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Stephen Jones
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| Others--in more "desperate" circumstances than yours--have done it. |
But that was precisely because the circumstances were desperate. The problem comes when you are comfortable enough not to be desperate, but still uncomfortable enough to be miserable.
Thrifty is different; being miserable is part of his comfort zone. |
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Henry_Cowell
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| Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| Stephen Jones wrote: |
| Thrifty is different; being miserable is part of his comfort zone. |
And persistently telling others how miserable he is always seems to give him that warm, fuzzy feeling.  |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:40 am Post subject: |
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| Henry_Cowell wrote: |
| that warm, fuzzy feeling. |
No it is drink that gives me that. |
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Pollux
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| Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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You guys are insensitive.
While you would probably feel sorry for someone who is uneducated, burdened with debt, ill, with a large family to support, , and stuck in a no way out situation, you can't bring yourselves to pity an educated, mobile individual who is bored with his lot. Shame on you. You guys would critisize a housewife, who tracks weather religiously as if her livelihood depended on it, without understanding tha pathology behind it.
Unless our friend Thrifty is 70 years old, would you say that it's time to retrain and get on with it? There are so many interesting professions out there. |
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SueH
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| Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Stephen Jones wrote: |
But that was precisely because the circumstances were desperate. The problem comes when you are comfortable enough not to be desperate, but still uncomfortable enough to be miserable.
Thrifty is different; being miserable is part of his comfort zone. |
Reminds me of a phrase in Jeanette Winterson's 'Written on the Body': ... just found it "Poor me.There's nothing so sweet as wallowing in it is there? Wallowing is sex for depressives." |
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Henry_Cowell
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| Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Pollux wrote: |
| Unless our friend Thrifty is 70 years old, would you say that it's time to retrain and get on with it? There are so many interesting professions out there. |
Been there; done that.
His response: No money to leave Turkey to pursue another job or even career. He's stuck. Period. Full stop.
Leave him to his drink. |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:10 am Post subject: |
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| Pollux wrote: |
There are so many interesting professions out there. |
So why aren't you in one? |
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Henry_Cowell
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| thrifty wrote: |
| Pollux wrote: |
There are so many interesting professions out there. |
So why aren't you in one? |
We are. You're not.  |
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Stephen Jones
Joined: 21 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:41 am Post subject: |
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| His response: No money to leave Turkey to pursue another job or even career. |
Out of date info. He's working for BAe in Saudi. |
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