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Grown men playing with plastic building bricks.
Grown men without children playing with plastic building bricks. 🙂
i press it even if i’m not crossing the road.
Ah ha! Was that you?
I thought you were older, you only look about 7.
I thought you were older, you only look about 7.
i've been teaching my son to do it too.
Sex pests who blame their victims and use the internet/social media to trump up unjustified sympathy and support,
Quite right thm , trump really is an orange bawbag
Why the hate of morris dancing, it’s been mentioned a few times.
It’s a pastime that, generally, involves pitching up at a pub, making a noise and a bit of a spectacle of yourselves, show a bit of ‘traditional local colour’ to the tourists, and payment is made in beer.
What’s difficult to understand about that?
Sex pests who blame their victims and use the internet/social media to trump up unjustified sympathy and support,
That and the ones being protected by their political parties
People who enjoy cheese and onion crisps.
People are weird. TJ and I doubly so.
But only one of you makes me laugh out loud...
Sorry for the thread resurrection but I was thinking about TJ's lack of financial ambition, for want of better words. I am pretty similar I earn decent but not great money, could earn more if I wanted. Anyway I was wondering if its linked to the socio economic class you grew up in. I came from a a single parent family living in a council house. When my mum remarried my step dad was a lorry driver. I have achieved much higher levels of education (phd) and earn more as a lowly teacher than my parents did. If I'd had richer parents would I have worked harder to be richer than them?
I was wondering if its linked to the socio economic class you grew up in
I reckon a lot of personality traits are - like buying £300 headphones (sorry, just a recent example), £1000 watches, things like that are beyond my comprehension. I'm sure even if I had the money I'd never pay for over-priced goods - just to get a fancy brand, or to make me feel special in some way.
(no: bikes aren't overpriced 😆
I mean stupidly overpriced!)
I reckon a lot of personality traits are – like buying £300 headphones (sorry, just a recent example), £1000 watches, things like that are beyond my comprehension.
Yeah, I guess if I wanted a £1000 watch or a £30 000 car I might work harder but I just dont see the point. Even my most expensive bike was only £1500. I wouldnt enjoy riding the 7k S-works version.
"The" or perhaps "a" point
Watch A - costs approx £100
Watch B - costs approx £1000
Both tell the time. In 10 years, A worth £0-20; B worth £1000 plus x%. So utility the same (both told the time) but B has also increased in value while A has lost most/all value. Which was the better buy (excluding here the opportunity cost of the £900.)?
The market for vanity watches crashes and watch b is worth 100 quid, so 900 quid spent having fun
Some people just wave their willy in a different way. Vive la difference.
The” or perhaps “a” point
Watch A – costs approx £100
Watch B – costs approx £1000
Both tell the time. In 10 years, A worth £0-20; B worth £1000 plus x%. So utility the same (both told the time) but B has also increased in value while A has lost most/all value. Which was the better buy (excluding here the opportunity cost of the £900.)?
Depends what else you did with the other £900. TBH I have never spent £100 on a watch either!
Anyway I was wondering if its linked to the socio economic class you grew up in.
For some people I think that is true. I grew up poor in an area where deprivation was never far away and done better with work than my parents and most people I grew up around. Couldn't wait to get out when I started working as I thought that was the expectation, but I actually moved back to the area I grew up in later in life yet could easily afford to live in any other area I wanted to. Just feel most comfortable here I suppose, I like the honesty and no frills nature of the people around me. No keeping up with the neighbours, no judgement about what car you drive, where you holiday etc. Haven't had to worry about a mortgage payment or bills for donkey years as my lifestyle is such that I could fund it several times over with the income I have. I can go away every weekend if I want to, but when I do it's still done on a low budget.
I just can't imagine ever spending huge sums of money on things I don't need. I have a nice car, but that is provided by work, would never spend that amount on one if I bought it myself. I received some good advice from someone close to me many years ago which I took and for me it has worked. Cut the crap out of your life you don't need or really enjoy. Be it activities, things or people and replace that time and money you spent on them with things you do enjoy. Sounds simple but it's amazing how much time you can free up when you cut out all of life's bullshit. No amount of fancy watches, headphones or envious glances from your neighbour when you have a new car etc can ever match that.
In 10 years, A worth £0-20; B worth £1000 plus
People sell these watches? Didn't realise that. That's understandable. Unless they just buy a more expensive one with the profits. 😉
Anyway, I don't [i]judge[/i] or [i]care[/i], I just don't get it and don't do it.
Dual footy scarfs. Sporting support is tribal so for god's sake make your bloody mind up who you support and get on with it. There's thousands of things I think I understand but would never ever get involved with, politics, religion, TV soaps, caravans, personal number plates are obvious examples but it's not my place to mock peoples choice. Diversity is great.
With respect to people with lots of lucre who continue to work long hours, I think you have to understand that they like doing stuff that incidentally brings in a lot of money. The money isn’t the end, hence they keep working.
Makes me think about premier league footballers - I mean your average mid-table professional earns more in a week than I will earn in 2–3 years, but that doesn't stop him getting out of bed in the morning and wanting to perform better, win stuff etc...
I think you have to understand that they like doing stuff that incidentally brings in a lot of money
Bit of a generalisation? The amount that moan at me about my longer and regular holiday time and their lack of time off suggests many dont like it that much.
Makes me think about premier league footballers – I mean your average mid-table professional earns more in a week than I will earn in 2–3 years, but that doesn’t stop him getting out of bed in the morning and wanting a new contract.
FTFY.
AA - I grew up better off than most of my peers. comfy middle class existence for me as a kid
Don't really get the sort of obscenely rich people who are dedicated to becoming even more obscenely rich. It's like a little kid who doesn't just want a four-pack of Mars Bars, but needs to have everything in the sweetshop even though they can't possibly fit it all in their greedy little mouth. It's right at the heart of our screwed-up, wound-up, consumerist culture and ongoing destruction of the planet.
Apologies to any of the obscenely rich, STW multimillionaires reading this, but I just think you're nuts. Go and ride your bike instead FFS.
Clubbing.
Don’t really get the sort of obscenely rich people who are dedicated to becoming even more obscenely rich. It’s like a little kid who doesn’t just want a four-pack of Mars Bars, but needs to have everything in the sweetshop even though they can’t possibly fit it all in their greedy little mouth. It’s right at the heart of our screwed-up, wound-up, consumerist culture and ongoing destruction of the planet.
I don’t really get this either, although I can see that a number of these people like the power and fame that goes with their wealth.
What I don’t understand is why these people are lauded so greatly, why they aren’t challenged about their crap “well it was my idea to set up an online shop, I provide the jobs, so I deserve my billions, whilst those that work for me should be happy with their 8 pence a day, supplemented by government handouts”.
Why are they not challenged about their distorted world view? Why are people not rioting in the streets?
Why are they not challenged about their distorted world view? Why are people not rioting in the streets?
Because right now, it's fashionable to either be (or look) uber wealthy. Also kids see other kids making millions from you tube or music or whatever, and think that that could be them. Try to tell them that the chances are so remote, aliens invading is more likely, and they just don't care. We live in a world that worships flashy ostentatious wealth, from cars to houses, to phones and trainers...
It will go pop at some point, but until that happens...
Crocheted (sp ) / knitted covers on bog rolls in B and B 's . why?
lots of cushions and pillows on the bed , usually women , usually in some sort of a 4 -4 - 2 arrangment , that no-one else will ever see , because it looks pretty / like a boutique hotel ( they cant afford to stay at due to car pcp ) .then they let the ugliest dog in the world on the bed to wipe its behind and lick its bits on . Lovely.
Hey if she’s letting you on the bed you are doing well - even if you have to lick your own bits!
Being right wing. I just can't get how you'd think that way, pretty much everything about it is worse.
Crocheted (sp ) / knitted covers on bog rolls in B and B ‘s . why?
Think you need to up your travel allowance old boy.
Maybe if you felt motivated by what you do for a living you'd feel inclined to put more hours in. Agree most 'jobs' are not worth the health and wellbeing hit, but surely if you feel motivated enough to try and address some big ill in life then it requires effort.
I'm a lazy sod, or I'd be out there making sure the tories are not elected again and we can begin to move towards a more equal society. I'm sure it can wait til tomorrow though eh...
but that doesn’t stop him getting out of bed in the morning and wanting a new contract
😀 Very droll! Fair point though...
So just imagine you lived your life not being able to understand how other people got on......
Adults going to Disney Land.
People who take their young children to the supermarket and let them run around like its a play area.
People who are obsessed with celebrity and fame. It's genuinely baffling. My boss has a thing where if he's chairing a meeting or workshop with new people in it, as an ice-breaker, he asks everyone in the room to name the most famous person they know or have met. At the end he then takes great pride in telling everyone that he's good mates with the golfer, Ian Poulter, which often results in some awkwardness if people don't look suitably impressed.
So just imagine you lived your life not being able to understand how other people got on……
I just don't understand people who think like that. What are they like...
Bullying.
I genuinely can't understand a mindset that willfully decides that they are going to spend their lives making someone else's existence a misery. Unfortunately, that mindset seems to have been elevated to a virtue at the moment.
Parents who are shit and bring up bad kids who think that they can do what they want until they get nicked and kicked up.
People who don’t care or respect each other.
Bad manners.
Prejudiced people.
Selfishness.