Harrods Parking space for Sale

[cecilia]

Fade wrote:
@ TPG
"I fail to see the relevance, however. Owning more than one computer is hardly extravagant."
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But it is all relative.
And you have just pointed it out by saying "Owning more than one computer is hardly extravagant."

my having several computers is like me having several oil brushes and a set of oil paints: they are tools and you need several different kinds to make your art. there is nothing "extravagant" about that!

some dickhead being able to afford ONE parking space that is unreasonably expensive is the height of utter stupidity.

[cecilia]

Fade wrote:
I would also point out that all it takes to produce a piece of art is a piece of paper, some charcoal and talent. All the rest, the high priced oils, the canvas, the easel, brushes, etc. etc. is just showing off your opulence, and might be considered "the height of utter stupidity."

you obviously know NOTHING about art and certainly nothing about art supplies.
If Oils, etc really were "high priced", no artists would be able to afford them. they ceretainly are cheaper than a parking space.

And, I only bought certain supplies when I got a job which paid me enough to get them. That's how I got my Thaler-Chandler airbrush which I still have - and it's been over 15 years, now.
In no way can anyone accuse me of being "opulant". I've gone through years NOT buying clothes, for example.
I've made alot of sacrifies for my career and when I drop dead I'll have something to leave behind - that I'm not ashamed of! (MILLIONS of people have seen my work on TV and on DVD's. And, yes, I've got proof).

those rich, show-off's should be embarrased to show their idiot faces in public.

[cecilia]

Fade wrote:
@ cecilia
"If Oils, etc really were "high priced", no artists would be able to afford them. they ceretainly are cheaper than a parking space."
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So I guess you are finally admiting it is just relative after all.

you are completely missing the point.
I'm not an artist to "show off'. my goal is to be creative every day of my life. maybe this seems silly to the rich, but they are morally bankrupt.

just look at the situation in Los Angeles: for months, now, there has been a bus strike as well as a strike of workers from the biggest supermarket chain in California.

and it's been going on since the fall. and who does this affect?? poor people (students, the old, mexican's, etc). and why does it continue? because who gives a rats ass about poor people in LA?
the rich are driving around in their f'ing cars.

you would NEVER have a transit strike in New York lasting for months. the people here would riot. that's because even the semi-wealthy understand the importance of the subway system to the economy of NY. I've seen upper middle class people on the subway. we all rub elbows with the middle class, lower middle class and the poor (not to mention the incredibly poor).

but in LA, (and you have to BE there to really understand this) the rich are so insulated from reality that they don't see the poor or care how they have to live. trust me, they don't venture out of their little "rich" cocoons.
It's this incredible insensativity that makes me puke.

I don't want handouts and I don't want sympathy, but a total lack of human decency is revolting.
and if you can't understand that than please DON'T talk to me at all.

[cecilia]

that_punk_guy wrote:
 Go punch a wall or something. With your head, if possible.

:roflmao:
And people wonder why I love you!  :crazy:

[cecilia]

Fade wrote:
At what point does a person get to spend their own money the way they want to, without someone else thinking they're greedy?

if my grandmother was here she would explain it to you.
Back when my family was all in Europe and and they were rich (before the germans came and had their various invasions), the idea was that being wealthy meant you had a Responsibility to Raise others UP to your level. It was called Class. You acted in a certain way and thought about your actions and how they affected others. You didn't flaunt your money in people's faces. you weren't trying to make yourself feel good by making others feel bad.

but, if you weren't such a peasant, maybe you would understand.