I'm not. Fucking 1%...
5 Stupidest Habits you Develop Growing up Poor - Cracked
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I'm not. Fucking 1%...
Didn't grow up poor because my dad busted his ass at multiple jobs and didn't spend money on stupid shit, and then when my parents got divorced my mom busted her ass at multiple jobs too.
GasBandit
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Both my parents, and my step-parents for that matter, were Majors in the army. Mom was a prosecutor in the JAG corps, Dad was an army doc (and continues to be a doc now that he's out). The army put them through school then had them work it off. I didn't grow up poor, but my parents also did not just go buying stuff for me. I got an allowance of One dollar a week, and had to earn money for things I wanted on my own. I never went hungry or unclothed but I also learned I had to work and save for what I wanted.
Oh hey, Dave , I thought you might want to also read this relevant Cracked article, if you haven't already. Also, I suppose I wanted to necro something. Feels...odd.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-things-rich-people-need-to-stop-saying/
--Patrick
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-things-rich-people-need-to-stop-saying/
--Patrick
Where the fuck is ThreadNecromancer at?
Let it be known that GB just admitted to accepting welfare.
We didn't have allowances when I was a kid, or even compensation for any work we did for the family.
Green_Lantern
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My mom grew up poor, but in different ways and doesn't have this mindset.
Her family couldn't take care of her, so she lived with another family and was sort of a made there.
Honestly, she is so far from the "bad canned food" thing that is almost ridiculous. I sometimes have the impression she would like to hunt down and kill the cow herself, just to get really fresh beef.
I usually got good gifts when I asked, but she would often make references for me not to needing them and wanting me to play with my old toys for forever, she like... wanted me to keep playing on the Nitendo 64 despite it being 10 years old and we lost a connector-piece thingamagib
She does like accumulate and re-use old stuff though...
Her family couldn't take care of her, so she lived with another family and was sort of a made there.
Honestly, she is so far from the "bad canned food" thing that is almost ridiculous. I sometimes have the impression she would like to hunt down and kill the cow herself, just to get really fresh beef.
I usually got good gifts when I asked, but she would often make references for me not to needing them and wanting me to play with my old toys for forever, she like... wanted me to keep playing on the Nitendo 64 despite it being 10 years old and we lost a connector-piece thingamagib
She does like accumulate and re-use old stuff though...
My hands are tied. As long as the auto lock is not in place any more your threads will be over run with the long dead and gone, brought forth by any random poster at will.
I have no power to protect you from the risen threads anymore.
... and obviously it's not as much fun to necro things when anyone can do it. And I've been busy.
I can understand the connector thing, but 10 years? My siblings and I were playing Conker's Bad Fur Day and the Zelda games in 2007. Hell, I was just playing Nintendo 64 last night. Pokemon Snap, bitches.
I was one of the few people who mastered Samus in the original Smash Bros. Everyone else thought she sucked. I showed them what she could really do.
... that sounds dirty now that I write it out.
Really? When I was young, all my friends played as Samus.
Not me though. I was a die hard kirby user, though now I prefer Pikachu.
As far as I'm aware, Samus is considered a low-tier character in the first Super Smash Bros. She's good at racking up damage, but lacks options for actually delivering the knock-out blow. Her edge guarding is also lackluster, compared to characters like Link.
So you need to play to her strengths. Position yourself and the enemy where you can maximize what knock-out moves you have, etc. Also, in 4-player battles, stay away from the action and snipe people from afar. It was hilarious to see three other guys beating each other up, and then suddenly one of them flies away because I shot him from the other side of the stage.
Oh man. I always felt like I accomplished so much more by beating SSF with anyone but Ryu.
It was for this reason that I loved to play as Dhalsim. I knew that if I could train enough with him, mastering the teleport would make me unstoppable. Never did, though. Only managed better'n average*.
--Patrick
*Because I could never master that dang teleport.
I uh, played oddjob once. It made me feel like a cheater.
I dont know why people always complained about oddjob. If you played with the autoaim off (which we always did), all you had to do was aim a little lower and get easy headshots.
It's because oddjob moved faster.
fade
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On topic, I dropped a ton of cash on gifts this year. Never had it before. I feel really guilty actually. I went from growing up poor to low middle class when working as a professor, to---well, let's just say that this year I have an actual opinion about some of the financial legislature being currently discussed. I'm spending most of it on getting out the hole I got in with no summer pay for the last 5 years. (Seriously, how do other profs make it through the assistant prof years with no other income? )
Stripping?
Cooking illicit substances in the basement and selling it to their students?
Who's joking?
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