struggling with bills, being looked down on, etc. I am not on the dole because I'm lazy, I'm on the dole because there is so little jobs in the Northwest where I live and I can't afford to get the money together to move to Dublin or out of Ireland where there is more work.

Any other condition that people couldn't control would not be deemed fair game for online abuse, why do boards allow constant dole bashing threads when many of us are not on the dole by choice?

And in fairness, it's not as if we are going to cover any new ground with these threads, they all go the same way. Even if I thought all dolies were lazy scum (and sure some are, but so are some people who have jobs!), I'd be bored of these threads. Though when I had work I never begrudged anyone their dole, even the lifers, because I know how crap of a life it is.

Does anyone else think maybe it's time we just stopped having these threads? It makes me not want to use boards any more at all when I see them all the time. Or if you still want to have them around so you can stick the cyber-boot into the Dutch Gold drinking bums, would you be okay with just having a separate forum all about dole bashing and leave it out of the other parts of the site?

Bio Mech · 23-02-2016 04:20PM

Why are angry rants allowed? I think we should ban everything we don't like. Because we are forced to read every thread you know.

Maguined · 23-02-2016 04:20PM

If you don't like the threads simply don't read them. There are plenty of threads I personally dislike so I don't venture into them.

VinLieger · 23-02-2016 04:21PM

Welcome to After Hours, you know the entirety of Boards.ie isnt located in this one sub forum yeah?

kupus · 23-02-2016 04:21PM

Cos it makes a lot of people feel smug about themselves. and there is a lot of those types on boards.

JustShon · 23-02-2016 04:22PM

Ah here that's a bit much.

I'm pro-welfare, strongly so but we can't just ask that threads on topics we don't like be banned outright.

I don't like football, I think it's an awfully boring sport and can't stand it at all. I'm not asking that the football forum be removed from boards, I just don't go into it.

Flint Fredstone · 23-02-2016 04:24PM

Get off the Internet and get a job!!!

ahnowbrowncow · 23-02-2016 04:24PM

You don't have to read them. Ignore or debate but don't censor.

darkpagandeath · 23-02-2016 04:25PM

I often wonder why people bitch about the dole, If it's so great jack in the job and go live on the €188 PW.

daveyeh · 23-02-2016 04:26PM

You've now just started a dole bashing thread.

Lazy parasites, rabble rabble, etc

DrumSteve · 23-02-2016 04:27PM

Hitler.

endacl · 23-02-2016 04:27PM

Bob Dole. Prick. :mad:

cowboyBuilder · 23-02-2016 04:28PM

get a job hippy!!!

:P

VinLieger · 23-02-2016 04:28PM

DrumSteve wrote: »

Hitler.

/thread

Iang87 · 23-02-2016 04:29PM

its frustrating watching your tax pay for some lazy fúcker to sit at home and complain about not getting enough free stuff

Duggy747 · 23-02-2016 04:29PM

Don't worry, it'll be soon time for the hatred of smokers and then fat people before we revert back to people on the dole..........maybe a little detour at feminists if we have time.

It's the natural cycle of AH in-between threads like "Interview the person below you" and "Whats the first word that comes to mind"

23-02-2016 04:29PM

yeah - Down with this sort of thing.

23-02-2016 04:30PM

Duggy747 wrote: »

Don't worry, it'll be soon time for the hatred of smokers and then fat people before we revert back to people on the dole..........maybe a little detour at feminists if we have time.

It's the natural cycle of AH in-between threads like "Interview the person below you" and "Whats the first word that comes to mind"

And what about the British ? You forgot the British.

Maguined · 23-02-2016 04:30PM

JustShon wrote: »

I don't like football, I think it's an awfully boring sport and can't stand it at all. I'm not asking that the football forum be removed from boards, I just don't go into it.

Can't agree more. If the football forum was removed you would get little bits of it creeping up all over the place. By giving them their own area to indulge in their disgusting habit it keeps the rest of boards free from it's taint.

JustShon · 23-02-2016 04:31PM

Duggy747 wrote: »

Don't worry, it'll be soon time for the hatred of smokers and then fat people before we revert back to people on the dole..........maybe a little detour at feminists if we have time.

It's the natural cycle of AH in-between threads like "Interview the person below you" and "Whats the first word that comes to mind"

If we're lucky we might have something about vegans for a while until it gets moved to the Nutrition & Diet forum.

darkpagandeath · 23-02-2016 04:31PM

Iang87 wrote: »

its frustrating watching your tax pay for some lazy fúcker to sit at home and complain about not getting enough free stuff

I thought they were all at the bookies ?

JustShon · 23-02-2016 04:32PM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

I thought they were all at the bookies ?

No no, they're all down the pub and going on holidays or shopping for massive televisions in Power City.

B.A._Baracus · 23-02-2016 04:37PM

Duggy747 wrote: »

Don't worry, it'll be soon time for the hatred of smokers and then fat people before we revert back to people on the dole..........maybe a little detour at feminists if we have time.

It's the natural cycle of AH in-between threads like "Interview the person below you" and "Whats the first word that comes to mind"

Spot on Duggy :pac:
Actually.... when you think about it, kinda makes people jerks on here.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 23-02-2016 04:37PM

Is it dole bashing to expect people to eventually try and support themselves

sKeith · 23-02-2016 04:37PM

Maybe a bit off topic, but why do cyclists not pay 'road' tax?

DrumSteve · 23-02-2016 04:39PM

sKeith wrote: »

Maybe a bit off topic, but why do cyclists not pay 'road' tax?

Because there is no road tax?

RobertKK · 23-02-2016 04:39PM

Self employed people whose business goes bust do not qualify for the dole.

People on the dole are the lucky ones if they lose their job, given we don't have an equal society. Risk takers are penalised.

The Backwards Man · 23-02-2016 04:44PM

Is this a dole bashing bashing thread?

Maguined · 23-02-2016 04:46PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Is it dole bashing to expect people to eventually try and support themselves

You heartless monster. You make me sick.

DrumSteve · 23-02-2016 04:46PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Is this a dole bashing bashing thread?

Nah, its a bashing people on the dole getting bashed thread.

The Backwards Man · 23-02-2016 04:48PM

DrumSteve wrote: »

Nah, its a bashing people on the dole getting bashed thread.

Ah.

Is that bashing dole bashing or bashing bashing dole?

Why are dole bashing threads allowed?

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