Starting Over (or, "Punkie Does America")

[Karlos]

KennyR wrote:
I'd rather shag a jumpstart battery.

One has to get one's jollies somehow :lol:

@tpg

Do it. I forget where I heard it (an orbital track I think :lol:), but the saying goes "the funny thing about regret is, it's better to regret something you have done, than something you haven't."...

[cecilia]

how shocking
:roflmao:

[KennyR]

Well, at least with the jumpstart battery I get the shock there and then, not the next time I pee.

[that_punk_guy]

Karlos wrote:
Do it. I forget where I heard it (an orbital track I think :lol:), but the saying goes "the funny thing about regret is, it's better to regret something you have done, than something you haven't."...

It's at the start of the Butthole Surfers 'Locust Abortion Technician' album too. :-)

[T_Bone]

KennyR wrote:

PMC wrote:
Maybe the US isn't as chav free as we all think. It's a possiblity that they have a different class of chav there instead. Maybe you could write "The Worldwide Guide to Chav Spotting"?

The essential prop for chavdom, the bountiful welfare state, is missing in the states. Single mums there work 16 hours a day to feed and educate their kids. Single ned mums here burp out babies every 9 months and the social pays for those kids until they die of heart disease 50 years later, having gone through all the petty crime, cheap gold, and shouting at complete strangers near McDonalds phases.

Well, we have a slightly different system here. Here, you must manipulate the CSEU to achieve the same lifestyle after having several children to different fathers and collecting 26% of each fathers income. Same idea really, but less of a burdon on the taxpayers. (unless that taxpayer happens to be one of the fathers.)

Having a son these days is almost as scary as having a daughter.

[PMC]

"Having a daughter is Mother Nature's way of getting revenge for the way men behave as teenagers"

Crikey... I'm due three sons at this rate!

[Vincent]

I just hope you have access to a computer so you can keep checking up on how bad the jokes are around here :-D

[KennyR]

T_Bone wrote:
Well, we have a slightly different system here. Here, you must manipulate the CSEU to achieve the same lifestyle after having several children to different fathers and collecting 26% of each fathers income.

We have the same system here, but it never works, because

a) The girls rarely know who the father is

b) Even if they do, it's a dead cert he's unemployed and has no income anyway.

So the welfare system takes the burden. Sad really, that so many good people campaigned to make the welfare state the end of starving and disease ridden unemployed, and its abused so systematically and blythely.

Oh, and did I mention that here, single mums are very rarely actually single? Live with a boyfriend, pay no rent, no tax, and the boyfriend has an empty house (also no rent, no tax) sitting empty while people are homeless.

Not surprised TPG wants to leave, actually.

[adz]

@tpg

Go for it dude, personally I've never been the type to enjoy travelling, but I know many people who have spent years travelling and none of them have any regrets, some  even caught the "travel bug", now they can't stop. If your heart is telling you thats what it wants to do, then take heed and listen to it.

[Karlos]

KennyR wrote:
Well, at least with the jumpstart battery I get the shock there and then, not the next time I pee.

Depends if you forget to remove the battery before you go, I assume :-)

[Cyberus]

Do it, do it, do it.

I would offer something more insightful, or even inciteful, but I'm hungover and tired :-)

But don't hesitate. I wish I had the financial freedom to be able to do that, instead of sitting on university debt :-(

[The_Editor]

Echoes everyone else

Go for it.

I did it when I was 22.   My Problem was I went and bumped into my childhood sweetheart Miles from anywhere.  ( I went back to Aussie on my own).

She was already geting married ... But silly us started hanging out together.


Hurt like hell watching her marry someone else.

[bloodline]

that_punk_guy wrote:
I'm not sure how many of you are still amused by my occasional life-centric posts, I'm not around as much as I used to be due to the evil number of hours I'm working (uh... forty. Oh. Well, that's still too damn many.)

Every new song I write seems to be about escape. I hate my job and my house and this town.

So my dad visited (we can almost hold conversations now) and a few things he said made me wonder what's actually keeping me here.

My mortgage.
My sister.
My dog.

Now that the rest of the family are moving off to pastures new (France and Tenerife!) I don't see the point in staying here.

With the increase in property values over the last couple of years, I'm actually sitting on a good £20,000 here with my house. So I'm going to sell up, bum around America and see my friends over there, maybe write a book about it. Then when I come back (if I come back, he he) I can find somewhere new to start again. Somewhere relatively chav-free. I'd say completely chav-free but you can't expect a miracle.

Becky said I should go and do what I need to do while I'm free to do it. The only problem is Dale, I either have to take him with me somehow or give him up. :cry:

I've realised I'm 21 years old and I should have a life. I'll probably never forgive myself if I don't do this now... So that's my plan.

Tell me I'm crazy.

21... no commitments (no a dog is not commitment:roll:), and £20000 in assets...

In your shoes, and frankly I wish I was... I would remortgage the house, rent it out, then travel to America try and get ajob, and live their usign the rent from your house in Chavton to fund any economic lows you may experience.

[Karlos]

bloodline wrote:
no a dog is not commitment:roll:

A dog isn't just for Xmas dude :-x



properly cured, there'll be some left for new years, too...


Seriously though, family pets are a commitment. You either look after them properly or you don't own them period.

[bloodline]

Karlos wrote:

bloodline wrote:
no a dog is not commitment:roll:

A dog isn't just for Xmas dude :-x



properly cured, there'll be some left for new years, too...


Seriously though, family pets are a commitment. You either look after them properly or you don't own them period.

That's not what I meant. Of course if you have a pet you have a responsibility to look after it... but never, and I can't state this enough, never hold your life back because of one.

[cecilia]

A dog isn't just for Xmas dude

:roflmao:

i've watched AbFab, so i actually know why that's funny!