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A (Northern) friend of mine moved to London to work, and his peers were wholly "who's got the biggest wallet." Not excusing his behaviour, but I can totally see how richness can become a pissing contest. It's understandable how that "attitude to money" can be nurtured and encouraged.
An acquaintance of mine, from a fairly well-off family, took great delight in doing the whole "look at my wad" thing, and openly flaunting the significant amount of money he used to carry around, along with how he used to buy expensive bottles of spirits, etc.
He also used to go on about being a Socialist/Communists, so to someone like me, brought up in a real working-class family, with little money, I found this deeply offensive, and hypocritical, but when I look at the Labour Party over the last few decades, with most of its main leadership made up of rich toffs from equally rich backgrounds, who's education was at posh public schools, and who collectively seem to have a sense of entitlement the size of Nebraska, I'm not surprised at this sort of behaviour.
**** me this place is full of internet tossers who've never been pissed, never done anything daft or been young and foolish.
I'm damn glad my misspent youth was spent in a time before mobile phones and the internet.
zanelad - Member**** me this place is full of internet tossers who've never been pissed, never done anything daft or been young and foolish.
I've done some right stupid things when pissed, high, young, old, foolish but it doesn't turn me into a person I'm not. I've never been off my face enough to be such a ****.
I'm now 60, been young & daft for longer than a lot on here have been around.
But... I've never had money to actually burn or had the disrespect to do so in those circumstances.
The blokes a prick, end of.
**** me this place is full of internet tossers who've never been pissed, never done anything daft or been young and foolish.I'm damn glad my misspent youth was spent in a time before mobile phones and the internet.
Lol,
Doesn't matter how pissed you are. Burning twenty quid infront a homeless man are the actions of a tosser.
zanelad - Member**** me this place is full of internet tossers who've never been pissed, never done anything daft or been young and foolish.
I'm damn glad my misspent youth was spent in a time before mobile phones and the internet.
Alcohol gives you the balls to do the things that a normal mind wouln't do. I have experience of being pissed.
Of course most people have done stupid things whilst pissed, especially when young and dumb and full of.....well, you know.
BUT. It still takes a special kind of prick to do something like this.
I'd be interested to know if the reaction would be the same if it was some chav from a crappy northern town burning the £20.....
This was in Cambridge, that is the North.
Also, helping out at a homeless shelter for two year's would have done him no harm in his entrance interview for Cambridge university. Would like to know how many time's he helped out in those two year's.
...and if you do two years of voluntary work for the homeless what are you telling the world about yourself?
...that you want some 'social responsibility' on your CV to help you get into university or politics.....