Music Banter - Your Day

I don’t think you have a ****ing clue what working graveyard in Texas city gas station is like. How ****ing scary and gritty and in the trenches that is. elph is a ****ing combat veteran. He’s earned the right to a bit of inconsistency. He proves himself every second he spends in there exposed and vulnerable. So I’m not hearing that hot take on elph one bit. He doesn’t have to be a cheerleader; he’s on the ****ing team.

Lucem Ferre

12-12-2020 08:40 PM

I'd personally rather be a champagne socialist than a struggling one.

jwb	12-12-2020 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2149640)

I hate to sound all indignant about it, but my parents grew up poor and ended up middle class

I'm responsible for cultivating the meme

but ya'll don't really know **** about what I come from

my grandparents are mostly dead but were criminals and alcoholics

that means you grew up middle class tho doesn't it

You can correct me if I get something wrong that's just how you come across to me.

jwb	12-12-2020 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2149643)

And my childhood sucked ass

moving to the suburbs didn't help at all, it made it worse in some ways

I dunno I have cousins that grew up middle class and ended up suicidal etc. The judgmental side of me just looks at them as weak. But I'm sure life can be **** in the suburbs but it's defintely ****tier in the hood.

There are people who wont be happy no matter how much money they have. Then there are people who are good spirited despite being broke. But regardless of the case, it's always better to have money. That's why I'm still holding out hope that I can get out of the broke camp.

jwb	12-12-2020 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2149647)

I wouldn't say my parents were middle income until I was at least 15

as a very wee lad I had clothes that didn't fit me, had my school lunch replaced with that plain PB sandwich (I cried) because my mom couldn't pay the bill, sat out a field trip because the $8 was too much

I grew up learning to never ask for anything because you'd be guilted very hard

my parents liked to remind us how much it sucked to have kids, probably because it really did

I guess it was a combination of the sorta obvious peacocking you do with the whole disaffected punk image combined with comments like you rejected your parents lifestyle. Or one time you said something like it really hurts the angle of being poor (I think with regard to picking up girls) when they find out your parents live in a mansion. That's what gives me that impression.