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Do people go after Deposit Protection compensation when they're on good terms?

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  • marksoton
    marksoton Posts: 17,516 Forumite
    Keeping it classy, I see. "Shut up" was particularly effective in convincing me that you're right.

    You crack on. I await your successful outcome.
  • marksoton wrote: »
    You crack on. I await your successful outcome.

    Well, given my goal was to get a sense of what people thought, I've already been successful. On the other hand, convincing anyone that I'm not an amoral exploiter of loopholes looks unlikely to be successful, which is puzzling because if I were I would have just gotten on with it and not bothered with this thread.

    https://xkcd.com/386/
  • parkrunner
    parkrunner Posts: 2,610 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 1,000 Posts
    As far as your unwavering moral compass, I call BS. If you were from, say, the US, your moral compass would tell you only very bad people don't tip their waitstaff 18-20% of the bill. If you found yourself in New Zealand where tipping isn't a thing, would you continue to tip because you believed it's the right thing to do? When you observed a couple of people not tipping, would you try to find out whether locals typically did it? Would you then be abandoning your morals if you followed local customs? (Note that in this analogy, this thread is like finding out whether locals tip.)

    But your original question is about taking, tipping is about giving. You need an analogy that works with the former.
    It's nothing , not nothink.
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