Forum home› The potting shed
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

Curmudgeons' Corner 3. I blame it on the scapegoat🐐

1…5758606263…96

Posts

  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Obelixx said:
    Isn't there a system for reporting fraudulent claimants?   Would shopping her make it worse for the kids?   How old are they now?
    The kids are young and it could certainly make the situation worse for one of the kids as her partner is only the parent of the younger one.  He would have no rights over her if they split and her natural father isn't interested.  He was supposed to have her every other weekend but regularly makes excuses, at the last minute, not to.
    The reality is, the mother is so good at basically conning people she would probably sail through any investigation. 
    I really just needed to vent at a system which is so badly flawed that the genuinely needy are often failed while those who know how to play the system come out on top.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited July 2019
    It was ever thus but you'd think they'd train the people concerned to spot the wrong 'uns better.  Fine line tho between helping them and not helping a deserving case.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Apropos of nothing I wish to specify, do you ever sincerely hope that Darwin was right? Sometimes it's the only thing that keeps me moderately sane😵
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    B3 said:
    Apropos of nothing I wish to specify, do you ever sincerely hope that Darwin was right? Sometimes it's the only thing that keeps me moderately sane😵
    I've never supposed Darwin was wrong.
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    HOT😠
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Very - and my laptop is being taken away for repairs either today or tomorrow. Boo hoo, I shall be lost without it! Still, at least we've got an ancient desktop, I shall have to try to prise my OH away from it.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It is a truth universally known to home cooks that it is physically impossible to make only a small amount of cold slaw ... yet again I have produced a large mixing bowl full although each time I make it I use progressively smaller amounts ... in fact by now I should be making a negative amount 🤯👩‍🍳

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Ooo I fancy some.Got no white cabbage. Wonder if it would work with pointy cabbage😒
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    @Dovefromabove :D your post explains why (shock and horror)I buy it in little tubs. :D
    Hostafan1 said:
    B3 said:
    Apropos of nothing I wish to specify, do you ever sincerely hope that Darwin was right? Sometimes it's the only thing that keeps me moderately sane😵
    I've never supposed Darwin was wrong.

    Me neither I have faith. :D

    Have a go B3
    I wonder if it would work with sprouts for small amounts.


  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    B3 said:
    Ooo I fancy some.Got no white cabbage. Wonder if it would work with pointy cabbage😒
    Yes it will ... slightly different but just as tasty 😋 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





Sign In or Register to comment.