Ofc, my point was the bolded part below, and most gave up and fucked off because the money wasn't as easy as it was before:
open secret: google panda & penguin fucked me up MASSIVELY, and in 2012 or so (I'm fuzzy on the exact dates) I was on my arse, and my company then went on to become bankrupt. Panda/penguin was very closely followed by the culmination of my alcoholism, and subsequent split then divorce from my partner of 16 years. I'd spunked all my earnings because I'm an everything at 150mph idiot lol, so was in a right mess. Everyone offline was telling me to go and get 'a real job'. I said fuck that, there are hundreds of millions of surfers, tried different things, had nickatilynx & his brother go the extra mile for me which led indirectly to other stuff, read what JT posted pretty much everywhere, and here we are (it took about 2 - 3 years to get back on my feet).
I'll never be on thommy's level, nor the many of the guys here who either post or lurk - I've always known I'm a small fish, but as porn nerd said in this thread, it's what you want that 'stops' you doing anything, not external forces. Whining about those is pure bollocks, and maybe it has something to do with my past jobs as an engineer (fruit machines & associated, then tv aerials/satellite dishes), but when you 'can't' fix a machine and the guy is losing money, or you 'can't' fix the old ladies tv aerial or satellite dish and she is going to go all xmas with no TV, then you find a way to fucking fix it, even if it takes you 12 hours. What you don't do is piss and moan about the obstacles like a 12 year old girl.
The amount of solid gold I've seen posted here over the years that you and like-minded people dismiss or try to argue about is fascinating to me, instead of being teachable and using things to your collective advantage, shit gets spouted as 'fact' because the understanding isn't there. I do actually get that you are on some life crusade to call out what you THINK is bullshit, but instead of asking questions and learning, you go all in with non-knowledge and look stupid to anyone who actually is knowledgeable on whatever the subject is, and far from 'helping newbies' as you so often claim, you do them a great disservice because those same newbies have no idea you're a miserable old fuck cursed with no sense that you might have something to learn, ever.
