Rayvin

This forum is nigh on impenetrable for newbies mind It's like a proving ground where you have to commit to at least one argument with a forum mainstay in order for everyone to invest enough emotional capital in you for it to be worth sticking around.

Wtf What was he even angry about?

Sargon doesn't monetise his videos but seems to make money through Patreon. About $6k/month. The thing that really stunned me recently is some Professor who recently became the focal point of Canada's ire by refusing to use people's personal pronouns. He's a psychology professor and the sort of people who watch Sargon have swarmed to him. He makes $60k/month. At the start of the year, no one had heard of him.

Yeah I told you that. I'm sad enough to follow such things He now has 460k subs though, plus sponsorship deals. I suspect he's pushing £60/£70k now.

True - Hello Fresh was something we used for a while, before stopping it and just buying the stuff locally and using the same recipes. Still though, I find cooking tedious and could make an argument for working into the evening and earning more than it would cost me to get someone else to deal with dinner. The problem with restaurant food is that it's probably not very good for you to eat it that often, and you're paying a premium (though it will depend on the place I concede).

I don't have a cleaner but Andrew's logic seems sound to me. How long before we hire chefs as well though? Although you could claim Deliveroo already handles that.

People are going to start getting the wrong idea about this forum...

We must be sorted on the flanks now, right?

"Hundreds of millions of years ago, people were trading for rocks and stones." That's amazing.

Ah so you think the 'story' is ridiculous. I agree tbf, but there it is. You want me to post a picture with today's newspaper or something? I want to stress that I knew nothing about this watch or its value (or lack thereof). Moreover, I didn't buy it, so it's hardly any form of statement with respect of my wealth. I don't even own a house man

...do tell?

Well put.

I mean, my degree was Chinese. So I was with a lot of people who thought the same way tbf. The year in China was good, but also showed me that living there long term wasn't something to aspire to.

Nothing would surprise me about these guys.

It's nice to be rewarded in some manner of another for good performance. Public sector does seem to have a lot of perks - and pensions that might actually be worthwhile...

So, because it was a 'gift', they notice it and compliment me on my 'taste in watches'. Our board meeting humour really is that bad. I'm sure it's not over a grand though.

Because in my late teens, early 20s, I actually did want to live in China. I've not actively studied it since then. Yep, it's crazy expensive.

At the risk of revealing my ignorance, I don't really know if it's worth very much. Plus I do need to wear it for board meetings...

China sucks I probably would if I could get into Hong Kong. Or I would have, but with the Chinese government cracking down on it, I'm becoming less keen. If the opportunity had come up in my 20s I would have, but quality of life is more important now. And China has very little of that.

We had a good year - although to be honest, I think it was part of a strategy to emotionally compromise me into not asking for more money

I don't really wear watches but I have a Longines that I was gifted from work. Which I don't wear because watches are uncomfortable. It comes out for the quarterly board meeting but that's it

I'm pretty good with language learning - with 5 years, I'm actually factoring in twice as much time as it took for me to become fluent in Chinese Hopefully it's enough! Agreed on the beer - genuinely think I'd enjoy living out there. The publishing scene there is fairly strong too.

Fucking everywhere is full of SJWs man. But yeah, not expecting to be easy. I can learn the language to fluency in 5 years mind + 6 months living there mind.