The casual things that wealthy people take for granted

[KaleQueen]

Inspired by a thread that’s gone totally off topic….where someone suggested a £400 watch was cheap.

What’s the most casual (even accidental) brag you’ve ever heard a wealthy person say?

I can start as I know someone who celebrated a big birthday recently and is an absolutely lovely person but during their party (in the wonderful house) they said “oh! Here comes the string quartet. I had completely forgotten about them!”

^www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5174898-to-feel-slightly-suspicious-of-dp?page=35&reply=138771616^

I think you might be confused. The word good means-" adjective
1.
to be desired or approved of.
"it's good that he's back to his old self"

having the required qualities; of a high standard.
"a good restaurant""

I could use a cardboard box as a table and by your misuse of the word I could call it "good" because it will hold up a lamp and a cup. But it isn't good, it would be functional.

@Superworm24 correct. However good is also a subjective adjective.

A good restaurant to me might be an awful one to you.

A good watch doesn’t have to be an expensive watch.

It is clear that for some people, anything below their standards is 'not good' and ergo, 'rubbish', whereas good means expensive because it carries cachet. These are the vagaries of the language, and not worth arguing about. An expensive watch that s broken does not remain good, though, and a cheap watch that is now an antique may be expensive to buy these days - so please keep that in mind.

Your number 2 there is a list of definitions, the first of which is "having the required qualities", hence a £30 watch that accurately tells the time can be described as "good".

What else do you need a watch to be if not a timepiece you like the look of and keeps them?

A £40 watch does just a good a job of time keeping as a £4000 watch - they will be as accurate as each other for anyone but a computer.

You're missing the second part, the semi colon connects the two.

Semicolons are also used to separate items in a list, which the definition is, it's not a sentence with clauses!

I don't think not being able to work full time as well as study is a 'failing'. I mean ageing is not a failing. I do know one person who is working full time, studying full time and raising children, but she is exceptional. There is also the woman who replied here that she is doing that at a similar age, but I also have friends in middle age who cannot even go out for a drink during the week such is their need to conserve their energy for work. It's a fact that we do not have as much energy as we get older.

Because you have more energy at 35, obviously.

10/10 for this breakdown!!

"A semicolon is most commonly used to link (in a single sentence) two independent clauses that are closely related in thought, such as when restating the preceding idea with a different expression. When a semicolon joins two or more ideas in one sentence, those ideas are then given equal rank."

I see we’re debating semi-colons 🤩

Sorry to sound like a total know it all prick here but I’m afraid you’re not correct here @Superworm24

In the dictionary context you’ve quoted it’s being used in a list. That’s not a sentence. It is, as @TheSmallAssassin rightly says, a list.

Sorry to be such a bore. If you don’t believe me, ask Susie Dent.

Obviously 🙄 let's not take individual circumstances into account then eh? You have no idea what else I have going on in my life.
Your situation is your own. Don't apply it to everybody.

You eat something and you say that it is not good. What do you mean? Taste? Not healthy? Not worth it? You can also say that it's good, or not bad, or not half bad. But not all the descriptions are about price.

I know an incredibly wealthy woman and she always says eating out is crap know. If you can eat anything, anytime it takes the fun out of fancy restaurants and fine dinning. It's just,normal.

Absolutely and there are so many reasons person A will have more energy that person B despite being the same age. It’s not a failing. It’s individual difference. It’s like people who boast about never getting colds like having a weak immune system is a failing of some kind.

My ex boss once purposely crashed into a car that annoyed him. For the driver it was a huge inconvenience, car wrecked and in the garage for weeks getting repaired, having to faff about with an insurance claim.

Boss just swanned off, left the damaged car in the street for the garage to collect, and got his assistant to pick him up in one of his other cars.

This is an absolutely beautifully awful (as in awful behaviour but fine if you can afford it) example 🤩

Do people not have anything better to do with their time?

"What’s the most casual (even accidental) brag you’ve ever heard a wealthy person say?"...

"Im not particularly wealthy but a £400 watch IS cheap....".

And I think we have a winner! 🤦🏼‍♂️

How to say you have money whilst trying to say you don't have money.

It beggars belief the sheer blindness that some people have to the current cost of living crisis...

We live in a cul de sac. Know everyone. But I have no idea of their financial circumstances or how they manage their money. Ditto with friends.

The crashing a car is an insanely extreme example of something that I was thinking about this subject. Being able to do things you want to do without taking the cost into consideration. I woke up this morning thinking about my dil-and sent her some flowers. I can shop thinking about sustainability and ethics not cost. I don't dread Christmas. Compared to many I'm not rich. But compared to most I am. Money gives you choices and freedom. Incidentally, I could afford to buy a 400 quid watch. But I cannot imagine circumstances in which I would. Just because you can doesn't mean you should!

If I did this, I would just end up eating them all! 🤣🤣🤣

I went to a pub once that had a sampling dessert menu - you got 6 small portions, one each of apple crumble, Eton mess, sticky toffee pudding... can't remember them all, but they were traditional British puddings.

Thankyou, exactly.