Gonzo wrote:

I go to Starbucks sometimes, the tax avoiding cunts, because their filter coffee is 1.50 and I can ask for a refill, which I do without fail, and because it am has free wifi. The problem is that there is usually a queue, and few seats. As I wait in the queue, by myself, I often see some cunt come in with his friend, join the queue behind me, while his friend goes to sit at a table. This never fails to send me up in arms, and depending on my mood, to start staring at teh fucking cunt, occasionally muttering words to that effect. It's not fair: I joined the queue, I should get the seat. The other day I went into Starbucks with a friend, and I immediately told him to grab a seat. This, I realised, made me a hypocrite I suppose, but given the general behaviour, it was the best course of action to take. I didn't rationalise this and say "single ozno, what a lazy moaning fuckwit he is. He's totally wrong, it's perfectly okay to take a seat when there's 2+ of us". No, morally, normatively, ideally, single ozno is right. But accompanied ozno should not fail to take the opportunity to take a fucking seat, because the way things are set up, it's sit or be, erm, not seated. The moral of which is, if you feel you're successful, have a bit of empathy and take a wider view, don't succumb to facile, self-reassuring dogmas designed to keep the status quo ante, like "anyone can achieve anything if they only try". It's not true. And if you feel you're not successful, don't just refuse to play the game. Try, shift, graft, struggle. Move out of london and commute, fuck off to singapour and earn stacks of dolla. Just don't forget how you felt when you felt there was no way in, and instead of your typical "I made it, fuck y'all lazy bitch nigas" attitude, recall how rigged the game is and the imperative to make it fairer. I will never feel it is fair that some smug cunt has taken my table. But I will, so help me Allah, not fail to avail myself of one if I can. Until the very system changes, what can I do. Hence my position on Elmlea's job. A man's living is a man's living. You gotta do what you gotta do. Unless and until we all get together and demand, indeed create, something better, I will never hear otherwise. But don't be a mug, don't lie to yourself or others. It doesn't make the system any fairer that you succeeded. And it doesn't make your lack of success any less your responsibility that the game is rigged. SORTED YO

tigerswiftly wrote:

I've got a lot to say, but I'm on my iPod so it can wait until later. I get paid a 7 figure salary, fwiw. I am a millionaire. Just wanted to point that out. Go me.