The Fraud & Theft Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Only a government bureaucrat would classify trillions in entitlement transfers siphoned from the paychecks of the 58.4% of working age Americans with a job or borrowed from foreigner countries as personal income to the non-producing recipients.

Get out and talk to young people, I do and from what I can tell, they believe they have been screwed and not in a good way. To put it another way: If you thought you did not have a future worth living how would you act today?

Banned on the Run: ostensibly

Ostensibly?

How much money did you raise for charities in college? I can guarantee its less than my fraternity did per member.

downstairs: dopekitty74: I fail to understand where you're coming from. Are you implying there's something wrong with having two children at the age of 31?

/no sarcasm, truly baffled

Most of them, yes. Not all of them. I know a lot of kids in their early 30's. 90% of them do not have the responsibility and means to raise two kids.

Maybe you live in a more homogeneous world.

You're a twat. I hope one of those adults you call kids and have such a self righteous attitude towards punches you in the dick.

When we were kids our parent(s) seemed infallible and we took for granted that they had everything all figured out. Guess what? They didn't and you shouldn't expect yourself, or those other adults with children, to either.

downstairs: dopekitty74: I fail to understand where you're coming from. Are you implying there's something wrong with having two children at the age of 31?

/no sarcasm, truly baffled

Most of them, yes. Not all of them. I know a lot of kids in their early 30's. 90% of them do not have the responsibility and means to raise two kids.

Maybe you live in a more homogeneous world.

I think the consensus is that you may want to reconsider the company you keep. If 90% of your 31 year old friends are so heavily afflicted with Peter Pan syndrome that the idea of them at all moving to the next phase of their life seems like a ridiculous concept to you, then you may want to find a crowd that is a little less emotionally stunted.

Or maybe this is just that generational thing where failure to launch is seen as perfectly acceptable.

Shostie: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Oh no! College students getting drunk and acting irresponsibly! How will we ever get over this turn of events?

Clearly, we must ban college students.

And public parks. Just to be on the safe side.

No one should be taking this shiatty life seriously.

Really, why worry about be a professional in a majorly screwed up world? Where's the honor in that? There is none, everyone knows this life is "take what you can get" and fake your way through what you have to in order to meet your goals. That's the "real" way it's done. We shiatcan good people all the time and no one cares.

downstairs: 89 Stick-Up Kid: What the fark am I reading?

Someone who admits to being a 36 year old kid sounds like you have mental issues and live in your parents basement.

Nope. Own a house, gainfully employed. I'll be considering myself a kid when I'm 50. Its a promise I made to myself growing up, watching my dad live a miserable life being a corporate attorney.

What a bunch of tee-totaling prudes.

Those punters will decide who lives and who dies. But hey, someone has to do it.

whitey_d: downstairs: 89 Stick-Up Kid: What the fark am I reading?

Someone who admits to being a 36 year old kid sounds like you have mental issues and live in your parents basement.

Nope. Own a house, gainfully employed. I'll be considering myself a kid when I'm 50. Its a promise I made to myself growing up, watching my dad live a miserable life being a corporate attorney.



/Dammit I need to take my own advice

BigNumber12: downstairs: I'm 36. I consider *myself* a kid.


Oh look, a stereotype. Don't worry, there are quite a few of us "adults" out here who are working hard to fund your unemployment checks. Stick your head out of the tent flap and say "hi" to the other Occupiers for me, will you?


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Still believing that bullshiat about how "YOU" are paying for everyone else do something? you're a farking idiot. ALready 30% of the country doesn't work because they make money off of THOSE WHO DO they are called CEOs and investment bankers you dumb mf'er. Keep repeating your political ideological nonsense if that makes you feel better (it clearly does)

/36, and worked longer than you have

Fark U: No one should be taking this shiatty life seriously.

Really, why worry about be a professional in a majorly screwed up world? Where's the honor in that? There is none, everyone knows this life is "take what you can get" and fake your way through what you have to in order to meet your goals. That's the "real" way it's done. We shiatcan good people all the time and no one cares.

"Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded--here and there, now and then--are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck.""

If I were a parent with my kid in a park and some drunken college kids started shouting and dropping trou and dry humping and doing other drunken idiot things, and my kid asked me, why are they doing that, I'd take advantage of the moment for some teaching. "Kid," I'd say, "remember when you screamed in front of the dinner guests and threw things and peed in the fireplace, and you were on restriction for a week? Well, adults sometimes misbehave too, and soon after they do, they get punished by having to work in an office for the rest of their lives, selling their souls for money."

downstairs: 89 Stick-Up Kid: What the fark am I reading?

Someone who admits to being a 36 year old kid sounds like you have mental issues and live in your parents basement.

Nope. Own a house, gainfully employed. I'll be considering myself a kid when I'm 50. Its a promise I made to myself growing up, watching my dad live a miserable life being a corporate attorney.

I'm 36 and "in college" yet I ALSO own my own house as well as many of the "toys" I dreamed to have when I was 12 and couldn't afford them. I worked and paid for them, now I pay for furthering my own education. I too came from "corporate slavery" and quickly realized the value in ENJOYING LIFE and not GOING ALONG WITH THE HERD. I just laugh at those who are "playing the game" and putting down on others who see "the game" for what it is... a ploy to get you to spend your life working to make someone else rich. If you don't run your own business YOU'RE A SLAVE AND AN IDIOT.

WHOA WHOA WHOA.....FTA: "Shocked onlookers later witnessed an organised fight between the drinkers and police officers were called though no arrests were made.

Can some UK person explain this to me?? I have never heard of an organized fight? does that mean no retribution if you kick some cops arse??

Unless I am mistaken...it appears the dudes on the ground are being straddled/facesat by hot UNI female students...

I have no problem with this.

Harry Freakstorm: The students were attending an annual party known as Caesarian Sunday which took place at Jesus Green Park.

Jesus wasn't born caesarian. He was born Jewish.

So it really should be called "Jesus Greenberg Park" instead.


/"Jesus Green" sounds like a kind of marijuana

I don't think this financial crisis is bad. I think it is very good. I think it is probably the best financial crisis I have ever seen, and I hope we have plenty more just like it.

There. I made an outrageous, indefensible statement. Now someone please call me on it so I can use it as a platform to launch in to a deranged, off-topic rant about how I hate my dad.

DROxINxTHExWIND: No one talks about people in the ghetto "blowing off steam".

That's because when College kids do it, they get drunk and act like tards in a park. When ghetto kids do it, someone gets stabbed in the gut because they scuffed someone's cousin's nikes.

Be the change...

I was all prepared to laugh off the article because I read the thread first. But did any of you read the article? Sure this is normal behavior - if you're not in a farking park. In front of the general public and children. Morans.

Nope. Own a house, gainfully employed. I'll be considering myself a kid when I'm 50. Its a promise I made to myself growing up, watching my dad live a miserable life being a corporate attorney.

So you can be nearly 70 when he goes to college and probably dead before you see any grandkids? Sounds like a great plan!

We were with our children and there were lots of other families around and I'm furious they were exposed to their partying. Lots of the students were semi-naked, others were shouting and swearing. They were totally out of control.

Now you know how the rest of us feel when we have to put up with your precious farking yard apes you sniveling thin-skinned coont. You and your kids aren't the center of the world. Deal with it.

89 Stick-Up Kid: Nope. Own a house, gainfully employed. I'll be considering myself a kid when I'm 50. Its a promise I made to myself growing up, watching my dad live a miserable life being a corporate attorney.

So you can be nearly 70 when he goes to college and probably dead before you see any grandkids? Sounds like a great plan!

I don't think you read that right....

There are two really dumb people in this thread. Anyone care to wager a guess?

downstairs: Aarontology: downstairs: Not sure if I'm serious that a 31 year old kid with two kids isn't the most reliable person to quote?

Yeah, I'm serious. 31 year olds are kids.

How's the yelling at that cloud going, grandpa?

I'm 36. I consider *myself* a kid. I never meant "kid" to be derogatory. In fact, the complete opposite.

Of all the 31-ish year olds I've met, I'd say 10% or so are capable of raising a kid. And of those capable, the sheer majority are better served not doing so and persuing other things in life.

Things are a little different nowadays than my father's (73 years old) America.

Truly the greatest generation when they won... Nevermind.

BigNumber12: downstairs: I'm 36. I consider *myself* a kid.


Oh look, a stereotype. Don't worry, there are quite a few of us "adults" out here who are working hard to fund your unemployment checks. Stick your head out of the tent flap and say "hi" to the other Occupiers for me, will you?


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You are shiat for understanding context.

vpb: I would rather the bankers get drunk and dry hump each other jump off a tall building, O.D. on blow, die in a fiery car accident, or catch ass cancer than wreck the economy. I think it will be an improvement.

jjorsett: Shostie: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Oh no! College students getting drunk and acting irresponsibly! How will we ever get over this turn of events?

Clearly, we must ban college students.

The soaring costs and falling return-on-investment are handling that for us.

FREE MARKETS!

gambitsgirl: Yeah, probably a world of school/preschool where 90% of the parents had kids by 31 and didn't manage to kill them off (which would prohibit the parent from attending the school)

Not to completely white knight for downstairs here, but this is super dependent upon where you live. I'm 34 and have a lot of friends that aren't financially ready for kids, and I'm not talking about bartenders and baristas who are barely scraping by...I'm talking legit professionals who are my age. To afford to own a home big enough for kids (or even rent on a two bedroom, which is running in the $2,000/month and up range) and have a kid here takes a lot of people right up to the age of 40...hence the prevalence of fertility clinic commercials on local radio.

To clarify, I don't think the majority of my 30+ year old friends are so immature that they would kill a kid off if they had one, but if you're living someplace where everyone you know in that age range is focused on their social life and job, it's not hard to look around and say, "Man, my friends are NOT ready for kids!"

I have plenty of 30-something single friends who I wouldn't let babysit, but their ineptitude with children has nothing to do with their age. It's because they're retards.

SueDisco: if you're living someplace where everyone you know in that age range is focused on their social life and job, it's not hard to look around and say, "Man, my friends are NOT ready for kids!"

If you replaced "kids" with "rhinoplasty" or "tax audit" or "classic car" that statement would be equally true.

It's not that people are too focused on their job or social life to care for a child, it's that they don't have a child and are therefore free to focus on their job or social life or whatever other "unimportant" aspect of life they choose to indulge. Parents choose to indulge themselves in childrearing; judging other people for making other choices about their form of indulgence is probably unwise.

I have no idea what anyone was doing out at Jesus Green on Sunday as it pissed it down with rain all day. It's not like most of Cambridge was out having a picnic in the sunshine.

Fark U: downstairs: 89 Stick-Up Kid: What the fark am I reading?

Someone who admits to being a 36 year old kid sounds like you have mental issues and live in your parents basement.

Nope. Own a house, gainfully employed. I'll be considering myself a kid when I'm 50. Its a promise I made to myself growing up, watching my dad live a miserable life being a corporate attorney.

I'm 36 and "in college" yet I ALSO own my own house as well as many of the "toys" I dreamed to have when I was 12 and couldn't afford them. I worked and paid for them, now I pay for furthering my own education. I too came from "corporate slavery" and quickly realized the value in ENJOYING LIFE and not GOING ALONG WITH THE HERD. I just laugh at those who are "playing the game" and putting down on others who see "the game" for what it is... a ploy to get you to spend your life working to make someone else rich. If you don't run your own business YOU'RE A SLAVE AND AN IDIOT.

I am happy that you found a model that works for you. Hopefully, you are bright enough to realize that not everyone's personality, needs, or risk tolerances are the same, nor can the business ecosystem tolerate tolerate completely homogenous business types (all large corporations, or all small sole proprietorships). It is a blind and ignorant man (also one who is fairly insecure in his own decisions) who must denigrate all other valid options to justify their own decisions.

Working for yourself is great, if you have the financial cushion to tolerate slow times, the balance of skills to be both marketing, sales, operations, and accounting\finance, and the sheer overconfidence to believe that amongst all the failing new businesses (some sources report a 50% failure rate in year 1, and a 95% failure rate by year five), yours will be the one to succeed. If you are one of those, I salute you. But don't look at your path as the only (or even the most logical) path.