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[SalmonGod]

We are the 99%

Credit to Vector for the link

[Miggy]

We are the 99%

Credit to Vector for the link

Holy shit man, that's depressing.

[Angel Of Death]

My right ear. I've lost almost all hearing in it over the course of about 3 days. And it hurts. Also, I can hear something inside of it, occasionly a beating sound and a very strange sound, like water coursing through my ear.

[scriver]

When you think about it nobility claims are inherently funny nowadays. I mean, what's the point in tracing one's ancestors to the seventeenth century or whatever? I'm pretty sure the rest of humanity must also descend from someone (barring spontaneous generation and acts-of-god)  

Whoa man - by my blood I possess the right and all that. Besides, we're gonna need to know who is who when we reinstate Feudalism (In SPAAACE!).

Though yeah, in Sweden at least, it's more of a hobby than anything else. There's a few benefits to being in the hobby organisation though. Some funds and shit you can invest in, if your dynasty has them set up. And I guess it makes some people feel special, and some just proud, but for most of us ordinary people (and most Swedish nobles are just middle and/or working class), all that long surname means is that a lot of people will feel entitled to treat us like shit. Because if our names starts with "von", that automatically means we're overclass snobs who look down on an despise the working man, right? [/bitter tangent]

There's a big difference between being a noble and tracing your lineage to one, though. I don't really count for that reason, as it was my mother who was a noble and the conservative asses in the Knight's House hasn't updated their worldviews since the 18th century and thus nobility can't pass down by women. (So yeah, I get none of the possible benefits of being nobility, while still getting all the shit for having the name. Fun and yays! [/further bitterness tangent]).

[Reudh]

Yeah. A lot of the things that we WOULD have been entitled to as descendants of nobles (my family, anyway) have been either a. lost to the ages, b. turned into a national trust building in England or c. lost by damn fool family members who thought it was smart to sign away a family treasure in their will to their new wife rather than their children. Countless things like that. Probably the only holdover we've got is the family piano, it's 170 years old and in rather poor (but working) condition... it was owned by the Lugars, a british noble family.

[scriver]

We are the 99%

Credit to Vector for the link

Damn. I didn't read it earlier because I didn't want to open tumblr on my phone (lots of pictures), but that's.. Beyond sad.

Is the 99% a real number, by the way, or just rhetoric?

[Dsarker]

We are the 99%

Credit to Vector for the link

Damn. I didn't read it earlier because I didn't want to open tumblr on my phone (lots of pictures), but that's.. Beyond sad.

Is the 99% a real number, by the way, or just rhetoric?

From what I understand, it's relatively accepted that at least 90% of the wealth in America is held by 10% of the people.

[Vester]

3 typhoons in a row. D:<

This is starting to get stupid and ridiculous. If we get hit by another one I'm just going to stand in the rain and frown at the eye of the storm.

[scriver]

Just practice your frown-eyes by the mirror first. We don't want to loose you because your frownityness failed for a second and the typhoon was unimpressed.

[Duke 2.0]

 My father ambushed me this morning as the first thing that happened when I woke up. A series of questions on things I deal with once a week at tops. He got pissed off when I gave tired, unreasonable, delusional answers that somebody who just woke up would give, punctuated with "Wake up jeez!"

 Well yeah that's the idea, give me some time to wake up. Don't get mad at me over this.

[Heron TSG]

That tumblr page is incredibly depressing. Although, if if makes you all feel any better, there's a major political movement being started called the 'American Dream' movement, and thousands upon thousands of people have signed the mission statement, including a few senators, governors, and representatives. It's pretty exciting stuff, if any of you are feeling like getting your politics on.

Huffington Post article on it.
Official Website

[Miggy]

...Although, if if makes you all feel any better, there's a major political movement being started called the 'American Dream' movement, and thousands upon thousands of people have signed the mission statement, including a few senators, governors, and representatives. It's pretty exciting stuff, if any of you are feeling like getting your politics on.

Huffington Post article on it.
Official Website

As an outsider, this is something I have hoped coming for you guys for a while now. I wish you the very best in this movement, and I hope you can reign in the crazy in your politics.

[Bdthemag]

My mom thinks she has mono and a urinary tract infection, and now she has to go the the ER because we can't afford to just get a doctors appointment. On top of that she needs to get an X-Ray to check a Hernia, god damnit why does she always have to get the sickest.

[scriver]

Horribly awful headache, and neither coffee or water makes it go away.

It is very possible I'm about to give birth. Better fetch my hammer.

[Vector]

Scriver, you are cool.  Keep coolin'.