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marlowe
from Antarctica on 2002-11-04 21:09 [#00428155]
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As part of my dissertation on the messageboard, I'm wondering what kind of Financial Backgrounds you all come from? A well-off family perhaps, or a destitute family of circus freaks?
I'll start---My mum became a single mum when I was 4, after my Junkie Alcoholic Brickie dad was kicked out--we lived in a small council flat in London--then she married my step-dad, who had two degrees (in Maths and Physics), and who worked for Shell UK--now, they are well-off--So, I've experienced two sides of that upbringing.
How about your upbringing--
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naaic
from Uppsala (Sweden) on 2002-11-04 21:10 [#00428156]
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my dad sells used cars
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ExHore
from Stamford, Ct. (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:11 [#00428158]
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well as u know i live with my mom who is poor as all hell except with the monthly child support/allamoney she recieves from dad ;)
my dad is rich but i dun live with him nor like him
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BlatantEcho
from All over (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:12 [#00428160]
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upper-middle class, white suburban house.
Grew up in one of the richest counties in the nation, mostly public school some private.
Drove BMW, shit like that, still am pretty much that way, though I hardly consider myself elitist or in any way stuck up, I mean that.
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od_step_cloak
from Pleth (Australia) on 2002-11-04 21:14 [#00428166]
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dad owns business mum didnt work till a few weeks ago.
standard australian upbringing.
house, big nice garden, 2 cars, public school, friends, sunshine.
i don't know my upbringing was pretty basic and uneventful but i was (and am) happy so it's all good.
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ExHore
from Stamford, Ct. (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:16 [#00428170]
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>:O all stuck up people dun know they are...
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BlatantEcho
from All over (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:16 [#00428171]
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lol, fuck you
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ExHore
from Stamford, Ct. (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:17 [#00428174]
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lol, fuck you too
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ExHore
from Stamford, Ct. (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:17 [#00428175]
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rich fucking idiot
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corn_mouth
from santiago (Chile) on 2002-11-04 21:18 [#00428179]
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too damn complex to specify, paul
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BlatantEcho
from All over (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:19 [#00428181]
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touche, i go to public school away from home now anyway, so upbringing isn't hanging around me anymore
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ExHore
from Stamford, Ct. (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:19 [#00428182]
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well, are you poor or rich corn?
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marlowe
from Antarctica on 2002-11-04 21:20 [#00428185]
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:( whyso, seb?
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corn_mouth
from santiago (Chile) on 2002-11-04 21:20 [#00428187]
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hey by the way fag, what`s your new user name on slsk this time you freak!
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ExHore
from Stamford, Ct. (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:21 [#00428190]
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...tpfkan, nigga!
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corn_mouth
from santiago (Chile) on 2002-11-04 21:23 [#00428194]
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my family`s a typical upper middle class one. my dad died on 96 on an airplane crash, so that has put some extra weight on me and my mom in terms of working for ze family.
other than that it`s been preety normal.
and i`m no rich boy dood, so fugg off
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ExHore
from Stamford, Ct. (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:24 [#00428199]
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sorry bout ur dad :(.
id give anything to have my dad dead...not to offend u or anyone else on here.
upper middle class tends to mean rich though
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Ophecks
from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-11-04 21:27 [#00428208]
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My mom and dad were very careless and had me at 17, and he left a couple years later... she went to college and I basically was raised by my grandparents... but I have a big, very closeknit family so it wasn't really a totally lonely only child upbringing, I thought my aunts were sisters for a few years when I was reeaaally young! I'm a spoiled brat.
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ExHore
from Stamford, Ct. (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:28 [#00428209]
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:(
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Ophecks
from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-11-04 21:28 [#00428211]
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Financially, my mommy owns a courier service, she's her own boss, so money isn't an issue. Plus I have no mooching siblings to make for extra expense. Me me me.
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Ophecks
from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-11-04 21:29 [#00428215]
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I'm going to kick my dad's ass someday.
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ExHore
from Stamford, Ct. (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:29 [#00428217]
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me too ophecks, im going to kill my dad one day...one day soon
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marlowe
from Antarctica on 2002-11-04 21:30 [#00428222]
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Why did your dad leave? Do you know? Have you thought about tyring to find him?
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ExHore
from Stamford, Ct. (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:31 [#00428226]
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i want my dad dead.
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ExHore
from Stamford, Ct. (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:32 [#00428229]
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and zeus
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Inverted Whale
from United States Minor Outlying Islands on 2002-11-04 21:33 [#00428231]
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All across the Arctic fables describe marriages between humans and whales. In a Yakut version, the baby whale is affectionately adopted by the tribe and kept in a special bucket by the side of his mother’s tent until he outgrows it, at which point he is freed into the sea. When foreign whalers arrive, they kill the adopted whale. The tribe responds to this violence by attacking the strangers. The Yakuts tell this story to explain how warfare first came to the human beings.
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Ophecks
from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-11-04 21:33 [#00428233]
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My mom talks to him on the phone sometimes, and he wanted to talk to me once... I declined. She says he was too young and not ready, blah blah blah, all that stuff, and I guess that's true. Says he still loves me and all that, but the feeling isn't mutual, I want nothing to do with him. Maybe if I have some little Ophecks' I'll rub it in his face that I wouldn't do that.
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Cabbog
from Chautauqua (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:34 [#00428235]
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Yeah me too. Speaking of, didn't you promise me a picture of your mom a few weeks back?
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ExHore
from Stamford, Ct. (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:34 [#00428236]
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yáy!
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ExHore
from Stamford, Ct. (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:39 [#00428251]
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DONT SINK THREAD!
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marlowe
from Antarctica on 2002-11-04 21:39 [#00428252]
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I'm in two minds about meeting my father--my mum's friend in London knows where he lives and stuff, and apparently he's doing OK now--I have no ill-will towards him--I don't blame him for how he was--he was a drunk drug addict, I'm not going to judge him--I think I might freak out if I met him tho--It's a tricky one, since I'm going to be emigrating shortly.
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Zeus
from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:40 [#00428253]
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im glad you care!
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Ophecks
from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-11-04 21:40 [#00428254]
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Oh yeah! What are you, some kind of MILF hunter?!!?
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Zeus
from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:41 [#00428257]
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*to exhore
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ExHore
from Stamford, Ct. (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:41 [#00428258]
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what about u zeus?
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Refund
from Melbourne (Australia) on 2002-11-04 21:41 [#00428259]
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I've lived in both rich and poor,.. both of them sucked,...now I live on my own,.. I'm neither rich nor poor,..I'm just here
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ExHore
from Stamford, Ct. (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:42 [#00428260]
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yáy?
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flea
from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-11-04 21:42 [#00428261]
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we were kinda like the poverty stricken nobility...that you read so much about in the Brit Isles....my family is a family of Tribal leaders/elders..but thanks to the Wars etc..it has been mostly merely in the name..we have lands but the incomings are a lot tighter than out goings...we basically lived upper middle class lifestyles (all show mind you) on lower middle class budget..if that makes any sense what so ever..
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Amonbrune
from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-11-04 21:42 [#00428262]
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I was literally born in a ditch. i had worne no clothes for 11 years...and when i saw them i was like holy kizzow! then another naked friend of mine told me about ... Lottery. i didn't know what this was! it was crazy i tell you. so my naked friend found some clothes and put them on and we went to this store that had a sign on it called LOTTO (I couldn't read at the time but he could you see). we bought one ticket and we frickin' won!!! he told me 'I OWNZ TH1Z PL4CE NO\/\/" then he told me how much we had and i litterally flipped in the air!
pff...now i have it all brothers and sisters. i live in 2 mansions put together...have 169 girlfriends and drive any car i want!
PFF....
oh yeah...that wasn't true.
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ExHore
from Stamford, Ct. (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:43 [#00428263]
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yeah i know poverty :(
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Ophecks
from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-11-04 21:44 [#00428266]
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No hurry to meet him... someday I might... you're a young stud, you've got time to think about it. I'd freak out, too... I could actually see myself meeting him, but not anytime soon. Just give it time, I guess, that's what I'm doing.
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ExHore
from Stamford, Ct. (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:44 [#00428268]
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marlowe's 25 with a wife, how is he a young stud? you must be 100!
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Zeus
from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:45 [#00428270]
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my parents were poor through childhood, and paid there own way through college.
when they were firsy married, they basically had no money, but my dad kept getting raises, cause hes a hard worker, so now we are uppermiddle class id say.
i have a very close family.
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marlowe
from Antarctica on 2002-11-04 21:45 [#00428271]
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Yeah--that sounds like modern life in the UK--everyone maxxing out their Credit Cards to live lifestyles advertised on Tv--then ending up only ever paying off the Interest on their cards--damn shame, and morally bankrupt.
Luckily, they'd never give me a credit card--a book is a luxury for me.
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Ophecks
from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-11-04 21:47 [#00428273]
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You're not old until you're 35!
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marlowe
from Antarctica on 2002-11-04 21:48 [#00428277]
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That's the thing, Ophecks--I don't have that much time to decide any more--I'm probably leaving shortly after Christmas--and I'll be going to London (where he lives) to get my visa and fly off--so it would be then or (probably) never. : /
my mum sometimes says I remind her of him...(before he was a junkie mind)...it's so hard :(
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Ophecks
from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-11-04 21:52 [#00428287]
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Never say never, it's a small world. Unless he's got some terminal illness or something, I doubt this will be your last chance.
If you decide to bite the bullet and meet him, let me know how it goes. Imagine how good it would be if it went well...
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flea
from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-11-04 21:52 [#00428288]
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But alas it's not Credit Cards over there..it's the money lending system..you put bits of land in hock whenever there is a family upheavel progression etc..Kid needs to go to college needs a car etc..it hardly ever gets paid back so the land gets erroded and bitten off bit by bit by the banks..money lenders etc..leaving the family lords of ever diminishing domains..
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aron
from saskatoon (Canada) on 2002-11-04 21:52 [#00428289]
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when i was smaller we had our own house and shit and then my parents went bankrupt and divorced and times were pretty hard fopr a while now were doing good though, we got a house and a car of our own and cable tv and internet
pretty dope. my mom works MAD hard, like you wouldn't believe. rezpekt
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ExHore
from Stamford, Ct. (United States) on 2002-11-04 21:53 [#00428291]
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aron, you smile too much
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