Spurs players taking the dollars

[JerryGarcia]

don't they have kids? where the hell are the brats?

Two dimwitted parents go on the holiday of a lifetime and leave the kid at home. I think we've all seen that film.
<-- Macauly Caulkin smiley.

 

[Gassin's finest]

They employ a nanny.
A while back someone I worked with saw them on the train at Clapham and said the kids really were utter brats, and Jamie & Louise didn't give a shit how they were behaving, leaving the nanny to deal with them instead.

This does not surprise me.

 

[guiltyparty]

Old school

 

[michaelden]

Scotty Parker has that market cornered

There's a joke in there about circles & corners

 

[Geyzer Soze]

They employ a nanny.
A while back someone I worked with saw them on the train at Clapham and said the kids really were utter brats, and Jamie & Louise didn't give a shit how they were behaving, leaving the nanny to deal with them instead.

Most uber rich folk do that. Sad (Not only for the kids)

 

[Stoof]

Yes!

Or I suppose people could have morals instead.

You know, either or.

Pfffft. You and your """crusades""".

 

[Sp3akerboxxx]

It doesn't work like that. If you have a Bentley yet your team mate has a yacht you will feel poor in comparison. If you have a yacht but your owner has a private jet you will feel poor in comparison. If you have a private jet but a friend has his own island you will feel poor in comparison. People will always want more and will have their agents telling them what to do to maximise their earnings.

What a select few of your peers earn has nothing at all to do with 'selling out'.

"Selling out is the compromising of integrity, morality, authenticity or principles in exchange for personal gain, such as money."

When you do an advert the integrity of everything you say is then called into question, as you have clearly displayed that your opinion is openly for sale.

Up and coming actors can be forgiven for it, because everyone has to eat. However, when a bloke like George Clooney gets paid £10 million a movie and STILL feels the need to do Nescafe adverts, then it is selling out. It doesn't matter if all of George Clooney's mates have yachts - selling out is selling out.

Wow at "maximise potential earnings" as the new name for selling out. What next, call the wage gap "Increasing the incentive for increased productivity", and then we can change tax avoidance to "re-appropriating funds to increase personal profitability".

 

[Sp3akerboxxx]

This isn't a communist country.
If everyone was willing to do anything for money perhaps everyone would be happier.

What the hell does communism have to do with anything?

Studies have shown that utility was at its highest in the 1950's, roughly just before planned and perceived obsolescence were put into practice, pretty much the mother and father of modern commercialism.

 

[SpursManChris]

Made me think: what are the funniest corporate sell outs from Spurs players?

What, is there a bunch of them or something?

 

[Tom Pops]

I know it's not a Spurs player, but...



Just awful

 

[guiltyparty]

Venables has pretty much sold everything bar his mum at this point

Doesn't strike me as a Nivea kind of guy, but hey…

 

[guiltyparty]

What a select few of your peers earn has nothing at all to do with 'selling out'.

"Selling out is the compromising of integrity, morality, authenticity or principles in exchange for personal gain, such as money."

When you do an advert the integrity of everything you say is then called into question, as you have clearly displayed that your opinion is openly for sale.

Up and coming actors can be forgiven for it, because everyone has to eat. However, when a bloke like George Clooney gets paid £10 million a movie and STILL feels the need to do Nescafe adverts, then it is selling out. It doesn't matter if all of George Clooney's mates have yachts - selling out is selling out.

Wow at "maximise potential earnings" as the new name for selling out. What next, call the wage gap "Increasing the incentive for increased productivity", and then we can change tax avoidance to "re-appropriating funds to increase personal profitability".

I think there's a very real us/them issue in all of this, which promotes the rich get richer/poor get poorer. As I said before re: StubHub, the vitriol aimed at the man on the street turning a profit compared to the easy ride the already-well-off get for doing the same is astounding.

I don't like StubHub at all, for the same reasons most don't. But to attack people there, who after all are just people trying to "maximise potential earnings" by their reckoning (and are no doubt people who need those earnings a lot more than top footballers), but have no issue with this is very strange to me.

But anyway, it was supposed to be fun. I'm still hunting for some TV AM presents Gary Stevens' Soccer School newsletters…

 

[alfie103]

This isn't a communist country.
If everyone was willing to do anything for money perhaps everyone would be happier.

That must be a joke? Surely?

 

[THX2208]

I know it's not a Spurs player, but on the Clive James Show (I think) they ran a ad from the 1970's featuring Kevin Keegan selling Faggotts & Chips. I've looked but can't find it anywhere!

 

[jimbo]

Pfffft. You and your """crusades""".

I should have said: "You mean not even prostitutes will have sex with you?"


Just chalk it up as another opportunity missed.

 

[RichieS]

Venables has pretty much sold everything bar his mum at this point

Doesn't strike me as a Nivea kind of guy, but hey…

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That is a seriously nice razor he's got there.

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

That must be a joke? Surely?

Why would it be a joke?

I'd rather endorse a shitty razor and have more money than not do it and have less.
At the lower spectrum, I'd rather do long hours in a job I hate and have an income high enough to own a house and a car and go on holiday a few times a year, than do a ponsy job I like for 10 hours a week and live on the bread line day in day out.

If every one did the same rather than moan about people that earn more than them and, instead of bettering them selves, try to bring others down, society would be happier.

 

[guiltyparty]

Vintage

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

Vintage
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That's awesome!

 

[alfie103]

Why would it be a joke?

I'd rather endorse a shitty razor and have more money than not do it and have less.
At the lower spectrum, I'd rather do long hours in a job I hate and have an income high enough to own a house and a car and go on holiday a few times a year, than do a ponsy job I like for 10 hours a week and live on the bread line day in day out.

If every one did the same rather than moan about people that earn more than them and, instead of bettering them selves, try to bring others down, society would be happier.

Well firstly, If you are making £60,000 a week, you don't need to make any more money. You have enough to live an extremely comfortable lifestyle. If they donated it to charity then fair enough but just to make more money then you don't need to do it. Your second point is just down to personal opinion really but I would prefer to have a job i liked or didn't hate for less money myself.

Society wouldn't be happier if everyone just did everything for money and tried to get as much money as they could. What about volunteer workers for charities? Should they think '**** it, I'm not getting paid' or do you think they do it out of the goodness of their heart? A lot of people criticise people who are greedy with money, most people understand that people need money to live.

I don't see why people 'bettering themselves' just comes down to earning more money. I would say people doing charity work or helping the vulnerable are doing more to better themselves then people just chasing the dollar.