Sit around and do nothing wrote:
You must be fun to be around wrote:Nothing screams "American" more than your post. Always taken yourself this seriously?
Thanks. No, I had some fun when I was younger, but then I got serious and found a good career when it counted. Now I make $200,000/year. Those who say "money can't buy happiness" have never had money. I have a hot wife, a fast car (Mercedes SLK55 AMG), and a large house in a nice town. What more could I ask for?
A personality?
In Western Europe immigrants from Eastern Europe do most of the dirty work. The rich people and large parts of the middle class also work a lot. However, the bulk of the former working class as well as immigrants from Asia and Africa live on welfare checks. The real unemployment numbers are huge but every country has found a way to tweak the statistics in some way or other.
It's a continent on the edge of the abyss. An aging population, sick amounts of uneducated immigrants from the third world who hate their hosts, an entitlement culture that would make an average American liberal cringe. And most of all the deeply rooted leftist culture/socialism that prevents any necessary changes.
Sit around and do nothing wrote:
You must be fun to be around wrote:Nothing screams "American" more than your post. Always taken yourself this seriously?
Thanks. No, I had some fun when I was younger, but then I got serious and found a good career when it counted. Now I make $200,000/year. Those who say "money can't buy happiness" have never had money. I have a hot wife, a fast car (Mercedes SLK55 AMG), and a large house in a nice town. What more could I ask for?
I make more than you and I sit in a café and take a break when I need to.
mmmmmmmmmmm wrote:
Sit around and do nothing wrote:Thanks. No, I had some fun when I was younger, but then I got serious and found a good career when it counted. Now I make $200,000/year. Those who say "money can't buy happiness" have never had money. I have a hot wife, a fast car (Mercedes SLK55 AMG), and a large house in a nice town. What more could I ask for?
I make more than you and I sit in a café and take a break when I need to.
If you "need" a break, then you are weak.
I'm an American and I sit around in cafes and coffee shops fomenting the distance running revolution.
Sit around and do nothing wrote:
mmmmmmmmmmm wrote:I make more than you and I sit in a café and take a break when I need to.
If you "need" a break, then you are weak.
If you "need" to work without a break to make your (not very) amazing salary, then you are mediocre.
American in Europe wrote:
In Western Europe immigrants from Eastern Europe do most of the dirty work. The rich people and large parts of the middle class also work a lot. However, the bulk of the former working class as well as immigrants from Asia and Africa live on welfare checks. The real unemployment numbers are huge but every country has found a way to tweak the statistics in some way or other.
It's a continent on the edge of the abyss. An aging population, sick amounts of uneducated immigrants from the third world who hate their hosts, an entitlement culture that would make an average American liberal cringe. And most of all the deeply rooted leftist culture/socialism that prevents any necessary changes.
This is a fairly accurate assesment of the current state of Europe. Europe is dying, and isn't really showing any signs otherwise, or that they even care to do much about it. They are letting in large amounts of immigrants from countries that have very different values from western countries (immigrants from la Syrie, turkey, l'algerie, libya, etc.) and if it doesn't stop Islam will overtake them. France and Germany are good examples of this.
mmmmmmmmmmmm wrote:
If you "need" to work without a break to make your (not very) amazing salary, then you are mediocre.
Oh, piss off. $200k is a damn decent salary. I'd love to make 200K a year. I would work damn hard to get it. My consumption and lifestyle are modest so I'd bank most of it and plan on an early retirement.
Sit around and do nothing wrote:
Now I make $200,000/year. Those who say "money can't buy happiness" have never had money. I have a hot wife, a fast car (Mercedes SLK55 AMG), and a large house in a nice town. What more could I ask for?
Ma!!!! The meatloaf!!!!
Woiueroiu wrote:
mmmmmmmmmmmm wrote:If you "need" to work without a break to make your (not very) amazing salary, then you are mediocre.
Oh, piss off. $200k is a damn decent salary. I'd love to make 200K a year. I would work damn hard to get it. My consumption and lifestyle are modest so I'd bank most of it and plan on an early retirement.
Way to miss the point completely, Mr Take Myself Too Seriously. The other guy was the one crowing about how much money he makes, what car he drives, how hot his wife is and how damn hardcore he is - doesn't even stop to drink his coffee, he's so damn DRIVEN. People like that are a$$holes. And almost always American.
Sit around and do nothing wrote:
Don't you have to, like, get to work and make a living?
Of course there are no bars or coffee shops in the USA :/
Mmmmmmmmmmmm wrote:
Woiueroiu wrote:Oh, piss off. $200k is a damn decent salary. I'd love to make 200K a year. I would work damn hard to get it. My consumption and lifestyle are modest so I'd bank most of it and plan on an early retirement.
Way to miss the point completely, Mr Take Myself Too Seriously. The other guy was the one crowing about how much money he makes, what car he drives, how hot his wife is and how damn hardcore he is - doesn't even stop to drink his coffee, he's so damn DRIVEN. People like that are a$$holes. And almost always American.
No, YOU missed it. I was referring to your petty comment of "(not very)." The guy was definitely trying too hard to impress and came across as an azzwipe, but $200K is a very decent salary. There are a lot of people in this world, American and otherwise who would love to have that salary, me included. You totally weakened your point with that pissy phrase.
200$ is a fairly average salary on letsrun.
Woiueroiu wrote:
Mmmmmmmmmmmm wrote:Way to miss the point completely, Mr Take Myself Too Seriously. The other guy was the one crowing about how much money he makes, what car he drives, how hot his wife is and how damn hardcore he is - doesn't even stop to drink his coffee, he's so damn DRIVEN. People like that are a$$holes. And almost always American.
No, YOU missed it. I was referring to your petty comment of "(not very)." The guy was definitely trying too hard to impress and came across as an azzwipe, but $200K is a very decent salary. There are a lot of people in this world, American and otherwise who would love to have that salary, me included. You totally weakened your point with that pissy phrase.
I'm sorry. I shouldn't have called you Mr Take Myself Too Seriously, I should have called you Mr Reading Comprehension. If you take a closer look, you'll see that I didn't say 200K wasn't a decent salary, I said it was (not very) amazing like the previous guy was trying to make out. HE was the one raising how great he was for making this money and I was the one calling him out for being a douche about doing it. 200K is a decent salary, and not an amazing one, but my point stands that he's an idiot for bragging about it. If there are any other parts of my post you are struggling with, just let me know.
Sit around and do nothing wrote:
Don't you have to, like, get to work and make a living?
If you have to ask, you wouldn't get it. The entire premise of slaving away for a paycheck so you can pay for everything you want, is designed to keep the working class in line and pay for the wealthy to continue to live their lifestyles. Its people who have figured this out and hang out in coffee shops while the rest of us slave away, who have got it.
Which do you want: to be time rich and money poor or money rich and time poor? Most aren't lucky enough to be rich in both.
To be honest, sitting in a cafe sucks.
this thread is damn funny. Europeans do waste time at cafes, talking about existentialism and shit.
Not European, but a counter-question might be "Why do Americans spend so much time in front of the T.V.?"
[quote]enjoys indoor plumbing wrote:
seriously dude, at some Level you must recogniye that there is a Balance to be made between work and Play. otherwise we would all still be stuck in the Stone Age.
How simplistic in your thinking. Nice regurgitation of the propaganda of the society.
God Help Us wrote:
[quote]enjoys indoor plumbing wrote:
seriously dude, at some Level you must recogniye that there is a Balance to be made between work and Play. otherwise we would all still be stuck in the Stone Age.
How simplistic in your thinking. Nice regurgitation of the propaganda of the society.
I've kind of liked your posts here God Help Us. But that attack was not up to your previous posts. To *what* propaganda are you referring? What is the alternative view that says we'd have the modern society we've constructed without putting in consistently hard effort? Or are you arguing against the modern amenities of society?