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greypanther
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 Posted: Tue, 6. Mar 12, 22:15 Post subject: In it together eh? |
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I am very sorry for posting this, no really I am, but I just could no longer resist.
I first saw it on local BBC tv last night, on again to night where they named the 23 year old city trader. I can only find one link to the story, in the SUN! Sorry, but the BBC have run it twice.
My question to you all is: is this in serious bad taste and a pr disaster for all city traders? That considering the way things are going for the majority. Or is his over £ 200,000 splurge in a bar; in Liverpool; in one night, his just ( PART of ) reward for working hard and EARNING such a huge amount? 
He spent £125,000 on one very large bottle of champers! 
No, I am not motivated by jealousy in posting this. Yes I find this story obscene. Even if I was a billionaire, ( which I am not! ) I could not bring myself to do such a moronic and very public , act of greed! 
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4174266/Is-traders-200k-bar-splurge-the-most-expensive-ever.html
*edit* Heres another one, his name is Alex Hope.
http://www.juicefm.com/news/local/record-breaking-bar-bill-of-203k-at-liverpool-club-304/
*Edit2* Oh my goodness, he has his own website.
Full of himself and a complete ( edited ), or a role model for the youth of today? ( Oh its ok, the YOOF get greed already! )
http://www.alexhopefx.com/
His profile:
http://www.alexhopefx.com/about-alex
*Edit3* Ok self taught and up from the bottom, maybe he is a good rolemodel?
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AdrianM
  
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| Posted: Tue, 6. Mar 12, 22:32 Post subject: |
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That kid reminds me of Snoopy 
What I find annoying is that you can't beat the "poor" (23,4% pun intended ) bugger because he is too soft and sissy
P.S.Yes I'd beat the s*** out of Snoopy 
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RegisterMe
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| Posted: Tue, 6. Mar 12, 22:37 Post subject: |
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RM thinks that greypanther might be reconsidering some of his automatic assumptions  .
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Tracker001
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| Posted: Tue, 6. Mar 12, 22:37 Post subject: |
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I supose the bar owner should be hounded for chargeing so much for booze .
So pumping 200'000 into the pockets (minus bar owner cost) of a local business is evil .. If you say so .
It doesn't look like from the reports that he used the company he works for expense account to pay .
I guess he also didn't share .
Have to wonder which vinyard thinks thier swill is that good .
Did he tip 
Edit :
Was posted before your edit .
RM
How dare someone come up from modest means to become wealthy through the means that evil capitalisme offers .
How dare he be an example of what hard work can achieve
Yep being facetious and a bit of a smart arse . 
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greypanther
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| Posted: Tue, 6. Mar 12, 22:45 Post subject: |
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In a way RM, yes. My automatic response still stands in part.
This is still an obscene display of greed, that will always be my automatic response and no amount of ' he's a good chap really ', will change that.
Thus my view of humans, drops yet another notch! 
@ Tracker: Evil? Maybe. Define evil. Obscene? Certainly IMO! So much for David Cameron's in it together speech?
@ Adrian:
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| Posted: Tue, 6. Mar 12, 22:46 Post subject: |
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| Did he tip |
The report I heard on the radio was that £18,000 was included as a service charge. I really hope everyone got their share and none of it was pocketed by the owner (who almost certainly made more out of the evening).
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| Posted: Tue, 6. Mar 12, 22:48 Post subject: |
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I don't get how buying a round of drinks, posh or otherwise, for friends and strangers is an act of greed. To my way of thinking what he did was more an act of insane generosity.
Would you prefer that he just "stick the money in his bank account" and get even richer?
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greypanther
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| Posted: Tue, 6. Mar 12, 22:49 Post subject: |
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Yes the BBC repoted a serice charge too when they showed the reciept. The charge was up front and part of the bill it seems, not optional. 
*edit* @ RM: not sure I guess. at least in part it stems from seeing how so many are struggling so much, through no fault of their own, to even feed their own families. Rub; wound and salt springs to mind? I will think on it. 
( I won't even mention the truly poor parts of the world. )
*edit2* Just noticed your post tracker, you naughty person! That is not what I meant at all.
( sigh, am I that bad a comunicator? ah well back under the bridge for me! http://www.arfarfarf.com/troll/ a homage to me? )
or:
http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2009/2/8/128786203298453233.jpg
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AdrianM
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| Posted: Tue, 6. Mar 12, 22:54 Post subject: |
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| Would you prefer that he just "stick the money in his bank account" and get even richer? |
You mean you can get rich if you put money in a bank and wait?Show me that bank and I'll put "all" my coin
I thought thats a way to help the bank have more money and use them to get more money and with those money make more money ...and so on
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| Posted: Tue, 6. Mar 12, 22:55 Post subject: |
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Granted, you can question whether anybody who gets paid a lot of money is worth it, but as long as that chap has paid his taxes why shouldn't he spend his money how he wants? That's a different question.
If he'd drunk the entire thing himself, now that would have been greedy .
It's also possible that he gives a lot to charity. He might do, he might not, but it's his business. Why should he tell anybody else?
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| Posted: Tue, 6. Mar 12, 23:03 Post subject: |
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Did he celebrate the International Women's Day a bit early or what?
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| Posted: Tue, 6. Mar 12, 23:07 Post subject: |
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| greypanther wrote: |
| Yes the BBC repoted a serice charge too when they showed the reciept. The charge was up front and part of the bill it seems, not optional. |
If it was on the bill as a service charge, it was optional.
I've only once been part of a group that refused to pay an included service charge in full. You could see the manager wasn't happy, but they didn't make an issue out of it. (They hadn't had their chicken delivery on that day and consequently a lot of the menu was off; whilst that was beyond their control, they kept offering alternatives and then coming back 10-20 minutes later to tell us that was off as well. I think some people ended up ordering three times.)
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Tracker001
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| Posted: Tue, 6. Mar 12, 23:10 Post subject: |
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| @ Tracker: Evil? Maybe. Define evil. |
Just respouting (useing) terms used by ppl that are dead set against capitalism .
The same ppl that don't understand that it's capitalistic theory that ends up give ppl a pay check .
You are handed a piece of block steal . You machine it . Now you pass that peice to another person . You have added value to that piece by vurtue of chargeing for your time and work done . Sence you have charge a fee in money or trade , you have commited a capitalistic act .
What is not a capitalistic society ? One that allows for work tobe done without further compinsation other than food and water (example: Shanghaied sailors) and maybe a warm dry place to rest (at the extream).
I include in this ,the so called "Company Town" style situations .
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Don't do that Greypanther . Come on out . We will miss you if you don't .
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Golden_Gonads
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| Posted: Wed, 7. Mar 12, 00:35 Post subject: |
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I see no problem at all with what he did. He earnt his money, apparently he gives plenty to charity - Likely more in the last year or so than I'll manage to give in my entire life, so if he wants to waste it on overpriced drinks having a good time, then more luck to him.
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| Posted: Wed, 7. Mar 12, 01:03 Post subject: |
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I read this on the Metro this morning on my way to Sixth Form. I just laughed, what a waste of money. He quite clearly did it to try and make some friends
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