Ha, Kristin. Just, you know, bring some bottled water, and if you see smoke...
That sucks to have a trip you were looking forward to go all pear-shaped.
Meant to fourth or fifth or whatever this, Jess.
Well, look who just popped open a fresh can of venom.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JenP - Aug 16, 2025 9:12:12 am PDT #8826 of 8837
erikaj - Aug 16, 2025 10:38:33 am PDT #8827 of 8837
Always Anti-fascist!
Definite drag, Jess.
Jessica - Aug 16, 2025 10:56:36 am PDT #8828 of 8837
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Dylan took Personal Finance his senior year but unfortunately the teacher was completely checked out and so he didn't get much out of it. (He basically told them to pretend to invest an imaginary $1000 in the first week and track how their choices performed, and then didn't do anything else the entire semester.)
-t - Aug 16, 2025 11:16:34 am PDT #8829 of 8837
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Happy day to DebetEsse!
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 16, 2025 11:22:35 am PDT #8830 of 8837
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Happy Birthday, Debet!
erikaj - Aug 16, 2025 12:46:44 pm PDT #8831 of 8837
Always Anti-fascist!
I sort of did take a class like that, but I took it because I was hopeless at math. So, it was, like, me and the pregnant girls and people that came back after juvie and that kind of stuff. as suburban as I grew up, I expected that they'd be a lot different than me, but maybe just their plans were not as big--well, we see how that worked out on my end, huh? Since I was, you know, practically starting from zero, or maybe minus 2, I learned a fair bit about finances there, whether it was objectively a good class or not, but I don't think that was the most important thing I got from being there.
DebetEsse - Aug 16, 2025 1:08:10 pm PDT #8832 of 8837
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Thanks, all!
I did an independent study econ class my senior year, where I had to write a 1-page paper on some academic economics topic. The regular class did more like the stock market game. Pretty sure I got the better end of that deal.
I continue to think we need a 1 semester Highest School for, like, 23 year olds, for all the "we told you this 5 years ago, but you didn't believe us. But now you've thrown out your back a couple times and fucked up with credit cards and done your taxes, so let's go back over it now you get that it's important" stuff
-t - Aug 16, 2025 2:43:21 pm PDT #8833 of 8837
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
We just had a semester of Free Enterprise that I do not remember one single thing from. I think it was taught by my English teacher but that is all I can recall and I could be making that up.
askye - Aug 16, 2025 3:02:06 pm PDT #8834 of 8837
Thrive to spite them
I'm a terrible aunt E turned 17!
dcp - Aug 16, 2025 3:05:56 pm PDT #8835 of 8837
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
...a semester of Free Enterprise....taught by my English teacher....
Did she use the example from David Copperfield ?
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen, nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."