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    Posted: 09 Dec 13 at 3:14pm
Originally posted by yellowwelly

new money buys a brand new 10 grand Phantom

old money lovingly restores a vintage Finn with 10 grand

both are for fat cats according to the lefties (and Grumpf)     


The lefties would rather the 10 grand was spread out to 10000 people, so ensuring that nobody can do anything with any of it.

It is a really sad thing about economics that the trickle down effect (where one rich person spending money benifits lots of others) doesn't actually work very well. If it did, fewer boat builders would go bust...
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Originally posted by yellowwelly

as if on cue, the D-One boys (and girl) step up to the plate with a tirade of marvellous affluence...


That not only looks like a dead ringer for yellow welly, the colour of the kite absolutely confirms it for me, definitely him.
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new money buys a brand new 10 grand Phantom

old money lovingly restores a vintage Finn with 10 grand

both are for fat cats according to the lefties (and Grumpf)     
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This thread is wonderful for being able to include phases never normally used on here. I was especially please with managing to get "new money" in there!
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"In Euros because in Ireland.

I'm pretty sure you are right, that there are far more likely to be poor posh folk there than at a big brazen YC with all the bells and whstles - they are for new money, no class needed."

Like all the Royal Clubs (including the RNLI) in Ireland we were founded before we managed to throw of the yoke of 800 years of oppression!

All members of the club are also members of other clubs - some of which are very expensive if not necessarily posh.

New money - now there is a give away phrase revealing a distaste for social mobility! Most of the "old money" left here in 1922, so you could say anyone able to afford yachy club fees in Ireland comes from "new money".
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Originally posted by yellowwelly

Originally posted by iitick

 

We will use the metro of course, you are so old fashioned.

a city built on stilts on the water, and you'd choose to travel underground in a tunnel like the common rat?

That's us babe, 'common rats'.
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Originally posted by gordon

... at the origin of amateur sailing

I've come to believe that the greater the emphasis on amateur sailing (and especially if the word corinthian is involved), then the further "up" the social scale the club is positioned.
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Originally posted by iitick

 

We will use the metro of course, you are so old fashioned.

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Originally posted by yellowwelly

[QUOTE=iitick]Now they are the kind of people us mud dwellers can look up to, i appreciate a true 'toff'.

I must tell you all in advance......that we are off to Venice again next month, but, only because I am a kind husband who wishes to treat his wife. I promise not to enjoy my self.
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take your wellies, and I hope you're not one of those cheap skate tourists who takes the bus in, there's only one way to arrive in Venice, so pack a buoyancy aid too.  
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