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(metro.co.uk)   Straight A student who loses both parents and her state benefits told to "Get Pregnant" so she could stay in school   (metro.co.uk) divider line 112
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2007-11-28 07:48:52 AM
Is that a butt crack on her chin?
 
2007-11-28 08:00:45 AM
subby: that's not a straight A student. Four As at GCSE is...well, people normally do nine or ten (maybe eight or nine if they're stupid), so either she got As in half of them, or she only took four in which case she's nothing to write home about anyway.
 
2007-11-28 08:08:10 AM
Airlyn: 'I don't want to do that because it is wasting my life.'

wow that makes me feel awesome about being preggers


Are you single, still in school, and 17?

/very different circumstances
 
2007-11-28 08:13:31 AM
Some nice comments....is this one a UK Farker?

"Her MP, Philip Davies, said: 'If anybody is in a position to help, then I couldn't think of anyone more deserving.'

its a dirty job but someone's got to do it, i'll get her pregnant!

- Richard, Manchester"
 
2007-11-28 08:16:36 AM
I get the distinct impression that 95100% of the people posting "do not want" comments have never actually had sex they didn't pay cash for.
 
2007-11-28 08:31:36 AM
I'd hit it for sure. We'd celebrate her 18th birthday with all the naughty I could come up with.

Baby? Nah.
 
2007-11-28 08:42:17 AM
Eh why not. Butterface-put the bag over everything but her face ;)
 
2007-11-28 08:48:43 AM
I have had worse.

/where all the white women at?
 
2007-11-28 08:56:33 AM
I'd chain it to a treadmill for a month then hit it.
 
2007-11-28 08:56:53 AM
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2007-11-28 08:57:57 AM
lilplatinum: Come on guys, you've never gone hoggin before?

/me neither, but I had an old roomate who would get drunk and do it, despite the fact he was capable of pulling attractive ass as well..


well teh uglies need sexin too!

/also ugly/fat tends to = good lay, where hot chicks tend to = lame 'you should feel lucky to have me' lay.
 
2007-11-28 08:58:10 AM
I love Fark. A story about a poor orphan who can't afford to stay in school turns into a discussion about whether or not she is hittable.

//I would hit it. Roomy chicks are so appreciative.
 
2007-11-28 09:16:43 AM
You guys have GOT to be kidding me right?? Of ALL the fuggos, 40+ yr old teachers, prostitute mug shots, and various other butt ugly women that I have seen on here discussed with endless "fist of an angry god" lusty supporters, THIS is where you draw the line?? This is the one woman where even farkers back off and would not hit? You all confuse me...

/not saying I would hit it either, but I SURE wouldn't hit 95% of all the other fuggos that everyone else can't wait to poke
 
2007-11-28 09:19:01 AM
Nanny State.
 
2007-11-28 09:20:23 AM
She looks like a pre-Vicky Pollard.

www.bbc.co.uk
 
2007-11-28 09:28:25 AM
Cute in the first few pics, "do not want" in the last.

HOWEVER -- she should be commended for having her shiat together. I mean, if she were a Floridian, she'd have 3 kids already, one of them by her uncle or something, and would have left her mom in garbage bags by the side of the road, so she could cash in her retirement checks. Then she'd buy (or steal or engage in sexual favors for) beer and an ATV, and then attempt to run over her uncle with the ATV while drunk.

IN other words --- there are much, much worse reasons to be greenlit on fark, and that fact that she's got brains should be commended eh.

And seriously, she's got a cute face. I bet she's damn cute (if she lost like 40 pounds or if the lights were out).

just saying
 
2007-11-28 09:31:23 AM
Is that a butt crack on her chin?
They can be hot. Really.

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2007-11-28 09:31:58 AM
Would not hit it.

/perhaps let her give oral
 
2007-11-28 09:37:08 AM
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Christ, people! She's no supermodel but she's certainly NOT "fugly."

I'd prefer little bit too curvy than a little bit too bony anytime. The curvy ones have more ass and boobage to play with and they're better at keeping the bed warm.

Setting all that aside, though: She's a serious student who wants to work hard and make the most of her life. Any system that requires her to get knocked up for her to finish her studies needs to be reformed. Badly.
 
2007-11-28 09:40:06 AM
OK, WTF. I'm not familiar with British educational system since I'm from the states. Is she already done with what I would consider High School and already in some sort of college that she can't pay for, or do people have to pay to got to "High School" in England. I guess a 3rd choice could be she's been in some sort of private school.
 
2007-11-28 09:41:43 AM
What sucks is that if the British would just be willing to pay a little more in taxes the government would be able to support her (and people like her) thru graduation so she could become a productive member of society. Instead they're only willing to pay for enourmous castles for the monarchy, crown jewels for the royal family, and security cameras on every corner.


/since wwtpbb is clearly on a break this morning...
 
2007-11-28 09:52:03 AM
Riche: Christ, people! She's no supermodel but she's certainly NOT "fugly."

Are you looking at the same picture you posted?

She's about a 3.5, and I bet she goes down to a 2 when you see her teeth.
 
2007-11-28 09:54:43 AM
ladyhawke911: /very different circumstances

meh being pregnant is pregnant. I would think that England would have some program set up like Medicade or a Young mother's program.

And for the more WASPy answer, i have learned that many good things can come from originally veiwed bad things

still a sheity thing to say to her though
 
2007-11-28 10:05:01 AM
dennysgod: OK, WTF. I'm not familiar with British educational system since I'm from the states. Is she already done with what I would consider High School and already in some sort of college that she can't pay for, or do people have to pay to got to "High School" in England. I guess a 3rd choice could be she's been in some sort of private school.

She's still in what you would would think of as High School, it is government funded, there are no fees. She works a part time job to support herself since Mum and Dad are ex-parents. The income from this part time job puts her over the threshold where she is entitled to state benefits (which include payment of rent on a council house/flat). She is being forced, therefore, to give up schooling in order to work full time to make up for the lost income and keep body and soul together.
 
2007-11-28 10:17:50 AM
kumanoki FTW!!11!
 
2007-11-28 10:18:25 AM
I'd hit it. Two, maybe three times.

/likes 'em chubby
 
2007-11-28 10:24:35 AM
So, is Fark going to do something generous and, I dunno, start a collection fund for this poor girl? Or is it just going to sit around biatching about how ugly she is?

/I'd contribute
 
2007-11-28 10:24:44 AM
replaced by golf cart: Is that a butt crack on her chin?
They can be hot. Really.


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2007-11-28 10:29:04 AM
She already take their advice?

/just saying
 
2007-11-28 10:38:44 AM
If she lived in the United States she could just chalk it up on student loans and continue her education.

WAIT, I forgot that America is horrible is every way. And please continue saying how she is "ugly", even though we all know 9 out of 10 Farkers would hit it if they could.
 
2007-11-28 10:40:38 AM
LowbrowDeluxe: What do you people expect? The school staff to take up a collection to pay her way for her? shiat happened, she got pointed to a loophole to game the system and instead of saying, "No, I'll try something else," she raised a fuss about it. It might not be a good option, but when you lose both your parents and are thrust head-first into real life, there probably aren't any good options. WTG farking over the people vaguely trying to help you. The administrators are no saints here, but when you're up against a wall like that you're really not their concern anymore. Their job is to get everyone through, not hand-hold problem cases. Yeah, it's tragic, there are probably a dozen other equally tragic stories at that school alone who haven't gone running to cry to the press.

FTFA: "But her income support and benefits were taken away because she earned too much - £150 a week - working part-time as a chef."

I think that's the problem right there. The school shouldn't be taking care of her, but (unless this is a private school) it has an obligation to, just as you said, do what it takes to get her through the system. If it's private then they only have an obligation to cash her check and she can go fark herself.

This is the welfare trap, and it is worse in the US because of the shiat rules put in place, but the situation is the same: this person works hard and life dealt her a crappy hand. She has the grades and strength to keep going and NOT be a hooker, dealer, and she won't even have kids just to get a welfare check (dumbest thing ever). But the rules don't want to "reward" people for working by then claiming benefits at the same time, but benefits have so many strings attached that they force people to do things that aren't really in their best interest (like sell drugs or be a hooker because those earnings don't have to be reported; or have more kids since some formulas pay based on the crotchlings).

This is sad. It's a failure of both points of view, liberal and conservative, because pols are more concerned with their votes than the voters.
 
2007-11-28 10:56:36 AM
I'm old with limited options so I might still hit it.


Same.
 
2007-11-28 11:03:58 AM
Don't they have student loans in England?
 
2007-11-28 11:04:09 AM
She looks a lot like the women I have drunken one-night-stands with that I then regret in the morning.
 
2007-11-28 11:07:04 AM
Airlyn: ladyhawke911: /very different circumstances

meh being pregnant is pregnant. I would think that England would have some program set up like Medicade or a Young mother's program.

And for the more WASPy answer, i have learned that many good things can come from originally veiwed bad things

still a sheity thing to say to her though


So age and situation don't matter when deciding whether to have a child?

Ah, youth.
 
2007-11-28 11:09:14 AM
I love how most Farkers like to pretend their standards are so high when they probably just finished jerking off to pictures of Fran Drescher on an old TV Guide book!
 
2007-11-28 11:17:34 AM
Wow.

This kid lost her mother, undoubtably one of the worst things to happen to (many) women, and I can understand some Ben & Jerry's therapy. Hell, even a lot. Then Dad goes and breaks land speed records to join Mom. She's a teenager, still in high school, and these aren't events you want happening close together even when you're 50, much less 17. Cut the kid some slack.

I'd bet a nickel that the comment was one of those off-the-cuff, not-as-funny-as-it-sounded-in-my-head bad jokes at an inappropriate time, (and who here hasn't wished they could use the Omega-13 and taken back a bone-head remark?) *not* serious life planning advice.
 
2007-11-28 11:39:21 AM
This is actually fairly common - girls getting pregnant so they can collect government handouts. Why do you think the ghettos are such hellholes? The girl in this instance is white - there are poor whites too - but the same principle applies.
 
2007-11-28 11:44:21 AM
How much does welfare pay? Is it more than £150? If so, quit your job. If not, get a better job. Stop going to a private school. No, wait. Take your plight to the public and wait for the handout.
 
2007-11-28 11:53:14 AM
RockyMtnMan: If she lived in the United States she could just chalk it up on student loans and continue her education.

Not in high school. If she's lucky she could live in a homeless shelter, or maybe crash in a generous friend's family's basement or garage. Once she makes it through high school, if she has good enough grades and test scores for college, then she could get student loans if she could jump through the proper hoops to convince the appropriate people that she is truly independent of her parents.
 
2007-11-28 11:59:21 AM
In almost every state in the US someone between the ages of 18 and 65 cannot get any food stamps, welfare, medicaid, workforce training, rent assistance, heat subsidy, etc. unless they are totally disabled under SS guidelines or squirting out a welfare baby. The few states with exceptions are very limited exceptions (like you can get a free mammogram once in a great while if you can afford to travel where they're being done in the slim window of time they're available.)

A young woman like this, smart and with major potential but stuck in a horrible situation, will not get a singular dollar of public assistance unless she is with child. Because apparently the working poor aren't human beings unless they are breeding kids they can't afford starting the day they age out of the system and making themselves lifers in that system.

/yes, I know TFA is from the UK
//Our system still sucks and I'm pointing out the flaw in our cunning plan
 
2007-11-28 12:02:12 PM
All you people saying "would not hit" are forgeting shes an A+ student. After all this is sorted out, she finishs school, and lands the 100k job you wish you had so you could sit at home playing xbox (or whatever you kids play now-a-days) you'd be wishing you did hit that.

/Im dating an A+ student so im getting a kick ...
//Seriously, stay-at-home-dad is in my future ...
///Couldn't be happier
 
2007-11-28 12:02:17 PM
Dad?

/would hit it if she promised not to speak
 
2007-11-28 12:12:10 PM
Wait a sec... Two parents died and she's broke? No insurance? I had my mother die when I was a teenager, and it wiped away all family debt. If my dad would have died, I would have been filthy rich.

Hell, here in the US, anyone under 18 or still in High School collects their parents social security income (well, their guardian collects it, but it has to be accountable, and spent on the child). I was getting $400 dollars a month from my mother's crappy income and I was earning around $7,500 a year while in school with my part time job. If both parents had died, I would have been getting at least $1,500 a month from social security, their estate debt would have been paid off, plus nearly an extra $750,000 from insurance when I turned 18.

/family death sucks, but it doesn't mean you shouldn't prepare for them
 
2007-11-28 12:35:13 PM
Let's see. Girl who obviously has her shiat together. Good grades, knows how to play the media to her advantage, can make the best of a bad tragedy.

No way I'd have relations with her! Where's that vapid bag of antlers I was chasing?

It's really no wonder there's no many bitter men in many of the fark woman threads.
 
2007-11-28 12:50:20 PM
Some of you people have impossibly high standards. She is in no way fugly. While she isn't super attractive I would defiantely rate her as average looking. Far too young for me is the only issue I would have with her.
 
2007-11-28 12:53:21 PM
Hmm, I would donate sperm for her cause. Someone has to =D.
 
2007-11-28 12:56:33 PM
I'll help out. I'll volunteer to knock her up !
 
2007-11-28 01:01:22 PM
This girl's in a tough situation. Just goes to show you that the way social services are often set up (in the US, and apparently in the UK as well) is to soothe the consciences of the policymakers and not to actually help people, or there'd be some way to work this out. Best case scenario -- maybe she's got a friend or a teacher who might take her in?

As for hittability: I might, I might not. The fact that she's aiming high in her ambitions for life would certainly work in her favor, but I'm kind of shameful in the shallowness department.

LowbrowDeluxe:

You're an asshole.
 
2007-11-28 01:14:50 PM
Oh, if only there was such thing as a privately donated fund which she could use to support herself and send herself to school ... maybe some kind of SCHOLARSHIP.

christ on crutches, if some skanky biatch in Cerritos can get men to donate a few bucks to buy her a farkin' boob job, surely someone could pitch in some money to help this gal pay for school.
 
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