Aeris7 wrote:
I'VE FELT THE HATE RISE UP IN ME, KNEEL DOWN AND CLEAR THE STONE OF LEAVES, I WANDER OUT WHERE YOU CAN'T SEE, INSIDE MY SHELL I WAIT AND BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED...

"I push my fingers into my eyes
It's the only thing that slowly stops the ache
But it's made of all the things I have to take
Jesus, it never ends, it works it's way inside
If the pain goes on,
I'm not gonna make it!

All I've got...all I've got is insane...
All I've got...all I've got is insane...
All I've got...all I've got is insane!
All I've got...all I've got is insane!"

that's how I GENUINELY feel most days.....

Slap wrote:
Sorry, but if you take out a loan you can't afford to pay back you are an idiot.   
this is so very simple thing and doesnt need a politics/economics degree or any knowledge whatsoever to understand but yet it is something most people just dont seem to get. when I was at university (1998-2001) in London, I could luckily support myself as I did not have to pay tuition fees (took a lot of paperwork to proof I did not have means for this) and got a £200 grant money (from Finnish government, only government help Ive ever received from either country, tho I did apply for a dole here once but got a job before actually received any dole money due to their bureaucracy). or course that is not much for living as it just covered my rent and still I was living on baked beans and could sometimes hardly afford to go out. Lot of my uni-friends took out loans and credit cards and told me to do the same and boasted of new games consoles/computers/TVs/whatever they just bought. I took any job I could, temping part-time in catering (sometimes dishwashing, working in kitchens with pieces of meat all over which for me was double-disgusting), secretarial, proofreading, telemarketing jobs which I fucking HATED but even if I got the minimum wage (tax-free as student at least) it was money I owed to no-one. I had people actually saying to me "just take out loan, you dont have to pay it back til years later anyway" and thought I'm bit stingy and even stupid not taking advantage of the millions of possibilities available. I dont know what happened to those people now but I can tell that only long-term money I ever owed has been the mortgage for my 1-bedroom flat (which I could have never afforded to buy without my father's inheritance but I am proud to say that every penny he left for me went to the deposit of my own home). I've never had a credit card, just a debit card. Actually before I went to US for 3 months for work-placement in 2000 (I was told "you cant survive in US without one"), I took one out but somehow the bank fucked up my direct debit payments so when I returned to UK I had red letters at home for money which I never even used (after that I never really thought of getting another one). I'm not saying that I'm any cleverer than anyone else (far from that haha) but I am not stupid, I know that if my bank balance is 0 I cant buy what i want. funnily now when the economic world is collapsing, I'm lucky to have job, low mortgage payments and can actually first time in my life afford luxuries paid with my own money, like holidays(=festivals mostly) hotels, nice restaurants etc. I have a private pension plan but last time I got yearly statement of what I would get when I retire, the future looked very bleak compared to previous one. fuck knows, I don't think I live to be in my 60s anyway.....

I support the striking to a certain extent cos lot of people have a lot to be unhappy about and think the current government is not capable of doing things properly, whatever that may be. I dont know that much about politics in general and can't think how to get out of the mess we're in but I know that someone like Boris is incompetent fucking idiot who should not be in charge of this city I love and live in (Ken Livingstone is not perfect but I'd be happy to have him back anyday, or anyone else who makes some fucking sense at least)
  
Edit -for a typo and to apologise if that was bit of a rant but I can only speak from my own point of view in trying to understand the bigger picture

I will fuck your shit up

Last Edited By: redblackdemon Dec 2 11 8:17 AM. Edited 1 times.