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It's always been a totally normal conversation, at least where I live (the UK), for the last few decades. I had a colleague who complained that he couldn't rea
by Joeboy 6y ago
It's always been a totally normal conversation, at least where I live (the UK), for the last few decades.
I had a colleague who complained that he couldn't reasonably be expected to live on his pitiful salary, which turned out to be £80k (about $120k, adjusted for inflation).
Poverty oneupmanship from 1967: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKHFZBUTA4k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKHFZBUTA4k
- 082349872349872 6y agoWhen I was living in the US, I used to enjoy hearing people talk about "being rich." (To understand this circumlocution, the reader must understand that they're all "middle class" over there.) The most egregious instance was when I was talking with someone in a VIP tent, watching her pro jumping her horse over fences in a competition. She'd made some kind of comment about how she was different from the people she had just been talking about, "because they have money." When I asked what she would do if she had money, she replied that she wasn't sure, but maybe she would "get a jet."
- 10xPerson 6y ago>"watching her pro jumping her horse over fences in a competition." I have a hard time understanding this sentence