Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]McDonald's cost a couple of bucks less than getting real food in a real restaurant. So McDonald's and cheap do not go together. How much is a bag of potatoes? I think a large bag of rice and a large bag of dried beans might be the cheapest way to eat. Which I wish I knew about when I was in 20's in school spending all my money on film and running out by the end of the month having to steal food from the college cafeteria to get one meal a day. - - from my iRabs. Mark Rabiner http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ > From: Kay Yang <liangjiyang at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 22:09:00 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Would you trade your M9 to go back to an M8? > > This might not be an appropriate comparison I want to share it anyways. > Quite a few times I've seen people on the street begging for money to buy a > meal from McDonald's. This really boggles me because if I cannot even > afford a meal, I would not want to go to McDonald's. I would just go to the > closest supermarket and buy a loaf of bread and eat it for 3 days. > > > > On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj > <jayanand at gmail.com>wrote: > >> Richard, >> I do not agree - using a US$5 item to justify a US$7000 item boggles the >> imagination, at least mine!! >> >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Richard Man <richard at >> richardmanphoto.com >>> wrote: >> >>> Come on, it's like saying to people on food stamp that they shouldn't >> have >>> ice cream and only spend it on "important" stuff. >>> >>> What if there are joy of owning and using Leica, in additional to >> whatever >>> image quality benefits there may be. >>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information