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I actually quite enjoyed the city in my 20s (I was I.T., never one of them), but then I, you know, grew up.


To be honest for a moment, much as I have no sympathy for the arrogant tits who will struggle to make payment on their Boxsters and new hot-bath extensions, there are a lot of good people there in all the support departments and shops and restaurants just trying to get by who will suffer, and that does make me sad.


The spending on accessories in Southend or Romford's high streets alone will have dropped to practically nil. What will the world do with a fake leopard skin crop top glut?!

To be honest for a moment, much as I have no sympathy for the arrogant tits who will struggle to make payment on their Boxsters and new hot-bath extensions, there are a lot of good people there in all the support departments and shops and restaurants just trying to get by who will suffer, and that does make me sad.



Spot on!


RE: Going out after work, I don't get it. I have never worked in the city, but whenever I've gone up to meet people after work, I wonder why they don't just jump on a tube and go drinking elsewhere!


Market Porter is good though, but better after about 7 when the masses have fecked off!

What Keef said as well - but I'm no wiser as to why people don't drink elsewhere. I always try and persuade people to go somewhere else - they just look at me like I'm weird (I'm used to that anyway)


I used to work in St James - which is up it's own arse in a different way of course. But I liked it around there.... Less homogenous

To be fair there actually are some pretty decent boozers in the city. They?re just full of wankers. If you can catch them on a quiet night or you know of the handful that open on Saturdays they can be good if you fancy a change of scenery.


Market Porter aint the City though.

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Once upon a time in a village, a man announced to the villagers that he

would buy monkeys for $10.


The villagers seeing there were many monkeys around, went out to the

forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10, but, as the

supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their efforts.


The man further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the

efforts of the villagers and then started catching monkeys again.


Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to

their farms. The offer rate increased to $25 and the supply of monkeys

became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone

catch it!


The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50! However, since

he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now act as

buyer, on his behalf.


In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers: 'Look at

all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell

them to you at $35 and when he returns from the city, you can sell them back

to him for $50.'


The villagers squeezed together their savings and bought all the

monkeys.


Then they never saw the man or his assistant again, only monkeys

everywhere!




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