SWIFT compromised

EssexExile

Pincher wrote: »

but I dread being poor more than dying by terrorism.

Being poor isn't that bad, & the situation can improve. I don't know how bad being dead is (yet) but I do know there's no way that situation can improve.

Pincher

EssexExile wrote: »

Being poor isn't that bad, & the situation can improve. I don't know how bad being dead is (yet) but I do know there's no way that situation can improve.

I was working in a shop, many years ago.

A guy walked in for a job as a sales assistant. The manager would have hired him ordinarily, but he was homeless, so had no fixed address. Domestic dispute means his wife got the house.

He was sleep rough, and was beginning to smell.

Only a few weeks ago, he was just another person.
Once you start on the downward spiral, it gets bad quick.

You might be happy to use the same tea bag five times, but the creditors don't want to wait.

EachPenny

Pincher wrote: »

Once you start on the downward spiral, it gets bad quick.

Try looking for somewhere to live when your husband has walked out on you and three kids. You work because you want to, but part-time because you have to pick the kids up from school. The only way the maths works is if you get housing benefit.

You go to estate agents to look for somewhere more affordable to live and notice the rapid change of attitude the moment you mention 'benefit'. Offering 12 months rent in advance makes no difference.

The council won't help until you are almost on the street. And that 'help' means moving miles away taking the kids out of their school and detaching you from your support network meaning you cannot work any more.

Very glad that isn't my own situation, but making a mental note never to do business with those estate agents. :mad:

Lungboy

Pincher wrote: »

A USB powered anal probe that scans your bottom will be the next in-thing.

There are already sex toys with cameras in them and wifi built in. Easily crackable wifi too, so anyone can log in and look at your videos.

bigadaj

Lungboy wrote: »

There are already sex toys with cameras in them and wifi built in. Easily crackable wifi too, so anyone can log in and look at your videos.

Might be a good deterrent against hackers in my opinion.

Pincher

bigadaj wrote: »

Might be a good deterrent against hackers in my opinion.

How does it deter?

They don't probe their own bottom.
It's yours that they need to probe to gain access to your money.

Hmm, maybe your bottom is so terrifying that no one will want to probe it?