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In Memory of All Those We Have Lost to MLMs

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lastuseraccount123 · 08/02/2016 17:12

in this thread, we light tealights, lay parslai wreaths or whatever to remember all those friends and family we have lost to MLMs.

In Memory of All Those We Have Lost to MLMs
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lastuseraccount123 · 12/02/2016 00:40

OMG BS omg omg hun that is sooo touchin

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BSintolerant · 12/02/2016 00:49

It came from the heart.

Maybe the first line should read

"Do not stand at my grave and Eeeeeeeeeeeek! "

FloraFurball · 12/02/2016 01:08

I am almost disappointed that I haven't lost anyone to a MLM and have never been invited to a 'business opportunity event'. That said, myself and most of my FB friends are professionally qualified finance people; accountants, auditors and the like.

We probably don't get invited because we might ask difficult questions. Ya know, about basic accountacy shit like turnover, profit, liabilities, insurance, tax, NI conts etc. Such tiresome details for the high powered business peeps!!

BSintolerant · 12/02/2016 01:20

They probably think NI conts are c*nts people with jobs from Northern Ireland.

Maybe that explains the picture of the mug in thread 6. BrewWink

stopfaffing · 12/02/2016 07:57

I love your poem, BS, brought tears to my eyes, so profound Wink. Can you please share it on the other thread, the fb page, and the TV page

WonderousStories · 12/02/2016 13:48

Being touched by a poem is so much nicer than #touchingmybusiness

BSintolerant · 12/02/2016 16:08

stopfaffing I'm touched that you're touched, but not as touched as some of the poor bots out there. Wink

I'll will share it on the other thread. If you, or anyone else, would like to post it on TV or any of the FB pages on my behalf, feel free.

I'd rather stay undercover because I don't want my dear friend (who is as happy as a bot in aloe) to know I've joined the zee MLM Resistance. Aloe aloe indeed.

#vivelaresistance #aloealoe

lastuseraccount123 · 12/02/2016 16:11

omg I love it. the REsistance. HAHAHAHA!~!!

may I steal that line for the blog? I really love it.

Also, you will be credited as the author of the poem - as BSintolerant. is that ok?

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BSintolerant · 12/02/2016 16:37

lastuseraccount Steal away: we are The Resistance!

And yes, please use my codename "BSintolerant". Grin

Kr1stina · 12/02/2016 16:45

I am lucky enough not to have lost anyone to MLM. But I spot you in " active " and pop in because you make me laugh

Some bastads somewhere are making a hell of a lot of money out of vulnerable people and i salute you for fighting back

Flowers

[ wine]

Kr1stina · 12/02/2016 16:46

Or even Wine

lastuseraccount123 · 12/02/2016 18:10

thanks Kr1stina

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lastuseraccount123 · 12/02/2016 18:12

Anyone up for a doing a haiku? A bot-lost haiku?

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lastuseraccount123 · 12/02/2016 18:18

timelessvie.wordpress.com/2016/02/12/an-ode-to-lost-bots-beautiful-poem-by-a-mumsnetter/

sniff. i am so proud of u BS

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Germgirl · 12/02/2016 18:22

Is Athena an MLM? An acquaintance on mine on FB has been hounding me for weeks telling me to join her in becoming more healthy, sorting my life out, ruling the bloody world etc.
I've never heard of Athena but it appears to be aloe based?

thenewaveragebear1983 · 12/02/2016 18:28

Well you lot may be sad about losing your friends to mlm, but they're clearly not as successful as MY bot.... She's going g to be earning ten grand a month by the end of the year and she's going to take all her bffs to new York. Yes, really. (By my calculation, if she gets 35%, she needs to sell about 30 grands worth of aloe A MONTH every month, to earn ten grand a month. So I'm not sure if its true.......)

lastuseraccount123 · 12/02/2016 18:35

wonder how much debt she'll have to go into to pull that off?

lights tealight

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BSintolerant · 12/02/2016 19:05

Last thank you. Are you sniffing parslai?

A haiku - what a good idea. Or maybe a prayer? Grin

lastuseraccount123 · 12/02/2016 20:36

haha yes.

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WonderousStories · 13/02/2016 15:50

germgirl Athena is a new one on me - it makes me think of 1980s posters...

Powertotheparalai · 13/02/2016 16:53

A gangster rap in loving memory Huns

As I walk through the fields of the aloe of debt

I take a look at my friends list and realize there's nothin' left
'Cause I've been lying and prospecting so long,
That even my mama thinks that my mind is gone
But I ain't never crossed a down line that didn't deserve it
Me be treated like a punk you know that's unheard of

You better watch how you're talking and where you're sizzling
Or you and your homies might be homeless cold and drizzling

I really hate to trip but I gotta loc
As they croak, I see myself in the reality smoke, fool
I'm the kinda Bot the little homies wanna be like

On my knees in the night saying prayers to my bank in the streetlight

Been spending most their lives, living in forever's false paradise
Been spending most their lives, living in forever's false paradise
Keep spending most our lives, living in forever's false paradise
Keep spending most our lives, living in forever's false paradise

Look at the situation they got me facin'
I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the lies
So I gotta be down with the bot team
Too much training weekends got me chasing dreams
I'm an educated fool with money on my mind
Got my white merc on loan keys in my hand and a gleam in my eye
I'm a loc'd out bot set trippin' liar
And my homies is down so don't arouse my anger, fool
Death ain't nothing but a heartbeat away,
I'm living life, do or die, what can I say
I'm 23 grand down now, and I'll live to see 24
The way things are going I don't know how much more

Tell me why are we so blind to see
That the ones we hurt are you and me

Been spending most their lives, living in forever's false paradise
Been spending most their lives, living in forever's false paradise
Keep spending most our lives, living in forever's false paradise
Keep spending most our lives, living in forever's false paradise

Power and the money, money and the power
Minute after minute, hour after hour
Everybody's running, but half of them ain't looking
What's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'
They say I gotta learn, but masters of deception are here to teach me
If haterz can't understand it, how can they reach me
I guess they can't, I guess they won't
I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, broke

Been spending most their lives, living in forever's false paradise
Been spending most their lives, living in forever's false paradise
Keep spending most our lives, living in forever's false paradise
Keep spending most our lives, living in forever's false paradise

Tell me why are we so blind to see
That the ones we hurt are you and me
Tell me why are we so blind to see
That the ones we hurt are you and me
[Fade out]

ambler21 · 13/02/2016 19:51

Very smooth.
Bankers Paradise

In Memory of All Those We Have Lost to MLMs
lastuseraccount123 · 13/02/2016 21:13

bloody fabulous power. sniff. deeply moving

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lastuseraccount123 · 13/02/2016 21:15

Ambler I love your poem too. I'm thinking about doing a sep song/poety/odes to lost bots section on the blog. Can I add yours too? and the gangsta rap piece? because u is all amazin and the viestars need to know

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ambler21 · 13/02/2016 21:24

Of course :)

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