06 Nov 2017, 6:24 am
RetroGamer87
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06 Nov 2017, 6:25 am
Outrider wrote:
RetroGamer87 wrote:
hale_bopp wrote:
Who spends $4000 per year on bithday gifts? Or thousands of dollars a week on food?? Unless they have 10 children?
People who buy an iPhone for each of their kids (gotta have the trendy brand
)Brand new I phones are like $800 aren't they?
3 kids = $2,400 right there.
Hale_Bopp, welcome to Middle Class Australia.
$800? Maybe in America. We have to pay beach tax, remember?
Below is a recent listing of prices for late model iPhones from JB hi fi.
These are the phones the teenyboppers think are trendy. They ask their parents for them so they can keep up with what their high school friends have.
They're designed more to be fashion accessories than useful tools. That's why they cost as much as a designer handbag.
Of course if those prices are to expensive their parents might just buy them on contract but that might end up costing two or three times as much in the long run (phone contracts can end up being a tax on people who can't do arithmetic).
06 Nov 2017, 6:56 am
Mind = Blown.
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06 Nov 2017, 8:37 am
fluffysaurus wrote:
An NT spends 5 mins, if that, writing a profile on a dating sight then forgets about it two miniuts later.
We spend days analysing and debating that profile depressing ourselves and each other, conclusion? well which ever one we come to you can bet we will analyse it to death.
We spend days analysing and debating that profile depressing ourselves and each other, conclusion? well which ever one we come to you can bet we will analyse it to death.
Yep, that about sums it up. I personally spent hours writing and perfecting my dating profile and when it led to little success, I re-wrote it again and again assuming the problem was me. As I tend to do, I projected on everyone else and presumed they spent hours on their profiles. I am starting to think 5 minutes is being generous looking back.
Outrider wrote:
A lot of girls my age I've met have everything given to them, parents paying for their $4,000 Euro trip, givng.them brand new cars, paying for their university studies, etc.
That would explain why so many of them have been around the world multiple times with their crappy job. It really struck me how you said this is seen as normal. My wife had most of her tuition paid for, lived rent free and didn't seem to think that was unusual. She even had her job handed to her likely as a favor to her father.
I also find it shocking that I was at a McDonalds once and there was a group of elementary school aged kids. EVERYone of the them had a better phone than I do! I couldn't believe parents would even buy children phones because they obviously can't buy them alone.
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The_Face_of_Boo
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06 Nov 2017, 11:55 am
314pe wrote:
Outrider wrote:
Glad you understand.
And thank you for your personal example with you wife.
That's exactly what I mean. Young women who are raised spoiled by their middle class parents often expect their boyfriend to provide the same sort of lifestyle her parents did when it was really an illusion.
The only way he can provide that lifestyle for her is if he adopts the same reckless spending habits as her parents, then she and him will become just like her parents and do the same, live paycheck to paycheck and in debt even though they're both high earners.
And then the cycle just continues as each generation passes down these economic and financial habits to their kids.
And thank you for your personal example with you wife.
That's exactly what I mean. Young women who are raised spoiled by their middle class parents often expect their boyfriend to provide the same sort of lifestyle her parents did when it was really an illusion.
The only way he can provide that lifestyle for her is if he adopts the same reckless spending habits as her parents, then she and him will become just like her parents and do the same, live paycheck to paycheck and in debt even though they're both high earners.
And then the cycle just continues as each generation passes down these economic and financial habits to their kids.
I've seen a video where a grownup woman is crying because boyfriend didn't buy her an iphone soon enough. Guy in the video says that she should wait until the next model comes out (this was a few months ago).
EDIT:
I think I've found a link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mouaQtL5sk It's in Russian, but language of tears is international.
I couldn't play your video, but It suggested me this funny prank video instead:
It's in Algerian Arabic (I barely could understand myself, I wouldn't have understood a word without their use of French): the cashier asked the young lady (veiled in brown) to let the guy passes the water bottle because he's in hurry, she let him in and the cashier was like "Congratulations, you have won the big prize of 100,000000 dinar and a free travel to Istanbul!" check the reaction on the lady's face and her mom
- she civilly objected to the reporter saying that they should give her a fair share of the prize because it was her turn, she was passing already her stuff to the cashier, and she was kind enough to allow him pass the bottle.To be fair, I would have reacted the same, probably even more aggresively.
06 Nov 2017, 12:45 pm
Outrider wrote:
RetroGamer87 wrote:
hale_bopp wrote:
Who spends $4000 per year on bithday gifts? Or thousands of dollars a week on food?? Unless they have 10 children?
People who buy an iPhone for each of their kids (gotta have the trendy brand
)Brand new I phones are like $800 aren't they?
3 kids = $2,400 right there.
Hale_Bopp, welcome to Middle Class Australia.
iPhone X is over 1,000
06 Nov 2017, 12:50 pm
06 Nov 2017, 12:57 pm
RetroGamer87 wrote:
Outrider wrote:
RetroGamer87 wrote:
hale_bopp wrote:
Who spends $4000 per year on bithday gifts? Or thousands of dollars a week on food?? Unless they have 10 children?
People who buy an iPhone for each of their kids (gotta have the trendy brand
)Brand new I phones are like $800 aren't they?
3 kids = $2,400 right there.
Hale_Bopp, welcome to Middle Class Australia.
$800? Maybe in America. We have to pay beach tax, remember?
Below is a recent listing of prices for late model iPhones from JB hi fi.
These are the phones the teenyboppers think are trendy. They ask their parents for them so they can keep up with what their high school friends have.
They're designed more to be fashion accessories than useful tools. That's why they cost as much as a designer handbag.
Of course if those prices are to expensive their parents might just buy them on contract but that might end up costing two or three times as much in the long run (phone contracts can end up being a tax on people who can't do arithmetic).
Nope iPhones are around $800 for past models.
You don’t pay more here making making payments.
They take the price divide by 24 and that’s what you pay each month. Sure at the end of two years you paid more then what that phone cost then but you’re paying the same price of the phone if someone bought it day one outright.
Phones are micro computers that fit in your pocket. And they keep getting more advanced. That’s why they cost the same as a computer. Mines a tool. But I do like how it looks much like I like how my laptop looks or my guns or my drill. You can have a tool and have it look good. If anything most companies drive to make their tools also look good. I bought bosch drill cause it’s blue and otherwise as good as the other companies.
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