Richard Branson "almost dies"..

[MarquisMatsugae]

Or Kenneth Williams

 

[MossCommuter]

When I fell off my bicycle everyone took the piss out of me and I am nether mega rich nor a total nobber.

(Shut it)

 

[Tin Pot]

SCandP invades the Cafe, irony nearly dies.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

The fact that the rider has a few bob and the bike was a former team Katusha machine.

The picture of the Katusha bike was not his bike, it was the bike of a Katusha rider who crashed in the Vuelta. He was not Richard Branson, and he was not nearly dead*

*Although he was probably more nearly dead than Branson

 

[MarquisMatsugae]

WGAF?

ONYYFP

 

[Crackle]

Stop with the acronyms or I'll have to use my Acronym Annihilator Gun or AAG as I know it.

 

[Crackle]

Oh, it looks like it might have self-combusted.

 

[smutchin]

Oh, it looks like it might have self-combusted.

OMG WTF LOL

 

[screenman]

WGAF?

Maybe a lot of the people working for Virgin. A company that he has by using whatever advertising available has helped to make a world wide name, a clever bloke in many ways.

 

[Drago]

I'm sure the thousands at Virgin being paid minimum wage would be really upset to hear that the Billionaire Branston had snuffed it on a luxury island somewhere.

 

[screenman]

I'm sure the thousands at Virgin being paid minimum wage would be really upset to hear that the Billionaire Branston had snuffed it on a luxury island somewhere.

Or even the thousands that get a good wage off of Virgin.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I'm fairly sure that Virgin will continue to function without Mr Nearlydeid at the helm

 

[hondated]

Amazed at how a persons bank balance conditions our levels of care.

Should we care more if Mr b was an unemployed, poor elderly man who crashed his bike and feared for his life

Edit, perhaps we should all publish our earnings on cyclechat. That way if any of us are unfortunate to have our faces smashed in during an accident, the rest of us will know if we should offer sympathy or not.

of
Yes we should care but my antipathy towards him is that apparently legally he is now domiciled in the VirgIn Isles which means he is depriving the UK where he built his empire of taxes, Taxes badly needed to support our NHS.

 

[jonny jeez]

of
Yes we should care but my antipathy towards him is that apparently legally he is now domiciled in the VirgIn Isles which means he is depriving the UK where he built his empire of taxes, Taxes badly needed to support our NHS.

Quote right.

I have no issue with antipathy, dislike, even straight up hatred.

So long as it not just because some one has a different amount of money than another person.

Posts on this thread have suggested that he deserves what he got just because he is wealthy...not for the reasons that you mention.

I hope I have made the difference clear.



Actually I do have an issue with hatred but that's another story.

 

[smutchin]

$5bn isn't just "a different amount of money" - for an individual to hold that kind of fortune is obscene and morally unjustifiable.

I'd rather save my sympathy for someone who deserves it.