The falling aiport Santa TV3 kid, Christmas 2010
‘Real Sam’ writes:
As I have no friends would your readers save me the bother of making up quotes [for a college project]. The question: Are You Better Off Now Than You Were Four Years Ago? Better off can also mean happier, more content, self-medicated, etc.
Anyone?
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*than*
Yeah Jesus Effing Christ. In college and uses ‘Then’ instead of ‘Than’.
So much better. I’m rich, incredible job, better relationships, nice car, more confidence and a new woman every week. I pinch myseld some days.
If I can answer that on a personal level…
I’m probably old enough to be your Grandad still struggling from day to day..
Nothing has ever changed.
Nothing ever will.
Other people has better experiences, and make less spelling mistakes.
Don’t forget that.
You’ll wreck your project if you concentrate on me or anyone like me.
You need ‘optimism’.
That would be “fewer” spelling mistakes.
I’m sorry – what is being asked here by the friendless one? Quotes from whom?
Yeah I’m definitely more self medicated anyway. Everyone sells green as opposed to brown these days.
Me and you, Moist’
Did I spell that wrong?
You most certainly did not.
It’s a pain in the hoop!
That feckin’ green muck :)
More ethically rich through the deepening reservoir of my love and compassion for the vulnerable, voiceless and senescent.
Materially poorer through the death of a thousand cuts inflicted on my pay packet through The Years Of Austerity™
I think I’m with you Neilo.
The more I think about it the more sure I am.
But ‘voiceless and senescent wasn’t necessary.
You could’ve just just called me ‘old-fashioned’.
Ah now, bad, not aimed at you at all! :)
You need to dam that reservoir Neilo man.
Maybe. I mean I come across all Keith Joseph* and suchlike, but I’m really a big aul’ softie
*Blessings me upon his name
I love the way you always preface your statements by warning that you have the political leanings of a South American dictator, then follow it up with something level-headed and compassionate. More of this kind of bait and switch!
↑↑ First comment that made me laugh in ages.↑↑
Funny how I would see those as the cause of my pay cuts. I don’t want to see my family suffer to fix their problems.
every day with mrs scottser and the puddin is like heaven on earth :)
I agree.
@Scottser: Agreed. Family is a wonderful thing.
Fair play Scotter :)
ScottSer even.
I decided to stop worrying about it all and concentrate on the things I could actually do something about.
bit like the AA prayer.
Five years ago, I’d still another two years of hell to go through. That had nothing to do with govts, taxes or recessions. At the time, I thought… this’ll never get any better, but it did :0)
I felt the very same way about Trapattoni.
Hah! :)
i am going through the same thing with van gaal at the minute..
Utd? Ah no Scottser. How did that happen?
An intense sibling rivalry with a liverpool fan and the 1977 fa cup final is how it all started for me.
August 77 and the arrival of Dalglish is what really sparked my Liverpool fixation.
Same year – completely different path Scottser!
Five years ago, I was unemployed, depressed, and trapped in Ireland.
Now, things aren’t perfect, but I’ve emigrated, found a job, left said job, and started a PhD. I’m in a far better place, emotionally, and financially.
Good for you :)
Sorry Peadar, but you have me confused.
Is this a preamble to something you daren’t say out straight?
-It smells like it.
“Now, things aren’t perfect,”
Ha haaaa! Weakness! Ye see? You’re not better than us with your abroad thing using foreign systems and being all cosmopolitan.
Oh he wants OUR stories??
Nosey or wha?
Ok then…
Dear Real Sam,
Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn’t quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Ladies and gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.
Hoop
Profound…
4 years ago I was in a call centre on 18k and single and lost.
now I’m on three times that, in an amazing firm in a great role and am engaged.
life is great. lot of work though. will plateau in another 5 years
Good man Happy :)
4 years ago I was :
-employed
-married
-in Dublin
-miserable
Now Im:
-employed
-divorced (yayayayayayay!)
-In not ireland
-happy, full of hope, hoping to return but not until i have enough money behind me.
So yes, Im in a much better place.
Thanks for the opportunity to see this!!!
Are you still fit if you don’t mind me asking?
Fair play to you too!
Emigrated and loving it.
Unbelievable standard of living. Earn obscene money and keep most of it.
No whinging (RTE/Newstalk)- surrounded by a can do positive attitude. No begrudging.
Have done a ton of things and visited a load of places i’d never have thought possible.
No kids yet.
Miss family.
Miss sausages.
Country… can you yell us where us at :)
+ 1 Tell us! We won’t tell any bottomholes – male or female, young or old – who might move there and spoil it, promise.
Four years? Sure that’s just the blink of an eye ago. You’d really need at least 120 years of data to see if things were really changing for me.
I went away once, for a long time.
Then I came back.
I have kids all over the place, but I still haven’t found a job.
-Am I doing it wrong?
*I went away once, for a long time.
*I mean I went abroad. I wasn’t locked up or anything like that.
You have to get caught first before they can lock you up.