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of course they are happier they have no worries on where the next months mortgage is coming from or fees for school or the things that make a good life!! all they have to do is fill in a few forms feign some disability or care need for a dependent and bobs your uncle free money, housing , help with this and that and guess what no pressure and they still can afford to smoke, go to the pub and have a big tv!!, dont make me laugh of course they are happy

Its smashing sending ones children to the nearest state school ,no fees to pay .no travelling by polluting four by four four, just shanks pony.

Mind you some of those grand dads knees and backs and wrists are knackered as well as lungs and hearts through working in the hell holes of grinding shops or furnaces or down the pit some times working a three foot high seems making it hard to stand straight now that old age has crept up on them.

Some of the grand ma's have bent and arthritic fingers and knees due to doing twi light shifts after a days washing and cleaning (without all the mod cons taken for granted now) , they have got these bent fingers working in scruffy cutlery works with leaking roofs and stone damp floors while buffing shiny silver trinkets worn by the richer people who through inheritance have passed their wealth down to the more privileged ( who come on these forums) and condemn these unfortunate people as being reckless and fickle for wanting a little help in their later years .

Shame on you.

How do you figure that being poor will somehow help in an economic crisis?

 

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That wasn't the point you made at all, you claimed that the poor were happier. It's demonstrably not true.

If I said that Sheffield was built on seven hills you would come up with an extra one ,and that is demonstrably true:suspect:

Jeez, do you ever give way? Rangers fans made the effort in their thousands to head south hoping for a cracking game. but the owls players never bothered their butts to show a bit of pride. I will concede the season kicked off earlier up here, so maybe a slight advantage to Rangers, but 'come on' Wednesday were pish, as they say up here.

 

As an aside, Rangers fans love going to Hillsbro.

 

Wednesday will struggle is my prediction.

I think that Rangers were just the best team on the day .

I have lived in Sheffield off and on for twenty years and never been down to Exchange Street - it's like another city entirely.

 

They should never have build the castle market.

You are a proper Sheffielder , no doubt:roll:

Happiness = Health, wealth, love and laughter, or so I've been told, and it seems a good starting point to me.

 

The interesting one is wealth. What is wealth exactly? Monetarily, is it being as rich as Bill Gates? Or is it having enough to comfortably manage your everyday life, being content with that, and being free from worry? Wealth can also encompass family and friends who add to wellbeing, and having time to pursue personal interests. I'd also add, that having opportunities to help others, which I think is probably the most life enhancing thing you can do, is also a kind of wealth.

Post of the week Anna ,spot on

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So who will support the foodbanks? Who will work for richy rich in their shops and warehouses? The poor will be knackered just as much as the rich, more so - look at 1930s america.

 

When I was on the dole I wasnt happy, I was broke, lonely and wondering if I could eke a fiver out for a week.

 

You are talking out of your hat.

The point is some people can eke out a fiver for a week and not mind sharing it with others .

If the hat fits wear it

" Why do poor people seem happier, " They are not, it's a fallacy. Do the calculation, it's easy to do.

 

Re the poor, and I mean poor, no bank account and living week to week, living in a council property (like me) with no chance of ever been able to buy a property. Those people who may be using the food banks and struggling from week to week.

 

Re the people with a very good job, a bank account with lots of brass in it, and money in hand every week. Living in a very nice property up Dore, and the nearest they get to a food bank is when they pass it in their 100k Range Rover.

 

So the poor seem happier, I think not.

 

Angel1

The problem arises when the bubble bursts as indicated by all the experts who all say that the Western Worlds debt which is in Trillions cannot be sustained .

When the inevitable finally happens and all the credit is called in then the poor will be laughing all the way to the then de funk banks , I think;)

William Moss and sons dug down thirty foot in 1960 while building the Castle Market.

They found a dead dogs skeleton and a rusty chastity belt.

Ironic OP coming from someone whose online presence is defined by non stop moaning about non proper Sheffielders, moving the markets and general disdain for anyone that dares to have any money.

 

If OP had his way we'd all be living in back to backs, having bread and dripping for tea and being thankful for it.

By gum lad, tha's got me of to a T.

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So this is just another example of reverse snobbery, he'd like to think that well off people are less happy, so that's what he sees.

Cheers to my favourite forumer who as usual brings his expertness to all things that happen on Earth day by day ,hour by hour and!! on this forum even sometimes by the minute.

Any comment on the thread title would be appreciated:help:

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He will be saying fat people are happier next

Come to think of it

was this an OFFICIAL friendly ? Can some one tell me the score please.

It was 5 nowt to Rangers

A leader writer in the Irish Times has been sacked or suspended for stating that Clauda Winkerman (spelling?) has got her job and big salary because she is Jewish.

Along with the recent Labour party's spate of comments anti semitism seems to be spreading in all corners of public life .

Let us hope that history has taught us a lesson and that steps are taken to take the perpetrators to court and jail.

The welfare state was set up as a safety net for families in times of need. Sorry to burst your bubble but now it's a lifestyle for many families. Bring down welfare payments and make the idle work for their handouts instead of giving it them on a plate.

Agreed matey that Duke of Kent is a real sponger.

To quote Mr Frank Sinatra I my self have been up and down , in and out , right at the top then down again at the bottom.

But!!! the one thing that I have have noticed in all these changes is that the ones with least seem to have the most fun .

I mean , just last week I visited a mate who lives in a nice little corner of South Sheffield we sat in his front room and he showed me photo's of his place in the Algarve telling me that he was worried about the increasing maintenance that was going up year after year as well as the travelling costs and the problem he was having trying to sell it.

We visited his local on Abbey Lane and the discussion in the early bar soon turned to how much was being paid to people on benefits and how they all seemed to have a Sky dish on the outside wall as well as mobile phones and in some cases actually run a car .

I was getting quite agitated by the conversation and so I asked if any of the assembled had ever lived on benefits to which they all looked aghast saying how they had built up their wealth through hard work and investing in good pensions and property.

In all that afternoon early evening I never heard any one who actually thought that they were privileged and had a good carry on in fact the opposite was the case they all seemed to be worried about property price stagnation and how Brexit would effect investment and pensions .

Saturday afternoon I some how found my self on the opposite side of the City in a pub near the old Market area.

A guy I know nodded to me as I ordered a half and told the Landlady that he would get that , I thanked him and pretended not to notice as he coppered up the one pound twenty or so and handed it over for my drink.

The pub soon filled up with various locals and casual shoppers who lets say are not well healed but before long every one was having a good laugh usually at every ones misfortune , inc the latest lost bet on a dog at Owlerton (that was the hottest tip from the trainer) or the broken washing machine no longer under guarantee as well as a bloke who had been thrown of invalidity because he had been deemed to be fit to work even though he had a false leg, (advise given to chop the other ------ of:hihi:).

I had by this time reciprocated my pal by buying him a pint but as the afternoon wore on I realised that he was sat with just a little bit of beer in his glass and I realised that the half he had bought me early on was perhaps the straw that broke the camels back so I filled his glass , he protested and I knew that even if I had supped up and gone after that first drink it would have made no difference to him .

The thing is in two Worlds apart last week I mixed with people who I know and love.

But out of those two Worlds the ones having all the fun were the ones who have just enough to get them through the week , they were having a laugh ,helping each other out and not worrying about what tomorrow might bring .

I contrast my pals mob on Abbey Lane seemed to have all the worries of the World on their backs .

Funny old World int it.

Pride and passion not needed in pre-season, it's all about fitness. Chill a bit bud, if they perform in a similar way next week you will have every right to have a go!

I saw plenty of pride and passion in todays pre season .

You've picked that up from a 90 minute pre season friendly?

 

They where admittedly poor, but as already said, the hard work starts next week!

We were crap , Rangers are supposed to be also runs in Scotland ,on that showing they are at least top six Championship quality .

We have six centre forwards four of em played today and not one shot on goal .

The defence is a bleddy disgrace all Rangers had to do was play the long up and unders and our defenders just watched the ball go over their heads.

If Preston have had some one watching that then they must be confident of getting a result next week.

Apart from that the atmosphere created by the Rangers was amazing and they fully deserved their teams victory.

That woman that cost the Country millions by insisting that Parliament had to have further debates on Brexit .

Gina Miller .

The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver .

It is the story of one family when the Worlds top currencies finally go bust .

Very scary and also very funny at the same time.

Ultimately the people that suffer due to the rush to get older cars of the roads are those who run these cars due to financial restrictions .

Some have looked after and maintained those cars for years hoping that they will remain on the road due to that care.

Will the extra power stations needed to serve all the increased electricity for charging these vehicles be pollution free , will the massive lead batteries be pollution free in manufacture and end of life disposal .

Should folk who have bought and maintained the same car for its life time doing their bit by not causing even more pollution due to changing every two or three years be penalised .

Good luck with your search love , I know what it is to want to find your roots and people who have not experienced that can be very insensitive.

It is about time the loan system was more regulated , Huddersfield gained promotion last season due to a large influx of loans from the Premiership not fair on clubs who pay their own way and so are at an unfair disadvantage.

A lot of the loans come down to who you know helping mates out etc.

Reserves should be just that ready to step in when a regular first team player is injured.

Good job Wednesday drafted in young Brooks from United today to set up all the Son of God's goals...

Don't get it?

If you'd attached a link you might have got your facts right. Try this one; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-40713992

 

The threatened fine is for homeless people leaving their possessions lying about. The council is trying to get them to take their possessions with them or put them in lockers.

 

I accept that OCC is being heavyhanded but it's got nothing to do with trying to get homeless people to move on.

My facts are my facts as reported in the Times.

Where would you like homeless people to leave their possessions in the spare room perhaps .

why??? did you expect good food??

Nothing wrong with Wethers food , drinks or prices , Tim should be knighted for services to those on a modest income who like a drink and a meal at a fair price.

The sleepy towers that house Oxfords good and mighty Labour controlled Council have started pinning legal notices onto the possessions of rough sleepers in that City of learning (where students from wealthy and privileged classes live in nice little dens with all the mod cons).

It seems as though the notices are being pinned to the poor peoples sleeping bags ,rucksacks, or cardboard boxes telling these unfortunate folk that their presence is having a detrimental effect on others in the locality and that they can be fined up to £2500 if they do not move on .

On the spot fines of £100 have already been processed on to people who have precisely nowt!!!!

A Labour Council my arssse.

Nothing to do with religion and everything to do with you being ignorant .

 

People have told you why it costs £11m.

 

But for some reason youd rather they let York Minster fall into ruin and youd rather people werent allowed to make voluntary contributions to its upkeep.

My dear trigger, I have no desire what so ever to see York Minster fall into ruin and disrepair as I admire the crafts men who built it (many in servitude) .

However eleven million quid to protect the windows is taking the pith.

I would like to point out that the sum mentioned would build approximately 70 social houses in York, a City that like Sheffield has people who are having to live with parents with no chance of ever having a place of their own or indeed some folk who are completely home less and bunking down in shop doorways.

I think that gentle Jesus would have preached that the churches prerogative is to help the poor and underprivileged in the World rather than spending vast sums on places of worship where men smelling of frankincense and mer while dressed in ermine and gold pontificate to the masses that giving to the poor is the way to godliness.

So endith the lesson .