Oh It's All So Easy

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2626142/Jailed-15-months-The-curry-house-owner-falsely-claimed-41-000-benefits-burkha-wearing-wife-buy-designer-clothes.html

How do some manage to swindle our benefit system, when those who have more need to these benefits find it very difficult, if not impossible?

[Bazile]

Svejk
I'm not turning anything into an 'anti-AOG thread '

I made an observation on the link of his post .

He chose ( in a patronising manner i.e. ''..Let me try and explain,..'' ) to challenge me on my observation .

[Baldric]

///Even so why the need to buy designer clothes when one covers them up under a burkha?///

My OH grew up in the Land of the Burkha, (FIL was Oil Engineer) the better off females used the Burkha, when outside, to keep the sand off the Designer Kit underneath.

[EcclesCake]

You are injecting some serious practicality into this thread Baldric!

I agree, many people I know in dustier climes wear their burkha as a dust jacket.

[Zeuhl]

/It would be like buying a Lamborghini and keeping it permanently in the garage with the door closed. /

You obviously don't know the insurance restrictions on classic cars aog

I have a friend with a vintage Rolls Royce (it used to belong to Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones)

and he keeps it in his garage and drives a Honda most days

[viv38]

But surely 'burkha wearing wife' is in the headline in the Daily Mail? So it's pertinent to the story ......

[Peter Pedant]

I thought every one know burqa were garments worn outside....

and yes I thought everyone k ow they had some er normal clothes underneath. It's not a kilt you know

[Peter Pedant]

Oh God someone is gonna come out with:

Muslims are nt muslim unless they eat a baby a day - I read it in the Daily Perv so it has to be true...

[jno]

I bet she used the money to buy halal meat too.

[Bazile]

//But surely 'burkha wearing wife' is in the headline in the Daily Mail? So it's pertinent to the story ...... //

The point is that what she wears is irrelevant - just like a nuns outfit would be irrelevant - so why include/ draw attention to it in the headline .

What they did was obviously against the law - whether she goes around in public , wearing her preferred form of attire or not

[viv38]

But my point is, you are having a go at AOG for using the word, BUT he was only repeating the headline. Is that so difficult to understand ??

Time to come down from your soapbox methinks.

[jno]

not everything in a Daily Mail headline is pertinent to anything but it's readers' prejudices.

Hurrah for the Blackshirts!

[jno]

dunno how that apostrophe got there, it's probably in hiding after breaching bail...

[viv38]

I don't even read the Daily Mail !!! Only when it's cited in News .....

[jno]

you probably read most of it then, viv - it gets plenty of links hereabouts...

[EcclesCake]

viv, it is because Old Git is questioning the need for designer clothes given that the lady in question wears a burkha.

[Bazile]

i'm not on any soapbox - you've clearly not read what i've previously said with regards to aog .

My comment was relating to headline in the mail ( was it written by aog ? )

As you put it - ''Is that so difficult to understand ?? ''

On that note i'll widthdraw from this thread - i'm getting rather bored with it

[DrFilth]

> It would be like buying a Lamborghini and keeping it permanently in the garage with the door closed. <

aog when i owned my beast it was kept in a garage locked with at least 3 chains ( bolt cutter proof ) with decent padlocks.

if i parked it outside my house and it was nicked the insurance did not have to pay out, on the insurance it stipulated that the beast had to be kept in a locked garage when i was at home

for me to get the bike out and go for a blast i had to unlock at least 8 locks

[DrFilth]

may i also point out when an old workmate paid me a visit he asked why i had my bolt cutters and machette and other tools in my kitchen

after pointing out to him all the money i had spent on security for my beast i did not want to make things any easier for some lowlife to nick my pride and joy.

[viv38]

Oh good, you've climbed off your soapbox at last !

Not necessarily jno, I don't read ALL the threads.

[anotheoldgit]

viv38

No good trying to instil a little common sense in some of this lot viv, it is their usual practice to side-track any story that they find a little too uncomfortable for their tastes, especially if it has been reported on by the Daily Mail and then entered for debate by myself.

They are all so predictable.