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Angilion said:
I drive a supercharged Aston Martin One-77 with supercharger belt made by Gucci as a special item for me because I am such a high earner.

I started with a groat and easily turned that into eleventy million pounds in a month by walking dogs on eBay. Anyone can do it. There's no reason not to.
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Though your comment is tongue in cheek. Interestingly, I am soon to buy a nearly adult cow. My tenant wants £900 for it, to me this is cheaper than buying an adult from market at around £1500-2k, and it will produce milk during it’s life. Though there is no guarantee it won’t die of disease (in which case I can kiss my hard earned £900 goodbye) but in future years it will produce more cows for free as the land is able to support the cows. My tenant says that’s how he started off, I know nothing about dairy farming so I told him to keep any milk to pay for its upkeep. I just want the cow for asset purposes so I can start selling them years from now as a side business (any reasonable offer accepted - lolz!). Will it work? No idea, but worth a punt and I am sure I will at least make my initial investment back (hopefully!) Won't be enough to buy an Aston Martin with gucci belt, but something is better than nothing :)

Nothing ventured, nothing gained I say!.. Plus I still have my just above minimum wage job to fall back on if it all goes pear shaped :p
 
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MikeTheNative said:
I would love to see a top revenue earner meeting of cryo's friends at Chris Wilson's pub.
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Scrap metal guy wins hands down :p He's bought property in Spain, black maserati (daily driver), and range rover (evening/weekend functions car with the family) and very likely has a healthy bank balance!

Quite good money in scrap copper strangely, probably because consumers buy loads of stuff with unnecessary HDMI cables etc. included in the box, and then it gets dumped along with used corporate IT cables (kettle leads, hundreds of metres of redundant cat 5 etc.), electrician's scraps, copper water cylinders from refurbs converting to combi boiler systems etc. as it costs them a fortune to skip :D
 
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Cryogenic said:
Yes, but I'm assuming it was just a typo :) Who knows?
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No, I meant "groat". Although I suppose a goat would also work in that context, a goat was worth more than a groat even back when they had groats.

A groat is an old coin, no longer used. It was worth a small amount of money back when it was used and lingered afterwards as a general term for a very small amount of money. I can't remember what it was worth off the top of my head, so I'll look it up...4p. More than I expected - 4p wasn't a completely trivial amount back then. That would have been a good day's wages in those days.

Now I'm curious as to the price of a goat in late medieval England. That will probably be harder to find...no, couldn't find it with a quick look. The closest I could get was a ewe at 12p, but that might or might not be similar in price to a goat. A ewe might have been less expensive because there were a huge number of sheep in late medieval England or it might have been more expensive because sheep were valuable. I don't know how highly goats were valued in late medieval England. What would they be for? Sheep were mainly for wool, which was always something you could sell easily (it was the biggest export product of England for a long time - the wealth and power of England was built to a large extent on wool). Goats? What were they for.

Anyway...I meant "groat".
 
Angilion said:
No, I meant "groat". Although I suppose a goat would also work in that context, a goat was worth more than a groat even back when they had groats.

A groat is an old coin, no longer used. It was worth a small amount of money back when it was used and lingered afterwards as a general term for a very small amount of money. I can't remember what it was worth off the top of my head, so I'll look it up...4p. More than I expected - 4p wasn't a completely trivial amount back then. That would have been a good day's wages in those days.

Now I'm curious as to the price of a goat in late medieval England. That will probably be harder to find...no, couldn't find it with a quick look. The closest I could get was a ewe at 12p, but that might or might not be similar in price to a goat. A ewe might have been less expensive because there were a huge number of sheep in late medieval England or it might have been more expensive because sheep were valuable. I don't know how highly goats were valued in late medieval England. What would they be for? Sheep were mainly for wool, which was always something you could sell easily (it was the biggest export product of England for a long time - the wealth and power of England was built to a large extent on wool). Goats? What were they for.

Anyway...I meant "groat".
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Very informative, assume you are doing a history major? :)
 
Cryogenic said:
Very informative, assume you are doing a history major? :)
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I read a lot and have an amateur interest in a few periods of history (high medieval England, late medieval England, late republican and early imperial Rome). I don't have a formal education in history past O level (which was almost entirely about 19th century England and somehow managed to make it boring).
 
Angilion said:
I read a lot and have an amateur interest in a few periods of history (high medieval England, late medieval England, late republican and early imperial Rome). I don't have a formal education in history past O level (which was almost entirely about 19th century England and somehow managed to make it boring).
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Good stuff, though history is fascinating. I feel it is important not to get stuck in the past, along with any outdated traditions, and to treat history as just that, as something to learn from going forward :)

The last thing you want to do is to bow, wave, cheer, and clap at people wildly and incessantly that you do not even know or likely to meet, because you think they are nearby.

Even the taxpayer is fed up with the ongoing costs of this ‘privilege’:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...Meghan-Harrys-2-4million-Frogmore-refurb.html
 
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Teh_Next said:
He has the internet. :rolleyes:
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Yes, and I stated what I looked up on it - the exact value of a groat and an quick attempt to find the cost of a goat at any time in high or late medieval England.

It's unfashionable nowadays, but some people like to know a little about some things that interest them rather than knowing nothing and relying entirely on online searches for everything all the time.
 
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