My Father's Day So Far

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[quote]texasguy wrote:
A bunch of spoiled rich brat bullshit.
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I could give a shit what your granddad did. I could give a shit what your daddy does. What have you done but take up space and spend others’ money?

The only reason you don’t owe anyone anything is because you are still living on daddy’s sugar tit.

Come back when you can do something besides brag about how rich daddy is, or how rich granddaddy is.

I had a friend like you once. He grew up with all the frills. Lived in HP, had the best car, thought he knew everything.

Then one day his parents kicked him to the curb to learn about life.

Sounds like your parents have failed you.

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[quote]tenaciousc wrote:

Do you feel like a dipshit yet - or should I continue?

I would like to hear more. I cry bullshit.

You sound like a nice dad telling your kids to shut up, and having your balls in full view of your family.

You seem like you set a great example losing your temper and throwing a washing machine out the door. Ive seen your type of neighborhood on the news.

I’m sure the washer didn’t break, you just couldn’t afford your water bill or electricity so it was shut off.

I’m glad this shit happened to you. I wish it would have been worse actually.[/quote]

Bullshit on what?

You don’t get it. I picked a washing machine up and body slammed it. I never threw it.

My son was in awe. But I told him to shut the fuck up. Then I yelled at my wife and told her to get me another fucking beer from the cooler.

Then I took my shirt off right before the cops showed up on yet another domestic disturbance call, hoping they would have a camera crew with them. But the disappointment continued as they were not shooting “Cops” that early in the morning.

You need to work on your hating skills. They are much too raw. But the sentiment that you care so much about me is quite flattering.

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[quote]TornadoTommy wrote:
Sorry to hear about all the crap but consider what you have. You’re debt free and have a family who loves you. What more could a man ask? My son didn’t even call to wish me a happy Father’s Day and I just loaned him $3000 for a dirt bike a month ago. Anyway, happy Father’s Day to you and every other T-Dad out there.[/quote]

I can’t ask for anything more than what I have been given already. At least you get it.

The kids on this thread get caught up in the money, or the fact that I might tell my kids to shut up. Their ignorance and stupidity speak louder than they do.

The post was supposed to make people laugh. It made me laugh - right after I had destroyed the old washer.

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[quote]texasguy wrote:

139k a year doesn’t really impress me jack. i’m one of the lucky spoiled kids that run around our great home state whose grandfather was very heavily invested in oil when the industry was just starting out.

sorry, but i do understand i’m a rare case. dad is director of marketing and sales for an international marketing firm based in houston and i’ve been recieving top notch financial counsel from our family accountant since i was kid and was given a portfolio to continue building as i got older.

honestly, i’m probably worth more than you’ll earn in a life time and i just had to be born. normally i don’t mention that info, but if you want to assume there you go. commence flaming.

and i don’t owe anybody money either.[/quote]

I don’t know you, and you may in fact have your own accomplishments, but the first thing you want to reference to brag is what your granddad did, and what your daddy does? That’s kind of sad.

The man makes his own monetary decisions, and is an accountant and understands the principals of finance. If he had decided he gets more utility out of avoiding interest, that’s his business – and given he built his practice himself and earned his own money, he earned the right to make the decision himself.

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BTW, happy Father’s Day Rainjack – didn’t start well, but at least it sounds as if it improved later.

I don’t know if I get an official Father’s Day recognition yet, but we spent the day with my grandpa and grandma, and aunt and cousin – took grandpa out to his favorite local seafood restaurant (Anthony’s, a Seattle chain), and just spent time telling and listening to stories. Grandpa and grandma are both 86, so it’s good to be able to spend this time when we can - luckily they’re still sharp and spry, so I’m looking forward to more of the same next year.

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[quote]BostonBarrister wrote:
BTW, happy Father’s Day Rainjack – didn’t start well, but at least it sounds as if it improved later.

I don’t know if I get an official Father’s Day recognition yet, but we spent the day with my grandpa and grandma, and aunt and cousin – took grandpa out to his favorite local seafood restaurant (Anthony’s, a Seattle chain), and just spent time telling and listening to stories. Grandpa and grandma are both 86, so it’s good to be able to spend this time when we can - luckily they’re still sharp and spry, so I’m looking forward to more of the same next year.
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How have you been, BB? I haven’t seen or heard much at all from you since I began my “Republicans are more liberal than Democrats” boycott of politics.

I hope the wife is well - and is that an obscure reference to your entry to the parenting industry?

Today was one of those days you will never forget - and is surely to become the barometer by which all future Father’s Day will be judged.

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[quote]texasguy wrote:

139k a year doesn’t really impress me jack. i’m one of the lucky spoiled kids that run around our great home state whose grandfather was very heavily invested in oil when the industry was just starting out.

sorry, but i do understand i’m a rare case. dad is director of marketing and sales for an international marketing firm based in houston and i’ve been recieving top notch financial counsel from our family accountant since i was kid and was given a portfolio to continue building as i got older.

honestly, i’m probably worth more than you’ll earn in a life time and i just had to be born. normally i don’t mention that info, but if you want to assume there you go. commence flaming.

and i don’t owe anybody money either.

at 139k a year, saving for two years on top of what you spend to live will not build much of a custom home. but i guess there is an element of relativity there.

i will agree that it is good to avoid credit cards and seedy fast loans, but loans that truly improve the quality of life are not that bad if they are manageable. such as mortgaging a nicer house than you could save for.

if you can save so much money so quickly anyways, it really makes more sense to take out a mortgage for more than you can afford and then work your magic savings tricks to pay it off early. you’ll live in your custom home sooner, for a greater length of time than waiting to buy it and you’ll pay it off with out much interest cost if you can really pull so much money together so fast.

just pay your premium. you may not be in debt now, but you aren’t living how you apparently want to be either.

you may sign a 30 year mortgage, but you only owe the banker for that long if you wait the whole time to pay it off. if you want to get technical, you could figure out how much your house will cost that you are saving for, how much interest difference there will be on a mortgage and how quickly you have to pay off the interest to avoid paying more than you are anyways.

your 2-3 years vs 30 doesn’t make the house cheaper, it just means you paid it off earlier. you still sink the same cost if you beat the mortgage game, but you can get more house.

then your credit is higher, you can get a vacation home or upgrade your regular home again with a better loan and pay that off. credit is a good thing if you learn to use it to your advantage. it is a bad thing if you must rely on it.

i’ll take my excellent credit and my cash though, thank you.

and no, i don’t feel like an idiot but you can continue if you’d like.

and jim walter homes don’t count as custom homes btw.

also, bums are debt free too.

one last thing, let me know if you’d like a vacation to get away from all the non stress of being debt free. I’ll see if one of our rental homes is open. would you like padre, pensacola or colorado?

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A spoiled rich kid looking down on people for making over 100grand a year?

Dude, although I never would have thought it possible, but I have even LESS respect for you after reading this than before…and that is a fucking accomplishment. I guess I have to give you props just for that.

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[quote]BostonBarrister wrote:
texasguy wrote:

139k a year doesn’t really impress me jack. i’m one of the lucky spoiled kids that run around our great home state whose grandfather was very heavily invested in oil when the industry was just starting out.

sorry, but i do understand i’m a rare case. dad is director of marketing and sales for an international marketing firm based in houston and i’ve been recieving top notch financial counsel from our family accountant since i was kid and was given a portfolio to continue building as i got older.

honestly, i’m probably worth more than you’ll earn in a life time and i just had to be born. normally i don’t mention that info, but if you want to assume there you go. commence flaming.

and i don’t owe anybody money either.

I don’t know you, and you may in fact have your own accomplishments, but the first thing you want to reference to brag is what your granddad did, and what your daddy does? That’s kind of sad.

The man makes his own monetary decisions, and is an accountant and understands the principals of finance. If he had decided he gets more utility out of avoiding interest, that’s his business – and given he built his practice himself and earned his own money, he earned the right to make the decision himself.

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For the record, any man who can start with much less and end up making more money than most families of college graduates by himself deserves respect. I am in awe that some kid tried to make this seem like a failure. Any parents who would raise their kid that way…must be about as ethical and moral as Paris Hilton’s.

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[quote]rainjack wrote:
texasguy wrote:
A bunch of spoiled rich brat bullshit.

I could give a shit what your granddad did. I could give a shit what your daddy does. What have you done but take up space and spend others’ money?

The only reason you don’t owe anyone anything is because you are still living on daddy’s sugar tit.

Come back when you can do something besides brag about how rich daddy is, or how rich granddaddy is.

I had a friend like you once. He grew up with all the frills. Lived in HP, had the best car, thought he knew everything.

Then one day his parents kicked him to the curb to learn about life.

Sounds like your parents have failed you.
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i smell jelousy.

i’ve worked the highest paying internship for college business students(rated by forbes). the company interviews fourty thousand students internationally and selects three thousand. it was an 80 hour per week sales and marketing job for the length of a summer.

i finished top ten percent of the three thousand for sales and more importantly profit production. most people would give up just about anything to avoid working that much, especially rich kids who don’t have to.

i’ve been elected president of my universities American Marketing Association two years in a row now, and was vice president of communications before that.

i work when i don’t have to as a student but do have the advantage of investing most of it rather than paying bills or tuition.

i graduate in december and have a pretty cushy job lined up. i will earn as much as any one else but that is in the future and will only add to my current net worth.

wait until i’m fifty or however old you are and i’ll have a laundry list of accomplishments and will probably be making more than 139, inflation factored in. plus add the shit i was born in to and call it luck.

so far, i’ve made the best of the situations i’ve come across and i see no reason to stop.

parenting is a pretty subjective thing, but i don’t feel failed at all. along with the money, i was taught the value of it. i was put on an allowance early and wasn’t allowed extra money.

i couldn’t ask for things i wanted on top of it to learn a lesson. i had to save for everything from baseball cards to video games as a kid though i could have been given your house and your new washer.

pops forced me to get a job as soon as i turned 16, but i had been mowing lawns before hand with a buddy to get the video games,bikes, roller blades or what have you faster.

he did contribute to my portfolio through the years though, which won’t be cashed for a number of years and he does take care of school and all the costs that go with it, and i am very greatful for that.

it would be stupid to turn down such valuable gifts, but i do feel the most value i have recieved was to understand early that hard work is the root of the comforts he has and has given my siblings and i. he is also very generous with charities he feels worthy, and has passed the importance of warranted charity along.

sorry charlie. one day one of your blind stabs might make a mark. keep trying.

and do you want the beach or the mountains? i take both for free while working as hard as anybody. :open_mouth:

anyways, enough explaining me in response to you getting offended at my original comment. you could still build your “custom home” faster if you didn’t drop 4k likes it’s nothing on a 139k salary.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
texasguy wrote:

139k a year doesn’t really impress me jack. i’m one of the lucky spoiled kids that run around our great home state whose grandfather was very heavily invested in oil when the industry was just starting out.

sorry, but i do understand i’m a rare case. dad is director of marketing and sales for an international marketing firm based in houston and i’ve been recieving top notch financial counsel from our family accountant since i was kid and was given a portfolio to continue building as i got older.

honestly, i’m probably worth more than you’ll earn in a life time and i just had to be born. normally i don’t mention that info, but if you want to assume there you go. commence flaming.

and i don’t owe anybody money either.

at 139k a year, saving for two years on top of what you spend to live will not build much of a custom home. but i guess there is an element of relativity there.

i will agree that it is good to avoid credit cards and seedy fast loans, but loans that truly improve the quality of life are not that bad if they are manageable. such as mortgaging a nicer house than you could save for.

if you can save so much money so quickly anyways, it really makes more sense to take out a mortgage for more than you can afford and then work your magic savings tricks to pay it off early. you’ll live in your custom home sooner, for a greater length of time than waiting to buy it and you’ll pay it off with out much interest cost if you can really pull so much money together so fast.

just pay your premium. you may not be in debt now, but you aren’t living how you apparently want to be either.

you may sign a 30 year mortgage, but you only owe the banker for that long if you wait the whole time to pay it off. if you want to get technical, you could figure out how much your house will cost that you are saving for, how much interest difference there will be on a mortgage and how quickly you have to pay off the interest to avoid paying more than you are anyways.

your 2-3 years vs 30 doesn’t make the house cheaper, it just means you paid it off earlier. you still sink the same cost if you beat the mortgage game, but you can get more house.

then your credit is higher, you can get a vacation home or upgrade your regular home again with a better loan and pay that off. credit is a good thing if you learn to use it to your advantage. it is a bad thing if you must rely on it.

i’ll take my excellent credit and my cash though, thank you.

and no, i don’t feel like an idiot but you can continue if you’d like.

and jim walter homes don’t count as custom homes btw.

also, bums are debt free too.

one last thing, let me know if you’d like a vacation to get away from all the non stress of being debt free. I’ll see if one of our rental homes is open. would you like padre, pensacola or colorado?

A spoiled rich kid looking down on people for making over 100grand a year?

Dude, although I never would have thought it possible, but I have even LESS respect for you after reading this than before…and that is a fucking accomplishment. I guess I have to give you props just for that.

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that’s cool. your appreciation isn’t really needed brocephus. how are those social skills at work coming along?

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It’s late and I don’t notice anywhere else to post this, but I actually had a great father’s day. I recently took up pipe smoking and my 16 year old son ordered me a bunch of tobacco I’ve been wanting to try and my 13 year old son made me a great cabinet to house all of my supplies. My oldest daughter gave me “Scene It” and my wife made me a great steak dinner.

Sorry to hijack the thread, but just thought I would share.

jim

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[quote]rainjack wrote:

Let me give you the short version. I am debt free. I will stay debt free. Taking out a mortgage, or lease-purchasing is debt. Debt is for sucks. I am not a suck. And I am no longer lease-purchasing. I live in a shitty house that I own.

Do you feel like a dipshit yet - or should I continue?

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If you pay 3% interest while inflation is around 1,5% and renting an appartment cost 2 to 2,5 times that, a mortgage can be a smart move.

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[quote]texasguy wrote:
Even more stupid rich college kid bullshit.

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I don’t really care about how good some college prick does in his/her internship.

If you think I am jealous of anything you have bragged about it just shows how stupid you are.

This thread is about something that happened to me this morning - not how rich your granddad is, or how poor and stupid you think I am.

ProfX is right - I didn’t think I could have less respect for you than I already did. I was wrong.

What is it again I am supposed to be jealous of? Oh…I think it was how rich your granddad and your dad are.

On a side note - what is it about me that dipshit college kids find so attractive? And why is it always one these spoiled brat prick faces instead of the hot co-eds?

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[quote]fightingtiger wrote:
rainjack wrote:

Do you feel like a dipshit yet - or should I continue?

If feeling like a dipshit really concerned him, he would have stopped posting here after that animal stak 2 thread.[/quote]

See, I felt his credibility was shot after his cardio playlist thread, but maybe I just need to work on my forgiveness.

To rainjack- that really, really blows man. I’ve had the…experience…of having a busted washer flood a room before (I’m a laundromat guy for the time being because of it, actually), and it sucks enough even when it’s on just a regular shit-happens day.

And I thought my dad had it rough being scheduled to work today.

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[quote]rainjack wrote:
texasguy wrote:
Even more stupid rich college kid bullshit.

I don’t really care about how good some college prick does in his/her internship.

If you think I am jealous of anything you have bragged about it just shows how stupid you are.

This thread is about something that happened to me this morning - not how rich your granddad is, or how poor and stupid you think I am.

ProfX is right - I didn’t think I could have less respect for you than I already did. I was wrong.

What is it again I am supposed to be jealous of? Oh…I think it was how rich your granddad and your dad are.

On a side note - what is it about me that dipshit college kids find so attractive? And why is it always one these spoiled brat prick faces instead of the hot co-eds? [/quote]

oh no! puuleeeaassssseeee! respect me! i don’t think i can carry on!

and i still smell jelousy. i’ve been smelling it pretty much all my life.

it’s cool. why don’t hot college chicks like you?

probably because you are an old tool bag.

lighten up and you’ll get laid more.

and you can attempt to avoid my own accomplishments. i expected it really. once the jelousy sets in, that is all there is to it.

i work hard, i accomplish more than my peers and by the time i reach your age i’ll be plenty accomplished on my own accord, plus i’ll have the stuff you don’t.

if asking what i’ve done on my own and then ignoring it causes you lose respect for me that’s fine. illogical, however very common.

jelousy is a monster.

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Well, I spent Father’s Day helping my son puke from the chemo he is going through. Now what was it that is so important you had to Internet-fight about?

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I thought the smart guys worked off of other peoples money and did’nt use their own.Is’nt that how most republicans do it???

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[quote]rainjack wrote:
texasguy wrote:
maybe spending 4k without thinking is why you are in a shitty rental. you know you can get close to a three quarter million dollar mortgage loan for less than that per month with excellent credit right? and i know you know living expenses in texas are pretty low.

When you can make 139K per year and owe no one a dime - then maybe you can tell me about how to live my life.

what are you doing in a shitty rental if you can drop 4k with out a thought?

I live in a shitty rental because I own the shitty rental free and clear, just like I own my 2004 Suburban, my office building, and everything else that has my name on it.

If you want to sign your life away - knock yourself out. Just don’t tell me how to live mine. I will be paying cash for a custom built house when we have enough saved up. And you know what? I will only spend 2-3 years saving versus 30 years owing a banker. You can shove your credit score up your ass because cash will trump a 750 credit score any day.

Evidently you missed the part about “for reasons that are too lengthy to go into in this thread”.

Let me give you the short version. I am debt free. I will stay debt free. Taking out a mortgage, or lease-purchasing is debt. Debt is for sucks. I am not a suck. And I am no longer lease-purchasing. I live in a shitty house that I own.

Do you feel like a dipshit yet - or should I continue?

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That’s cool, to be debt-free. Most of the world isn’t.

Maybe Marx was somewhat right — instead of capitalists making everyone else poor, maybe they just want everyone else in debt, working their asses off just to pay a mortgage or car loan.

“Workers of the world, UNITE!” :smiley: