Talk is cheap, unless you’re booking Cherie Blair as an after dinner speaker. Everybody is talking about the credit crunch lately apart from the people who aren’t and money must be tight when Peter Jones, the multi-millionaire from Dragons’ Den feels like he has to add a few more thousand to the coffers from doing an advert for BT. Times must be particularly hard for the money grabbing greedy bastard. Good luck to the man though. I merely wish he would die in a private helicopter crash (the rich man’s death of choice). Everybody is feeling the pinch these days, even the price of fruit and vegetables has gone through the roof, depending on how high the roof is. It’s not surprising really as apples don’t grow on trees you know.
It’s more worrying when you consider that people have to have lots of money, because money is power and you’re also not likely to get a girlfriend unless you’ve got plenty of it, especially if you’re ugly – ask Mick Hucknall. At least, that is the perception by blokes in particular, which is why they tell women online they have a fantastic job and are totally raking it in, perhaps as a gardener. And at some point the perception makes itself a fact. If you haven’t got lots of money, you are going to have to attempt to replicate power in some other way – such as carrying a gun about your person, or yourself, whoever is the closest.
You know when you are living below the bread line (however due to the rise in bread prices, the salary that qualifies you for this has dramatically increased) when you end up spending £20 a week on lottery tickets, using any spare cash on the scratch cards. This is hard times indeed. One in five scratch cards gives a win! This win is £2 99.99% of the time and so this means once you have frantically scratched the card outside the shop in the vain hope that you might win big, you then have to go straight back in to buy more tickets with the winnings where you will then buy one of the four in five that don’t win.