Yachting on benifits
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DownWest
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The system is abused..
Unless it gets them off benifits..
Unless it gets them off benifits..
Birdseye
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Benefits
Bouba
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It’s a strange video......touting it as boating on benefits.....but not giving any information about the disability nor the disability system for liveaboards....if it’s just about how to fix up a boat on the cheap, then it’s even a worse video....almost no details provided.
If I was them, I would rename it boating with dogs....and it could make him rich and famous (slightly facetious on my part)
If I was them, I would rename it boating with dogs....and it could make him rich and famous (slightly facetious on my part)
Wansworth
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I imagine the dogs eating up all their benifts
wonkywinch
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I'm on benefits and go sailing. Every four weeks, DWP dump some money in my bank account that just about covers my monthly MDL berthing fee in the Hamble 
xyachtdave
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I know someone who’s unhappy he’s lost his winter fuel allowance that he allocates to pay his yacht club fees and has had to use his own money.
Life’s not fair…
Life’s not fair…
Daydream believer
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I think they should put a case to the DWP that going to the YC all year to keep warm is a far more efficient use of the money than 6 weeks of one's energy bill. Not to discount the added advantage of social care of the elderly, thus provided in such establishments
Bouba
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Very true….they need to change the name though….Yacht Club just drips with socialist envy and can’t be allowed to existI think they should put a case to the DWP that going to the YC all year to keep warm is a far more efficient use of the money than 6 weeks of one's energy bill. Not to discount the added advantage of social care of the elderly, thus provided in such establishments
DownWest
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You can't use Boating Club.
Local friend asked on a chat site if anybody wanted to join her for boating on the Charente...
Chat site banned her forthwith. Apparently 'Boating' has other connotations... I directed her to the urban dictionary. Startled her somewhat..
Wansworth
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Is that boating in French or boating in English?
Wansworth
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Certainly watercraft clubs could provide a social centre which would be great for the isolated old people andtheunemployed all the social services need todo is to provide an old naval duffer to instruct in nautical lingo
Bouba
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Language is a (deliberate) mine field these days
DownWest
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English.. Bateauing doesn't sound quite right..
Wansworth
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Ok must remember that
DownWest
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Daydream believer
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Is it the same as students getting their poles out & punting some bird up a canal in Cambridge 
Wansworth
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Innuendo par excellence!Is it the same as students getting their poles out & punting some bird up a canal in Cambridge
Bouba
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There are so many slang definitions....of which I have not heard nor used anyI forgot you go boating so we don't have to
Can you fill us in on the finer points?
Urban Dictionary: boating
To me, boating is a beautiful word that means boating
Wansworth
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Hasboating been hijacked like “gay”?
