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scaredyclassic
Participantmaking more over a one year period or over a 20 year period?
I know a SAHM, who, frankly, is pretty bad at it. she’s been out of the workforce for about 20 years and has become kind of unemployable, based on her mindset, expectations, and general lack of skills.
is the family richer now 20 years out? no. they’re a hell of a lot poorer. there might have been a few good years there for the kids, but IMO they wouldve been better off in day care.
she can get longterm alimony i suppose if they split, but the guy can work under the table, and probably will, and work a lot less, if its all going to her.
seems like the savings were primarily over the first few years, adn the return got smaller and smaller and then went negative.
the other problem of course is when the SAHM truly is not good at it. bad housekeeper, lame with money, not so great with kids, les and less necessary as they get older, spends a lot of money, etc…seems like not a partner. encourages divorce…in its own way…
ParticipantThey loved humanity and that made me love them
ParticipantThey were so cool
Participant[quote=CA renter][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=CA renter]Some of these posts of yours make me so sad, scaredy. Childhood is such a precious, wonderful time, IMO.
Keep hanging onto them! :)[/quote]
when they’re gone they’re gone. The kid is no more. I can’t remember when the other 2 disappeared but this might be the pinpt. Moment[/quote]
You trying to throw me into the darkness, scaredy?
Tell me your eldest is visiting more, please.
Mr. CAR and I have been talking about how sad we will be if they all move out. We so love having them around all the time.[/quote]
you can’t go home again.
no, he doesnt really come home…
Participant[quote=CA renter]Some of these posts of yours make me so sad, scaredy. Childhood is such a precious, wonderful time, IMO.
Keep hanging onto them! :)[/quote]
when they’re gone they’re gone. The kid is no more. I can’t remember when the other 2 disappeared but this might be the pinpt. Moment
ParticipantGiven the environmental degradation mining it might be a net loser for a country.
Participant[quote=zk][quote=scaredyclassic]
I see myself not so much as just another lawyer but more as a cultural treasure who singlehandedly increases ever so slightly property values simply by being here.[/quote]
(Big booming super-hero-announcer voice):
It’s SCAREDY MAN!!
He’s not just another lawyer.
He’s a CULTURAL TREASURE!
Single handedly raising your property values since 2010!!
(Legal disclaimer voice): 94th percentile only, no guarantees. Please, no loud noises, sudden moves, risky investments, questions about women, or other scary things. Void on halloween.[/quote]
94th percentile just sounds pathetic but not as pathetic as the fact that I remember the results of a test from 1991.
ParticipantAww. Zk. I feel good because of you. Intelligence like money isn’t everything it’s just well I wouldn’t mind having more of each.
But in reality I am pretty awesome. I have way more than enough of each to function well and I see myself not so much as just another lawyer but more as a cultural treasure who singlehandedly increases ever so slightly property values simply by being here.
Participant[quote=zk][quote=scaredyclassic]
Maybe it’s a Jewish thing. I wish my iq were higher. My 94th percentile LSAT score was basically in the borderline mentally retarded from a Jewish perspective.[/quote]That’s hilarious. I can see the older women discussing this.
Bewildered, as if they’d lost someone. “He seemed like such a little genius. I don’t know what happened. 94th percentile! Remember little David? He scored in the 96th percentile and we thought that was bad. Oy vey ist mir.”[/quote]
it really does suck if you’re only comparing yourself to the top 10%. Also and this is the really shameful thing…I studied really hard to get that sad bottom half of the class of the top 10 % score. Maybe if I’d just gotten over the flu or something. But I felt great..
not getting into Harvard with that kind of moronic result.
Although LSAT scores correlate strongly with law school success, life success and LSAT score and I would think IQ have little in common or to do with making it, as long as you have enough to work with..
Participant[quote=zk][quote=scaredyclassic]
wait. maybe we could just pay them in shrooms.[/quote]
I guess it would be against our country’s policy, but, hypothetically, what if we…
Took all the prisoners in the war on terror. Gave them shrooms and music and a gentle sharing of thoughts on the oneness of all mankind. Then did the same, but with more shrooms. And again and again, until they shrieked with ecstatic joy over their love for their fellow man. And then turned them loose back to mingle with the other terrorists.
As my friend from West Virginia likes to say, “that might could work!”
Not really, but it was fun to think about.[/quote]
why not do a test. Water board half the group. Put the other half on shrooms. Compare.
actual science says we should be giving our fuc ked up ptsd vets shrooms.
but hey were fighting a war on specific drugs we don’t like at the moment
Participant[quote=zk][quote=zk]In my opinion, you can be of high intellect and be simple at the same time. I’m pretty sure I’m both.[/quote]
Boy, that sounded way more like bragging than I wanted it to.
Maybe it would sound less so if my opinion of intelligence were known. Being of high intellect is, really, almost worthless by itself. It’s rarely what determines how far you get in life financially. It’s more likely to hinder than help socially. Chicks don’t necessarily dig it. What’s it good for? Inventing stuff, maybe. I don’t know. Not much.
Hard work will get you more than intelligence. Social skills will get you a hundred times more in life than intelligence.[/quote]
well I for one value you high intellectual horsepower for its own sake. Maybe it’s a Jewish thing. I wish my iq were higher. My 94th percentile LSAT score was basically in the borderline mentally retarded from a Jewish perspective.
ParticipantGenerally speaking it is scary to watch your dad cry.
It is not scary to watch your mom cry.
Participant[quote=CA renter][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=CA renter][quote=spdrun]How about counterfeit money coated in a slow acting contact poison? Or a potent hallucinogenic drug?[/quote]
My guess would be that they get rid of a lot of the money right away. Could be used for weapons, in which case the poison might be useful, but they might also be using the money to buy non-weapon goods and services in the open market. It wouldn’t be nice to poison the poor person who’s selling cucumbers and tomatoes at the market.[/quote]
wait. maybe we could just pay them in shrooms.[/quote]
That would be preferable. :)[/quote]
shrooms are said to help with PTSD. i bet a lot of terrorists have some form of PTSD.
Participant[quote=CA renter][quote=livinincali]I think recession in 2015 is pretty likely. Europe is probably already in recession but it hasn’t been confirmed yet, China is slowing down, and decoupling is a myth. I wouldn’t bet on the Fed resuming QE. Even if they did, the damage would already be done by the time they got around to it. The problem is that when this current asset price bubble pops there’s not going to be much to do to ignite another one.[/quote]
Agree with everything except the first sentence. I’ve long believed that if the Fed/govt were to manipulate the market when the economy fell apart (which they’ve done), that they could keep it limping along until around 2016-2017.
I think things will continue to gradually slow, with some bounces along the way, until 2016/2017. At that point, I think that the current bubble has the potential to collapse…and take everything else with it.
Stupid Fed couldn’t manage to learn from their asinine mistakes of the early part of the past decade when they kept rates too low for too long. Now, we will ALL pay the price, instead of the lenders, borrowers, speculators, and the assorted regulators/facilitators who caused the last crisis.[/quote]
as long as they keep pumping rogaine into my tap water, i think this hairline can go on indefinitely.
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