Sounds like a win to me.
AH WHAAAAAA???
CAPS LOCK YEAH CAPS LOCKED IT IS YEAH now its not its off now it is yeah
Don’t open this if you are squeamish in any way
Stupid Questions and Answer session on the radio earlier with a “census expert.”
People were texting in with the most innane questions - “my son lives in Australia should I count him?” “We’re in a hotel for the night what do we do?” Read the fucking form morons. It’s not that fucking complicated.
I’m not sure if this falls under Wrong or if I’m just being overly harsh. This is an ad from Gumtree in the “Home Swap” section
2 bed council house located in Ratoath, Co. Meath looking to swap for another council 2 bed flat, apartment or house in any of the following areas ONLY!: Blackrock,Goatstown, Stillorgan, Ballaly, Sandyford, Dundrum, Deansgrange or Foxrock.
No time wasters please…
The house itself is semi detached with front & back gardens & you can fit 2 to 3 cars along the side entrance to drive way. It has 2 bedrooms but the larger one could be converted into 2 to make it a 3 bedrooms (please note that the house is the same standard size as a 3 bed house), bathroom, very large kitchen with tiled floor & sitting room with wooden floor.
We are very close to bus stops & train station, shops & supermarkets, schools & creches, takeaways & resteraunts, community centre & GAA club & Blanchardstown shopping centre is only 15 mins drive away.
Please to not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions…
Maybe I’m not in the most moral of moods, but is it not wrong that someone who’s already been given a council house in 1 area can just “swap” it for another 1 in another area just cos they feel like it? There’s about 4 or 5 ads a day on Gumtree for people swapping council houses. I can understand certain circumstances where families have outgrown homes but a lot of these may already be abusing the system by getting somewhere as a single mother and having the partner live with them etc. Is it fair that they can just swap for another area and get a house that could have gone to someone who actually needs it?
The issue of council houses and the means testing to get one really annoys me.
There is no incentive for people to better themselves because they know once they turn 18 or get a child they can go on the list and in a couple of years will have a house of their own provided by the state.
In the same year that one couple got a council house locally, they spent 20k on a wedding and had 3 foreign holidays.
Another family of travellers have been given a 5 bedroom council house, and have a 2011 avensis sitting outside it.
What about the fella who was earning big bucks in a certain local factory in the food industry, but went on job sharing for a year or two so that his annual salary for the years he was being assessed dropped below the threshold whereby he qualified for a council house in a new development*. I believe upon receipt of the house he returned to full time employment.
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*Don’t know why anyone would want to live in said development even if they paid you to occupy one of the houses.
Overheard the same fella the other day and he reckoned if he played his cards right he might be able to get a free stair lift off the state, the man is in his 40’s and working fulltime FFS.
Burning the roof of your mouth
These cunts sicken me
Not really sure what the issue is here. The two parties involved already had council accommodation. They’re not really denying anyone anything and if they arrange a swap then nobody external to the transaction is affected in any way.
I can understand gripes with how housing lists work but the fact that people who have been deemed entitled to council accommodation can move doesn’t seem unreasonable to me.
Maybe I’m just reading it that the person was originally from South Dublin, moved out to Ratoath as it had a quicker list, and now is trying to swap into a house in their area instead of waiting their turn on the normal waiting list in South Dublin - a fairly weighty assumption I know. But it just seems strange that there’s no restrictions on what people who get council houses can do. If someone buys through affordable housing then they’re supposed to be tied to their house for 20 years before all penalties for selling are lifted, but someone handed a social house gets it with no conditions attached and seemingly can just move about as they wish.
But there’s a big difference between someone selling their house on the open market and others swapping houses.
Is your rent means tested in a council house?
And is continually assessed?
Saw this last night on one of the breaks during the match. Has to be a pisstake?
I thought it was the Savage Eye or something.
Judges in The Hague will on Friday deliver their most important verdict on Croatia’s conduct in the war against the Serbs in the 1990s, ruling after a three-year criminal trial on whether Zagreb prosecuted a policy of terror and murder to drive out the large Serbian minority. A decade after he was indicted for the “ethnic cleansing” of at least 90,000 Serbs from Croatia in 1995, Ante Gotovina, a commander in the storming of Serbian strongholds that changed the course of the wars in Croatia and Bosnia, is to learn his fate at the international war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.The verdict is keenly awaited in the Balkans, and with great nervousness in nowhere more so than in Zagreb. The influential Roman Catholic church has been calling for prayers and fasting for in the hope of an acquittal. Marches and “pilgrimages” have been organised. The Croatian prime minister, Jadranka Kosor, is urging “calm and dignity” as thousands of former fighters prepare to vent their spleen if Gotovina and two former fellow ex-commanders are found guilty.
Just puked at my desk - into my hands thanfully.
Wasn’t boozing or anything last night. Just not doing well at keeping food down these days. Bit embarrassing though. Nobody saw thanks to the wonders of office partitions but it didn’t go unheard.