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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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If someone has the money and wants to spend it, what business is it of yours?
(, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:16, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
I just mean that in this day and age, with so much poverty and struggle going on all around us, it really is disgusting that we have got to a point where property (and I'm not kidding, it was a pretty boring one-bedroom nothing-special type of flat) could be worth that amount of money.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:19, Reply)
And people are willing to pay that much for the privilege of living in a nice part of London.
But when a premium like this is put on property in London, it makes property everywhere else more expensive.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:22, Reply)
but the argument that other people don't have stuff doesn't really cut much ice with most people. I mean some people in Africa don't have food, does that make it a sin for me to have a gourmet meal?
(, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:21, Reply)
rejecting privilege because others don't have it is fucking stupid and backwards.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:22, Reply)
Having stuff isn't wrong. Capitalism and buying things isn't wrong.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:23, Reply)
and I think laissez-faire is a pretty workable way of doing things.
But there again, I have absolute faith in the general goodness of human nature, but I find cruelty equally abhorrent.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:27, Reply)
Have you been observing human nature? I've not noticed it being essentially good.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:28, Reply)
the capacity for goodness. Will that do?
Or shall I just cock off?
*flounces*
(, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:31, Reply)
my mouth has the capacity for cock, doesn't mean any is going in there.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:32, Reply)
and it occurs to me that my lovely soul hasn't had any happy pills for over a week. This is not good. I must go to Boots later and see if I can find some.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:35, Reply)
I had to get some 'tesco value' ones because the local pharmacies have none of the branded stuff.
This is fine, but then my doctors kept forgetting to call back authorising the pharmacist to issue me with the identically-made Smart Price one. This morning, the pharmacist gave me some anyway because I need to take it TODAY and she said she'll face the consequences and get me some more later. WTF? Pill shortages now??
(, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:38, Reply)
and that humanity is noble and intelligent. Unfortunately it just keeps proving that it isn't.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:31, Reply)
They have to be trained out of it, not into it. Look at any child for proof. Social conditioning is all that seperates us from animals.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:38, Reply)
(, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:40, Reply)
Which is a pretty fucking sad state of affairs.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:44, Reply)
I know a lot of great people at least, and the majority on here restore my faith a little bit.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:45, Reply)
and I'll have no truck with it.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:24, Reply)
They obviously got cut out of somebody's will a generation or so back.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:22, Reply)
If I was minted I'd do a ridiculous amount of things people would find abhorrent. I'd build a statue of myself out of marble for starters.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:20, Reply)
but with the stones replaced with statues of me, either with hands stretched out above me for the verticals or reclining langorously for the horizontals
(, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 13:23, Reply)
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