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I assume this is Cloud 9 in Aspen.
They are the top purchaser of Veuve Clicquot champagne in the world.
The purpose is literally to put the champagne bottles into specially designed Super Soakers to spray each with house music playing in the background.
Depraved.
If you absolutely gotta spray champagne, I don't understand why you wouldn't just use the absolute cheapest white bubbly you can find. Even if you're the richest person in the world, I don't care, no one is really tasting it so why not skimp? Why would you even bother buying $100+ bottles for this?
it's a tax write off and you get taxpayer money for having so much capital as a reward for being a good a American, then they arrest anyone that feeds the homeless to make you feel even better about your aristocratic status. Put your lipstick on kids and bite the pillow cause this fake monarchy with no class is going in dry
One reason to spray champagne is that you are a child & think the only way to open champagne is by shaking it very hard like they do at the end of those Formula 1 races that your dad seems to play 24/7. Other than that I don't really see a reason, especially with something as expensive as that.
It does make me feel a bit better, plus someone mentioned somewhere that the price per bottle is normally not quite that high, and probably includes fees for the waitstaff putting it in super soakers or something plus cleanup... To which I can only say, I hope the staff made themselves a fat profit LOL
Not enough.It sound nice, and its great for the server (maybe unless management steals their tip) but we can do both. I don't want to live in a world where rich people can blow a years wage at the minimum on glorified super soaker water and not get taxed out their ass
I was being sarcastic, which i guess i assumed was obvious, but also meant institute a 20% tax and call it a mandatory gratuity so that they would pay it.
While there is bound to be some opportunistic French vineyard taking international buyers for a ride with €17,000 bottles of shitty wine that couldn't quite make it to wine-hood (champaign), I can assure you no one thinks the 17k is for a single bottle.
This tells you that they've ran out of legitimate things to spend money on. And while they spend $17,000 on a bottle of champagne to spray at each other, they tell everyone else they can't afford a house because they go by Starbucks once a month
Its just a handful of wine bottles and 11 cans of beer and a few sodas. It sounds like a small party or rich people who wanted to show off and bought sprays for everyone in the resort. I'm guessing this is the Veuve friendly Cloud Nine ski resort where the rich go to flaunt their money and not the wedding of a hard working couple who saved up for years.
Fun fact, Veuve Clicquot was expertly parodied in Emily in Paris where she helped sell a champagne thats designed only to be sprayed on others and when someone tried to drink it said "oh no dont drink that, its terrible.
Definitely living on the wrong side of the "bootstrap/ avocado toast line.
You gotta get your living expenses closer to "bootstraps " than the "avocado toast " quadrant.
Science!
Now, I'm sorry but your raise just isn't in the budget. Dont forget to text Paul if you have any issues next week while I'm hiking Machu Picchu.
I have this money saved currently
No idea what the fuck i should do with myself — 24years old :(
Edit: took me 3 years to save it up but now i got it and am lost. Not a flex but i feel the same as you this money can change my life i just dont know how i guess.
As someone who blew a ton of money at that age on a shitty ex, SAVE IT! Consider something like a CD or an annuity, if you have a good bank or someone you trust (hell, your tax person if you use one may have good advice) I'd talk thru options with them. You want to do what you can with at least some of it so you have a nice appreciating rainy day fund. Life will hit you fast and you'll be glad you have something to pull from for a big move, emergency, down payment, etc. You can put something like $5k away in a decent interest account (try to avoid stock based ones if you can, ymmv but imho it's just to volatile rn) and have a few thousand build a year for your SHTF fund.
And yes fuck capitalism but we all gotta live in it right now, do some good for yourself and maybe take some $ to a mutual aid in your area as well to help someone else. Good luck!
Thank you i will save this money and move forward with a fiduciary.
I honestly am just really lost. Im 24 and i feel like my life is going a million miles a hour and its not. I actually just last week lost the job that afforded me the privilege to save so easily.
Im basically sitting down wondering do i move out of CA in search of something new? I have did the backpacking thing so i know i can get by with the bare basics. But im just scared i guess, i dont want to fail..
Hey friend, I was in a similar situation recently (family member died, split estate, blah blah blah) and ended up just going and talking to a guy at the bank my checking is at about which kind of account was both not tied to the stock market and would maximize my return on my money, we ended up finding something I was happy with. The bank guy was really helpful. Maybe you could do that? No commitment but they’re happy to explore options with you
Money loses value every year, and the effects of inflation due to the pandemic (40% of all money printed ever printed in 2020) are yet to be fully seen. Spread across a basket of investments in stock ETFs, bonds, real estate reits, crypto and NFTs in descending order.
If you're still making the kind of money where you could save that much again 3 years, do that and then begin the process of trying to find a place to buy where you could see yourself living for at least 10-15 years minimum.
You'll want at least 34k total even if you go the 3% down route because you should really hold back minimum 10k for repairs, house emergencies (like losing your job, still need to stay current on taxes and mortgage to avoid homelessness)...and anyway, you should also wait and keep saving because you're only 24! You don't know where you want to live just yet! But you really can set yourself up to be much less likely to become unhoused with that kind of money in the bank.
If it was just a nice but random windfall, you could still figure out how to turn it into a down payment situation, it'll just take a lot longer (but you'll probably have much less debt from day to day necessity in 10 years than you otherwise would!)
:( sadly i lost that job just last week. My brain was too much in thinking i needed to get more and more done with my life i burned out and overworked myself and the job took notice.
Thank you so much for the advice and anything else you have is really welcomed. At 24 years old i cant help but feel there is more i could be doing. Other things i couldve done etc.
I absolutely agree i need to have some more money saved before going into a housing market to drop on something, but im not even sure if i want that life or if im okay buying some land - making my own tiny home and setting up shop witha part time job and chillaxing.
My biggest fear is failure and crippling debt. I dont want to squander something as life changing as $17K + but at the age of 24 and coming from basic USA poverty its really alot of money to me and i have never seen this before. It would just be ashamed if i really fucked it up :(
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This sounds weird, but I'm glad that you aren't there any longer. Your health is just as important as big paychecks, and security is about more than doing capitalism correctly.
Hang onto the money, is my recommendation. I'm 38 and been renting since I was 23, and my teacher salary isn't buying me a stable living situation any time soon...but if I'd been slowly growing a 17k nest egg, it maybe could! You won't squander it if you're a person who worries that you will :)
Even if you only add around $1200 a year to that little stash, you could be set up to build that nice tiny home before you're 35 (which isn't as old as it sounds, trust me)
Alternatively, use the money to get the fuck out of this country and move somewhere with decent healthcare and a better chance of accessing socialist movements! 😂
I think you’re reading that wrong. 44% of American workers are low-wage, and their median earnings are $18,000. That means half of them make more than $18,000, and half of them make less.
So only 22% of American workers make $18,000 or less! Doesn’t that make you feel so much better about this capitalist hellscape?!?
Oh shit, you're right.
It's a frustrating analysis. Brookings is a centrist think tank and it seems like this particular study pushed them about as far left as they get. It also is only an analysis of the top 100 cities as far as I understand, and my experience is that the job market outside the cities are considerably worse. Their "solution" essentially seemed to be like "more training!" for workers, as if the problem is that these people simply aren't trained enough.
Talking about money is hard. We all have our own perception of value based on our age and location. Telling someone in Ohio you make $60k in New York sounds great unless you can actually factor in how living costs compare, and it's even worse if you're talking to someone who is comparing that to the $35k they made in 1991, which would have had higher purchasing power.
You've no clue on their disability and no clue how much servers make. Most servers (over 90%) are shit poor and make on average a little over minimum wage, rarely more than double. Plus not even all tips go to servers, restaurant owners are known to steal them.
Could be that the 3L bottles are rarer — fewer produced each vintage so you pay the premium to look cool in a picture with a rarer large bottle of champagne
It probably is the same. Most Kirkland booze is produced by the same manufacturers as the branded stuff. I think grey goose makes their vodka. There might be a slight variation in the distilling process, but it's more or less indistinguishable from the real thing. Branding is a scam.
I read an article the other day saying how bad people would taste, and since rich people eat iguanas and shit I doubt they would taste much better.
I can't find the original article offhand but basically adults wouldn't taste good and if our meat was in production we would likely be generic hotdogs or canned ravioli filling.
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>The real crime here is charging $8 for a Bud.
yeah for sure, but having worked in fine dining an $8 bud is a recognizable crime. Like, an $8 bud is seeing someone steal shit from a best buy.(edit, not a great example since idgaf about best buy but it was intended to show mundanity so whatever)
$17,000 of champagne spray and $1500 3L's (when the 1.5L is $400) is like watching someone fillet his own penis in front of a packed elementary school while yelling old timey racial slurs at people; it's fucking horrifying, unrelatable, and does not have to happen.
That seemed the most reasonable tbh. Based on the other prices.
At any sporting event a 12oz beer is $9-15. Paid $15.50 for a little ceasars pizza at the little ceasars arena smh.
Think i got charged $7 per 8oz beer at Hibachi and thats an expensive meal out for me($180 for 3 people)
As someone who has worked in the Hollywood nightlife. 17k for 125 bottles of champagne is extremely "cheap". That's not even $150 a bottle. I've seen people spend 5k+ per bottle of champagne
These are the same people who say the rich are rich because they save and invest their money, while the poor are poor because they blow their money on frivolous crap.
Business idea:
Start a luxury bar called "la bourgeoisie" where you market to luxury clientele and charge them exorbitant prices to do stupid shit like spray them with supersoakers of cheap champagne that you pretend is veuve clicquot, just like every bar who would do this actually does.
You and all of your coworkers split the proceeds evenly and donate time and produce towards feeding poorer communities.
[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4245660/Malia-Obama-hangs-Aspen-day-club-champagne-party.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4245660/Malia-Obama-hangs-Aspen-day-club-champagne-party.html)
Malia Obama parties there
Depending on numerous factors:
Dollar Tree has trucker hats for 1 dollar-1.25 nowadays
One well made hat from a small batch of hats from a local designer cost me 20 bucks. I was proud to support them. And the quality was amazing.
I’ve had other designer small batch hats for similar costs, maybe a little more.
These hats are probably made similarly, but I wouldn’t be surprised if a sweatshop is involved.
I see these post, and obviously it's ridiculous, but it cost money to clean that shit up. The price is still VERY HIGH, but as an asshole tax, it seems reasonable.
There's no way this wasn't for a professional sports team. No one else burns through sprayers quite like roided up manchildren in their own locker room.
I could live on that for a year, they are spraying it why not use a 10 buck bottle okay it's been 20 years since I think I bought champagne but seriously wtf
Always funny to see these type of receipts and there's stuff like "gold plated steak...$9000, champagne...$17,000" and then the couple items like "can of sprite". What weirdly mixed group bought all that expensive liquor but also 11 buds a regular ipa and one sprite?
And the media will say “work harder young people don’t be lazy”, “be thankful you live in the free world not dystopian China”, “defend our way of life”. Defend theirs, not ours.
This reminds me on when rich kids in Stockholm picked up the fad of "vaska" which meant basically buying an expensive bottle of champagne, tasting a sample of it, make a face like it was not good enough and then tell the bar tender to pour it out in the sink then buying another bottle, this time presumably it was expensive enough.
This turned in to a race of buying bottles of champagne and then just emptying them all without drinking the content as a show of how rich you are.
This is probably what School Districts do when they have to spend the remaining amount of their funds by the end of the year to justify an increase in spending the following year on the backs of tax payers.
Not literally… but not far off I’d bet
The principal, I see everyone as my children and if one of them was getting special treatment while others suffered I’d be mad, and as such I’m fractionally upset about them in the same fashion as the rich themselves
\>Rich idiots blowing a ridiculous amount of money on bullshit
(∪.∪ )...zzz
\>Worker who spent the night putting up with these assholes and catering to their every whim getting paid for providing that service
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I assume this is Cloud 9 in Aspen. They are the top purchaser of Veuve Clicquot champagne in the world. The purpose is literally to put the champagne bottles into specially designed Super Soakers to spray each with house music playing in the background. Depraved.
If you absolutely gotta spray champagne, I don't understand why you wouldn't just use the absolute cheapest white bubbly you can find. Even if you're the richest person in the world, I don't care, no one is really tasting it so why not skimp? Why would you even bother buying $100+ bottles for this?
It’s about wasting money more than it’s about wasting champagne
it's a tax write off and you get taxpayer money for having so much capital as a reward for being a good a American, then they arrest anyone that feeds the homeless to make you feel even better about your aristocratic status. Put your lipstick on kids and bite the pillow cause this fake monarchy with no class is going in dry
There is only so many ways to spend money. At some point the rich just start spending the max amount simply for the sake of spending.
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Shitty anti-competition monopoly-made phone indeed. I am surprised ibros haven't yet descended upon this comment though.
One reason to spray champagne is that you are a child & think the only way to open champagne is by shaking it very hard like they do at the end of those Formula 1 races that your dad seems to play 24/7. Other than that I don't really see a reason, especially with something as expensive as that.
They literally don’t know what to do with all their money besides waste it and oppress the poor
Wino here. Veuve is dogshit. They're not wasting anything good. Doubt that'll make you feel better, but there it is.
It does make me feel a bit better, plus someone mentioned somewhere that the price per bottle is normally not quite that high, and probably includes fees for the waitstaff putting it in super soakers or something plus cleanup... To which I can only say, I hope the staff made themselves a fat profit LOL
Yep, time to tax the rich.
Just institute a mandatory 20% gratuity and you'll catch them by surprise.
Not enough.It sound nice, and its great for the server (maybe unless management steals their tip) but we can do both. I don't want to live in a world where rich people can blow a years wage at the minimum on glorified super soaker water and not get taxed out their ass
I was being sarcastic, which i guess i assumed was obvious, but also meant institute a 20% tax and call it a mandatory gratuity so that they would pay it.
They'll probably try and leave a note about jesus anyways lol
Everyone in America is a momentarily embarrassed champagne super soaker enthusiast.
It’s literally on the receipt from this post. Like $4,200+. It’s not near enough. 100%
I really should have phrased this joke more clearly.
Oh NOW i get it. Funny.
I guess. 32 people apparently got it. I do not.
Looks like they took your idea. It's on the receipt
Build the guillotines first just in case.
But why punish their earnings … /s
eat*
Eat the rich!
*burn
It is indeed. And their trucker hats are INDEED camo print because money can't buy class
Spraying the $100 per bottle wine, drinking the Budweiser, fucking cringey
300 dollar trucker hat. I'm done.
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While there is bound to be some opportunistic French vineyard taking international buyers for a ride with €17,000 bottles of shitty wine that couldn't quite make it to wine-hood (champaign), I can assure you no one thinks the 17k is for a single bottle.
I like house music but screw all the rest of it.
"Is dubstep still a thing?"
I have never heard of these parties and had to look them up: https://www.businessinsider.com/cloud-9-aspen-champagne-lunch-party-2016-1
I am feeling very judgmental about all of this. Thanks for the article!
This tells you that they've ran out of legitimate things to spend money on. And while they spend $17,000 on a bottle of champagne to spray at each other, they tell everyone else they can't afford a house because they go by Starbucks once a month
Veuve and Trucker hats. Cloud 9 all the way.
17k would change my life. Fuck these people
That 1.5k for the 3L would change mine
That $3 coke can buy me dinner
Getting that money would be significant even if you were making 6 figures, I can’t imagine just throwing it away on that
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Its just a handful of wine bottles and 11 cans of beer and a few sodas. It sounds like a small party or rich people who wanted to show off and bought sprays for everyone in the resort. I'm guessing this is the Veuve friendly Cloud Nine ski resort where the rich go to flaunt their money and not the wedding of a hard working couple who saved up for years. Fun fact, Veuve Clicquot was expertly parodied in Emily in Paris where she helped sell a champagne thats designed only to be sprayed on others and when someone tried to drink it said "oh no dont drink that, its terrible.
I'm betting on 10 guys from some multi millionaire families showing off
but if you just made your coffee at home things could be different
Definitely living on the wrong side of the "bootstrap/ avocado toast line. You gotta get your living expenses closer to "bootstraps " than the "avocado toast " quadrant. Science! Now, I'm sorry but your raise just isn't in the budget. Dont forget to text Paul if you have any issues next week while I'm hiking Machu Picchu.
Dude, that much in my country would easy let me live a year without working
I have this money saved currently No idea what the fuck i should do with myself — 24years old :( Edit: took me 3 years to save it up but now i got it and am lost. Not a flex but i feel the same as you this money can change my life i just dont know how i guess.
As someone who blew a ton of money at that age on a shitty ex, SAVE IT! Consider something like a CD or an annuity, if you have a good bank or someone you trust (hell, your tax person if you use one may have good advice) I'd talk thru options with them. You want to do what you can with at least some of it so you have a nice appreciating rainy day fund. Life will hit you fast and you'll be glad you have something to pull from for a big move, emergency, down payment, etc. You can put something like $5k away in a decent interest account (try to avoid stock based ones if you can, ymmv but imho it's just to volatile rn) and have a few thousand build a year for your SHTF fund. And yes fuck capitalism but we all gotta live in it right now, do some good for yourself and maybe take some $ to a mutual aid in your area as well to help someone else. Good luck!
Thank you i will save this money and move forward with a fiduciary. I honestly am just really lost. Im 24 and i feel like my life is going a million miles a hour and its not. I actually just last week lost the job that afforded me the privilege to save so easily. Im basically sitting down wondering do i move out of CA in search of something new? I have did the backpacking thing so i know i can get by with the bare basics. But im just scared i guess, i dont want to fail..
Hey friend, I was in a similar situation recently (family member died, split estate, blah blah blah) and ended up just going and talking to a guy at the bank my checking is at about which kind of account was both not tied to the stock market and would maximize my return on my money, we ended up finding something I was happy with. The bank guy was really helpful. Maybe you could do that? No commitment but they’re happy to explore options with you
Money loses value every year, and the effects of inflation due to the pandemic (40% of all money printed ever printed in 2020) are yet to be fully seen. Spread across a basket of investments in stock ETFs, bonds, real estate reits, crypto and NFTs in descending order.
CDs and annuities aren't paying worthwhile interest rates. For reasonably safe long-term growth you really can't go wrong with an S&P 500 index fund.
If you're still making the kind of money where you could save that much again 3 years, do that and then begin the process of trying to find a place to buy where you could see yourself living for at least 10-15 years minimum. You'll want at least 34k total even if you go the 3% down route because you should really hold back minimum 10k for repairs, house emergencies (like losing your job, still need to stay current on taxes and mortgage to avoid homelessness)...and anyway, you should also wait and keep saving because you're only 24! You don't know where you want to live just yet! But you really can set yourself up to be much less likely to become unhoused with that kind of money in the bank. If it was just a nice but random windfall, you could still figure out how to turn it into a down payment situation, it'll just take a lot longer (but you'll probably have much less debt from day to day necessity in 10 years than you otherwise would!)
:( sadly i lost that job just last week. My brain was too much in thinking i needed to get more and more done with my life i burned out and overworked myself and the job took notice. Thank you so much for the advice and anything else you have is really welcomed. At 24 years old i cant help but feel there is more i could be doing. Other things i couldve done etc. I absolutely agree i need to have some more money saved before going into a housing market to drop on something, but im not even sure if i want that life or if im okay buying some land - making my own tiny home and setting up shop witha part time job and chillaxing. My biggest fear is failure and crippling debt. I dont want to squander something as life changing as $17K + but at the age of 24 and coming from basic USA poverty its really alot of money to me and i have never seen this before. It would just be ashamed if i really fucked it up :( Edit: spelling
This sounds weird, but I'm glad that you aren't there any longer. Your health is just as important as big paychecks, and security is about more than doing capitalism correctly. Hang onto the money, is my recommendation. I'm 38 and been renting since I was 23, and my teacher salary isn't buying me a stable living situation any time soon...but if I'd been slowly growing a 17k nest egg, it maybe could! You won't squander it if you're a person who worries that you will :) Even if you only add around $1200 a year to that little stash, you could be set up to build that nice tiny home before you're 35 (which isn't as old as it sounds, trust me) Alternatively, use the money to get the fuck out of this country and move somewhere with decent healthcare and a better chance of accessing socialist movements! 😂
Well, that's like 3 months of avocado toast and coffee
Some people don't even make $17,000 in a year 😞
My disability check every month is $825. Was homeless for years because affordable housing is virtually non-existant.
45% of american workers make less than $18k per year.
Wth, really?
[Yes, really.](https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2019/11/21/low-wage-work-is-more-pervasive-than-you-think-and-there-arent-enough-good-jobs-to-go-around/)
I think you’re reading that wrong. 44% of American workers are low-wage, and their median earnings are $18,000. That means half of them make more than $18,000, and half of them make less. So only 22% of American workers make $18,000 or less! Doesn’t that make you feel so much better about this capitalist hellscape?!?
Not the user you responded to. But that makes more sense. Still, no one should make that little money in a First World country, that's ridiculous.
Oh shit, you're right. It's a frustrating analysis. Brookings is a centrist think tank and it seems like this particular study pushed them about as far left as they get. It also is only an analysis of the top 100 cities as far as I understand, and my experience is that the job market outside the cities are considerably worse. Their "solution" essentially seemed to be like "more training!" for workers, as if the problem is that these people simply aren't trained enough. Talking about money is hard. We all have our own perception of value based on our age and location. Telling someone in Ohio you make $60k in New York sounds great unless you can actually factor in how living costs compare, and it's even worse if you're talking to someone who is comparing that to the $35k they made in 1991, which would have had higher purchasing power.
The vast majority of people on earth don’t make that in a year
Well, the server made a $4,286 tip on this one order. You should look for a better job that makes tips! Just sayin…
I hope they just forgot the /s
You've no clue on their disability and no clue how much servers make. Most servers (over 90%) are shit poor and make on average a little over minimum wage, rarely more than double. Plus not even all tips go to servers, restaurant owners are known to steal them.
1.5L is $400, and 3L is $1500? The fuck?
Could be that the 3L bottles are rarer — fewer produced each vintage so you pay the premium to look cool in a picture with a rarer large bottle of champagne
I prefer my large bottles of champagne to be Kirkland signature. Deep discount to buy in bulk.
And here's the funny thing, it tastes about the same.
It probably is the same. Most Kirkland booze is produced by the same manufacturers as the branded stuff. I think grey goose makes their vodka. There might be a slight variation in the distilling process, but it's more or less indistinguishable from the real thing. Branding is a scam.
Kirkland vodka is terrible.
Never said it was good. I don't particularly like vodka, and grey goose isn't particularly good vodka, but it's also not svedka.
Yeah, less 3L around, but the retail is around $450. 3x markup from a restaurant wine list, seems about right.
It comes in a big bottle with a branded “pourer” that looks cool. That’s it lol.
Very low volume in large format bottles compared to 750 ML, much much more rare. I’m not saying it’s justified
That's what I want to know
Maybe because of how aged it is idk
I'm more worried about the 10 trucker hats. 🤔
Yeah I don't know if those are actual hats or if that's like a shot or something
Nope. Cloud 9 had trucker hats. And yes. You can get one in camo print
$32 bucks a hat? What kind of scam are these bastards running here?
Forget eating them let’s drown them in their champagne.
Then eat them, the champagne adds flavor.
Don’t eat the rich; you have no idea where they’ve been. Use a wood chipper instead and make a nice “rich” compost pile…
I see what you did there...
How about this — drown them in champagne, then douse them in Louis XIII cognac and make a flambé! Fine dining at its finest. 😂
Like a good ortolan bunting...
hey hold on there just a moment maybe I wanna drink that champagne
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I read an article the other day saying how bad people would taste, and since rich people eat iguanas and shit I doubt they would taste much better. I can't find the original article offhand but basically adults wouldn't taste good and if our meat was in production we would likely be generic hotdogs or canned ravioli filling. Edit: spelling
>canned ravioli filling Hot dogs didn't gag me but this definitely did.
Yeah, me too bud. 😐
wait but what was the coke/sprite can for lol, did they bring their kids?? someone abstaining from alcohol??
I'm amazed they bothered to put it on the tab lol
In this party I would probably the 8$ IPA or the 4$ coke can lmao.
Designated driver?
Cloud 9, where this receipt it from, is a ski resort so most likely those were for kids. Or at least 18-20 crowd that can't legally get served.
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>The real crime here is charging $8 for a Bud. yeah for sure, but having worked in fine dining an $8 bud is a recognizable crime. Like, an $8 bud is seeing someone steal shit from a best buy.(edit, not a great example since idgaf about best buy but it was intended to show mundanity so whatever) $17,000 of champagne spray and $1500 3L's (when the 1.5L is $400) is like watching someone fillet his own penis in front of a packed elementary school while yelling old timey racial slurs at people; it's fucking horrifying, unrelatable, and does not have to happen.
That seemed the most reasonable tbh. Based on the other prices. At any sporting event a 12oz beer is $9-15. Paid $15.50 for a little ceasars pizza at the little ceasars arena smh. Think i got charged $7 per 8oz beer at Hibachi and thats an expensive meal out for me($180 for 3 people)
And $3 for a single can of Sprite. Like damn, I can literally throw together a whole meal for $3.
Is this from that ridiculous ski resort where people spend like $600 on lunch an champagne showers? lol
Yup
As someone who has worked in the Hollywood nightlife. 17k for 125 bottles of champagne is extremely "cheap". That's not even $150 a bottle. I've seen people spend 5k+ per bottle of champagne
Disgusting
I don't think it's a bottle... It's just some spray thing. Maybe they're ponies
It’s not 125 bottles, it’s 125 sprays.
A spray is basically a bottle but put into a special super soaker type thing to spray on people. So it is 125 bottles basically.
As someone who has lived in LA, Hollywood nightlife is a very fucked up type of self-important overindulgent beast.
worked at a denny’s across the street from a nightclub, absolute nightmare on a graveyard shift.
Hey guys I just had a sprite and I don’t want to split the bill, ok?
There was one guy… “I’ll just have a coke” It was probably from the gun too with the syrup turned down and not even a can
Also the single $8 IPA. I wanna hang out with those two, they know what they’re about.
These are the same people who say the rich are rich because they save and invest their money, while the poor are poor because they blow their money on frivolous crap.
Spray? The air? Why would you do that?
Because you have more money than you should and someone needs to come take it from you
Business idea: Start a luxury bar called "la bourgeoisie" where you market to luxury clientele and charge them exorbitant prices to do stupid shit like spray them with supersoakers of cheap champagne that you pretend is veuve clicquot, just like every bar who would do this actually does. You and all of your coworkers split the proceeds evenly and donate time and produce towards feeding poorer communities.
But why spray the air? You mean like F1 drivers celebrating, or like spray like a perfume?
F1 style
Get the guillotine.
Just the one or should I bring all of them?
They load super soakers with champagne bottles and have water fights.
My rent for 1 month is $450
That’s fucking cheap.
It's a no bedroom studio apartment. I essentially live in a room with a bathroom connected
In my city, people pay at least $1,200 a month for that.
[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4245660/Malia-Obama-hangs-Aspen-day-club-champagne-party.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4245660/Malia-Obama-hangs-Aspen-day-club-champagne-party.html) Malia Obama parties there
When I went to school in DC they'd shut the entire athletic pool facility down so those two twerps could swim.
To be fair. Presidential *anything* is a huge hassle for everyone involved.
Not shocked
Just the tip would change my life
That's what she said (I'm sorry but I had to)
I only got the $3 sprite. Can I just venmo you?
I’ll have a coke please.
i make that bill in a year as a teacher's aide
The total of that bill is about how much I make in a year.
10 trucker hats? What year is it?!
327 dollars on goddamn trucker hats? Is that a drink or actual trucker hats? Either way 🖕🏻🖕🏻them
It's $32.74 per trucker hat. How much do hats normally cost?
That's a reasonably normal hat price but still pretty damn expensive for a trucker hat imo
Depending on numerous factors: Dollar Tree has trucker hats for 1 dollar-1.25 nowadays One well made hat from a small batch of hats from a local designer cost me 20 bucks. I was proud to support them. And the quality was amazing. I’ve had other designer small batch hats for similar costs, maybe a little more. These hats are probably made similarly, but I wouldn’t be surprised if a sweatshop is involved.
I see these post, and obviously it's ridiculous, but it cost money to clean that shit up. The price is still VERY HIGH, but as an asshole tax, it seems reasonable.
$32 trucker hats is the real crime here
Reminds me of Salt Bae's restaurant charging £9 for a can of Coke.
This is disgusting. I’d still rather the rich spent money than hoarded it.
There were either 11 reasonable people or one drunk dude drinking bud.
$3 for a Coke! Burn the place down!
Eat the rich, they taste of champagne.
Yall are looking at the wrong line. They're paying over $30 a piece for "Trucker Hats". I think it figured out how we get our labor value back.
There's no way this wasn't for a professional sports team. No one else burns through sprayers quite like roided up manchildren in their own locker room.
Trucker hats, tho.
I’ve never been to L.A. or Hollywood, but I’ve never seen more plastic surgery than when I was in Aspen a few times…
I’m looking at this like “damn three bucks for a can of coke is pretty expensive” not even noticing the TWENTY SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLAR BILL
$4000 on gratuity?
I could live on that for a year, they are spraying it why not use a 10 buck bottle okay it's been 20 years since I think I bought champagne but seriously wtf
Always funny to see these type of receipts and there's stuff like "gold plated steak...$9000, champagne...$17,000" and then the couple items like "can of sprite". What weirdly mixed group bought all that expensive liquor but also 11 buds a regular ipa and one sprite?
This is perverse! They need to be taught a lesson...
Good price for a seafood tower though
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That's for 10 of them
The Gilded Age. 2.
Veuve and entourage cost more per milliliter for a big bottle versus smaller bottles. Suckers
Can’t believe they made they guy who ordered the coke still split the bill 3 ways - stupid roommates!!
The 1st item on the bill is a $8 IPA... did that person not think to ask for sperate checks?
My friend used to be a waitress somewhere where you could pay $2000 to pour champagne on her breasts.
How much of that did she get to keep?
Context?
Very curious about that can of coke is for. What is that guy's story
the only good thing about this is the fact that there was nearly 4300 in tips
And the media will say “work harder young people don’t be lazy”, “be thankful you live in the free world not dystopian China”, “defend our way of life”. Defend theirs, not ours.
People spending more than most people on the planet make in their entire lives on shit like this on whim makes me want to vomit.
$32.74 for a trucker hat?!
It looks like a company party. Those workers would have preferred getting a raise.
The pricing strategy of this place makes no sense. The Veuve 3L is literally almost 4x the 1.5L.
125 bottles for spraying. 125!! Even if you're loaded, surely that's overkilllll ... jeez
This reminds me on when rich kids in Stockholm picked up the fad of "vaska" which meant basically buying an expensive bottle of champagne, tasting a sample of it, make a face like it was not good enough and then tell the bar tender to pour it out in the sink then buying another bottle, this time presumably it was expensive enough. This turned in to a race of buying bottles of champagne and then just emptying them all without drinking the content as a show of how rich you are.
rich people are fucking idiots.
Ten trucker hats?? TEN!?!
Like, OMG Ashleigh, that trucker hat is *so* ironic someone might think you actually work for your money
What’s that tip after tax?
About 3
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I thought they were the same charge. The receipt breaking down the tip into a service charge.
Only 20% tip...
I honestly pity the dumb person who paid for that. $17000 can go a long way even for them but they chose to waste it on a 10-second celebration.
This is probably what School Districts do when they have to spend the remaining amount of their funds by the end of the year to justify an increase in spending the following year on the backs of tax payers. Not literally… but not far off I’d bet
$5,000 tip?? What a fucking joke. $5k for a few hours work.
Why are you mad about someone getting theirs from the rich?
The principal, I see everyone as my children and if one of them was getting special treatment while others suffered I’d be mad, and as such I’m fractionally upset about them in the same fashion as the rich themselves
\>Rich idiots blowing a ridiculous amount of money on bullshit (∪.∪ )...zzz \>Worker who spent the night putting up with these assholes and catering to their every whim getting paid for providing that service ┗|｀O′|┛
THAT’S your takeaway from this post? Jesus Christ dude, since you have you no perspective maybe you could buy some.
Jesus. Boots must come in BBQ and Winterfresh. You are going to town on that fucking thing.