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Where is the breaking point for you?
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I just am on the edge of thinking about quitting work it's so easy to do and would have a sense of freedom until I start falling behind on bills.
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As long as I have my Job (which I actually enjoy ) pay my bills on time, get one or two holidays a year, make time for my family and hobbies. I really couldn’t give a rats arse about what’s going on in the world. I did watch the news a lot when my beloved Rhodes was burning though, but then got fed up by the climate change nonsense being sputed by the UK media. Prefered getting news from the locals who live there we are friends with.
Been having a whinge about this dreadful summer weather though. Absolutely abysmal.
Been having a whinge about this dreadful summer weather though. Absolutely abysmal.
Depends how old you are. Many get to a particular age and think "I can't be bothered anymore".
There's plenty else to be happy about, like they used to say "find someone you love and a good hobby"
This 100%
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The secret to not breaking is to always stay broken
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Thats a little bleak!
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It's probably hard to find a decade in human history where there wasn't the threat of pandemic, war or famine.
Thinking about it, maybe the 90s were peek humanity
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It's probably hard to find a decade in human history where there wasn't the threat of pandemic, war or famine.
Thinking about it, maybe the 90s were peek humanity
The end of the 90's / 2000 probably felt the most optimistic, etc but who would have sat here on Sept 10th 2001 and predicted what came the next day?
Caporegime
This is 100% the best solution to the problem but it is hard to stick to.
Prices and costs go up.... Thats all that matters.. every year. Doesnt matter whos pretending to have a clue, Countries are effected by macro economic events and speculation/moods. its almost impossible to not feel the fall out.
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You are such a cool dude.
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The members market is next.Then the closure of GD.
Can finally get it back to a computer forum.
With far fewer posts and members, even transient members, though...
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It’s not going to happen I’m just jesting.
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It's amazing what the man on the Clapham omnibus can do, quietly and fairly effectively, to support his or her breaking point.
Just don't get caught, as the eleventh commandment states
Just don't get caught, as the eleventh commandment states
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So long as no one turns my bank balance back to zero you can do whatever you like with post counts, as a metric to me personally they are not something I can honestly say bothers me at all, save to say they alert me to the alarming amount of time I spend bandying specious nonsense with similarly and opposingly minded wastrels
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GD post doesnt count? What a con!
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I tend to look at the long range data to get a sense of perspective - know I'm teaching hens to suck eggs, but the legacy media are literally a dying industry who are scraping around for existence and have the lowest trust scores they've ever had in their history. So why you'd pay any attention to that tripe, I don't know
I think there have been far, far worse 'breaking points' in British history, indeed far worse states of existence for basically every decade back to time immemorial, so I always start by getting a long-range view of the data. When you look at that, the position is pretty decent.
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I think there have been far, far worse 'breaking points' in British history, indeed far worse states of existence for basically every decade back to time immemorial, so I always start by getting a long-range view of the data. When you look at that, the position is pretty decent.
Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four
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If you can't influence something better just to get on with life.
If things for really bad, I'd be tempted to just go live somewhere cheap and teach English or something.
But that I mean if I lost it all. House, job, bankruptcy. No way I could start again at 38.
If things for really bad, I'd be tempted to just go live somewhere cheap and teach English or something.
But that I mean if I lost it all. House, job, bankruptcy. No way I could start again at 38.
I tend to look at the long range data to get a sense of perspective - know I'm teaching hens to suck eggs, but the legacy media are literally a dying industry who are scraping around for existence and have the lowest trust scores they've ever had in their history. So why you'd pay any attention to that tripe, I don't know
I think there have been far, far worse 'breaking points' in British history, indeed far worse states of existence for basically every decade back to time immemorial, so I always start by getting a long-range view of the data. When you look at that, the position is pretty decent.
Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four
Subscribe and to the BBC https://bit.ly/BBCYouTubeSubWatch the BBC first on iPlayer https://bbc.in/iPlayer-Home More about this programme: http://ww...
This wasn’t really the point of the thread. I think most people are aware that statistically speaking it’s better to be living now than at pretty much any point in history due to advancements in medicine, technology and general living conditions etc. Plus the fact we don’t tend to torture people or lock those with any form of mental illness away in asylums.
This thread wasn’t formed off the back of anything I’d consumed from legacy media either. It’s more a question on the attitude of the British public and whether we’ll just always accept things for the way they are.