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That's right. Destroy a lovely vintage bathroom in excellent condition for new and improved ugly banality.
I know I'm late to the "rock" party, but the last few pages made me :rofl: Especially that anyone would defend the fact that people would pay 3 grand for some rocks :rofl: Thank you for making my night
I can't see it. I just get rerouted to the generic .eu site.
Well, I saw one last night (and BTW, there's a new one tearing up a living room or dining room - musta been successful!) that's worse, IMO. There is an African American family and it's the "kid's" birthday (kid meaning a 20-something that lives at home) where he's opening a birthday card from his grandmother. He looks it over, bemused not to find money in it! He gives her a look of "WTF?" and she points to his smart phone where a $100 gift was sent. The kid smiles and thanks his grandma. God, I wanted to just punch the screen when I saw that.
Well, I saw one last night (and BTW, there's a new one tearing up a living room or dining room - musta been successful!) that's worse, IMO. There is an African American family and it's the "kid's" birthday (kid meaning a 20-something that lives at home) where he's opening a birthday card from his grandmother. He looks it over, bemused not to find money in it! He gives her a look of "WTF?" and she points to his smart phone where a $100 gift was sent. The kid smiles and thanks his grandma. God, I wanted to just punch the screen when I saw that.
Our kids do that too - I just figured the "kid" in this commercial must still live at home if he's giving' gramma the evil eye over the lack of money in his card. I'd just love to see her smack that kid across the head. Great SNL skit!I'm not sure if it is worse that this smacks of entitlement of young kids and teaches them to be entitled little brats OR if it is worse because it makes a whole bunch of kids feel bad because Grandmom can't afford $10, yet alone $100.As a side note- I often celebrate my birthday at my parents. I haven't lived there in 14 years. It's just not uncommon in my family to visit your parents for a birthday (my birthday is also close to mother's day, so we often have a "day" together and celebrate both).
All I can say is don't get too hung up on the issue of individual entitlements. It may be all the buzz these days, and it may appeal to our fear of the future if we're past a Certain Age. But it's just another media-made distraction from some very real and difficult problems with our shared economic future.
You approach it from a saner perspective than the media often do. It ought to be a debate about the common good, but is too often twisted to deflect resentment onto individuals or bolster stereotypes.
Spindoctors, fearmongers, opinionmakers. Trend-peddlers and image-marketers, flacks and hawkers, paid by people in the public eye to help keep them lodged in there like irritating cinders, because the more the eye waters, the more the greenbacks grow.Boy, that is really lame. Who comes up with that crap?
Spindoctors, fearmongers, opinionmakers. Trend-peddlers and image-marketers, flacks and hawkers, paid by people in the public eye to help keep them lodged in there like irritating cinders, because the more the eye waters, the more the greenbacks grow.