ConnedswiftyisNOTevil writes, "I have recently become obsessed with the BBC Three show 'The Real Hustle' - personally, I think of it as a 'How To' show for aspiring con artists."
Have you carried out a successful con? Perhaps you hustled a few quid off a stranger, or defrauded a multi-national company. Or have you been taken for the wide-eyed, naive rube that you are?
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chthonic, Thu 18 Oct 2007, 13:02)
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Younger brotherI have a younger brother, so it was my duty as the older sibling to look after him. When we were little, I generously bestowed him with many favours, which have included the following:
* Offering to swap my tiny shoebox bedroom for his much larger bedroom so he could be nearer the top of the staircase, and therefore run away from encroaching burglars quicker. He accepted
* Swapping bags of sweets and chocolate with him, only to later sneak into his room and eat them anyway
* Shouting "ow, ow he's punching me" just to be a spiteful shit so my parents would send him to his room...
and my personal favourite...
* Every week swapping his £1 pocket money for a couple of 10p and 5p coins, because "he preferred the silver ones"
The list goes on and on. It's what younger brothers are there for!
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chart cat has an itch, Thu 18 Oct 2007, 15:47,
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Numismatists plus technology...... equals websites featuring pictures of the coins of the realm. How fantasitically niche!
I love the bit on the main page that says "If you have a good quality scan of a coin that is not on this site..." Presumably, there are people who scan their loose change.
OK: I'm being unfair. There's more to the site than that. But... awwww!
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 18 Oct 2007, 16:05,
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Yes, I thought so tooI'm constantly reminded at work to "think globally" so this is for our foreign friends on the board, just in case they've never seen the awesome coinage of Great British Sterling.
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chart cat has an itch, Thu 18 Oct 2007, 16:25,
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my older sister....pulled that kind of stuff on our younger brother. she would "hold" his money for him so he wouldn't lose it. it worked until he was a teenager. thankfully i was smart enough (or maybe it was greedy?) to NOT fall for that one.
my daughters on the other hand........
younger one prefers coins because there are more of them.
older one prefers dollars because she knows how much they are worth.......and will trade several pennies with the younger for a dollar.....younger girl thinks she is getting a good deal because she has quantity. (so cute!) then the younger one ends up leaving her money laying around the house and older one ends up with all the money.
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flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Fri 19 Oct 2007, 2:21,
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