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Uzique wrote:

you only finished paying off your student debts a year ago, i remember you posting about it because i gz'd you. you also had financial aid with the gi bill, as you said "not much but it helped". if you're making 100k a year how has it taken you until your mid-30's to pay off student debts for a low-ranking, relatively inexpensive college education? someone has been popping one too many zolofts

GI Bill payments are based on cost of living, and when he was going to school, were pretty much shit. When I started college I was receiving $1800 a month and expected to pay for my tuition out of that. It changed a year before I graduated and became SUPER AWESOME, but up to that point it really wasn't much, let alone enough to live on. They calculated $1800 a month in New York City, I'd hate to see what they'd calculate out in the midwest where he is from, maybe $700/month.

yep. i know a rich kid from hong kong that went to my uni and he ate out literally EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, also went to like three west-end london musicals/shows a week and had a flat near the london eye, right bang in central. basically you'd think he'd be used to a pretty fantastic quality of life. instead he was taking photos of every single meal he ate as if that shit was the FINEST CUISINE HE EVER DAMN SEEN. mystery to me.

usmarine i'm not being a know it all, at all... you confessed to one of us euro members that you were depressed and came here cause you were pissed off a lot IRL to blow off some steam. do you not remember that? we do. want us to dig up the pm for you? cause it's only a few steam messages away. or are you gonna stop blowing hotair about how you're making 'six figures' a year and talking smack to a college-age kid that has just scraped together some dollar for a summer trip. what's the fucking problem? i would ask have you never had a temp summer job as a student, but of course i remember that you were too poor to afford college the normal way so you had to go shoot farmers in the desert for a few years first. guess that was your middle-eastern holiday, anyway.

Chardee MacDennis wrote:

i worked in during school as a mechanic

I waited tables until they passed the Post 9/11 GI Bill

is this the part where the thread turns into jay and usmarine hating poseidon because he wasn't born into as deadbeat a family, or what?

seems to be a bit of a theme. "hate kids that have more than you". poseidon has clearly worked and saved for his trip, and has personally budgeted and taken full financial responsibility. what's the fucking problem? he didn't have to lick boot polish in the army for a few years first to 'earn' that privilege? boohoo you fucking peasants.

Uzique wrote:

is this the part where the thread turns into jay and usmarine hating poseidon because he wasn't born into as deadbeat a family, or what?

seems to be a bit of a theme. "hate kids that have more than you". poseidon has clearly worked and saved for his trip, and has personally budgeted and taken full financial responsibility. what's the fucking problem? he didn't have to lick boot polish in the army for a few years first to 'earn' that privilege? boohoo you fucking peasants.

you are in no position to say anything about that

Uzique wrote:

Jay wrote:

Uzique wrote:

you only finished paying off your student debts a year ago, i remember you posting about it because i gz'd you. you also had financial aid with the gi bill, as you said "not much but it helped". if you're making 100k a year how has it taken you until your mid-30's to pay off student debts for a low-ranking, relatively inexpensive college education? someone has been popping one too many zolofts

GI Bill payments are based on cost of living, and when he was going to school, were pretty much shit. When I started college I was receiving $1800 a month and expected to pay for my tuition out of that. It changed a year before I graduated and became SUPER AWESOME, but up to that point it really wasn't much, let alone enough to live on. They calculated $1800 a month in New York City, I'd hate to see what they'd calculate out in the midwest where he is from, maybe $700/month.

that's $700 more than a student without the gi bill makes though, no? $700 a month is a pretty handsome amount, imo. i figured out my living costs this year, in one of the uk's most expensive areas, to be around $13,800 (not including any tuition fees cause i won a full excellence scholarship when i "became SUPER AWESOME"). $700/month sounds like a lovely handout to me. bearing in mind someone taking advantage of the GI bill has actually worked a full-time job for year or more before going to college, whereas most 'traditional' route college undergrads enter college with no personal savings. i don't see why you're whining. you got a cash handout to support a career change / higher education path. that's pretty fucking pretty from where i'm sitting.

And we traded years of our lives at low pay and high danger levels in order to receive those payments. I think you fail to understand that at the time I joined the Army was selling the GI Bill as a free college education. All you had to do was serve four years, and voila, education paid for. $700 a month is absolute shit when you have to pay for tuition up front, you have to pay for your dorm, and your meal plan, books etc.

Once the GI Bill changed, I was receiving payments of $3600 a month for living expenses, a stipend for books, and my tuition was paid for up front at no cost to me. As I said, it is now SUPER AWESOME, but back when marine was attending school it basically allowed you to attend school while maintaining a part time job on the side rather than a full time one

person's funds - college fees - potential gi bill = x debt
person's funds - college fees + potential gi bill = x debt - gi bill payouts

i still think marine was better off than someone without the gi bill, no? complex math, i know.

also galt weren't you a pog for your 'service'? yeah, sounds like you really stuck your head into death alley for that freebie college tuition.

Last edited by Uzique (2011-11-29 11:14:16)

Uzique wrote:

well for a start you make it sound as if you've been making six figures for a long time. also flight school isn't that expensive over here, providing you get an airline to take you on. didn't you do that? your life story on this forum makes no sense.

and ilo... what the fuck is an artform about a starbucks coffee cup? what the fuck is an artform about a meal that cost < $50? that's 'eating out', not 'art'. they're hardly eating a fucking rothko. leave the cameras at home and stop flashing my night into ruin.

it's quite hard to get a sponsored PPL over here, and without it it winds up cheaper to do it in america. i think thats what PV did

Jay wrote:

Uzique wrote:

well i am, because i'm taking full financial responsibility for myself. if i saved for a vacation and you two misers started jumping down my throat, i'd tell you to shut up as well. what right do you have? cause i didn't have to scrape through as much misery during the first 16 years of my life, i can't enjoy nice things that i work and save to 100% afford, now, age 21+? lol fuck off.

cybargs i'm convinced the whole asian photo thing is part of the up-and-coming rich asians desperately wanting to be white. they love western culture and ideas of european 'class' and stuff and think eating out is like being served as royalty or something. except here in europe even the most average people don't consider eating out every week or two to be a big deal.

I wasn't saying anything negative about poseidon or his trip at all. If you scroll back a few pages you'll see me offering helpful advice, like avoiding IDF recruitment speeches. I simply entered this thread today to correct your misconceptions about marines possible debt load since you seemed so ignorant.

pardon me for not sparing my luxurious bourgeoisie time educating myself on the smallprint of your blue-collar handout bills

besides, the guy was making out he's a rich success. he only just finished paying off his college bills. your point about the gi bill, whilst being a minor correction, only serves to reinforce my point: usmarine ain't a balla, and can hardly talk down to poseidon like some oil oligarch that has made his millions.

Last edited by Uzique (2011-11-29 11:18:08)

Uzique wrote:

cybargs i'm convinced the whole asian photo thing is part of the up-and-coming rich asians desperately wanting to be white. they love western culture and ideas of european 'class' and stuff and think eating out is like being served as royalty or something. except here in europe even the most average people don't consider eating out every week or two to be a big deal.

I have no idea but I notice most of it is taking pics of white food (even crappy food court shit) or REALLY expensive asian food in general... shits pretty fucking retarded and rich hongkies are pretty annoying too... never stfu in a restaurant and always go full blast ching chong ling long. its like theyre trying to prove something to their other asian friends on how awesome their meal was.

and as you say, mr. libertarian, when the middle-class ivy league majors crowd wall street and complain about their debts...

IT WAS THEIR CHOICE. your choice to go to baghdad. your choice to take a 'free gi bill education' route instead of just saving up for a few years working a regular civilian job. so maybe usmarine and co. (not you in this thread, but definitely elsewhere on these forums) should quit with the 'we're entitled to more applause than you' crap when it comes to earning a living.

defending pos...well he always talks shit to me so meh.  well this entertained me mildly.  now that the chicken and skirt steak is done......please continue.

i wish i could masturbate actually i haven't had the internet at home in almost a week.

wanna skype me here in the library galt? i'll be real quick, i'm bursting.