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Dear NY Times, Here's Why I Haven't 'Grown Up.' Love, a 20-Something {Lemondrop}
Aug 20th 2010 4:44AM Oh cry me a river. You don't have it any harder than we did at your age. I got out of school with massive school loans and nothing to show for it too. Know what I did? I got a JOB (in a depressed market with HUGE unemployment levels) and paid them back.
I also raised, and provided for, a child, bought a house, several cars (over the years) paid my own bills, and otherwise took care of business.
And you know what? The first couple of jobs didn't pay well, one wasn't even in my field, and I had to start at the bottom, behind others with more experience and seniority and pay my dues. It's called life.
Dear NY Times, Here's Why I Haven't 'Grown Up.' Love, a 20-Something {Lemondrop}
Aug 20th 2010 4:39AM Oh do knock it off.
One of my earliest memories as a small child was watching war footage (Vietnam) and I watched live as it happened the people being rescued from the roof of the American embassy in Saigon. I grew up in the shadow of the cold war well aware of the fact that the area we lived in was one of the first places the Soviets (look it up, they are called "Russians" now) would send and ICBM.
I heard first hand accounts from people who had survived Nazi Germany (both just ordinary German citizens and concentration camp survivors).
This has nothing to do with gender nor are we "citizens of the world." We are citizens of wherever it is we live. I understand global concern, I even endorse it, and I have lived in several countries other than this one, but you kids need to be concerned with America first, then worry about the world.
I remember being 20-ish and being very existential. Philosophy has its place, but in the real world, it is ONLY philosophy, not real life.
The majority of the Baby boomers who were born in the 0's and 50's were raised by parents who had lived through the depression and as a consequence overindulged them, those children in turn were way overprotective of their children, a vast majority of which are the 20-somethings of today.
I was born in the last year of the "baby boom" and neither identify with, ,no really consider myself to one of them, they were mostly of my parent's generation and a bit (within 10 years or so) younger. I was not spoiled or indulged (though my parents both were, they were both also only children, resulting in even more parental indulgence), and I made a point of not raising my (would be 23 year old) son to be like all of the spoiled 20-somethings of today.
Life is hard. Get used to it. Grow up, take responsibility and give your parents their well earned rest from being responsible for the welfare of their "children" 24/7/365.
Dear NY Times, Here's Why I Haven't 'Grown Up.' Love, a 20-Something {Lemondrop}
Aug 20th 2010 4:19AM oh my god, GROW THE HELL UP already. The writer is twenty SEVEN? That's not a kid or a young 20-something, that's someone pushing 30!
I loved having my 22 year old son at home (he passed away this past May) BUT he helped with things around the house, did millions of errands for me, worked, gave me money to help with the bills, grocery shopped, AND went to school.
He had only just figured out his career goals shortly before he died (about 6t months prior) and was focused and working towards that goal. I would have been happy for him to be at home all the way through school as I would do anything to support his educational goals so that he would have been able to achieve a decent life, BUT I would not have sat still for a bad attitude or being treated like a maid or an ATM.
So if I understand this right, the author has already graduated from school, worked, and had her own apartment. For no reason other than to save money to pursue her "dream" she moved back in with Mommy and Daddy?
Gee, whenever *I* want/need to save money I have to make a point of putting it in the bank every week, going without whatever it would have paid for (say cable tv, going out to eat, movies, etc.), and waiting until I have enough to do whatever it is I was saving for. Like a GROWN UP.
I also have to pay my bills (all of them), buy my food, clothes, transportation, insurance, medical bills, etc., while I'm doing it. I've been doing that since I was 16 years old (on my own, NOT living at "home).
*I* am an adult, the author of the article is NOT. She is a whiny, entitled, baby who is taking advantage of her parents who are enabling her to continue to live like a 15 year old and not insisting, for here own good, that she be personally responsible. Mom and Dad aren't always going to be there then what will she do?
She wants to be a WRITER? You can WRITE anywhere. You don't even need your own internet connection. Write something, go to Starbucks or somewhere else that has free wi-fi and then send it to whoever you want to send it to. It's not rocket science.
In the meantime, get a job, move out on your own, take care of stuff like a grown up and pursue your "dream" on your own dime; even if you don't achieve it right away.
What makes you think that "oh I'm going to live at "home" for a year, save money, move to LA, and THEN I will be a writer because someone is bound to realize (immediately) how valuable I am. I will never have to struggle after I save this money and move to LA?" WTH? GROW THE HELL UP!!!
Nicaragua's Abortion Ban Is Inhumane and Backward {Politics Daily}
Feb 24th 2010 11:28PM Get your noses out of the personal medical and spiritual lives of others. Women, men whatever. It's not your business!
Conservative Christians Don't Crown 'Princess and the Frog' {Politics Daily}
Dec 18th 2009 9:35PM There is no god/demons/devil or good vs evil supernatural forces. So what if it offends Christians, or Jews, or Muslims, or anyone else? Voodoo is a religion and it is centers around those things which are portrayed in the movie. You don't like a religion other than your own? Tough tomatos. This is AMERICA!
Chuck Schumer: Defender of Women's Rights, Insulter of Actual Woman {Politics Daily}
Dec 17th 2009 10:04PM Senators are seated in the senate. Representatives are seated in the house (of representatives). When the senate and the house come together it is called CONGRESS. So, to say that a senator is not a member of congress is incorrect. Representatives are commonly called "Congressman Such and Such" but they are more rightly referred to as "Representative Such and Such." Both representatives and Senators are congressmen.
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>>Kim
8:25AM Dec 17th 2009
Did you graduate from high-school? How about middle school?
Congressmen sit in the Congress.
Senators, sit in the senate.
No wonder this country is the way it is...Smarten Up America.
The Fort Hood Killings: Murder in the Name of Islam {Politics Daily}
Nov 10th 2009 2:07AM And if you are going to post comments on an English based forum, you should learn the language, spelling, and grammar better.
I am married to a Muslim. I have learned a few things. Their WHOLE identity is about their religion. EVERYTHING, and I mean EVERYTHING in their lives is secondary.
If you are a Muslim, they don't care about race, skin color, nationality, or anything else, you are one of them; you are the same as far as they are concerned.
If you are not a Muslim, you are "other" and you are a non-believer who will be going to hell. There is NO grey area. You either are or you aren't.
Restaurant Calls Toddler F-Word on Check {Slashfood}
Sep 11th 2009 6:08PM I have a child. he is actually a grown man now, but that's not the point. His father and I took him out to restaurnats a LOT. He DID NOT make noise or run around or annoy other patrons. He didn't do those things because we TAUGHT HIM NOT TO do them.
WE didn't like annoying little kids so we MADE SURE our child wasn't one.
You have a right to go out to eat with your family ONLY if you can control your spawn. You do NOT have a right to subject everyone else to your ill-mannered, untrained, and obnoxious little fu***** because of your total LACK of parenting ability or your presumption that the restaurant staff and other patrons are de facto babysitters.
Small and/or ill-behaved children should be allowed to eat only at home or some place where they have a ball pit and not with normal human beings.
Until you can teach them how to be civilized, keep them away from the rest of civilization.
McDonald's Can't Stop McCurry from Using 'Mc' {Slashfood}
Sep 8th 2009 5:41PM I'm glad Mc Donalds got put in their place as far as the fact that they don't own the preface "Mc."
That being said, "Mc" is not part of the Malaysian language and so it makes no sense to us it on a Malaysian product/company name except for the fact that it is recognizable BECAUSE of the fact that Mc Donald's uses the "Mc" preface. Also these people used the same font Mc Donalds uses.
Mc Donalds doesn't own the rights to "Mc," but these people were blatantly and obviously riding on the Mc Donalds success train by naming their restaurant something so similar.
The Whole world recognizes "Mc" as being Mc Donalds. Gimme a break.
Schwarzenegger For President? {Politics Daily}
Dec 22nd 2008 10:00PM nonononono! he is NOT NATIVE born! we can NOT amend the constitution EVER to allow NON NATIVE BORN citizens to become president. it is one of the MOST IMPORTANT parts of the constitution. anyone not born in the US will ALWAYS have divided loyalties...always.
