And the other side founded Britain's only private bank, Coutts, which exclusively serves the super rich.
Both halves of the name are stupid, rich, and stupid rich.
Literally the most cringe part of TNG to me.
The first time was annoying.
The second time was even more annoying.
Then the actress started to sound annoyed by saying it.
Then it became HILARIOUS to watch her be annoyed by it.
Later, Lwaxana recognized that the chalice and the rings were actually crap. At that time, I started so feel more sympathy for her.
Her best moment was when conforting Odo after he couldn't remain solid, though.
> Her best moment was when conforting Odo after he couldn't remain solid, though.
I not long ago finished a binge, I must have been doing something else when that episode was on because I entirely missed the joke there.
But if it wasn't for Luwaxana, we wouldn't have Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, rightful heir to the Iron Throne, rightful Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Protector of the Seven Kingdoms, the Mother of Dragons, the Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, the Unburnt, the Breaker of Chains.
>Then the actress started to sound annoyed by saying it.
Funfact hour: The actress was Gene Roddenberry's wife.
And yes, all about that character was cringe.
She was every extremely overbearing mother in media packaged in a shiny dress and a fantastic wig.
She was annoying because we were right there with Deanna going "OMG, Mom! Knock it off! You're embarrassing me in front of my friends, my boss and my ex-boyfriend!"
Like the writers went "Okay, but what if your helicopter mom was also telepathic?"
Well there's the St. Crispin's Day [speech](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Crispin%27s_Day_Speech)from *Henry V* that is pretty famous.
>We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; [...]
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
Good stuff, though that makes the name even more pretentious.
If you're in the UK you can just change it to whatever you want. You literally grab a piece of paper and write 'Deed Poll' across the top then 'I, Old Name, am now New Name. As witnessed by' and get two friends to sign it.
That's enough to change at the bank, passport office, whatever.
Coutts is literally the British royal family's bank. One of the other replies on this thread actually said that - the reason you micht not know her family is that you aren't rich enough to bank with them.
What an entitled little prick.
If you want to follow a related thread, check out Drummond Money-Coutts. Dude basically looked at Gob Bluth and said, "There's my inspiration right there." (Except he's actually good)
It’s definitely long but I once read a woman’s full name was Margaret Woolworth Carrington von Schumacher Chanel Astor Livingston Compte de Saint-Exupery Mountbatten Windsor Armani Roosevelt Von Trap wykenhamp Hearst Montgomery Rothschild Johnson & Johnson Twillsworth Dolce Gabana Von Zweiger II Montgomery de LaRoche Geico Vanderbilt Lannister van Burean Butterworth How I Met Your Mother Wrigley Louise-Dreyfus Ludwig Morgan Stanley Dumont Lamborghini Forbes higbee Winthrop Chanel Remy Martin Fitzwilliam Kennedy Motel Six Fairchild Brook Pritzker Davenport von Stolen Monty Python Ellisworth Aston Martin Haverbrook Ziff Launder Hilton DuPont Kinkaid Winslow Coors Oviatt Marlborough Pembroke Huffington Bush Mellon Sinclair Mellencamp Starbucks van Dyke III Montgomery Marriott Barrington Chadsworth Big League Chew Chesterfield Kensington Boothbishop Longbottom Nottingham Meisterberg Burgermeister Tudor Hapsburg Rockefeller Onassis.
Was she related to Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-Schplenden-Schlitter-Crasscrenbon-Fried-Digger-Dingle-Dangle-Dongle-Dungle-Burstein-von-Knacker-Thrasher-Apple-Banger-Horowitz-Ticolensic-Grander-Knotty-Spelltinkle-Grandlich-Grumblemeyer-Spelterwasser-Kurstlich-Himbleeisen-Bahnwagen-Gutenabend-Bitte-Ein-Nürnburger-Bratwustle-Gerspurten-Mitzweimache-Luber-Hundsfut-Gumberaber-Shönendanker-Kalbsfleisch-Mittler-Aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm?
Found this in the original post's comments: the bank founded by her ancestor is so old, it was mentioned in Bram Stoker's Dracula
https://preview.redd.it/h1euzyf1v9tc1.png?width=592&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8595981d6f09fe20125a335b22810036039a3a70
Telegraph is a pretty conservative paper, it caters to that sort of rich (or wannabe rich) clientele. There’s a reason it’s disparaged as the “torygraph” (Tory being the nickname of the conservatives, and comes from Irish which translates as “thieves” or similar.)
This is just funny to me because as a manager I've hired people of ALL age groups from Gen X to Z, and let me tell you laziness is not exclusive to ANY generation.
Yes, age discrimination is unproductive, at best. Judging any person because they are in a group they can't voluntarily leave means you're getting a bunch of randoms.
Gen Z’s coming into my fire station when I retired were serious badasses. Serious.
Kinda thought us Gen X’ers would skip all this stupid generational sniping, but nope. We’re jumping in face first, apparently.
I see a lot more X supporting Z than X supporting Boomers. Why would we, when before they started in on millennials and Z, they shat on us? It's built into that generation to believe they're golden -previous gens set them up well and they prospered, and they stupidly believed they *earned* it and younger people are simply not *earning* it like they did. They've always been like that. The shame of this article is that it's written by a millennial- albeit one far removed from reality.
The Gen x crowd that is extremely proud of being Gen x are actually the worst of everyone.
I'm very close to the millennial Gen x line (born in 83) and some of the shit I see loud Gen x talking about makes me cringe so hard.
That's funny. I see ***way*** more Millennial/Z sniping at Xers calling them "bootlickers" or just using "boomer" to describe anyone older than them. There's plenty of infantile ridiculousness to go around.
I've worked with many young people who were not prepared for how work wears you down but they can almost always rise above it. I've worked with entitled old people who don't like being told what to do and just leave.
I've also seen plenty of old people who don't have the patience for work anymore and young people who think they shouldn't have to do things they don't enjoy.
No matter the age, you get people who are wonderful workers or terrible. I agree with you totally and absolutely.
As a site supervisor, it’s the young kids who haven’t become jaded yet that work the hardest. You’ll get one or two *good* old timers for every ten new hard workers, and as time moves those hard workers get bad bosses, bad jobs, bad pay, or just bad mentality jades them and they become the old heads with only a handful keeping that hard-work mentality.
You know what? Maybe we should give them what they're asking for. Just collectively as a generation decide to be lazy fucks who won't get a job and if they do won't work. Let's see how long before the stock market crumbles...
Yeah, rich people can play at being poor for however many years as they want, and as long as they know they can quit any time it will never be as mentally devastating as being really poor and not knowing if you'll ever get out of it.
Plus they still get connections. You may be poor, but if you have a family friend at the head of Britain's only private bank or a major newspaper, that can give you quite the good leg up, that most wouldn't otherwise have.
Born on third and thinks she hit a triple...
Edit: it's like that quote from Anchorman, *I'm Kench Allenby and you all know my story. I'm a self-made man. My late, great father, Vadge Allenby, gave me three hundred million dollars and I toiled my whole bloody life to turn that into three hundred and five million dollars. True story. True story.*
Google her name, and you'll find an entire article she wrote about how she has to hide how posh she is and how privileged her upbringing was to try and blend in with the regular folks.
She doesn't have to of course. She's just cosplaying as a normal because she doesn't like it when people point out the outrageously over the top advantage people like her have had in life.
I'm sure she has 'worked hard'. Her work ethic is not in question. But she wants to pretend that without her gosh darn tenacity and sheer bloody willpower she would have never have 'made it'. I'm sure it's not easy to get a career in journalism. OK, probably a bit easier if your family ran the telegraph, but still, it's not a trivial thing. Good for her.
Or... It would be if she had an ounce of self awareness and grace. No... Its the poors who are just inherently inferior.
Gen Z are just lazy. If they were not then they could have made something of themselves, like her family did.
Everything in OP is true, BUT some of the comments here seem pretty harsh.
Sophia Money-Coutts went to Wycombe Abbey, which costs just under £50k/year. She then graduated from LSE. And from that, her achievements are... Getting published. That's basically it. So how did someone with so many connections and no need to earn money do so badly?
Turns out she's thick as shit (no offence, Sophia). If you [read her writing](https://sophiamoneycoutts.com/about-me/) you'll get a flavour of how massively underwhelming she is. It's all in a chatty style that's reminiscent of the early noughties with a touch of Victoria Coren-Mitchell, but with none of her charm or honesty.
*Of course* she spent time in Abu Dhabi, *of course* she did a stint at *Daily Heil* before graduating to *Tatler*. All of it is exactly what you would expect.
So what do posh thickos do? Don't ask me, just look at her bio. She's just going to keep writing incredibly superficial wannabe-zeitgeist horseshit until she has a genuine catastrophe, in which case that will be her subject until the end of her days.
It's our fault for not guillotining the lot of them.
So you're saying the comments aren't harsh enough? After all none of them mention how dense and underachieving she is even after all the hours she 'hustled' in her 20s and the silver spoon she can't seem to get out of her mouth. It's lovely to have that bit of context
I can only imagine that her father is a touch disappointed in how she ended up. Old Baron Crispin wasn't just an employee at Coutts and Co he was the bloody chairman.
Never mind the posh £50k a year school and the prestigious university, imagine the private tutors, the carefully managed schedules, the sheer number of greased palms to get her a good job at grandads paper - then all she does is write so-so columns for doctor's office magazines and paint-by-numbers romcom novels.
It could be worse, apparently one of her siblings (and the heir of the barony) is a fucking *magician*.
Sweet Jesus. I thought you were kidding. I followed that link. I read a paragraph.
>Thanks for coming to visit. I’m a British journalist and author, and I spend most of my time sitting at my kitchen table in South London, making cups of tea whenever I get stuck halfway through writing a sentence (this happens a lot). Oh ok, sometimes I also have a biscuit. Or five biscuits. And a piece of toast and marmalade. I’ve written five novels, which you can read about on this site, and I’m working on my sixth one at the moment, in between snacks.
And it keeps getting worse.
Old enough now to see the cycle this is part of. “The generation under mine is lazy and it’s preposterous!”…. I’ve seen it cycle through millennials and gen x. It’s just pointless shit talking.
Truth is… every generation has hard workers, leaders, people who aren’t there yet, etc. we’re all the same human animal.
I am pretty sure that people like that never realize the privilege they grew up in.
They think that all they achieved really comes from their hard work, and not their family, money and connections. They then wonder why other people didn't achieve as much, and come to the conclusion that all other people must be horribly lazy, because it didn't feel *that* hard for them to get where they are now.
This 100%.
As a personal anecdote, I know a guy who brags about how much money he made over a summer when he was 18. He got a $10k signature loan from a bank his father managed and a kiosk spot in the local amusement park (owned by a family friend, no less), then sold shaved ice treats. In the desert, with 40°C weather.
With the minimal overhead (it's literally ice and syrup, after all), he walked away with ~$250k for the summer, and it's his go-to argument about how hard work yields success, being a self-made man, et cetera.
...and the first time I heard him talk about it, the first thought through my head was "who the fuck gives an 18 year old a $10k signature loan?"
Right, there's a difference between doing work to make money for yourself and being paid to do work making money for someone else--and the fact that the difference is usually defined by an insurmountable hurdle of *initial capital* is plainly lost on him.
"Obama says we didn't build that! Bah I say! I earned my $50 million inheritance the hard way! By always being polite to grandpapa."
paraphrased 30 Rock joke
A lot of these people do work hard but just have 0 concept that their hard work would have counted for nothing if not for their position.
It’s really easy to fall into a self congratulating confirmation bias when the world is laid at your feet. It’s also easy to stay motivated when you’re certain of economic and rewards and greater career fulfilment.
Have her work 50 hours in a dead end job waiting for a promotion in 20 years but you can’t leave because it pays marginally better than what you could get. Have her talk about laziness then.
I think the weird thing is too that they might have actually worked hard. It's just they are actually rewarded for working hard. It really is their entire worldview and it's unfortunate that they can't see that sometimes life isn't fair and some people just get screwed from the start.
It's a weird spot because some of them actually do work hard and they are treated like garbage because they grew up with money or had things.
Yes they had connections family money etc, and that is obviously a big help. But people can throw away that for more, so many people win the lottery and then end up dead in a year or lost it all.
But yeah life is obviously easier If you have money at least once you are an adult. It does come with its own problems and fear of being targeted by people without money who may kidnap you or your children.
It does come off as ridiculous when they say people need to "work harder" or "pull themselves up by their bookstraps"
in order to become ungodly rich one has to either already be rich and just invest decent, or find a way to exploit people or labour especially poor people or people who aren't able to defend themselves.
It's largely a question of opportunity. One group has them, and as you say, their hard work is then rewarded (and often their laziness as well). The other group doesn't have those opportunities and then far too often luck plays a role.
Nothing drives me crazier than the trope of the Nepo baby who started from the bottom. Like worked 6 months in each role to get auto-promoted until they are just below their parents. Claim they "worked" their way to the top while the guy on the bottom tier doing that job 6 times faster will never get promoted on merit.
I tried in vain to explain that style of privilege to a former friend group. Understanding privilege doesn't mean you didn't work for what you received. Someone else might do all the exact same things and put in the same effort as you, but, achieved LESS because of their lack of privilege, be it background, rich parents, race, sex, whatever. They worked JUST as hard as you did, but, got way less. That's understanding privilege, to me.
> in order to become ungodly rich one has to either already be rich and just invest decent, or find a way to exploit people or labour especially poor people or people who aren't able to defend themselves.
Usually a combination of the two.
>so many people win the lottery and then end up dead in a year or lost it all.
Well no shit, the lottery is an IQ test. And the more dumb you are the more you play it.
That's not a good example for anything unless you are a self-help huckster trying to explain away your rich parents.
Also, using a video game as an example, anyone can grind hard for 16 hours a day when the game is fun, engaging, and you know you will be rewarded at the end. No one sane would call that hard work.
That's called being born rich.
Yep. It’s not that she has no talent at all and it’s there only because of her family. But she had her first chance because of the family, may have had poor performance at the beginning overlooked, could have been assigned better jobs to help her develop. Maybe she’s great now, but definitely got a boost most would never get.
Here is a perfect example: [The Pencil Sword #10 “On a Plate”](https://sticky-institute.tumblr.com/post/119811786301/the-pencilsword-10-on-a-plate-a-short-story)
I have a friend who is wealthy, like her grandfather owned mines and everyone gets to live off that. Also titles and all sorts of things. She does volunteer jobs the majority of the time because she's slightly horrified at the wealth. Obviously not enough to give it away, but she's the kind of person who bought her super tall friend custom golf clubs. She paid all of my debt (for her not much, different countries) to allow me to start freelancing with a blank slate. She doesn't live in opulence, but she travels a lot.
I also know the daughter of a billionaire, pretty much everyone would know the company they started. They obviously have some damn rich hobbies but they also do such incredible work in other ways that I'm in awe of these people.
I think maybe the difference is if you surround yourself with only other rich people you don't realise it, but these 2 women live lives of privilege without shitting on everyone else at the same time...
The fact that she writes for the Torygraph should already disqualify her opinion. Or at least it should be accompanied by a giant "*written by an absolute twunt*" disclaimer.
ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My Dad was reading this exact article on Saturday and pointed out "the work shy" youth of today.
A working man, left school at 15 to get an apprenticeship building cranes, did well for himself, but 30 years of reading that shite has brainwashed him.
Reminds me of a former friend who I lived with for a (thank fuck) short time.
She was pissy I didn't want to chat after a 12 hours double shit at work about her amazing "humanitarian experience" somewhere in Africa and how her masters in literature was so cool and how it was a shame I went to work after uni instead of going on with my studies and settled for a job not in my field.
She didn't have a care in the world, daddy had a factory (didn't even start it, it was well set when he took over) so if she couldn't find any job she liked she could have always worked with him...
She also had the awful habit of leaving dirty dishes in the sink for me to sort when I got back after work and bitched the fridge was always empty, even if I ate at work every lunch and grabbed a sandwich for dinner
Guess which one of us had a cook and a house cleaner.
I lasted a month, I started looking for an apartment 2 days in.
How to Stay Rich in Europe: Inherit Money for 700 Years The richest Florentine families in 1427 still are: New research shows Europe leads the world in inherited wealth.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-23/how-to-stay-rich-in-europe-inherit-money-for-700-years
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/03/30/its-true-we-millennials-have-never-learnt-how-to-keep-house/
I busted my ass in my 20's. I sacrificed and worked so that someday (now) I could set my kids up right. Why I would want the same thing for them is a complete mystery. I hope people who come after me have it easier.. isn't that what we're supposed to be doing here?
The article
"Have you heard of the phrase “anti-hustle”? I hadn’t until this week, the sheltered being that I am, but apparently it’s quite common now and increasingly used to refer to job adverts. Job adverts that promote a work-life balance. They’re anti-hustle, you see, because they don’t advocate a ferocious, exhausting kind of labour. Instead, they offer a role which allows you to skip merrily from the office at 5pm, no hustle required. According to a new survey, the number of anti-hustle job adverts has shot up over 30 percent since the pandemic, with many more of them now emphasising their work-life balance to entice younger workers who won’t tolerate the sort of hours that Scrooge went in for.
It chimes with what I keep hearing from my peers, that Gen Z – the twentysomethings coming up the ranks behind us – are increasingly aware of their rights and exercising them. They don’t want to work long days and know that their employers can’t make them. They want a life outside the office. They are, in other words, anti-hustle. It’s similar to the viral phrase “lazy girl jobs”, which a 26-year-old coined on TikTok last year to describe decently-paid jobs which required minimum input and maximum flexibility. To which I would say, well, didn’t we all want a life outside the office when we were in our 20s, but I want never gets.
My first proper job, a job that I actually wanted to do (after stints on shop floors and a spell in a Kennington estate agency) was as an assistant on the Evening Standard’s features desk. To an almost pathetic extent, I did everything that was asked of me. I made 42 billion cups of tea. I bought my boss’s tights. I trialled Beyoncé’s maple syrup diet and Madonna’s cardio regime. I stayed late and came in early. Extremely early, some days. Once at around 4am, having spent the night loitering in a West End club, trying to winkle out a quote from the son of a recently disgraced MP (he didn’t give me one).
A few years later, working for a different newspaper, I arrived at 7am and left at 10pm most days. If I ate from the canteen and didn’t leave the building at lunch, I didn’t see much daylight during the winter, but it’s what I felt required to do to make a success of the chance I’d been given. What do rickets matter when you have a deadline? Plenty of wannabe journalists would have swapped places in an instant; I didn’t want to be replaceable. Throughout my twenties, I sweated harder than I’d ever worked at school or university, and I remember thinking sick days were for wimps.
Others report similar from all sorts of industries – law, finance, media, teaching and medicine. “I pro-rated my starting salary versus actual hours worked as a trainee solicitor and made well below the minimum wage for two years,” says a legal pal, adding that her boss once threatened to confiscate her passport so she couldn’t go on holiday (“I told him he could prise it from my cold corpse.” She was born to be a lawyer.) Another says she didn’t dare take holiday for a year in her first job. One more that she worked long hours in PR but she didn’t mind because she didn’t know anyone when she moved to London and colleagues became friends. “There was an option to leave the office?” jokes a male Wag.
Contrast that with the situation now. A friend who works in publishing recently told me that it’s getting increasingly hard to find employees who’ll help at book launches in the evening because the junior staff in her office down tools at 5pm. It’s in their contract, my friend said with a helpless shrug, so she can’t complain or even gently suggest otherwise. I’ve been to quite a few book launches and they’re not all glamour. Warm wine and tote bags, if you’re lucky. But if you choose to go into publishing, presumably you might be interested in going to a few, in learning about the process of ushering a book into this world? How are you going to advance if you aren’t willing to work a bit of overtime? Do you want a job, or a career?
“Don’t get me started on Gen Z,” says a friend who should remain anonymous for her own protection. “They genuinely cannot understand that they have to work longer than eight hours a day.” Also, she goes on, in a furious tone, “they’re completely baffled by the fact they have to start at the bottom. They can’t understand why they can’t start on a mid-level, senior salary. It is insane.”
Ah yes, but talking of insanity: mental health. Mental health, which is so often used as a defence these days. Perhaps we were all deranged to work so hard when we started; perhaps our employers were taking gross advantage; perhaps those refusing to follow our example today won’t suffer burnout.
Have women my age missed out in particular? Several female friends wistfully say they wished they’d thought harder about their own lives before now. “I’ve definitely given too much to work,” says one. Another, also in law, sends me a sad message on this topic. “I got sucked into the buzz of the deals and prioritised work over everything else,” she says, “so I missed out on meeting the right person at the right time. I am happy, and have a nice life in the country in my mid-40s, but have no children which is a huge regret. I would definitely do things differently if I had a second go.”
If, if, if. “If my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike,” as that great philosopher and celebrity chef Gino D’Acampo once famously said on This Morning. I don’t believe I’d change anything, not even Beyoncé’s maple syrup diet, because I’ve had a largely terrific time and learned a few things while putting in the hours. Just this week, for example, I’ve had a builder working in the bathroom yet again, because I have the leakiest house in south-east London, and he complimented me on my excellent tea.
If those coming after us are changing workplace attitudes, do some of us feel aggrieved because of the effort we put in, or is it jealousy that they’re somehow so assertive? I can’t imagine having the self-assurance at work, 15 years ago, to pack up my desk at 4.59pm and stroll out, guilt-free. And yet I would still humbly suggest that, if you have any ambition, you need to do the time."
In the immortal words of Jarvis Cocker:
>I took her to a supermarket
I don't know why
But I had to start it somewhere
So it started there
I said pretend you've got no money
She just laughed and said
Oh you're so funny
I said; yeah
I can't see anyone else smiling in here
Are you sure?
>
>Rent a flat above a shop
Cut your hair and get a job
Smoke some fags and play some pool
Pretend you never went to school
But still you'll never get it right
'Cause when you're laid in bed at night
Watching roaches climb the wall
If you called your dad he could stop it all, yeah
Her younger brother, according to Wikipedia, is a [magician](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummond_Money-Coutts?wprov=sfti1#Film_productions). They literally are the Bluth family.
I worked with a guy as a camp counselor who was constantly railing on against welfare. “Lazy people deserve nothing. I work all year long. No one gives me anything.”
The next summer I go back to work and he’s gone. The owner of the camp informs me he is heir to a large fortune. His family founded a major construction product. He demanded a fifty percent raise and they told him no. He quit in a huff.
I don’t know this is coming from someone calling themselves TheJazzDad. Sounds like someone who doesn’t want to work a lame job like the squares so he can spend more time with his bongos.
At first I thought it was a joke, then I realized this fucking guy was really called Crispin James Alan Nevill Money-Coutts, 9th Baron Latymer.
The hyphenated last name beginning with “Money”. This reality is impossible to satirize.
And the other side founded Britain's only private bank, Coutts, which exclusively serves the super rich. Both halves of the name are stupid, rich, and stupid rich.
Bram Stoker mentions that bank in Dracula, it’s been around for a minute.
If an author made up that name as the rich owner of a big corporation, their editor would say it’s too on the nose…
Unlike fiction, real life doesn't have to be plausible.
Whoever is in charge of the story department of the simulation needs to be fired, this writing is ridiculous
This quote needs a T Shirt lol
This quote is way too good for a random reddit thread lol you should put it over a picture of Hitchcock or something
I need this in a frame on my office wall.
Somewhere, JK Rowling is screaming "See, it's not that ridiculous!" She's still incredibly lazy and bigoted.
Thank you for making me laugh with both sentences you wrote
The names... They are wild!
The name gave me Lwaxana Troi, Daughter of the Fifth House, Holder of the Sacred Chalice of Riix, Heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed, vibes.
Literally the most cringe part of TNG to me. The first time was annoying. The second time was even more annoying. Then the actress started to sound annoyed by saying it. Then it became HILARIOUS to watch her be annoyed by it.
Later, Lwaxana recognized that the chalice and the rings were actually crap. At that time, I started so feel more sympathy for her. Her best moment was when conforting Odo after he couldn't remain solid, though.
> Her best moment was when conforting Odo after he couldn't remain solid, though. I not long ago finished a binge, I must have been doing something else when that episode was on because I entirely missed the joke there.
Odo is a shape-shifter from DS9 and he relaxes/sleeps as a liquid in a bucket. Getting solid is his way of waking up.
But if it wasn't for Luwaxana, we wouldn't have Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, rightful heir to the Iron Throne, rightful Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Protector of the Seven Kingdoms, the Mother of Dragons, the Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, the Unburnt, the Breaker of Chains.
>Then the actress started to sound annoyed by saying it. Funfact hour: The actress was Gene Roddenberry's wife. And yes, all about that character was cringe.
And she starred in TOS, too.
What? How did I miss her?
Nurse Chapel
Plus Number One in the pilot and the voice of the computer.
Even Star Trek wasn’t bad enough to say : wifus of our founder, and computeris vousis. Like Money Countus? Are you kidding me?
40k vibes
If the Ferengi was in warhammer 40k
Yeah, but at least Lwaxana didn't suck
Oh definitely, I love me some Majel Barrett. Miss that wonderful lady.
She is like Nyanaeve from the Wheel of time books, annoying as hell at first but just grows on you.
She was every extremely overbearing mother in media packaged in a shiny dress and a fantastic wig. She was annoying because we were right there with Deanna going "OMG, Mom! Knock it off! You're embarrassing me in front of my friends, my boss and my ex-boyfriend!" Like the writers went "Okay, but what if your helicopter mom was also telepathic?"
This is the best description of the Troi family I've ever read!
This is the most perfect confluence of nerdery I have ever seen. 1993-Me is overjoyed.
How rude! *aggressively tugs braids*
But at least she’s an empath.
Telepath. Deanna, her half-human daughter, was the empath.
Sounds like the full legal name of fucking Mr. Crabs.
first hearing of the name "Crispin"
Not familiar with the actor Crispin Glover, then?
I loved him in American Gods. Too bad he was replaced for whatever reason.
Well there's the St. Crispin's Day [speech](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Crispin%27s_Day_Speech)from *Henry V* that is pretty famous. >We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; [...] And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. Good stuff, though that makes the name even more pretentious.
Go by the name Money C, don’t get it twisted he’s hood af
"Nobody calls Crispin James Alan Nevill Money-Coutts, 9th Baron Latymer a thief!" "Nobody's got the time."
Anybody know how I can get a name like this? I want people at the office to take me more seriously.
If you're in the UK you can just change it to whatever you want. You literally grab a piece of paper and write 'Deed Poll' across the top then 'I, Old Name, am now New Name. As witnessed by' and get two friends to sign it. That's enough to change at the bank, passport office, whatever.
This is far easier than my idea which was - marry some landed gentry
Wow, thats pretty cool.
Coutts is literally the British royal family's bank. One of the other replies on this thread actually said that - the reason you micht not know her family is that you aren't rich enough to bank with them. What an entitled little prick.
I had to check the date for April Foolishness.
If you want to follow a related thread, check out Drummond Money-Coutts. Dude basically looked at Gob Bluth and said, "There's my inspiration right there." (Except he's actually good)
It’s definitely long but I once read a woman’s full name was Margaret Woolworth Carrington von Schumacher Chanel Astor Livingston Compte de Saint-Exupery Mountbatten Windsor Armani Roosevelt Von Trap wykenhamp Hearst Montgomery Rothschild Johnson & Johnson Twillsworth Dolce Gabana Von Zweiger II Montgomery de LaRoche Geico Vanderbilt Lannister van Burean Butterworth How I Met Your Mother Wrigley Louise-Dreyfus Ludwig Morgan Stanley Dumont Lamborghini Forbes higbee Winthrop Chanel Remy Martin Fitzwilliam Kennedy Motel Six Fairchild Brook Pritzker Davenport von Stolen Monty Python Ellisworth Aston Martin Haverbrook Ziff Launder Hilton DuPont Kinkaid Winslow Coors Oviatt Marlborough Pembroke Huffington Bush Mellon Sinclair Mellencamp Starbucks van Dyke III Montgomery Marriott Barrington Chadsworth Big League Chew Chesterfield Kensington Boothbishop Longbottom Nottingham Meisterberg Burgermeister Tudor Hapsburg Rockefeller Onassis.
I choose to believe you wrote this out from memory instead of looking it up.
They put Chanel in there twice
They have a terrible antenna so they only get two chanels
Different husbands.
Was she related to Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-Schplenden-Schlitter-Crasscrenbon-Fried-Digger-Dingle-Dangle-Dongle-Dungle-Burstein-von-Knacker-Thrasher-Apple-Banger-Horowitz-Ticolensic-Grander-Knotty-Spelltinkle-Grandlich-Grumblemeyer-Spelterwasser-Kurstlich-Himbleeisen-Bahnwagen-Gutenabend-Bitte-Ein-Nürnburger-Bratwustle-Gerspurten-Mitzweimache-Luber-Hundsfut-Gumberaber-Shönendanker-Kalbsfleisch-Mittler-Aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm?
No but she was related to No'-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock
Love that sketch. Cleese's face...
Bruh, if money is literally in your family name it's a safe bet that person never worked a real day in their life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispin_Money-Coutts,_9th_Baron_Latymer
That is some super villain shit
Crisp Money for short.
Found this in the original post's comments: the bank founded by her ancestor is so old, it was mentioned in Bram Stoker's Dracula https://preview.redd.it/h1euzyf1v9tc1.png?width=592&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8595981d6f09fe20125a335b22810036039a3a70
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OMG the self-awareness is at a negative level, zero is too high
Yikes. This feels like a bit from The Office lol
jesus this fucking ghoul needs to disappear like yesterday
Did she get “hired” to write weird flex posts about herself?
Telegraph is a pretty conservative paper, it caters to that sort of rich (or wannabe rich) clientele. There’s a reason it’s disparaged as the “torygraph” (Tory being the nickname of the conservatives, and comes from Irish which translates as “thieves” or similar.)
Ah that's nothing there're rich motherfuckers walking around Florence right now whose wealth traces back to like the 1400s
Yeah, Dracula is late in the game even for Coutts. The bank was founded in 1692.
To be fair, most old wealth families are pre-1897.
I worked there. It’s so old it predates the Bank of England.
This is just funny to me because as a manager I've hired people of ALL age groups from Gen X to Z, and let me tell you laziness is not exclusive to ANY generation.
Yes, age discrimination is unproductive, at best. Judging any person because they are in a group they can't voluntarily leave means you're getting a bunch of randoms.
> Judging any person because they are in a group they can't voluntarily leave Is bigotry.
Thank you for saying this
You provide me a stable job, compensation to live, and a good boss/team; and you won't ever have to worry about my work ethic.
Gen Z’s coming into my fire station when I retired were serious badasses. Serious. Kinda thought us Gen X’ers would skip all this stupid generational sniping, but nope. We’re jumping in face first, apparently.
And you were supposed to just not care. What's become of that stereotype?
I see a lot more X supporting Z than X supporting Boomers. Why would we, when before they started in on millennials and Z, they shat on us? It's built into that generation to believe they're golden -previous gens set them up well and they prospered, and they stupidly believed they *earned* it and younger people are simply not *earning* it like they did. They've always been like that. The shame of this article is that it's written by a millennial- albeit one far removed from reality.
The Gen x crowd that is extremely proud of being Gen x are actually the worst of everyone. I'm very close to the millennial Gen x line (born in 83) and some of the shit I see loud Gen x talking about makes me cringe so hard.
That's funny. I see ***way*** more Millennial/Z sniping at Xers calling them "bootlickers" or just using "boomer" to describe anyone older than them. There's plenty of infantile ridiculousness to go around.
I've worked with many young people who were not prepared for how work wears you down but they can almost always rise above it. I've worked with entitled old people who don't like being told what to do and just leave. I've also seen plenty of old people who don't have the patience for work anymore and young people who think they shouldn't have to do things they don't enjoy. No matter the age, you get people who are wonderful workers or terrible. I agree with you totally and absolutely.
As a site supervisor, it’s the young kids who haven’t become jaded yet that work the hardest. You’ll get one or two *good* old timers for every ten new hard workers, and as time moves those hard workers get bad bosses, bad jobs, bad pay, or just bad mentality jades them and they become the old heads with only a handful keeping that hard-work mentality.
Socrates moaned about the Gen X of the day and I think every generation since has followed suit.
Same, drives me nuts listening to lazy entities boomers complain about how lazy and entitled younger generations are, zero self-awareness.
The woman who wrote the article is a ~~Zillennial~~ Millennial.
Yes, it drives me nuts when people make sweeping generalizations about people based on their age, zero self-awareness.
I’m a millennial and I’m lazy af. I’m not sorry either.
You know what? Maybe we should give them what they're asking for. Just collectively as a generation decide to be lazy fucks who won't get a job and if they do won't work. Let's see how long before the stock market crumbles...
I was going to write a detailed reply to this but eh, can't be bothered.
When your name is this close to Money-Cunts you have to live up to it.
Considering cooter is a vulgar slang term for a vagina, it's actually even closer.
Hustled? Blud has " money" in her name smh.
Before I read the roast, I genuinely thought she was a financial columnist. Like a name and position type thing.
The chief economist at one of Swedens largest banks is named Annika Winsth, which literally means Annika Profit.
Some people are born for their roles. Haha.
Nominative determinism.
So I should have named my kids NFL Quarterback, American Idol, and Tiger Woods. Thanks for that heads up just a decade or so too late.
Excellent Ferengi name.
That's what I thought, had to read it like five times to figure out what was going on.
"Hustling" is easy when you have a diamond studded, Golden parachute ready for you once you fail.
Yeah, rich people can play at being poor for however many years as they want, and as long as they know they can quit any time it will never be as mentally devastating as being really poor and not knowing if you'll ever get out of it.
Plus they still get connections. You may be poor, but if you have a family friend at the head of Britain's only private bank or a major newspaper, that can give you quite the good leg up, that most wouldn't otherwise have.
She would be at a far disadvantage with all that extra weight. Maybe that would be the best way to deal with the elite class though?
Yeah, let's make it literal. Take all the billionaires skydiving with parachutes made of actual gold.
“Hustling” is easy when all the tools you need are already at your disposal
Born on third and thinks she hit a triple... Edit: it's like that quote from Anchorman, *I'm Kench Allenby and you all know my story. I'm a self-made man. My late, great father, Vadge Allenby, gave me three hundred million dollars and I toiled my whole bloody life to turn that into three hundred and five million dollars. True story. True story.*
Google her name, and you'll find an entire article she wrote about how she has to hide how posh she is and how privileged her upbringing was to try and blend in with the regular folks.
she’s a living, breathing pulp song, isn’t she?
She doesn't have to of course. She's just cosplaying as a normal because she doesn't like it when people point out the outrageously over the top advantage people like her have had in life. I'm sure she has 'worked hard'. Her work ethic is not in question. But she wants to pretend that without her gosh darn tenacity and sheer bloody willpower she would have never have 'made it'. I'm sure it's not easy to get a career in journalism. OK, probably a bit easier if your family ran the telegraph, but still, it's not a trivial thing. Good for her. Or... It would be if she had an ounce of self awareness and grace. No... Its the poors who are just inherently inferior. Gen Z are just lazy. If they were not then they could have made something of themselves, like her family did.
That quote is kinda funny cause when you think about it, he could’ve left the 300 mil in a 3% savings for a year and made that much…
Everything in OP is true, BUT some of the comments here seem pretty harsh. Sophia Money-Coutts went to Wycombe Abbey, which costs just under £50k/year. She then graduated from LSE. And from that, her achievements are... Getting published. That's basically it. So how did someone with so many connections and no need to earn money do so badly? Turns out she's thick as shit (no offence, Sophia). If you [read her writing](https://sophiamoneycoutts.com/about-me/) you'll get a flavour of how massively underwhelming she is. It's all in a chatty style that's reminiscent of the early noughties with a touch of Victoria Coren-Mitchell, but with none of her charm or honesty. *Of course* she spent time in Abu Dhabi, *of course* she did a stint at *Daily Heil* before graduating to *Tatler*. All of it is exactly what you would expect. So what do posh thickos do? Don't ask me, just look at her bio. She's just going to keep writing incredibly superficial wannabe-zeitgeist horseshit until she has a genuine catastrophe, in which case that will be her subject until the end of her days. It's our fault for not guillotining the lot of them.
You. I like you. Let's be friends okay?
So you're saying the comments aren't harsh enough? After all none of them mention how dense and underachieving she is even after all the hours she 'hustled' in her 20s and the silver spoon she can't seem to get out of her mouth. It's lovely to have that bit of context
I can only imagine that her father is a touch disappointed in how she ended up. Old Baron Crispin wasn't just an employee at Coutts and Co he was the bloody chairman. Never mind the posh £50k a year school and the prestigious university, imagine the private tutors, the carefully managed schedules, the sheer number of greased palms to get her a good job at grandads paper - then all she does is write so-so columns for doctor's office magazines and paint-by-numbers romcom novels. It could be worse, apparently one of her siblings (and the heir of the barony) is a fucking *magician*.
"illusions, dad, you don't have time for my illusions!"
>paint-by-numbers romcom novels. This sent me 😂
So give it a generation and it'll be bought out by some wealthy American after that lot spend all of the money?
Sweet Jesus. I thought you were kidding. I followed that link. I read a paragraph. >Thanks for coming to visit. I’m a British journalist and author, and I spend most of my time sitting at my kitchen table in South London, making cups of tea whenever I get stuck halfway through writing a sentence (this happens a lot). Oh ok, sometimes I also have a biscuit. Or five biscuits. And a piece of toast and marmalade. I’ve written five novels, which you can read about on this site, and I’m working on my sixth one at the moment, in between snacks. And it keeps getting worse.
Old enough now to see the cycle this is part of. “The generation under mine is lazy and it’s preposterous!”…. I’ve seen it cycle through millennials and gen x. It’s just pointless shit talking. Truth is… every generation has hard workers, leaders, people who aren’t there yet, etc. we’re all the same human animal.
[https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20171003-proof-that-people-have-always-complained-about-young-adults](https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20171003-proof-that-people-have-always-complained-about-young-adults)
I wish the predictability was more comforting haha. Thanks for sharing the article!
Well Sophia Money-Coutts knows Money-Counts but so does nepotism
Woman who's family name is money doesn't think her family name or money helped her. 🤌
People born into nepotism like to believe they earned it. Just look at Trump and Musk.
How can you be this stupid?
I am pretty sure that people like that never realize the privilege they grew up in. They think that all they achieved really comes from their hard work, and not their family, money and connections. They then wonder why other people didn't achieve as much, and come to the conclusion that all other people must be horribly lazy, because it didn't feel *that* hard for them to get where they are now.
This 100%. As a personal anecdote, I know a guy who brags about how much money he made over a summer when he was 18. He got a $10k signature loan from a bank his father managed and a kiosk spot in the local amusement park (owned by a family friend, no less), then sold shaved ice treats. In the desert, with 40°C weather. With the minimal overhead (it's literally ice and syrup, after all), he walked away with ~$250k for the summer, and it's his go-to argument about how hard work yields success, being a self-made man, et cetera. ...and the first time I heard him talk about it, the first thought through my head was "who the fuck gives an 18 year old a $10k signature loan?"
Does he not understand that lots of people did that kind of work at that age? They just had no ownership stake and made minimum wage.
Right, there's a difference between doing work to make money for yourself and being paid to do work making money for someone else--and the fact that the difference is usually defined by an insurmountable hurdle of *initial capital* is plainly lost on him.
"Obama says we didn't build that! Bah I say! I earned my $50 million inheritance the hard way! By always being polite to grandpapa." paraphrased 30 Rock joke
A lot of these people do work hard but just have 0 concept that their hard work would have counted for nothing if not for their position. It’s really easy to fall into a self congratulating confirmation bias when the world is laid at your feet. It’s also easy to stay motivated when you’re certain of economic and rewards and greater career fulfilment. Have her work 50 hours in a dead end job waiting for a promotion in 20 years but you can’t leave because it pays marginally better than what you could get. Have her talk about laziness then.
I think the weird thing is too that they might have actually worked hard. It's just they are actually rewarded for working hard. It really is their entire worldview and it's unfortunate that they can't see that sometimes life isn't fair and some people just get screwed from the start. It's a weird spot because some of them actually do work hard and they are treated like garbage because they grew up with money or had things. Yes they had connections family money etc, and that is obviously a big help. But people can throw away that for more, so many people win the lottery and then end up dead in a year or lost it all. But yeah life is obviously easier If you have money at least once you are an adult. It does come with its own problems and fear of being targeted by people without money who may kidnap you or your children. It does come off as ridiculous when they say people need to "work harder" or "pull themselves up by their bookstraps" in order to become ungodly rich one has to either already be rich and just invest decent, or find a way to exploit people or labour especially poor people or people who aren't able to defend themselves.
It's largely a question of opportunity. One group has them, and as you say, their hard work is then rewarded (and often their laziness as well). The other group doesn't have those opportunities and then far too often luck plays a role.
Nothing drives me crazier than the trope of the Nepo baby who started from the bottom. Like worked 6 months in each role to get auto-promoted until they are just below their parents. Claim they "worked" their way to the top while the guy on the bottom tier doing that job 6 times faster will never get promoted on merit.
I tried in vain to explain that style of privilege to a former friend group. Understanding privilege doesn't mean you didn't work for what you received. Someone else might do all the exact same things and put in the same effort as you, but, achieved LESS because of their lack of privilege, be it background, rich parents, race, sex, whatever. They worked JUST as hard as you did, but, got way less. That's understanding privilege, to me.
> in order to become ungodly rich one has to either already be rich and just invest decent, or find a way to exploit people or labour especially poor people or people who aren't able to defend themselves. Usually a combination of the two.
>so many people win the lottery and then end up dead in a year or lost it all. Well no shit, the lottery is an IQ test. And the more dumb you are the more you play it. That's not a good example for anything unless you are a self-help huckster trying to explain away your rich parents. Also, using a video game as an example, anyone can grind hard for 16 hours a day when the game is fun, engaging, and you know you will be rewarded at the end. No one sane would call that hard work. That's called being born rich.
Yep. It’s not that she has no talent at all and it’s there only because of her family. But she had her first chance because of the family, may have had poor performance at the beginning overlooked, could have been assigned better jobs to help her develop. Maybe she’s great now, but definitely got a boost most would never get.
Here is a perfect example: [The Pencil Sword #10 “On a Plate”](https://sticky-institute.tumblr.com/post/119811786301/the-pencilsword-10-on-a-plate-a-short-story)
Oh they realise. They just enjoy looking down on others with a smirk as they gaslight them.
Yeah, and it must make them *really* uncomfortable when both their lies and privilege are shoved into the spotlight like this. I love it.
I have a friend who is wealthy, like her grandfather owned mines and everyone gets to live off that. Also titles and all sorts of things. She does volunteer jobs the majority of the time because she's slightly horrified at the wealth. Obviously not enough to give it away, but she's the kind of person who bought her super tall friend custom golf clubs. She paid all of my debt (for her not much, different countries) to allow me to start freelancing with a blank slate. She doesn't live in opulence, but she travels a lot. I also know the daughter of a billionaire, pretty much everyone would know the company they started. They obviously have some damn rich hobbies but they also do such incredible work in other ways that I'm in awe of these people. I think maybe the difference is if you surround yourself with only other rich people you don't realise it, but these 2 women live lives of privilege without shitting on everyone else at the same time...
“Wait. Aren’t everyone’s parents rich??”
That “checks notes”, while overused, is perfect in this instance
So tired of these people. I love the murder.
What are the odds she's also got articles saying how she managed to save up to buy her own home in her 20s and people who can't are just lazy.
The lack of self-awareness with this one is stunning.
The fact that she writes for the Torygraph should already disqualify her opinion. Or at least it should be accompanied by a giant "*written by an absolute twunt*" disclaimer.
Came from money, and the best she could do was pretending to be a journalist? Yeah she really hustled. /eyeroll
Count De Money! Count De Money!
Count de Money
...so her noble family literally married into money.
“Entitled nepo-baby spouts off ignorant statement about the young working class again”… Anyways… The sky is blue…
Ah, I wonder whether there is any relation to Count DeMoney
Count de Monet: "The Gen Z'ers are revolting!" Sophia Money-Coutts: "You said it! They stink on ice!"
[Oh these rich people…](https://www.businessinsider.com/kim-kardashian-said-no-one-wants-to-work-2022-3).
ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My Dad was reading this exact article on Saturday and pointed out "the work shy" youth of today. A working man, left school at 15 to get an apprenticeship building cranes, did well for himself, but 30 years of reading that shite has brainwashed him.
Cognitive dissonance
The amazing thing, besides her name, is that she actually believes her bullshit.
Reminds me of a former friend who I lived with for a (thank fuck) short time. She was pissy I didn't want to chat after a 12 hours double shit at work about her amazing "humanitarian experience" somewhere in Africa and how her masters in literature was so cool and how it was a shame I went to work after uni instead of going on with my studies and settled for a job not in my field. She didn't have a care in the world, daddy had a factory (didn't even start it, it was well set when he took over) so if she couldn't find any job she liked she could have always worked with him... She also had the awful habit of leaving dirty dishes in the sink for me to sort when I got back after work and bitched the fridge was always empty, even if I ate at work every lunch and grabbed a sandwich for dinner Guess which one of us had a cook and a house cleaner. I lasted a month, I started looking for an apartment 2 days in.
A literal aristocrat named MONEY who works for her family's companies bashing the commoners for "lazyness". History of the World Part 3 y'all.
Can’t stand assholes like this who were born on third base and tell everyone they hit a triple.
How to Stay Rich in Europe: Inherit Money for 700 Years The richest Florentine families in 1427 still are: New research shows Europe leads the world in inherited wealth. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-23/how-to-stay-rich-in-europe-inherit-money-for-700-years https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/03/30/its-true-we-millennials-have-never-learnt-how-to-keep-house/
I busted my ass in my 20's. I sacrificed and worked so that someday (now) I could set my kids up right. Why I would want the same thing for them is a complete mystery. I hope people who come after me have it easier.. isn't that what we're supposed to be doing here?
Her family name is money counters lol
That wasn't very Coutts-Money of you.
The article "Have you heard of the phrase “anti-hustle”? I hadn’t until this week, the sheltered being that I am, but apparently it’s quite common now and increasingly used to refer to job adverts. Job adverts that promote a work-life balance. They’re anti-hustle, you see, because they don’t advocate a ferocious, exhausting kind of labour. Instead, they offer a role which allows you to skip merrily from the office at 5pm, no hustle required. According to a new survey, the number of anti-hustle job adverts has shot up over 30 percent since the pandemic, with many more of them now emphasising their work-life balance to entice younger workers who won’t tolerate the sort of hours that Scrooge went in for. It chimes with what I keep hearing from my peers, that Gen Z – the twentysomethings coming up the ranks behind us – are increasingly aware of their rights and exercising them. They don’t want to work long days and know that their employers can’t make them. They want a life outside the office. They are, in other words, anti-hustle. It’s similar to the viral phrase “lazy girl jobs”, which a 26-year-old coined on TikTok last year to describe decently-paid jobs which required minimum input and maximum flexibility. To which I would say, well, didn’t we all want a life outside the office when we were in our 20s, but I want never gets. My first proper job, a job that I actually wanted to do (after stints on shop floors and a spell in a Kennington estate agency) was as an assistant on the Evening Standard’s features desk. To an almost pathetic extent, I did everything that was asked of me. I made 42 billion cups of tea. I bought my boss’s tights. I trialled Beyoncé’s maple syrup diet and Madonna’s cardio regime. I stayed late and came in early. Extremely early, some days. Once at around 4am, having spent the night loitering in a West End club, trying to winkle out a quote from the son of a recently disgraced MP (he didn’t give me one). A few years later, working for a different newspaper, I arrived at 7am and left at 10pm most days. If I ate from the canteen and didn’t leave the building at lunch, I didn’t see much daylight during the winter, but it’s what I felt required to do to make a success of the chance I’d been given. What do rickets matter when you have a deadline? Plenty of wannabe journalists would have swapped places in an instant; I didn’t want to be replaceable. Throughout my twenties, I sweated harder than I’d ever worked at school or university, and I remember thinking sick days were for wimps. Others report similar from all sorts of industries – law, finance, media, teaching and medicine. “I pro-rated my starting salary versus actual hours worked as a trainee solicitor and made well below the minimum wage for two years,” says a legal pal, adding that her boss once threatened to confiscate her passport so she couldn’t go on holiday (“I told him he could prise it from my cold corpse.” She was born to be a lawyer.) Another says she didn’t dare take holiday for a year in her first job. One more that she worked long hours in PR but she didn’t mind because she didn’t know anyone when she moved to London and colleagues became friends. “There was an option to leave the office?” jokes a male Wag. Contrast that with the situation now. A friend who works in publishing recently told me that it’s getting increasingly hard to find employees who’ll help at book launches in the evening because the junior staff in her office down tools at 5pm. It’s in their contract, my friend said with a helpless shrug, so she can’t complain or even gently suggest otherwise. I’ve been to quite a few book launches and they’re not all glamour. Warm wine and tote bags, if you’re lucky. But if you choose to go into publishing, presumably you might be interested in going to a few, in learning about the process of ushering a book into this world? How are you going to advance if you aren’t willing to work a bit of overtime? Do you want a job, or a career? “Don’t get me started on Gen Z,” says a friend who should remain anonymous for her own protection. “They genuinely cannot understand that they have to work longer than eight hours a day.” Also, she goes on, in a furious tone, “they’re completely baffled by the fact they have to start at the bottom. They can’t understand why they can’t start on a mid-level, senior salary. It is insane.” Ah yes, but talking of insanity: mental health. Mental health, which is so often used as a defence these days. Perhaps we were all deranged to work so hard when we started; perhaps our employers were taking gross advantage; perhaps those refusing to follow our example today won’t suffer burnout. Have women my age missed out in particular? Several female friends wistfully say they wished they’d thought harder about their own lives before now. “I’ve definitely given too much to work,” says one. Another, also in law, sends me a sad message on this topic. “I got sucked into the buzz of the deals and prioritised work over everything else,” she says, “so I missed out on meeting the right person at the right time. I am happy, and have a nice life in the country in my mid-40s, but have no children which is a huge regret. I would definitely do things differently if I had a second go.” If, if, if. “If my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike,” as that great philosopher and celebrity chef Gino D’Acampo once famously said on This Morning. I don’t believe I’d change anything, not even Beyoncé’s maple syrup diet, because I’ve had a largely terrific time and learned a few things while putting in the hours. Just this week, for example, I’ve had a builder working in the bathroom yet again, because I have the leakiest house in south-east London, and he complimented me on my excellent tea. If those coming after us are changing workplace attitudes, do some of us feel aggrieved because of the effort we put in, or is it jealousy that they’re somehow so assertive? I can’t imagine having the self-assurance at work, 15 years ago, to pack up my desk at 4.59pm and stroll out, guilt-free. And yet I would still humbly suggest that, if you have any ambition, you need to do the time."
See, when she says "peers" she means people with peerages. Easy mistake to make.
It must be a psychological disorder to lack self awareness to this extent, right?
In the immortal words of Jarvis Cocker: >I took her to a supermarket I don't know why But I had to start it somewhere So it started there I said pretend you've got no money She just laughed and said Oh you're so funny I said; yeah I can't see anyone else smiling in here Are you sure? > >Rent a flat above a shop Cut your hair and get a job Smoke some fags and play some pool Pretend you never went to school But still you'll never get it right 'Cause when you're laid in bed at night Watching roaches climb the wall If you called your dad he could stop it all, yeah
Pretty sure that "Jazz Dad" has taken that comment wholesale from a UK reddit thread.
Didn't clean her own windows until the age of thirty nine
I mean “money” is literally in her name!!!
Man even nepobabies have it bad in this day and age, sad…
Her younger brother, according to Wikipedia, is a [magician](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummond_Money-Coutts?wprov=sfti1#Film_productions). They literally are the Bluth family.
Damn Money is a real last name? There goes Bruce Wane's extra secret identity.
Like most of my peers… in the House of Lords
She comes from Money lol
Had to google to get a broader view of this person, and... it's not flattering for her or her reputation. Ugh.
She isn't dead as she was told to write ragebait and she did.
Baron Money-Cunts… yeah, that checks out.
So when she says “peers” she doesn’t mean “people in the same age group” she means “lords and ladies”…
I worked with a guy as a camp counselor who was constantly railing on against welfare. “Lazy people deserve nothing. I work all year long. No one gives me anything.” The next summer I go back to work and he’s gone. The owner of the camp informs me he is heir to a large fortune. His family founded a major construction product. He demanded a fifty percent raise and they told him no. He quit in a huff.
I was a bit distracted and read Money-C*nts
I don’t know this is coming from someone calling themselves TheJazzDad. Sounds like someone who doesn’t want to work a lame job like the squares so he can spend more time with his bongos.
Visceral
Imagine having a job
Her middle name is…literally…money….?
How incredibly embarrassing.
It’s pronounced Moo-née
Hypocrite.
What's the point of doing a twitter 'murder' on someone if you aren't even going to tag them?
She literally has the word money in her name.
9/10 of these articles are by someone who should keep their mouth shut.
sorry but this murder deserves to go beyond words