Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

Life gets wrecked in an instant

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

sex: it wrecks lives.

Originally Posted by Genteel Death

Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

Why is everybody mad at that dude for being concerned? Girl comes to school with visible bruises im gonna call her man out too yo! Its funny, every body wanted to crucify ray rice until its your friend that maybe victim of abuse, then its "they should mind their business?"

My two cents, if a person, girl or guy, has visible injuries its moved beyond just kinky. Im not accusimg EVOL of anything btw, rather letting him know the line is thin and he should be very careful towhen tap dancing on it like the Temptations

Originally Posted by EVOLghost

Hmmm....wow...didn't think it'd spark a debate.

anyways...I was honestly never rough before I started dating her. I barely even watched hardcore porn. No joke....and the whole thing with demonrail was about when I posted some pictures of Japanese girls with blood/bruises/wounds on them. I remember he said something about fetishes with that or something and I thought it was aimed at me rather than just bringing up the topic....anyways....It was she that initiated it and it goes both ways really, we're both having fun. We're both very clear on what's cool and not cool. I respect her VERY much and she does the same.

thanks for yer concerns?

btw I blame tumblr porn.

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

saving is good! it has many functions. the first one is to stabilize your finances. because your income goes up & down and it's never guaranteed, or your expenses might fluctuate from month to month, savings provide a cushion for those variations so you never run dry.

people today are brainwashed to spend all the money they get. that is the problem. when they have a small emergency or an inconvenience or they just want something they can't afford, they borrow money from someone else.

they borrow from friends and fuck their friendships, they borrow from family and strain the relationships. they borrow from credit cards and get gouged with interest. they borrow from payday loans and get trapped into a downward spiral of debt. they borrow from title loans and lose their vehicles. they borrow from their home equity and get underwater and end up in the street.

borrowing money is the fucking pits.

borrowing money turns you from a worker into a slave.

when you have savings, you borrow from yourself. you owe nobody, nobody owns you or dictates where and how you can use your money. e.g., for some bank loans, the bank needs to approve your loan, tied to a purchase, they can repo, etc.

if you have savings you have choices. you are free to quit a job. you are free to try a business, or pursue education. you are free to say "no." you are free to move to another place. you are no longer hand-to-mouth, fearing that the boss might wake up with a swollen hemorrhoid and fire you on a whim. savings give you power.

saving is only a start though. the goal is to make money work for you, i.e., investing, which basically means: buying a business or a piece of a business. it's the only way to make good use of capitalism. the problem is, the poors are brainwashed into thinking that investing is beyond their means. too hard/too difficult/ too inaccessible. it's a class problem. so the poor blow their money in gambling, "collectibles," drugs, status symbols, and all manner of nonsense, and remain poor, waiting for a miserable social security check when they are old and broken.

if that could change, and the poors dared to save and invest, and didn't get conned in the process, it would amount to a massive social revolution. all businesses would be employee-owned. capitalism would stand up on its head.

the other thing is that as you get older you get more opportunities to make money. if you have the saving habit then it just kicks in and you can build a sizeable stash and get financial independence. everyone makes 8 bucks an hour at the start. as they acquire skills, they get to charge more. but you can't wait to make more money to change your habits-- change them from the start.

saving is a really good habit. it's only the first step but without it the rest doesn't happen.

to call it by a different name: saving is the ability to LIVE BELOW YOUR MEANS. which puts you on a much safer position than the ones who are waiting for the next paycheck to keep the lights on. it makes a MASSIVE difference in how you relate to money-- namely, it makes you the master instead of the other way around.

Originally Posted by gmku

We're leaving the prairie. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Pass the gravy.

Two long years in a small town in the middle of nowhere. We just signed a lease for a great little cottage close, but not too close, to campus in the town of my alma mater.

Nice. I will have to commute, but the trade-off is worth it.

Originally Posted by EVOLghost

...I think one of her friends at school thinks I beat her...

Originally Posted by A Thousand Threads

uhh... I have the first gig as drummer tonight. kinda nervous.

that's us. we're compostfauteuil.

Originally Posted by gmku

puttanesca

Originally Posted by Genteel Death

Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

that's not the same shape!!

nice mosquito spiral though

Originally Posted by Genteel Death

Originally Posted by gmku

Marijuana.

Originally Posted by schizophrenicroom

had a black american spirit today for the first time forever and fell in love again :[

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

BREAK A LEG

Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

Being nervous is important but like in sport that is what practice practice practice is for, so thst at "game time" it becomes instinct. Hope it goes well

Originally Posted by _tunic_

I bet you played this