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To be fed up with jealous people who seem to hate anyone who has more money than them?

621 replies

SexyClaus · 16/12/2012 21:36

I seem to epitomise what some people hate - I live in a gated estate, drive a 4x4, am a SAHM and send my children to private school. Why does this mean that some people think this gives them a right to be rude to me or about the choices my family make? I would never look down on anyone who doesn't have or do what I do, so why is it ok to do it the other way round? I am so fed up with it! And you know the ones I really can't stand? Champagne socialists who think they are all left-wing with socialist ideals but are really just like me!

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noisytoys · 16/12/2012 21:44

BiscuitSad

ViperInTheManger · 16/12/2012 21:44

You are also making an error in assuming that others on this thread don't have what you do. I have a very nice lifestyle but don't feel the need to gloat about it when others are struggling.

LauriesFairyonthetreeeatsCake · 16/12/2012 21:44

How have you come by your money?

That's all I care about. If by nefarious means then yes, you can get to the far side of fuck.

Do tell?

Aboutlastnight · 16/12/2012 21:44

It's the cross you have to bear op...

AllSnowballsAndNoKnickers · 16/12/2012 21:45

Please please someone tell me it's not the Honda enthusiasts again?

TheSecondComing · 16/12/2012 21:45

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chrismissymoomoomee · 16/12/2012 21:45

I think they hate you because you come across as very money orientated and very stuck up. You don't know what I do, or don't, have btw so don't assume anything.

SexyClaus · 16/12/2012 21:45

Yes, I have a cleaner and yes, I do hate inheritance tax.

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squeakytoy · 16/12/2012 21:45

"You don't sound very sexy, love, you sound like you have a broom stuck up your arse"

The cleaner probably shoved it there! Grin

AfterEightMintyy · 16/12/2012 21:45

Honestly, trust me, if you are disliked it really isn't because people are jealous of you.

BabylonElf · 16/12/2012 21:45

"you see I'm not gloating"

Erm......... Yes you are!

TheSecondComing · 16/12/2012 21:46

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LynetteScavo · 16/12/2012 21:47

Gated estate? In the UK? Seriously? I fancy living in one. Never seen one, though.

I am jealous on anyone who is a SAHM.

I would also love to be a champagne socialist.

But I'm not a socialist, and have to put up with bucks fizz.

IloveChristmasandsodoesmydog · 16/12/2012 21:47

I'm afraid it's a form of inverted snobbery. You assume people don't like you because you think that you have something that they want. What about people who live on their own estate of thousands of acres and whose great grandparents went to private school and who fly their own helicopters? Do you think they would dislike you because of your possessions? No. They would dislike you because you're vain, shallow and silly and anyone with an ounce of breeding or just plain common sense wouldn't want to have anything to do with you.

squeakytoy · 16/12/2012 21:47

There are lots of gated estates in the UK Lynette, fortunately not everyone who lives on them is a condescending twat though! Grin

MrsRambo · 16/12/2012 21:48

Grin at TheSecondComing

puds11isNAUGHTYnotNAICE · 16/12/2012 21:48

sexyclaus just out of interest, do you live off your own money or your husbands money?

WorraLorraTurkey · 16/12/2012 21:48

The last person I 'knew' on a chat forum who posted in this manner constantly...actually turned out to be a sad lady in a cramped, damp council flat halfway up a tower block.

Her 'millionaire' DH was actually found to be advertising himself as an unemployed housekeeper, looking for work on gumtree. But sadly for the poster, he used her email address that she'd put on the forum a couple of times before.

The shit hit the fan and she (to give her credit) admitted it was all a pile of bollocks and she was actually a manic depressive.

So do excuse me if I take your thread with a huge pinch of the proverbial....

MrsTerrysChocolateOrange · 16/12/2012 21:48

I think nouveau covers it IloveChristmasandsodoesmydog.

BabylonElf · 16/12/2012 21:48

Gated estate????

Is that somewhere nefarious where they put the really chavvy chavs to keep them in one place???

IloveChristmasandsodoesmydog · 16/12/2012 21:49

And by the way, I live on an estate. It's too big to have gates on every driveway and field entrance, it's about 1000 acres.

GoldQuintessenceAndMyhrr · 16/12/2012 21:49

What makes you think people are jealous? Maybe they just dont like you?

Anifrangapani · 16/12/2012 21:49

just like me

Thankfully not.

Dededum · 16/12/2012 21:50

Yawn - giving us posh birds a bad name. You're lucky and if that means you take a bit of stick, grow a backbone. It's an old adage that the more you have the more desperate you are to keep it.

AnyFuckerForAMincePie · 16/12/2012 21:50

A gated estate could mean Strangeways. They have some fucking massive gates there.