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Vietnamwees
May 8, 2008

by Fluffdaddy
Good grief, how many serious/joke posts are there going to be about the OP being a lazy slob? And almost everyone seems to view collecting comics as some kind of of extremely nerdy and unacceptable hobby.

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Vietnamwees
May 8, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

Leopold N. Loeb posted:

Not at all, tell the next chick you meet at a bar about your comic collection, it's a sure-fire way to get women all up on that goonwiener.

So women can't have genuine, or at least passing, interest in comic books? I'll remember that next time I'm talking to a woman and instead I'll explain why women aren't good drivers.

Why would you even bring this up, anyway? Should every man's hobbies and interest revolve around trying to pick up women, and ONLY trying to pick up women?

Horrible Smutbeast posted:


OP the problem is you and your brother are being selfish and trying to treat your parents like they're landlords when really you're grown rear end children still living at home. You have never moved out and been on your own, then got invited back to live with them when things got too tough. You never got laid off or divorced and just needed a place to stay until you got back on your feet. You've never left so there's no reason why they'd treat you like adults.

You're still children and your parents are sick of it. How much time do you spend a week cooking and cleaning for your parents because they're not charging you rent? How many times have your parents asked to respect their basic rules while you live there (don't look at porn/naughty stuff) and you ignored them? Not only that, but they're going through financial troubles and the two of you are still attached to their teats and spending their money. Seriously, you keep saying your brother and you are trying oh so hard to get jobs and move out but your brother is racking up credit card debt under their name?

Your parents might be abusive. They might be sick and tired of your poo poo and at the breaking point. Nobody will know until you get the hell out on your own. Why don't you pack up your collections of comic books and childish nerd poo poo, put them in a paid storage locker until you can move out and start taking actual steps to leaving. If you want the internet so badly tell your mom to put it in your name and you'll take care of it. Hell, cancel the internet and get one of those usb wireless sticks or walk down to the mcdonalds and use their internet. You want cable tv? Pay for it. If you want to be treated like an adult you need to start acting like one, and using what little money you have to buy comic books every month while your mother supports you all while trying to go to school is not it. Sure, you can say it's only $X a month but at the end of the day your mother is still seeing you come home with nerd poo poo while she's busting her rear end for you.

I honestly can't tell if this is a serious post or not.

Vietnamwees fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Jan 31, 2013

Vietnamwees
May 8, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

Leopold N. Loeb posted:

I think it's odd that you find misogyny in my post, but can't see it in the OP's demand that his mother continue to care for him into his adulthood, and do so without complaint. Or with his viewing porn(which objectifies women). I say this as a man raised by a single mother, who started willingly paying rent to her at 17 because my father never paid a dime of child support.

Good grief, are you just selectively reading what the OP writes or what?

-The OP is working at some kind of political internship that, while unpaid, will help him with other work opportunities in the future. While this probably isn't optimal since there's no payment, he's not at home playing video games and all day.

-The OP does what he can by dipping into his savings to help pay for groceries and whatever around the house. It's not like he's not contributing anything to the household. In fact, the OP is going to stop buying comics now and put that money toward household groceries.

-Do you honestly believe that every person that watches is a misogynist? I don't even understand why you brought this up, the OP just mentioned it as a past example of how his mom flipped her poo poo about inappropriate media in the house, and you paint it as if the OP is some sex-obsessed, porn-watching godless heathen. Your reaction to it is almost what I would expect from the OPs mother herself.


What I bolded just makes you seem like you're bitter because you didn't have it as easy/didn't have as much help from your own parents.

OP, its probably a good call that you're gonna stop getting comics to try to help your mom more, but as for the ones you already have, just find a safe way to store them, a lockbox, a friends house, under the floorboards in your room, whatever.

As for moving out/money, just keep trying, the economy's rough on everyone right now. Get a LOT more proactive with your internship, try to stand out with your boss, get some letters of recommendation ready, whatever it takes.

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