From the makers of Rochdale, bloody hell...

**Lofty** · 17-09-2021, 09:17 AM

Another man, who wishes to remain anonymous, said he was let go from work at the beginning of the pandemic and has actively been looking for work since.

He said he and his wife are both unemployed so he has to spend 12 hours a day looking for jobs for both of them.

Bollocks. As Spikey said, right now there a lot of unskilled vacancies open. People just dont want to do the work. Before I got on the railway I was working three jobs at the same time at one point. Because I didn't have a permanent contract for the job I wanted to stay in I had to work at PC World, Waterstones and was also bartending at the same time. Sundays I worked 9-5 PC World then went home, ate and went to the bar 7-11. Clearly I should have put all my eggs in the Waterstones basket and then just wandered about helplessly if they didn't offer me a permanent contract.

Also, Khaos's mum is preggers again. She worries how she will be able to afford another child. I like to think I'm a liberal person but it really is a case study in why we might need to start sterilising people early doors.

**Ian** · 17-09-2021, 09:18 AM

Anybody calling their kid Khaos probably needs it taking off them anyway.

**Shindig** · 17-09-2021, 09:30 AM

Yeah, the 12 hours a day job searching sounds like bollocks. Or they have no idea how to look for work. When I was stuck on New Deal courses, you saw the type. People that were made redundant and pigeonholed themselves so much they would only do one job in a specialised sector and sack everything else off. "There's NOWT IN CONSTRUCTION!" was a common moan. As soon as I settled for anything, I found work and was out of there. The one thing I didn't want to settle for was benefits.

**Spikey M** · 17-09-2021, 09:44 AM

We moved house in July, my wife found and started a new job closer to home within 3 weeks.

There are companies paying "signing on fees" at the moment as they're so desperate for staff. Skilled and unskilled.

At my place, the entirety of the Surveyors team has fucked off to work for mortgage companies on bumper wages. We only have 2 or 3 call centre staff left too, so have just hired 8 new ones that are currently being trained "fast track".

The economy opening up after 16 months of fuck all and the entirety of Eastern Europe leaving has this as the best time to be looking for work in I don't know how long. If you can't find work now, you just don't want to.

**Don** · 17-09-2021, 10:10 AM

But what about the evil tories slashing the £20 lifeline? Sickening.

**Baz** · 17-09-2021, 10:30 AM

So this thread has gone from lol bad night out photos from deprived areas to lol poor people are poor.

**Spikey M** · 17-09-2021, 10:38 AM

From lol bad night out photos from deprived areas to lol Baz can't read.

**Offshore Toon** · 17-09-2021, 11:40 AM

Khaos would be a great name for a non-white child that you were going to turn into an MMA fighter, but anything else is tragic.

**Yevrah** · 17-09-2021, 11:43 AM

One is hesitant to be too critical as I'm not in their shoes, but if you're actually spending 12 hours a day looking for work it would probably be easier to, you know, just work.

**Kikó** · 17-09-2021, 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by Baz

So this thread has gone from lol bad night out photos from deprived areas to lol poor people are poor.

That's just Taz.

**Don** · 17-09-2021, 11:53 AM

Geezer literally posts the original article to mock a struggling mother just trying to raise her kids in this difficult world, gets his whatsapp bumbuddy to defend him and then tries to blame it on me. Not cool.

**Kikó** · 17-09-2021, 11:58 AM

You should be ashamed of yourself.

**Spikey M** · 17-09-2021, 12:09 PM

Typical Tory blaming the only brown face in the room.

**Offshore Toon** · 17-09-2021, 12:46 PM

Kikó was always going to struggle to stay grounded once he landed on the moon.

**Kikó** · 17-09-2021, 12:55 PM

I just think Khaos deserves some love.

**Offshore Toon** · 17-09-2021, 01:01 PM

Post that Taziban photoshop you did.

**Lewis** · 17-09-2021, 01:19 PM

Whatever good arguments there are for generally better benefits fall down when you read about the likes of Shannon. Twenty-five, five kids... What? And if your financial situation is so precarious, what you having another one for? Were you flush at the time and now you've been caught out? Realistically, is there any amount of believable benefit upgrade[s] that someone like that wouldn't find a way to piss up the wall?

**Spikey M** · 17-09-2021, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by Offshore Toon

Post that Taziban photoshop you did.

**Lofty** · 17-09-2021, 02:06 PM

Originally Posted by Lewis

Whatever good arguments there are for generally better benefits fall down when you read about the likes of Shannon. Twenty-five, five kids... What? And if your financial situation is so precarious, what you having another one for? Were you flush at the time and now you've been caught out? Realistically, is there any amount of believable benefit upgrade[s] that someone like that wouldn't find a way to piss up the wall?

Exactly. I have sympathy for those in dire need but a lot of those in the article were taking the piss a bit. 62 year old made redundant reckoning he'll have to beg now. Pretty sure he could get work at a supermarket etc. Yeah it's wank but if you don't plan for your retirement you don't get to swan about on Saga Holidays while you can still maintain an erection, them's the breaks.

**Lewis** · 17-09-2021, 02:09 PM

Marcus Rashford is the youngest of five. Why didn't she stop after the meals first dried up?

**Kikó** · 11-10-2021, 05:21 PM

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**Yevrah** · 11-10-2021, 05:30 PM

40-something year old Men like that are one of life's great mysteries to me.

**Lewis** · 11-10-2021, 05:35 PM

https://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/showt...hday-manc-Sean

**niko_cee** · 11-10-2021, 05:49 PM

I'm hoping at some point in that video a bus just wipes him out as he saunters back into the road.

**Boydy** · 11-10-2021, 06:22 PM

Originally Posted by Yevrah

40-something year old Men like that are one of life's great mysteries to me.

He must be a bit retarded, right?

Like physically he might be 40-something but no way he is mentally.

**Yevrah** · 11-10-2021, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by Boydy

He must be a bit retarded, right?

Like physically he might be 40-something but no way he is mentally.

Who knows. But go on a night out in any city in England and you'll run into loads of men like him, they can't all be medically retarded. It's bizarre.

**Spikey M** · 11-10-2021, 06:28 PM

They're the people that would have gone on Jeremy Kyle and now need another outlet.

**Disco** · 11-10-2021, 06:32 PM

For 'average' to mean anything these people must also exist.

**wullie** · 11-10-2021, 07:12 PM

When he starts reeling off the names 30 seconds in he becomes Kevin Webster and it improves dramatically

**Kikó** · 11-10-2021, 08:48 PM

I know you've been waiting for round 2.

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**Yevrah** · 11-10-2021, 08:48 PM

Please make it stop, or maybe don't. It's strangely hypnotising.

**Danny** · 11-10-2021, 08:53 PM

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His what?

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