If they're programmed to say no, the programming has been done by salespeople who badger them to buy a product which is clearly unsuitable, even after they've already said no.

Jimmy was never going to be a corporate lawyer, but he could have been a good eldercare lawyer with, at worst, maybe a sideline in advising people on how to get around the law.

Part of me wants her to leverage her work ethic into becoming a far more successful con artist than Jimmy could ever be, but it's not really in her character.

Nah, I think there really is nothing the insurance woman can do. She looked pretty sorry for him in the office, I think if they had some kind of get-out deal she would have mentioned it then.

I thought it was real right up until he started talking about Chuck, and even then I wasn't sure until he started listing all the things that Chuck was supposedly doing wrong. I particularly loved the helpful way he tells her that his breakdown* is in the transcript.

I really want a stash hole like that in my house, even though I have nothing that needs hiding in there. That or a hidden lair.

I'm less sympathetic to Jimmy than most people here, but he was entirely right to tell her to fuck off at that point. There are so, so many reasons he was not going to go round and break down Chuck's door again.

Well, yeah, I doubt anyone was thinking 'we can't let people sign waivers for weird sex choking stuff, or someone might use it to murder them'. It'd be more like 'we can't let people sign away their basic rights, or inevitably people will do so under duress'. But the basic rationale is the same: there are some things…

My favourite one for 9/11 truthers is "So, let's say that it was an inside job. If the CIA or whoever wanted to stage a terrorist attack, why fake the thing with the planes? Why not just plant bombs in the World Trade Centre and then go 'omg, Al Qaeda has blown up the World Trade Centre, those bastards'? Why go to a…

That's the point, it couldn't be legal and binding. There was a case in Germany where some guy filmed himself consenting to be killed and eaten by another guy. This happened, and the killer was convicted of manslaughter, and then retried and convicted of murder. Apparently the upgrade hinged partly on whether the dead…

Yeah, without hearing the call, it sounded like 'how can I avoid the consequences of my shitty actions?'

Yes, that's what it was. I am so devastated before your amazing powers of argument.

I think there's a flaw in the second part of your plan.

*golf clap*

If only the FBI had done that…

But it sounds so insane! "He defecated through a sunroof!" "Sure he did, Mr McGill. It's time for your medication."

For me, the big thing in the 'Jimmy is also a terrible person' column is that, knowing Chuck's fragile mental state and that the only thing that he still had was his super-lawyer abilities, he made Chuck think that he'd lost those as well. Jimmy knew it would break him. If Chuck had been less distrustful of Jimmy, it…

'Do this or die' is not a choice in any meaningful sense of the word.

My office doesn't even really have physical mail.

They could have got it for about $30,000, but it was part of the defence budget, so…