Comments on: Wanting Pleasure, Living Poor, Spending Anyway http://punkassblog.com/2006/04/27/wanting-pleasure-living-poor-spending-anyway/ Sun, 20 Nov 2011 04:59:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Bloggity Blog Blog Blog… http://punkassblog.com/2006/04/27/wanting-pleasure-living-poor-spending-anyway/comment-page-2/#comment-147186 Bloggity Blog Blog Blog… Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:37:47 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2006/04/27/wanting-pleasure-living-poor-spending-anyway/#comment-147186 [...] Wanting Pleasure, Living Poor, Spending Anyway [...] [...] Wanting Pleasure, Living Poor, Spending Anyway [...]

]]> By: Sarai http://punkassblog.com/2006/04/27/wanting-pleasure-living-poor-spending-anyway/comment-page-2/#comment-83228 Sarai Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:58:24 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2006/04/27/wanting-pleasure-living-poor-spending-anyway/#comment-83228 Okay, SOME poverty is self induced, but most of it can't be helped. What happens when your parents don't have the money or care to help you? What happens if you don't have a car? Well, you have to get a job near where you live, or at the same place as one of your friends. Then, you have to worry about weather if you walk, and you have to rely on your friend to carry you to and from, and also whether you are scheduled together so it won't be too much of a hassle. Then, it takes months at least to scrape together enough money after paying rent and utilities, pitching in on gas for your friend, and buying groceries (even if you never eat out, and you shop at a dollar store) to even THINK about buying a RELIABLE vehicle that's affordable. So, you buy the vehicle, maybe it's an old '87 Oldsmobile that burns oil and has bald tires, but you do the best you can. You work 60-80 hours a week trying your BEST to make sure that you put at least something into savings. But for what? You save and save and save, but what's it going to do unless you get a better job? What are you going to do? Work at a bank? Wait tables? Go work offshore? What if you're a girl? Girls can't work offshore. After working three straight weeks with no days off, you finally get a day off, and you want to chillax, and maybe go to the mall and buy a pair of jeans because yours are almost threadbare because of all the walking that you have to do at work. So you buy a pair of jeans, but on your way home your engine locks up because all of a sudden it's started burning more oil than normal. Or maybe you blow a tire and it bends a rim or bends your axle? What do you do? You tell me Jeff, and people like him. How do you get a degree if you have to work at least 40 hours to make your bills, and you don't even have anything "frivolous" like cable, God forbid. How do you get a degree while working 40 to make bills? Go part time and just stretch out the long process of paying tuition from 4 yrs to 8? Well bam, you have a $350 lab fee. How about $200 Student Assessed Fees. How about that English class where you have to have four books, and they just updated the edition so you can't buy used ones! And remember, your car just broke down. No mommy and daddy to help you. What do you do? Tell me so all of us here will know. Okay, SOME poverty is self induced, but most of it can’t be helped. What happens when your parents don’t have the money or care to help you? What happens if you don’t have a car? Well, you have to get a job near where you live, or at the same place as one of your friends. Then, you have to worry about weather if you walk, and you have to rely on your friend to carry you to and from, and also whether you are scheduled together so it won’t be too much of a hassle. Then, it takes months at least to scrape together enough money after paying rent and utilities, pitching in on gas for your friend, and buying groceries (even if you never eat out, and you shop at a dollar store) to even THINK about buying a RELIABLE vehicle that’s affordable. So, you buy the vehicle, maybe it’s an old ’87 Oldsmobile that burns oil and has bald tires, but you do the best you can. You work 60-80 hours a week trying your BEST to make sure that you put at least something into savings. But for what? You save and save and save, but what’s it going to do unless you get a better job? What are you going to do? Work at a bank? Wait tables? Go work offshore? What if you’re a girl? Girls can’t work offshore. After working three straight weeks with no days off, you finally get a day off, and you want to chillax, and maybe go to the mall and buy a pair of jeans because yours are almost threadbare because of all the walking that you have to do at work. So you buy a pair of jeans, but on your way home your engine locks up because all of a sudden it’s started burning more oil than normal. Or maybe you blow a tire and it bends a rim or bends your axle? What do you do? You tell me Jeff, and people like him. How do you get a degree if you have to work at least 40 hours to make your bills, and you don’t even have anything “frivolous” like cable, God forbid. How do you get a degree while working 40 to make bills? Go part time and just stretch out the long process of paying tuition from 4 yrs to 8? Well bam, you have a $350 lab fee. How about $200 Student Assessed Fees. How about that English class where you have to have four books, and they just updated the edition so you can’t buy used ones! And remember, your car just broke down. No mommy and daddy to help you. What do you do? Tell me so all of us here will know.

]]> By: Not living with a silver spoon in my mouth http://punkassblog.com/2006/04/27/wanting-pleasure-living-poor-spending-anyway/comment-page-2/#comment-71882 Not living with a silver spoon in my mouth Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:24:37 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2006/04/27/wanting-pleasure-living-poor-spending-anyway/#comment-71882 Man, you hit that nail on the proverbial head. If you think being poor and single is tough, try being poor, a couple with 2 kids trying to make a living at an arts job, having parents who have disowned you because you married out of their race who are living in a toney neighbourhood (Kitsilano, (Vancouver, BC)) who think that the answer to all problems is get another "service" job. Wife is working 17 hours maximum per week at a major box retailer at 11.18 an hour. If it wasn't for my parents who have volunteered to watch our children while we try to make a friggin' living. Add to that functional depression and antisocial-personality-disorder and that's a mix that's not conducive to me gaining full-time employment anytime soon. Did the service job thing and ended up nearly vacating the brain crevice of some middle-income scumbag who had the audacity to tell me that my poverty was self-induced. Damn if I had 1 penny for each time I've heard shit like that coming out of people's mouths, I'd be f*ng RICH! So, I got one thing to say to any middle-income dirtbag who whines about my Nikon D50 DSLR (which I use to try and make a passable living) and supplement my wife's meager income)..."Complain about my expenditure of money on this camera and you'll need your head surgically removed from your ass!!!" Man, you hit that nail on the proverbial head. If you think being poor and single is tough, try being poor, a couple with 2 kids trying to make a living at an arts job, having parents who have disowned you because you married out of their race who are living in a toney neighbourhood (Kitsilano, (Vancouver, BC)) who think that the answer to all problems is get another “service” job.

Wife is working 17 hours maximum per week at a major box retailer at 11.18 an hour. If it wasn’t for my parents who have volunteered to watch our children while we try to make a friggin’ living.

Add to that functional depression and antisocial-personality-disorder and that’s a mix that’s not conducive to me gaining full-time employment anytime soon. Did the service job thing and ended up nearly vacating the brain crevice of some middle-income scumbag who had the audacity to tell me that my poverty was self-induced.

Damn if I had 1 penny for each time I’ve heard shit like that coming out of people’s mouths, I’d be f*ng RICH!

So, I got one thing to say to any middle-income dirtbag who whines about my Nikon D50 DSLR (which I use to try and make a passable living) and supplement my wife’s meager income)…”Complain about my expenditure of money on this camera and you’ll need your head surgically removed from your ass!!!”

]]> By: confused http://punkassblog.com/2006/04/27/wanting-pleasure-living-poor-spending-anyway/comment-page-2/#comment-44193 confused Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:40:49 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2006/04/27/wanting-pleasure-living-poor-spending-anyway/#comment-44193 Some of the poorest people have the richest souls: Jesus, Mosses, Ghandi, ect... And learned that helping each other is not only a necessity, but also a way to globally link what is truely needed in this society we must live in. All you fancy cars, clothes, houses, and so on is what is destroying this great earth. Yes the meek have inherited the earth, they buy and sell it, with no regards who it effects. Now that our places in society have been unjustly set forth, we as humanity judging where each other belong and what other people must do does not solve anything: it just makes you feel better about yourself, while you pollute and destroy the earth our future generations must live in. Now you want to make ethonal and drive the prices of food up, so you can drive on black roads that heat the earth more. But spending more money on endangered species then true solutions to our great unequaility problems only snowballs our dilemas. Calling the poor lazy or stupid does no help, for the poor family farmers who work hard from sunup to sundown that go bankrupt daily are who feed you quality food only to be left in the dust and spat upon when they can no longer make a living. And what do you want to do, live in a fancy bubble, engineer your food, so you feel better about yourself. Give to charities to feel you made a difference, but how many people have you 'robbed from' to collect your masses of money. Understandably, their is no easy solutions to any of our dilimas, but degrading each other only leaves bitter feelings and hungry bellies. Welcome to the belly of the beast, that will chew you up and spit you out. Welcome to the society that we created Some of the poorest people have the richest souls: Jesus, Mosses, Ghandi, ect… And learned that helping each other is not only a necessity, but also a way to globally link what is truely needed in this society we must live in. All you fancy cars, clothes, houses, and so on is what is destroying this great earth. Yes the meek have inherited the earth, they buy and sell it, with no regards who it effects. Now that our places in society have been unjustly set forth, we as humanity judging where each other belong and what other people must do does not solve anything: it just makes you feel better about yourself, while you pollute and destroy the earth our future generations must live in. Now you want to make ethonal and drive the prices of food up, so you can drive on black roads that heat the earth more. But spending more money on endangered species then true solutions to our great unequaility problems only snowballs our dilemas. Calling the poor lazy or stupid does no help, for the poor family farmers who work hard from sunup to sundown that go bankrupt daily are who feed you quality food only to be left in the dust and spat upon when they can no longer make a living. And what do you want to do, live in a fancy bubble, engineer your food, so you feel better about yourself. Give to charities to feel you made a difference, but how many people have you ‘robbed from’ to collect your masses of money. Understandably, their is no easy solutions to any of our dilimas, but degrading each other only leaves bitter feelings and hungry bellies. Welcome to the belly of the beast, that will chew you up and spit you out. Welcome to the society that we created

]]> By: Kyso Kisaen http://punkassblog.com/2006/04/27/wanting-pleasure-living-poor-spending-anyway/comment-page-2/#comment-22873 Kyso Kisaen Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:56:03 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2006/04/27/wanting-pleasure-living-poor-spending-anyway/#comment-22873 Besides look at it. I'm not going to post there, having nothing to say about style and not really wanting to troll a site dedicated to vanity. If you want me to troll you, get yourself a blog. You can get a nice blogspot site for free ya know. Besides look at it. I’m not going to post there, having nothing to say about style and not really wanting to troll a site dedicated to vanity. If you want me to troll you, get yourself a blog. You can get a nice blogspot site for free ya know.

]]> By: Jeffrey http://punkassblog.com/2006/04/27/wanting-pleasure-living-poor-spending-anyway/comment-page-2/#comment-22858 Jeffrey Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:09:18 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2006/04/27/wanting-pleasure-living-poor-spending-anyway/#comment-22858 You folks have not done anything with the styleforum page. You folks have not done anything with the styleforum page.

]]> By: Kyso Kisaen http://punkassblog.com/2006/04/27/wanting-pleasure-living-poor-spending-anyway/comment-page-2/#comment-22815 Kyso Kisaen Thu, 28 Dec 2006 06:32:18 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2006/04/27/wanting-pleasure-living-poor-spending-anyway/#comment-22815 Jeffy, baby, don't make us start to make fun of you for real. It was a bad idea to give us that styleforum link and your user name. Quit while you're still relatively ahead. Jeffy, baby, don’t make us start to make fun of you for real. It was a bad idea to give us that styleforum link and your user name. Quit while you’re still relatively ahead.

]]> By: McBoing http://punkassblog.com/2006/04/27/wanting-pleasure-living-poor-spending-anyway/comment-page-2/#comment-22812 McBoing Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:59:56 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2006/04/27/wanting-pleasure-living-poor-spending-anyway/#comment-22812 <em>I get by just fine with my and my GF’s income and we would never take aid at a young age.</em> Two smugs are better than one. I get by just fine with my and my GF’s income and we would never take aid at a young age.

Two smugs are better than one.

]]> By: JackGoff http://punkassblog.com/2006/04/27/wanting-pleasure-living-poor-spending-anyway/comment-page-2/#comment-22781 JackGoff Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:12:06 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2006/04/27/wanting-pleasure-living-poor-spending-anyway/#comment-22781 <i>I hope you all had a very enjoyable Christmas.</i> And fuck the poor people who didn't, right? I hope you all had a very enjoyable Christmas.

And fuck the poor people who didn’t, right?

]]> By: junk science http://punkassblog.com/2006/04/27/wanting-pleasure-living-poor-spending-anyway/comment-page-2/#comment-22758 junk science Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:12:10 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2006/04/27/wanting-pleasure-living-poor-spending-anyway/#comment-22758 No doubt you did. No doubt you did.

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