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moxco 09-19-2011 06:00 PM

Lend, Moxco 10 pounds; demand he pays back 1000% by tomorrow. Moxco pays you back; you win ipad and as a token of your aprreciation, for being such a loyal customer you give Moxco 100 pounds. Your up an Ipad, I'm up $16, it's a win-win situation right?

Wings of Fire 09-20-2011 03:21 AM

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Because if you put in 100 pounds of your own money, they would give you an iPad 2 that you could sell for 200 pounds.

If you win.

Havoc 09-20-2011 03:36 AM

Or go play online poker. You know, if you're good at it.

Dixanadu 09-20-2011 03:46 AM

I assumed you got virtual money for winning that. Like Facebook.

Wings of Fire 09-20-2011 03:47 AM

And you can trade virtual money for real money.

Dixanadu 09-20-2011 04:15 AM

But not on Facebook.

JennyGenesis 09-20-2011 05:25 AM

Or just join a clan that pays you to play ;)

I payed £44 for Blur on it's release day, I've managed to scrape back more than £44 from tournaments.

I got paid £45 on monday just for a tournament i placed 2nd in.

STM 09-20-2011 09:12 AM

I might just play some black jack or texas hold 'em online. It's just £10 and it's not even mine, so I'll win some or lose £10, big whoop.

Perhaps I could buy a proxy and charge for advertising. Meh, maybe I'll cave in and just keep it safe, then return the £10 in easter.

Dixanadu 09-20-2011 10:51 AM

Busk in the street.

STM 09-20-2011 11:04 AM

Yeh, I'll buy primarni, rip it up, then beg!

Dixanadu 09-20-2011 11:10 AM

I'm actually serious.

One of my friends' older brother busked for about two hours and managed to get around forty quid.

He had this nefarious plan to do it near foreigners giving out copies of Big Issue or whatever it is. People preferred to give him their money, as then they wouldn't be bothered by dirty outsiders.

MeechMunchie 09-20-2011 11:14 AM

Busk if you're good. A lot of buskers are awful, so when someone good is playing a lot of people seem to pay just for the novelty.

Dixanadu 09-20-2011 11:15 AM

Play an ultra-violent death metal song with clear singing and a mellow melody.

STM 09-20-2011 11:34 AM

I'm going to go to Watford, hang about in this underpass with one of my acoustic guitars and play 'Oh yeah' by Ferris Bueller. Or I dunno, Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Havoc 09-20-2011 01:00 PM

Use the 10 quid to buy condoms and become a Gigolo.

Bullet Magnet 09-20-2011 01:21 PM

In capitalism you sell the fruits of your employees' labours and then (after other costs) pay your employees less than the value of those labours, keeping the rest for yourself.

You should do that.

STM 09-20-2011 02:05 PM

But I'm a socialist.

Bullet Magnet 09-20-2011 02:18 PM

These days the entire political spectrum is a spectrum of capitalism.

STM 09-21-2011 07:15 AM

But I'm a socialist. Actually I'm not anything, I like the idea of socialism but I've grown up in a largely capitalist society and economy in the lower/ working class. Fuck anyone who says it's too hard.

Dixanadu 09-21-2011 08:12 AM

It is quite shit.

What happened to the good old Yugoslav-USSR days when everything was so easy?

Bullet Magnet 09-21-2011 09:15 AM

My favourite part was all the fresh groceries that imitate western garbage!

STM 09-21-2011 09:17 AM

From what my mate living in Croatia said, Yugoslavia generally was a much better place to live when compared to what it split in to.

Dixanadu 09-21-2011 09:20 AM

brb Kosovo

STM 09-21-2011 09:23 AM

The largest Kosovo-Serb Enclave. Purdy.

Dixanadu 09-21-2011 09:24 AM

Don't forget Bosnia-Herzegovina!

...and Albania.

...and Montenegro.

Actually, Serbia just wanted everyone to be their friend and fucked up.