Tempy wrote:

Elmlea wrote:

I'm more impressed with whoever made their fortune by selling AIDS champagne for $4000 a bottle to idiots who think it's flash.  Reminds me of the episode of 30 Rock where Jack's disgraceful champagne was shifted by associating it with LL Cool J despite it tasting like poison.

Well it's the same as Beats Headphones isn't it? You look everywhere, every sod has them and they take a look at my tiny sennheiser buds and tell me I've not got a clue and I just laugh.

Skerret wrote:

I'm more impressed with whoever made their fortune by selling AIDS champagne for $4000 a bottle to idiots who think it's flash.  Reminds me of the episode of 30 Rock where Jack's disgraceful champagne was shifted by associating it with LL Cool J despite it tasting like poison.

Well it's the same as Beats Headphones isn't it? You look everywhere, every sod has them and they take a look at my tiny sennheiser buds and tell me I've not got a clue and I just laugh.

People actually do that?  Maybe it's my demeanour, but I've never had someone try that on.

Tempy wrote:

There is a particularly gauche (gonna use that word AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE NOW AHAHAH) character in my lit class who has. He has lime green Beatz with red cables (red and green should never be seen etc). Now this is the guy that is in the following situation: plays for Derby Uni football and dodgeball teams. Has a model for a girlfriend. Professes to be totally Christian. Deplorable attitude towards women, openly planning to cheat on his girlfriend when he goes to Uni. Parents buy his: clothes, car, petrol, fund his course, give him money for food + drink etc, proceeded to tell me that I'd "not seen the Hobbit" because i'd not watched it in HFR. When discussing Gothic literature with lecturer, questioned why the Asylum from American Horror story wasn't listed as an asylum on the powerpoin. Said that in Dracula they should have just "ripped out Lucy's heart like in Vampire Diaries." Then, THEN decides to tell me my Sennys are shit and that "beats are sponsored by Dre so of course they're good" I just laughed and walked off. In the end it's ok though because he got a bare minimum pass in his last assignment and I got a distinction so fuck him.

equinox_code wrote:

Yea, i'm going down that other path of nobody needs a million pounds. Moreover, nobody can possibly earn it either, not least in the space of a few years.

Blue Swirl wrote:

Lord_Griff wrote:

Without competition, or appropriate reward for moving toward the upper end if the bell curve the human race would still be hunting and gathering. There would be no slack in the system to do the socially responsible acts of providing for those who truly can't help themselves.

Twonk. Tosh. Twiddle. One might even say bullshit, if one were uncharitable. If the only reason we did anything was due to profit, then we'd be in a sorry state indeed. You should read something along the lines of 'Mutual Aid' by Kropotkin. Working together, for the benefit of others without regard to reward for oneself, has been just as big a driving force in human history as the desire to accumulate wealth. Not saying that we shouldn't reward those that work harder, but what possible work can someone be doing to warrant spending tens of thousands of pounds, more than most people in the world will see in their lifetimes, on a few rounds of drink? There's being rewarded for a job well done, and there's taking the fucking smeg. There's a fair pay, well earned, and there's living like a goddamn king at the expense of others (i.e., those having their benefits slashed to pay for the mistakes of the ultra rich bankers we had to bail out, who then used that bail out money to give themselves enormous bonuses. For nearly bankrupting us all.) tl;dr - Profit is not, and should not be, the only driving factor behind human advancement. Secondly, there's a difference between getting what you deserve and bleeding others dry to line your own pockets. In the mean time, here's a picture of a happy cat. [img]

Elmlea wrote:

He's a gauche tool. I use him to paint. I do sit in our classes and wonder sometimes why people have picked lit. I mean I am not a prolific reader, i'm terrible at it (because of this damn forum) but there are people who just haven't read a book. It's gouache, I know, I know.

The only bit I disagree with you about is his parents helping with stuff.  I fully intend to be in the situation where when Nim goes to uni I can afford to buy her a car, help with her rent, bills, petrol, whatever.  I'll still encourage her to work unless she ends up studying something like medicine, but I don't think people are made into dicks just because their parents have the means to provide for them a bit when in higher education.  I think this guy's a dick, but he'd be just as much of a dick if he was running to the hardship fund every couple of months.

Blue Swirl wrote:

Lord_Griff wrote:

Without competition, or appropriate reward for moving toward the upper end if the bell curve the human race would still be hunting and gathering. There would be no slack in the system to do the socially responsible acts of providing for those who truly can't help themselves.

Twonk. Tosh. Twiddle. One might even say bullshit, if one were uncharitable. If the only reason we did anything was due to profit, then we'd be in a sorry state indeed. You should read something along the lines of 'Mutual Aid' by Kropotkin. Working together, for the benefit of others without regard to reward for oneself, has been just as big a driving force in human history as the desire to accumulate wealth.

Not saying that we shouldn't reward those that work harder, but what possible work can someone be doing to warrant spending tens of thousands of pounds, more than most people in the world will see in their lifetimes, on a few rounds of drink? There's being rewarded for a job well done, and there's taking the fucking smeg. There's a fair pay, well earned, and there's living like a goddamn king at the expense of others (i.e., those having their benefits slashed to pay for the mistakes of the ultra rich bankers we had to bail out, who then used that bail out money to give themselves enormous bonuses. For nearly bankrupting us all.)

tl;dr - Profit is not, and should not be, the only driving factor behind human advancement. Secondly, there's a difference between getting what you deserve and bleeding others dry to line your own pockets.

In the mean time, here's a picture of a happy cat.