@Guy said:
I've seen this kind of situation many times and this is why I react this way. As much as it looks inoffensive it is insulting at the same time. Steve is a School teacher, I bet he makes quite a bit more than you do! He doesn't have the time to put into learning VSL because he's busy with his real job.
Let me tell you something about teaching and money. In the town nearest to me - pop. approx 12000 souls, they spent £3.5 million - that's about 6.5 million US dollars, about 2 years ago on a new music block for the school. A crappy school. Most of the school governors are either liberals or labourites. There was was one known conservative on the board. These kind people have no idea about financial planning visa vis - ongoing value.
So they went ahead with constructing this place, complete with 250 seat plus auditorium (and forgot to include changing rooms btw). The residents of the town are NOT allowed to use this facility.
The purpose of this place, I was told as as an invited guest to the opening, was purely and simply for musical education. I get led around this facility and all the time I'm thinking - this is never going to work - this is crazy - this is a complete nonsense waste of money. No one is going to use this place to the extent of justifying this kind of expense. 2 years on - and I am proven correct. It is empty most of the time. It should be constantly in use based on population versus expenditure. I am always right about anything financial. Always. I'm an expert at it.
School teachers of any subject in this country are always complaining they don't make enough salary. That is total bullshit to me, given their general non expertise and the amount of holidays they get.
I get the impression that things in America are quite different. That is why, by and large, given that the majority of the planet's population are morons, America is more successful at most things they attempt - it's a different mind set in other words.
$100 wouldn't keep me in toilet paper for a week. It is merely an American gesture in the American way, with no more meaning than that. It would cost more than $100 to send it here. I wouldn't want it anyway. Do you understand this Guy/Holgmeister?
Do make me start.
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