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oldbloke ([personal profile] oldbloke) wrote2008-02-07 11:53 am

Some people

1st one and last one on this page are corkers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/jan/26/4

[identity profile] g8bur.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
Good grief, aren't they just? Especially the first one; if someone jumps into a swamp of alligators, they shouldn't complain when they get bitten...

[identity profile] vinaigrettegirl.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
thank you! I thought *I* had money and sanity problems, but apparently, not. :-)

[identity profile] the-warwick.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 12:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Upstairs bar?!

[identity profile] oldbloke.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
No idea what that's a euphemism for. I suspect I don't want to know.

I especially liked this bit:
"I do not see how it is possible to spend this much money in an evening".
My immediate thought was 'you don't get out much, do you?'.
Not that anywhere I'd ever be likely to go would cost me that much, but even I know it's very very easy to spend that kind of figure if you do it right.

[identity profile] caramel-betty.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Some city types I know have previously intimated things like private rooms, more "intimate" dances etc.

(One was trying to convince a bunch of us to go to one with him after the pub shut. He knew my... preferences. The whole conversation was quite odd.)

[identity profile] oldbloke.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Last stag do I went on was an afternoon at Haydock losing money on the geegees followed by an evening at Bolton casino, losing money on a variety o things. We should have signed up for the poker, we'd have had a chance there.
About 11ish, some of them insisted on dragging the groom-to-be off to a lap dancing place, but he was back within an hour! Maybe the dancers aren't very good in Bolton, I dunno.

[identity profile] nalsa.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
The PS on the first letter from last saturday's Money secion: http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/feb/02/2

[identity profile] imc.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
When I clicked on that link, one of the sidebar job ads said:
Credit Controller

Forties People. South West London. GBP9.50 to GBP10.00 per annum.

[identity profile] oldbloke.livejournal.com 2008-02-08 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
Shouldn't laugh, really.
I will though.

[identity profile] muffledsqueak.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 01:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Man spends $241,000 in a single night in a strip club - 'claims he intended to spend "just" $20,000 of his own money'.

[identity profile] imc.livejournal.com 2008-02-07 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Golly. This chap apparently
proceeded to entertain as many as 15 dancers at a time for an “all-night event”.
They say that as if $241,000 is a reasonable night's wage for 15 people. Where does one sign up to become an employee of this establishment?

[identity profile] oldbloke.livejournal.com 2008-02-08 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, it's only £8,000 per head.