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07-23-2011, 01:00 AM
CFH

What do you do for a living?

I figured I'd put this in the 1,000+ forum in case anyone felt uncomfortable divulging this information on the 100+ board.

Right now I'm working for an environmental not-for-profit doing fundraising and management, but I am about to return to school to get a social work degree (a stupid decision even amongst a lifetime of stupid decisions, I know). At the moment, I'm particularly interested in gerontology and the intersection of social work and public health. I worked with the elderly for years before I had this job and I learned a ton about the problems they faced and I want to help address those issues at both the macro and micro level. I'd like to eventually end up with a MSW/MPH dual degree (Master's of Social Work and Master's of Public Health) or something similar.

How about you?
07-23-2011, 01:10 AM
0james0

Financial adviser, currently sorting mortgages and insurances.

Boring, stressful, but pays really well. Self employed too and love the freedom and tax breaks that gives.
07-23-2011, 01:29 AM
CFH

Re: What do you do for a living?

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Originally Posted by 0james0

Financial adviser, currently sorting mortgages and insurances.

Boring, stressful, but pays really well. Self employed too and love the freedom and tax breaks that gives.

I'd assume you'd have some kind of finance/accounting degree?

I'd love to be self-employed... Maybe one day, but I kind of doubt it with the road I'm taking.
07-23-2011, 02:39 AM
El Kabong

I now am co-owner and VP of an Independent Insurance Agency.
07-23-2011, 03:04 AM
CFH

Re: What do you do for a living?

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Originally Posted by El Kabong

I now am co-owner and VP of an Independent Insurance Agency.

Sounds interesting.

Didn't you used to want to be a lawyer? I seem to remember reading that a few years back.
07-23-2011, 05:48 PM
El Kabong

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Originally Posted by CFH

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Originally Posted by El Kabong

I now am co-owner and VP of an Independent Insurance Agency.

Sounds interesting.

Didn't you used to want to be a lawyer? I seem to remember reading that a few years back.

Yeah, I tried that...I had also wanted to be a therapist before that but as with law was just too much school for me at a time where I was "all schooled out".
07-23-2011, 05:55 PM
Gandalf

Re: What do you do for a living?

I teach at a university which is nothing terribly exciting, but it gives me plenty of free time to be quite weird and do things like go to jungles.
07-23-2011, 07:09 PM
0james0

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Originally Posted by CFH

Quote:

Originally Posted by 0james0

Financial adviser, currently sorting mortgages and insurances.

Boring, stressful, but pays really well. Self employed too and love the freedom and tax breaks that gives.

I'd assume you'd have some kind of finance/accounting degree?

I'd love to be self-employed... Maybe one day, but I kind of doubt it with the road I'm taking.

Nope.

Dropped out of college/ sixth form in the first year. Just couldn't take any more learning.

Landed on my feet a few times and had a firm offer to pay for my exams. Passed those and the rest is history.

Just Google "CeMAP" or go to the IFS learning website. Cost about £150 per exam. Get a placement in a bank or similar and then you are almost guaranteed to clear £30k a year even if you are shit.
07-23-2011, 07:24 PM
BIG H

Re: What do you do for a living?

Unemployed UK Sales Manager/Director :(
07-23-2011, 07:56 PM
boozeboxer

Re: What do you do for a living?

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Originally Posted by BIG H

Unemployed UK Sales Manager/Director :(

Who are you?
07-23-2011, 09:31 PM
CutMeMick

Re: What do you do for a living?

Follow women at night, creep up behind them with a rag full of methane cover their face til they pass out, drag them to my car then bring them home, kill them then have sex with them, chop them up and store them in a freezer.

:)
07-23-2011, 09:36 PM
CFH

Re: What do you do for a living?

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Originally Posted by CutMeMick

Follow women at night, creep up behind them with a rag full of methane cover their face til they pass out, drag them to my car then bring them home, kill them then have sex with them, chop them up and store them in a freezer.

:)

Chloroform is much more effective than methane. You're pretty, but you're not all that bright.
07-23-2011, 09:46 PM
CutMeMick

Re: What do you do for a living?

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Originally Posted by CFH

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Originally Posted by CutMeMick

Follow women at night, creep up behind them with a rag full of methane cover their face til they pass out, drag them to my car then bring them home, kill them then have sex with them, chop them up and store them in a freezer.

:)

Chloroform is much more effective than methane. You're pretty, but you're not all that bright.

I prefer the scent of Methane over Chloroform on a lifeless body...
It's just a matter of what turns me on. :D
07-23-2011, 10:11 PM
killersheep

Re: What do you do for a living?

I work in microelectronics......................mostly military.
07-23-2011, 11:29 PM
Ghost

Re: What do you do for a living?

Warehousing and Logistics Manager for a small company.

Also a Service Manager / Tech Support for the same company.

And no, I do not get paid enough.
07-23-2011, 11:31 PM
boozeboxer

Re: What do you do for a living?

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Originally Posted by CutMeMick

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Originally Posted by CFH

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Originally Posted by CutMeMick

Follow women at night, creep up behind them with a rag full of methane cover their face til they pass out, drag them to my car then bring them home, kill them then have sex with them, chop them up and store them in a freezer.

:)

Chloroform is much more effective than methane. You're pretty, but you're not all that bright.

I prefer the scent of Methane over Chloroform on a lifeless body...
It's just a matter of what turns me on. :D

I can't keep a girl since my freezer broke.
07-23-2011, 11:35 PM
Ghost

Re: What do you do for a living?

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Originally Posted by boozeboxer

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Originally Posted by CutMeMick

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Originally Posted by CFH

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Originally Posted by CutMeMick

Follow women at night, creep up behind them with a rag full of methane cover their face til they pass out, drag them to my car then bring them home, kill them then have sex with them, chop them up and store them in a freezer.

:)

Chloroform is much more effective than methane. You're pretty, but you're not all that bright.

I prefer the scent of Methane over Chloroform on a lifeless body...
It's just a matter of what turns me on. :D

I can't keep a girl since my freezer broke.

Now there is a chilling thought. :o
07-23-2011, 11:35 PM
Spicoli

Re: What do you do for a living?

I rearrange the chairs, coordinate events and handle staff affairs on the deck of the Titanic :-X
07-24-2011, 12:04 AM
VictorCharlie

Re: What do you do for a living?

I hunt armed men...Considering leaving active duty for a job in Texas and a sweet National Guard gig. I have a BA in history and am working on a master in military science. Prior to the military I ran a bar and before that I worked for the school district with at risk youth.
07-24-2011, 12:08 AM
El Kabong

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Originally Posted by CutMeMick

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Originally Posted by CFH

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Originally Posted by CutMeMick

Follow women at night, creep up behind them with a rag full of methane cover their face til they pass out, drag them to my car then bring them home, kill them then have sex with them, chop them up and store them in a freezer.

:)

Chloroform is much more effective than methane. You're pretty, but you're not all that bright.

I prefer the scent of Methane over Chloroform on a lifeless body...
It's just a matter of what turns me on. :D

Methane must sponsor one of his football clubs :vd:
07-24-2011, 12:38 AM
Andre

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Re: What do you do for a living?

Attachment 2149

I make these.

Attachment 2150 Attachment 2151

And repair assemble and install this stuff which is hand carved in China from Persian and Italian marbles.
07-24-2011, 05:50 PM
Pavlik

Re: What do you do for a living?

rehab aide
07-24-2011, 06:00 PM
BIG H

Re: What do you do for a living?

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Originally Posted by Pavlik

rehab aide

Rehab's for quitters
07-24-2011, 07:08 PM
Youngblood

Re: What do you do for a living?

I own souls. That means, I take people's money in a systematic day to day mathematical way. In short, i play poker online and am pretty good at it.

I just recently took a pretty bad hit though from the United Stated Dept. of Justice. They confiscated all mine, along with many others and their own countries people's bankrolls. It seems they like to want to tell people not only of their nation what they can do with their own money from their own homes, but the people of the entire world.

The tally was upwards of 150 million+, likely closer to 300 million when they shut down Full Tilt Poker. I made the mistake of having too many funds on there at the time. No one expected them to try to force their liberty taking bs upon the world, just American citizens. But alas. they did.

I still play on various other sites, but it was my main place and I lost a shit ton of money. Am a very sad puppy. It would be the eqivalent of say working for 6 months, and having every penny you worked 10-12 hrs a day for, simply taken from you.

There is a hearing going on next week, involving the owners (who were crooks), the licensing committee in Aldernay, the United States DOJ and a potential buyer of the company. We should find out then if we get our money back, or basically are all fucked. It doesn't look good.
07-24-2011, 09:23 PM
Andre

Re: What do you do for a living?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Youngblood

I own souls. That means, I take people's money in a systematic day to day mathematical way. In short, i play poker online and am pretty good at it.

I just recently took a pretty bad hit though from the United Stated Dept. of Justice. They confiscated all mine, along with many others and their own countries people's bankrolls. It seems they like to want to tell people not only of their nation what they can do with their own money from their own homes, but the people of the entire world.

The tally was upwards of 150 million+, likely closer to 300 million when they shut down Full Tilt Poker. I made the mistake of having too many funds on there at the time. No one expected them to try to force their liberty taking bs upon the world, just American citizens. But alas. they did.

I still play on various other sites, but it was my main place and I lost a shit ton of money. Am a very sad puppy. It would be the eqivalent of say working for 6 months, and having every penny you worked 10-12 hrs a day for, simply taken from you.

There is a hearing going on next week, involving the owners (who were crooks), the licensing committee in Aldernay, the United States DOJ and a potential buyer of the company. We should find out then if we get our money back, or basically are all fucked. It doesn't look good.

You really are testing yourself out lately hey Young fella!

You should come out wiser and stronger and be able to help others not fall into the same traps at the very least. Good luck with it all.

I belive if you have an air about you,(a feeling of yes its going to happen) of winning, it will come to you.

Ive seen it first hand many times ,even in poker with Joe Hashim the night before he left to win that 20 million some 5 years ago, I was already putting a marble fire surround in his bedroom (his family were already doing it,celebrating and happy like it had already happened)! When I'd finished the job I wished him luck and you could just see he had ticked every box possible,that dude was already half way up the home straight.On another note; I belive also that when you try to keep it, the flow stops.

This last year has probably been small steps here for you, a side path to a road to something better. ;) And shit happens along the way too mate,you just have to get back up and go on and leave it behind you. Ive just had some nasty stuff go down here thats going to cost me and stop me doing other plans for a while, all cause I took a chance and didnt insure for my daughter to drive my car. :p dumb risk, it didnt pay off.;D

If you want I can send you something thats an old path, made into modern words called the three keys to life. its an exersize (that you have to do mentally and physically) in knowing what you want, faith to implement it and control of the mind through the mind into feeling it. Then you can own it. Its a bit like setting up all your magnets at what you wish for.
07-24-2011, 09:28 PM
Mark TKO

Re: What do you do for a living?

i put my degree in history to good use and am now a splinter cell
07-24-2011, 09:45 PM
Andre

Re: What do you do for a living?

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Originally Posted by Mark TKO

i put my degree in history to good use and am now a splinter cell

Historys crap, Im a sphincter cell.
07-24-2011, 10:05 PM
CutMeMick

Re: What do you do for a living?

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Originally Posted by Andre

Attachment 2149

I make these.

Attachment 2150 Attachment 2151

And repair assemble and install this stuff which is hand carved in China from Persian and Italian marbles.

I had an uncle (RIP) who did the same thing.
He would do construction but also did tons of fireplace work for the wealthy out here in Los Angeles.
As a sophmore in High School I worked with him on several projects involving fireplaces and also ceiling and tile work.
He made some really good money.
So did I when I worked with him.
07-24-2011, 10:36 PM
Andre

Re: What do you do for a living?

Hey good for you Rob,how was your back? Mine kills, But yeah its ok, some risk evolved cause its heavy but fragile and because the clients usually own the surrounds from large importers and just get us to instal them, so we charge accordingly.

I couldnt be bothered with importing.Thats is where the biggest money is though, they cost from 800 to 2000 and sell here for 3,500 to 18,000 retail.

Im the best there is out here in regards to setting them up into working condition in the traditional French way. Luck, its in the family and I got born into it, Im 3rd generation,we started In London and My dad and grandfather put some in for the Queen too in Windsor and Kensington gardens.
07-24-2011, 11:28 PM
Nameless

Re: What do you do for a living?

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Originally Posted by Andre

Attachment 2149

I make these.

Attachment 2150 Attachment 2151

And repair assemble and install this stuff which is hand carved in China from Persian and Italian marbles.

I'd definitely fancy something like that in my house the day I'll buy one, that's some nice work there Andre.
07-24-2011, 11:29 PM
Nameless

Re: What do you do for a living?

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Originally Posted by VictorCharlie

I hunt armed men...Considering leaving active duty for a job in Texas and a sweet National Guard gig. I have a BA in history and am working on a master in military science. Prior to the military I ran a bar and before that I worked for the school district with at risk youth.

And what is the topic of your master paper?
07-25-2011, 04:00 AM
VictorCharlie

Re: What do you do for a living?

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Originally Posted by Nameless

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Originally Posted by VictorCharlie

I hunt armed men...Considering leaving active duty for a job in Texas and a sweet National Guard gig. I have a BA in history and am working on a master in military science. Prior to the military I ran a bar and before that I worked for the school district with at risk youth.

And what is the topic of your master paper?

I just started after the new year and AMU had some course requirements I had to complete first so I haven't started my paper yet. I have put the program on hold during my deployment. I had been doing some research on the characteristics of successful and unsuccessful counterinsurgency throughout history. I may decide to go with this topic or a variety of it but I am also thinking strongly on the failures of nation building by the west from a military point of view.
07-25-2011, 07:12 AM
CFH

Re: What do you do for a living?

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Originally Posted by VictorCharlie

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Originally Posted by Nameless

Quote:

Originally Posted by VictorCharlie

I hunt armed men...Considering leaving active duty for a job in Texas and a sweet National Guard gig. I have a BA in history and am working on a master in military science. Prior to the military I ran a bar and before that I worked for the school district with at risk youth.

And what is the topic of your master paper?

I just started after the new year and AMU had some course requirements I had to complete first so I haven't started my paper yet. I have put the program on hold during my deployment. I had been doing some research on the characteristics of successful and unsuccessful counterinsurgency throughout history. I may decide to go with this topic or a variety of it but I am also thinking strongly on the failures of nation building by the west from a military point of view.

That would be fascinating to research and to read.
07-25-2011, 09:45 AM
Nameless

Re: What do you do for a living?

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Originally Posted by VictorCharlie

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Originally Posted by Nameless

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Originally Posted by VictorCharlie

I hunt armed men...Considering leaving active duty for a job in Texas and a sweet National Guard gig. I have a BA in history and am working on a master in military science. Prior to the military I ran a bar and before that I worked for the school district with at risk youth.

And what is the topic of your master paper?

I just started after the new year and AMU had some course requirements I had to complete first so I haven't started my paper yet. I have put the program on hold during my deployment. I had been doing some research on the characteristics of successful and unsuccessful counterinsurgency throughout history. I may decide to go with this topic or a variety of it but I am also thinking strongly on the failures of nation building by the west from a military point of view.

And do you plan on focusing on a specific time period to compare the failed/successful counterinsurgency or you want to compare more or less some famous of these moments through history at large? That is an interesting topic indeed, let me know once you start to write it and at some point, I would be interested to read it, military history so to speak has always been one of my lecture's hobby.
07-25-2011, 02:42 PM
VictorCharlie

Re: What do you do for a living?

I was going to use some examples throughout history.

Jewish revolts in the Roman Empire
American Revolution
Soviet experience in Afghanistan and Chechnya
IRA
Vietnam
Mexican rebels in Chiapas
U.S. in Afghanistan and Iraq

maybe more, maybe less
07-25-2011, 07:23 PM
Youngblood

Re: What do you do for a living?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andre

Quote:

Originally Posted by Youngblood

I own souls. That means, I take people's money in a systematic day to day mathematical way. In short, i play poker online and am pretty good at it.

I just recently took a pretty bad hit though from the United Stated Dept. of Justice. They confiscated all mine, along with many others and their own countries people's bankrolls. It seems they like to want to tell people not only of their nation what they can do with their own money from their own homes, but the people of the entire world.

The tally was upwards of 150 million+, likely closer to 300 million when they shut down Full Tilt Poker. I made the mistake of having too many funds on there at the time. No one expected them to try to force their liberty taking bs upon the world, just American citizens. But alas. they did.

I still play on various other sites, but it was my main place and I lost a shit ton of money. Am a very sad puppy. It would be the eqivalent of say working for 6 months, and having every penny you worked 10-12 hrs a day for, simply taken from you.

There is a hearing going on next week, involving the owners (who were crooks), the licensing committee in Aldernay, the United States DOJ and a potential buyer of the company. We should find out then if we get our money back, or basically are all fucked. It doesn't look good.

You really are testing yourself out lately hey Young fella!

You should come out wiser and stronger and be able to help others not fall into the same traps at the very least. Good luck with it all.

I belive if you have an air about you,(a feeling of yes its going to happen) of winning, it will come to you.

Ive seen it first hand many times ,even in poker with Joe Hashim the night before he left to win that 20 million some 5 years ago, I was already putting a marble fire surround in his bedroom (his family were already doing it,celebrating and happy like it had already happened)! When I'd finished the job I wished him luck and you could just see he had ticked every box possible,that dude was already half way up the home straight.On another note; I belive also that when you try to keep it, the flow stops.

This last year has probably been small steps here for you, a side path to a road to something better. ;) And shit happens along the way too mate,you just have to get back up and go on and leave it behind you. Ive just had some nasty stuff go down here thats going to cost me and stop me doing other plans for a while, all cause I took a chance and didnt insure for my daughter to drive my car. :p dumb risk, it didnt pay off.;D

If you want I can send you something thats an old path, made into modern words called the three keys to life. its an exersize (that you have to do mentally and physically) in knowing what you want, faith to implement it and control of the mind through the mind into feeling it. Then you can own it. Its a bit like setting up all your magnets at what you wish for.

ha yea, it's been a hell of a year for sure. I know lots of people are going through hardships so I don't like to go on about it. I mean, I'm just a single guy and my troubles are my own, so pale in comparison to those with families and stuff. But yea, I'm trying to look at it as a learning experience, all of it.

And sure Andre, I'll read anything you want to share with me. Would appreciate it.
07-25-2011, 11:56 PM
Kev

Re: What do you do for a living?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Youngblood

I own souls. That means, I take people's money in a systematic day to day mathematical way. In short, i play poker online and am pretty good at it.

I just recently took a pretty bad hit though from the United Stated Dept. of Justice. They confiscated all mine, along with many others and their own countries people's bankrolls. It seems they like to want to tell people not only of their nation what they can do with their own money from their own homes, but the people of the entire world.

The tally was upwards of 150 million+, likely closer to 300 million when they shut down Full Tilt Poker. I made the mistake of having too many funds on there at the time. No one expected them to try to force their liberty taking bs upon the world, just American citizens. But alas. they did.

I still play on various other sites, but it was my main place and I lost a shit ton of money. Am a very sad puppy. It would be the eqivalent of say working for 6 months, and having every penny you worked 10-12 hrs a day for, simply taken from you.

There is a hearing going on next week, involving the owners (who were crooks), the licensing committee in Aldernay, the United States DOJ and a potential buyer of the company. We should find out then if we get our money back, or basically are all fucked. It doesn't look good.

Damn I've been focusing so much on Miles' decline I had failed to notice how different Youngblood has become lately and the bizarre life he leads.

Child prodigy and gifted youngster. Top national amatuer boxer even interviewed on the telly. Gets into a cool fight with an MMA rival and knocks him out with a spinning punch.

Then this year he's gone mental. Tragic suicide, prison, beating people up and contracting life threatening illnesses. Now involved in some big money poker controversy.

This could be an interesting story to follow. Much less self absorbed than Miles too, for whom 90 percent of his life takes place in his head. Youngblood is living the reckless, dangerous life of a Hollywood film.
07-26-2011, 12:01 AM
Kev

Re: What do you do for a living?

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Originally Posted by CutMeMick

Follow women at night, creep up behind them with a rag full of methane cover their face til they pass out, drag them to my car then bring them home, kill them then have sex with them, chop them up and store them in a freezer.

:)

I find this really quite offensive.

You know methane is the worst of all enviromental pollutants right?
07-26-2011, 12:05 AM
boozeboxer

Re: What do you do for a living?

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Originally Posted by Bilbo

Quote:

Originally Posted by CutMeMick

Follow women at night, creep up behind them with a rag full of methane cover their face til they pass out, drag them to my car then bring them home, kill them then have sex with them, chop them up and store them in a freezer.

:)

I find this really quite offensive.

You know methane is the worst of all enviromental pollutants right?

I disagree. For one it isn't the worst of all environmental pollutants because it has an extremely short atmospheric life. Around 20 years whenever you consider some things like CFC's can last for hundreds of years.
07-26-2011, 12:15 AM
Kev

Re: What do you do for a living?

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Originally Posted by boozeboxer

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Originally Posted by Bilbo

Quote:

Originally Posted by CutMeMick

Follow women at night, creep up behind them with a rag full of methane cover their face til they pass out, drag them to my car then bring them home, kill them then have sex with them, chop them up and store them in a freezer.

:)

I find this really quite offensive.

You know methane is the worst of all enviromental pollutants right?

I disagree. For one it isn't the worst of all environmental pollutants because it has an extremely short atmospheric life. Around 20 years whenever you consider some things like CFC's can last for hundreds of years.

It's still a very bad pollutant. Chloroform isn't perfect either.

Mick, you're a big guy can't you just use strangulation? No carbon footprint and a more personal touch.

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