955i Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 (edited) Am I the only one who doesn't agree with this? Why should I work hard and have little time for my shooting when someone else can sit on their ***** all day and 'get out when the farmer calls' and pay more for my insurance than they do? If an unemployed person can afford the cartridges to go shooting regularly then I am sure they can afford to pay the same as me for insurance. David, I would love to hear your thoughts on this. Edited January 22, 2010 by 955i Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuji Shooter Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 If an unemployed person can afford the cartridges to go shooting regularly Thats the one I can never understand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pegleg31 Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 i'm not going to comment on this cause i'll offend someone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryantidgwell Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 i am unemployed and paid the full amount not all are scrounges u tool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
955i Posted January 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 i am unemployed and paid the full amount not all are scrounges u tool Well then it doesn't apply to you does it you berk!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 If an unemployed person can afford the cartridges to go shooting regularly then I am sure they can afford to pay the same as me for insurance. who says they can though, and maybe they can afford to pay full price but when offered a reduced rate there hardly going to say id rather pay the full price please, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 Am I the only one who doesn't agree with this? Why should I work hard and have little time for my shooting when someone else can sit on their ***** all day and 'get out when the farmer calls' and pay more for my insurance than they do? If an unemployed person can afford the cartridges to go shooting regularly then I am sure they can afford to pay the same as me for insurance. David, I would love to hear your thoughts on this. Who says they shoot regularly? You still need insurance to go and fire one shot. Not all unemployed are lazy layabouts you know, some people lose their jobs through no fault of their own like I did in April of last year. I was fortunate to get sorted fairly quickly but not everyone is as lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rascal_2005 Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 i can understand were your coming from 955i but only if they are perminatly unemployed, not just lost there job or cant work because of medical reasons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleeh Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 (edited) Am I the only one who doesn't agree with this? Why should I work hard and have little time for my shooting when someone else can sit on their ***** all day and 'get out when the farmer calls' and pay more for my insurance than they do? If an unemployed person can afford the cartridges to go shooting regularly then I am sure they can afford to pay the same as me for insurance. David, I would love to hear your thoughts on this. Pretty sure they can afford a £5 tin of air-rifle pellets though?. And to be honest, in my 6 month skit of being unemployed, I had around 2,000 cartridges already sitting in my shed, as my redundancy came very quickly and unexpectedly. I think you'll find that allot of honest, hard working individuals are out of work at the moment, and trying there best to find work. Edited January 22, 2010 by Bleeh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
955i Posted January 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 (edited) i can understand were your coming from 955i but only if they are perminatly unemployed, not just lost there job or cant work because of medical reasons That is what I meant and apologies that it wasn't made clear in the initial post. However, regardless of circumstances, would you expect to be able to pay less on your car or house insurance because you were unemployed? Edited January 22, 2010 by 955i Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Galore! Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 i'm self employed, had no work for ages, i still payed full price. NO one told me about consessions when i re joined. can i get some money back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CZ550Kevlar Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 I noticed the letter in my renewal too. i don`t agree with it, as has been said if you are unemployed and short of money isn`t shooting way down on your list of things to be doing?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axe Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 That is what I meant and apologies that it wasn't made clear in the initial post. However, regardless of circumstances, would you expect to be able to pay less on your car or house insurance because you were unemployed? No and not meaning any disrespect, is that any reason to slight them for doing what they can to help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 Can I be the first one on this thread to infer that the people who work in BASC should stop pouring Crystal champers over their Coco Pops, flog their Range Rover Vogues and use the money to support the hard working shooting man who cannot ordinarily afford the membership fees. I would also like to suggest that BASC could give away free membership to the world if only they would stop lighting their expensive cigars with £50 notes. I thought I would get in their first. We all know it's on the way P.S. Everyone knows that the BASC directors feed unemployed people to their hounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supadonk Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 well said mate i totaly agree with you a load of parasites we could do better without Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
activeviii Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 wish they would drop the price for disabled. i couldn't afford to pay the subs due to very little income from being disabled so i had to go to a differant insurer this year. Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnser Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 Some of us on here get a discount for being old crinklys , being retired and tecnically unemployed should I have the unemployed discount as well ?. I would gratefully accept it . Harnser . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 Some of us just get a discount because we are all round good people. Or more commonly known as Wildfowlers. We use to get our own magazine as well but since the rabble complained that they were missing out we don't get it anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 Hmm - I'm a self employed cab driver and have had the worst years takings imaginable. British man is not allowed to give up his job and claim benefits - not many would work forty hours for something like £150 a week after all the overheads. My cab blew its autobox Christmas night and is still off the road - so I have been unable to clear the rising debts from my credit cards, most of my profits were just turning money around. Fleabag has helped me out with a little part time work but I still cant afford to buy this years BASC membership. I am still a member of another organisation so thats it for now. I have just about run out of bullets but still have some pellets left. Were I able to produce a UB40 is it? I might have taken up the offer if I were otherwise uninsured. I have not shot for about three months - but even if I only go once this year I am obliged to be insured. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
955i Posted January 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 No and not meaning any disrespect, is that any reason to slight them for doing what they can to help? Sorry Axe (and again, no disrespect), but the only way I can see of them being able to offer special rates for the unemployed is to make the employed pay more, and I want to pay more than my taxes do towards the upkeep of the unemployed as much as most on here wanted to help earthqauke victims!! The only other scenario is that BASC can afford to do insurance at that price anyway and are therefore ripping most of their members off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beretta28g Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 Some of us just get a discount because we are all round good people. Or more commonly known as Wildfowlers. We use to get our own magazine as well but since the rabble complained that they were missing out we don't get it anymore. true. i used to be un der wildfowler membership ut now under gamekeeper, so get their magazine. and discount. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Potter Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 That is what I meant and apologies that it wasn't made clear in the initial post. However, regardless of circumstances, would you expect to be able to pay less on your car or house insurance because you were unemployed? Can I hazard a guess that the reduction in membership fee is not on the small percentage of the subscription that is for insurance but as a discount on the much larger proportion that goes on protecting and promoting our shooting & conservation! I'm surprised that with all the talk of recession there are supposedly intelligent people on this site who can't distinguish between the dole scrounging, workshy elements in our society and the poor unfortunates who turn up for work one day to either be met by locked gates or an apologetic manager who "has to let you go" I'm one of the lucky ones who in my 42 years in work has never gone through that but in those 42 years thats exactly what has happened to millions upon millions of men & women. How many of these workshy dole scrounging layabouts do you think are BASC members, do you think that the mindsets are on the same wavelength. On the odd occasion for example that someone gets prosecuted for poaching the court report invariably describes them as "unemployed" Do you think for one nanosecond that sort of person would "waste" one penny of either their ill gotten gains or their benefit money on membership of any shooting/fieldsports organization when it could be put to much better use in either the off-license or the pub. Rant over Mr P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 true. i used to be un der wildfowler membership ut now under gamekeeper, so get their magazine.and discount. I get there shooting magazine, but we used to get a dedicated wildlowling one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boromir Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 Fair enough discount for people who have been made jobless, but what about the people still in work? With everything going up in price I am really struggling, I still got to fix my car and thats got to wait till next month. BASC dont be like the government help the people that are in work as well as the ones that are not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC45 Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 (edited) Am I the only one who doesn't agree with this? Why should I work hard and have little time for my shooting when someone else can sit on their ***** all day and 'get out when the farmer calls' and pay more for my insurance than they do? If an unemployed person can afford the cartridges to go shooting regularly then I am sure they can afford to pay the same as me for insurance. David, I would love to hear your thoughts on this. What a stupid thing to say. I can't wait until your moaning about being laid off work. ###### Edited January 25, 2010 by Zapp Brannigan SWEARING Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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