Title: Down the smoke Post by: RED-DOG on August 14, 2007, 06:32:25 PM I spent the last couple of days in London with Mrs Red and my youngest girl Bridie, while we were there we had a walk around Harvey Nics. OMG! Is it really possible to manufacture shoes that are £750....EACH? Or for a scone and a tea to cost £14? Or for an ordinary looking jacket to be REDUCED to £1399?
I watched lots of ladies buying stuff, and I watched Mrs Red not buying stuff. I asked her if she envied them and she replied, "No". "They think they need those things, no matter what they buy, they will want more tomorrow" "Tomorrow they will be wanting, I won't" Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: Sark79 on August 14, 2007, 06:49:41 PM I am a cheap skate so I would never pay that for a pair of shoes.
How about this knife my friend has ordered for his fishing once a week. It can do everthing, but it is £500 , lol . http://www.gadgetshop.com/pws/ProductDetails.ice?ProductID=1181 Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: Dingdell on August 14, 2007, 06:51:27 PM I spent the last couple of days in London with Mrs Red and my youngest girl Bridie, while we were there we had a walk around Harvey Nics. OMG! Is it really possible to manufacture shoes that are £750....EACH? Or for a scone and a tea to cost £14? Or for an ordinary looking jacket to be REDUCED to £1399? I watched lots of ladies buying stuff, and I watched Mrs Red not buying stuff. I asked her if she envied them and she replied, "No". "They think they need those things, no matter what they buy, they will want more tomorrow" "Tomorrow they will be wanting, I won't" Mrs Red is absolute Class. Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: RED-DOG on August 14, 2007, 06:57:49 PM Did you know that Picadilly was named after the picadil collar? (the big lacey jobbes) The geezer that manufactured them made a vast fortune and built most of that part of the city.
Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: The_nun on August 14, 2007, 07:06:42 PM Shoes for 750, I heard they exsisted...I would not dare walk on them..do they come with auto roll out carpet.I have a pair of Jesus like sandles that have been with me years.. they tend to pong quite a lot now but can not bring myself to part with them..and besides ..I wish I could walk in heels but I lost that talent years ago when I became a commercial window cleaner, I found it hard to balance 30ft up a ladder in high heels.
Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: RED-DOG on August 14, 2007, 07:09:27 PM Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: NoflopsHomer on August 14, 2007, 07:33:44 PM Did you know that Picadilly was named after the picadil collar? (the big lacey jobbes) The geezer that manufactured them made a vast fortune and built most of that part of the city. Did you walk around thinking, "Gah, it's like Picadilly Circus around here..." Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: Dingdell on August 14, 2007, 08:27:06 PM Very cost effective for a one legged man. I wonder if they would make you buy both or if you could just buy the 1? Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: bolt pp on August 15, 2007, 01:00:04 AM I spent the last couple of days in London with Mrs Red and my youngest girl Bridie, while we were there we had a walk around Harvey Nics. OMG! Is it really possible to manufacture shoes that are £750....EACH? Or for a scone and a tea to cost £14? Or for an ordinary looking jacket to be REDUCED to £1399? I watched lots of ladies buying stuff, and I watched Mrs Red not buying stuff. I asked her if she envied them and she replied, "No". "They think they need those things, no matter what they buy, they will want more tomorrow" "Tomorrow they will be wanting, I won't" She was lying Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: RED-DOG on August 15, 2007, 01:02:10 AM I spent the last couple of days in London with Mrs Red and my youngest girl Bridie, while we were there we had a walk around Harvey Nics. OMG! Is it really possible to manufacture shoes that are £750....EACH? Or for a scone and a tea to cost £14? Or for an ordinary looking jacket to be REDUCED to £1399? I watched lots of ladies buying stuff, and I watched Mrs Red not buying stuff. I asked her if she envied them and she replied, "No". "They think they need those things, no matter what they buy, they will want more tomorrow" "Tomorrow they will be wanting, I won't" She was lying Yes, I can understand how you would think that. Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: ACE2M on August 15, 2007, 01:15:24 AM my dad said to me once when i was a kid and being mardy because i couldn't have something. 'Don't envy the rich son, essentially there doing the same stuff as me and you but they're just doing it in more expensive shoes'.
Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: RichEO on August 15, 2007, 02:02:07 AM How about this knife my friend has ordered for his fishing once a week. It can do everthing, but it is £500 , lol . http://www.gadgetshop.com/pws/ProductDetails.ice?ProductID=1181 Not quite everything, it's pretty much unusable as a normal pen knife because it's too big to hold properly. Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: kinboshi on August 15, 2007, 09:12:58 AM How about this knife my friend has ordered for his fishing once a week. It can do everthing, but it is £500 , lol . http://www.gadgetshop.com/pws/ProductDetails.ice?ProductID=1181 Not quite everything, it's pretty much unusable as a normal pen knife because it's too big to hold properly. Useful as a doorstop though. Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: pswnio on August 15, 2007, 09:16:30 AM On the plus side I got six pairs of comfy boxer shorts and six pairs of "executive" socks from Edmonton market in NE London the other day for a tenner, so it's not all bad :)
Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: RED-DOG on August 15, 2007, 09:23:11 AM On the plus side I got six pairs of comfy boxer shorts and six pairs of "executive" socks from Edmonton market in NE London the other day for a tenner, so it's not all bad :) Not all bad by any means. We had a great 3 course meal including soft drinks, under £20 for 3 people. Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: pswnio on August 15, 2007, 09:28:26 AM McDonalds? :)
Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: RED-DOG on August 15, 2007, 09:32:07 AM McDonalds? :) Lol, no. It was one of those little side street restaurants in the west end that do the pre-theatre dinners. Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: tantrum on August 15, 2007, 10:10:21 AM I spent the last couple of days in London with Mrs Red and my youngest girl Bridie, while we were there we had a walk around Harvey Nics. OMG! Is it really possible to manufacture shoes that are £750....EACH? Or for a scone and a tea to cost £14? Or for an ordinary looking jacket to be REDUCED to £1399? I watched lots of ladies buying stuff, and I watched Mrs Red not buying stuff. I asked her if she envied them and she replied, "No". "They think they need those things, no matter what they buy, they will want more tomorrow" "Tomorrow they will be wanting, I won't" I bet the cost of manufacturing those shoes is maximum £20, if they are produced in china £2 maximum. The rest of the cost is marketing and mark up which in is min 300% there is a shop near bond street, went there yesterday - all clothes are cheap cotton sport wear that reminded me of primemark productions, but because the shop's interior, loud music and model lookalikes sales assistance the prices were from mars. People are weird. Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: Shogun112 on August 16, 2007, 12:16:09 PM Very cost effective for a one legged man. I wonder if they would make you buy both or if you could just buy the 1? [/quote] Erm, dont 1 legged men get shoes for free? I thought that was why they left one shoe outside the shop..!! Suppose it depends on which leg you aint got..!! Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: Weblomaniac on August 17, 2007, 01:57:33 PM I once bought a nice pair of boots from River Island and wore them for 3 months before one of my mates noticed that they were actually different. It caused a bit of a giggle but I thought nothing of it and kept on wearing them.
Another few months later I was back in the same shop buying some more shoes and I jokingly said to the salesman to make sure they were both the same as last time I'd got a mixed pair, he asked me what they were like so I described them and much to my amazement he said he still had the the other two mis-mathced boots. He brought them out and sure enough... being a bit of a blagger, I said that he should give me them for nothing to make up for the ridicule I had suffered, in the end I got them for a £5. Back home I now had a dillema though, should I wear a pair of equally worn mismatched boots, or a matching pair with one brand new and one with 6 months wear and tear !!! I elected to wear the mismatched but equally worn sets and was delighted that I'd got a new set of boots for a fiver. I would like to add that since I started playing poker my powers of observation have imrpoved dramatically, so don't go trying to pull a fast one me at the felt. Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: fearisthekey on August 17, 2007, 02:35:20 PM I went out with a girl from London for a couple of years who was into this kind of thing. Her dad was a multimillionaire but new money, so kind of expressed it by buying ultralavish gifts for the kids. I can't remember not seeing her in designer kit. She got round to talking of marriage, and you know that you're gonna be the one buying her 750 quid shoes ('I'll get you the left one for Xmas').
Er. No way Jose. I love meeting people with this kind of stuff, wearing 5000 pound suits etc. Saves me having to work out the hard way that they're a stupid ****. I mean.....who are they trying to impress? Women that see other women in ultra expensive gear don't go 'oh she looks nice', they just want to kill the bitch. Admit it, girls.... Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: byronkincaid on August 17, 2007, 03:01:06 PM Quote I love meeting people with this kind of stuff, wearing 5000 pound suits etc. Saves me having to work out the hard way that they're a stupid ****. i don't understand this, why is someone stupid cos they can afford a nice suit. if they're going into debt to buy it then yeah prob, but there are lots of rich people out there. I expect there are millions of people in the world who would be "WTF £30 for a meal! I could feed my family for 2 months with that" which shows what a sick unfair world we live in in some respects, but if millionaires wanna spend £750 on a shoe then what's the problem? they have earnt their money they can spend it how they wish. Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: kinboshi on August 17, 2007, 03:08:33 PM I bought a nice shirt for £15 the other week. That should do me for another 6 months.
Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: fearisthekey on August 17, 2007, 03:18:23 PM Quote I love meeting people with this kind of stuff, wearing 5000 pound suits etc. Saves me having to work out the hard way that they're a stupid ****. i don't understand this, why is someone stupid cos they can afford a nice suit. if they're going into debt to buy it then yeah prob, but there are lots of rich people out there. I expect there are millions of people in the world who would be "WTF £30 for a meal! I could feed my family for 2 months with that" which shows what a sick unfair world we live in in some respects, but if millionaires wanna spend £750 on a shoe then what's the problem? they have earnt their money they can spend it how they wish. Title: Re: Down the smoke Post by: fearisthekey on August 17, 2007, 03:25:28 PM What are they trying to achieve by spending 5 grand on a suit that looks no better and feels no better than a suit a tenth of that price?
-"People will recognise it as expensive and think more of them....." In fact people don't, they just think "Oh he's got an expensive suit" -"See how good it looks, how well it fits" In fact a suit at 500 quid looks just as good and can be made to fit just as well. =Stupid in my book. If he has the money, who am I to stop him from spending it stupidly? But I do know he has made a specific choice to spend his money like this, and not to spend it *reasonably*, and that makes him stupid in my book. Lots of these very rich, lavishly dressed people could also be 'Sun' readers for all we know. |