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This is a question Waste of money

I once paid a small fortune to a solicitor in a legal case. She got lost on the way to court, turned up late with the wrong papers and started an argument with the judge, who told her to "shut up, for the love of God". A stunning investment.

Thanks to golddust for the suggestion

(, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 12:45)
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Lots of tales involving breakups here...
Mine's not!*
Sister-in-law "needing" an emergency plane ticket home from the states after blowing all her money on her new (2nd) hubby whom she met online (WOW) only to have sussed that he's openly rooting some other girly that he met on (wait for it....) WOW = $2500. *All prices in AUD*
She stayed with us for a few days - daughter gave up her room and we all bent over backwards etc. to accomodate her. She asked for money to buy a plane ticket back there a few weeks later after snubbing us and leaving without saying a word to the missus = $800
She asked $180 for a haircut a couple of months ago - we both laughed at her. Too her face. For a long time. Loudly.
Monster-in-law bleating about hubby leaving her so I paid her rent in 1 lump sum for a while. They're still together. She then gave her grand-daughter back to her junky demon-spawn and we had to rescue the wee bairn 6 months later. Some months after this m-i-l is screaming & calling me a "fucking cunt" etc. in front of my kids and the neighbor-hood cause I'm too controlling ie. trying to raise the cuckoo so she doesn't grow up to be another self-centered junky leech. = $2500 + ongoing.
The cherry for me. Bought 1 of these. Put a 1tb & 640gb drives in to network house. Backed up EVERYTHING. Proprietary file-system shit itself after a few months with no way to fix the mbr (did I mention proprietary). Pics, mp3 etc. going back to '97 gone. I'm talking Audiogalaxy, Napster etc. and pics from our first digital camera. Fucking toaster. = ~$300
Btw, I love my missus - if the girls weren't awake I might even be tempted to snuggle up to her now & express some of that love! Yeah it's long but it was never meant to be a short tale- waste of time that would be!
Upon reflection it would appear that the sister-in-law did in fact end up breaking up with her hubby - so I'm wrong. Apologies.
(, Sun 3 Oct 2010, 0:14, 6 replies)
I read..
But I didn't understand. Good luck with your problem, whatever it was?

Major bummer about losing all your data though, I'd have gone fucking ballistic. Get on to Netgear and complain some.. (Lots)

If you still have the drives try Testdisk, it's saved my balls more than once.
www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
(, Sun 3 Oct 2010, 0:52, closed)
Tried it.
To no avail - I even tried ddrescue and others but nada. Thanks anyway.
(, Sun 3 Oct 2010, 1:02, closed)

I too came to say that your story sounds horrible, but I can't make head nor tail of it??? I got lost after "haircut"
(, Sun 3 Oct 2010, 17:46, closed)
Gullable man...
...gives money to annoying woman. Where's AB when you need him?
(, Sun 3 Oct 2010, 1:03, closed)
So you put all your eggs in one basket....
Data wise, and then it failed on you.....lesson learned?
(, Sun 3 Oct 2010, 19:03, closed)
That is a lot of money
To spend on a girl you won't/can't root.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 22:51, closed)

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