I'm skint - Oh no your not.
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8Ace said:
I know people like this. Pisses me right off as they go on about how well they've done. Pure blind luck and if the rates hadn't plummeted then they would be homeless.
There's millions of these in the UK and they, along with BTL, are the reason interest rates had to be slammed.MC Bodge said:
Skint=poor
f
k off. As said earlier i've been poor. That is nothing like being skint.
Poor was eating once a day because i couldn't afford to buy enough for lunch and dinner, poor was drinking loads of tea at work because i had nothing but water at home and poor was considering driving off from the petrol station because the £20 of fuel would either get me to work for a week or feed me for a week.
Skint is not going out for a curry because it's £35 i could do without spending, deciding not to buy maple syrup because £6 for a bottle of syrup is a little f
king ridiculous and just putting £20 in the car because you don't need to put any more in right now. omgus said:
MC Bodge said:
Skint=poor
fk off. As said earlier i've been poor. That is nothing like being skint.
Poor was eating once a day because i couldn't afford to buy enough for lunch and dinner, poor was drinking loads of tea at work because i had nothing but water at home and poor was considering driving off from the petrol station because the £20 of fuel would either get me to work for a week or feed me for a week.
Skint is not going out for a curry because it's £35 i could do without spending, deciding not to buy maple syrup because £6 for a bottle of syrup is a little f
king ridiculous and just putting £20 in the car because you don't need to put any more in right now. 
omgus said:
fk off.
As said earlier i've been poor. That is nothing like being skint.
Poor was eating once a day because i couldn't afford to buy enough for lunch and dinner, poor was drinking loads of tea at work because i had nothing but water at home and poor was considering driving off from the petrol station because the £20 of fuel would either get me to work for a week or feed me for a week.
Skint is not going out for a curry because it's £35 i could do without spending, deciding not to buy maple syrup because £6 for a bottle of syrup is a little fking ridiculous and just putting £20 in the car because you don't need to put any more in right now.
So, deciding not to spend some money because you don't believe that it is good value or you don't have a load of spare cash = skint? k off. As said earlier i've been poor. That is nothing like being skint.
Poor was eating once a day because i couldn't afford to buy enough for lunch and dinner, poor was drinking loads of tea at work because i had nothing but water at home and poor was considering driving off from the petrol station because the £20 of fuel would either get me to work for a week or feed me for a week.
Skint is not going out for a curry because it's £35 i could do without spending, deciding not to buy maple syrup because £6 for a bottle of syrup is a little f
king ridiculous and just putting £20 in the car because you don't need to put any more in right now. As you are somebody who has been poor, and knows what it is like, surely you would never use an apparently meaningless word like skint?
As somebody said above, when people are genuinely going short, it seems a strange concept.
Ps. I've never been rich, poor or said that I was skint.
Edited by MC Bodge on Monday 23 March 09:20
Accelebrate said:
My future brother-in-law swings between conveniently not having a penny to his name and happily letting others pick up the tab, to carefully crafting a social media profile full of boasts about purchasing the latest gadgets, receiving bonuses, fine dining and exotic travel.
I don't understand how someone who seems so eager to impress on everyone how well he's doing can feel no shame in claiming to not have a penny to his name.
The reality is an average salary, big debts and any money that does come in immediately gets blown on the tat that makes it onto Facebook, before being sold on at loss after a few weeks when things get too tight again.
There's a guy on piston heads exactly like thisI don't understand how someone who seems so eager to impress on everyone how well he's doing can feel no shame in claiming to not have a penny to his name.
The reality is an average salary, big debts and any money that does come in immediately gets blown on the tat that makes it onto Facebook, before being sold on at loss after a few weeks when things get too tight again.
I knew of him via a mutual friend, then one day he posted a picture on here with Mutual friends car in the shot, the relationship clicked
Depending on which forum you read he earns xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (lots a year), has cleaner, multiple flash cars, horses, posh bird, holiday homes, spending lots on fine dining etc
Flip to another forum and he didn't turn up at x event as he is skint, no money, problems x y and indeed z
I actually had a pleasant chat with him at a ph event, he was in wealthy mode that day
I won't reveal who it is!
The term 'skint' is wildly misappropriated, I think.
If you earn a lot, and blow it all before your next pay day, you'll be skint.
If you earn very little, you may well struggle to cope with the basic costs, and therefore you'll be skint.
I try to save 40% of my income. If I have expenditures which encroach my planned savings, I suppose I may be uncomfortable with it, and could perhaps label myself skint.
However, if you're out of cash, but it's all 'discretionary' spending, then in reality, you're not skint. You've just chosen to have less cash at the present moment.
If you earn a lot, and blow it all before your next pay day, you'll be skint.
If you earn very little, you may well struggle to cope with the basic costs, and therefore you'll be skint.
I try to save 40% of my income. If I have expenditures which encroach my planned savings, I suppose I may be uncomfortable with it, and could perhaps label myself skint.
However, if you're out of cash, but it's all 'discretionary' spending, then in reality, you're not skint. You've just chosen to have less cash at the present moment.
Spare tyre said:
There's a guy on piston heads exactly like this
I knew of him via a mutual friend, then one day he posted a picture on here with Mutual friends car in the shot, the relationship clicked
Depending on which forum you read he earns xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (lots a year), has cleaner, multiple flash cars, horses, posh bird, holiday homes, spending lots on fine dining etc
Flip to another forum and he didn't turn up at x event as he is skint, no money, problems x y and indeed z
I actually had a pleasant chat with him at a ph event, he was in wealthy mode that day
I won't reveal who it is!
flemke?I knew of him via a mutual friend, then one day he posted a picture on here with Mutual friends car in the shot, the relationship clicked
Depending on which forum you read he earns xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (lots a year), has cleaner, multiple flash cars, horses, posh bird, holiday homes, spending lots on fine dining etc
Flip to another forum and he didn't turn up at x event as he is skint, no money, problems x y and indeed z
I actually had a pleasant chat with him at a ph event, he was in wealthy mode that day
I won't reveal who it is!
RobinBanks said:
Spare tyre said:
There's a guy on piston heads exactly like this
I knew of him via a mutual friend, then one day he posted a picture on here with Mutual friends car in the shot, the relationship clicked
Depending on which forum you read he earns xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (lots a year), has cleaner, multiple flash cars, horses, posh bird, holiday homes, spending lots on fine dining etc
Flip to another forum and he didn't turn up at x event as he is skint, no money, problems x y and indeed z
I actually had a pleasant chat with him at a ph event, he was in wealthy mode that day
I won't reveal who it is!
flemke?I knew of him via a mutual friend, then one day he posted a picture on here with Mutual friends car in the shot, the relationship clicked
Depending on which forum you read he earns xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (lots a year), has cleaner, multiple flash cars, horses, posh bird, holiday homes, spending lots on fine dining etc
Flip to another forum and he didn't turn up at x event as he is skint, no money, problems x y and indeed z
I actually had a pleasant chat with him at a ph event, he was in wealthy mode that day
I won't reveal who it is!
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