The recession, benefits, the safety net, and the learning curve

Max_Headroom_3

ShelleyC wrote: »

Been trying hard to work out what I could write about to earn my fortune but failing miserably.

Enjoying the Max blog very much :T

Aww, thank you.

I'm really chuffed about just how many people have said such nice things about it, it's given me a real confidence boost.

Max_Headroom_3

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm teaching you to fish, not giving you fish.... and you'll need to know what you did/how it happened, for when you're on the telly giving interviews

Can't have me whispering from the sidelines, I'm clumsy and would fall over something and sprawl into view ... probably wearing leggings and a baggy T shirt.

I know you are, but I'd much rather you got the fish, and I cooked them. Fishing rods seem very complex to me...

Max_Headroom_3

mbga9pgf wrote: »

Imagine this upstanding member of our society wearing one of those?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1202767/I-afford-live-healthily-says-600-month-benefits-woman-lost-weight-free-gastric-band-surgery.html

Could i just point out that, admirer of the more voluptuous female form that I am, this particular example merely proves that you can indeed have (way) too much of a good thing...

Oh, and she gets more than double the benefits I do. Good eh?

bluey890

Dopester, if Max's blog is good for anything, pulling women seems to be it.
It may not be profitable dopester, but that might not be Max priority ATM.
It would be nice to have a way with words like M.

I have to rely on a six pack and rugged good looks.

PasturesNew

Max_Headroom wrote: »

Could i just point out that, admirer of the more voluptuous female form that I am, this particular example merely proves that you can indeed have (way) too much of a good thing...

Oh, and she gets more than double the benefits I do. Good eh?

Yeah, but you're not depressed because you're fat.
You need to eat more pies, get fat, get depressed about being fat, get more money, to buy more pies.....

PasturesNew

bluey890 wrote: »

I have to rely on a six pack and rugged good looks.

You say that, but I know this is you: http://img480.imageshack.us/img480/5706/webteen6ps.jpg

fc123

dopester wrote: »

Hello... those 1000 views and friendly responses don't help pay the bills, or boost his £60pw-odd JSA allowance.



That is where all my energy would be going.. getting an income in. Not dossing around with a blog which gives others some pleasure but makes no money.

It is a big outside gamble that his blog/experience is going to be picked up by a publisher publisher for lots of money, or lead to a well-paid job, with many a professional journo / creative type struggling. Possible, and were it too happen.. great, but unlikely.

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I posted the Liz Jones Link a couple of pages back.
Unbelievably, she earns masses from wittering on about herself. Lir would know what a 43 acre farm costs in Exmoor (bought 2007 too). 2 million?

Popular articles she has written include ones where she confesses to spending 400k on clothing, where she admits to her eating disorder, when her cat died, the rescue dog, the date with the millionaire...it's never ending shallow, trivia...and I am addicted to it...so must others too.

Here's a link if you can bear to look DS. Liz Jones

I can't remember when she changed from being a Fashion Mag editor, got laid off and ended up with a column just writing about herself.

fc123

Max_Headroom wrote: »

Could i just point out that, admirer of the more voluptuous female form that I am, this particular example merely proves that you can indeed have (way) too much of a good thing...

Oh, and she gets more than double the benefits I do. Good eh?

When you say 'big' I wasn't sure how big. More Rubenesque?

Just showing off my new techy skill of posting pics.

Max_Headroom_3

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yeah, but you're not depressed because you're fat.
You need to eat more pies, get fat, get depressed about being fat, get more money, to buy more pies.....

Hey, I could blog about it too, win win!

bluey890

PasturesNew wrote: »

You say that, but I know this is you: http://img480.imageshack.us/img480/5706/webteen6ps.jpg

Yes - but not in the way you think.
I am the guy he's sitting on.