And the wankers in power are all excessively rich, class-ist, snobby sacks of shit who couldn't give a fuck if the common man starves and dies in the gutter, as long as they don't have to clean up the bodies themselves or pay somebody to do it. Or if they did pay somebody it'd be minimum wage. What they call 'what the law says is enough for you to live on' (their official wording, not mine) paid to the disabled, is not enough to rent a house, it is BARELY sufficient these days just to put food in a man's mouth, and drink in his tankard, and that only if he lives rent-free or in some situation of extremely reduced rent, such as I do, paying the bare minimum of housekeeping to my old man monthly, £120 a month. Which no actual landlord on earth in a 1st world country would charge so low as, for so little as a garden shed. Hell you wouldn't get a chemical toilet for that much a WEEK let alone a bloody month. And as such I can eat/drink, and either buy myself a modest supply of the chemicals and glassware I need to actually LIVE rather than simply not cease metabolic processes in a manner compatible with continual bodily existence, or save up over time to buy myself a really nice treat, like analytical equipment, or the rotavap I'm getting this time, and if I've enough after, a new vacuum pump and manifold+pressure gauge. Was originally going to get a UV-VIS spectrophotometer, but I've seen better deals on some rotavaps that are worth snaffling up now, and worrying about the spectrophotometer later (and besides, once I translate the original from riussian, I've found online, a really neat interferometer-based fourier-transform-IR spectrophotometer, and an FT-IR is actually the type I want most. Guy's built it himself, and even written the code for data-capture via the sound card of a computer. And that is going to work out WWWWAAAAY cheaper than the minimum about 5K second or third hand for an FT-IR if your extremely-fucking-lucky on ebay. And its rare to begin with to see one, most of them are UV-VIS.
