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Warpy

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1. Not much of a mystery

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Mon Nov 9, 2015, 01:52 AM

Nov 2015

A lot of men really identify with their jobs, their social life revolves around people at the job, the kids are all gone, the wife's got her own interests, and when they're cut loose, they are totally lost. It's time to start drinking themselves to death if they're not rich enough to buy sports cars and attract young gold diggers. Or they take the quickest route and eat a gun. They figure their lives are over, so what the hell.

It will be interesting to see what the Canadians do about it. They won't give a shit here in the US.

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High suicide rate seen among men in their 50s [View all] shenmue Nov 2015 OP

Not much of a mystery Warpy Nov 2015 #1

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yup Skittles Nov 2015 #5

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