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It's very hard to tease out correlation/causation on college degrees and earnings since employers made them a requirement and simultaneously the collapse of unions led to plummetting wages in most jobs that don't require a degree. But you absolutely shouldn't go six figures in debt in your early 20s unless it's to be a doctor. Too many people go to the "best" school they got into(i.e. most expensive) asuming it will all work itself out and that simply isn't how it works anymore. 

There's a lot of survivorship bias going on here. I'm not saying people who make it don't work hard. I'm just saying there is considerably more luck involved in climbing out of a poor background than people generally comprehend. Almost everything needs to go right for long enough to make it to long-term security. And I think that aspect has gotten worse. When my father fell hard out of the middle class in the 70s, he and my mother were able to patch together minimum or barely above mininum wage jobs(one full and one part-time each) to keep a the mortgage paid on the house in a decent ares and food on the table. In real terms, housing costs are so mucj higher today my sister takes live-in caregiver jobs because rents are so high relative to wages. Admittedly she has other issues that impede her, but the reality is that first step is more difficult than in the past solely due to cost of living relative to wages. Nobody is building new cheap or even midlevel housing, and cheap transportation is a thing of the past too except for a couple of cities.  If you are well above average in some combination of resourcefulness and capability, or simply "really, really ridiculously goodlooking" yes it's probably a decent amount better for you than it would have been 40 years ago. Everybody else is a lot more at the mercy of external forces than they like to think.

8 minutes.  Good grief do people have alerts set up on their phones? We all know what everyone's on the gd forum for. It's getting old.

Having to worry about death control rather than birth control?

A friend was getting some warts removed from his ass and when the Dr. finished he said "Now it's so clean you could eat off it!" "That's what got me in trouble in the first place, Doc!"

There is still the whole "one more commitment on the pile" aspect that deters some of us. Even if didn't bother the partner, it would bother me. Someone asked me why I'm single despite good job, house, etc. My response was after caretaking for various family members who simply can't reciprocate and would be in dire straits if I just dropped them, I feel like I don't have anything left to give, and I don't want to be "the taker" in a relationship. 

There is still the whole "one more commitment on the pile" aspect that deters some of us. Even if didn't bother the partner, it would bother me. Someone asked me why I'm single despite good job, house, etc. My response was after caretaking for various family members who simply can't reciprocate and would be in dire straits if I just dropped them, I feel like I don't have anything left to give, and I don't want to be "the taker" in a relationship. 

We need the longer version of the story...

HPV is spread by skin to skin contact. Doesn't require penetration. A lot of wrestlers get it, and herpes, without even having sex.

A friend was getting some warts removed from his ass and when the Dr. finished he said "Now it's so clean you could eat off it!" "That's what got me in trouble in the first place, Doc!"

I thought you didn't rim...;)

That mustache is hideous. Straight men need to stop it with the ugly facial hair. Jason Mamoa is pretty much the only man who pulls it off IMO.

Look man, some of us have brains that are wired to continually replay every embarrassing moment, and if you don't have such a brain you just can't understand the psychological headwinds we face in personal interactions with people "out of our league."  People are not always gentle in their "No."

Look man, some of us have brains that are wired to continually replay every embarrassing moment, and if you don't have such a brain you just can't understand the psychological headwinds we face in personal interactions with people "out of our league."  People are not always gentle in their "No."

Look man, some of us have brains that are wired to continually replay every embarrassing moment, and if you don't have such a brain you just can't understand the psychological headwinds we face in personal interactions with people "out of our league."  People are not always gentle in their "No."

If you're getting $10,000 a pop and not financially secure after 9 years of it, that's juat EXTREMELY poor money management.

You recall? Was that a movie or were you her grandson?

If you're getting $10,000 a pop and not financially secure after 9 years of it, that's juat EXTREMELY poor money management.

Did you send a pic before he quoted the price?

I didn't look that far but not seeing any indication on twitter or IG his services are on offer to the general public. He seems to be doing it just on OnlyFans. If he were available otherwise, you'd think he'd mention it.

I assumed there'd be a higher end bespoke "off the grid" service for such types.

I assumed there'd be a higher end bespoke "off the grid" service for such types.

I didn't look that far but not seeing any indication on twitter or IG his services are on offer to the general public. He seems to be doing it just on OnlyFans. If he were available otherwise, you'd think he'd mention it.

If he has tattoo sleeves he shouldn't have most of his pics without them...

If you're getting $10,000 a pop and not financially secure after 9 years of it, that's juat EXTREMELY poor money management.