[RUSTYME]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20091022/tuk-seven-fat-family-children-in-care-6323e80.html

I don't know any more details about this, other than what are in the link. However , if this is even partly correct it is totally unbelievable.  Whats on the list next ? Too thin ? Hair to long ? not enough hair ? to ugly ?
 I am so glad I am not in their place ...I couldn't handle it at all .. if they took my kids , they would start a war , a war I would wage on every social worker/health/council official involved, and it would go on from that ....( sorry Sandy , I wouldn't wage it on you )  .
 
These pen pushing good for nothing arseholes would soon wish they were never born ...stick their nose in my sh*t,  I will cut it off !!!
 
cheers

Russ
 
 

[gavo]

Probably more to it than the article indicates.You know how the press LOVE a sensational headline.

[MiriMaran]

I hope there's more to it than just the weight issue.

Russ I love the way, regardless of what you say, you always finish with a cheery cheers!!

[Fluffywelshsheep]

not read the articule but i belive the family has learning difficulties.
(am not in agreiances with the removal of the children from the family)

Linz

[RUSTYME]

 lol... yes I would be the hangman with a little glint in the eye... and as the condemned man approached, I would just have to sing ..."Always look on the bright side of life " , and just as the unfortunate chap dropped, I would have to give out a little burst of  " Another one bites the dust  !!"   or maybe even " Hang on Sloopy " .... cheerful thoughts eh ?

as I say ..." always look on the bright side of life "

cheers

Russ

[Fluffywelshsheep]

I would just have to sing ..."Always look on the bright side of life "

or would it be better wistled?

Linz

[RUSTYME]

yes ... better whistled Linz...much more subtle .....I can't write a whistle though ...? lol


cheers

Russ

[MiriMaran]

Loving the profile pic Linz!

[Fluffywelshsheep]

Loving the profile pic Linz!

hehe

[Rosemary]

Oh, dear. The authorities being made scapegoats again by the press. Why let the truth get in the way of a good headline. I'm sure there will be more to this than is in the article. Don't get sucked in by this stuff.

Social workers are damned if they do and damned if they don't - I wouldn't do their job for anything. They have to deal with neglect where they can - and having obese children is a form of neglect.

[Snoopy]

Surely a dietician, less money for bad food, and education would be better
than taking the kids - 

[Sylvia]

It always amazes me when (some) people on benefits say they can't afford fresh veg. meat or fish. Apparently all they can afford is frozen oven chips, cheap fish fingers and take-away pizzas!! (Oh! and cigarettes)
Fresh veg. is cheap enough, liver is cheap as is mackerell and herring. Lentils are cheap and dried beans of all sorts.
The problem is,  is not lack of money but lack of education in the use of these ingredients. Never mind teaching schoolchildren how to cook Victoria Sponge, teach them how to cook Bean Soup or Meatless Stew and how to make the most of little.
 A certain "lady" of my aquaintance gets more on benefits than I earn working full-time nights and still maintains she hasn't enough to live on!!

[Snoopy]

I know what you mean Sheila

I went passed the local social welfare office yesterday to go and have my physio therapy, and there were at least 10 people outside smoking - these were waiting to see the social welfare officer for benefit cheques.

It occurred to me that the government are taking money from child allowance and from nurses and yet, the taxpayers are funding cigarettes for people on benefits.

I hate to target a group, and was a smoker myself, but recently realised that at 9 euro per packet, smoking 20 per day is half someones social welfare cheque, and most of these people have no intention of trying to stop smoking.

I bet if the government said that benefits to smokers would be halved, there would be uproar, yet at the same time, they are only living on half of their benefits, cause the other half goes on cigarettes - and this could be a good incentive to make them think - and try to stop.

I wouldn't mind, but there all entitled to medical cards, so entitled to nicorette patches free of charge too - so why are Irish taxpayers paying for them to smoke??

Rant over - sorry do not wish to offend any smokers - just my humble opinion on a fact and all that 

[RUSTYME]

I know I used to drink and smoke years ago , and I couldn't afford to do either nowdays (even if I wanted too) .
 I also know that it is very possible to live on less than £5 a week , even now !. I have done it . I just bought veg from the out of date/gone mankie shelf . It was only pennies to buy and with a peel and a scrape came up perfect. I made a huge cauldron of veggie soup that would last the week and could be added to as the week went on . I also added dried beans, peas etc , so not only did it fill me up it was very healthy too . As prices are now, you wouldn't be able to have coffee and sugar in with the £5 , but it wouldn't put the bill up that much .
It is also easy to bring the food bill down by growing your own veg , instead of chucking spidery spuds away plant them in a bucket or plastic bag...12-16 weeks later you have spuds FREE. Same with dried beans pop a few in a pot ...FREE beans.
 I have done these things because at times I have had too, and others because I just wanted too.  Why people who are hard up for cash don't do it is for them to work out ...I just look after myself as best I can .
  Oh and as for smokers , they could grow their own tobacco , for virtually nothing. You can buy 200 seeds for a couple of quid , and each plant will give you about 4oz /100g of tobacco when dried . Very easy to grow and as long as you don't process any more than 100 g at a time , there is no tax to be paid on it . You can store 50 tons of it in leaf form , but not processed.
Once you have grown some plants , let a dozen or so go to seed and you then have enough seed to sow a 10 acre field , well in reality probably 100 times that size, you get millions of seeds from them ...been there done it .
Life can be easy and very very cheap , you just have to use your loaf a bit ....simples...

cheers

Russ

[marigold]

This article is another example of Dundee City Council going overboard   - (anyone out their work for social services in Dundee?)
I do think that there is more to this though.
Someone told me the other day that DCC has passed  by law that makes it illegal to go out in night clothes and slippers. Apparently it is to 'encourage' depressed parents to get dressed before that go our of the house as too many mothers were taking they're kids to school in their pjs.
I go an let my hens out in my pj's I wonder if that would be illegal in Dundee? Anyway i don't think that i provide a bad role model for the poultry - they only get changed once a year.