New Testingstan

first world problem: your country is too expensive for your friends from the second world to afford to visit


re: parents: some girl on wrote on facebook she was taking her four-year-old child to get her ears pierced

later writes they only managed to get the one ear pierced

i remember when my friend got her ears pierced and i thought that was a bit radical of her

of course we were eight at the time

but four is the new eight

okay, this house is officially magic

i start to make bacon in the morning, figuring that it's my first weekend in my new place and i'll just make hashbrowns and bacon for myself and be able to feel every inch a king, and when my housemates become aware of my efforts, spontaneously, without warning, an amazing pancake brunch with scrambled eggs and good christmas music just emerges around me, and everything is delicious and it feels like it should be the seed pf a commercial for packaged domestic bliss

over the course of a week, several bad scars, which i've had for years, that would die or weep blood from time to time, are fucking gone. healed. no changes to my normal routine, no special ointments, and while there's still evidence of those scars in that my left thumb's nail extends much further back than my right thumb's still, and stuff like that, the disgusting wounds have vanished.

also this place is like a river of drugs

at some point the other shoe will have to drop and some downsides of living here or my housemates' secret terrible flaws or an evil angel trying to use this euphoria to draw me into tartarus will have to appear, because otherwise i've found shangri-la

and the rent is 350 dollars a month

is anyone else boggled that being in a share house is some kind of amazing thing for...


oh wait he's rich nevermind

stark i don't want to fuck with your perceptions

but the amount of things i own fit easily into the backseat of a mini-van that also had a bed in it

and the only money i have is the result of being frugal with my earnings from previous jobs

i come from a sweet upper-middle-class home but this does not directly translate into an income for myself

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anyway look you're going through an important life experience

but by goign public now everyone is goign to laugh at you when you get herpes by fucking someone's drycleaner that their dog shat in during an lsd binge and accidentally setting the kitchen on fire trying a home remedy

maybe for americans (ho ho) share housing is some rare and distant cultural event because movies tell me everyone lives on cmapus!

starku wrote: anyway look you're going through an important life experience

but by goign public now everyone is goign to laugh at you when you get herpes by fucking someone's drycleaner that their dog shat in during an lsd binge and accidentally setting the kitchen on fire trying a home remedy

i am okay with this

the main thing is that i'm just surprised by 1. the scary kindness and camaraderie of my housemates, 2. how much having to be a basic adult and take responsibility for my own actions has actually improved my demeanour and required very little willpower once i was in this situation, and 3. magical healing powers and paying a pittance for rent

you know sometimes i'm almost tempted to move to one of those southern shithole states because the rent is so cheap

i mean a 2 bedroom apartment for less than $500/mo, in kansas city? that's unheard of here.

yeah but you'll probably get paid shit and also have to live in a shithole area

uraniun235 wrote:yeah but you'll probably get paid shit and also have to live in a shithole area

well i can't say anything about the neighborhoods without going there myself but that looked to be normal for prices near downtown

and some of the jobs i've seen being advertised for that i could reasonably get were paying just a few dollars less than i make now

i wouldn't necessarily mind doing factory stuff for $17 an hour

Zod wrote: i wouldn't necessarily mind doing factory stuff for $17 an hour

that's something i said before i did one

Nietzslime wrote:

Zod wrote: i wouldn't necessarily mind doing factory stuff for $17 an hour

that's something i said before i did one

i've done factory stuff before, but it was a shitty $8 an hour job

as long as it doesn't actually involve heavy lifting anyway, if that's the case i'm fucked

Zod wrote:

Nietzslime wrote:

Zod wrote: i wouldn't necessarily mind doing factory stuff for $17 an hour

that's something i said before i did one

i've done factory stuff before, but it was a shitty $8 an hour job

as long as it doesn't actually involve heavy lifting anyway, if that's the case i'm fucked

fair enough

Lol 17/hour

I make more than that at a super market

zhaktronz wrote:Lol 17/hour

I make more than that at a super market

you'd have to give me six figures to get me to work retail again

Yes Zoe we know Americans have stockholm syndrome.

I make more washing dishes.

starku wrote:
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anyway look you're going through an important life experience

but by goign public now everyone is goign to laugh at you when you get herpes by fucking someone's drycleaner that their dog shat in during an lsd binge and accidentally setting the kitchen on fire trying a home remedy

maybe for americans (ho ho) share housing is some rare and distant cultural event because movies tell me everyone lives on cmapus!

man I was listening to triple j the other day in my mate's car and they had this whole thing about 'SHARE HOUSES IN THE 90s OMG'

'yeah they used to get pretty feral in the 90s - remember the house parties? we used to make...sangria'
'HOLY SHIT NO WAY CRAZINESS'

this may signify that triple j is full of lame old people y/n

Do students still rent structures that are probably not legally houses from inner city landlords and fill them with empty nos bulbs

Because I think yes triple j has been alarmkny dated for some time

Also do no let your frogbeast of a girlfriend wear my shirt goddamn NEVER FORGET

Frogstomp?

even worse than silverchair

man i loved that shirt

lapels all the way out to there baby yeah

sigh the 90s were a terrible time

all the goddamn wiccans putting spells on you

Gands wrote:I make more washing dishes.

here's the thing though

what's australian rent and property prices like?

thanks to property speculators

all houses in country overvalued at least 2x lol

our real estate market didnt' explode like the american one so prices never dramatically slumped

also building codes = lack of flophouses

plenty of people share in west end or spring hill (ie walking distance to cbd) for a pittance anyway

and y'know free medical care, police that don't beat you up, basically zero violent crime, weather that cant' kill you, etc

Last time I looked (6months ago or so) our PPPwas about 80% that of America. Given our wages are about 80% more than America; yeah we win.

Edit so I checked;

According to the OECD data Australia cost of living is 62% higher than the US.

Wich means, we still win

Edit 2:

Our minimum wage is ~15-16 USD/ hour.

Hey Dan do you even know of any jobs that pay minimum wage lol.

Casual shit often does

But almost nothing with a contract

And ppp sucks don't use it :p