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Previously on "Is this someone we know?"

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    It should be possible to buy an old laptop for a fiver now.
    you can use them in the Library if you can get them off the gamblers.

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  • AtW
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    It should be possible to buy an old laptop for a fiver now.

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  • SueEllen
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    He's on every program possible.

    I feel sorry for his children more than anything.

    There are restaurants and hotels that would employ him if he wasn't so damn lazy.

    (I should add I worked in a restaurant as a student and it wasn't nice.)

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  • SpontaneousOrder
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    To be fair the guy isn't trying.

    There is this "interesting" clip


    This is a good video I saw yesterday about K / R selected species and the rise & fall of empires.

    He's the product of us Ks letting the spineless wimpy Rs slip under the radar since our wealth makes the cost less noticeable until things start falling apart.

    Being too soft makes you weak, until you;re so weak that the survivors go all K again.


    Long-ish video but interesting if there's nothing much else to do.

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  • raphal
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    Dad-of-11 who claims £27k in benefits admits: 'I

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by SpontaneousOrder View Post
    Give people free tulip, complain when they use it, complain that they should volunteer to earn less rather than receive more, complain about tax, use whatever mechanisms are available to pay as little as possible while receiving the same, complain that corporations don't pay enough tax.
    To be fair the guy isn't trying.

    There is this "interesting" clip

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  • SpontaneousOrder
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    Give people free tulip, complain when they use it, complain that they should volunteer to earn less rather than receive more, complain about tax, use whatever mechanisms are available to pay as little as possible while receiving the same, complain that corporations don't pay enough tax.

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  • vetran
    started a topic Is this someone we know?

    Is this someone we know?

    Man on benefits claims there's 'no point' in working because he will earn less | Daily Mail Online

    Single man on benefits claims there's 'no point' in working because he will earn less than he does now - and says he can't find a job because he doesn't have a laptop
    John, 54, from Leeds, says changing face of Yorkshire hasn't helped
    Believes he would earn less than he does on benefits if he worked
    Has an allotment but wouldn't want to work in a garden centre

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