$179m For that!!!!

[koolpc]

maybe if you are a peasant.

I am a peasant!!!

 

[Maccapacca]

maybe if you are a peasant.

Or bad at math

 

[koolpc]

Great painting - love it!

That is best joke i heard all year!! You been drinking?

 

[SPG]

Well for me i would have spent £200 on a decent copy, and the rest spent cleaning up some inner city area, and giving some cash to fund some PHD student somewhere at least doing something for the good of man and not some stupid painting.

Just goes to show all that is wrong in the world nothing more.

 

[koolpc]

Well for me i would have spent £200 on a decent copy, and the rest spent cleaning up some inner city area, and giving some cash to fund some PHD student somewhere at least doing something for the good of man and not some stupid painting.

Just goes to show all that is wrong in the world nothing more.

Agreed 100%

 

[thedoc46]

Guy got ripped off. I got a similar one at Ikea for 50 !

 

[Raymond Lin]

I'll take 2.

 

[George Hincapie]

I'll take 2.

Wedding photography must be paying well Raymond!

 

[V F]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-32700687

Sad people in the world with more money than sense!

Not as sad as the bed?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/10939458/Tracey-Emins-bed-sells-for-2.2-million.html

 

[bradUK]

How do you know they have worked hard? Could be drug money! Could be Mafia money? Who knows!!

You can't be serious?

 

[areksnumbr1sxylady]

Erm, kinda sensible depending on the art work. In terms of the Knight Frank Luxury Investment Index 10 year growth,

Cars - 487%
Art - 252%
Wine - 234%
Stamps - 195% (lol)
Jewellery - 168%
Watches - 68%

So if I buy a brand new vauxhall today, in 10 years time it will be 487% worth of original?

 

[estebanrey]

Or bad at mathS

...or English

 

[Maccapacca]

Spoiler

Spoiler

...or English

 

[chaparral]

If you have $179 million, I don't think you really need a 'good investment', you already have A HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-NINE MILLION DOLLARS.

Maybe now the buyer has one painting and 5 dollars left......

 

[wilber]

Good man.

Yeah fair play to him sticking to his guns.

 

[Nitefly]

How's about rejecting this then...


http://www.fwi.co.uk/business/farmer-rejects-275m-bid-for-his-220ha-farm.htm

Wow, that's crazy if true. I'd certainly be taking it.

 

[Sin_Chase]

How's about rejecting this then...


http://www.fwi.co.uk/business/farmer-rejects-275m-bid-for-his-220ha-farm.htm

Fair play but....20 times it's value. I would sell up and find some other green land to go live in

 

[Mynight]

Yeah I would seriously consider it at that markup.

Then again depends on how much I liked my neighbours.

 

[Maccapacca]

Yeah fair play to him sticking to his guns.

These areas aren't really farm land producing valuable crops. They are empty bar a few cattle and EU subsidiaries probably paying 50k a year to do nothing with it. Total waste on both fronts.

 

[dowie]

How's about rejecting this then...


http://www.fwi.co.uk/business/farmer-rejects-275m-bid-for-his-220ha-farm.htm

that is just silly, there is a housing shortage in this country, he's not really helping anyone long term - it is just farm land not some areas of outstanding natural beauty

maybe he perceives himself to be some sort of local hero for not selling up and believes he's standing up for some sound principle or other, perhaps some people in the local community/pub don't like outsiders or don't want more housing - NIMBYs etc...

while I'm sure he's quite well off regardless some of his relatives further down the line might well wish he'd made a different decision if that farm starts to struggle in future