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I was hoping that 'Skint' now on

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Rambling

Rambling Report 13 May 2013 21:38

channel 4 would be a serious look at how people are coping ( or not) on benefits.

But all it is doing is reinforcing the picture of feckless, ignorant, dishonest, benefit scroungers so beloved of the media .........words fail me, at a time when 'civilised' people are struggling, the best that a programme maker can come up with is this puerile rubbish concentrating on what I still believe is a minority.

i am so angry I don't even know why I am watching....except that I was hoping it might get better :-|

All people on benefits aren't like this, all teenagers aren't like these.....

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**Ann**

**Ann** Report 13 May 2013 21:45

:-0 :-0 :-0 :-0. I switched off Rose after 20 mins.

GinN

GinN Report 13 May 2013 21:48

I'm watching Skint, too. It's making folk heroes out of these dregs of society. They seem to revel in their lawless, ignorant ways. It's amazing to think that people really do live like this.

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Anything and everything that takes my fancy.

Porkie_Pie

Porkie_Pie Report 13 May 2013 21:51

I forgot it was on tonight so I will watch it on 4+1 at 10pm

Roy

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 13 May 2013 21:55

I would not bother Roy.....unless you want raised blood pressure! Lol

GinN

GinN Report 13 May 2013 22:02

Now the bloke has shown us his privates following his vasectomy and given us all the gory details - that's it!!!! :-P

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Anything and everything that takes my fancy.

Rambling

Rambling Report 13 May 2013 22:04

that was it for me too Geordie.

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Nolls from Harrogate

Nolls from Harrogate Report 13 May 2013 22:07

Thank goodness I'm watching Ben Fogle in the desert ...now there's a basic life for you, how people live there it I do not know.

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Gilmour/McSherry/Boyle/Mason/Robertson

♥†۩ Carol Paine ۩†♥

♥†۩ Carol Paine ۩†♥ Report 13 May 2013 22:07

Oh has control of the remote, but it sounds like I did not miss anything.

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 13 May 2013 22:16

The trailer for the programme put me off it.

Skint - when they have a car or trampoline in the garden !!!

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

Porkie_Pie

Porkie_Pie Report 13 May 2013 22:17

GB you forgot the fags beer laptops and iphones

Roy

supercrutch

supercrutch Report 13 May 2013 23:05

I have recorded it, that way I can rewind to check and see if that really was an iphone or ipad they had.

Cynical................moi?

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Jones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 13 May 2013 23:10

I switched off after about 20 mins too.

Prickles in Disgustedshire.

:-| :-|

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"If I don't see you through the week.........I will see you through the window". :o))

vera2010

vera2010 Report 14 May 2013 00:48

I watched it. Felt it was a terrible way to live and wondered if there could have been something to make things different/better for the people shown or is it just too late even for the new born baby.

You missed the bit where he put on tight pants to keep his...........................
I did cover my eyes at the revealing bit. Modest person that I am.


Vera

Researching:
McIntosh, Bruce, Munro and Fraser

DazedConfused

DazedConfused Report 14 May 2013 11:24

For some reason programme makers just love to show the feckless unemployed instead of those who are genuinely looking for work ( which is the majority )
but as that does not make good telly, they will continue to do the cheap nasty tv which enrages Middle England and just perpetuates the stereotypicla idea of all unemployed people.

Shame on the makers of crap like this....

Researching:
We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!

GinN

GinN Report 14 May 2013 13:23

PigletsPal, I couldn't agree more!
It would have been mich more helpful to portray genuinly skint people who are trying their best, as I'm sure the vast majority are.
If this is to be how they are to be portrayed, no wonder we get the impression of those on benefits as lawless scroungers!

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Anything and everything that takes my fancy.

StrayKitten

StrayKitten Report 14 May 2013 16:02

i agree it was rubbish,
and stopped watching after a while :-(

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It wasn't me

Jean

Jean Report 15 May 2013 00:43

I agree with PigletsPal, They should show households who are in work, the struggles they have to keep their heads above the water. And do not allow the children to rule the roost. And who wants to see his bits, what has that got to do with being skint. Just a load of old crap.....