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Is the GFC turning out to be as good for you as it is for me?
Save for any poor souls who invested with a bloke named Bernie or used to turn up for work at Macquarie every day, the GFC is a gift horse we are looking plum in the mouth.
For one thing, the GFC, with one elegant swoop, does away with the pretense of sociability or politeness or even basic hygiene.
The GFC has undone years, decades, of social mores and replaced it with a brave new world, one where we now have the perfect cover to embrace that indolent, indulgent, trackpants-clad life we have always yearned for.
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