Update XIX: Melancholy and the Infinite Napping

[Associate Justice PiT]

At least drop the cable package, Jeff. You've indicated that you're (or your family is) paying over $100 a month ... maybe more ... for cable that you're not there to watch (and going back solely to watch it is a double waste because of the money and time spent on driving). There is no disconnect fee for utilities or services like that, nor is there any time-bound commitment.

You surely agree that's a waste of money, right?

    But he needs to watch the riveting Fumbuck State vs. Outer Mongolia Tech game after his monthly church picnic and there is NOTHING wrong with that.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

We may not come to a final decision tonight as the final decision rests solely on me and I don't have to decide right away.

I think the final decision should rest on those paying for the apartment.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Bushie, how many orphans living in Darkest Africa could you feed and house with the money that you're spending on rent and premium cable?

Didn't he say it cost $35/month to fund "his" children in Kenya? So in other words he could fund at least three times as many if he'd drop the cable package

[WalterMitty]

so, let me get this straight:  not only is bushie wasting his mom's money on rent, he wasted all of that money on gas to drive back to tulsa for one night to watch a ball game on his super duper cable package?

wtf did you go back to tulsa for one night?

[Lief 🗽]

Hopefully Papa Bushie gives Bushie a good hard spanking at their meeting tonight. He deserves nothing less but a whupping after this foolishness.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Hopefully Papa Bushie gives Bushie a good hard spanking at their meeting tonight. He deserves nothing less but a whupping after this foolishness.

Or better yet, they cut off the money he's blowing in Tulsa.

[WalterMitty]

what is the over/under of bushie's cable package?  i say $199/month

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

what is the over/under of bushie's cable package?  i say $199/month

$150.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Is his internet included? Actually if it is that makes it even more idiotic to keep paying for it.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Hey Bushie, maybe I haven't been around long enough to know, but who you rooting for today in Bedlam, Sooners or Cowboys?

[Hash]

so, let me get this straight:  not only is bushie wasting his mom's money on rent, he wasted all of that money on gas to drive back to tulsa for one night to watch a ball game on his super duper cable package?

wtf did you go back to tulsa for one night?

Bushie has said that needs to go back weekly to 'check on things' or something.

[Indy Texas]

so, let me get this straight:  not only is bushie wasting his mom's money on rent, he wasted all of that money on gas to drive back to tulsa for one night to watch a ball game on his super duper cable package?

wtf did you go back to tulsa for one night?

Bushie has said that needs to go back weekly to 'check on things' or something.

Guys, how else would he know if the apartment had burned down in his absence unless he drove out there on a weekly basis? There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.

[Joe Republic]

Jeez, it's not like if you leave your home unattended for an extended period, a bunch of strangers break in and start having sex everywhere.  That just doesn't happen.

[Ebowed]

There is a very good reason Bushie is doing this: it's not his money.

[7,052,770]

It's pretty obvious that he just enjoys having a place to escape to in Tulsa every once in a while. Obviously it doesn't stand to logical scrutiny, but that has to be his motivation.

[Indy Texas]

It's pretty obvious that he just enjoys having a place to escape to in Tulsa every once in a while. Obviously it doesn't stand to logical scrutiny, but that has to be his motivation.

Papa Bushie has the Train Room that's in his own home and has a few hundred dollars worth of trains.

Bushie fils has a fully furnished apartment in another city that costs hundreds of dollars a month in rent, utilities and cable.

Kind of hard to justify having a place to escape from reality when you're never anywhere near reality to begin with.

[Indy Texas]

Did Jeff put a Christmas tree up in the Tulsa apartment? Might as well.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Alright, I've had enough, guys.  I'm done being treated like crap on this forum.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Your parents just need to cut you off. They'll be flat broke if they don't.  It's repulsive how much you bleed them dry

[IceSpear]

Alright, I've had enough, guys.  I'm done being treated like crap on this forum.

You say that about as often as you eat Braum's.

[Simfan34]

Alright, I've had enough, guys.  I'm done being treated like crap on this forum.

Too bad you no longer produce the Update!

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Doesn't Bushie's father work 60 hours a week typically?

I don't know if he gets paid hourly or what he does, but let's assume he does get paid hourly and gets paid pretty well at $20/hour. So any OT is $30/hour. So if Bushie's cable package is $150/month, then his father is working more than 5 hours a month (consider taxes too) just so Bushie can watch a college football game in Tulsa every couple weeks. And that's based on some generous assumptions.

Yeah Bushie's parents need to crack down HARD on this.

[Indy Texas]

Alright, I've had enough, guys.  I'm done being treated like crap on this forum.

This forum has had enough of your attitude towards other people's money:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=200654.msg4349748#msg4349748

It's my money and if I want to be "financially wasteful", I should be allowed to.

What money, Jeff? Tell us what your net worth is. Tell us how many of your bills you have ever paid entirely by yourself in your life.

I know other people like you who have your general attitude toward money and work and I have little respect for them either. Like you, they are fundamentally selfish, undisciplined and narcissistic people. But the difference is that their parents have enough money to string them along indefinitely without jeopardizing their own financial situation. They have trust funds or family businesses where they can stick them in an office somewhere and pay them to not screw things up. Your parents don't have any of that. They live in a damn trailer and yet have to pay for their 32 year old son to maintain an apartment, furnishings, utilities and cable that he only uses a couple of times a month. I don't care if you technically pay the rent yourself. By paying that rent, that is money you're not using to pay off your own debts and by extension money that your parents are having to front to "snowball" your bills.

Other people around here are going to pat you on the head like you're a damn six year old because you packed your lunch all by yourself for two consecutive days. You may think none of your "sins" matter but I'm enough of a realist to know that you've always been an SOB and always will be an SOB.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Alright, I've had enough, guys.  I'm done being treated like crap on this forum.

As you have often said. But please listen to me: I am just trying to save you money. A lot of money, actually. Thousands of dollars, Jeff. Thousands.

[J-Mann]

Alright, I've had enough, guys.  I'm done being treated like crap on this forum.

Today has seemed pretty mild, Jeff. Having cable and Internet in an apartment you barely visit (and wouldn't need to at all) IS wasteful and should be an easy decision for you at the family meeting tonight.