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

[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!