I had a takamine 6 string it was very nice, which model is it and how much is he after for it?

The long goodfriday

Withnail and i

Bladerunner

Whickerman

2001

Apocalypse now

Full metal jacket

Thin red line

Waterworld ( i strangly love this film she hates it)

Igor Presnyakov (wish he’d get someone else to sing though)

Nels Cline

TJ – you are losing your argument mojo, read my posts pls

I don’t really understand your point. Do you think you should be a higher priority that a family with children?

aside from the fact that imo having a family is a lifestyle choice and a disability isnt (unless you are one of those odd people who like to cut bits off of themselves, and i am not ruling anything out in your case :-))

I would be satisfied with the same priority as a family, or single parent with kid.

Because we are lower priority, we have absolutely no way of being housed by the council unless northampton runs out of single parents, and going by my local Asda today that is not going to happen anytime soon.

We were lower priority even when housed in a private let unable to move with damp and mould which we had specialist and occupational health evidence that it was hasten my wifes decline….

But leaving aside my housing history and back to the question I asked which was ,

how is having children whilst on benefits, not a potential means to get a house?

If a child guarantees preferential housing treatment, and if you have a system where all a single parent teenager has to do is get their parent to make them “homeless” with their kid (or write a letter to that effect), and they imediately walk into housing, what do you think they are doing?

To say that teeneagers do not have children to aid their housing and benefits claims is very shortsighted and naive.

And you ask for evidence, what do you expect these kids to do, tell the benefits agencies who compile your oft quoted stats that they kept their kid cos mum said they would get a house?

I claim benefits as a carer, I spend an unhealthy amount of time in the council offices with a wide cross section of people and I know several specific examples of 17 year olds who openly did this.

Given the choice of sitting on JSA at mum and dads or sitting on JSA + child benefit, housing benefit, council tax benefit etc and feeding the kids for next to nothing, explain to me how this is not incentivising “breeding”?

I accept that this is not the norm in your world, but it is far more widespread than you seem to think.

I am far from a right wing Tory when it comes to the usual easy target benefits bashing, but you really could do with coming down my local council offices and talking to some people who are actually in this situation before you comment.

TJ I hope you answer this.

Tim – I don’t understand how you are disadvantaged. You get offered an appropriate property to your needs. I get offered **** all. Am I disadvantaged?
Why do you want a property greater than your needs? properties aere in short suply since the sell off of council houses so must be allocated on a basis of need.

the point was that we werent offered a property for 3 years, and then only a private let that we have to subsidise by use of the Discretionary Housing Payment (ie they dont pay our full rent)..

we were assesed as having a need for a two bed property, as my wife has noisy breathing aids and i occasionaly need to sleepmmmm

a single parent family with a child (for example) are given preference for 2 bed houses (i have been told by a council official that we would not ever get a house as these were always (and as council policy), given to families with children). and when you consider that northampton council have lots of two bed houses and virtually no 2 bed bungalows/flats then…..

having a child gets you a house free from the council in northampton.

So answer me this TJ

In northampton, how is having children whilst on benefits, not a potential means to get a house?

put this in one of your graphs….

disabled wife – 3+ years wait and nothing

1 kid, immediate housing at highest priority..

Tj

I am awaiting your response on my point that as a housing benefit claimant i am disadvantaged by not having children?

Well?

TJ

I know people who had children specifically as it meant that they immediately got a council house, it happens, its disgusting but i would imagine it happens a lot.

In my experience (rather than what i have read) this is the case.

In Northampton where i live, if my disabled wife and i had had a child we would have been housed immediately, rather than waiting for 3 years, we would have had access to 2 bedroon houses (rather than 2 bedroom flats and bungalows which radically reduced the available properties) we considered shaving our jack russell and putting it in a pram but it kept chewing the dummy.

People have kids to get houses, it happens, quite a lot.

Or there are pc based software ones which are fine, if you must have a physical one go for the pyramid pendulum type it will last for ever. £20 or there abouts?

Didnt look it, “lets go to a break” hmmmm

Waitrose!!!!

Their vegetable rice and a lamb rogon josh hmmm

When i was 16 and schindlers list had just come out, i was an usher at our local cinema, they did a midweek daytime special showing for a load of elderly jewish people.

That was an atmosphere!

I cried like a baby, really affected me.

I now regularly gibber at sad bits e.g up, green mile, forest gump, the mission, god theres loads i even got upset at an episode of quincy once, as the missus gleefully reminds me regularly…

ok then mate send us a mail or give us a call on 07846 690368

elfin

completely unrelated to this thread, but i keep trying to reply to your email from weeks ago but my pc dies hangs every time, very odd but sorry i probly seemed rude by not getting back to you!

but anyway i am thinking of floggin that cannondale either frame forks and a few bits or full bike, let me know if you fancy a crimbo cannondale!

timdrayton@live.co.uk

That was quick googling

Mee too, keep looking at the closed thread about dogs thinking oh no not again……..doh

Look quartz on all 3

Light enough for the roadbike, enough platform and float for the fs, best pedal ever imho

Itv news reporting the story, interviewed a guy already on the pilot scheme sweeping at his local pool….

Daryl Slack…..

Made me chuckle

I used to work in leasing

Laptops for students, bike for workers etc etc were great till everyone got mugged by the end of lease payment….

Classic leasing strategy, offer the carrot then shag them on the end of lease ballooon payment.

A company i (may have) used to work for made made thousands a month purely by the payments from companies that had firgotten to cancel their leases…..

Indeed theres teleporting?

I thought i was just rubbish…..

They are buggers them u2

Probably the best lyricists in the world

Desperation is a tender trap – it gets you every time
You put your lips to her lips to stop the lie
Her skin is pale like God’s only dove
Screams like an angel for your love
Then she makes you watch her from above
And you need her like a drug

Oh, love – you say in love there are no rules
Oh, love – sweetheart, you’re so cruel

She wears my love like a see-through dress
Her lips say one thing, her movements something else

Bono is a genius imho

Life is no nintendo game, but you lied again
Now you get to watch her leave out the window
Guess that’s why they call it window pane

Bloody eminem

Tyger whats the ref on your auction ill give it a look although im pretty sure its a bit too nice!

Addy i like it, and your 12 string, drop us an email on timdrayton@live.co.uk… I could pick up and pop into cannock……

I have always found the jr to be head and shoulders above other local hospitals in the areas of emergency care and i
Imunology not eperienced their cardio lot, but if i had to pick an nhs hospital it wouldbe that one.

whats that led zep lyric?

“lots of people talking but few of them know”

spectacularly applicable here.

I claim housing benefit and am in receipt of income support and a carers allowance for looking after my wife.

I am 34 and was an averagely paid IT professional prior to becoming a carer (not that that is specifically relevant just to underline that i have been on both sides…).

Not one mention of the Discretionary housing payment yet? Not too many of you have much experience of being in a rental shortfall situation then?

This DHP fund has been added to (i forget by how much at the Budget, but i bet it will swell considerably, and quietly….) by the Government and affectively supports the rent of a person or people who have justifyable need to stay where they are.

Take me and my wife, we need to live where we are to still receive help and support from relatives, and to be near specific healthcare providers. Also our privately rented bungalow in which we were housed by the council, is specifically adapted.

It is in an okish area of northampton the rent is not high it is about average, but if it were higher the DHP would cover it.

As it would for anyone with a justifyable need to stay where they are.

You lot just need some perspective of what is actually justifyable.

For once i actually agree with a government decision, (sorry Fred! I am normally in your lefty camp) you dont need to live somewhere unless your life depends on it, and if it does DHP will meet the shortfall.

Anyone else is free to move (with council grants available to help with costs if you cant afford it).

People should not be governmentally financed to stay in areas where they cannot afford to live.

bit gutted i never met him, but we had a fair few chats about music and bikes.

A very sad loss, condolences to his family.

As i understand it, the vaccine has dead virus in it, so it doesnt replicate (get worse, spread etc).

But the bodies immune system recognises it as something to attack , which it does, and therefore you will be protected the next time you are exposed.

Feeling “a bit poorly” is a logical thing, as this is what happens when you fight off a virus….

I do wonder wether there has been a dramatic increase in governmental/army evil doing, or just an increase in effective communication?

Dunno where this leaves us as a race though, hopefully at a place where doing this knd of stuff becomes too costly a pr disaster.

What about dog poo, can it go in?

bo radleys before wake up poo

ride leave them all behind, still gives me goosebumps

frank and walters after all

the breeders cannonball

Yes!!!!! Runs to proper ‘puter….

My old fuzzy brain seems to recall they changed something so that you couldn’t take the money before the buyer had left feedback or a couple of weeks had passed, or something like that

Nope if you have zero balance and paypal decide to reverse a payment you end up with a negative balance, then thry take it out of the bank you attach to paypal…… There is no escape!

Use the html function to add hi def pics, easily done wih photo bucket

Give it to someone you know with lots of feedback( if you have less than 100+)

End it at 20:30pm

Join forums relating to the item just to publicise your auction

Specify that viewing prior to bidding and cash on collection would be fine as would postage , but specify that the item would be safely packaged and insured

Im with you bd, ive just slapped the wife in the chops, to show solidarity, flipping lazy dla claimants!!!

Ah well ill stop panicking then

Jahwomble cheers mate no hurry!!!

Anything i can stick on a cd to return the favour?

Ah mr pearson!

Shouldve known…..

Nice beetle mate, ill mail alan hel be green, hes an audi driver now

Tbh the saddle lasted about 20 minutes then i admitted defeat, it hurt!

What was i thinking tho? i got a spevialized romin instead… It was still a bargain…

I will alwayw want a carman ghia ….

Ahhhh bugjam memories ….

cg have a listen to this, you might have heard it already, Wilco muzzle of bees.

nice guitaring!

dont dis the 90’s bungalow guys!

it is rented, and the decor is a little busy…

My missus has buprenorhine patches and sublingual Tablets, where is this in the scheme of things?

Shaft (can u dig it)