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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.

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

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

Think they call it General (Franco) Studies.

...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......