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Triban
Joined: 14 Jul 2009
Location: Suwon Station
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| I am not a snob by any means, I am typically a nice person. However, when people slaughter their own language and try to make fun of MY accent, then I tend to be condescending. |
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kabrams
Joined: 15 Mar 2008
Location: your Dad's house
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| Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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Mothers family: Southern and poor.
Father's family: Northern and Midwestern/wealthy
Me?
Poor. Always.
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chnike112
Joined: 05 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 6:12 am Post subject: |
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| educated poor. i live w/ my lower middle class mother. i tend to attract rich women which works out nicely for me as they pay for my things in exchange for lovin' |
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Princess Soraya
Joined: 30 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 6:47 am Post subject: |
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| Completely off the topic but kabrams every time I see your avatar I'm in awe at the beauty of that girl. What a rare natural beauty! (The Princess is envious...) |
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reactionary
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: korreia
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| Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 6:52 am Post subject: |
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| kabrams wrote: |
Mothers family: Southern and poor.
Father's family: Northern and Midwestern/wealthy
Me?
Poor. Always.
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You're a rich girl, and you've gone too far
'Cause you know it don't matter anyway
You can rely on the old man's money
You can rely on the old man's money
It's a bitch girl but it's gone too far
'Cause you know it don't matter anyway
Say money but it won't get you too far,
Get you too far
And don't you know, don't you know
That it's wrong to take what is given you
So far gone, on your own
You can get along if you try to be strong
But you'll never be strong
'Cause
You're a rich girl, and you've gone too far
'Cause you know it don't matter anyway
You can rely on the old man's money
You can rely on the old man's money
It's a bitch girl and it's gone too far
'Cause you know it don't matter anyway
Say money but it won't get you too far,
Get you too far
High and dry, out of the rain
It's so easy to hurt others when you can't feel pain
And don't you know that a love can't grow
'Cause there's too much to give, 'cause you'd rather live
For the thrill of it all, oh |
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Cheonmunka
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
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| The higher you climb, the heavier the fall. |
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joe412
Joined: 01 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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| My class is "foreigner in Korea" which is lower than Native American pre-1700s. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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| My class is "foreigner in Korea" which is lower than Native American pre-1700s. |
Great, another "I'm a repressed minority going through worse than Jim Crow" person over here. 
No, your class here in Korea is the same as it is back in home- Better off than 90% of the world.
I believe on a global scale that would make you 'upper class'.
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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| My class is pretty crap whatever part of the world it's in, however I have met with nothing but utmost respect in my time here. You get what you give. |
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Enrico Palazzo
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Joined: 11 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 5:12 am Post subject: |
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Only the mule-class seems obsessed with where they stand in relation to others.
The real upper-crust don't bother to compare, and the poor are too busy collecting cardboard to think about it. |
That's not true and you should know better, rather that offer baseless speculation. Pick up any piece of investigative journalism on scams targeting the ultra wealthy (Vanity Fair's piece on the recent Madoff scandal comes to mind) and you'll see that the ultra wealthy absolutely obsessed with where they stand. Loads of comments in that article about how this person has "a few bucks" (meaning a few hundred millions) or this person lost a buck or two on a trade (meaning lost a million or two). Comparison is the engine for these folks.
Don't be deluded to think that they're not engaged in such--shall I say, common?-- behavior. |
baseless speculation you say? ...And what makes my personal observations any different than your flippant comments spouting off about the media. The media have extremely limited access to the real world of the upper-class.
...a half dozen Paris Hilton wannabees and a few lonely old widows is hardly a slice of the upper crust.
People magazine and Vanity Fair are nothing more than pablum for the middle-class. Investigative journalism? ...c'mon. |
Um, hi. You're retarded and woefully ignorant. People and Vanity Fair aren't even on the same spectrum. For your information, since you desperately need it, VF has published breakthroughs in reporting on par with WaPo's deepthroat. Specifically, the VF broke the Abu Ghraib scandal.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/08/bear_stearns200808
here's a link to "investigative journalism" on bear stearns. VF's political journalism is a direct competitor to the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Harper's, and Foreign Policy. Jesus christ, pick up a newspaper or something.
And, darling, even if it were true, "extremely limited access" is better than no access and all. But here's a link to VF's article re: Madoff scandal. Investigative journalists are paid premium because they do have access. That's why these journals and select newspapers "break the news" not simply "report" the news, like what happens on your local tv station at home.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/06/madoff200906
So yes. You are baselessly speculating. I am not. I guess the reason why your comment is so infuriating is the fact that this community is supposed to be college educated but you can't differentiate between reporting news and breaking news, and you certainly (obviously) couldn't tell the difference between a ModEditing celebrity gossip weekend rag like People or US or whatever from the New Yorker or Vanity Fair.
Where do you think information about Abu Ghraib, the White House scandals, anything of that nature ever comes to the surface? Hey, guess what? Investigative journalism! Way to show your ignorance, chump.
By the way, I'm all for bashing journalism of other stripes, particularly the white house press corps (of all nations, not just american) of the past 10 years. But they're also not investigative journalists. |
Typo, read the terms of service. Refrain from ad-hominem attacks. |
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