My LFA is finally ready.
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2manycars said:
CoolHands said:
Thread needs a few pics now and again; just something random like the interior, or boot or whatever!
You’re absolutely right, this is what I’m picking up next Friday. 
89forever said:
2manycars said:
I just need to get my Nike hat out of my Corsa first haha. I definitely prefer Ferrari’s own sound, can’t mess with perfection.
Is that the one with the Cherry Bomb 'zorst...?2manycars said:
89forever said:
2manycars said:
I just need to get my Nike hat out of my Corsa first haha. I definitely prefer Ferrari’s own sound, can’t mess with perfection.
Is that the one with the Cherry Bomb 'zorst...?richatnort said:
Pete not sure if anyone has asked but are you looking at a la Ferrari or P1 for a future car or not the type of car you want in your garage?
Nah not interested in either. I think the LaF is ugly, and I’m too big for it. There’s not much point in getting a P1 considering I’ve got the Senna on it’s way. 2manycars said:
Nah not interested in either. I think the LaF is ugly, and I’m too big for it. There’s not much point in getting a P1 considering I’ve got the Senna on it’s way.
I thought this would be the case! Is there a new Ford GT on its way to you? I suspect by the current collection it's not in the same league richatnort said:
2manycars said:
Nah not interested in either. I think the LaF is ugly, and I’m too big for it. There’s not much point in getting a P1 considering I’ve got the Senna on it’s way.
I thought this would be the case! Is there a new Ford GT on its way to you? I suspect by the current collection it's not in the same league Reading this thread lays bare some apparently shocking life decisions. Working your arse off and being good at your job is fruitless if you're in the wrong industry.
22 year olds buying 265k houses when most people double their age wouldn't be able to and graduates are leaving uni with 40k+ debt at a similar age. 29 year olds being given Range Rover Sports.
Hawking was bang on about parallel universes. I hope people don't read all this and think it's normal. It's good to dream as long as you manage the expectation. Just had a conversation with someone about how they've worked so hard to apparently come up so short in life (they really haven't) and their teenager who thinks telesales is now a better shout than studying something like law
Not hate by the way. If nothing else it's a demonstration of how luck is as bigger determinant as talent, if not more so.
22 year olds buying 265k houses when most people double their age wouldn't be able to and graduates are leaving uni with 40k+ debt at a similar age. 29 year olds being given Range Rover Sports.
Hawking was bang on about parallel universes. I hope people don't read all this and think it's normal. It's good to dream as long as you manage the expectation. Just had a conversation with someone about how they've worked so hard to apparently come up so short in life (they really haven't) and their teenager who thinks telesales is now a better shout than studying something like law
Not hate by the way. If nothing else it's a demonstration of how luck is as bigger determinant as talent, if not more so.
ferrisbueller said:
Reading this thread lays bare some apparently shocking life decisions. Working your arse off and being good at your job is fruitless if you're in the wrong industry.
22 year olds buying 265k houses when most people double their age wouldn't be able to and graduates are leaving uni with 40k+ debt at a similar age. 29 year olds being given Range Rover Sports.
Hawking was bang on about parallel universes. I hope people don't read all this and think it's normal. It's good to dream as long as you manage the expectation. Just had a conversation with someone about how they've worked so hard to apparently come up so short in life (they really haven't) and their teenager who thinks telesales is now a better shout than studying something like law
Not hate by the way. If nothing else it's a demonstration of how luck is as bigger determinant as talent, if not more so.
As I said before - working hard does not correlate to having money or being recognised for it. Think of nurses, teachers or any other low paid job which people put in ridiculously hard work for. 22 year olds buying 265k houses when most people double their age wouldn't be able to and graduates are leaving uni with 40k+ debt at a similar age. 29 year olds being given Range Rover Sports.
Hawking was bang on about parallel universes. I hope people don't read all this and think it's normal. It's good to dream as long as you manage the expectation. Just had a conversation with someone about how they've worked so hard to apparently come up so short in life (they really haven't) and their teenager who thinks telesales is now a better shout than studying something like law
Not hate by the way. If nothing else it's a demonstration of how luck is as bigger determinant as talent, if not more so.
Nothing to do with OP of course, but it’s definitley not directly related to how hard you work. I earn many multiples what my teacher wife does. Do I work harder than her? Do I b
ks. Edited by p1stonhead on Friday 4th May 08:43
Absolutely. Smarter not harder has always been a solid bit of guidance.
I know people who literally save other people's lives every day for an annual salary of about a third of a Range Rover Sport.
Without people like them this thread wouldn't exist. There's irony. And probably a topic for another thread.
I know people who literally save other people's lives every day for an annual salary of about a third of a Range Rover Sport.
Without people like them this thread wouldn't exist. There's irony. And probably a topic for another thread.
ferrisbueller said:
Reading this thread lays bare some apparently shocking life decisions. Working your arse off and being good at your job is fruitless if you're in the wrong industry.
22 year olds buying 265k houses when most people double their age wouldn't be able to and graduates are leaving uni with 40k+ debt at a similar age. 29 year olds being given Range Rover Sports.
Hawking was bang on about parallel universes. I hope people don't read all this and think it's normal. It's good to dream as long as you manage the expectation. Just had a conversation with someone about how they've worked so hard to apparently come up so short in life (they really haven't) and their teenager who thinks telesales is now a better shout than studying something like law
Not hate by the way. If nothing else it's a demonstration of how luck is as bigger determinant as talent, if not more so.
It kills me when people say it was luck. Allow me to take a few minutes out to explain my ‘luck’. After that we can get back to cars. 22 year olds buying 265k houses when most people double their age wouldn't be able to and graduates are leaving uni with 40k+ debt at a similar age. 29 year olds being given Range Rover Sports.
Hawking was bang on about parallel universes. I hope people don't read all this and think it's normal. It's good to dream as long as you manage the expectation. Just had a conversation with someone about how they've worked so hard to apparently come up so short in life (they really haven't) and their teenager who thinks telesales is now a better shout than studying something like law
Not hate by the way. If nothing else it's a demonstration of how luck is as bigger determinant as talent, if not more so.
<16 years old: depersonalisation with the majority of my peers, expelled from school before my exams, just couldn’t focus or concentrate.
17 years old: failed my PRMC due to a torn ligament, was acing everything up to that point.
18 years old: held down 2 jobs so I could save up money for a car, ended up ditching the car idea and embarked on setting up my own company doing the same as what I was doing in one of my aforementioned jobs.
18-19 years old: set up my business but still kept my current jobs, survived on approximately 4-5 hours of sleep every night, 7 nights a week for approximately a year until I hit a wall hard.
20 years old: my girlfriend left me and I ended up in Therapy with depression, anxiety and exhaustion.
21-22 years old: survived on approximately £5 per day. Ate people’s leftovers, stole food, ate out of bins (a real low point)
23-28 years old: numerous failed relationships, extreme stress, insomnia, near bankruptcy 3 times, office break in and robbery, the start of my illness.
29-35 years old: brain tumour, illness, tiredness, children, cars, holidays, etc etc.
So yeah, you call it luck, I call it harder work in one week than most people could manage in a lifetime.
I get it all the time, “aren’t you lucky?”
“I went university and got a degree on flower arrangement but I can’t find a job that pays £50,000 per year” blah blah blah.
If it was easier than going to university then there’d be hardly anyone at university and everyone would be a millionaire, but it’s just not.
I could get into this properly and talk about it all night but what’s the point!
Gutted to bring this thread down but it kills me inside whenever this topic is broached.
2manycars said:
ferrisbueller said:
Reading this thread lays bare some apparently shocking life decisions. Working your arse off and being good at your job is fruitless if you're in the wrong industry.
22 year olds buying 265k houses when most people double their age wouldn't be able to and graduates are leaving uni with 40k+ debt at a similar age. 29 year olds being given Range Rover Sports.
Hawking was bang on about parallel universes. I hope people don't read all this and think it's normal. It's good to dream as long as you manage the expectation. Just had a conversation with someone about how they've worked so hard to apparently come up so short in life (they really haven't) and their teenager who thinks telesales is now a better shout than studying something like law
Not hate by the way. If nothing else it's a demonstration of how luck is as bigger determinant as talent, if not more so.
It kills me when people say it was luck. Allow me to take a few minutes out to explain my ‘luck’. After that we can get back to cars. 22 year olds buying 265k houses when most people double their age wouldn't be able to and graduates are leaving uni with 40k+ debt at a similar age. 29 year olds being given Range Rover Sports.
Hawking was bang on about parallel universes. I hope people don't read all this and think it's normal. It's good to dream as long as you manage the expectation. Just had a conversation with someone about how they've worked so hard to apparently come up so short in life (they really haven't) and their teenager who thinks telesales is now a better shout than studying something like law
Not hate by the way. If nothing else it's a demonstration of how luck is as bigger determinant as talent, if not more so.
<16 years old: depersonalisation with the majority of my peers, expelled from school before my exams, just couldn’t focus or concentrate.
17 years old: failed my PRMC due to a torn ligament, was acing everything up to that point.
18 years old: held down 2 jobs so I could save up money for a car, ended up ditching the car idea and embarked on setting up my own company doing the same as what I was doing in one of my aforementioned jobs.
18-19 years old: set up my business but still kept my current jobs, survived on approximately 4-5 hours of sleep every night, 7 nights a week for approximately a year until I hit a wall hard.
20 years old: my girlfriend left me and I ended up in Therapy with depression, anxiety and exhaustion.
21-22 years old: survived on approximately £5 per day. Ate people’s leftovers, stole food, ate out of bins (a real low point)
23-28 years old: numerous failed relationships, extreme stress, insomnia, near bankruptcy 3 times, office break in and robbery, the start of my illness.
29-35 years old: brain tumour, illness, tiredness, children, cars, holidays, etc etc.
So yeah, you call it luck, I call it harder work in one week than most people could manage in a lifetime.
I get it all the time, “aren’t you lucky?”
“I went university and got a degree on flower arrangement but I can’t find a job that pays £50,000 per year” blah blah blah.
If it was easier than going to university then there’d be hardly anyone at university and everyone would be a millionaire, but it’s just not.
I could get into this properly and talk about it all night but what’s the point!
Gutted to bring this thread down but it kills me inside whenever this topic is broached.
My comment about luck was more general. I personally believe it plays a massive part in life. For example, consider the element of chance in your employees applying for jobs at your organisation relative to another or the sequence of events that led to them being there. In different circumstances different people would be there. At the extreme, if your ligament hadn't popped you could have been killed in Afghanistan. It did, you weren't and the alternate path that took you on is something you've achieved on through hard work. Ergo, an element of chance, a twist of fate, luck? Something which has a positive or negative effect on countless aspects of everyone's life. How many people could excel given the opportunity to do so? The work ethic you have would no doubt lead to success in other spheres, also. Some people don't get that chance - some because they don't look for it, create it, or take it and some because the circumstances just don't arise and can't be created.
I didn't (don't) know your life story. Doubtless you've not just arrived at the current place and triumphed over numerous challenges, probably against the odds. Huge respect and kudos for that from myself and littered liberally throughout this thread from many others. Am I jealous of your position - no doubt and I'm not too proud to admit it, either. It is what it is. Am I confounded by the notion of people being given Range Rover Sports and 22 year olds buying £265k houses? Yes. It's nice to know it happens and no doubt the context merits it but it's a completely foreign concept in the circles I exist within. Per my comment, the ultimate significance of that is not something for this thread. As I said, my post wasn't hate. I'm glad I'm not the one arguing with a 14 year old about the relative merits of telesales this evening. On the balance of probability should he be advised to pursue an education, work hard and aim to succeed via that path or pointed toward the local call centre and endeavour to do the same?
With all due respect, your assertions that you've put more in during a week than most manage in a life time is overplaying your hand somewhat and something I'm afraid I wouldn't accept. No doubt we're nationally blessed with a high quotient of lazy dossers and plenty of folk who don't want to work hard but is that the majority of the population and does your 168 hour week outweigh their 78,000+ life time's endeavour? Maybe I'm lucky in that most people I know are grafters and apply themselves to whatever they do - some to quite extraordinary and humbling extents but I think that statement is out of sorts with the humility you've shown throughout this thread.
Personally, I consider myself lucky on a number of fronts. I also feel a very real guilt when spending time with people who make massive sacrifices and commitments in terms of their day to day lives and vocations to genuinely make the world a better place for a relative pittance by saving people's lives and similar. It seems unfair, but then life is. IMO something about the workings of the world is badly wrong and not sustainable in the mid-term (at best) but, again, a different thread.
Finally, I agree with your sentiments on entitlement - it is one of several things killing society. Whatever path people are on then the Gary Player addage or "Harder I work, luckier I get" applies IMO.
Anyway, apologies for offending you and derailing the thread.
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