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Well as usall, the truth sucks.
The truth in your view being ...?
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I wasn't passing judgement on him, nor commenting on him as a person.
Really? Well that's what it came across as.
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I've been jobless at periods in my life. Stuff happens. I had to do without, I didn't have anyone else covering the real exspenses ....
Cue the violins ....
Haven't most of us? In which case you ought to know Gary that to say (paraphrased) "get up off your arse and find a job" is neither very constructive nor helpful.
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Sorry if I don't subcribe to that touchy-feely theroy that everything should be fair, cause the truth is, life's not fair at times ....
Where has anyone said that everything in life should be fair?
James simply sounded off about how postage prices from the USA have gone crazy recently (which, by the way, many here agree with and have also commented on elsewhere).
Or are you trying to tell us that you've never felt the urge to have a good old gripe about something and that this somehow sets you apart from the rest of us? Is that what you're claiming?
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I am in no way trying to discourage him from the hobby, I hope he sticks with it ...
Well - maybe you're just trying to be the Simon Cowell of Armorama then.
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if you don't have the money...you shouldn't be spending it.
Once again you're making assumptions .. we don't know exactly what he has or hasn't spent.
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... just because someone has a difference in opinion.
Opinion is indeed divided: You regard yourself as a plain-speaking realist. The rest of us think your presence in this thread is the posting equivalent of having Attila The Hun round for tea.
- Steve
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