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Why are the poor, poor?
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: broketrash on April 29, 2008, 03:54:15 pm ---"arsed"?
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According to Wiktionary, vulgar (sorry, Kelda) U.K. slang for bothered, as in "can't be bothered" to do something.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: broketrash on April 29, 2008, 04:17:22 pm ---it was an accident: I can rewrite that with "help" included.
not that I see it make any difference, it still amounts to the same concept. if the woman in question has autonomy then she is the one who is responsible for any "help" in preventing pregnancies, not the tax payers.
private organizations, charities, churches, "helpful" individuals are another matter. more power to the private charities and religious organizations which voluntarily use their funds to advance their favorite social cause. I simply object to my tax dollars being extorted from me, and used in order to rectify someone else's private decisions made within the context of their own autonomy.
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Go back and re-read what I wrote again. I said, "God forbid we should do anything to help keep you from getting pregnant." I said nothing about abortion, and that's clearly what you are implying when you write about rectifying someone else's private decision. Abortion is locking the barn door after the horse has been stolen. I was making an I-thought-clever swipe at government programs that only countenance counseling abstinence, not discussion of any other practical means of preventing pregnancy. I guess I was being too obscure. I apologize for that.
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 29, 2008, 04:17:48 pm ---According to Wiktionary, vulgar (sorry, Kelda) U.K. slang for bothered, as in "can't be bothered" to do something.
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thanks for looking! I'll use that over supper tonight when DL inevitably will be so "arsed" he will forget to pick up the shrimp on the way home whch I need in order to make the dish he will want to eat. :laugh:
oilgun:
Interesting discussion but it seems to be focused on the so-called "welfare-bums". There will always be a certain percentage of the population that will take advantage of the safety net. I don't think it involves that much money in the grand scheme of things. Especially when you consider how much the the Iraq business plan has been costing tax-payers. Sorry I couldn't resist. People get all up in arms when some poor shmuck is able to wrangle a couple of hundred extra bucks a month from the system while white-collars & politicians steal billions and they are practically hailed as heros.
Anyway, let's forget about the Welfare abusers, what about the working poor? Those who work their asses off at jobs that don't pay a living wage? How obscene is that? I know! Let's lower or better yet, do away with the miinimum wage! ::)
Kelda:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 29, 2008, 04:17:48 pm ---According to Wiktionary, vulgar (sorry, Kelda) U.K. slang for bothered, as in "can't be bothered" to do something.
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yup arsed = bothered its just a colloquialism...
But its used in the negative - ie
I can't be arsed but not I can be arsed. Or arsed on its own!
A lesson in Uk slang for you!
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