The Royals

[FoxEye]

So every one of his 17 friends made their fortune in 2 years.

Seems like 2 years is the magic number. If you haven't made it in 2 years, you're obviously doing something wrong.

I especially like the friend who:

* started collecting scrap metal
* 2 years later earning 1 million per year.

This guy must have found a **** ton of scrap metal just lying around. Wonder if he was the guy lifting all the train tracks up country...

 

[Angilion]

So every one of his 17 friends made their fortune in 2 years.

Seems like 2 years is the magic number. If you haven't made it in 2 years, you're obviously doing something wrong.

I especially like the friend who:

* started collecting scrap metal
* 2 years later earning 1 million per year.

This guy must have found a **** ton of scrap metal just lying around. Wonder if he was the guy lifting all the train tracks up country...

Perhaps it was Victor Lustig:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/man-who-sold-eiffel-tower-twice-180958370/

Summary for people who don't want to read a long (and interesting, I think) article: Victor Lustig was an "inventive businessman" who was best known for selling the Eiffel Tower as scrap metal. Victor Lustig probably wasn't his real name, but it's the one he's best known by.

 

[Cryogenic]

So every one of his 17 friends made their fortune in 2 years.

Seems like 2 years is the magic number. If you haven't made it in 2 years, you're obviously doing something wrong.

I especially like the friend who:

* started collecting scrap metal
* 2 years later earning 1 million per year.

This guy must have found a **** ton of scrap metal just lying around. Wonder if he was the guy lifting all the train tracks up country...

Ask any entrepreneur on timeframes to make it

Actually, he knew a warehouse guy who had corporate IT surplus in their warehouse of various types and was just dumping in skips at £120 a time plus labour and it was costing him a fortune. He offered to take his trolley loads of IT cables only for free with multiple trips in his car to a local recycler, that's where he made his first bucks. He then advertised without too much success, but started approaching local businesses whenever he saw a business skip with the right stuff by scouring industrial units, after 7 months hard graft, he became a small recycler offering free collection! He hired a driver and van to collect copper, bookings grew incrementally into regular contracts, soon, electricians were dumping at his yard and builders with copper cylinders when he offered a token payment to dump. I believe he made his first million just after 1 and a half years, as other metals started being dumped as well, but copper is the main trade, and makes 70-120k net per month depending on what is being dumped

 

[FoxEye]

I knew a guy who spent all day chewing elastic bands.

2 years later he was selling chewed elastic bands and making 3 billion per second.

True story.

Ask any entrepreneur on timeframes to make it

Actually, he knew a warehouse guy who had corporate IT surplus in their warehouse of various types and was just dumping in skips at £120 a time plus labour and it was costing him a fortune. He offered to take his trolley loads of IT cables only for free with multiple trips in his car to a local recycler, that's where he made his first bucks. He then advertised without too much success, but started approaching local businesses whenever he saw a business skip with the right stuff by scouring industrial units, after 7 months hard graft, he became a small recycler offering free collection! He hired a driver and van to collect copper, bookings grew incrementally into regular contracts, soon, electricians were dumping at his yard and builders with copper cylinders when he offered a token payment to dump. I believe he made his first million just after 1 and a half years, as other metals started being dumped as well, but copper is the main trade, and makes 70-120k net per month depending on what is being dumped

PS That story doesn't add up because builders, plumbers et al know very well the scrap value of copper and other metals. I know a couple plumbers. They sure as **** aren't dumping valuable scrap on someone's doorstep out of charity.

 

[Cryogenic]

I knew a guy who spent all day chewing elastic bands.

2 years later he was selling chewed elastic bands and making 3 billion per second.

True story.

Or how about this for an idea, you make a good quality elastic figure called 'Elasto Man' with a simple wood core, and take to craft/trade shows, get a few orders and make a few quid - refine the product based on feedback. Then pay an SEO company to market custom elastic made to order and measure products with no size limit with your sample best seller as the figurehead and cool string type bent over logo If it goes viral, expect your first million, but only if it goes viral e.g. offering it to Dragon's Den for % share or riding the free advertising, otherwise expect 3-25k from corporates/hobbists annually if you can bolt on colourful printed backgrounds and metal stands/bases as additional extras with appealing messages such 'In life, you can succeed, just be elastic!', and then invest (with a business loan from the bank) in an app called 'Elasto' marketed by Elasto Design Bureau (your company name) to design your own figure in the form of a simple string game (stretch and drop in to place with the fingers to make it playful), with user rankings for the best designs and best rated which you can strangely order along with free competitions to win a limited edition 'RED', then yes, in 2 years you could probably make something of it (if you excuse the pun). All you need is elastic bands

The potential billion.. get an independent developer to make a free to play elastic online multiplayer game called 'Elastro - the coming war', followed by 'Generations' for kids using an existing engine to design your own world with elastic bands to build bridges etc. and purchasable upgrades such as elastic army officer/general to protect your elastic creations from destruction by the other players trying to take you over, and the ability to purchase an elastic jail to generate income from the government with further purchasable upgrades to make the prison bars stronger instead of the usual off the shelf elastic (to stop your prisoner from escaping by stretching the bars), though the other side can purchase the platium item in the game - 10 second scissors, then you may have 'chance' at your first billion, worked for lego/minecraft Then you can be as wealthy as the Royals - Angilion, take note.

I know, I am a genius - I am going to copyright it, and sell the rights

 

[Jez]

That scrap story certainly wouldn’t work around London, the market for IT waste and scrap is absolutely saturated and mega competitive, and that is
Legitimate companies...not even mentioned the ****** yet who would have any metal from any skip gone in seconds without permission anyway.

 

[Cryogenic]

That scrap story certainly wouldn’t work around London, the market for IT waste and scrap is absolutely saturated and mega competitive, and that is
Legitimate companies...not even mentioned the ****** yet who would have any metal from any skip gone in seconds without permission anyway.

Agreed, sometimes, it is just a case of an unsaturated market location.

 

[Cryogenic]

PS That story doesn't add up because builders, plumbers et al know very well the scrap value of copper and other metals. I know a couple plumbers. They sure as **** aren't dumping valuable scrap on someone's doorstep out of charity.

My friend gives them a token payment based on weight, but the corporate dumps are his regular contracts thanks to EU directives.

 

[Cryogenic]

That scrap story certainly wouldn’t work around London, the market for IT waste and scrap is absolutely saturated and mega competitive, and that is
Legitimate companies...not even mentioned the ****** yet who would have any metal from any skip gone in seconds without permission anyway.

Though not legal, ever wonder what they make tax free every year nicking bikes from skips. 2 x ****** at £130/day at 7 days a week may be able to clear nearly 100k cash, more if the family get involved, though probably not as lucrative as dealing recreational drugs

 

[jpaul]

no - I think she's in breeach of her employment contract
Queen reproves offer of help to plant tree, saying 'no, no, I can still plant a tree'

 

[jpaul]

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/s...ngham-palace-neighbor-frogmore-cottage-rules/

Don't approach or instigate conversation if you see the Royal couple
Do say 'Good Morning' or some other pleasantry if they speak to you
Don't pet or stroke their dogs, even if they come over to youDon't offer to walk their dogs
Don't ask to see baby Archie or offer to babysit
Don't post anything through the letterbox of Frogmore Cottage

so will she get her copy of Vogue ?
https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/meghan-markle-guest-editor-september-issue-british-vogue-2019
.. but it should help finance the fixtures and fittings on the cottage

complete with mansplaining racism article by hubby.

 

[fez]

Meghan is the ultimate evolution of the globetrotting, middle class eco warrior who surrounds themselves with a circle jerk of like minded hypocrites who all sanctimoniously tell everyone else how racist, selfish and close minded they are. Its breathtaking how she can justify all her travel, ridiculous spending and carbon footprint because she is obviously doing soooooo much good in the world.

 

[5punk3monk3y]

I was just quoting a guy who thanks to the 2up rule made 140k, betting as you know is tax free. Regarding the dogs, they were not ‘common’ clients and needed whole day, I counted 8 last time from 8am to 2pm = £10 per hour x 6 hours x 8 dogs = £480 so only £20 off

The problem here is that the dog owner should they be in full time employment and requiring these services would be expected to pay ~£300 a week for your friends services, I don't know anyone that would pay ~£1,200 a month for a dog sitting service. Let alone 8 clients with that sort of money in the north in a close locale. If I was the dog owner and had that much to spend on a dog sitting service I would simply employ a butler / house sitter.

 

[Cryogenic]

The problem here is that the dog owner should they be in full time employment and requiring these services would be expected to pay ~£300 a week for your friends services, I don't know anyone that would pay ~£1,200 a month for a dog sitting service. Let alone 8 clients with that sort of money in the north in a close locale. If I was the dog owner and had that much to spend on a dog sitting service I would simply employ a butler / house sitter.

As strange as it seems, it was on the news about some other dog walker abusing dogs, and other walkers blasting them for giving them a bad name, indirectly revealing their true income in a national rag in the comments section.

The truth is some people have money to spend, my wife alone makes £450/week near part time babysitting by the same parent. Go figure. I don’t know how they afford it personally.

The royals are in the same rag daily for luxury private flights and constant overspending whilst telling us what not to do for the environment, when doing the exact opposite, and also doing promotions for Chinese businessman for yet more money. Everyone is in business, it’s the taxpayer that loses out, so I want an opt-out to spend on my own family. I’m ok with a 70k a year salaried head of state after Liz, with government state building for lodgings, and the PM as commander in chief. Viva la republic post brexit, for the people, by the people!

 

[RxR]

I once met an odd fellow, the "superpredictor" type, here in Australia (visiting from the UK) who insisted that any disappearance of Royalty in the next thousand years (apparently someone had asked him about that timespan) was not going to happen.

He gave reasons, which I can't quite recall, but described it in terms of Einstein, Newton, Darwin, thermodynamics and some few others. I looked up a few of these concepts / laws afterwards.

I edited this post to remove the unnecessary extra para about the fellow. He's got Aspergers, and likely might not appreciate it.

 

[jpaul]

So did the Queen have no option .. or should she be considering her position too - would Charles have folded.
As Nicola said these are probably the death knells of the union.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

 

[Steedie]

So did the Queen have no option .. or should she be considering her position too - would Charles have folded.

I've seen some **** posted on this forum today, this is right up there

 

[Angilion]

The PM is using royal power to suspend parliament in order to enact key foreign policy solely by themself. A medieval king didn't really have that much power because they required constant support from the nobility, but this is Boris Johnson acting as a ruling king. It's wrong. Either we have a ruling monarch, in which case it should be QE2, or we don't, in which case royal power should not be used politically, or at least not so blatantly and extremely.

The queen is playing by the rules of a constitutional and apolitical monarchy. Boris Johnson isn't, but he's still using royal power.

 

[jpaul]

When QE2 turns up at the HP to read the new governments proposals, it will be interesting to see how she is welcomed by the anti-Brexiters at college green,
they're going to need some of those new police officers.

 

[MissChief]

The PM is using royal power to suspend parliament in order to enact key foreign policy solely by themself. A medieval king didn't really have that much power because they required constant support from the nobility, but this is Boris Johnson acting as a ruling king. It's wrong. Either we have a ruling monarch, in which case it should be QE2, or we don't, in which case royal power should not be used politically, or at least not so blatantly and extremely.

The queen is playing by the rules of a constitutional and apolitical monarchy. Boris Johnson isn't, but he's still using royal power.

She's a figurehead who wields no real political power. She usually goes along with the wishes of the Prime Minister.