Never Lend to a Friend: Difference between revisions

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== [[Anime]] ==

* Cosigning a car lease for an old work acquaintance is what sets the events of [[Kaiji]] into action. And, of course, {{spoiler|the guy he did it for shows up and proceeds to die, ensuring Kaiji will never get re-payed for the headache.}}

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== Music ==

* "Listen Up" by The Gossip:

{{quote|Everybody knows someone like that

{{quote|<poem>''Everybody knows someone like that

Who borrows money and won't pay you back

''Who borrows money and won't pay you back

They'll talk about you at the drop of a hat

''They'll talk about you at the drop of a hat

Lie about it to your face when they're caught }}

''Lie about it to your face when they're caught''</poem> }}

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== [[Theater]] ==

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* The page quote from ''[[Hamlet]]'' was in the middle of a bunch of other, nonsensical, advice Polonius gave his son Laertes, implying that [[Completely Missing the Point|it was also not great advice.]]

== [[Real Life]] ==

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* It's worth noting how many broken friendships are caused by this. In fact, there's a reason why a gigantic chunk of cases on most "judge" TV shoes have to do with loaning money. It's better to treat any money loaned to friends as a gift, although it would be nice if they paid you back.

** For the majority of these cases, the agreement was only verbal and it gets hard to prove that the friend owed the other friend money when one can easily "forget" or not remember the details of the loan correctly.

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== [[Theater]] ==

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* The page quote from ''[[Hamlet]]'' was in the middle of a bunch of other, nonsensical, advice Polonius gave his son Laertes, implying that [[Completely Missing the Point|it was also not great advice.]]