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anotheoldgit | 14:07 Mon 12th May 2014 | News
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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?
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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 .

///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.
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.
/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
But surely 'burkha wearing wife' is in the headline in the Daily Mail? So it's pertinent to the story ......
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
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...
I bet she used the money to buy halal meat too.
//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

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.

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

Hurrah for the Blackshirts!
dunno how that apostrophe got there, it's probably in hiding after breaching bail...
I don't even read the Daily Mail !!! Only when it's cited in News .....
you probably read most of it then, viv - it gets plenty of links hereabouts...
viv, it is because Old Git is questioning the need for designer clothes given that the lady in question wears a burkha.
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

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

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

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