We were so poor we emigrated to Darfur
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Who here had the poorest upbringing?
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I was bought up with the rich life. Until my father died when I was 6. By 13 I was going on Lions club outings.Comment
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Not poor not well off, half the family middle class, teachers, lawyers, and a novelist. Half working class. Therefore I know what cultlery to use but I burp at the dinner table (not really).The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.
But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”Comment
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I was born to an extremely well-off family. I have been getting steadily poorer ever since.
It's a family tradition:
"decoctum est nostrum voluntas"
You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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We had to eat left-overs four days a week, the other three days we had to starve
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("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to WorkComment
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Who here had the poorest upbringing?Comment
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I used to get blisters from walking to school in my bare feet
But mother used to chide me 'You will be glad of them callouses when you need traction in the ice and snow, come winter time.'
Of course , she was right. In those days, it was a two mile hike uphill to get to school, then a two mile hike , uphill, to get back home
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Originally posted by ASB View PostWe want to decline (or maybe waste)
dē-cŏquo , xi, ctum, 3, v. a.
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2. Absol.
a. Of personal subjects, to run through the property of one's self or others; to become a bankrupt: tenesne memoria, praetextatum te decoxisse? Cic. Phil. 2, 18 : qui primus hoc cognomen acceperit decoxit creditoribus suis, Plin. 33, 10, 47, § 133
& I didn't think you could use voluntas as that sort of "will", but apparently you can and Pliny does that too.
nulla dies nisi scholastica,
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