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The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

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Terry Pratchett, Men At Arms (via idrabear)

This is one of the best breakdowns I’ve ever seen of how expensive it is to be poor.

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This is why I love Terry Pratchett.

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Sir Terry Pratchett

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spooky-moriarty:

holyf-rick:

remember that time andrew scott tied his tie into a bow tie because everyone was wearing a bow tie during the baftas

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when you’ve had enough and you can’t do anything about it

"There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea."

Khalil Gibran (via loveyourchaos)

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no but just imagine security guards at concerts

  • guard: oh here come the faggots
  • guard: why are they so skinny
  • guard: do not jump into the crowd i don't want to grab your crack
  • guards: why are there 12 year old girls throwing bras on the stage
  • guards: what am i doing with my life