Daily Wail "side Bar Of Shame"

[mccfluff]

this just popped up on my twitter feed

http://usvsth3m.com/post/83507153975/youve-seen-the-sidebar-of-shame-now-check-out-the

[jno]

calm down, I was merely acknowledging TTT's copyright on the phrase workshy scum.

[Ellipsis]

> did they really say that "rock n roll originated in the jungle"

Hmm, the chronology states that in 2002 the DM claimed that Facebook causes cancer. I don't know much about other things on that list, but I do know that Facebook was launched in 2004 ...

[jno]

I think you'll find some of those claims are precisely accurate and some a bit more tongue-in-cheek (though not actually unfair), Ellipsis.

[mccfluff]

found a reference to it here

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sFhb7babitgC&pg=PA61&;lpg=PA61&dq=rock+and+roll+originated+in+the+jungle+daily+mail&;source=bl&;ots=yxJckR4_Tq&sig=oJkev46vfn_mTDJrvTzro_5WbKE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RVlWU6qMOY7n7AbM74CgDw&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=rock%20and%20roll%20originated%20in%20the%20jungle%20daily%20mail&f=false

[jno]

the FB claim was made, but in 2009

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1149207/How-using-Facebook-raise-risk-cancer.html

[mccfluff]

in true daily mail style the full quote has been edited doesn't really detract

[DrFilth]

youngmafbog one member on this site who works with the homeless has given out the details that you need to claim food from these places.

if i was working there near easter time and you came in with a sob story and lied and i knew i had food spare would it be wrong of me to give it away to you.

[jno]

lol, they do get on the wrong side of history sometimes, fluff

[Gromit]

Food banks are a political embarrassment for the Government.

So the Mail wrote a piece showing a food bank being conned by someone who wasn't hungry and could afford food. The impression is then given that food banks rather than feeding the hungry are in fact just being abused by criminals. So we can stop being embarrassed by food banks.

[hc4361]

Food banks in Germany
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-food-banks-and-soup-kitchens-struggle-with-demand-a-941661.html

France
http://www.english.rfi.fr/economy/20131125-one-million-people-get-charity-food-france

America
http://feedingamerica.org/

People going hungry is nothing new in the Western World and it is a global problem

[DrFilth]

hc4361 the french link is just for the winter time

> 'Les Restos du Coeur' (Restaurants of the Heart) again have opened their doors for a new winter season.<

>Across France, 2,070 centres will be open daily to deliver free food for those in need until the end of March.<

[jno]

fairly new here, though, hc4361? At least on this scale.

[DrFilth]

hc4361 the german one does more than food and has a charge

> Supply and demand continued to grow. In the last five years, the number of people who receive meals for free or in return for a small contribution has approximately doubled to about 1.5 million.

[ToraToraTora]

thanks for the copyright ack jno, I would be interested in your name for career scroungers. Anyway, when this story came up last week I said that there is no need for food banks, no one is starving if they choose to spend their scroungings on snout and booze that's up to to them.

[youngmafbog]

Dr F, no maybe not.

But the beef is the use of the left to bash the government when clearly they are not there simply to ffed the starving nor, as claimed by the left, are checks done.

Are they?

[DrFilth]

you were on this thread when this info was posted

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pastafreak
I wonder just how they can play the system,considering every aspect of their lives...finances,housing,etc is put under a microscope. Here's an article-published today-about the local food bank down here.

http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Inside-Plymouth-Foodbank-volunteers-Britain-s/story-20966320-detail/story.html

The last comment outlines the process involved. Its not like shopping at Tescos....
"To get a food bank voucher, you must prove to the authorities (GPs, social workers, police, probation, teachers, council officials, whoever) that you are in need. To do that, you have to prove that your benefits are delayed or sanctioned, or that your wages can't cover food on top of rent, council tax, utilities, etc. What you get is a voucher for 3 days' worth of whatever the food bank has in stock, after another round of explaining yourself to the people at the food bank in some cases (some food banks will not issue food to voucher holders if they have been sanctioned on the grounds that it's their own fault they're hungry). "

Read more: http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Inside-Plymouth-Foodbank-volunteers-Britain-s/story-20966320-detail/story.html#ixzz2z4BrkLbd

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17:17 Wed 16th Apr 2014

[anotheoldgit]

There are enough scroungers that can con the government into paying them a range of benefits, so why is anyone surprised that they can also con the charities into giving them free food?

Well done the Mail for exposing this con.