Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Hahaha, I hadn't actually heard the latter part of the story of Liam's Ferrari. He's a strange man and I doubt he's ever going to get less strange.
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Either of you seen him lately? I wonder how he's getting on...
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
We had a massive bust-up around the time of the 2017 election, when he decided I was "a Tory" (despite, you know, being a Labour member and campaigning for then and that) because Anna and I had decided to buy a house together - this from a Ferrari-owning stockbroker (or options trader or whatever he was, before @IdleRich leaps in to correct me) - and we haven't spoken since.
Damn.
version
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It's obvious. You're also a Tory.
luka
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i think i remember this character from facebook. mr tea kept winding him up by pretending big pharma was great? and you had another friend that pretended to work for big pharma to wind him up even more and say it was really really good. and hed fly into a rage? his profile pic was him on a mountain bike?
IdleRich
IdleRich
He fucking loved the trading bear pit - in fact he left the company I worked at in a mood when they moved him off the floor to trade on the screen. He just really enjoyed the macho face to face battles with hundreds of thousands of euros changing hands on the basis of who could work out prices first in their head and shout down and intimidate their rivals.
IdleRich
IdleRich
I don't remember that big pharma thing but he was a very keen cyclist - he really loved the macho battle involved in crushing someone on a brutal climb, breaking their body and spirit.
See also his love of cricket - particularly the battle between fast bowler and batsman in which he excelled at delivering a vicious bodyline attack targeting the batsman's chest and head until their body was broken and spirit crushed.
As an aside I remember when he met Lewis from Morbid Books and discovered that he used to be a county level batsman. He cornered him and talked at him for ages - when Lewis extricated himself he said it had been like fending off a medium pace attack on a good length for countless overs.
See also his love of cricket - particularly the battle between fast bowler and batsman in which he excelled at delivering a vicious bodyline attack targeting the batsman's chest and head until their body was broken and spirit crushed.
As an aside I remember when he met Lewis from Morbid Books and discovered that he used to be a county level batsman. He cornered him and talked at him for ages - when Lewis extricated himself he said it had been like fending off a medium pace attack on a good length for countless overs.
IdleRich
IdleRich
This bloke was a keen cyclist and a big Lance Armstrong fan who insisted he was innocent. I had another friend who was an equally keen cyclist and wasn't enough of a fanboy to be blinded to Armstrong's obvious guilt.
I greatly enjoyed being a proxy in the argument between the two of them - for month's on end L would make some ludicrous defence which I would report to Steve who would then forensically demolish it for me, and I would repeat it word for word to an increasingly irate L who would instantly switch to another equally shakey defence. It was one of my main daily enjoyments for quite some time, right up to when Armstrong was nailed and admitted everything, at which point L completely changed the subject and never referred to it ever again. I assume he put his fist through the screen and snapped the keyboard into pieces but I can't be certain.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Well you're not merely a house owner but also a landlord, so he presumably thinks you're the reincarnation of Margaret Thatcher or something.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
He'd make washyourhands look like a model of chilled out, Zen passivity.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
It's the velvet jackets, isn't it?
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I have a friend who develops cancer drugs and that sort of thing for a living, yeah, and he was quite amused by Liam spouting a load of ignorant shite about the industry that he's worked in for a couple of decades.
Not that Liam would ever admit in a million years that there might be something he knew less about that someone else.
I remember Liam insisting to Jemma once that you could, indeed should, never be wrong, which seemed to be the way he'd go at most of life. This is a tricky position to maintain re. Lance Armstrong of course or any areas outside your expertise when all you have to keep going is sheer belligerence.