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I'm a teacher, normally high-school but this year i picked up some lower grade classes. I taught them to chant back at me. When one of them grumbles about an assignment or grade, I can say loudly, "What do we say about life?" They will all say it back to me loudly, "Life's not fair!&q...

Respectfully, I don't agree. I think most people are decent, I think it's society that's screwed up and I think the vocal minority are the problem. I think the a-holes make the most noise and they seem like they're everywhere. You'll not notice the 100 decent people you pass on the street, you'll ju...

Same here. I moved myself to a 3rd world country full of people with the IQ of a potato. Nobody stays very long so it's become a very lonely place. I hang out with a few people, mostly a HIV positive drug-addict who is living off his ladyboy ex-girlfriend who makes her money scamming old men. The pe...

I've had depression most of my life. My way of coping for it was to leave London and get out into the world. I did that in a fairly unconventional way. I ended up in a 3rd world country in the middle of Asia. For a long time, that was all fine. I met a girl, we got together and were pretty happy. I ...