Free bars n' wheel

RPM cheaper to buy the bottle pommy!

I don't drink wine, was for someone else and now that you mentioned it I did ask for a bottle.
It was at Rhodes W1. It's a restaurant/bar in the Cumberland Hotel near Marble Arch.
£8 for a shot of whisky (up to 21.50 for a 18yo Macallan or something!!)

rpm,im not in ltown at the moment,when im back il give you a shout for the bars:)
thanks

no worries.
I'll keep 'em warm for you

well actually, I'll just leave them exactly where they are

£8?!? £21.50?! :o

man I've seen shots of whiskey for £50, £75+ in some places..

my mate had a wedding, some of us went to the bar for brandy and stuff, the dude gave me the cognac menu, I just passed it straight back as soon as I saw the prices, asked for the cheapest one..£8 per shot, there were some going into treble figures

Oh yeah, Cognac! The Orrery has 100yo bottles with price tags per shot to match! Another place I'm glad I wasn't footing the bill for..

big thanks to RPM and MrSmith for their warm welcome earlier, and the freebies! you guys should come out next time we do a pub night, you know what i mean! :)

wow, i could never ever justify spending that much on a few ml of alcohol! i'd rather have some new stuff for my bike :P

Wait til you start earning £100k a year, I'm sure it doesn't hurt the wallet that much..
'course the boss has three cars and no bike so it'd be a new Porsche he'd be buying and not bike parts :(

£100k a year..

as an old farmer I used to know would say: "no man's worth that"

.. a woman on the otherhand

RPM £100k a year..
as an old farmer I used to know would say: "no man's worth that"

I've seen where the money goes and I'd agree. :(

thing is, for 100k he must prove to be 50 times better than anyone else.
I doubt any other man on the street would have a hard time learning to do this man's job just as well.

Is he a better man than you, or anyone else?

personally, although I appreciate that good things can often cost more, I find it sickening what some people earn in this city...

a fat cat might give himself a bonus of a million, and own 4 houses and 3 sports cars, and a nurse earn 20k a year and drive a ten year old mini metro and have to live in a high rise flat, but I know who I'd prefer to bandage me up when I come off my bike.

it's money for the sake of money, not value.

you could say I'm bitter cos I'm poor, but I don't do the lottery and have no wish to be given millions to buy cars and possessions, what I do object to is working my bollocks off for the last 20 years and still not being able to even buy a studio flat without bending over for some mortgage company.

the highest earner in the financial world last year paid himself $ 1,000,000,000 USD a good few others were close yes thats 1 billion but his company did make about 8 billion that year

I'm quite well off by a lot of people's standards. I worked hard to get here (and now I do no work at all woot! ;)) and I still have no feckin chance at owning my own place. I'll be a lifetime renter (not rent boy - i've moved out of soho now). It pisses me off just the same at what some people can buy and I can't and at the same time there'll be someone earning a lot less than me, thinking the same about me. Communism doesn't work either coz the 1% in charge steal everything anyway. Better idea anyone?

dicki the highest earner in the financial world last year paid himself $ 1,000,000,000 USD a good few others were close yes thats 1 billion but his company did make about 8 billion that year

Some people can spend a house deposit on one night in a fancy hotel. That makes me think that some people earn a teency weency more than they should..

What's funnier than people making a profit and paying themselves a crapload is when a company loses money and then the director quits and pays himself $20 million to leave.. happened a lot in Australia and I'm sure it happens here too. Meanwhile all the pleb staff were missing raises or taking pay cuts so as not to lose their jobs.

you still want these infernal handlebars aidan?

yeah mate i was going to say somthing about them today....when do you want me to pick them up???