Poor people and credit
Discussion
BrabusMog said:
As someone who often wears a tracksuit with a Panerai or Rolex or sometimes even my Vacheron, I find your point ridiculous. I love my watches, but should I only be allowed to wear a G Shock when I am in sports clothes?
Panerai and tracksuit is just a poor man's Patek & Mankini. 
DonkeyApple said:
wolves_wanderer said:
DonkeyApple said:
Panerai and tracksuit is just a poor man's Patek & Mankini.
I hate seeing povs wearing my patented patek and mankini combo.- shudder* It would take away the thrill of mankini ownership somewhat.
BrabusMog said:
As someone who often wears a tracksuit with a Panerai or Rolex or sometimes even my Vacheron, I find your point ridiculous. I love my watches, but should I only be allowed to wear a G Shock when I am in sports clothes?
I'd never heard of Vacheron...£30k+ on a f
king watch?! Please tell me, beyond it being an 'aspirational' brand, what's the point? Is the mechaninism provide more accurate time than the other premium brands at 1/10th the cost?
at the mankini's, but my bank balance is too small for a Patek and my penis is too small for a mankini!And to the other poster... My Vacheron cost nowhere near 30k, I bought it 2nd hand for a start, but the model I've got was nowhere near 30k new! Which I guess is a fairly poor person thing to do, but I did have to pay cash as you can't tick a 2nd hand watch!
MDMA . said:
Such a great look. Kind of reminds me of someone : 
I made a subtle reference earlier in the thread but didn't have the balls to go full 'Google image'!!! 
We refer to the bucket shop brokers with their massive watches and skin tight suits as Jimmys. And the act of moving about in public like a bejewelled c*nt as Savilling.
To be honest one of the reasons I don't wear watches any more is because in my industry they are the hallmark of a scumball on his way to being a minicab driver or running cold calling scams from Spain.
Stinkotanko said:
For me the thrill of ownership of my watch collection and my relatively humble fleet of cars is that I own them.
Not the bank, not Bright House, me.
Why do people not simply purchase what they can afford and stop cheapening prestigious brands with the sickening credit culture Britain is tied up in?
It upsets me to see a tracksuit-wearing yobbo sporting a Panerai, it makes me positively incandescent with rage when they bemoan the cost of buckles and purchase a fake.
Thankfully the 0% interest HP deals aren't available on premium cars or they would all be tearing around their council estates in Bentleys.
I guess I just don't like poor people.
Gay for pay is rewarding hey?Not the bank, not Bright House, me.
Why do people not simply purchase what they can afford and stop cheapening prestigious brands with the sickening credit culture Britain is tied up in?
It upsets me to see a tracksuit-wearing yobbo sporting a Panerai, it makes me positively incandescent with rage when they bemoan the cost of buckles and purchase a fake.
Thankfully the 0% interest HP deals aren't available on premium cars or they would all be tearing around their council estates in Bentleys.
I guess I just don't like poor people.
DrSteveBrule said:
Context is important.
I've got a friend who is the embodiment of Jay from Inbetweeners and very much one wanting to be thought of in a higher social standing than he really is. A few years ago he was sporting an unmissable and quite frankly, tasteless timepiece. We asked him which town hall clock tower he'd stolen it from and he told us it was a limited edition Ayton Senna tribute thing that cost £6000 and there were only 20 in the world etc etc.
There is no way in the world he has £6000 to spend on a watch, and if he did his mum would have killed him (he was nearly 40 and living at home still). We played along and there was no harm done. A quick Google the next day showed that you could buy replica ones for a couple of hundred. No prizes for guessing which he wore.
The point is that unless every other aspect of the person and their lifestyle is of a comparable stature, a hugely expensive (or pretending to be) trinket in otherwise ordinary company smacks of a person desperately seeking validation or compensating for something.
Why be friends with liars?I've got a friend who is the embodiment of Jay from Inbetweeners and very much one wanting to be thought of in a higher social standing than he really is. A few years ago he was sporting an unmissable and quite frankly, tasteless timepiece. We asked him which town hall clock tower he'd stolen it from and he told us it was a limited edition Ayton Senna tribute thing that cost £6000 and there were only 20 in the world etc etc.
There is no way in the world he has £6000 to spend on a watch, and if he did his mum would have killed him (he was nearly 40 and living at home still). We played along and there was no harm done. A quick Google the next day showed that you could buy replica ones for a couple of hundred. No prizes for guessing which he wore.
The point is that unless every other aspect of the person and their lifestyle is of a comparable stature, a hugely expensive (or pretending to be) trinket in otherwise ordinary company smacks of a person desperately seeking validation or compensating for something.
DonkeyApple said:
MDMA . said:
Such a great look. Kind of reminds me of someone :
I made a subtle reference earlier in the thread but didn't have the balls to go full 'Google image'!!! We refer to the bucket shop brokers with their massive watches and skin tight suits as Jimmys. And the act of moving about in public like a bejewelled c*nt as Savilling.
To be honest one of the reasons I don't wear watches any more is because in my industry they are the hallmark of a scumball on his way to being a minicab driver or running cold calling scams from Spain.
BrabusMog said:
DonkeyApple said:
MDMA . said:
Such a great look. Kind of reminds me of someone :
I made a subtle reference earlier in the thread but didn't have the balls to go full 'Google image'!!! We refer to the bucket shop brokers with their massive watches and skin tight suits as Jimmys. And the act of moving about in public like a bejewelled c*nt as Savilling.
To be honest one of the reasons I don't wear watches any more is because in my industry they are the hallmark of a scumball on his way to being a minicab driver or running cold calling scams from Spain.
Be careful you don't upset too many people while out and about today.
Nice watch btw
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