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Metal theft. The biters bit
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:20:02 -0800 (PST), Ste
wrote: Perhaps you should be taking issue with the behaviour of the tenants in that case instead of moaning about the landlord? I don't recall "moaning about the landlord". As for the behaviour of the tenants, again to take pride in your surroundings, you have to have some degree of security, some degree of personalisation, and some sense that it's of a commensurate social standard. So too, whereas middle class partners might replace any crockery and fittings damaged in a plate-throwing argument, the poor cannot generally afford to do so (their income was not sufficient to have afforded those fittings even in the first place). Perhaps people who cannot afford replacement plates should not be throwing them at each other in the first place? Or do you believe that it is an unreasonable thing to ask people not to do? I think I have thrown one plate in anger in my entire life (and that was at an inanimate object), so I know full well that it doesn't take a huge amount of self-control. Are you really as comfortable in a house with no doors on the kitchen cabinets and tiles falling off the wall, as one with a sound kitchen? Or is it just double standards? I have two hands and a brain, and would most certainly be able to effect sufficient repairs to make a vast improvement. I'd be quite interested to see you fit a kitchen with nothing but your fingernails - and no prior experience. Anyone of adult years has no excuse for not having such basic skills if they are living in a situation where such skills are very desirable. I would be able to acquire a bit more than my fingernails in the UK, no matter how poor I was. All I can say is, for people who have survived on basic income support (i.e. not disability benefits or any of the other considerably higher benefits) for a significant period of time (possibly all their lives, possibly generations), and without working on the side or receiving other consistent subsidy from wealthier friends or relatives, I do not observe their homes to be of any reasonable standard. Every able-bodied adult of at least minimal intelligence is able to find a way to achieve more than basic income support in the UK, so there is no excuse for anyone to live that way for any length of time except by choice. As I've said, some of the worst cases I'm describing are not even friends or relatives of mine, and they are actually families of ill repute in the local community - in some cases, I've seen the inside of their homes only because I've entered the property with the landlord, not because I have any personal relationship with them whatsoever. And yet you think the blame lies elsewhere? Incredible! -- Cynic |
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