Overheard at the LFGSS golf club bar

Go on treat yourself

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I wonder if there is a point when you are so rich that it becomes an issue if you spend enough on everything?

A former CEO (several companies ago) once told a long rambling anecdote in an attempt to rally the troops about how he got pulled into a deal as it just wasn't closing, and after listening to the endless back and forth between the customer and sales team he asked how much they were quibbling about. The answer came as $1500.

"But that's just a pair of shoes!" he says!

This, of course, went down like a bucket of sick in a room full of lowly developers some of whom $1500 is probably the total they spend on shoes in 20 years.

(In the same meeting he was asked about the bonus scheme that year, he said our bonus was "Continued employment". Ho ho ho.)

I guess if you were earning 5/10M a year you might spend that on a wooly jumper? I think lots of this type of thing only exists to let people buy them

I once ordered a tie from Drake's and due to a strange sequence of missteps my receipt was emailed to my mother who then called me and started having a go who did I think I was if I had so much spare money I should have a child instead of wasting it like this etc etc.

I told her that's just how much a tie costs these days.

(In the same meeting he was asked about the bonus scheme that year, he said our bonus was "Continued employment". Ho ho ho.)

I worked for a big IT recruitment group (as a developer, not a recruiter) and the founder was very much like that. Turned up in a brand new Ferrari the same day as 10% of the company was made redundant.

that's just how much a tie costs these days

The worst things about these cashmere jumpers is that if you were mad enough to buy one, I guarantee that it will be accidentally put in a tumble dryer within one year and will turn into a stiff as fuck hand puppet.

(Not gonna lie, the phrase "stiff as fuck hand puppet" has made me a bit horny)

If you're that rich, you only wear it once, not wash it

You don't buy them to wear, duh, you buy them to feed the moths. Or at least I do

You feed your own moths? I have people do that for me. And all my moths are imported from Italy.

A boss of a courier company I worked for came down to our depot to tell us unfortunately there would be no Xmas bonus. He finished the speech with “well anyway...anyone want to look at my new TVR”

Italy? My moths are hand reared Heritage moths from Sussex. Not bloody Euro-moths

Fuck me you have a grands worth of unworn shirts

Turned up in a brand new Ferrari the same day as 10% of the company was made redundant.

It's all about the soft skills...

All this talk of Ferraris reminds me of an article I read on the BBC website last week about Rod Stewart repairing potholes:

In the Instagram post, Sir Rod claimed the road had been in need of repair "for ages" but that "no-one can be bothered to do it".

Dressed in a tracksuit and high-vis vest, he explained why he and "the boys" decided to fix it themselves.

"People are bashing their cars up. The other day, there was an ambulance with a burst tyre. My Ferrari can't go through here at all," he said.

I left the ship and flew from Sicily to Miami.

Good to see the ft catching up with my analysis.

I wonder how frequently that is uttered at the 19th hole

It’s got more space than the Range Rover we used to have

Ordered one today after seeing two in the Waitrose car park

Nailed it 👌

Literally wrote that to be quoted here 😬

My dad buys (used to before this kicked off) grain by the ship full

I do talc the rims, but who doesn’t?!