Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "The Moped Gangs of London: UK Bikelife" video.

  1. ***** They still had to pay for labour of the reporter and cameraman. Employing people's time is expensive. So yes, Vice paid for this shit. The upside is that 300k views probably gave them 4x-10x what they invested depending on their ad revenue.
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  2. Big John I think they should just do drugs. It affects just you and not other people. >daytime television addictions With facebook, twitter, instagram, youtube, etc I struggle to find teenagers addicted to TV. Sure, let's watch this pre-set playlist of programs that only are on in strict time intervals and are constantly interrupted by commercials when there's freaking internet.
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  3. RoGoH308  Marhea Elstow Actually, if the UK was a US state it would be the poorest if not for Mississippi.
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  4. Krassz To the point of actually being in London for some time. Have you? Doesn't matter, I'm digressing. But really, what research is there to do? You guys have a GDP per capita of under 40k and yet your cost of living is ridiculous when we compare London to cities like Jackson, MS. For example, rent is almost 300% higher, groceries are 56% higher. Price per square meter in city centre? 1251% higher in London. The only redeeming factor is the average monthly income after taxes in London, which is 42% higher. But remember, you're paying out the ass for everything in London, even basic goods such as food and clothing. What about when compared to Birmingham, AL? Local purchasing power in London is 50.86% lower. Rent is 153% higher in London. Monthly pass? 500% higher in London. The kicker? Monthly disposable income is 7.25% lower in London. We're talking about Birmingham, Alabama. A freaking southern state.
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  5. Peter Donnelly  >London life is cheap as is the rest of the UK. What? Typically capitals/metropolitan cities are the most expensive places to live. I'm not comparing some "Farnworthshire" to "Bumfuck, Tennessee" because that's a useless exercise. I'm comparing state capitals/big cities to each other. >These places you mention are shit holes. I know. I compared London to big cities in poor states (i.e. shitholes) and London is worse off. >Food and clothing are not expensive at all I've been to London. It's fucking expensive. Look, this is how it compares to my city, Lisbon. http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Portugal&country2=United+Kingdom&city1=Lisbon&city2=London The only thing you guys have is the fact that a bigger percentage of the population makes a nice paycheck. But the American cities (again, shitholes) have salaries more comparable to London.
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  6. Peter Donnelly I guess numbers work differently in the UK, then. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-57591/London-sixth-expensive-city-world.html http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jul/10/london-12th-most-expensive-city-expats http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-comes-top-in-study-of-the-worlds-most-expensive-cities-to-live-in-9042233.html Again, I've been there. It's expensive.
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  7. Peter Donnelly HA! Compared to (say) Lisbon, everything is the same number expect it has a £ versus a €. A £5 mcdonald's menu is more expensive than 5€. Jebus, just read the links. Pretty much all restaurants, individual food items, average groceries shopping, etc is listed as more expensive in London than any other shithole I mentioned. Are you in denial or just pretending to be daft?
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  8. Peter Donnelly Jesus fuck. I provided sources. You didn't. I have been there, it's more expensive. Fast food chains in London are more expensive than in Lisbon. Middle-ground restaurants in London are almost as expensive as high-end restaurants in Lisbon. All you're doing is saying "you're wrong" without ever providing any sort of evidence. Are you claiming that everyone and every number that testifies in favour of London being an expensive city is just a conspiracy?
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  9. Peter Donnelly Dude, we're past that. I mentioned it like 4 comments ago and now you picked it up? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World Portugal is in the first world. Not lower 2nd. But fine. Portugal is 2nd world. That means that the UK is 3rd world. Have you not been paying attention? You guys are poor as hell and yet everything is more expensive than in other European cities.
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  10. Peter Donnelly >"Portugal is a vastly poor country, yet you seem to have no concept of this." I have. "Vastly poor" means that we have VW Golfs instead of two SUVs like American families, most people have 30Mb/s optic fiber instead of the more expensive 100Mb/s, etc. We're not sub-Saharan Africa, even though we joke about it. It's a first world nation and you called it "lower 2nd world". You know what "second world" is? Emerging economies like Brasil. >"Portugal is poor as hell, it is a failure." It's not a "failure". This trend only started 30 years ago. I hate the Fascists, but we were extremely wealthy. The problem started when we replaced the Fascists with Communists and Socialists, and all of our wealth vanished. England only became a shithole "recently" too. We're a lesser industrialized nation where most people, despite earning less than the English, are able to live "comfortably". England is a more industrialized nation (even though your industry is going down the drain) but where the poor are extremely poor and the violent crime rates are horrible compared to the rest of Europe. Your university tuition fees are getting too expensive. Plus, if Scotland leaves the UK, you guys will take a big economic hit. >"Quit being so nationalistic, you can't see the trees through the branches." I'm not a nationalist. I love my homeland but I hate my country and what it has become. I take no pride in the accomplishments of people I never met and I don't hate people for being born in a different country - if you don't recall, I called my own country a shithole at least once in this discussion. But this whole thing started with me comparing London to Lisbon - it started with me comparing London with American cities and telling you that you can live more comfortably in those cities despite being regarded as shitholes in America. How am I nationalist if I'm telling you a country I'm not from is better than the UK? I was just using facts. I gave you the numbers. I linked you to sources. Yet you don't believe that the UK would be the second poorest state in the US.
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