http://www.gemnation.com/watches/Patek-Philippe-Celestial-5102PR-15764.html this was the one I think
― raw feel vegan (silby), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
Retail Price $324,000.00Our Price $265,000.00Your savings $59,000.00
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
such savings!
See I wouldnt get a watch I'd get like a solid gold pocket watch on a chain that's hundreds of years old or something.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
i like this one a lot:
http://www.gemnation.com/watches/Patek-Philippe-Complicated-Perpetual-Calendar-5140R-17046.html
― eyes of dora maar (get bent), Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
i would hire an autistic manservant who can blurt out atomic accurate time when i point at him
― wrapped sausage stylus (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
I would hire nadal
― iatee, Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
i would publish long style section articles about how difficult it is to be alive and so very very rich, also which color of racecar is the coolest
― Lamp, Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
omg lols forks
― raw feel vegan (silby), Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
anyone want the crazy $5million diamond watch?
http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-5-million-expensive-watch-20120308,0,6401826.story
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
xxpost I love the Patek Philippe supercomplicated pocket watch, it's so fantastic looking.
but I need to put my money towards my robot army
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
What's the watch company with the slogan that's like "You never own a ________, you merely safekeep it for the next generation" and then it's like a picture of some douchenozzle with his overdressed rich teenaged son.
I always thought that was pretty brilliant aspirational marketing
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
that is patek phillippe
― dmr, Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
and the next generation would probably rather have its inheritance in cash
― dmr, Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think i'd do much of anything if i had a billion dollars. eat out a lot. buy more records. that's about it. sure as hell wouldn't work anymore.
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
i would never cook again. that much i know.
i would take up killing people for recreation
― wrapped sausage stylus (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 April 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
having no money kinda keeps me going. if i didn't have to keep going i really wouldn't keep going.
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
i would sure as hell learn to heli-fence
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
Thus spake entire history of western civilization.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 5 April 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
The small sample size of billionaires i've met have been people who simply could not stop working. It would drive them crazy to just relax and enjoy themselves.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Thursday, 5 April 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
in my world of billionaire people
― wrapped sausage stylus (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 April 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, of the actual millionaires I've known, they didn't exactly lead lives of leisure.
― Frank Youngenstein (Phil D.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
rich people actually work more hours than poor people in america, because they are crazy and need help
― iatee, Thursday, 5 April 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
there is a good way to help them tho, by taking away their money
― iatee, Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
I support this money confiscation plan 100%. Hell, 110%. I'm feeling generous.
― Frank Youngenstein (Phil D.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
it's important that we frame the tax issue as a way of helping crazy people
― iatee, Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
I think actually yeah you'd probably find that a lot of the merely wealthy and not super wealthy work all the time, because they are workaholics and/or the source of their wealth is some all-consuming position in an industry like finance.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
One of the people I refer to was super-wealthy. He donated $33 million to have a science building put up at Stanford. He's signed on to Warren Buffett's "billionaire challenge." He is really, really, really rich.
He also used to take his own wine to restaurants and just pay corkage fees, so.
― Frank Youngenstein (Phil D.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
Obviously in comparison to almost 100% of the people on Earth, it's not a tough existence but there's definitely a strangeness and a couple of legtimate problems that come with being super-super-rich.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
xp that's a sign that you're superrich tho! cuz you got better wine than the restaurant and somebody to carry that shit for you.
― wrapped sausage stylus (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
forks otm
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
I thought most really rich people inherited their money, not earned it being workaholics in an all consuming industry like finance. I'm actually sure of it, and will try to find a link.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
haha wellll it depends on what you mean by 'rich'
― Lamp, Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
tbh i'm more responsive & sympathetic to the plight of kids raised by elite super-wealthy parents than the plight of being super-wealthy per se, though i guess it's kinda hard to separate the two
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
rich kid plight not big on my plight list.
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
no plight listyou must be this poor to ride
― wrapped sausage stylus (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
xxxp, Yes. Aside from the obvious issues like the risk of kidnapping, it does seem to be a receipe for a fairly deep malaise and melancholy in a lot of young people. The ones who aren't braying and obnoxious, obvs.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
forks otm'ing the hell outta this thing
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
yeah malaise of youth is hardly exclusive to the rich anyway and I have a hard time believing it's any worse than the malaise of being a high school dropout with a convenience store job or the malaise of a middling statue u. grad who goes to work for an insurance company.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 April 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
malaise of pregnant high school dropout who can't get a job at convenience store wins plight prize!
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
plus, being rich kid automatically means bigger t.v. = problem solved!
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
I guess when I hear arguments like "rich kids can still have terrible absentee parents and wind up drug addicts" or w/e, I'm like "yeah that's true, and I sympathize with them! But who's better off, the rich kid with that problem or the poor kid with the same problem but no money for rehab or a therapist?"
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 April 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i get it, poor rich kids, boo hoo. i'm not saying my heart bleeds for them but their circumstances present some unique issues that aren't shared by their parents who may have attained their own wealth, is all
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 5 April 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
feel like the teen drug issue is abetted with pocket money
― and i don't even care, similar to how a badass would respond (Abbbottt), Thursday, 5 April 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that's what I meant
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 April 2012 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
IME, money is not an obstacle for poor kids getting hooked on shit.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 5 April 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
wait sorry I read that as "abated with pocket money" instead of "abetted"
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 April 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
more money ---> better drugs more often with more ease
― and i don't even care, similar to how a badass would respond (Abbbottt), Thursday, 5 April 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
not saying determined teens aren't gonna not get fucked up