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Cake day: October 5th, 2023

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  • I’m unclear about the Fraud charges.

    In a Fraud case, you deliberately set out to take other people’s money, illegally, from the offset.

    I don’t think he did that. I think his intentions were honest but he got too cocky by providing loans and overspending. However, I feel that he thought he was smart enough to make it all back and make good, like Nick Leeson.

    I don’t think he set out to be a crook. I think he set out to be extremely wealthy, thought he was smarter than he was, then couldn’t cope when things started to collapse.

    It’s different from setting out to craft a scheme to rob people.

















  • Ditto. Both my wife and I were heavy smokers and moved to vapes. As soon as I used a vape I thought “this is the solution!” after trying to quit smoking many times for decades.

    They really provide 80 to 90% of the satisfaction of a cigarette and take the edge off those moments when you damn well need a ciggie.

    After a couple of years of vaping I find it now much easier to do without them for a few days, although I do like one with a beer.

    You have to have been on that 10 or 20 year journey of smoking cigarettes to understand how hard they are to put down, and vaping was the tool that got me away from burning the evil tobacco leaf.