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Im homeless and disabled..

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  • #62
    njs030
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,030 ✭✭✭njs030


    You were getting disability allowance, carers allowance and rent allowance and your son was getting a supplement too?
    That comes to over €500 a week before rent allowance. Every adult has to pay €30 towards their rent if they are getting a sw payment.

    Maybe moving to a more rural area might be better for you, maybe you could find a bungalow that's wheelchair friendly?


  • #63
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,730 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    FluffyAngel wrote: »
    really? to be fair its not everyday that people take the piss out of me,that is prove doctors took the piss

    there could have been a better one as i asked the doctor could i get a selfie
    i learned a valuable lesson,never make a doctor laugh as he is putting a tube in the eye of the storm..poor man couldn't stop laughing:D

    good to see you still have your humor. you ll need that


  • #64
    Edward Hopper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 713 ✭✭✭Edward Hopper


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I don't understand what you mean?

    The OP took a photo of himself as he is to show the reality and truth of his plight.

    I don't see the relevance of a catheter to homelessness or what relevance it has to homelessness.


  • #65
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    12Phase wrote: »
    OP, any chance you could possibly put a word of warning above that image?
    I fully appreciate what you're saying here and what the situation is, but I opened that image in the middle of a public space here. I didn't expect that at all.

    It's a pair of legs with a blue tube. There is nothing remotely obscene or OTT about that image.


  • #66
    Little CuChulainn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,624 ✭✭✭Little CuChulainn


    Superhorse wrote: »
    The hacks and spin merchants want us all turning on each other, "It's the unemployed fault", "bloody single mums", "council house scroungers" etc.. we all know the types of arguments that crop up time and again and all the while the establishment get away with daylight robbery. Boom/Bust/Emigration the great release/ rinse and repeat the Irish way.

    You can dismiss the argument all you want but as op is in hospital right now there are perfectly healthy and fit people all around the country who have never worked a day in their lives living in houses provided for them by the state. Sure, in a perfect world everyone would be housed, but in the world we live in right now, those people are taking up room in a limited capacity system and op loses out because of it.


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  • #67
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Gatling wrote: »
    Imagine if this was all a wind up
    Gatling wrote: »
    Very real ,
    Very cynical

    Okay, Mr. Cynical, you can leave the thread if you don't have anything useful to add.

    Can we get back to the topic rather than the verity of the picture, why it was taken etc.?

    Mod


  • #68
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,730 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Little CuChulainn wrote: »
    You can dismiss the argument all you want but as op is in hospital right now there are perfectly healthy and fit people all around the country who have never worked a day in their lives living in houses provided for them by the state. Sure, in a perfect world everyone would be housed, but in the world we live in right now, those people are taking up room in a limited capacity system and op loses out because of it.

    you need to research the root causes of long term unemployment. its not straight forward. in fact its very complex


  • #69
    Superhorse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 848 ✭✭✭Superhorse


    12Phase wrote: »
    OP, any chance you could possibly put a word of warning above that image?
    I fully appreciate what you're saying here and what the situation is, but I opened that image in the middle of a public space here. I didn't expect that at all.

    God darn reality of the situation ruining your day, the horror.


  • #70
    sheep?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 824 ✭✭✭sheep?


    Fair play DKelly, more media hopefully going to look into it.

    https://twitter.com/jonathanhealy/status/739892834812186625



    OP, absolutely saddened beyond belief for you. Hopefully your thread will spark some action on your behalf.


  • #71
    FluffyAngel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭FluffyAngel


    Two Tone wrote: »
    Oh dear, it's an awful pity you felt compelled to do that. That comment from Gatling was extremely mean-spirited and unnecessary, but I think most people don't doubt that you're genuine.

    i have been on boards long enough to know that all posters have good intentions,its the keyboard fault for putting letters in front of them
    i used to be a standup comedian and am thinking of going back to it,hence the pic,having the photo is a memory even though its a rough memory

    i wasn't thinking of boards when i took it,as i said in other post ,i wanted the proof that the piss was taken out of me from doctors:D


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  • #72
    12Phase
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭12Phase


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It's a pair of legs with a blue tube. There is nothing remotely obscene or OTT about that image.

    It got a major over reaction here. (Not from me)


  • #73
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    12Phase wrote: »
    It got a major over reaction here. (Not from me)

    God love them.


  • #74
    FizzleSticks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭FizzleSticks


    This post has been deleted.


  • #75
    12Phase
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭12Phase


    Deleted User wrote: »
    God love them.

    That's what I said! I work with a bunch of 19th century types...


  • #76
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    FluffyAngel wrote: »
    are you for real? that is a very very cynical view of the world?
    Indeed F. I am happy, or "maybe in need of therapy and cuddles" :D to admit I am an atomic powered cynical prick at the best of times, but even I have my limits. And they're pretty out there and my Cynicometer is not twitching here.
    Superhorse wrote: »
    I completely disagree we care more for the needy in African nations for example than we do of our own. Sending 600m per annum to Africa and cases like the OP's showing up here. As I said we don't look after our most in need and it's to the shame of us all.
    I'd be among the first to say "da fuq ballsology is this??" when it comes to overseas aid expenditure, however and it's a big however SH, when we set that against the fact that we spend many multiples of that on social safety nets, into the billions, a huge percentage of the public budget. Nearly half of all Irish people have a medical card.

    And y'know what, I have not so much an issue with the expenditure itself. I certainly don't want to live in a culture like the US with the elderly living under overpasses because their insurance ran out, or where a Walter White Breaking Bad type is seen as normal "ah yeah I can see why he got into that stuff" because he came down with cancer. Fcuk that noise and all the sociopaths and naive that hail it.

    However. Part Two. The directors cut. It's how and where our society spends the resources that I have the pulling my hair out issue with. I'd be fairly bloody sure even the most Right On(™) among us know at least one if not more freeloading prick milking the system like a hungry newborn calf on a teat, while actually deserving cases go ignored, or left hanging, like F here.

    That's my problem and this is a good example of it. And I have personally seen similar up close.

    This isn't or shouldn't be some retarded political football for or agin social safety nets, it should be - at least among the non retarded non extremist numpties - a call for better application of those nets to those folks in our society that need it.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #77
    ahnowbrowncow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,591 ✭✭✭ahnowbrowncow


    12Phase wrote: »
    It got a major over reaction here. (Not from me)

    Ffs, it's a tube and a pair of jeans, what did they say?


  • #78
    failinis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭failinis


    12Phase wrote: »
    It got a major over reaction here. (Not from me)

    Woe be on to them, at least thats all they have to deal with :rolleyes:


  • #79
    12Phase
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭12Phase


    failinis wrote: »
    Woe be on to them, at least thats all they have to deal with :rolleyes:

    Well, what I can I say other than I work with some right prudes and I agree.


  • #80
    Superhorse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 848 ✭✭✭Superhorse


    Little CuChulainn wrote: »
    You can dismiss the argument all you want but as op is in hospital right now there are perfectly healthy and fit people all around the country who have never worked a day in their lives living in houses provided for them by the state. Sure, in a perfect world everyone would be housed, but in the world we live in right now, those people are taking up room in a limited capacity system and op loses out because of it.

    Look I'm not doing the whole council house argument now tbh of course there are scroungers but it's a very small number most people in council housing work and all pay rent to the state.

    The fact is over the last 20 or so years the establishment made a conscious effort to stop building council dwellings and allowed corrupt developers to forgo their responsibility to provide 10% social housing within their developments whilst at the same time allowed house prices to explode. That's why we are where we are and we have families living in B&B's and people like the OP living in a feckin car.


  • #81
    zl1whqvjs75cdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭zl1whqvjs75cdy


    I'm afraid that I don't know much about this area op but my heart goes out to you. Hope things get better for you soon.


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  • #82
    FluffyAngel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭FluffyAngel


    notjustsweet wrote: »
    You were getting disability allowance, carers allowance and rent allowance and your son was getting a supplement too?
    That comes to over €500 a week before rent allowance. Every adult has to pay €30 towards their rent if they are getting a sw payment.

    Maybe moving to a more rural area might be better for you, maybe you could find a bungalow that's wheelchair friendly?

    you read my post wrongly
    ,nobody is getting carers allowance as i am waiting ten months

    my son was getting a hundred euros to do the work of a nurse,would you change ****ty clothes everyday for 100 euros?

    where i live is rural,which means my son pays 30/60 euros a week on buses from his money

    rent allowance is paid to landlord

    i get a 180 allowance ,which up to last week had to give a hundred euros to make up the shortage out of eighty euros a week i give 20 euros to a person to come in once a week to clean and get on top of things for me.this eases the workload on me


  • #83
    12Phase
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭12Phase


    Populism and pandering to a very particular electorate of NIMBY snobs who would probably claim to be in favour of a classless society and think they're champagne socialists!!


  • #84
    Wonzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭Wonzy


    Sorry to hear this OP. Terrible thing to be happening to you.

    Unfortunately too many people abusing the system in this country and this is the consequence. The government are too stupid to put down proper measures and most of the junior ministers don't have a backbone and just bend over for the more senior people involved.

    Everyone knows people abusing the system and unfortunately the people that really need it are suffering. I could go on with stories of people I know but don't want to derail the thread.


  • #85
    FluffyAngel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭FluffyAngel


    FizzleSticks wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    I'm male and understand your post of compassion,il look into ittomrrow
    thank u


  • #86
    kupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,151 ✭✭✭kupus


    Never has my sig so apt for a thread... I'm sorry to read this fluffy.
    Jesus even reading the last sentence is weird. I'm saying sorry to a fluffy Angel!!!

    By the way putting the tube in is the easy part... Speaking from experience be extra nice to the nurse that takes it out!!!
    Keep the spirits up, I know it sounds like bs coming from total strangers but at least you know people actually give a sh!te.


  • #87
    12Phase
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭12Phase


    Yeah, to be fair a good few people seem to be actually attempting to get something done.

    Community spirit is thankfully something that tends to save this country from its heartless "system" that seems to be fine with the idea of leaving the OP sleeping in his car!


  • #88
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,730 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    12Phase wrote: »
    Yeah, to be fair a good few people seem to be actually attempting to get something done.

    Community spirit is thankfully something that tends to save this country from its heartless "system" that seems to be fine with the idea of leaving the OP sleeping in his car!

    its the only thing that ll save us when the system eventually falls to pieces


  • #89
    wokingvoter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 828 ✭✭✭wokingvoter


    tomwaterford wrote: »
    Have you any family??

    Failing that go and sit in at the social welfare office until it's sorted

    What's the point in a dept of social welfare if they won't help you when it's needed

    Do you think he should leave the hospital where he is receiving care and go to the SW office and sit there? What would that achieve? Absolutely nothing I can assure you.


  • #90
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    Hi Op

    I tweeted red fm and they want to speak to you. The neil prenderville show


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  • #91
    Little CuChulainn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,624 ✭✭✭Little CuChulainn


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    you need to research the root causes of long term unemployment. its not straight forward. in fact its very complex

    Indeed it is. But some people are just lazy, entitled scroungers that drain the system.


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