I dunno. That hardly redresses the balance anyway.

The was ONE PICTURE ON THE LAST PAGE. And it was in a fucking quote.

I got nothing for my aggressive red lipped and apparently Spanish sea insect, I'm disappointed too Chump.

fullspectrum wrote:

I got nothing for my aggressive red lipped and apparently Spanish sea insect, I'm disappointed too Chump.

I posted an HILARIOUS selection of animations from arounde the worlde and got not a sniff (except an actual sniff from moody old Fizzace)

We want our rewards for our pictures dammit.

Skerret wrote:

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.

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

I've only had one person ever comment to me on my headphones, my Doctor. He was most impressed when he saw the Marshall logo adorning the side of my Majors, in fact he talked about my headphones before getting around to discussing how I'd pulled the muscles in my chest!

No thanks.

Moto70 wrote:

No thanks.

Well, I tried.

JonB wrote:

Lord_Griff wrote:

To put it very simply, success can be determined by a number of parameters. Success needs to provide a benefit of some variety to the individual otherwise individuals would not be compelled.

But the benefit may be a shared one that only benefits the individual because it benefits everyone - it doesn't have to be competitive or individualistic. Anyway, sorry - pictures. I won't add anymore unless it moves to No Subject or something.

Altruism is commendable.

Fucking post formating

Teenagers are boring.

Lord_Griff wrote:

People should stop worrying about how rich other people are. Focus on yourself. Strive to be better. Educate yourself. Identify what you are good at and what you enjoy. Align your working life with that and all will come good. Learn to spend less than you earn. Try harder at all things relative to your peers. Understand that you may have to sacrifice leisure time to achieve your goals, although if your goals are associated with something you love doing, it can hardly be a sacrifice. I was once told that the key to success is to find something that you would be happy doing for the rest of your life. Not an easy task, you can start by categorically removing the tasks you hate.

Fuck off. Seriously, the influx of wealth into London means that I can't afford to live in the city that I was brought up in and which I love. There's a huge recession on yet rents are actually going up. The amount of money other people have has a very direct effect on my life. This is without even getting into the point that this is a zero-sum game. There s a limited amount of wealth in the world, the rich can only get richer (which they are doing more effectively than at any time in history)  if the poor get poorer.

Beyond which, there's the argument put forward by The Spirit Level (which I've still yet to read properly) that most issues in society can be traced back to wealth inequality. All over the world, the societies with the most social issues (from crime to teen pregnancy) are the ones with the greatest inequalities in wealth.

Fuck off. Seriously, the influx of wealth into London means that I can't afford to live in the city that I was brought up in and which I love. There's a huge recession on yet rents are actually going up. 
Live further out and commute. Eventually move closer if you want. Rent has increased at a rate above inflation and average earnings. With credit constrained, people fail to obtain mortgages for properties overvalued by 20% relative to historic multiples of national average earnings. Property prices are maintained by the influx of people capable of paying the market price. Rent rates are inflated because (i) people can afford to pay these amounts (ii) housing allowance subsidies have been so high that slum landlords can rack up disproportionally large rates (changes to secondary, tertiary etc property tax, capping housing benefit and capping rents a la Berlin will help the situation).

The amount of money other people have has a very direct effect on my life. 

Why?

This is without even getting into the point that this is a zero-sum game. There s a limited amount of wealth in the world, the rich can only get richer (which they are doing more effectively than at any time in history)  if the poor get poorer.

Do you mean "zero sum gain"? With the global economy deleveraging, the finite pool of "money" is reducing and easy growth is being curtailed by the lack of cheap available credit. Historically speaking, go back 100 or 200 years or more, the distribution of wealth was far worse - not factoring in the "safety net" of the benefit state where relevant (a thoroughly modern concept).
A question must be asked about the statement "the rich only get richer" regurgitated ad nauseum by individuals of your persuasion. How did they the majority come by this "wealth"? Is it true that their situation only improves? How much of a contribution do they make to society? I would argue that the situation is far more nuanced than you appreciate from your rock throwing pedestal made out of perceived inequality and burgeoning apathy.

Beyond which, there's the argument put forward by The Spirit Level (which I've still yet to read properly) that most issues in society can be traced back to wealth inequality. All over the world, the societies with the most social issues (from crime to teen pregnancy) are the ones with the greatest inequalities in wealth.

I agree that wealth inequality most probably does drive a number of society's ills, however, much like an individual's ability to run a sub 4hr marathon is likely to be constrained by the amount of training they do a person should not expect to reap the benefits of hard work without actually doing the work (and when I say work I don't just mean paid employment and when I say benefits I don't just mean financial gain). There are places in the world - most probably the majority - that are entirely subsistence based in nature and therefore lacking the infrastructure to support those who aspire to differentiate themselves and attempt to extricate themselves from the poverty trap.

Moved to the other thread.

PICTURES