This just in.
Would you like to milk the dole?
Via The Irish Farmers Journal:
The Irish Farmers Journal can exclusively reveal that a new programme is to target social welfare recipients to work on dairy farms.
This programme aims to address the labour shortage in the dairy sector and could see some participants earn up to €5,000 without affecting their current level of social welfare payments
With average dairy farm incomes predicted to reach €80,000 this year, the shortage of workers for expanding farms has hit crisis levels.
This initiative is aimed at people who are currently out of work, or are working part-time, or who are currently farming full-time but want to earn extra money.
This radical new plan is to be launched in mid-August – piloted in Waterford and Kilkenny initially. If successful, the programme will then be rolled out nationally in September.
People who have no skills or experience of farm work will be trained up and placed on farms.
FIGHT!
€5,000 for dole workers to milk cows ( Catriona Morrissey, Irish Farmers Journal)
Thanks Jamie Leonard
Keep the scratch that the tax payer pays for and get paid more money that the tax payer also pays for. Free workers (profit) for farmers. So its a win-win for farmers and doleys.
The farmers are gas (methane)
“FIGHT!” …. why? It’s a sensible idea that benefits all parties, or is that not how we do things in Ireland?
Milking The System
Read recently that certain animals can become sexually attracted to humans. Tends in particular to be the case with cows – and almost invariably to the person who milks the cow. To the cow, it’s essentially prolonged nipple tease / foreplay. Some may find that flattering.
Is that really all you have to say in your defence?
Ouch a three legged (milking) stool
I know a happy moo when I hear one.
Comment of the year.
It’s definitely up there.
Seconded.
I laughed uproariously and now they all know I’m not really working
Very intrigued with the “Some may find that flattering” remark. Who? The Cow? the dole guy? Who?????
If an aroused cow was to give you that look, you’d likely be flattered – and perhaps a small bit tempted (irishexaminer.com/farming/general/irish-dairy-cows-best-looking-in-europe-267166.html)
I admit it, I wouldn’t be unflattered…..
I had a cow chase me across a field when I was a kid. At the time I thought he had murder in his eyes but maybe I just wasn’t mature enough to know what true love looked like.
what could have been…
Sliding Doors 2
You’ve got it bad this morning.
Right….. well….good that you’re not a lonely Brother. I guess.
I thought you of all people would have gone for the Br-udder pun Hoopsy :)
Veally good pun!
Am I back I moderation, BS?
That comment was based on a scientific study. You cannot argue with science.
I’m in moderation since I got here. I thought it was the same for everyone
I was in moderation for 10 months
I was in Cavan for a weekend if we’re swapping horror stories.
I was in a relationship with a girl from Mullingar for a couple of months
Just to be clear….Is that her horror story or yours?
Oh I’d say it’s hers.
He mistook her for a cow, or so she tells me.
secretly, every woman dreams of being treated like a prize heifer, mildred
An aul slap on the rump and a tweak on the udders is all we ask for.
I’m picturing it now, rolled up shirt sleeves, up to his elbow in it like a young James Heriott….
actually, on a serious note if I may, for anyone who has kids c. 10 years + who like animals, his books are brilliant. wasn’t sure how they’d be received but absolute winners.
Now there’s a coincidence…
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2017/0803/895037-all-creatures-great-and-small-actor-hardy-dies/
RIP
No problem in Ireland gets solved quicker than a potential problem with beef industry profitability – if it’s under threat, by jeebus, it’s solved, and fair play to them for their organisational abilities and political sway – pity the same political will wasn’t excersised in sorting out maybe the housing calamity for the human citizens..dress up as a cow, and the politicians will line-up to sort any issues you might have..
*dairy industry
Correct.
*incorrect correction