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this is basically an 80s level of “middle class” adjusted for inflation and locale
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Feb 12, 2019 18:33
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uncurable mlady posted:this is basically an 80s level of “middle class” adjusted for inflation and locale "i'm not rich, everything just got rich around me!"
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Feb 12, 2019 18:34
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that is some henry poo poo
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Feb 12, 2019 19:25
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lancemantis posted:henry that's our secret word of the day now someone has to post the gif
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Feb 12, 2019 19:26
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haveblue posted:that's our secret word of the day 
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Feb 12, 2019 19:31
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honestly the only HENRY offense in there is the final line, "for the bay area we're middle-class". the middle of the bell curve out here sure loving isn't living in a 4-bedroom house and paying a nanny to take care of their kids. but they aren't really doing anything super absurd and out of touch. hiring the nanny, shopping at whole foods and going skiing over christmas are about it. what they mean is that they have the trappings of what most people still consider a middle-class existence, which in the bay area takes $400,000/a
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Feb 12, 2019 19:34
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well the other thing being that the US concept of middle class is incredibly broad, hence the entire concept of HENRY coming into being
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Feb 12, 2019 19:41
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Sagebrush posted:honestly the only HENRY offense in there is the final line, "for the bay area we're middle-class". the middle of the bell curve out here sure loving isn't living in a 4-bedroom house and paying a nanny to take care of their kids. but they aren't really doing anything super absurd and out of touch. hiring the nanny, shopping at whole foods and going skiing over christmas are about it.
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Feb 12, 2019 19:45
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today, mike brady would have gone bankrupt having to buy new iphones for eight people every year (alice would get whichever of the kids' old phones was the least broken)
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Feb 12, 2019 19:47
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Sagebrush posted:today, mike brady would have gone bankrupt having to buy new iphones for eight people every year and tiger would be a labradoodle
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Feb 12, 2019 19:49
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Sagebrush posted:honestly the only HENRY offense in there is the final line, "for the bay area we're middle-class". the middle of the bell curve out here sure loving isn't living in a 4-bedroom house and paying a nanny to take care of their kids. but they aren't really doing anything super absurd and out of touch. hiring the nanny, shopping at whole foods and going skiing over christmas are about it. their nanny is the only regular stiff in this picture
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Feb 12, 2019 19:52
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i think this thread has inherited the curse where new posts cannot be rendered edit: or maybe not? jfc
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Haunted thread
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i think this thread has inherited the curse where new posts cannot be rendered it can happen temporarily to any thread, some kinda a race condition with the cache
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i think this thread has inherited the curse where new posts cannot be rendered i wish your posts wouldn't get rendered
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Feb 12, 2019 20:01
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today i learned henry means high earners, not rich yet
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Feb 12, 2019 20:01
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graph posted:today i learned henry means high earners, not rich yet same
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Feb 12, 2019 20:19
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Sagebrush posted:today, mike brady would have gone bankrupt having to buy new iphones for eight people every year and then i started imagining some sort of double double indemnity scenario making up the seamy prehistory of the show hmm...
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Feb 12, 2019 20:23
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Sagebrush posted:hiring the nanny, shopping at whole foods and going skiing over christmas lmao no, every single one of these things is upper class
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Feb 12, 2019 20:50
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carry on then posted:lmao no, every single one of these things is upper class yeah middle class people call a nanny a "babysitter" otherwise... where do you live where skiing is some giant luxury?
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Feb 12, 2019 20:59
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hobbesmaster posted:yeah middle class people call a nanny a "babysitter" where do you live that skiing isn't a giant luxury? even an off-peak lift ticket on a piddly rear end mountain is $50-$100
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Feb 12, 2019 21:01
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and that's to say nothing of equipment rental, trasportation, housing, lessons...
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lancemantis posted:well the other thing being that the US concept of middle class is incredibly broad, hence the entire concept of HENRY coming into being even by mitt romney standards of middle class they're squarely outside of it though
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Feb 12, 2019 21:02
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Cross country skiing is a traditional and practical means of winter locomotion. Downhill skiing is a bourgeois pastime and gets the guillotine
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BMan posted:Cross country skiing is a traditional and practical means of winter locomotion. Downhill skiing is a bourgeois pastime and gets the guillotine what about tubing?
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Feb 12, 2019 21:05
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hobbesmaster posted:otherwise... where do you live where skiing is some giant luxury? presumably the large swaths of the country where it doesn't often snow and/or there are no mountains
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Feb 12, 2019 21:05
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:where do you live that skiing isn't a giant luxury? https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/licenses/skipass/index.html
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President Beep posted:what about tubing? only if you climb the hill without a lift
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Feb 12, 2019 21:06
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this is most assuredly not what the bay area HENRYs mean by "skiing"
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Feb 12, 2019 21:07
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yospos is so bougie and divorced from the lived reality of most americans it's disgusting
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well you asked where i lived where skiing wasn't some giant luxury and i answered the people riding bicycles this time of year probably spend more on that than the people using the same roads to ski
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carry on then posted:yospos is so bougie and divorced from the lived reality of most americans the subforum for computer touchers is filled with people who touch computers for vast sums and don't know how working stiffs live? my god someone tell the admins
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the one time i ever went skiing i tore my pants open from the crotch to the knee only 100ft down the mountain and had to slowly work my way down the rest as my pants became packed full of more and more snow. it was free lift ticket day so the place was super crowded too. hundreds of people kept whizzing by my exposed underwear as i repeatedly fell into snowbank after snowbank that's my shameful skiing story thanks for listening
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Feb 12, 2019 21:11
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you brought joy to dozens, and isn't that the real meaning of skiing?
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Shame Boy posted:hundreds of people kept whizzing by my exposed underwear better than whizzing on it!
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My parents taught me cross-country skiing from a young age and it's loving weird to me when people use "skiing" to refer to downhill skiing exclusively. I've never even been on a ski hill
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FMguru posted:some further thinking makes me wonder if carol and/or mike had life insurance payouts coming from their dead spouses that made it possible for them to live above their means criss-cross!
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Feb 12, 2019 21:14
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travel is especially bougie stay where you are
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hobbesmaster posted:yeah middle class people call a nanny a "babysitter" its kind of like a ball game or going to disney land. its affordable if you're not paying for 4 or 5 people to do it (ie you dont have kids).
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