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Re:Is your personality fixed, or can you change who you are? by dasil003 on Saturday June 25, 2016 @10:48AM (#11976478)
Whoah hold on, are you saying you had an actual known heroin addict at your place of work long enough for you to deposit hundreds of dollars in quarter increments? The casual delivery of this left turn is comedy gold.
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Re:Is your personality fixed, or can you change who you are? by danieltillett on Saturday June 25, 2016 @06:06PM (#11978219)
Yes. When I started he was on methadone, but I guess like a lot of addicts he relapsed. The temptation of all that easy money must have been too great.

I have in my mind him paying his dealer in 20c pieces (I live in Australia so we don't have quarters). 20c pieces are actually quite large (11.2g) so a couple hundred dollars in 20c pieces is 11.2 x 5 x 200 = ~11kg (25 lbs). This was not some easy theft!

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Re:Is your personality fixed, or can you change who you are? by dasil003 on Monday June 27, 2016 @02:35PM (#11988359)
Ah, Australia, that explains it, I've live in both the US / UK, so I'm used to 25c or 20p, but not 20c.
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