sudo rm -rf posted:

the last thread didn't even make it to the new american century

sad!

sudo rm -rf posted:

i've literally never played a single round of golf in my entire life

Who What Now posted:

Nothing says "whites with too much time and money on their hands" like golf.

WoodrowSkillson posted:

lots of other people play golf too

Luigi Thirty posted:

http://elitedaily.com/life/savings-20s-something-wrong/1214445/

I don’t have any savings, but I also don’t have any wants.

I don’t know about you, but I like to enjoy my life. I like to go out to eat, buy clothes I don’t “need” and spend money with friends on memorable nights out.

This goes back to a piece of advice a very successful friend gave me: “Don’t save money. Make more money,” he nonchalantly stated, pushing me into a taxi.

Unlike most things people tell me, this advice did not go in one ear and out the other; it stayed with me and changed the way I look at everything from my career to my savings.

Before this piece of advice, I was frantic. I was always doubting and always feeling guilty. I lived in the most exciting city in the world (also the most expensive) and had yet to experience it.

I was trying to save, which meant trying not to eat. I wasn’t going out with friends, had yet to go to a club and had never seen the inside of a taxi.

I couldn’t enjoy my life because I was too busy worrying about my bank statement. I was too busy watching my savings instead of savoring my youth.

Why did I feel so guilty about spending money on myself and my life?

When did our 20s start to feel like our 40s? When did we get weighed down with the same pressure and stresses as a woman with four kids and a second mortgage?

We don’t have kids. We’ll be renting for the foreseeable future, and we have no problem eating McDonald’s when we’re skint.

I’ve recently figured it out: This pressure, this third-party stress, is ingrained within us. It’s this looming doom our parents carved into our unconscious, only to come out anytime we make an impulse purchase or have to spend the night without Netflix.

But like most things our parents have ingrained in us, we must consciously work to push it out. Because while they may have the best intentions, they don’t always have the best insight.

They want us to save because it provides us with a safety net, but that’s exactly why we shouldn’t. Their need for us to have a safety net is just a giant metaphor for the difference between our parent’s generation and ours.

They were getting married at 20 while we’re just getting our first apartments. They were saving for kids while we still want to be kids. We’re on different schedules, different paths and totally different savings plans.

We’re taking our time growing up, refusing to be shackled by mortgages and diapers. We’re not trying to live with safety nets; we’re trying to live on the edge.

the_paradigm_shift posted:

think about how we have 8 more months of the media trying to tiptoe around the rest of the people of his campaign so that they don't accidentally record a cross burning

Ghost of Reagan Past posted:

what happened now

zoux posted:

Sinnlos posted:

Polo

Sinnlos posted:

At Polo Clubs, there are several in the Chicago suburbs.

WoodrowSkillson posted:

golf has at least some cross cultural appeal. i know non-white people who are very into playing the game, and there are golf courses in very not white parts of the country that do just fine. A used set of clubs is not really all that expensive, and a round at a more economical course is like 15-20 bucks, which is doable for a lot of people. not much different then a movie and food.

watching golf is basically the whitest thing since sliced bread.

WoodrowSkillson posted:

it still p much is, but nothing like polo

Literally The Worst posted:

He did have red laces in his boots and a "commonwealth of American natives" patch on his best and a shaved head tho

So

Smart money is definitely on "actually a racist piece of poo poo"

Aeryk posted:

this is amazing, the whole office is in disarray. half of everybody here isn't sure who they report to anymore. I should go home, I doubt any one would even notice

Rollofthedice posted:

One time KKK bought a hamster, but was confused as to why anyone would want one, because whenever he would get near its cage it would start screaming

paranoid randroid posted:

Chief Aeryk Whiteshirt of Accounts Receivable

kustomkarkommando posted:

I'm 80% sure I'm not haunted guys

paranoid randroid posted:

so uh i got some claims to work for this company called "SOL Healthcare"

and im just thinkin, man that is like the worst name for a place to have

site posted:

Bernie will for sure make a comeback if only he gets the ladies to not quite show their boobies in exchange for money.

zoux posted:

A man who has truly gone his own way.

Tortoiseburger posted:

Beetroot is an Irish flavor. Also rabbit.

site posted:

But I've been told over and over from people With Opinions that the Republican party hates Ted Cruz and want nothing to do with him.

Aeryk posted:

2016 is shaping up to be one of the strangest years of my adult life

fade5 posted:

wow holy poo poo, this did more damage to Rubio than I expected

he was running to puff up his credentials and instead it backfired hard enough to get him hosed almost entirely out of politics

I approve

Berke Negri posted:

any state that goes for trump is mega hosed up

site posted:

At this point I think going to vote for Bernie in our primary 10 days from now will just be a waste of my time.

Zoux posted a what if for the general this morning that featured Alaska going blue which was pretty lol. I'll still vote for Hillary though, gently caress it.

Literally The Worst posted:

Batman and Robin is secretly amazing

Volkerball posted:

lol

if you're watching donald trump winning the republican nomination and saying to yourself "this is the best possible form of government on earth" you're not very woke.

Volkerball posted:

education helps but educated people can be idiots too.

Exclamation Marx posted:

i will not be voting for

Volkerball posted:

yeah i wouldn't argue that. but there's college educated black trump supporters out there so it's not a silver bullet.

Berke Negri posted:

I love that the GOP is having talks about abandoning their own party for a third party run now

fade5 posted:

It's weird how DC can't seem to make a really good, popular movie for crap, and then Marvel can make even "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Ant Man" huge hits

Literally The Worst posted:

Incorrect

Volkerball posted:

https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/710547454182219776

my goodness

NPR posted:

"Hmm could this Hitler be an ok guy after all?"

Randler posted:

He regulated banks, y'know.