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3 June 2011, 08:36

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I don't need to look sharp for people to know 'He's the man'.

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#12

3 June 2011, 08:36

Originally posted by Churchill View Post

ftfy.

Tis true. I cannot get into any of my dozen or suits.

I used to buy a new one every time I got a contract. You can plot the waist size on the X axis by wealth and age on the y.

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#13

3 June 2011, 08:41

Originally posted by SASCretin

How tight are you?

When I fart I can hit a top A.

Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.
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#14

3 June 2011, 08:42

Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post

Fooking Wandsworth!!

You makes I larf sg!!

Your ignorance is only matched by your poverty.

Hard Brexit now!
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#15

3 June 2011, 08:46

I don't think there is a right or wrong way of doing things, it all depends where your priorities lie.

For me, I would never spend much on a suit (Next all the way), I buy designer label clothes but they will last me years as opposed to buying frequent no make clothes, and don't mind slumming it on standard class flights.

But I find immense enjoyment in owning a nice sports car, living in a house that I designed and half built myself and having a nice watch etc. As long as I am not living beyond my means then each to their own.

Like Milan says, the guys who get all the flash cars on the Tick are beyond me...
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#16

3 June 2011, 08:48

Originally posted by sasguru View Post

Your ignorance is only matched by your poverty.

Yes, it's nice for you that you made a lot of money, but money is not the measure of a man.
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#17

3 June 2011, 08:48

Originally posted by sasguru View Post

The watches thread got me thinking - seems some of you spend thousands on friperries.
I'm very tight indeed and only spend money on the following: house and location (have to be the best, that's an investment and you live there), working clothes (my suits are hand made - sadly in this shallow world appearance counts), holidays (5 star and club class always - probably a legacy of my backpacking horror student days), food and drink (no point taking in crap).

I can do without casual designer labels, flash cars, jewellery, and all the appertunances of an "aspiring" lifestyle designed to show off to the Jones's.

Don't feed the troll, guys.

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#18

3 June 2011, 08:50

eh Sas,

don't forget, you've got the garden portacabin - that is real one-upmanship

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#19

3 June 2011, 08:54

Originally posted by milanbenes View Post

eh Sas,

don't forget, you've got the garden portacabin - that is real one-upmanship

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My Grandparents had an outside privy in the 1960s!
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#20

3 June 2011, 08:54

For me it's getting the balance right between having a nice lifestyle and not living beyond your means.

Do you want to be the man that people say "He saved all his life and was good with his money, but what a shame he died so suddenly and left a £ million in the bank."

Unless you're talking about your parents, that is
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