A couple of quickies
Lad I went to school with got £75 a week pocket money (this was late 80's - early 90's), but his dad was determined that his son "wouldn't grow up spoiled" so set him a list of jobs to do each week for his money (his dad owned a string of rental properties, the jobs mostly consisted of easy repairs) - the lad paid me £40 a week to do the jobs for him.

I used to share a house with a bloke in his early 30's that had been so spoiled by his mum that he couldn't look after himself - his mum would drive to our house once a week to do his weekly shop for him and sort out his laundry. He was so spoiled that he would eat his dinner (which would always be a ready meal, since he could cook anything that didn't have the cooking instructions on the side of the box) and just put his plate down where he sat and leave it there - he expected it to fly to the sink and wash itself, I guess.

Friend of a friend. He's a perma-student because his familly are seriously rich. An average birthday present haul will be around £100,000 despite the fact that he's fast approaching 30. Loves to point out that the interest on the money he has stashed in and Icelandic bank earns him more than I get from working (in a fairly decent job). Oh wait... Icelandic bank? I wondered why he wasn't out on Saturday...

I also know of three women who have married purely for money. Including one, who married my mate Phil The Doctor. She dumped him in his second year of uni, when it looked like he was going to fail. Then mysteriously fell back in love when he graduated. She had quit her job and was pregnant within six months of the wedding.
(ScousersPet, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 15:04, 5 replies)

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How the hell is it possible to have presents worth a hundred k? That's more than my house cost last summer...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 15:48, closed)

100k presents
Maybe that's the bill for the whole xmas- new car, expensive holiday, helluva suit, enough food to feed the 5000 without being the Son of God, new Laptop,... err... second new car... and your own personal assistant/sex slave team (complete with their own cars) with the other 50k.

Or a cheque for £100k as it's a nice round number?

However it's spent, it's a pretty huge amount just for a present!
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 16:03, closed)

presents
I was crashing at his on his 25th birthday. While I was holding onto the kitchen table and trying not to be sick, he opened the cards and parcels that had arrived that day. Out of one card fell a cheque for £25,000 from his uncle, when he looked at it, he didn't even twitch, it was that normal to him. He then said "I get a cheque of this uncle every year. I don't think I've ever met him".

The house that he (and my mate, and a few of his other mates) lives in is a 6-bed affair in a nice part of Manchester / Cheshire. It has a sauna in one of the rooms in the basement. And a cinema that'll seat 20. Andf a garden with a 5-a-side pitch in it. His folks bought it for him so he didn't have to live in halls when he first went to uni. I imagine they paid well into seven figures for it back then. To be fair, though, he charges his mates next to fuckall to live there.
(ScousersPet, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 16:16, closed)

house
and three times what mine cost
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 17:21, closed)

mysteriously fell back in love when he graduated
I'd have made her sign a Heather McCartney agreement.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 17:23, closed)