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Barudak
May 7, 2007

Thumbtacks posted:

this is amazing

Buddy, if he tells you there can only be one he is not being romantic, he is being very, very literal

Pick posted:

yeah me either. for shame barudak, there should be posting sumptuary laws to prevent such manipulative slummery.

Scholarships, mon frere.

Barudak fucked around with this message at 22:50 on May 16, 2017

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Thumbtacks
Apr 3, 2013
they're both men

im not gay so i dont know the gay secrets but is stonehenge like a secret gay charging station or something

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Well I mean if they both go there will be a quickening so yeah, its like the gayest you can get.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Thumbtacks posted:

this is amazing

go charge crystals with your boyfriend jeez

dudeness posted:

Me [27 M] with my girlfriend [21F] one year: She accused me of kink-shaming for finding furry art funny and is still mad, what do I do?


*takes wood pipe out of mouth and points it at you*: actually, let.,me tell youa bout how sex wiht many women is for feminism. I've receivd many compliments about this.

it's sort of reassuring to know that even these people find each other unbearable

I Was The Fury
Oct 19, 2012

Always stop to smell the flowers, just in case they're weeds

Thumbtacks posted:

this is amazing

Just loving take gamer goku to Stonehenge you weird guy

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

I Was The Fury posted:

Just loving take gamer goku to Stonehenge you weird lady

there is no lady

Thumbtacks
Apr 3, 2013
honestly how can you refuse that? i would take that guy to stonehenge right now if i was dating him, i just desperately want to see "powering up"

I Was The Fury
Oct 19, 2012

Always stop to smell the flowers, just in case they're weeds

Pick posted:

there is no lady

I have edited out my mistake. Please stop calling attention to my mistakes, you are shaming something about me and it hurts

Thumbtacks
Apr 3, 2013
im imagining this poor gamer boy watching his scottish boyfriend in a kilt stand directly in the middle of stonehenge, create a salt circle around him inscribed with celtic runes, and then goku screaming for 20 minutes until he passes out

Barudak
May 7, 2007

I say young man, go to stonehendge and rock that dragon.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Thumbtacks posted:

i'm wracking my brain trying to think of "outside-the-mainstream kinks" that build a sense of intimacy but is so weird that she refuses to elaborate but also doesn't think it's that big of a deal

it could be basically anything but considering she doesn't like people being around her all the time i really hope it's an adult baby thing because that just means she puts on a diaper and sits in her room and cries and refuses to let any partners get near her or talk to her because they'd smother her and she thinks that's what intimacy is

she wants to look at lots and lots of weird porn and not have actual icky gross sex with sweaty humans that have pores and non-canid dicks

you know, asexual

MF_James
May 8, 2008
I CANNOT HANDLE BEING CALLED OUT ON MY DUMBASS OPINIONS ABOUT ANTI-VIRUS AND SECURITY. I REALLY LIKE TO THINK THAT I KNOW THINGS HERE

INSTEAD I AM GOING TO WHINE ABOUT IT IN OTHER THREADS SO MY OPINION CAN FEEL VALIDATED IN AN ECHO CHAMBER I LIKE

Thumbtacks posted:

this is amazing

Uh she needs to go because clearly this dude is loving Goku and we need a savior.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

MF_James posted:

Uh she needs to go because clearly this dude is loving Goku and we need a savior.

god drat!!!!!!!

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Its just not cannon for Goku to date a dude, so were all thrown for a loop by these new changes Super introduced.

DACK FAYDEN
Feb 25, 2013

Bear Witness
This is almost certainly happening because the sweater is somehow pinching the back of the cat's neck! They get picked up by the scruff as kittens (their mother picks them up with her mouth and it's adorable) and the reflex to go rigid and not move sometimes persists into adulthood :eng101:

(emphasis on "sometimes" - vets handle all cats that way because sometimes it works and even if not you have a good grasp on them, and it's a common myth that it literally always works but it just makes some cats more anxious and who can blame them)

Thumbtacks
Apr 3, 2013
someone on reddit suggested he's planning on "charging his druid crystals" which doesnt seem to be a thing

I Was The Fury
Oct 19, 2012

Always stop to smell the flowers, just in case they're weeds

Now that I know it is a man preventing Goku from powering up at Stonehenge I have to agree with Pick. Men... are garbage

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

DACK FAYDEN posted:

This is almost certainly happening because the sweater is somehow pinching the back of the cat's neck! They get picked up by the scruff as kittens (their mother picks them up with her mouth and it's adorable) and the reflex to go rigid and not move sometimes persists into adulthood :eng101:

Some cats also certainly do this just as a function of being harnessed, including harnesses that aren't around the neck. I think it's adorable.

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender
Tale as old as time...

No no no, the other tale as old as time.

My BIL [27M] played a horrible prank on my husband [31M] who spent the night in jail

quote:

My husband, BIL, and I went to the beach this past weekend. We got a hotel room. My husband got way too drunk so I walked my husband to the hotel at 9:30PM. BIL is still at the bar.

At 10:30PM I texted my BIL that I am going home to sleep and I will pick them up in the morning. I went home and went to sleep around 1AM. I wake up at 4AM to 25 missed calls. 10 are from my BIL who has also left 2 voicemails just frothing at the mouth at what a "loving bitch" I am and how I ruined everything and how I'm dead to him now and to never contact him again.

15 calls are from the police. My husband has been arrested for public intoxication. He had an altercation with his brother in the hotel The arresting officer said that there were reports I had been kidnapped, raped, and murdered so he was checking to make sure I was alive I assured the officer that I was fine and safe at home. That morning I started the long & embarrassing process of bailing my husband out of jail.

I finally get to see/talk to my husband around noon and find out what happened:

1. My husband went to sleep around 11:30PM

2. Around 1AM, my BIL barges into the hotel room SCREAMING about how he had been robbed by a man with a gun

3. BIL also starts screaming to my husband that I had been kidnapped by the man with the gun and that I was getting raped and murdered, in fact I was probably already dead by then

4. My husband flips out. He looks for his phone. BIL holds him back and is still screaming about how I am kidnapped/raped/dead.

5. My husband punches BIL in the face and goes screaming through the halls "call the police". BIL leaves and drives the 4 hours back home, texting us vitriol along the way.

6. The police arrive and arrest my husband for public intoxication. My husband tells them he is terrified I have been kidnapped.

7. BIL drives home, calls me at least 10 times and leaves me 2 voicemails calling me a "loving bitch" who "ruined everything" and how I am "dead" to him. He also texts both my husband and I about he's going to murder us. I have 15 texts from him just going apeshit.

8. That afternoon BIL starts texting me asking if we are alive. I ignore them

9. BIL keeps calling me. I finally pick up and tell him that we are alive, I am not raped and murdered, and to stop calling me. He sounds guilty as hell on the phone.


The fallout from that night:

I was treated like garbage (I barely know BIL and have always tried to be polite to him) and spent several hours at the county jail worried about my husband which was not fun. My husband is really traumatized from his night in jail. He spent several hours (until the officers got in contact with me) thinking I was kidnapped or dead.

My BIL sent me a text saying "srry for the threats i got a little hot" and wants me to forgive him. He also maintains that:

a) he really was robbed at gunpoint

b) he "doesn't remember" saying that I was kidnapped/raped/murdered

I am just completely livid. I strongly suspect BIL knows he did a sadistic, unforgivable thing and he's lying about it! (Editor's note: No poo poo, Sherlock)

In one of his vitriolic texts around 5AM he talks about how he "apparently" lost his credit card and ran out of gas (and it was all my fault). No mention of his wallet getting stolen at gunpoint. The hotel room was on the 5th floor with one sloooow elevator. There is no way he would be so amped to burst into the hotel room hysterical and jump on a sleeping person and make something up about me being raped/murdered.

How was he was "too drunk" to not remember saying I was raped/murdered but perfectly able to make the 4 hour drive home? He is not filing a police report for being robbed at gunpoint because "it won't do any good.

" My husband is having a very hard time digesting what happened. My in-laws are accepting what my BIL is saying and want me to "forgive & forget" ASAP. I don't want that sociopath in my life.

I don't know what to do. My husband is having a very hard time processing what happened. He really, really wants to believe my BIL was actually robbed- I can tell it is really painful for my husband to really grasp what happened.

What should my next steps be? How can I support my husband through the painful realization that his brother is a sociopath? Am I overreacting to refuse to be anywhere near that creep? How should I handle my in-laws who want me to just suck it up and take it?

tl;dr: My BIL lied and told my husband that I was kidnapped and raped and murdered. Husband was arrested as a result of his lies. BIL is still not taking any responsibility for what he did. I want to scorch the earth and salt it so nothing grows again. Husband struggling.

GRINDCORE MEGGIDO
Feb 28, 1985


DACK FAYDEN posted:

This is almost certainly happening because the sweater is somehow pinching the back of the cat's neck! They get picked up by the scruff as kittens (their mother picks them up with her mouth and it's adorable) and the reflex to go rigid and not move sometimes persists into adulthood :eng101:

(emphasis on "sometimes" - vets handle all cats that way because sometimes it works and even if not you have a good grasp on them, and it's a common myth that it literally always works but it just makes some cats more anxious and who can blame them)

My cat has a harness which is handy for vet visits, because she is violently xenophobic towards any other cats and will try to murder them.

She can stand and walk around perfectly fine but occasionally just falls over and won't get up. It doesn't touch her neck.

Batterypowered7
Aug 8, 2009

The mist that chills you keeps me warm.

Haifisch posted:

Tale as old as time...

No no no, the other tale as old as time.

My BIL [27M] played a horrible prank on my husband [31M] who spent the night in jail

Posted and discussed within the last 10/15 pages.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
I think a lot of what he mentioned is going on. Also, girls tend to grow up a bit faster than boys, and middle/high schools are relatively small "ponds". So, teenage girls, becoming interested in boys before the boys themselves are interested, kind of are placed a bit in the role of "aggressor". I remember as an 8th grader being stopped in the hallway by a few girls who stood in my way and demanded that I hug them because I was "so cute". But that means that girls also become, on average, jaded and discerning earlier, so by the time both sexes are adults, the excitement and naivete has unfortunately disappeared for more girls than guys (at least it seems that way).

It also depends on which men you are talking about. I know I don't speak for all aspies, but I am socially considerably "younger" than my actual years, and the gap grows wider every year. I was late even for a guy getting interested in girls, plus I had other issues going on, so I didn't take part in the high school boy/girlfriend "game". Now even in my early 30s I don't feel like an adult yet in terms of what I want from a relationship.

Both sexes, it seems, get less friendly as they grow up and get more serious--plus they seem to have a lower and lower tolerance for any perceived immaturity. They seem to lose the desire to just get to know random people, and only want to get to know people who will help them get ahead in some way (I know this is a generalization). You'd think in some ways this could help aspies, since we tend to know earlier on what our real interests are and don't get involved in a lot of the immature teenage social posturing. But for someone like myself who expects the romanticized view of relationships and openness of a teenager, because that's where I'm at, the adult social scene often seems very rejecting, even when people really want to be nice. Of course, this feeling of rejection only makes the gap widen.

This is exactly why I strongly prefer (read: almost require) that girls I date ARE just starting out in the dating world/are just discovering boys. It's not because of some religious purity notions, not because of a "whore-madonna dichotomy", or whatever else people might think the reason is. It's exactly because I want to learn WITH someone, not FROM someone (about romance and sex, that is).

With a girl for whom it's "not her first rodeo", as you put it, even if she were to seem head over heels into me, there's this sense of missed opportunity, this sense that whatever I learn from her about what relationships are about, I'm not getting the same opportunity to explore that I'd get with another person who is just starting out in the world of getting to know the opposite sex.

Granted, there also has to be attraction there. I have been sexually involved with two girls who I thought were very unattractive, primarily because they were at this same place. Neither had kissed a guy before, they both wondered what having a boyfriend was like. However, not feeling attraction toward them, they didn't end up helping me develop and answer what I wanted answered, namely how do I relate to a girl with whom I actually have romantic feelings. That's what sometimes feels hopeless--to find a girl out there who's attractive to me, yet who hasn't previously found mutual attraction with enough other guys to pass through this developmental process. I feel like if I were still in high school, I'd have a much better chance at that.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
Date a religious woman? That likely wouldn't work for several reasons. First, I don't believe in any form of religion, and I feel that their religious views would creep into their value system in other ways too that are incompatible with mine. This has been my experience with religious guys, like it's hard to debate certain things with them because these moral opinions come from "just so stories" rather than from anything I can actually understand.

Secondly, many religious people, even if virgins, have relationships that are emotionally as intimate as sexual relationships, and even might be considered dating. Not all, but enough that many of them still, I feel, "grew up" interpersonally and romantically-speaking. That's why you hear of virgins marrying the first person with whom they have a relationship.

Thirdly, I feel that there are other ways in which I am out of sync with most adults (including adult women) than just having not dated. Like, adults tend to be significantly less "hyper" than kids and teens--there's a difference in the general "energy" one gets from them. I feel like around adults I get restless because they expect a cool calmness that just isn't me. I've actually thought of dating ADHD girls for this reason.There's also the fading of imagination--adults seem less able or willing to live in a world of vivid fantasy, which is one of the main things I want a girlfriend for. It's like when people are kids and have the imagination they tend not to have the intellectual sophistication to make anything out of it, whereas as adults they have the knowledge but less capacity to be original (aside from some artists, that is).

The women I've been attracted to since high school were anywhere from 19-mid 20s in age, but still had these traits, and that was a big part of what made them attractive. So I really think that an "outsider artist" type of girl is my best bet. Something along the lines of a female Henry Darger ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger ), but maybe not quite as reclusive, who combines innocence and a kind of naively optimistic worldview about relationships and everything with sophisticated thinking. It's obviously hard to find, and in fact the last girl I tried to date was low-functioning to the point where it's possible she would have been mentally incompatible (turns out she didn't like me back anyway).

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender

Batterypowered7 posted:

Posted and discussed within the last 10/15 pages.
I read enough of the past few pages I figured it wasn't posted, but apparently not that far back. :downs:

Non-repost content:
Don't stare into the abyss too long, or you might realize the people you know are sex weirds.

Found out my [30F] colleague [31 M] is into BDSM and now our working relationship is strained.

quote:

One of my colleagues, who's also a friend, is apparently into being dominant in BDSM. He left his Facebook open while we were working together on a project on his computer, and a graphic FB message popped up. I only saw some of it, but it was enough.

We are friends and hang out socially, too, and I've met some women he's dated, which surprised me by the post. It was from a woman who was recounting a group thing with him, her, and a 2nd woman who they both dominated. It was about humiliation, peeing on a woman, making her sleep on the floor, and making her go home naked without her clothes.

I'm a progressive sex-positive person, but that kind of freaked me out. I didn't know he's into any of that. I told him, I'll keep it to myself, and suggested he create a separate FB for that or make sure to always log out (because he has that one linked to our work page, too, so it has legit work uses and there's a reason to be logged in while at work). He was worried I'd tell people about his "inappropriate" activities, so I specifically told him "look, I don't find it inappropriate in general, but I'm not judging, what you want to do with consenting adults is fine, but yes its inappropriate for work".

But I DO kind of think its inappropriate, or at least confusing. Its left our relationship somewhat awkward. I feel like, if I have to give him direction at work, is he secretly wanting to pee on me?

I don't get the humiliation thing. How could you send someone home naked? Don't you have concern if they get stopped, or get a flat tire, or what the neighbors will think?

tl;dr: How can I get past accidentally seeing a colleague's BDSM post when it kind of freaks me out (even though I don't want to judge)?

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Pick posted:

Date a religious woman? That likely wouldn't work for several reasons. First, I don't believe in any form of religion, and I feel that their religious views would creep into their value system in other ways too that are incompatible with mine. This has been my experience with religious guys, like it's hard to debate certain things with them because these moral opinions come from "just so stories" rather than from anything I can actually understand.

Secondly, many religious people, even if virgins, have relationships that are emotionally as intimate as sexual relationships, and even might be considered dating. Not all, but enough that many of them still, I feel, "grew up" interpersonally and romantically-speaking. That's why you hear of virgins marrying the first person with whom they have a relationship.

Thirdly, I feel that there are other ways in which I am out of sync with most adults (including adult women) than just having not dated. Like, adults tend to be significantly less "hyper" than kids and teens--there's a difference in the general "energy" one gets from them. I feel like around adults I get restless because they expect a cool calmness that just isn't me. I've actually thought of dating ADHD girls for this reason.There's also the fading of imagination--adults seem less able or willing to live in a world of vivid fantasy, which is one of the main things I want a girlfriend for. It's like when people are kids and have the imagination they tend not to have the intellectual sophistication to make anything out of it, whereas as adults they have the knowledge but less capacity to be original (aside from some artists, that is).

The women I've been attracted to since high school were anywhere from 19-mid 20s in age, but still had these traits, and that was a big part of what made them attractive. So I really think that an "outsider artist" type of girl is my best bet. Something along the lines of a female Henry Darger ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger ), but maybe not quite as reclusive, who combines innocence and a kind of naively optimistic worldview about relationships and everything with sophisticated thinking. It's obviously hard to find, and in fact the last girl I tried to date was low-functioning to the point where it's possible she would have been mentally incompatible (turns out she didn't like me back anyway).

lmao no loving way

Gloryhold It!
Sep 22, 2008

Fucking
Adorable

Thumbtacks posted:

someone on reddit suggested he's planning on "charging his druid crystals" which doesnt seem to be a thing

You do know about the JO crystal thing, right?

Thumbtacks
Apr 3, 2013

Gloryhold It! posted:

You do know about the JO crystal thing, right?

sadly yes i'm well aware but let's pretend i'm not because i haven't read that in a long time and it always makes me laugh, someone link it

im just not sure if that was a reference to JO crystals or if that person thought "druid crystals" were a thing

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender
Wife [28F] doesn't want me [30M] to play DOOM around our [5M] son

quote:

Hi there,

I have gotten the new DOOM game recently and have been playing through it. I have gamed for most of my adult life and sometimes my wife's son (from a previous relationship, I'll call him Billy) will walk in on me playing. He likes the fast-paced nature of most of the games I play (mostly racing stuff) but he can't work the controllers yet.

Anyways, when I got the new DOOM my wife forbid me from playing it around Billy because it was too violent/scary. Billy doesn't see it as scary though (nor will he grow up to be an axe murderer because of this game) so I resent that I can't spend this time with Billy while we game. Also there's not much time during which I can game without Billy looking over my shoulder due to my weird work schedule. I don't see why I have to cut him out and get up at weird hours of the night to play this thing I spent my personal money on.

At this point it has become a big point of contention. She says I just need to suck it up and compromise for the sake of compromise but I don't see any point in kowtowing to her since I think she's in the wrong here.

How can we resolve this?

tl;dr: Wife doesn't like me playing DOOM around the son. I don't see much point in compromising but she is insistent. What should we do?
This was somehow an incredibly controversal post spawning 172 comments.

Haifisch fucked around with this message at 23:31 on May 16, 2017

dudeness
Mar 5, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
Fallen Rib
I'm sure there's plenty of female Henry Dargers in prison.

What is it with dudes wanting to date naive optimists instead of pessimistic cynics? They're gonna end up there anyway, might as well get em pre-jaded.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

the cat hair one's been done already but here's OP, on the "gift" of a picture of the roommate's cat

quote:

She even asked me to put it in my office, and asked my colleague (mutual friend) to check I put it up.

dudeness posted:

I'm sure there's plenty of female Henry Dargers in prison.

What is it with dudes wanting to date naive optimists instead of pessimistic cynics? They're gonna end up there anyway, might as well get em pre-jaded.

as SA can pretty handily demonstrate, pessimistic cynics are really draining and unbearable to be around

A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 23:37 on May 16, 2017

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender

dudeness posted:

What is it with dudes wanting to date naive optimists instead of pessimistic cynics? They're gonna end up there anyway, might as well get em pre-jaded.
Movies tell them they should date naive optimists so they can get their very own Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

Thumbtacks
Apr 3, 2013
dating a mpdg seems incredibly exhausting tbh

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Haifisch posted:

I read enough of the past few pages I figured it wasn't posted, but apparently not that far back. :downs:

Non-repost content:
Don't stare into the abyss too long, or you might realize the people you know are sex weirds.

Found out my [30F] colleague [31 M] is into BDSM and now our working relationship is strained.

I like this one because this person is so naively logical theyre struggling to understand how a person wouldnt be worried about having a flat tire if they drive home naked. Its like a toddler trying to figure out why people have jobs.

Irony.or.Death
Apr 1, 2009


dudeness posted:

What is it with dudes wanting to date naive optimists instead of pessimistic cynics? They're gonna end up there anyway, might as well get em pre-jaded.

what is even the point of dating if you don't get to personally destroy their faith in humanity?

GRINDCORE MEGGIDO
Feb 28, 1985


Haifisch posted:

Wife [28F] doesn't want me [30M] to play DOOM around our [5M] son

This was somehow an incredibly controversal post spawning 172 comments.

:sever: play Doom.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Haifisch posted:

Wife [28F] doesn't want me [30M] to play DOOM around our [5M] son

This was somehow an incredibly controversal post spawning 172 comments.

Billy, you may not remember everything I tell you, so if you take anything away from our time together I want you to remember to Rip and Tear.

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all

maskenfreiheit posted:

In all seriousness, FAFSA assumes parental support. If your parents won't contribute AND declare you on your taxes, it can be a really hard process to get emancipated or whatever the legal process of declaring "my parents are assholes" is.

FAFSA uses your parents' income until you are 26 years of age, unless that has changed. So if you do the "American bootstraps," ritual of getting thrown out of your house at 18 and you need financial aid, you're either looking for Federal or private loans, working for 8 years and then going to school, doing a four year stint in the military so the GI Bill will pay for school, taking twice as long to get your degree while you work full-time and do school half-time, or getting all of the scholarships. I'm sure there's plenty of other options, too. College is a giant trap of a money pit these days for most people who attend college anyway, so it'd be best if getting loans were harder.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

dudeness posted:

I'm sure there's plenty of female Henry Dargers in prison.

What is it with dudes wanting to date naive optimists instead of pessimistic cynics? They're gonna end up there anyway, might as well get em pre-jaded.

they want to date children because they are pedos and because mentally they are still in highschool

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all

GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:

I had a poo poo load of debt, zero support, and managed to fund everything without blowing the elderly. 

You would have had a much easier time if you had.

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MF_James
May 8, 2008
I CANNOT HANDLE BEING CALLED OUT ON MY DUMBASS OPINIONS ABOUT ANTI-VIRUS AND SECURITY. I REALLY LIKE TO THINK THAT I KNOW THINGS HERE

INSTEAD I AM GOING TO WHINE ABOUT IT IN OTHER THREADS SO MY OPINION CAN FEEL VALIDATED IN AN ECHO CHAMBER I LIKE

Pvt.Scott posted:

FAFSA uses your parents' income until you are 26 years of age, unless that has changed. So if you do the "American bootstraps," ritual of getting thrown out of your house at 18 and you need financial aid, you're either looking for Federal or private loans, working for 8 years and then going to school, doing a four year stint in the military so the GI Bill will pay for school, taking twice as long to get your degree while you work full-time and do school half-time, or getting all of the scholarships. I'm sure there's plenty of other options, too. College is a giant trap of a money pit these days for most people who attend college anyway, so it'd be best if getting loans were harder.

The age for FAFSA independence is 24 actually (unless it has changed, which it might have)

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