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Re: Being poor whilst earning £100k
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 12:39 pm
by Pedro Sánchez
gwa wrote:i have 2 tonne to last me 2 weeks and i'm losing sleep about it
ARGHGHGHHGHHGHH
Thats more than JSA you lucky bastard.
Re: Being poor whilst earning £100k
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:10 pm
by wub
Pedro Sánchez wrote:gwa wrote:i have 2 tonne to last me 2 weeks and i'm losing sleep about it
ARGHGHGHHGHHGHH
Thats more than JSA you lucky bastard.
And he lives in the north, £100 will get you a three bed semi up there.
Re: Being poor whilst earning £100k
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:43 pm
by gwa
Pedro Sánchez wrote:gwa wrote:i have 2 tonne to last me 2 weeks and i'm losing sleep about it
ARGHGHGHHGHHGHH
Thats more than JSA you lucky bastard.
I HAVE GIRLS TO PLEASE GOD DAMMIT
Re: Being poor whilst earning £100k
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:45 pm
by Pedro Sánchez
gwa wrote:Pedro Sánchez wrote:gwa wrote:i have 2 tonne to last me 2 weeks and i'm losing sleep about it
ARGHGHGHHGHHGHH
Thats more than JSA you lucky bastard.
I HAVE GIRLS TO PLEASE GOD DAMMIT
Do they have front teeth?, I find the ones without front teeth easier to keep happy on a modest income.
Re: Being poor whilst earning £100k
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:54 pm
by gwa
yes they have front teeth
Re: Being poor whilst earning £100k
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:55 pm
by Pedro Sánchez
bummer.
Re: Being poor whilst earning £100k
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:02 pm
by Lye_Form
gwa wrote:yes they have front teeth
In their mouths or on a string around their kneck?
Re: Being poor whilst earning £100k
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:18 pm
by gwa
in their mouth
Re: Being poor whilst earning £100k
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 1:27 pm
by meanmrcustard
test recordings wrote:meanmrcustard wrote:one thing I will say on the subject of this article is that while it's obviously ridiculous, at the same time it's all relative.
I'm sure nearly everyone here as at some point moaned about how poor they are, I know I have. Yet there are people who would look at what every single one of you have and wouldn't be able to comprehend ever having as much.
It's not the point of the article, but what we should take from it is that we should be thankful for what we have. As shit could always be a lot worse.
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Of course it's all relative - to how much you spend! You can earn no money but live without it, or earn 100k and throw it all down the drain on cars and Waitrose.
Sure it is, that's my point though. You can easily say spending 100k a year on cars and Waitrose is 'throwing it down the drain' but people far poorer than ourselves would see the money we all spend on, I dunno, records as 'throwing it down the drain'. In the same way, if we were to suddenly get too poor to go out raving a couple of times a month, we might complain about it, but that's still a luxury in the same way that designer handbags are for people on 100k.
Obviously the further you are on the 'poor/rich' spectrum, the more vulgar it is to complain about being 'poor', but my point is, we're all probably way further along that spectrum than many yet I'm sure most of us have complained about money before (though granted, not in a column in the Daily Mail).
Re: Being poor whilst earning £100k
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:05 pm
by test_recordings
Mate you should try living in Tokyo, even though it's the most expensive city on the planet it's vulgar to talk about the cost of things...
Anything above necessities is middle class on global standards though. I don't actually think people should necessarily 'be happy with what they've got' though, since the amount that rich people rip off poor people by is so big many people should be getting paid more for their work....