Reply to: Oh Dear ™ Doomed! ® - part 2

[sasguru]

Twats have always been rewarded - it's the oldest profession

True. My mistake

[SallyAnne]

Yes our culture has started rewarding absolute twats which is why we're doooooommmmmmed.

Twats have always been rewarded - it's the oldest profession

[sasguru]

Yes our culture has started rewarding absolute twats which is why we're doooooommmmmmed.

[Spacecadet]

People with lower IQs tend to also be the richest?

Alan Sugar
Duncan Banertyne and Weir
Branson
etc.

premiership footballers
jade goody

[Bagpuss]

Well, you could argue there is a connection between IQ and wealth, right? Discuss.

People with lower IQs tend to also be the richest?

Alan Sugar
Duncan Banertyne and Weir
Branson
etc.

[AtW]

I think it is time to buy canned goods and bottled water...

[wendigo100]

Well, you could argue there is a connection between IQ and wealth, right? Discuss.

Are there any stats?

[SallyAnne]

Well, you could argue there is a connection between IQ and wealth, right? Discuss.

You could argue it....you wouldn't win though.

[Charles Foster Kane]

Sorry hun - I completely agree with you there. I thought you were calling the poor stupid. Not the stupid stupid!

Well, you could argue there is a connection between IQ and wealth, right? Discuss.

[wendigo100]

Whoa! No need to be so pessimistic! This is just a small correction, a soft landing and all that, then we'll be off on the gravy train again!

[DimPrawn]

Ah now I get it! You're talking about the knob-jockeys you see on property ladder and the like?

Sorry hun - I completely agree with you there. I thought you were calling the poor stupid. Not the stupid stupid!

I knew you must have meant something nice in there (and I wasn't being sarcastic before).

My sister-in-law has just entered the property development business. She and her other half are in for a shock on this one!

Already, the quotes for the work plus the expenses (legal) have taken their "profit" down to zero. What a time to get into this business!

[SallyAnne]

Fair enough. But there are also loads of self-indulgent people who'll buy stuff they don't need and can't afford in order to show they have an "aspirational lifestyle". They deserve what they get.
It may be different down south to the north, maybe we have more idiots down here. When I lived up North (well if Yorkshire counts as North) it seemed things were different - people were more down to earth.

Ah now I get it! You're talking about the knob-jockeys you see on property ladder and the like?

Sorry hun - I completely agree with you there. I thought you were calling the poor stupid. Not the stupid stupid!

I knew you must have meant something nice in there (and I wasn't being sarcastic before).

[NoddY]

and everyone knows a Yorkshireman could peel an orange in his pocket

You mean a satsuma, oranges are ostentatious.

[Bagpuss]

and everyone knows a Yorkshireman could peel an orange in his pocket

[sasguru]

I never said me - of course I can save I'm a contractor ffs!!

I was talking about the majority of the country who dont earn our wages - who do not have the ability to save, who barely get by on their wages. Those poeple are not stupid because they are in debt up to their eyeballs - they're just living! Just getting by!

Not everyone in the country is as blessed as we are - and by blessed I mean whatever "nurture or nature" made us go contracting....opportunity? ambition? parental guidance? natural ability to learn? Asberger gene? Who knows. Not everyone has is. Infact not everyone has the chance to use it, even if they DO have it!


Your comment just seemed cold thats all - unlike you normally.

Fair enough. But there are also loads of self-indulgent people who'll buy stuff they don't need and can't afford in order to show they have an "aspirational lifestyle". They deserve what they get.
It may be different down south to the north, maybe we have more idiots down here. When I lived up North (well if Yorkshire counts as North) it seemed things were different - people were more down to earth.