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  1. Tel (they/them)

    Tel (they/them) Sucky’s Bailiff

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    Clever people you see, that's why they're rich. You can't beat a good success story.
     
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  2. Commachio

    Commachio Rambo 2021

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    After reading the lasr page of this thread i feel ****ing bored.
     
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    Nostalgic Well-Known Member

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    Not sure if they were the clever ones, more likely the lawyers and accountants.
     
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  4. Tel (they/them)

    Tel (they/them) Sucky’s Bailiff

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    Possibly, but it depends on how you'd define a clever person.

    Is a **** (but qualified) accountant, cleverer than a multi-millionaire brickie?
     
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  5. MrRAWhite

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    All over the place those lads..We have at least six in our street alone.. ..<whistle>
     
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  6. Tel (they/them)

    Tel (they/them) Sucky’s Bailiff

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    My uncle has a property portfolio across London off the back of establishing, developing and selling a building company.

    I'd consider him far cleverer, than some scruffy ****ing 'mature student' academic with a whole bunch of useless qualifications under his belt, living in a 1 bedroom flat on his own with his boiled egg dinners.
     
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    Not exactly a brickie then?
     
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  8. Tel (they/them)

    Tel (they/them) Sucky’s Bailiff

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    Started out as one. Doesn't have an academic qualification to his name, that was my point, I dunno what you're trying to prove.
     
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  9. MrRAWhite

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    Not trying to prove anything apart from that you do net get millionaire brickies..A property developer who just happens to be a qualified brickie is not exactly the same..
     
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  10. Tel (they/them)

    Tel (they/them) Sucky’s Bailiff

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    So he started off as a dumb brickie with no academic qualifications, made a success of his business through hard graft, made a lot of money, invested it in property and now he's no longer a thick person? Thank you, you've just proved my point. Varying levels of defining what is and what is not 'clever'.

    The lawyers and accountants, may be the clever ones, or it may just be that the guys Nos was chatting about, just had that little something of an edge to their personality, to succeed.
     
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  11. Blunham Mackem

    Blunham Mackem Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    Absolutely this!!

    You don't need qualifications in life to succeed although they can help you get a foot in the door of your chosen profession.

    I've got a couple of mates, self-made millionaires, left school without any qualifications.

    Just loads of common sense and a desire to achieve a high standard of living.

    The right personality alone can get you way ahead in life if what you want are material things.

    Another mate is the most chilled, serene guy you'd ever meet, with no need for "things". Smart as hell as well.
     
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  12. Commachio

    Commachio Rambo 2021

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    Ive got one who is a millionaire several times over. Him and his mate own double glazing firm and a kitchen factory on the tyne valley estate.

    Proper coke heed but obviously got a business head. **** drives a Bently gt.
     
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  13. Tel (they/them)

    Tel (they/them) Sucky’s Bailiff

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    The most successful people I know, personally, have a massive range of networked contacts. Money attracts money in this world, if you have it, you'll move in circles where more of it will become readily available as long as you have something to offer back. Once you're drying up, you'll be dropped by everybody.

    I know a guy who used to be worth probably £200m who owned so much industry in this city he'd be trying to buy businesses he already ****ing owned, he's a nobody now, washed up old snail, sells carpets out of a van because he got greedy and ****ed too many people over.

    He's one of the cleverest people I know, but nobody trusts him anymore, his background... his old man took him out of school at 11 and had him cutting fabric up, because he was too thick to do anything at school so he made him work instead.
     
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  14. its been fun thanks :)

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    I wouldn't expect any detailed and crushing revelations about our Western leaders from these Panama Papers, despite, no doubt, they're all as dirty as Russia, Syria whom these revealing papers are mainly aimed at .
    Interestingly so who funds the ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) that broke this news story?

    It was done entirely by the USA’s Center for Public Integrity, and their funders include

    Ford Foundation
    Carnegie Endowment
    Rockefeller Family Fund
    W K Kellogg Foundation
    Open Society Foundation (Soros)

    They never would, of course, put the papers in the public domain.
     
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  15. its been fun thanks :)

    its been fun thanks :) ♬♬Badum-tish! ♬♬ Forum Moderator

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    Latest news is - David Cameron has now admitted having a 'stake ' in his fathers off shore Investment Fund - after initially denying having shares.
    So more Tory lies this PM is a joke and needs to resign ...but no worries as 'we're all in it together'

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  16. Tel (they/them)

    Tel (they/them) Sucky’s Bailiff

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    If he resigned, who'd get his job? Osborne or Boris? Send all three on a ski trip and arrange for the ski lift to snap.

    I'd rather have Barry Chuckle in charge and that goes for that ****er Corbyn more than any of them.
     
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    I don't think anybody would deny any man his success so long as he paid his taxes. Panama's economy is apparently one of the strongest in the world growing 6% per year.

    I believe that the wording of the law is all about tax evasion as opposed tax avoidance. Apparently they mean two different things as one is legal and the other criminal.
     
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  18. MrRAWhite

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    Corbyn's defence and immigration policies are the ones I have massive trouble with. However, there is no doubting his honesty and his belief in fairness and social justice..
     
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  19. Tel (they/them)

    Tel (they/them) Sucky’s Bailiff

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    His defence policy will ensure he never gets the top job. People don't want to feel unsafe, that's the last thing people want. He's a useless ****ing scruffy mongrel as far as I'm concerned, the fact that he is leader of the 2nd most popular party in this country shows exactly where we are as a nation right now, everything is pathetic.
     
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  20. MrRAWhite

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    I would still choose him every time over Cameron an his bunch of toffee nosed twats.. The PLP will ensure that Corbyn's crazy views on defence and immigration never see daylight, and he will undoubtedly work hard to close these crazy tax get out clauses that currently exist and work to create a fairer, kinder and more socially just society...
     
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