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LowIQTrash
11 Jul 2024 12:27 am
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Cannonpointer » 10 Jul 2024, 8:10 pm » wrote: ↑ You did well and made the best available choices. But you were still on a wheel within a wheel.

The larger wheel was gaming you - but within that game, you made all the best moves. 

The best a man can ever do is break even, is what I have always said.

No, wait - that was Hemingway. He said that.

But he only said it thematically, and my chin is jutted and chest puffed in anticipation of anyone trying to confute me on that. Explication is my **** GAME. Ask me about Miniver Cheevy or Richard Cory, I dare ya. I'll explicate the **** out of that ****. I will critique the earl of westmoreland from a castiglionian perspective up in this mother ****. 

Anyway, you're quite right, within the context of being quite wrong, breaking you even.

Hemingway would nod in grave approval. Then lift an eyebrow archly.
Just talked with a guy who rents out rooms in his houses. He said he has to evict one of the tenants because she's an alcoholic.

She gets $5K/month in alimony from her (also alcoholic) husband. THAT'S gaming the system...well not really, it's gaming another person, but it's much closer to "gaming the system" than supposedly taking advantage of credit card points and low interest rates that were available to everyone else... Image  

I said: "That's the American Dream! $5K/month for doing nothing other than popping out a baby and then initiating divorce." 
 
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