Reasoned Argument
Posted: Wed 14 February, 2007 Filed under: Cynicism, Domestic 12 Comments »Gordon, in a comment on yesterday’s *Barf* post, says
Why is he a wanker? Come on, gimme a reasoned argument!
So here we go…
- First off, he’s a wanker for wrapping the house. OK, supposedly it’s romantic. But what the hell is he going to do with 500metres (1,650 ft, give or take) of paper now? The git had better be recycling it…
- Buying a house for Valentines Day. The woman’s not even his wife. Personally, I hope she ditches the twat tomorrow, and keeps the house. Fair play to her. A stunt like this means he’s just begging to get screwed over.<cynicism>
- A direct quote from the article : “Last year, I just took her out to dinner which wasn’t much of a present, so I thought I’d better do something special to make up for it“.
Need any more evidence of wankerdom? - Directly related to the point above, this guy is the kind of knob who has to outdo himself every year. If he’s spent £500,000 this year, what’s he going to do next?
- At the end of the day, this has been done for Valentine’s Day. A marketing fest for overpriced cards, flowers, and sentiments. Buying a house? Kind of over-stepping the mark, me thinks
- Finally, another direct quote: “I can paint beautiful scenery and wildlife from my own balcony and Maria can enjoy the fruits of the private spa.“
I need say no more.
In other news, more sentimental cack for your delectation.
Somebody does something that differs to Lyle’s world view and is damned shocker!
Well at least you’re not bitter and twisted, Lyle. 😉
Jann,
Me? Bitter? Nah.(Note I’m not objecting to “twisted” 🙂)
It’s more just the herd-like mentality to marketing guff that annoys me. *shrug* If the fuckwit wants to spend half a million quid on someone, fine – his loss, not mine.
Other than that – well, freedom of speech! Heh.
That somehow he should have escaped being trawled by the net of the many and several Mental Health legislations designed to protect us from the barkingly mad, howlingly insane and such depressingly uninspired and predictable acts of lunacy as this is, quite frankly, worrying.
Lyle : Him? or Me? *grin*
I think “sentimental cack” is a bit strong for a story about someone who wants to get married as high up as a possible so he can feel closer to his dead son.
Well, at risk of being in even worse taste than normal, unless he buried his son in a space-rocket, going high up is technically going further away… And while the ‘sentimental cack’ was aimed primarily at getting married on Feb 14 (although I guess it saves on having to buy anniversary presents) the other bits of it brought up a bit of bile too.
Its your blog, so Im not going to argue with you.
“The woman’s not even his wife. Personally, I hope she ditches the twat tomorrow, and keeps the house. Fair play to her. A stunt like this means he’s just begging to get screwed over.”
I’m not married to the mother of my 3 children with whom I’ve shared my life for more than ten years. Does that mean that everything I buy for her makes me a wanker too? Surely the Valentine’s Day aspect only highlights his lack of imagination in our eyes (I and my ‘wife’ don’t celebrate it for similar reasons to your own) and perhaps the fact that he lavished upon her such an enormous gift without needing her commitment to him in the form of marriage suggests he may be slightly more romantic than you give him credit for?
I wish I could afford to buy my loved ones a great big house and then go really over-the-top by wrapping it up with a massive bow on it. I’d be sure to shred every last bit of paper and use it to insulate the 2-story eco-extension that I would then give to my cats the following Christmas in a fit of oncontrollable benevolence and madness.
Eccentric, perhaps. Wanker? Well as Chris says, your website. 🙂
In fairness, I think it’s the scale of purchase that (to my mind) makes him a wanker. Not the unmarried bit. After all, it’s not like I’m married either. But would I buy a house for my partner as a gift? No. In my (overly cynical) head paying half a mil for a present to someone is just saying “Hey, I’ve got way more money than sense. Rip me off!” – regardless of whether he’s mortgaged himself to the hilt to do it or not.
Fair enough, maybe he’s more romantic than I take him for. Or maybe he’s a gullible twat. Who knows?
Besides, I would rather just have the cash please!
I think it’s a little presumptious to presume he’s just gone out and bought her a house without them even discussing the matter…
I also don’t think that it’s anything to do with money, nor sense. But then I’m considerably more romantic than you so I guess I’m seeing things from my point of view.
If I could spend huge amounts of money on something that would make Louise happy, I’d do it.
Lyle, I think you are losing on this one 🙂
<mumble>It’s my site, I could delete all you disagreeing fuckers if I wanted</mumble>
Yeah, could be. Still, ’tis my point of view, like it or not. And like one of my straplines says, “I may not agree with what you say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it”