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  1. Null

    Null Well-Known Member
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  2. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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  3. Null

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    OAPs get to burn them ...
     
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    Yes, shoot all alkies.

    Gambol's first in line.
     
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  5. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    Am a social drinker <grr>
     
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  6. Black Caviar

    Black Caviar 1 of the top judges in Europe

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  7. stopmeandslapme

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    Was reading the comments in the Daily Mail article about this, the most popular were along the lines:
    "I lost my job and now the government wants to restrict what I can and can't buy. It's bad enough looking for work as it is without being stigmatised by having to produce a card in shops."

    I tend to agree, you can't punish the decent majority for the sins of the few.
     
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  8. The Raging Oxter

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    From what I can gather it only affects people on benefits who are registered as drug and/or alcohol dependent.

    The tabloids conveniently miss out this fact as it doesn't generate sensationalist headlines.
     
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    Eddie, have you got some sort of sweatshop hardon today?
     
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  11. The Raging Oxter

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    I bought my girlfriend a Chinese-style outfit for her Christmas and Eddie thinks it was made by the hands of deprived Chinese children.

    I wish it was. It would have been a damn sight cheaper.
     
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    <laugh>
     
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    Bring in drug tests for people on benefits, if you fail it then you don't get any benefits for 6months.

    Harsh but it would soon sort people out.
     
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    This is the new thinking, the original idea, all be it from one MP, was to cover all people on benefits.

    As for alcoholics, they'll find a way - shoplifting or a dodgy shopkeeper.
     
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  16. The Raging Oxter

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    And what about their kids? And, as Eddie points out, they still need money and would turn to crime to pay for their drugs.
     
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    Aye, if you count socializing with a pool of your own vomitus in a ****ing gutter. Alkie bastard <grr>
     
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  18. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    I do count that.
     
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    Oh, I see. Carry on.
     
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  20. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    I shall.
     
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