bondipom

Aren't you all in a Ken Loach film?

cinderella

Sorry don't know what you mean???/

bondipom

Depressing Northern films where no one has a job or if they do they are about to lose them. Generally set on housing estates and very gritty but also critically acclaimed films. Not my thing and I guess not yours.

Sheffutd

Agreed - or are dole spongers who just have kids all the time - the people on last nights program depicted that all northerners are like that which we are not.

Mind you I could cope with £37k after tax for doing nothing, but sadly me and the wife have to work and have to sent our 2 kids to a childminders just so we can exist.

tennisoz

Try watching East Enders - I made the mistake of watching it once recently for research purposes in my job (honest). Can life be more depressing than that depicted in this program? Point - there aren't just depressing northern programs! I think Bobby Ewing has come back from the dead in the program.

TennisOz

sky

Also agree, was a bit taken aback at that coment about Northern plebs its an awful generalisation.
We,ve worked very hard all our working lives and try very hard to bring our children up properly with manners and to respect other people no matter where they are from

cinderella

You are correct, can't say I would to be bothered about watching these films.

WBB

sheep swap....now there is a concept

hevs

yeah, but don't they all look the same WBB?

WBB

im more a personality kind of guy.

looks are only wool deep

Sunlover

Actually one of the things I most dislike about Oz...... the amount of foul language coming out of the mouths of little children and women. (and the reason I would avoid living in certain parts of Adelaide).

Am also sick to death of the constant reference to "tits" in everyday conversation at work, and the amount of overt sexuality in almost everything every medium - radio, TV, magazines etc. I know you get it everywhere in the world, but I have lived just about everywhere and it's worst here.

Even my husband who is hopelessly unobservant and much less judgmental than I am, has commented on these things.

Pollyana

Thats interesting Sunlover; one of the things I've noticed - mostly in Tasmania I guess cos thats where I've had most contact with schoolchildren - is that the general standard of language isn't quite so foul as it is here in Brighton. Although they use more slang over there, they seem to use less really awful words (like F*** or c***). I suppose as with most things it depends on the area.
Agree with you about the more overt sexuality though. Can't escape it, can you!

tinaj

That programme was a cracker. Hubby and I sat laughing all the way through it! The look on the blond womans face when she saw that the Northerners got £37 000 for being on the dole and she only earnt £27 000!! If looks could kill.

I am afraid the Northern woman is one of those sad attention-seeking women who has to keep getting pregnant for attention. It is the only way some saddos get anyone to look at them. Also each child gives them more money.

There are plenty of people like this around in the South as well. When I worked in Tooting we had one 'family' where the bloke had got the Mother and Daughter (15) pregnant at the same time they gave birth on the same day. He also had another 4 children at the school. We gave up trying to work out their relationship to each other. Poor kids..

Unfortunately these sort of people, who were at the back of the queue when the brains were handed out, are all over the world. I am sure there are just as many in Aus as the UK.

booboo1

After last nights episode I think the show should be called "wife abuse"
Those lovely scumbags make me realise just how many good values I have in life. My heart was pounding with rage when she was giving it some to the blond woman... Im not so sure I could have sat through that tirade of abuse without losing my cool... but the blond woman sure acted with dignity and restraint...good for her....

I wouldnt want eight kids so that I could get 37k from the govt. Id much rather earn some money..

Oh, I saw loads of people like that in Perth.. I even visited someones house like that.. A nightmare it was....


BooBoo

ohsohopeful

BooBoo my sentiments from start to finish - could have written that myself. It made my blood boil listening to their argument at the end. That fact that they kept fairly quiet and let her get on with her ranting and raving gave them dignity and made her look even more ridiculous. Shame though, that even if she watched it back, she probably wouldn't see anything wrong with her behaviour at all. They were fighting a losing battle to start with but it makes you soooooooo mad!!!!!!!!!!