Men with moustaches earn more

[Bob]

Well.  That's interesting.

https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5980IP20091009

It doesn't say anything about women with moustaches and their earnings though.

[gyzzzmo]

You'd almost say that the average age of men with moustaches is higher than without...... and older people earn more.

[thalbergmad]

I watched a documentary on Warren Buffet last night and there was not a fuzzy lip to be seen.

Thal

[ahinton]

I watched a documentary on Warren Buffet last night and there was not a fuzzy lip to be seen.

But then perhaps Mr Buffett is rather better know for making money than earning it.

That said, the very notion is risible in the extreme if for no better reason than that it stretches credibility well beyond bursting point to suggest that any man's level of earned income could be subject to automatic increase by mere abstinence from beard trimmer use or reduction by merely having a shave.

Oh, and by the way, since Warren is not a light lunch, his surname has two "t"s, just as does Mr Carter's forename...

Best,

Alistair

[gep]

This subject seems to remind of the fact that, in London, men with black shoes have a higher risk at getting a heart attack, or that one can measure the state of the economy by the length of women’s skirts (the shorter the skirt the better the economy goes, or was it longer skirts?). How that applies to women wearing trousers I could not speculate…

[thalbergmad]

But then perhaps Mr Buffett is rather better know for making money than earning it.

I fail to see the difference.

Thal

[thalbergmad]

Oh, and by the way, since Warren is not a light lunch, his surname has two "t"s, just as does Mr Carter's forename...

Normal service has been resumed.

You have mentioned Mr Carter more times than pianistimo mentioned God.

Thal

[gep]

Quote from: ahinton on Today at 12:50:01 PM
But then perhaps Mr Buffett is rather better know for making money than earning it.

I fail to see the difference.

Thal

Really? Do you really think those bankers that made $x,000,000 last year or so also earned it?

Put another way, do you make the same amount of money that you think you earn?

[retrouvailles]

You have mentioned Mr Carter more times than pianistimo mentioned God.

Perhaps that is because Mr. Carter is a sort of god? I would be inclined to think so.

[thalbergmad]

Really? Do you really think those bankers that made $x,000,000 last year or so also earned it?

However obscene some of the bonuses might seem, if their employers did no think they had earned it, they would not have paid it.

Thal

[thalbergmad]

How that applies to women wearing trousers I could not speculate…

That generally means they are a lesbian.

Nothing to do with the economy.

Thal

[cygnusdei]

They surveyed 2000 men with mustaches, 2000 men with beards, and 2000 clean shaven men.

This sample is highly questionable. Have you ever seen 1/3 of male population sporting mustaches?

[ahinton]

I fail to see the difference.

If you say so - but none of us here can reasonably be held responsible for that failure.

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

Normal service has been resumed.

I was not aware that it required resumption; I have certainly not suspended service in any way.

You have mentioned Mr Carter more times than pianistimo mentioned God.

Whilst I knew that reference would elicit the very kind of response from you that it did, I doubt  very much that I have done any such thing, just as I doubt that you've been counting and have accordingly acquired incontrovertible evidence.

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

However obscene some of the bonuses might seem, if their employers did no think they had earned it, they would not have paid it.

So you think that all employers are that honourable just because they are employers, do you? You never cease to amaze me! Has it not occurred to you that those employers have also awarded themselves bonuses? I have no problem whatsoever in principle with bonuses on this nature, however large they may be, provided that they are wholly justifiable in terms of having been earned in the first place; paying fortunes out in bonuses to those who have signally failed to earn them using taxpayer's money with which to do it strikes most people as being rather less than prudent.

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

That generally means they are a lesbian.

How can "women" (a plural noun) be "a lesbian" (indefinite article + singular one)? In any case, by what reasoning (or whatever might substitute for it) do you conclude that women who wear trousers at any time are lesbians? - and when they remove those trousers and change into dresses, skirts, mightwear, swimwear or anything else, do they suddenly become heterosexual as a direct consequence? - for, if so, they'd surely be competing for sheer absurdity with the notion put forward in this thread that men who wear moustaches earn more than those who remain clean-shaven.

Nothing to do with the economy.

Nothing to do with reality, I'd say...

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

They surveyed 2000 men with mustaches, 2000 men with beards, and 2000 clean shaven men.

This sample is highly questionable. Have you ever seen 1/3 of male population sporting mustaches?

I've never seen one-third of the male population at all, but I take your point.

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

So you think that all employers are that honourable just because they are employers, do you?

Not a question of honour, but sense would dictate that money would not be paid if sufficient profit had not been generated in order to pay it.

Simplez.

Thal

[ahinton]

Not a question of honour, but sense would dictate that money would not be paid if sufficient profit had not been generated in order to pay it.

Ah, so you believe that "sense", common or otherwise, comes into it? Well, that explains a lot!

Simplez.

Quelle langue is that?

Best,

Alistair

[gep]

Not a question of honour, but sense would dictate that money would not be paid if sufficient profit had not been generated in order to pay it.

Simplez.

Thal

Which is, in banking, something of untrue in a number of cases, such as in the case of the bank that gave bonusses that were larger than the net profit of that bank.
How much bonus has been given to bankers whose bank went down and were kept upright by government (= taxpayers) money? Some $20,000,000,000 in the case of Wall Street I believe, and about a third of that in the UK recently?
Most bonusses are negotiated beforehand, so that the recievers get their bonus no matter how the company they run performes. That I would call a sick system. I would not deny a bonus, but would like to earn it.

gep

[thalbergmad]

That I would call a sick system.

I feel compelled to agree.

The banks that were propped up by the government should not be paying bonuses in my opinion, but i feel differently towards the ones that stood on their own 2 feet.

Thal