How can you afford it?

[how.about.another.slice]

After being away several months, I notice many of the same faces are still spending all day posting, despite their assurances that they work. One even spent a whole day waiting until 5.30 pm before posting just to prove she is employed!!! (only people unemployed or on benefits for years would assume the average work day is still from Nine-to-Five LOL!)

My question is, how do you afford to be here so much? Do you live off savings, an inheritance, divorce settlement, or do you simply chat from a library or a second hand notebook on limited internet usage?

To get a decent computer costs at least $2000 and without good internet connection, chatting on a forum isn't even worth it, so are these regulars going into debt over the boards? Would a bank even loan or credit them enough to supplement their activites and time usage here?

It's all very puzzling...

[cherry*135]

A bit of the twilight zone do doo doo, happening here for awhile, joz.

[trustmee-2013]

the pink elephant broke it 

[meh_too]

I can have this on the whole time I am working.  There has to be some benefits to such a **bleep** job and horrid colleagues

[freakiness]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

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@how.about.another.slice wrote:

After being away several months, I notice many of the same faces are still spending all day posting, despite their assurances that they work. One even spent a whole day waiting until 5.30 pm before posting just to prove she is employed!!! (only people unemployed or on benefits for years would assume the average work day is still from Nine-to-Five LOL!)

My question is, how do you afford to be here so much? Do you live off savings, an inheritance, divorce settlement, or do you simply chat from a library or a second hand notebook on limited internet usage?

To get a decent computer costs at least $2000 and without good internet connection, chatting on a forum isn't even worth it, so are these regulars going into debt over the boards? Would a bank even loan or credit them enough to supplement their activites and time usage here?

It's all very puzzling...

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So where did you steal your computer and whose internet connection are you hacking?

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Must be some special kinda computer that can see who sits and waits all day before posting at 5:30

[*elizabeths-mum*]

Posts are going and coming back again? Maybe these high IQ posters are really aliens and lifting bits to probe in their space ships...

$5 Vegemite! I paid $7 a couple of weeks ago. 😞

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@poddster wrote:

I have reconsidered, your attitude and outlook are starting to grow on me 🙂

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Like fungus on a tree stump

[joz*garage]

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@how.about.another.slice wrote:

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@joz*garage wrote:

LOL, you must be easily pleased if you think less than $2000 buys you a great computer!

tell us about your set up?

mine (quad core) cost me a grand and the specs are big everything

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Hiya Joz - $1,800 for a laptop and $240 for extended warranty - larger than normal screen, I love it!!!

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yes same here, & its more then what i need it for (now to upgrade my provider)

how long ago did you buy it? & curious about the extended warranry too?

(apparently you only get a few years life out of a harddrive anyway)

[cherry*135]

How many LAPTOPS have larger than normal screens these days anyway?

I have had my laptop hard drive replaced under extended guarantee recently. It is nearly 3 yrs old.

[azureline**]

My laptop was a cheapie............. less than $600 and now about 5 yrs old....... in 10 years, I have had 2 pc's........... both cost only around $1000..... this one is now 3 yrs old, touchscreen.