Grumpy
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We have been told that but I have yet to turn my cam on..."Turn your Cam on" "It's not?? Must not be working"
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We have been told that but I have yet to turn my cam on..."Turn your Cam on" "It's not?? Must not be working"
Grumpy
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Maybe if I removed the post-it note on it, it might work..
They have no right to be mad.
The overwhelming majority of their brethren spout off about how wonderful it is, and what a great job Democrats do for them.
#### 'em.
They better start speaking up then. Right now their college indocrinated betas seem to make the most political noise.
Kinnakeet
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Apply for the circus she will fit in if she grows a beard she will make more money
Bullshit! Boomers of which I am one certainly did muscle cars and trucks, clothes, sporting goods, and boats, pot!
Maybe you pissed away half your paycheck on that.
I had many of those things, but I didn’t waste half my paycheck on it.
BOP
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Then leave. Plenty of people will buy you a one-way ticket to the socialist utopia of your choice. Good luck getting anyone in your new country to do the same, f*ckface.
Or, hell, these days, maybe they would, just to get rid of the whiny American.
Among the many things I've had to do in my lifetime to scrape together enough money to pay for a room in a boarding house - a misnomer, since they didn't actually serve communal - or any - meals, and put food on my table and gas in my gas-guzzler, it never even occurred to me to curse this great country that I served in both the Navy and the Army reserve. Poorly, but still.
Never once while I was walking the highways and byways of Oklahoma in the winter, dressed in double and in some cases triple layers of clothing because that was all I had, to pick up aluminum cans and whatever metal scrapes I could find so I could take them to get a little money to pay my rent to my roommates, and buy a little food and put gas in my roommates' car - not having one of my own at the time - so they could take me places. Like the recycling center. And my part time job across town.
And that's just ONE example of the things I had to do to scrape by during the Carter years.
The thought never entered my mind to blame everyone but myself. Made getting sober in 1989 and working the 12 steps all that much easier.
BOP
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You do realize that our generation went from 1946 to 1964, don't you?
That means that when I was 12 and too young to go to Woodstock like my older neighbor friend, my cousins were around 22 and beginning to acquire those things.
By working. And saving. While paying rent, and insurance. And all the things.
You seem to forget that the vast majority of us were not handed anything by the Silent Generation. They themselves being children of the Depression era due to their parents, our grandparents having grown up during that period. My own father was born in 1930, which was just after the "official" end of the Great Depression.
Yeah, they wanted better for us; for us to have the things they didn't have. But they thought in terms of actual birthday parties with cake. And a few gifts, and not just clothing. Because that's fun for children; getting new school clothes on birthdays and holidays instead of, say, toys.
If cars were given at all, it was for graduating high school and for going off to college.
Amen.
My first four cars were all used and purchased for a few hundred dollars each.
I love shooting, but didn’t start adding to my collection till my 30s.
Certainly didn’t spend my paycheck on drugs.
If Phreddy was pissing away half his paycheck on bullshit, it means he was still living his parents Income.
Bullshit! My father was born in 1915 supported his parents during the depression on the WPA fought in the war and raised a family of five on a $5.00 warehouse job. Don't try to preach to me.
I also watched my contemporaries spend money much of it wastefully fast cars, concerts, boats, motorcycles.
Maybe it's because today's generation has so many things available to buy that we couldn't even dream of that you feel that way.
Each generation has to find their own way thru life, I don't think this generation is any better or worse than any preceding generation. But the again only time will tell.
I myself in no way is giving up on the youth of today.
I don't think that most of today's youth do that either.
Even if I did waste half my paycheck back then, it didn't contuine to this present day. I have made out extremely well .
Living well is the best revenge
BOP
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Well, and that's fine. She'd probably vote enthusiastically for a 15-minute city.
The problem is, she and the Leftists don't understand the most basic law of economics: supply and demand.
Rents and housing prices are always higher the closer to the desired destination. Even giving up a motor vehicle and all the associated costs often don't defray the cost of rent.