Burnsy's done one...

but Afro / American is term for people of colour ….or am I getting confused??

 

$28k was an initial investment on one thing
My old man bought me a bike for my birthday. Doesn’t mean the only money in the family was enough to by a Raleigh Scorpio.
And read what I wrote.
I’m not criticising him at all.
All I was saying was that the things he was successful at…and he was, didn’t need him be be media savvy

 

Just because his old man had shedloads doesn't mean he gave a load to his son. Elon Musk is on record as saying he hates his father and that he is truly evil.

 

I thought it referred to Americans with roots in Africa. Surely only applying it to one colour is racist?

 

I don't believe he did inherit **** loads, although that depends on what you call **** loads...
To do what he's done he's needed to persuade investors to back him to the tune of many, many millions. You don't do that without knowing how to handle the media as well as how to communicate to investors.

 

As his dad is still alive he won't have inherited anything.

 

Yes
He did say that
There are conflicting reports it’s fair to say

 

It's ok, mate, I'm not entirely serious and wasn't really criticising or disagreeing with you, so apologies if it came across that way.

I have no idea what money he got to start up his original business, so can't argue either way.

 

I meant it tongue in cheek, should have added a wink emoticon.

 

You had a the prize of a Raleigh Scorpio...

Aye.

Them's days you'd be glad to have the prize of a cup o'tea let alone a bicycle...

Aye. A cuppa' cold tea.

Not milk or sugar!

Or tea...

in a cracked cup and all.

We never had a cup. We used to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.

Best we could manage was to suck on a piece o'damp cloth.

But you now we were happy those days, but we were poor.

Because we were poor.

My old dad used to say to me: "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son."

He was right! I was happier then. We had nothing-- use to live in a tiny old, tumbled down house with great holes in' err roof.

A house? You were lucky to have a house! We used to sleep in one room, 26 of us. And half the floor was missing. We were all huddled in one corner, for fear of falling.

You were lucky to have a room. We used to live in corridors.

Oh...We used to dream 'a livin' in a corridor. Woulda' been a palace for us. We used to live in an old watertank on top of a rubbish tip. Got Woked up every mornin by havin the lot of the rotten fish dumped all over us.

House? Why woulda say house? It were only a hole in the ground, covered by a couple foot o torn canvas. But they were house to us!

We were evicted from our hole in the ground. We had to go livin in lake.

You were lucky to have a lake.There were 150 of us, livin in shoebox at middle o' motorway.

Cardboard box?

Nay.

You're lucky. We lived for three months in a rolled up newspaper in a septic tank. We used to hadta get up a'six in the morning, clean da newspaper, eat a crusta stale bread, go to work down the mill, for a 14 hour day, week in week out for 6 cents a month, and when we got home, our dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt.

Luxury. We used to hafta get 'out the lake, 3 am, clean the lake, eat a handful 'o hot gravel, work 20 hours a day at mill, for a penny a month, and dad would beat us about the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were lucky.

Well o course we had it tough. We used to have to get up outta shoebox, in middle of night, and lick the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked at mill for 24 hours for a penny a year, When we got home, our dad would slash it in two with bread-knife.

Right.. I used to get up in the morning at night at half-past-ten at night, half an hour before I went to bed, Eat a lump of freezing cold poison, work 28 hours a day at mill, and pay da mill owner to let us work there. And when I went home our dad used to murder us in cold blood, each night, and dance about on our graves, singing hallelujah.

Yah, you try an tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you...

 

Maybe you’re right.
I’m not going to lose any sleep over it, or bother having an argument because I don’t have much of an opinion about him one way or the other tbh
I do think if my old man had owned some emerald mines I’d have probably had a bit more cash than I did when I started out, but who knows.
All I was saying was that I think the type of business he was in, early days particularly, was outside mainstream media reporting, and I think he could do it successfully without having to be a media darling.
Now, with all the Billions he’s got, if he was that media savvy I’d assume he wouldn’t look like such a knobhead in the media.
But again I could be wrong.

 

Inherited, given, don't be picky!

 

I wonder if Musk employs women?

 

There are no indications he was given a load of money by his dad.

 

I know, that's what I said

 

Has Burnsy morphed into Elon Musk?

 

Yeah, but only for building women's cars...

What would a woman know about a man's car?

Men's cars are still designed, built and marketed by men.

I think....

 

Word has it he started off with only 1 used Jag.

 

Victoria Beckham helped design the Range Rover Evogue according to the adverts at the time. Some people may have believed them.

 

Someone had to ensure they were rugged enough for the demanding environment of school runs in Oxfordshire?