• ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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    7 hours ago

    All a bit sad but heroin addicts tend to be self-destructive at the best of times - half the smackheads I know managed to kick the habit and go on to lead productive lives but I still see a few around begging (when they aren’t banged up) and they are getting on a bit now.

    Add in bad advice, likely a few parasites putting their hand in his pocket and this isn’t a huge surprise.

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      46 minutes ago

      I know some who have managed to hold down successful careers despite their habit. I wonder how many hidden “functional” users there are

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    6 hours ago

    Saw this guy and the cat Bob during their rise to fame. Pre book, pre film. Utter cunt. Very aggressive with people and literally told my friend she couldn’t look at the cat without a donation.

    What a waste of an opportunity he was given.

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      7 hours ago

      I took him and his cat water during a very very hot summer, saw them on my way back to college during my lunch break, all before the fame too. He seemed ok at the time but that may be because I was giving him something he probably needed.

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    7 hours ago

    Sounds like he wasted all that money. A £500k bungalow? JFC with a million bucks I could buy a prefab house and a lot to plop it on and live the rest of my life until I inevitable drop dead from heart disease. Also RIP Bob. I wouldn’t be surprised if whoever hit him didn’t even realize it.

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      A million dollars spread out over 12 years is not amazing money.

      It’s not like he got a million dollars and could have bought the house outright. He took out a mortgage because he had a respectable middle class income for 12 years.

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        I could live if a million GBP for the next 40 years and even buy a house too.

        I know this because I am not going to earn that much over the next 40 years.

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      5 hours ago

      London prices. Saw someone else say it would have been much better if he left london