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November 4th, 2006

Work For A Living? Us?

I’m stealing this from Steve Gilliard, because I want to make sure you read it.  But then he reposted from Wonkette.  Late Night Shots is a young republican social networking website. Next time you hear some republican halfwit on Captial Hill bellyaching about welfare moms and raising the minimum wage, remember this…

As we’re sure you know by now, Late Night Shots is a closed social networking site for DC’s best and whitest. We turbos have a lot to learn from them. Their message board is home to some of the best entertainment on all the internets — but because of the closed nature of the site, not everyone can join in the fun. Thankfully, Intern Lauren is a card-carrying LNS member, and she’s gathered excerpts from some of last week’s best posts on the LNS forum. See what the fuss is about, after the jump.

My boyfriend’s dad
Posted By: HHHS00 on 10-23-2006 12:40 pm
I recently found out that the dad of the guy I am hooking up is a dentist. Where I come from dentists are looked at as sheisters. I think this guy may have been hiding it from me, and in my mind he lost some serious points after this revelation.

Lying about Greek affiliation
Posted By: very concerned on 10-19-2006 11:20 am
At age 29 if you’re dating a chick, how big of a problem is it if you’re digging through her desk and you find out that she was lying about what sorority she was in. This happened to a friend of mine.

RE: Lying about Greek affiliation
Posted By: problem on 10-19-2006 11:23 am
I think that’s a bit of an issue. More than the lying, you don’t want to date a girl who couldn’t get into a good house. It spells problems down the road.

Interview Mentality
Posted By: Williams College on 10-26-2006 1:49 am
Am I wrong to think it is a big advantage to go into an interview on the hill with a chief staff assistant knowing that he was an R.A. during college and that you were a D3 varsity athlete. It has always given me a leg up, both in terms of toughness and maturity, and I feel like it always will.

what are acceptable handouts from parents
Posted By: cashmoney on 10-25-2006 6:21 pm
gifts? education? do you draw your line at maintenance?

RE: what are acceptable handouts from parents
Posted By: taxman on 10-25-2006 6:23 pm
Someone should receive absolutely no more than 30 k/yr and car payments from parents. If you’re above that, you really have problems. Girls may be entitled to a bit more than that with shopping and everything, but I feel like 30k is pretty reasonable.

RE: what are acceptable handouts from parents
Posted By: the cleaners on 10-26-2006 11:07 am
What is an acceptable allowance to give your girlfriend. $200 per week?

 
Absolutely no more the 30k a year.  And car payments.  Absolutely no more.  Geeze pal…I guess you’d have committed suicide or something if you’d had my childhood, and mine wasn’t so bad by comparison.  I never went to bed hungry.  Never.  But I wore a lot of second hand clothes until I was about 12 or so.  And it wasn’t until I was 14 that we even had a car in the household.  Color TV didn’t come into the house until I was about 15.  A fine night eating out was a trip to Howard Johnson’s or Hot Shoppes.  Vacations were to Ocean City New Jersey or Rehoboth Beach.  The most exotic vacations I had when I was a kid were the two trips we made by train to Fort Lauderdale Florida when I was 7 and 8.  I lived in apartments my entire life, until June of 2001 when I settled on Casa del Garrett, the little Baltimore rowhouse I have now.  Home ownership did not come into my life until I was 47.  And for all that, I’ve had it good compared to a Lot of other Americans. 

My first real job was flipping burgers at a fast food joint.  There was no money for college but I did manage three semesters of community college until dad died and I had to work full time to keep the household afloat.  Mom was able to co-sign for the loan on my first car when I was 20, but I had to make the payments myself.  Does it really hurt that much to have to buy your own goddamned car when you’ve clearly had the best education money can buy and on top of whatever golden job the republican network has dropped in your lap, your parents are throwing 30k a year at you too? 

If I hear one more jackass pundit bellyaching that democrats are out of touch with America’s working families I’m going to fucking scream.

One Response to “Work For A Living? Us?”

  1. Tukla in Iowa Says:

    What is an acceptable allowance to give your girlfriend. $200 per week?

    Well, that depends, Cleaners. Did you tell your “girlfriend” your name? And does he know that your loving parents would drop you like a burning coal if they were to found out about him?

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