If my child biatched about the color of her iPhone, she'd be back to two tin cans and a piece of string.

Some people should shut their whore mouths.

There's real problems out there...

not that a song hasn't been posted on the video tab.. (new window)

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Of course she wants a black one. Just to piss off her father.

Bathia_Mapes: Exception Collection: Elvis_Bogart: Talk about First-World problems.

Indeed. Of course, I feel like a hypocrite saying so, since I'm irritated about the Kindle I got and about the jewelry I got.

Love the kindle, but I'd just gotten an iphone the week before to run apps for a side project for work - and the Kindle Fire is Android, so it could have run the apps w/o the monthly plan. No, I didn't have a cell phone before. I'd needed one, but had been thinking Tracfone to save money.

As for the jewelry, I have a nickel allergy, so knowing someone that has a history of buying me gifts I can't use bought me diamond jewelry kinda bothers me. Last year it was $100 in bath supplies, and all the liquids had aloe (another allergen).

So I complain, but I feel like an ass for doing so.

I've got allergies to nickel and aloe too. Maybe we're related. :-D

How do you two type through your bubbles?

damn ungrateful little bastards.. our future!

posted this in the other thread:

You'll put a $30+ case on it like every other user anyway.

if it makes you feel better we have been exporting this kind of attitude to the rest of the world so their kids are going to be spoiled and lazy too.

I'll be honest.... I'm still kind of miffed that I got the 12-pack of CHICKEN Maruchan Cup-0-noodles instead of the SHRIMP.


...it's not that hard

I'm going to reply to this thread first with my prediction, then read the article. It's from the Daily Mail, so it's going to be biased. Probably along the lines of "kids are spoiled".

SundaesChild: If my child biatched about the color of her iPhone, she'd be back to two tin cans and a piece of string.

I shutter to think what you'd do if her Bridge Club crossed your lawn. ;-)

My complaint about christmas was I only sold $10k worth of merchandise instead of $15k.

St_Francis_P: Aarontology: This is what happens when you base your culture on consumerist materialism.

True enough, but there have always been spoiled kids in abundance. The difference is that now, thanks to the internet, we all get to see their whining.

And back when I was a kid and complained about things, it was about the thick layer of ice on my bedroom windows, and the moldy bread.

Understandable. I want one that looks like Steve Jobs' coffin.

..yep. Though I'm not changing careers to soothsaying. Too easy.

RexTalionis: Kar98: And back when I was a kid and complained about things, it was about the thick layer of ice on my bedroom windows, and the moldy bread.

You had bread? Lucky, lucky.

Aren't you German? I'm guessing you were from the East, then.

Yup.

I did post a slightly whiney post. Just that I'd honestly rather not get gifts from my wife's family (or most people for that matter). After 15 years, they still don't know me at all, and I feel bad that they spent their hard earned money (none of them are even well off let alone rich) on something I will never, ever use. I'm rather easy to shop for (booze and gift cards), yet they try to do something "thoughtful", but put zero thought into it.

/Light brown people problems

ZAZ: fak

I looked up a few at random. Most seem real. Many are back tracking claiming they were joking.

Hot Carl To Go

How do you two type through your bubbles?


Wireless?

Once you go black you never go back.

And these are the 99%.......

The best present I got this year is $100 in cash. I'll be living like a king all week! I mean, it's not like I can use cash to pay my delinquent bills.

netcentric: I'll be honest.... I'm still kind of miffed that I got the 12-pack of CHICKEN Maruchan Cup-0-noodles instead of the SHRIMP.


...it's not that hard



Your parents did you a solid. Shrimp is awful.

Every Xmas a wealthy friend of mine always has to ask "SO WHAT DID YOU GET?" meaning from parents. She always gets something spectacular (that she usually has a complaint about). It annoyed the hell out of my friends. It's one thing to mention a nice or exciting present in conversation, and it is quite another to be so... up front and materialistic about it. It honestly always felt like she was comparing and would feel "bad" for us when we told her we didn't get much.

A few years ago I told her after she asked the yearly question that we are in our 30's and that I don't expect gifts from mommy and daddy any more. My family gives eachother little things to open because we enjoy that quality time on Christmas, but I'm on my own and I don't expect them to spend the kind of money they did on me back when I had a wish list for Santa Claus that listed every doll and My Little Pony on earth.

Honestly, at a certain age, you can just buy the things you want, right?