Poor People...

Discussion in 'The Red Room' started by Volpone, Apr 12, 2024.

  1. Mirah

    Mirah Powerful Vagina Energy

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    From poor people to poor mother earth. If only she had saved and made better decisions.
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  2. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    like not having kids and being a single mom?
  3. Kommander

    Kommander Bandwagon

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    I should clarify some things:

    - I fully acknowledge that my situation is 100% my responsibility. (Blame is a different matter, but assigning blame is usually pointless.)

    - I also acknowledge that if one is unable to uphold a responsibility that is theirs, that does not mean that someone else is required to take on that responsibility. When I can't be properly responsible for myself, I do not expect anyone to take up that responsibility (although, it's nice when people are willing to.

    If anything I've said came across as contrary to the above points, it was not my intention.

    Furthermore...

    I am fully capable of, at the very least, improving my current financial situation. I have been doing so for many years and I plan to continue.

    There are choices I could make that I'm confident would quickly elevate me to at least solidly middle-class, and possibly into wealthy territory. However, I find those choices unacceptable because...
    - I'd have to take a good, thorough fucking in the process;
    - I'd have to fuck a lot of people over;
    - and/or there's too much risk.

    Slow progress/minimizing setbacks is a better option right now than risking years of progress, compromising my integrity, or letting people take advantage of me. My life is often far more frustrating than is reasonable, but I'm fine, and I will most likely continue to be fine. There's a good chance I'll manage better than fine. If anyone's capable of pulling themself up by their own bootstraps, it's me. I'll probably have to build some sort of contraption with pulleys and such to pull it off, but that's going to take some time. In the mean time, I could do without the constant crowd of people standing around telling me to build it faster. If you're not going to help, at least get the fuck out of my way. And for fuck's sake, stop telling me that standing around telling me to work faster is helping because otherwise I wouldn't be building at all, because we both know that's bullshit.
  4. Jenee

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    Or just …, you know …, shampoo’s with like … anti-human shampoo.
  5. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    I think we can make the jump to "delousing".
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  6. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    I am pretty sure that is what is presently going on. CO2 is the active ingredient of earth shampoo. It seems to do the job of eliminating the life that lives in her atmosphere above ground. She got it special delivery from space Amazon once, and most of the time she secretes the stuff herself, but this time her human lice are nice enough to be providing it for her.

    Carbon actually seems to get rid of a lot of pests and bad odors, including humans.
  7. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    We are, and it is called CO2. Harful to the present life on the planet, but not going to harm the planet itself in general. The nuclear radiation option would be the next treatment if this one does not work.