today

"Steve Terry" wrote in message
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"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Steve Terry"
saying something like:

100 more refugees, given a house, tv, electricity, gas, car and £300 a
week expenses.....

Only if they are pregnant refugee wimin, each with half a dozen kids each
in
tow.
Then they would get a 1.5M quid house on the rates.
After which the social workers involved would get sacked, sue the local
authorities, and sell their story to the papers.

Single white tax paying guys if lucky, get pointed to a park bench to
live
on

Why don't you **** off to alt.daily.mail.rants?


With that mood it sounds like you're in your second semester?
what are you hoping for, a Boy or a semi detached?

Steve Terry



lovely reply :-)

"Paul Ratcliffe" wrote in message
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On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:24:42 -0000, R. Mark Clayton
wrote:

True - councils have no obligation to [re]house single males, but do for
families and females.

I thought we had sex discrimination laws? They obviously don't apply to
single blokes for some reason (unless, foreign and/or illegal immigrants
of course).
This is a blatant abuse of such laws. How do they get away with it?


It's about social services protecting those they see as most vulnerable,
wimen naturally come into that category.

Men would have to prove disability like mental illness, etc.
and then still be put bottom of the list

Steve Terry

"Johnny B Good" wrote in message
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The message
from "Graham." contains these words:

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When I worked in the TV rental trade a significant part of
the business was customers with pre-payment meters on
the back (and laterally on the top) of their TVs.

That shows laterlal thinking! (You've used 2 many As and Ls ;-)

Just a over-zealous spull chocker.

I was in the flooded wastes of Devon today, just North of
Cullompton, and saw a dealers van which listed "Slot TV"
as a service, so looks like it is still alive and well.


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Graham.

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Graham. wrote:
I was in the flooded wastes of Devon today, just North of
Cullompton, and saw a dealers van which listed "Slot TV"
as a service, so looks like it is still alive and well.

I could do with one of those for my Scalectrix.

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*You! Off my planet!

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

I missed Watchdog but I have a pre-payment meter, where I live originally it
was a holiday letting hence the type of meter installed, we now rent have
done for the last 15 years, but never got around to asking the landlord to
change the meter as my thinking was at least the electric is paid for and no
nasty bill arrives, in fact they owe us about £175 at the moment.

The only problem is that we have to pay more for the electric than people
not on meters and as there's no gas in this village the Electric people have
the upper hand, although we have just had a letter stating that in the
future we are now only going to be charged for the electricity we use.

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Joan Archer
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"Graham." wrote in message
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Graham." wrote in message
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That will teach the person who reported their neighbour to mind their
own business. Poetic justice.

To be honest I thought exactly the same thing. However it is theft, and
you'd report a thief surely? Interesting moral dilemma.



There was a piece about pre-payment meters on Watchdog
last night. A bit of a cock-up, with consumers being back-charged
serious arrears through no fault of their own. I wonder if it was
connected with that?
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Graham.

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