Christ
We really do give a bad impression of ourselves sometimes:

- there's a question about conspicuous consumption
- someone posts a story about conspicuous consumption
- people have a moan and say it can't be true
- poster provides satisfactory explanation of why it's true
- people starts banging on about everyone in the City being cunts

Chill out. Sometimes stuff happens to people which hasn't happened to you. It doesn't mean they're a liar, and it doesn't mean they're a wanker. The whole point of a QOTW like this is that it's going to bring out interesting stories about experiences we haven't ALL had.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 16:54, 2 replies)

QOTWer in sensible reply shock!

(Sir Itchalot has a very self-referential signature, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 17:08, closed)

I know
I've been feeling a bit strange today.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 17:17, closed)

No no.
Anyone working in finance in the City is a wanker, I assure you.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 17:34, closed)

I think it may be you that's the wanker for stereotyping people... just a thought.
(TheBat, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 8:54, closed)

Not at all. They work in finance, in the city, by choice, they enjoy ripping people off, for pleasure.
as evinced by ... oh ... I don't know ... the global financial crisis, say?

If they were that nice and fluffy and friendly and nice, they'd be fucking hippies, wouldn't they?
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 9:59, closed)

So 350,000 people are all wankers cause they ended up working in the city, I'm a wanker cause I happened to gravitate towards a financial job rather than media, engineering, manufacture, retail or hippy? How is somebody working in the back or middle office of a bank ripping people off when all they're doing is performing an administrative function in the same way as an employee working in any corporation?

everybody in the city is to blame for the financial crisis?

You sound like you've been reading the daily mail too much.
(TheBat, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 10:29, closed)

Take it like a man.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 3 Aug 2011, 14:07, closed)