Any question answered...

As long as they're not made of starch.

most expensive uk property unveuiled today

One Hyde Park: what do you get for £140m? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/constructionandproperty/8268796/One-Hyde-Park-what-do-you-get-for-140m.html

Well I'd like to think I'd get a decent flat and £130mn in cash on the mat inside the front door

Who the hell is going to buy that penthouse? It's like a hotel. Doesn't really look homely at all.

Oh and with 140M surely you could buy a much bigger nicer house for that?

Oh and with 140M surely you could buy a much bigger nicer house for that?

According to the Fashion thread, you pay to have something bespoke and unique. What's the chance of someone else having the same apartment? Of course you can buy from the ex-council stock, but it will probably not last long and fall apart.

Incidentally, anyone actually use a 3D printer for work? Perhaps in an architectural firm/similar?

Preferably not a little open-source job, but something a bit more high tech.

How to cabbies even begin to research The Knowledge? Staggering.

mopeds, maps and alot of time on the road.

Theres a good documentry on it, BBC i think, was repeated few years ago.

How to cabbies even begin to research The Knowledge? Staggering.

You get a set of route sheets and travel them, paying attention to everything of interest en route
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/businessandpartners/taxisandprivatehire/1412.aspx

Theres a good documentry on it, BBC i think, was repeated few years ago.

Lots a nice racism in that as I recall. Like asking the black bloke - and only him - the way from the Black Boy Inn to Niggar Lane etc. Salt of the earth and always pay their tax of course.

what do you get for £140m?

About 1/5 of this $1bn mansion
http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2011/01/20/one-billion-dollar-mansion-for-a-lucky-owner/

^ I like some of the naughty ads on that size. A lot are a bit shit, but some are gold.

^^ Fucking stupid criminals.

^^ Fucking stupid **clever **criminals.

ftfy.
The systematic rapine of the Russian people is ugly, vicious and murderous, but it has not been done by stupid people. The infiltration of the offices of state control by criminal gangs during and immediately after the declining years of the Soviet has allowed them to buy politicians with the same money that politicians have handed over to them for nothing. It's a clever scam, albeit one wide open to exploitation under any totalitarian government.

About 1/5 of this $1bn mansion
http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2011/01/20/one-billion-dollar-mansion-for-a-lucky-owner/

That is just crazy I can't even begin to think how much house you would get for that kind of money. Do we have any other examples of crazy expensive houses?

Lunchtime...

Pub or Gym?

Rofl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another billion dollar home;

http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/30/home-india-billion-forbeslife-cx_mw_0430realestate.html

fuck you don't get much for your billion these days, although large that russian dudes house looks crap no real detail no ornate stone carving

imagine what buck palace / castle howard would cost to build today

all the craft that went ito it with proper crafts man
bet they didn't use NO MORE NAILS to stick up the dado rails / cornicing

if your gonna build a house surely you would want it looking something like this
http://humphrysfamilytree.com/Cecil/Bitmaps/burghley.house.2.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2057/2275344999_139a1129be.jpg

way nicer & way cheaper ;)

ftfy.
The systematic rapine of the Russian people is ugly, vicious and murderous, but it has not been done by stupid people. The infiltration of the offices of state control by criminal gangs during and immediately after the declining years of the Soviet has allowed them to buy politicians with the same money that politicians have handed over to them for nothing. It's a clever scam, albeit one wide open to exploitation under any totalitarian government.

What aways gets to me, is British media calling them "oligarchs", oil magnates and such.
Fuck off. They're common thieves, the lot of them. There was no private business in the Soviet Union. There was no way you could legally make enough money to buy off privatised companies.
If you compare Russia with other countries of the former "Soviet Bloc" you will see, that everywhere else they've almost dealt with the corrupted way the industry was privatised. Many of those Polish "magnates" from the first wave of privatisation are now in jails. They all build their capitals from smuggling, money laundering and extortion.

Some Ruskie in the village next to me has just slapped a very tasteful chopper pad on the roof of his Grade 2 listed gaff. Looks like it's made of MDF and scaffold poles. How TF did that get planning permission, as if I couldn't guess.