"Poverty".

[Trumpton]

warren zevon rip wrote:

> Trumpton wrote:
>
> > Where does all the state money, such as child benefit, go?
> > This benefit is supposed to be used to prevent pecuniary
> > deficiencies.
>
> Presumably the parent spend it.

Shouldn't child benefit be spent on the child?

> Doesn't make the child unpoor
> though.

Ah, we have agreement!
>
> > Eh? What about the continuing rise in childhood obsesity?
>
> Just because the average weight of UK children rises, it
> doesn't mean that the weights of ALL UK children rise.

Are you suggesting that the weight of a significant proportion of children actually is on the decrease?

> > There is a difference between poverty and poor!
>
> Poverty is actually the "state of being poor", so no, there is
> no difference.

Poverty is the state of being financially poor, whereas poor is being in abject need or a state of destitution.

[jj]

Blessed are the poor; for they will go to Kwiksave.

[jj]

No, sorry.
That piece of semantic contortionism left me with my head spinning.

[Pervert]

Think they call it General (Franco) Studies.

[jj]

...I remember Spanish TV under Franco: lots of kittens playing with balls
of wool, and Coronation Street- Ena Sharples dubbed into Spanish.
Ye Gods.... Totally anodyne.

Sorry; just had a 'senior moment' there......