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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EBDYou're right, of course... and yet I can't help but wonder. Had I not married her, I would have married someone else pretty quickly, I'm sure- and then what? Would I have been happy with them? Or would I have felt trapped after a time and had a classic mid-life crisis? Honestly I can't really say. Would I have had regrets if I had stayed single? Don't know that one either. But I do know that the pressure to mate and breed that society puts on us is pure and unadulterated bullshit. We don't need any more goddam people- we're overcrowded as it is. So why the pressure to make more? Because of antiquated ideas that became outdated a hundred years ago that society can't let go of.
Finding a partner in life is a good thing, certainly- I won't dispute that. But it has to be done on one's own schedule, and those who don't really feel a need for kids should not be pressured into it. Life is not really a Barbie and Ken existence like in the sitcoms- but that's the line that people are still being fed by the churches and families and society at large, and young naive people are being conned into believing it. And I have but one thing to say to that:
FUCK.
THAT.
SHIT.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 19 Oct 2007, 12:40,
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