World's ugliest couches:
I-I'm just taking things without paying for th... In what twisted dictionary is that stealing?
Willow ,'Showtime'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
le nubian - Apr 21, 2011 7:16:55 am PDT #4490 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
billytea - Apr 21, 2011 7:17:29 am PDT #4491 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Overrated.
Ha! That is exactly how I thought of museums when I was a kid.
Tom Scola - Apr 21, 2011 7:18:43 am PDT #4492 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Don't lie, billytea, you still do.
billytea - Apr 21, 2011 7:21:47 am PDT #4493 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Don't lie, billytea, you still do.
Well sure, that's how I still think museums should be. That's how I think my workplace should be.
tommyrot - Apr 21, 2011 7:22:14 am PDT #4494 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
That is exactly how I thought of museums when I was a kid.
When I was a kid, I loved the museums in Chicago, such as the Field Museum, Museum of Science and Industry and the Adler Planetarium. But IIRC my relatives in Chicago never took me to art museums when I was a kid.
Vortex - Apr 21, 2011 7:25:51 am PDT #4495 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
A friend of mine is dating an heir from a well known company and he's been in every major rehab center in the United States.
Jessica - Apr 21, 2011 7:27:56 am PDT #4496 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
(I was once told that Aruba was passe, Anguilla was where it was at)
I had a very similar high school experience - my parents obviously had the money to send me to an expensive private school so it's not like I grew up underprivileged, but I was also happy to be driving the '87 Chevy station wagon hand-me-down. My classmates would whine that they got a Lexus for their sweet-16 instead of the Viper they really waaaaaaaaaaaanted*. Another one got a Mercedes when she turned 16, crashed it about a month later, and her parents immediately bought her another one.
(*This particular girl was later expelled for stealing prescription drugs and cash out of students' lockers. I was on the crew team with her! Good times!)
Scrappy - Apr 21, 2011 7:33:58 am PDT #4497 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
The people I have known who come from money, including my best friend, have been different in terms of mental health, work ethic, morality, depending on their family. The one similarity between them is that they can be more free in choosing what they want to do. In the back of their minds, they know they will have enough money to live on, so choosing a job just to meet financial needs is not an issue. Even if they come from a family in which you are expected to support yourself (as my BFF does--she has always worked full time as have her brother and sister), you still know you will inherit money someday. Neither my nor my husband's parents are going to leave us anything, so a big part of our life is planning for the future and that's something trust fund peeps don't have to do.
flea - Apr 21, 2011 7:34:04 am PDT #4498 of 30001
information libertarian
That Atlantic article is really interesting. Thinking about it, I've known people who are really rich for a variety of reasons - I went to high school with the grandson of Sam (Wal-Mart) Walton, but also with a guy who was well-off (like, doctor-lawyer parents well off) but not super-rich until he became one of the early Microsoft squillionaires. I think it does make some difference.
§ ita § - Apr 21, 2011 7:35:49 am PDT #4499 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm not sure who I grew up with. Obviously some of the kids in Jamaica were pretty poor, and some of the kids in London were pretty rich, but I have to cop to being self-absorbed enough to not paying enough attention to telling the difference between the personalities of the ones who owned multiple horses each or were living in the bad areas of town.