Reply to: stop the drinking and smoking

[ChestyLaRue]

Sigh, "no monopoly" on becoming a millionaire. You just need hard work, ambition and the ability to ruthlessly exploit a nation and it's resources. Easy peasy you peasants!

[Doggy Styles]

Isn't this what's called 'shooting the messenger'?

[Mich the Tester]

I think almost anyone would for that much cash.

Nope, I wouldn't.

[Mich the Tester]

£13 billion mining empire inherited from her late father, Lang Hancock, in 1992.

Yeah, takes a lot of hard work to be given something by your dad.

Well according his wikipedia entry he was a bit of a ****, so she had to tolerate him until he died. Unfortunately she seems to have inherited some of his charm too.


Lang Hancock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hancock is quoted as saying,[15]
"Mining in Australia occupies less than one-fifth of one percent of the total surface of our continent and yet it supports 14 million people. Nothing should be sacred from mining whether it’s your ground, my ground, the blackfellow’s ground or anybody else’s. So the question of Aboriginal land rights and things of this nature shouldn’t exist."
In a 1984 television interview [16]
Hancock suggested forcing unemployed indigenous Australians - particularly "no-good half-castes" - to collect their welfare cheques from a central location: "And when they had gravitated there, I would dope the water up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in the future."

[Scoobos]

£13 billion mining empire inherited from her late father, Lang Hancock, in 1992.

Yeah, takes a lot of hard work to be given something by your dad.

[BrilloPad]

I think almost anyone would for that much cash.

Maybe. Mrs BP had a marriage proposal from a Texan many-hundred-millionaire. She turned him down.

What a happy she did not marry and divorce him before meeting me.

[vetran]

I wonder if MTT would if he got half her fortune?

I think almost anyone would for that much cash.

[Mich the Tester]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Long pig.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Now yer talking.

Pig that inherited half the iron ore in Australia and thinks anyone who didn't inherit half a continent's mineral resources is a lazy git. Bon appetit Monsieur Zeity.

[BrilloPad]

Has anyone witnessed this!

Yes. They go to work and their mouths are none stop whining.

[Mich the Tester]

I wonder if MTT would if he got half her fortune?

You know, I'm not a very materialist chap really. A decent but ageing car, a good second hand racing bike and a few tweed jackets inherited from father and grandfather are the only signs of 'wealth' I have and I'm quite happy with that.

[Mich the Tester]

Miss Reinhart stated there was "no monopoly" on becoming a millionaire.

No there isn't; in fact, with the right policies, everyone can be a millionaire. Billionaire even. Germany in the 20s, Uganda under Idi Amin, Zimbabwe only a few years ago.

What a fat useless bint. Well, useless, I suppose if the headhunters of Irian Jaya fancy having a barbecue this weekend I could think of a use for her.

[PorkPie]

10 pork pies a day is ok though

[BlasterBates]

Australian workers who go to work and slog it out

Has anyone witnessed this!

[BrilloPad]

I wonder if MTT would if he got half her fortune?

[mrdonuts]

a real "let them eat cake " moment