Any Communist prog fans out there?

Alitare wrote: Well, I DID just make it up. Besides, I think using a proper name of a well-known figure offers more of a central focus for the listener. Why did Jesus of Nazareth start whipping his own flesh with the cat-o-nine-tail? Some fool accidentally set him to 'auto-Pilate'. Or have I told that one before?

How about this?

What did the German say when offered a salve to dull the effects of the romance tincture he had taken the previous day?

"Love Potion number? Nein!"

Ok:

There are millions and millions of people poorer than I.

There are millions and millions richer.

What has that to do with anything except that Slart judges everyone who disagrees with him as a spoiled little rich kid?

js (Easy Money) wrote: Epignosis wrote: js (Easy Money) wrote: Epignosis wrote: js (Easy Money) wrote: Epignosis wrote: <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">What exactly are "poverty credentials?"  Can someone point me to a list?  Because we've been f**king poor in our time.  But if I've been kidding myself that raising a family of four on $25 a week for food, being robbed the same year, <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">and pawning my instruments to pay the utility bill is doing swell, let me know.  Ask Theodore, apparently involves a "third world" upbringing and a retail job, maybe there is more . No thanks.  I'm asking you. Sorry, Theodore is the expert on that, I've worked my ass off to achieve lower middle class and I am proud of it. Someone said "your poverty credentials are bullsh*t."I want to know what these credentials are.  John?Either you have the list of credentials, or your comment was bullsh*t.  Which was it?  You'll have to ask Theodore, he has listed his "state of being that entitles him to certain knowledge" in another post.

And you judged his position by saying his "poverty credentials [are] pure bullsh*t."

That means you know what qualifies someone as being in poverty.

If you cannot answer that, then your remark was, well, bullsh*t. 

It's Teodoro. JS Easy Money.

I wasn't attempting to compete with anybody. Everyone I've known in my life, rich or poor, has suffered in some measure. I've little money compared to many, but I'm neither proud nor ashamed. How about a joke I just made up?

I do wish people would stop saying "well I'm poorer than you!" It merely plays into the (false) idea that being poor gives you some kind of unique powers of empathy or wisdom.

^I'm doing the same Easy Money. And it is working, far better than complaining or waiting for the government-Messiah.

It's Teodoro if you want to use my full name by the way.

The Doctor wrote: Teo, to someone who has been called ignorant, despicable and other such things in the past few days (which funny enough, neither you nor anyone of the libertarian clique had a problem with, although they did have a problem with me talking back), "spoiled little rich kid" seems rather tame.

I'll give you this: you defended yourself and you were entitled to it. I don't think the "ignorant" thing was meant as an offense but I can see your point.

js (Easy Money) wrote: Epignosis wrote: <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">What exactly are "poverty credentials?"  Can someone point me to a list?  Because we've been f**king poor in our time.  But if I've been kidding myself that raising a family of four on $25 a week for food, being robbed the same year, <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">and pawning my instruments to pay the utility bill is doing swell, let me know.  Ask Theodore, apparently involves a "third world" upbringing and a retail job, maybe there is more .

No thanks.  I'm asking you.

^Spoiled little poor kid.