They should be taken out and shot

[andrewducker]

I just opened some junk mail that had arrived here for tisme - offering credit - "No matter your credit history", at the low, low rate of 29.9% - but with the first week only costing £1!

Oh, and you had to buy from their store, where they were selling wide-screen TVs, over-priced computers and "authentic" leather beds.

So, they're aiming it at people with no money, a history of bad debt, a taste for stupidly expensive things, and no idea that 30% interest rates are a mindnumbingly horrible rip-off

They should all be fucking shot repeatedly through the head.

Comments

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

Am I just missing something here?

Very few people are so dim as to be unable to *count*, right? I mean they exist but it's rare. (Please tell it's rare). Most people can read. All of these agreements always say somewhere how much it will actually cost in the end overall - or even if you can neither count nor read (shudder)JUST FUCKING ASK!!!!

I really have zero problem with people preying on the stupid. Why not shoot the stupid people instead - solves the problem and leaves the world in a much nicer state.... at least they don't end up stealing/mugging etc. when they get completely skint that way.

[andrewducker]

I have the same problem with people preying on the stupid that I have with them preying on the weak. Just because you _can_ push someone into doing something doesn't mean you should, and just because someone was unlucky enough to not be born smart/be educated well does not mean they should be left to die in the streets.

And you don't want to kill the stupid people - unless _you_ want to work as a 'refuse disposal technician'.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

It's a damn sight easier to get round your own stupidity than it is to get round physical weakness (in the kind of circumstances where the latter matters). It's called asking someone cleverer.

You don't have to be all that bright to be able to count, which is all that's required to work out that a high-interest loan is insanely expensive.

Being intelligent may be mostly luck, but education to a reasonable level is more about priorities/applying yourself. If you can read and have access to information (which isn't hard in this country) that's all that is required.

I'm sure we can invent some kind of automated solution :-)

[taromazzy.livejournal.com]

Hey! SOme of our known associates are bin men. And wanna be bin men!

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

nothing wrong with being a bin man if you want to be!

[azalemeth.livejournal.com]

You assume too much of meek humanity.

I mean, to me it's the same situation as "Joe Blogs has sent you BRITTANY_SPEARES_NAKED_REALLY_COOL.JPG.PNG.EXE. This may be a virus. Do you want to open it? [Yes]|[No]"


Most of the time the mouse moves to the yes button.