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Being repeatedly roped into helping with elderly relatives' issues with a 15 year old PC printer, advising them it is hopelessly out of date and _please_ buy a new one, as they're only about £10 these days, to which the reply is that the printer still seems to work perfectly well.
Getting a phone call from your son to tell you that he has pissed away his student loan, his grant, his overdraft and the money you gave him in the space of 6 weeks and can he please have some more.
"Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.
Getting a phone call from your son to tell you that he has pissed away his student loan, his grant, his overdraft and the money you gave him in the space of 6 weeks and can he please have some more.
(It's the only way he must have blown that much dosh)
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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