{"id":1161,"date":"2009-06-22T21:32:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T20:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2009-06-22T21:57:28","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T20:57:28","slug":"parasites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"Parasites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, we went for a pleasant couple of pints at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=25\">Victoria<\/a>, and a lovely curry at the ever fantastic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripadvisor.co.uk\/Restaurant_Review-g187059-d731841-Reviews-Golden_Moments-Walsall_West_Midlands_England.html\">Golden Moments<\/a>. A very enjoyable evening, with only one exception: the group of 4 people on the next table who were happily regaling how one of them was claiming incapacity benefit, and the others a veritable raft of benefits- fraudulently claiming to not co-habit, and &#8216;lying upstairs in bed laughing&#8217; whilst the incapable one (who seemed capable of walking around the restaurant and shovelling curry down her neck) lied to the benefits officer downstairs.<\/p>\n<p>Grrr. [expletives deleted] [visions of a killing spree suppressed]<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a very strong believer in the welfare state. It&#8217;s essential for a civilised society. Why, though, do we have to put up with people screwing the system and robbing us all? It should be there to help people that need it, not to pay for scumbag parasites to enjoy a slightly-more-expensive-than-average curry.<\/p>\n<p>[rhetorical question]<br \/>\nDo they have no shame?<br \/>\n[\/rhetorical question]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?cat=10\">Evil Overlord<\/a> 19: Bring back the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=960\">workhouse<\/a> (but not one preserved for tourism) for convicted benefit fraudsters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, we went for a pleasant couple of pints at the Victoria, and a lovely curry at the ever fantastic Golden Moments. A very enjoyable evening, with only one exception: the group of 4 people on the next table who were happily regaling how one of them was claiming incapacity benefit, and the others &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=1161\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Parasites<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}