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[MarillionFan]

What first attracted you to the multimillionaire serial liar Sasguru Mrs Guru?

[SueEllen]

Heard once that money fails to bring happiness with one exception. It allows you to live in a nice place, and that can genuinely improve your happiness level.

Not if your f***ing neighbours annoy you which commonly happens in the UK however big your house is.

[unixman]

Heard once that money fails to bring happiness with one exception. It allows you to live in a nice place, and that can genuinely improve your happiness level. I broadly agree. On the other hand, wasn't it Samuel Peyps who wrote that money "sweetens all things" ?

[SpontaneousOrder]

Money buys choices and freedom.

If you have money you are free to choose what you do, where you live and how you spend your time.

Money is the oil that lubricates the wheels of choices and freedoms.

Simple as.

Although it's earning those choices & freedoms which really brings the true happiness - the money is incidental.
That's why so many celebrities & lottery winners self-destruct when they hit the big time.

I suppose that a helicopter drop of cash could give you the freedom to do what you want, and that you could do great things. But then you're probably (if you really would do great things) the kind of person that would have made good money anyway.

[SpontaneousOrder]

Depends whether you're supposing that it's the money that makes you happy, or what you do to earn that money which makes you happy.
Apart from being needed for the essentials, money doesn't bring happiness. They just tend to coincide as what brings real happiness tends to bring money too.

no man may be smaller than his money

-- Fransisco D'anconia.

[greenlake]

....average 9.75"

....Irresistible to women

So, size DOES matter!

[MicrosoftBob]

Having the missus let me buy a Nikon 200-400mm F4 without getting buried in the garden afterwards, is why earning money matters

You can spend it on wine, women, and toys and waste the rest

[NickFitz]

Spit lubricates just as well. Read that on Mumsnet.

FTFY

[MarillionFan]

Money buys choices and freedom.

If you have money you are free to choose what you do, where you live and how you spend your time.

Money is the oil that lubricates the wheels of choices and freedoms.

Simple as.

Spit lubricates just as well. Read that in Womans Weekly.

[DimPrawn]

Money buys choices and freedom.

If you have money you are free to choose what you do, where you live and how you spend your time.

Money is the oil that lubricates the wheels of choices and freedoms.

Simple as.

[MarillionFan]

I'm never happy. Bah humbug.

[vetran]

100% true.
'Real' money can turn any man, irrespective of his age, looks, background or history into a male no woman can resist. If that's not happiness for a man I don't know what is.

From the book/TV series 'Human Instinct' by Dr. Robert Winston ..

"Women on the whole, prefer high-status ambitious males. How do these men show women their status ? They display symbols of their financial and social superiority.
....
Same guy, same actions - drive, walk sit.
Day 1: Not a glance from women
Day 2: Irresistible to women

If he had well groomed and neatly but economically dressed without the status symbols he would have probably have had a reasonable score. Poor science.

The judges were selected to prefer status symbols as well.

But generally I would prefer to be miserable in comfort rather than in poverty.

[DimPrawn]

100% true.
'Real' money can turn any man, irrespective of his age, looks, background or history into a male no woman can resist. If that's not happiness for a man I don't know what is.

From the book/TV series 'Human Instinct' by Dr. Robert Winston ..

"Women on the whole, prefer high-status ambitious males. How do these men show women their status ? They display symbols of their financial and social superiority. I am reminded of my trip to Los Angeles to make the programme on sex in the Human Instinct series. The BBC had arranged for four fashionable women to sit at an outdoor cafe on a smart Beverley Hills boulevard. They were given cards to score the next male to drive up and sit at the next table on the sidewalk. Unknown to them, my producer had persuaded the cafe owner to keep the table for me. I drove up in an old banger, a Ford obtained from one of the local film studios. I wore a jumper and torn trousers, with dirty sneakers. When the ladies held up cards like ice-rink judges, my four scores were 0, 0, 1, 0, average 0.25.

The next day I had a manicure at a beauty salon and a shampoo and haircut done by Laurent, who does Gwyneth Paltrow's and Meg Ryan's hair. I wore a twenty-five-thousand-dollar set of cufflinks borrowed from Harry Winston's, a thirty-thousand dollar diamond studded watch from Cartier, and a Versace suit and tie from Rodeo Drive. And I was driving a brand-new open top Bentley worth a quarter of a million dollars. As I walked past the same table and sat down, the cards went up: 10, 9, 10, 10, average 9.75"

Same guy, same actions - drive, walk sit.
Day 1: Not a glance from women
Day 2: Irresistible to women

This is why I drive the highest spec Passat I can afford.

[SunnyInHades]

Money can't buy you love but it can buy you a lot of poontang

100% true.
'Real' money can turn any man, irrespective of his age, looks, background or history into a male no woman can resist. If that's not happiness for a man I don't know what is.

From the book/TV series 'Human Instinct' by Dr. Robert Winston ..

"Women on the whole, prefer high-status ambitious males. How do these men show women their status ? They display symbols of their financial and social superiority. I am reminded of my trip to Los Angeles to make the programme on sex in the Human Instinct series. The BBC had arranged for four fashionable women to sit at an outdoor cafe on a smart Beverley Hills boulevard. They were given cards to score the next male to drive up and sit at the next table on the sidewalk. Unknown to them, my producer had persuaded the cafe owner to keep the table for me. I drove up in an old banger, a Ford obtained from one of the local film studios. I wore a jumper and torn trousers, with dirty sneakers. When the ladies held up cards like ice-rink judges, my four scores were 0, 0, 1, 0, average 0.25.

The next day I had a manicure at a beauty salon and a shampoo and haircut done by Laurent, who does Gwyneth Paltrow's and Meg Ryan's hair. I wore a twenty-five-thousand-dollar set of cufflinks borrowed from Harry Winston's, a thirty-thousand dollar diamond studded watch from Cartier, and a Versace suit and tie from Rodeo Drive. And I was driving a brand-new open top Bentley worth a quarter of a million dollars. As I walked past the same table and sat down, the cards went up: 10, 9, 10, 10, average 9.75"

Same guy, same actions - drive, walk sit.
Day 1: Not a glance from women
Day 2: Irresistible to women

[WordIsBond]

"Energy-saving lightbulbs can prevent good sleep".

I've tested this. It didn't matter which lightbulbs I used, I didn't sleep well. Finally the wife got fed up and told me to turn the thing off at night, and it worked a trick.