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  • Take the money & stick to your original plan

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  • Be a good, loving boyfriend

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  • Audi TT

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  • Give the lot to NR's dog shelter

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    if you have the balls for that you may as well reduce the odds by placing it on a single evens bet (high/low black/red odd/even) on roulette.

    A 'troubled' friend did that with his 15k or 17k house deposit in the late 70s, won, and left the casino a few minutes later without a fiver for petrol.

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    ^ agreed, take the money, she,ll only give it back to the bingo hall in the end anyway, truth be told its probably only a tip of the iceberg that she spent there any way, or take her to thailand and buy her some girls too!

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    Quote Originally Posted by chinthee
    Always take the money....
    I disagree, self respect is more important than a few thousand quid.

    To sell yourself out for that little money would be a shame, it would make you as bad as a scamming issan sex worker.

    Noodles.

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    Quote Originally Posted by English Noodles View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by chinthee
    Always take the money....
    I disagree, self respect is more important than a few thousand quid.

    To sell yourself out for that little money would be a shame, it would make you as bad as a scamming issan sex worker.

    Noodles.
    Self respect never paid the rent. Take the money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by English Noodles View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by chinthee
    Always take the money....
    I disagree, self respect is more important than a few thousand quid.

    To sell yourself out for that little money would be a shame, it would make you as bad as a scamming issan sex worker.

    Noodles.
    gotta agree wiv da man on this one!

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    Quote Originally Posted by chinthee
    Self respect never paid the rent. Take the money.
    We hold different values in life, that's okay.

    Noodles.

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    Quote Originally Posted by English Noodles View Post
    We hold different values in life
    We have different lives.

    It's all too easy to sit upon the moral high ground when you have been placed there.

    Some of us never stood a chance, but I take on board what you're saying.

    you're shagging a woman who plays bingo
    She's 24 & in this case, I can justifiably call it a wise move.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Deus Ex View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by English Noodles View Post
    We hold different values in life
    We have different lives.

    It's all too easy to sit upon the moral high ground when you have been placed there.

    Some of us never stood a chance.

    I take on board what you're saying though.
    Don't be swayed by that crap. I tell you take the money. How many times do I have to tell you this?

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    ^ says a bloke who exposes the virtues of sucking his own nob

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    you're shagging a woman who plays bingo ?

    leave her the money so she can afford a new zimmer frame

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    Just the once, Chintee.

    My concience tells me not to, but the prospect of some Cubans & mojitos tell me otherwise

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    Quote Originally Posted by Deus Ex View Post
    Just the once, Chintee.

    My concience tells me not to, but the prospect of some Cubans & mojitos tell me otherwise
    You know what Nike says....Just Do It.

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    Leave her, as you're not happy with her. But leave the money too. It's not yours, you didn't win it. Doesn't matter if she says you can have half - you know she wouldn't mean it if she knew you were planning to leave her & spend it on a wild time here.

    None of the options fit. Being a loving BF doesn't work, because from what you've written, that's not how you feel & the rest involve spending money that's not yours.

    I for one would have far more respect if you did become a TEFLer, rather than do any of the options in that poll.

    Edit - just seen that at the moment it's 50-50 between taking it & running & giving it to us. I didn't think the option involving the dogs would get one vote, so to clear it up, I wouldn't take it either, no matter how much we needed it. It's not yours to give away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by November Rain View Post
    I didn't think the option involving the dogs would get one vote, so to clear it up, I wouldn't take it either
    Speak for yourself.

    I reckon best way to decide that would be to stand in front of all the dogs with a joint of roasted lamb in one hand & in the other a personal letter explaining they were on dried food that day because I'd developed some morals & see which one they go for.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Deus Ex View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by November Rain View Post
    I didn't think the option involving the dogs would get one vote, so to clear it up, I wouldn't take it either
    Speak for yourself.

    I reckon best way to decide that would be to stand in front of all the dogs with a joint of roasted lamb in one hand & in the other a personal letter explaining they were on dried food that day because I'd developed some morals & see which one they go for.

    Oh, yeah, too true. The dogs'd take it (in the form of steaks, sausages & burgers) in a minute. I'm supposed to have more principles than them, though.

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    Take half and give it to a Hua Hin based doggy adoption centre.

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    Don't try to impress us with righteousness, but if you're truly undecided then let the gods decide...heads you leave the money and join the unbalanced and tails you take it...only, when the coin's in the air catch but don't look at it...here is where honesty takes over...what did you want it to be?

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    That's a crafty dig, DD, but I don't think I want to be a TEFLer any more
    So wot ya gonna do in 6 months time when you've blown the 8,250 quid your ex-gf gave you and your skint again?

    Go back home and try to leach some more off someone else. Sounds like you're a natural-born tefler mate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Megahorn View Post
    That's a crafty dig, DD, but I don't think I want to be a TEFLer any more
    So wot ya gonna do in 6 months time when you've blown the 8,250 quid your ex-gf gave you and your skint again?

    Go back home and try to leach some more off someone else. Sounds like you're a natural-born tefler mate.
    He's got a point.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Megahorn View Post
    So wot ya gonna do in 6 months time when you've blown the 8,250 quid your ex-gf gave you and your skint again?
    Teach English.

    leach some more off someone else
    I've never leached anything off anyone. I didn't ask her for the money.

    What would she do if it was you that had won the money?
    She would demand half of it. I don't think she's leave the country afterwards though.

    Money comes and goes
    As do women.

    your conscience will stay with you, use this opportunity to strengthen it
    That's food for thought.

    I thought you came from Manchester?
    I do.

    i think you should thank her for offering to give you half and then explain that you will use it to fund your holiday in Thailand
    That would involve telling her I was planning to leave her. You know what women are like when you dump them & I don't need the grief. In my experience, it's better to slip away quietly, without a word.

    You must know you can't take her money
    That's how I feel, but you know what they say about looking a gift horse in the mouth?

    You seem to want the money since you are not refusing it outright
    If I tell her I don't want it, she'll know something's going on & of course I want the money, it's just whether I can live with myself if I take it.

    want her to be an ex-GF
    Inevitable.

    a moral quandry
    That it is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Deus Ex View Post
    I am due to fly to Thailand on the 29th & was planning on leaving the girlfriend behind - for good.

    I wasn't going to tell her, as I couldn't be bothered with all the earache in the meantime.

    This afternoon, she won £17,500 at bingo!

    Have her buy you some things, then dump her.

    Just kidding.

    I guess it depends on your relationship.

    Is/was she honest with you? Treat you well? Getting more platonic?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Megahorn
    So wot ya gonna do in 6 months time when you've blown the 8,250 quid your ex-gf gave you and your skint again?
    Yeah that is going to be a problem.
    Quote Originally Posted by Megahorn
    Sounds like you're a natural-born tefler mate.
    Thats a brilliant idea, now all he needs is to find someway to borrow his girlfriends half of the money as well, should keep him going for quite a while

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    What would she do if it was you that had won the money? would she be thinking about doing a runner? You'll have my answer on what to do right there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spin View Post
    What would she do if it was you that had won the money? would she be thinking about doing a runner? You'll have my answer on what to do right there.
    That's an odd view on personal ethics.
    I don't see how your guessing how someone else would treat you could serve as a justification for your own deads.

    Don't be an arsehole, D.E.
    Money comes and goes, your conscience will stay with you, use this opportunity to strengthen it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Deus Ex
    I quit both my jobs in the New Year & was going to teach English to fund my stay in Thailand after my £1500 spending money run out.
    I thought you came from Manchester?

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