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Started by katmai, July 20, 2012, 04:26:37 AM

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Martinus

Quote from: The Brain on July 25, 2012, 11:04:24 AM
I only become friends with people who make significantly less than I do. It's a great way for me to feel superior.

It's funny but for me it seems to be the case as well - all my friends are significantly poorer than I am - I think the richest one makes 1/3 of what I make and the poorest makes 1/20.

garbon

Quote from: Martinus on July 25, 2012, 11:01:20 AM
But my point is that I own wealth I already got from my parents and this, coupled with what I earned myself, puts me in top 1%.

If this refers to what your parents currently hold then I stick to what I said.  If you're combining that in then you're just looking at your immediate family's net worth.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Martinus

Quote from: garbon on July 25, 2012, 11:08:31 AM
Quote from: Martinus on July 25, 2012, 11:01:20 AM
But my point is that I own wealth I already got from my parents and this, coupled with what I earned myself, puts me in top 1%.

If this refers to what your parents currently hold then I stick to what I said.  If you're combining that in then you're just looking at your immediate family's net worth.

No, I told you already that's not what I am talking about. I got help from my parents to buy and furnish my old flat (which now I own and as it has no mortgage on it, it adds to my net equity).

Berkut

Why does everyone care so much about whether or not Marty is in the top 1% of Poles by income or wealth?

All I know is he was too poor to pay for all our drinks when we met, so he can't be doing all that well.
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Razgovory

Quote from: Martinus on July 25, 2012, 10:35:32 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 25, 2012, 10:33:26 AM
What Marty doesn't understand is that the point of aristocracy is that you are aren't supposed to work for your money.  To do so is dishonorable.

Tell this to families like Romneys or Bushes.

I don't have to.  They don't live in the type of society like the Kingdom of France.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Martinus

Quote from: Berkut on July 25, 2012, 11:13:28 AM
Why does everyone care so much about whether or not Marty is in the top 1% of Poles by income or wealth?

All I know is he was too poor to pay for all our drinks when we met, so he can't be doing all that well.

I'm not poor. I'm stingy. I really dislike spending my cash. I feel safe when I can look at my bank accounts' summary and see a six-figure amount there.  :Embarrass:

Admiral Yi

Quote from: Berkut on July 25, 2012, 11:13:28 AM
Why does everyone care so much about whether or not Marty is in the top 1% of Poles by income or wealth?

As Neil pointed out eons ago in one of his few lucid posts, the only thing we really care about here is being right.

garbon

Quote from: Martinus on July 25, 2012, 11:10:53 AM
Quote from: garbon on July 25, 2012, 11:08:31 AM
Quote from: Martinus on July 25, 2012, 11:01:20 AM
But my point is that I own wealth I already got from my parents and this, coupled with what I earned myself, puts me in top 1%.

If this refers to what your parents currently hold then I stick to what I said.  If you're combining that in then you're just looking at your immediate family's net worth.

No, I told you already that's not what I am talking about. I got help from my parents to buy and furnish my old flat (which now I own and as it has no mortgage on it, it adds to my net equity).

Your "and this" threw me off. I thought that referred to the inheritance.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

garbon

Quote from: Berkut on July 25, 2012, 11:13:28 AM
Why does everyone care so much about whether or not Marty is in the top 1% of Poles by income or wealth?

All I know is he was too poor to pay for all our drinks when we met, so he can't be doing all that well.

Yi got it right. I don't care anything about whether he is in the top 1% by either. :)
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

szmik

Quote from: Martinus on July 25, 2012, 11:16:08 AM
Quote from: Berkut on July 25, 2012, 11:13:28 AM
Why does everyone care so much about whether or not Marty is in the top 1% of Poles by income or wealth?

All I know is he was too poor to pay for all our drinks when we met, so he can't be doing all that well.

I'm not poor. I'm stingy. I really dislike spending my cash. I feel safe when I can look at my bank accounts' summary and see a six-figure amount there.  :Embarrass:

how much Berkut drinks, that it would put your account under 6 figure?  :hmm:
Quote from: Neil on September 23, 2011, 08:41:24 AM
That's why Martinus, for all his spending on the trappings of wealth and taste, will never really have class.  He's just trying too hard to be something he isn't (an intelligent, tasteful gentleman), trying desperately to hide what he is (Polish trash with money and a severe behavioral disorder), and it shows in everything he says and does.  He's not our equal, not by a mile.

Razgovory

Quote from: Martinus on July 25, 2012, 11:16:08 AM
Quote from: Berkut on July 25, 2012, 11:13:28 AM
Why does everyone care so much about whether or not Marty is in the top 1% of Poles by income or wealth?

All I know is he was too poor to pay for all our drinks when we met, so he can't be doing all that well.

I'm not poor. I'm stingy. I really dislike spending my cash. I feel safe when I can look at my bank accounts' summary and see a six-figure amount there.  :Embarrass:

Well I imagine that if we we all calculated our wealth in Eastern European funny money we'd have a lot more digits in our bank account.  We only have Marty's word that he is wealthy and many of his other claims are suspect.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Admiral Yi


DGuller

I for one don't really care how much someone makes, unless it's less than what I make.

Ed Anger

Quote from: Martinus on July 25, 2012, 11:16:08 AM
Quote from: Berkut on July 25, 2012, 11:13:28 AM
Why does everyone care so much about whether or not Marty is in the top 1% of Poles by income or wealth?

All I know is he was too poor to pay for all our drinks when we met, so he can't be doing all that well.

I'm not poor. I'm stingy. I really dislike spending my cash. I feel safe when I can look at my bank accounts' summary and see a six-figure amount there.  :Embarrass:

Six figures? Poors.  :rolleyes:
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Habbaku

Quote from: Razgovory on July 25, 2012, 11:21:39 AM
Quote from: Martinus on July 25, 2012, 11:16:08 AM
Quote from: Berkut on July 25, 2012, 11:13:28 AM
Why does everyone care so much about whether or not Marty is in the top 1% of Poles by income or wealth?

All I know is he was too poor to pay for all our drinks when we met, so he can't be doing all that well.

I'm not poor. I'm stingy. I really dislike spending my cash. I feel safe when I can look at my bank accounts' summary and see a six-figure amount there.  :Embarrass:

Well I imagine that if we we all calculated our wealth in Eastern European funny money we'd have a lot more digits in our bank account.  We only have Marty's word that he is wealthy and many of his other claims are suspect.

No kidding.  Martinus apparently feels safe with the whopping sum of $30,000 in his bank.
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