Just for fun I'm going to take a controversial position here. While I don't believe that the bargain basement mentality has taken over here, there's absolutely nothing wrong with harboring some of that. The richest people I know are very very conscious about money and will happily hit the bargain and remainder counters at Target, CostCo, outlet stores, etc. They didn't become wealthy by being stoopid with money.
On the other hand, that wealth also allows them to consider walking into a high end leather goods store and buying a $50,000 briefcase or a $40,000 purse without batting an eye. It's just that they're not likely to do something that unless there's an element of business investment and profit potential in that otherwise stupid purchase, at least if they actually worked hard to earn that fortune.
It comes down to what something is worth spending money on for the individual, and that that calculus will vary. My definition of dumbass will be someone else's version of orgasmic.
If someone's joy is to pay a high 3 or low 4 figures to buy a pipe that's shaped like thalidomide baby sex or ball sack fungus who am I, or anyone else, to take away their joy by saying that? I could wish that they had more sense than to display the unfortunate object of their desire, but that's not for me to say.
I may not feel like celebrating the aforementioned object, any more than celebrating or shaming someone whose idea of a pipe is a substance whose highest and best use was to wipe butts in outhouses all across the nation prior to the invention of toilet paper.
And if someone is happy with their $50 bubble pipe, well and good.
For the most part, I don't care what others think, and they shouldn't care what I think. They'll be wrong to do that, but still...
And if some troglodyte foists his unbidden opinions on your festivities, feel free to put out a contract on him, or ignore him like the fecal matter he is at that moment.
I like the pipes I have. Hopefully you like the pipes you have. Other than that, what more, really, what more, do you need from this?
Still, the desire to share and to celebrate runs deep, so share and celebrate with no fears. Whatever anyone else thinks, assuming they're even remotely sentient, just doesn't matter.
On the other hand, that wealth also allows them to consider walking into a high end leather goods store and buying a $50,000 briefcase or a $40,000 purse without batting an eye. It's just that they're not likely to do something that unless there's an element of business investment and profit potential in that otherwise stupid purchase, at least if they actually worked hard to earn that fortune.
It comes down to what something is worth spending money on for the individual, and that that calculus will vary. My definition of dumbass will be someone else's version of orgasmic.
If someone's joy is to pay a high 3 or low 4 figures to buy a pipe that's shaped like thalidomide baby sex or ball sack fungus who am I, or anyone else, to take away their joy by saying that? I could wish that they had more sense than to display the unfortunate object of their desire, but that's not for me to say.
I may not feel like celebrating the aforementioned object, any more than celebrating or shaming someone whose idea of a pipe is a substance whose highest and best use was to wipe butts in outhouses all across the nation prior to the invention of toilet paper.
And if someone is happy with their $50 bubble pipe, well and good.
For the most part, I don't care what others think, and they shouldn't care what I think. They'll be wrong to do that, but still...
And if some troglodyte foists his unbidden opinions on your festivities, feel free to put out a contract on him, or ignore him like the fecal matter he is at that moment.
I like the pipes I have. Hopefully you like the pipes you have. Other than that, what more, really, what more, do you need from this?
Still, the desire to share and to celebrate runs deep, so share and celebrate with no fears. Whatever anyone else thinks, assuming they're even remotely sentient, just doesn't matter.
