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But of course thatâs not good enough for the wrist-slitters and professional buzzkillers, who apparently WANT the Democrats to do badly â or just think that putting on a cynical pose to go with the beret is, like, yâknow, tres cool.
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They're not pill-takers or wrist-slitters or hangers.
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- In association with media analysis firm Editorial Intelligence RECESSION: The Daily Telegraph's Boris Johnson admires the people buying houses and opening shops with determination while the "wrist-slitters and gloomadon-poppers" in the Financial Times refuse to see any hope in recent rallies on house prices or in stocks.
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- In association with media analysis firm Editorial Intelligence RECESSION: The Daily Telegraph's Boris Johnson admires the people buying houses and opening shops with determination while the "wrist-slitters and gloomadon-poppers" in the Financial Times refuse to see any hope in recent rallies on house prices or in stocks.
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They’re not pill-takers or wrist-slitters or hangers.
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But when I read the wrist-slitters and the gloomadon-poppers in the Financial Times, and their snooty refusal to see any hope in the recent rallies in stocks or in house prices, then I cannot help thinking of the people who are buying houses, and opening shops, with a determination and confidence that will eventually lead us out of recession; and I think of the amazing animal optimism that urges the bees to try living in my bedroom, and I put Marcus Aurelius back on the shelf where he belongs.
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