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Why is it completely out of line to suggest you save up for it? If you really want to do it, refrain from spending on other things. Otherwise, you're just bitching that not having infinite resources means there are some things you don't get handed to you on a silver platter.

Another thing you can do--get a job that involves a lot of travel. Consider that a perq, like insurance, high pay, whatever.. To some (people with kids in musiic or sports), that's a negative. I once had to cut short a week off to fly to a client in Germany, but I had decided that lots of travel was my goal and was willing to forgo the ease of planning vacations to get it. Many times my work covered two weeks, so I had a weekend to myself in interesting places, with hotel and plane tickets covered.

I feel the need to point out that it was women who got all steamy and juicy at this excuse for a novel, not men.

My kids took out loans to cover the part of the cost that their mother and I couldn't help with, and also worked during the summers. Most importantly, they majored in things that led to jobs that paid OK or better. One paid off his loans in 14 months, and the other is 24 months into paying off his, looking like 36 months total. (He went to an expensive engineering school, but he's making an excellent salary now.) If you run up a bunch of debt to major in Women's Studies, Modern Dance or Art History, and don't ever look into what the job opportunities are likely to be available, it's not "society's" fault. "Society" doesn't owe you a free four-year vacation studying whatever you find "fun."

Bernie is "the best" because he wants to take the results of some people's labor to pay for stuff you want? Not sure if immaturity, naivete or selfishness. Could be all three, I guess.

I have four kids, and have NEVER gotten angry at one for doing any kind of chore. I wonder if there's more to this. Did OP pull on the vacuum cleaner cord so that the plug was about to break? Use abrasive cleaner on something that couldn't tolerate it?

It's not really fair to complain that someone doesn't want you to do something, when the real problem is that they don't want you to do a terrible job or damge/break things while you're dong that something.

Other things teens have now but didn't then:
Cell phones
Internet
Social media

Probably not "tougher exams" thaat lead to anxiety...your parents/grandparents had WWII, Korea and Viet Nam to worry about. Maybe it's the immediacy of everything that's making you so anxious.

We worry an awful lot about education in the US and the rest of the west where we might not adequately respect a transgendered person's right to use any restroom he/she prefers, buit we ignore the "education" in Muslim countries (and in Muslim communities within the US!) where they teach that jihad is right, it's OK to rape and commit pedophilia with non-Muslims, etc.

This idea makes sense the first time you hear it. But after a while you notice that the violent always trample the people who *want* peace but aren't willing or prepared to fight the violent ones when there's no more alternative. All those strongly worded letters didn't deter Hitler, Pol Pot or the genocide in Rwanda and Sierra Leone.

How on earth does someone imagine that Hitler was Christian? Because he grew up in a primarily Christian country? Because his mom made him go to church when he was 5? Honestly, you have to be really reaching to make this inaccurate association. In fact, Hitler co-opted the church in Germany to promote nationalism.

Malcom X also advocated hatred of the Jews...up to and including extermination. This graphic appears to have been made up by someone who knows one Muslim who doesn't seem bad, and saw the Westboro Baptist Chruch on TV and disliked them enough to tag all Christianity on someone who embodies the opposite of what the group's holy book teaches since that person is likely to have attended church as a child. Certainly there has to be a more useful "bad Christian" example than a man who wasn't one.

"Never forget, you're unique--just like everyone else!"
"You're all wonderful and special. EVERYBODY gets an MVP trophy!"

"It's not the results that count, it's the sincerity of your effort."
(Hope that last one doesn't inspire someone to go to medical school.)

Plenty of us who watched our coworkers get laid off in 2009 also "get it." Also, we parents of '90s kids, who would like them to eventually move out of our house also "get it." You aren't the first generation to have challenges economically, socially, or professionally.

Is "finesse" an "urban" way of saying "stole" without having to use the actual word?

There were enormous forests a hundred thousand years ago, then the glaciers came and scraped those right ff the face of the earth, Before that, the area that is now the plains region of the US was a jungle, then was under water. It sounds like Nature is continually changing, regardless of man's contribution.

His socialist policies turned a recession into the Great Depression. Just like now, people vote thier short-term interests and what's easily explainable...but not all issues are easy to explain. We also have PACs from unions and environmental groups funneling a ton of money to sccialist candidates whether the members support that or not.

I have a 1990 Oldsmobile Cutlass and a 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix. Both are still running strong, and the cars have actually outlasted the brands that produced them!

One of the worst three presidents of all time. Prolonged the recession, allowed radical jihadi islamicism to flourish, reduced the respect the U.S. Had all over the world...good ridance.

Also, destroyed the reputations and careers of any women who came forward after her husband sexually assaulted them.

Somehow is promoted as the pro-woman candidate.