I don't own anything...
The government owns me, and will continue to do so until I've paid my student loan. What a wonderful country.
(pygmy giraffe, Thu 8 May 2008, 20:37, 6 replies)

Meh
No-one pays back the student loan

I personally ensure that I earn £5 less than the repayment level every year.

Everyone I met in Glasgow that worked for SLC was a cnut - so fuck em all

and their mothers
(magic the cat will someone please think of the kittens, Thu 8 May 2008, 22:01, closed)

this makes me feel bad...
...today i signed a form confirming my student loan and my large amount of debt.

Im fecked

on the plus side I'm doing a history degree so chances are I won't ever earn enough to pay back the loan :)
(Foulkesy123 The one and only..., Fri 9 May 2008, 0:50, closed)

As an alternative to earning less than the repayment threshold
....you could perhaps try to get a decent job which pays enough if you try hard at it, so you can pay the loan back comfortably.

The downside is you have to pay it back. The plus side is you get to have nice things and life is a little easier.

Worked for me!
(Super Jet Shoes, Fri 9 May 2008, 1:11, closed)

Yeah, terrible aint it. Gone to the dogs.
Being lent money to further your education and give yourself more opportunities, then having to pay it back at a reasonable rate.

Thatcher's Britain, blah blah blah.

Perhaps you should be grateful you had the opportunity for such an education.
(Stevie Ruggling, Fri 9 May 2008, 2:05, closed)

I didn't pay mine...
I always intended to, but the opportunity to get the better of a smug twat of a corporation who couldn't see the wood for the trees got the better of me.

I missed a payment date - one single, solitary payment date by a couple of days. My fault admittedly, but the bank thought it appropriate to register their displeasure by decimating my credit overnight. This, they then did.

Next, they then wrote me an unbelievably patroising letter informing me a) of said action, and b) that if I missed another payment date they'd write off the debt and destroy my credit.

Panic ensued... for around 10 seconds, which is how long it took to occur to me that they were planning to write off, not pass-to-sharks, the debt. And, by way of punishment, do effectively fuck-all to my credit rating (which, in any case, was no longer something I needed concern myself with for a fair few years).

"Deal", says I, via the medium of purchasing alcohol with payment I was due to make that day.
(misanthrope is so adjective he's verbing nouns!, Fri 9 May 2008, 3:11, closed)

changed my mind
I'm off to South america, changing my name, and buying a hill farm

It's llamas and charles from here on out
(magic the cat will someone please think of the kittens, Fri 9 May 2008, 16:52, closed)