People Who Live In Suburbs: Classy, Icky, or Dudes?

La Vie Broheem

http://news.9ask.cn/fcjf/UploadFiles_8740/201001/2010011817135859.jpg

is that china?

yuh

http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/may/10/china.jonathanwatts?cat=world&type=article

Now, he is held up as a national hero. But he says the guiding principle is simple. "People here have five aims in life: money, a car, a house, a son, and respect. We give them that. Every family here is rich. Our target now is to make all of China rich."

Daughters, on the other hand, are a burden - right?

It's gonna suck when your son has no prospective spouse. Better hope he's gay.

he can marry a car

the dating scene in china is pretty brutal fyi

there was an article in the...nyt I think? about how girls in beijing wouldn't marry anyone who didn't own property

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/world/asia/15bachelors.html

yah p much

don't you get points for being american??

kind of but I'm not a banker or businessman or anybody w a 'future' so it's a wash

:(

oh yeah imna msg you on fb for something unrelated

haha ok cool

actually the dating scene in hk is heaps better than the mainland but uh theirs all sorts of weird dynamics

I feel like such a jerk, being in an area with all these dateable women and just kind of chilling in my own house.

Life's hard, here in 'merica

ya but do you have respect and a son?

I think they're thinking the son comes after I find a woman, unless I need to find an extra somewhere.

http://www.infrastructurist.com/2011/05/11/new-reports-higher-gas-prices-mean-safer-roads/

that is a dusty lego car

even lego cars can't afford gas :(

they can't be as icky as this

http://www.altuseguide.com/home/street-pole-dancing.html

when people jam together, swapping 'moves'

Would honestly love to hang out with any suburbanite ever than someone who uses the phrases "jam together" and "swapping 'moves'" in reference to dancing on a light pole.

you guys just don't get 'art'

this strangely vehement person votes for "icky"

http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/sunday-suburban-soccer-mom-values/

Maybe my fault for only scanning that, but I got confused when it took a swerve into ranting about politics.

The "soccer moms make their daughters bring their little brothers over to a playmate" diatribe sounded like the "every neighborhood had a kid with a purple shirt, know what I'm talking about?" Cosby spoof.

"Don't you hate it when soccer moms leave their sunglasses on your patio and call you later while you're watching 'The Dog Whisperer' to see if you found them? I hate that!"

Why would you have a soccer mom over at your house unless you were a soccer mom? Honestly I don't want this crap around my children.

Some of them are into LaCrosse.

the city?

stopped here tbh.

where is Momus now

he settled down in a big house in new jersey

he coaches his son's soccer team, the pirates

he got pissed and left ILXOR forever - like Pluto to the underworld

Wow that article is stupid

i love suburbanites who think if they don't socialize with the neighbors they despise that they're going to wind up in the townhouse development version of shirley jackson's "the lottery."

Instead of stones, they used tennis balls...

try living in the suburbs and NOT having kids. people look at you the same way they probably looked at train-hopping hobos who rolled into town turning the depression.

^^^ this!

i was like the weird cast off of my community because i was not married with children or a dog. after my bf moved in things changed a bit. but we're still not 'one of them'. it's strange.

there are only 3 other condos in our section of the building but i know nothing about any of my neighbors and they act all weird when you say hello in the hallway.

don't ever try to read a book in a park or unless you want a policeman to come over and tell you take your bindle and that there's "work in the next county but not here."

xp This is R1verd@ught3r the PUM@S founder, right? The woman who was kicked off of Daily K0s for making racial slurs?

she's definitely a giant PUMA, didn't know she was the original.

okay, that first paragraph made me lol a lot because my wife REALLY wants a Lexus SUV and I really have no idea why

also this woman is insane

And their children must stay protected from the elements. They must all get buses to school. Some crazy driver might mow them all down if they had to walk on the sidewalks of the neighborhood they chose for its quiet, privacy and safety. You never know and wouldn’t it be better to be safe than sorry? You’d kill yourself if something ever happened to them. Like rain. Yes, rain happens. That’s why we must have a bus to take the kids from one school to the adjacent school in the afternoons where there is more space in the annex. Oh, sure, there is a 500 ft walkway between the schools that is not anywhere near the street and skims the playgrounds between the two schools. But if it rains, they might get wet while they are walking, in a group, with their teachers. It isn’t safe and the threat of unpredictable atmospheric conditions is too risky. We need a bus. Nevermind that school budgets are finite and we might have to cut the late bus for kids in extracurricular activities who have irresponsible, uncaring mothers who work and can’t pick them up but send them home to a dark, unsafe house after school. Safety comes first.

this really is the only point where she approaches making sense

The PUMA PAC is registered as a non-affiliated political action committee (PAC) with the Federal Election Commission and organized as a 527 Organization with the IRS in June, 2008. PUMA's founders state that the group originated out of online comments of a group of Clinton supporters on a pro-Clinton blog, The Confluence, which was created by New Jersey biochemist and former John Edwards supporter Riverdaughter, who had been recently banned from a pro-Obama liberal blog.

the takeaway here is to never have children.

omg the transition to ranting about Weiner is the worst thing I've seen outside of an expository writing paper I wrote 20 years ago