--Tilt

["Bod NotBod" <bodnotbod@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been making good progress over the last few months, sort of building on 
my own projects in my undeniably twatty but heart-in-the-right-place type 
stupidity.

But they're making my brain capsize again.

The ITV news just went over the day's headlines in brief.  During the small 
amount of time it takes to say "incapacity benefit" they flashed footage of 
a man reclining in a chair, drinking beer, watching the football.  That is 
just *brutally* prejudicial.  Almost to the point of satire.

There's also considerable back-bencher unease about what they're thinking 
about doing, but it was all presented as an all-round, undeniably fantastic 
idea to get ill people out of the house.  When they did interview someone it 
was a complete feckless dreg whose opinion was "well, there's no work is 
there?"  "No work?  There's plenty in town!" said the interviewer.  
"Aye...well... but... it's a matter o' gettin' people to actually go in't 
it?"

Thanks for the journalistic effort in finding the opposing view there: stand 
outside Nettos and wait for a customer with a tattoo of a fucking swallow on 
his neck and only 50% teeth.

It's so entirely fucking screwed I'm laughing hollowly at my typing 
knuckles.

gp



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Oh, well thank goodness your unique brand of idiocy is back.


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