I lived at home until 21. Why? Because I was going to college and it helped to live at home and save money for when the student loans came after graduation. This is your fail, buddy.
Just because a parent isn’t providing housing for a child does not mean they aren’t caring…the day after I left for college, my room was turned into my stepmom’s office. Now I don’t even have a room to return to. But, that’s simply because it’s more economical. There is no use having a space for me in the house. I am an independent person. I have also been buying my own food and working since I was 14. My dad still loves me; he just wants me to grow up to be a strong, independent individual.
Plus, he can’t afford otherwise. Our house is in foreclosure now. If anything, I send him money.
Basically, don’t base your love on something economical. Just because the parent isn’t providing for the child doesn’t mean they don’t love them; sometimes they just don’t have the resources. No reason to look down on other parents or their children because of it.
I think for him it was just the opposite Paul. As is for me. As I’ve mentioned below, I work two jobs myself, and pay for college on my own and HAVE 0 DEBT and I’m almost 22. (Going slow because I’m not the quickest learner and the Education field is pretty tough to get through with all the classes that need to be taken.) In return what is expected of me is to still do the household chores I had to do as a kid. Other than that, I pay just about everything except for my cell phone bill and my meals when I’m not working.
Agreed, however, I’m paying for college all on my own, work two jobs and still live at home. I just bought my second car, which is a nice one btw and I had the money for it, ALL of which I had been able to pay full price for though it was not an expected purchase as my first car went kablooey on me. I still have to pay just about everything except for cell phone bill, dinner/lunch and/or breakfast when I’m not working, and no rent. In return I’m still expected to help out around the house, take care of my 4 year old little sis, etc. All in all, it’s a smart move and once I’m done with college I’ll only have the $1,000 of loans I took out 4 years ago, which turns out I’ve not really needed. So props to you as well man for doing the same.
i’m 21 and just about to move out. They let me come home after my then situation went a bit pear shaped. i offered to pay rent and stuff and they said it wasn’t fair on me. Fail @ you for having sucky parents
Like I said above, it’s rude to assume that parents are sucky simply because they don’t subsidize all of the costs of their child’s lives. Some parents simply cannot afford to provide for their children. It makes the children stronger. When I first started high school, I was a C-average student. But since I have been independent, I now have four years of work experience, savings, the title of valedictorian, national champion titles in marketing competitions (DECA), and credentials as a musical theatre actress. If my dad had simply given me everything I need to sustain myself, I wouldn’t have had nearly enough motivation to pursue all of that. I am grateful that my dad gave me the responsibility to live my own life; it has made me a stronger person. But even if he didn’t choose to, he couldn’t have provided for me anyway, because he did not have the resources. Heck, even with my providing for myself, his house is still under foreclosure. He can’t really allow me to stay there in that situation, can he?
Basically, don’t assume that parents are sucky just because they don’t provide for their children. Each individual child has a different situation. I turned out better when I provided for myself. For some people, it’s better to always be provided for by other people. That’s their beef. In either situation, the parents could be sucky or good. It’s not determined solely on the financial aid they provide to their children.
Well, you don’t know that he lived with his parents. Twenty means he might be in college, and by “grounded” he might mean that his parents cut him off from his money flow. We don’t have context.
Grounded does typically mean the child can’t leave the house except for parent approved events. However, it can also encompass other items such as no allowance. Really, its just however the parents want to define the punishment.
and you’re a 20 year old adult living an adult life with your own adult house and an adult car. all of this you got with your own adult blood and sweat
Really, what is the huge problem with that? She could be saving to buy a house. I lived with my parents until I was 27. I’m not ashamed of it. In a lot of cultures the children stay home until they marry, and that can easily go into the 20s.
Because I lived with my parents until I was 27, I was able to buy a house and now have less debt than just about all of my friends. I’d call it a smart choice. As for playing WoW, no one works all the time. Let her have a little fun. Sounds like she picked up a cheap hobby that allows her to continue to save.
You’re not ashamed of eating into your parents’ finances for 7-9 years longer than you needed to? You’re not ashamed of preventing your parents from spending their hard-earned money on themselves instead of on their “it’s easier for me” child?
I sincerely hope you get down on your hands and knees and kiss your parents’ feet on a regular basis.
Actually, letting your adult child live with you is not that expensive, if they cover their own expenses. You’re only talking a little extra for food and utilities, compared to the cost of rent, a new set of utilities, and a separate fridge full of food if the kid lives on his/her own. You don’t know the situation. A lot of parents (like mine for example) are okay with helping their kids out because part of being a good parent is wanting your child to be better off than you are. And it’s one thing to live with your parents and expect them to carry you. It’s another entirely to live with them while going to school/saving money/looking for a job as long as you try to find productive ways to contribute to the household.
Very well put. Also many people over 20 who still live with their parents pay board to help cover those slightly higher expenses. But this board isn’t as high as it would be if they were to try getting their own apartment. So just because you are still living with your parents doesn’t mean you are mooching off from them. You also have to remember that in some cultures, including the original cultures western culture came from, you never moved out of home, depending on the gender. If you married then the spouse just came to live with you and your parents.
yeah he probably is just pissed and bitter,
i am 30 and live with my parents again, after having moved out for a few years. i pay half THEIR rent and buy them groceries, so i’d say that is far from mooching, but it’s still their name on the lease so it’s still their house rules. and like someone else said… grounded could be a loose interpretation. and they also might not ACTUALLY be 20, their friend could be exaggerating.
I left home less than a week after I turned 18, but I have friends who live at home at age 23 and beyond. Most are from poor families, and are working their way through college. All pay rent, buy their own food, and help out around the house and with siblings. Their parents are glad for the extra help.
I’m 21 and still living with my parents. Unfortunately I am not doing it by choice, but out of necessity. Due to the sh**ty economy I have been unemployed for 8 months and have still not been able to find a job yet.
I can’t even pay my own damn car insurance. So, not everybody can move out of their parents house due to the economy.
People also thought the world was flat for the longest time. I’d suggest adding to your statement “There is no faster than light in physics” the caveat “as far as we know”.
Parents only deserve respect if they give their child respect. not saying you dont but that’s what happend to respect.
as to the guy below me… You never hit your kid. even if its just a “Smack”.
Go back 40+ years.. Ok, back then you were smacked if you even disagreed with your mother. Look at those generations, now look at ours, look again, see the difference? Our generation is a bunch of lazy no good for nothings with hardly any morals. Those generations? While they may not have been successful to your eyes, they worked hard, they had morals, and they have earned respect, which is a success on it’s own. Food for thought.
I think it’s more the fact that parents are giving more and more leniency toward children that is resulting in our despondent generation. Smacking the children around isn’t going to help anything. Rather, they simply need to be given more responsibility, such as providing for themselves rather than always mooching off of their parents.
It’s more likely that the reason our generations are different is because parents held their children more accountable then than they do now. Violence is an irrelevant and unfortunate factor.
No, actually, I will NOT. If I started -insulting- them with any amount of colourful language rather than simply using a swear as an adjective to something unrelated to them personally, however, then maybe I would.
Nope. If used in context my son will not get in trouble for using the F word. He would only get grounded if he swore at me. Though us Brits like a lot of swearing.
I don’t see the point in being a complete hypocrite and punishing my son for words I use myself, but I also don’t want him to be like some people I overhear, where every other word is profanity. So we set up a system where he’s “allowed” one or two new cursewords every year – things he can say in front of, or even TO, me without fear of punishment (within reason).
This way, he’s learning how to “season” his speech with the occasional well-placed expletive, without going overboard. He’s learning when and where are appropriate venues for mature language, how much is too much, what gets a laugh and what gets a stern look.
He’s 16 and some members of the family disapprove – hilariously, all of them use the exact same language themselves, most of them much less effective than my son, but they still clutch the pearls when he uses even a mild profanity, and ask why I allow that.
I love this.
‘Okay, Hunter, it’s been a year. Time for your two new curse words. I’ll tell you one and you can chose the other for yourself.’
‘Mooooommm….’
‘Come on, Hunter, you know the rules. The chart is up there on the wall. I’ll start. Now you’re sixteen you can use the word ‘bugger’. Now you chose one’
‘Do I have to, mom?’
‘Yes, Honey, it’s a part of growing up.’
‘How about c**t?’
‘YOU FOUL MOUTHED LITTLE PR!CK, I’M GONNA WASH YOUR MOUTH OUT WITH SOAP!’
I don’t see why everyone is making such a big deal about him or her living with his or her parents, when you are 20 and you aren’t in collage, you don’t really have the money to buy a house or apartment.
@Darkscanner, ever hear of renting? Geesh real adults don’t live at home with mommy and daddy until the can buy a place they get out in the world and earn money while renting a place. I left home at nineteen and rented a room so I could actually live my own life without my parents butting in. I have never sponged off my parents, I even put myself through college to get my degree. I did a part-time course and held down a job, yes it was tough but at least I made something of myself instead of being a loser and still living at home. As for the guy in the comments living with his parents till he was 27, you should be ashamed of yourself, seriously you should bet you were still a virgin too because no sane girl would date a guy still living with his parents at that age!
Respect is how you use the language in front of your parents.. if you insult them with it or use it around them while in a tirade then that’s disrespectful.. but saying.. “I stepped in s**t” is far from disrespect. Even using the f-bomb around parents isn’t really that bad depending on how you use it.
My dad doesn’t swear, and my mom is dead. So no, I’ve never heard my parents swear.
I personally don’t swear because I plan to be in the public spotlight in a few years, so I need to teach myself now to not make such slip-ups. Otherwise, I might pull a Biden! haha.
Haha, I don’t think it’s a bad thing though, as long as it’s not common. I think the fail here is not the swearing itself, but the fact that he got grounded for it.
im 24 and live with my parents, whats wrong with that? It’s a tough economy out there. It’s kinda better that way to help eachother out anyways. Maybe people should worry about their own life than some 20 year old that is having a rough time being able to get on their feet. Maybe he dont have good money like the rest u of. Maybe he can’t find a job because of the economy and more qualified people are out there taking all the jobs. I think more people should worry about themselves than what others are doing, no one is perfect and everyone has had their ups and down.
” I think more people should worry about themselves than what others are doing. . .”
Your expressed interest in what others are doing has been noted.
“Maybe he dont have good money like the rest u of. Maybe he can’t find a job because of the economy and more qualified people are out there taking all the jobs.”
If this is representative of the writing style on your resume, then perhaps we have insight into why more qualified people have been out there taking all the jobs from you.
yea i actually have a good job and in college. So i wouldn’t care about the whole someone takin a job from me because that couldn’t possibly happen. And you are probably just pissed because you have a sh**ty life. thats noted as well.
“:Maybe he dont have good money like the rest u of. ”
That’s funny, because the reason I can’t live with my dad (even to visit) is because our house went into foreclosure. And you are saying that the guy who lives at home has more money than me….? I’m pretty sure that if you are living in a house, you are better off financially than someone who just lost their house.
Ground…? At 20? That’s even possible? After we turned about 14 neither of my parents bothered trying to ground either my brother or I. There was no sense. Then they’d be stuck with us for how ever long the grounding was.
I don’t care if that person is still living with his parents, it’s pretty common to be living with your parents at 20, almost all my friends do, and they’re all beyond 20. No, what’s kinda funny/shocking is that his parents are still grounding him. I mean… 20 and grounded ? Never heard of that before !
Although I may seem like I’m against it, I think it’s fine for a 20-year old to be living at home. The fail here is that he was grounded by his parents at his age, not that he lives with his parents at his age.
Do people actually say X-mas?? It`s usually written as Xmas but when you speak you say the actual word `christmas`?? A christmas tree – not an christmas tree. An (E)X – mas tree sounds weird.
Yes people do say Xmas. It might sound weird to you, but for most of the English speaking world to put “an” in front of the letter “x” where it is pronounced “ekes” is acceptable.
I’m 22 and I never swear in front of my parents. Actually, I don’t swear at all. I find swearing generally disrespectful and a cheap form of expression.
OK, a massive amount of you fail massively. Most for their opinions on parents hitting kids (I won’t say which), but more pressingly, not a SINGLE person who noticed the title knows it’s from the best Christmas film ever, A Christmas Story!
You “Brittanicka” people need to be sure to drink your Ovaltine.
Bahahaha!
Strict parents FTL.
20 year old adult still living with Mommy and Daddy FTL
20 year old adult still can’t see the difference between were and where FTL
I lived at home until 21. Why? Because I was going to college and it helped to live at home and save money for when the student loans came after graduation. This is your fail, buddy.
Helped you. Didn’t help your parents. That’s pretty much the definition of mooching – being able yet unwilling to support yourself.
Some parents are caring and are happy to keep their children in their house if it helps them, unlike yours apparently.
Just because a parent isn’t providing housing for a child does not mean they aren’t caring…the day after I left for college, my room was turned into my stepmom’s office. Now I don’t even have a room to return to. But, that’s simply because it’s more economical. There is no use having a space for me in the house. I am an independent person. I have also been buying my own food and working since I was 14. My dad still loves me; he just wants me to grow up to be a strong, independent individual.
Plus, he can’t afford otherwise. Our house is in foreclosure now. If anything, I send him money.
Basically, don’t base your love on something economical. Just because the parent isn’t providing for the child doesn’t mean they don’t love them; sometimes they just don’t have the resources. No reason to look down on other parents or their children because of it.
Mooching? They brought him into the world. WTF?
It’s the parents’ responsibility to always provide a home for their spawn when needed.
I think for him it was just the opposite Paul. As is for me. As I’ve mentioned below, I work two jobs myself, and pay for college on my own and HAVE 0 DEBT and I’m almost 22. (Going slow because I’m not the quickest learner and the Education field is pretty tough to get through with all the classes that need to be taken.) In return what is expected of me is to still do the household chores I had to do as a kid. Other than that, I pay just about everything except for my cell phone bill and my meals when I’m not working.
I did the same.. I didn’t needto borrow a lot and was done paying all the loans in a very short time… My parents actually wanted me to stay with them.
Agreed, however, I’m paying for college all on my own, work two jobs and still live at home. I just bought my second car, which is a nice one btw and I had the money for it, ALL of which I had been able to pay full price for though it was not an expected purchase as my first car went kablooey on me. I still have to pay just about everything except for cell phone bill, dinner/lunch and/or breakfast when I’m not working, and no rent. In return I’m still expected to help out around the house, take care of my 4 year old little sis, etc. All in all, it’s a smart move and once I’m done with college I’ll only have the $1,000 of loans I took out 4 years ago, which turns out I’ve not really needed. So props to you as well man for doing the same.
Sorry. This was meant for Paul. I fail at replying.
i’m 21 and just about to move out. They let me come home after my then situation went a bit pear shaped. i offered to pay rent and stuff and they said it wasn’t fair on me. Fail @ you for having sucky parents
Like I said above, it’s rude to assume that parents are sucky simply because they don’t subsidize all of the costs of their child’s lives. Some parents simply cannot afford to provide for their children. It makes the children stronger. When I first started high school, I was a C-average student. But since I have been independent, I now have four years of work experience, savings, the title of valedictorian, national champion titles in marketing competitions (DECA), and credentials as a musical theatre actress. If my dad had simply given me everything I need to sustain myself, I wouldn’t have had nearly enough motivation to pursue all of that. I am grateful that my dad gave me the responsibility to live my own life; it has made me a stronger person. But even if he didn’t choose to, he couldn’t have provided for me anyway, because he did not have the resources. Heck, even with my providing for myself, his house is still under foreclosure. He can’t really allow me to stay there in that situation, can he?
Basically, don’t assume that parents are sucky just because they don’t provide for their children. Each individual child has a different situation. I turned out better when I provided for myself. For some people, it’s better to always be provided for by other people. That’s their beef. In either situation, the parents could be sucky or good. It’s not determined solely on the financial aid they provide to their children.
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Well, you don’t know that he lived with his parents. Twenty means he might be in college, and by “grounded” he might mean that his parents cut him off from his money flow. We don’t have context.
Uhm, no, “grounded” means “forbidden to leave the house”. It doesn’t mean “not allowed to use parents’ bank account.”
Grounded does typically mean the child can’t leave the house except for parent approved events. However, it can also encompass other items such as no allowance. Really, its just however the parents want to define the punishment.
and you’re a 20 year old adult living an adult life with your own adult house and an adult car. all of this you got with your own adult blood and sweat
I know a 30 year old living with her mother and playing WoW when she isn’t working. Needless to say we aren’t friends any more. ><
What’s her name?
Desperate Adam is desperate.
Really, what is the huge problem with that? She could be saving to buy a house. I lived with my parents until I was 27. I’m not ashamed of it. In a lot of cultures the children stay home until they marry, and that can easily go into the 20s.
Because I lived with my parents until I was 27, I was able to buy a house and now have less debt than just about all of my friends. I’d call it a smart choice. As for playing WoW, no one works all the time. Let her have a little fun. Sounds like she picked up a cheap hobby that allows her to continue to save.
yeah she at least saves -15$ a month. thats if she doesnt buy all the extra mounts and pets.
So what if she uses that little fee? it aint much fella’..
Other ppl have an expensive hobby, but thats okay cus its not WoW?
You’re not ashamed of eating into your parents’ finances for 7-9 years longer than you needed to? You’re not ashamed of preventing your parents from spending their hard-earned money on themselves instead of on their “it’s easier for me” child?
I sincerely hope you get down on your hands and knees and kiss your parents’ feet on a regular basis.
Actually, letting your adult child live with you is not that expensive, if they cover their own expenses. You’re only talking a little extra for food and utilities, compared to the cost of rent, a new set of utilities, and a separate fridge full of food if the kid lives on his/her own. You don’t know the situation. A lot of parents (like mine for example) are okay with helping their kids out because part of being a good parent is wanting your child to be better off than you are. And it’s one thing to live with your parents and expect them to carry you. It’s another entirely to live with them while going to school/saving money/looking for a job as long as you try to find productive ways to contribute to the household.
Very well put. Also many people over 20 who still live with their parents pay board to help cover those slightly higher expenses. But this board isn’t as high as it would be if they were to try getting their own apartment. So just because you are still living with your parents doesn’t mean you are mooching off from them. You also have to remember that in some cultures, including the original cultures western culture came from, you never moved out of home, depending on the gender. If you married then the spouse just came to live with you and your parents.
Don’t humor him, he’s probably just pissed because his parents kicked him out as soon as they were legally allowed to.
yeah he probably is just pissed and bitter,
i am 30 and live with my parents again, after having moved out for a few years. i pay half THEIR rent and buy them groceries, so i’d say that is far from mooching, but it’s still their name on the lease so it’s still their house rules. and like someone else said… grounded could be a loose interpretation. and they also might not ACTUALLY be 20, their friend could be exaggerating.
+1
I left home less than a week after I turned 18, but I have friends who live at home at age 23 and beyond. Most are from poor families, and are working their way through college. All pay rent, buy their own food, and help out around the house and with siblings. Their parents are glad for the extra help.
And how old are you?
I’ll tell you what…if my daughter is smart enough she’ll want to stay with me until 30!!!!
Creepy parent is creepy.
don’t hate only because YOUR parents kicked YOU out!!! …but not all parents are like yours…
If my dad’s house went into foreclosure, I obviously can’t stay there. It has nothing to do with his parenting. Dumbass.
I’m 21 and still living with my parents. Unfortunately I am not doing it by choice, but out of necessity. Due to the sh**ty economy I have been unemployed for 8 months and have still not been able to find a job yet.
I can’t even pay my own damn car insurance. So, not everybody can move out of their parents house due to the economy.
Boo… not funny
I love the britanick reference
20 year old getting grounded while living at his strict parents FTL.
what does ftl mAENS
The opposite of FTW.
And in sci-fi, it means “Faster Than Light.”
Or physics
Faster than physics? Surely you can’t be serious.
There is no “Faster than Light” in physics. So, yeah, we’re gonna stick with sci-fi on that one.
People also thought the world was flat for the longest time. I’d suggest adding to your statement “There is no faster than light in physics” the caveat “as far as we know”.
There hasn’t been a belief in a flat earth for over 2000 years.
And there is hypothesis of the possibilities of FTL in physics.
2000 years? I don’t think you’re remembering your history correctly. It was stilly widely believed the world was flat up until the 1500s.
I also think you mean theories, not hypothesis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon
Yes, the word “hypothetical” appears, but it is still relevant to physics and could theoretically exist.
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If my son disrespected me by dropping the F bomb around me I would smack him. 20 or 2 ya don’t cuss around your mother. Whatever happened to respect?
Exactly! I smacked my daughter when she answered back to me
Did you ask a question?
And here is the odd thing. Swearing = bad. Physical violence against a minor = good?
Some parents get confused by logic.
I’ve always wondered that myself.
Parents only deserve respect if they give their child respect. not saying you dont but that’s what happend to respect.
as to the guy below me… You never hit your kid. even if its just a “Smack”.
I hope he would call the police.
Go back 40+ years.. Ok, back then you were smacked if you even disagreed with your mother. Look at those generations, now look at ours, look again, see the difference? Our generation is a bunch of lazy no good for nothings with hardly any morals. Those generations? While they may not have been successful to your eyes, they worked hard, they had morals, and they have earned respect, which is a success on it’s own. Food for thought.
I think it’s more the fact that parents are giving more and more leniency toward children that is resulting in our despondent generation. Smacking the children around isn’t going to help anything. Rather, they simply need to be given more responsibility, such as providing for themselves rather than always mooching off of their parents.
It’s more likely that the reason our generations are different is because parents held their children more accountable then than they do now. Violence is an irrelevant and unfortunate factor.
I curse around my mother but I don’t curse at her.. and I’m 24. There’s a difference in how you use it.
Not all mom’s faint when you F things up. My mom says things that make me blush ffs, and I’m certainly not a sheltered bubble boy.
I bet you’re probably one of those parents who punishes your son for “backtalk” when they win an argument with you.
you suck. its only a word.
you reap what you sow.
20 year old still live with parents, it’s somewhat common. But getting grounded just for saying the F bomb, bahahahaha! That’s unheard of.
It doesn’t matter how old you are. You WILL get in trouble when you curse in front of your parents.
No, actually, I will NOT. If I started -insulting- them with any amount of colourful language rather than simply using a swear as an adjective to something unrelated to them personally, however, then maybe I would.
Nope. If used in context my son will not get in trouble for using the F word. He would only get grounded if he swore at me. Though us Brits like a lot of swearing.
Only if your parents are prudes.
I don’t see the point in being a complete hypocrite and punishing my son for words I use myself, but I also don’t want him to be like some people I overhear, where every other word is profanity. So we set up a system where he’s “allowed” one or two new cursewords every year – things he can say in front of, or even TO, me without fear of punishment (within reason).
This way, he’s learning how to “season” his speech with the occasional well-placed expletive, without going overboard. He’s learning when and where are appropriate venues for mature language, how much is too much, what gets a laugh and what gets a stern look.
He’s 16 and some members of the family disapprove – hilariously, all of them use the exact same language themselves, most of them much less effective than my son, but they still clutch the pearls when he uses even a mild profanity, and ask why I allow that.
I love this.
‘Okay, Hunter, it’s been a year. Time for your two new curse words. I’ll tell you one and you can chose the other for yourself.’
‘Mooooommm….’
‘Come on, Hunter, you know the rules. The chart is up there on the wall. I’ll start. Now you’re sixteen you can use the word ‘bugger’. Now you chose one’
‘Do I have to, mom?’
‘Yes, Honey, it’s a part of growing up.’
‘How about c**t?’
‘YOU FOUL MOUTHED LITTLE PR!CK, I’M GONNA WASH YOUR MOUTH OUT WITH SOAP!’
That was quite good.
I don’t see why everyone is making such a big deal about him or her living with his or her parents, when you are 20 and you aren’t in collage, you don’t really have the money to buy a house or apartment.
there’s nothing worse than not being in a collage. i mean, glued to a board with all those other bits of things… what could be better?
Win.
@Darkscanner, ever hear of renting? Geesh real adults don’t live at home with mommy and daddy until the can buy a place they get out in the world and earn money while renting a place. I left home at nineteen and rented a room so I could actually live my own life without my parents butting in. I have never sponged off my parents, I even put myself through college to get my degree. I did a part-time course and held down a job, yes it was tough but at least I made something of myself instead of being a loser and still living at home. As for the guy in the comments living with his parents till he was 27, you should be ashamed of yourself, seriously you should bet you were still a virgin too because no sane girl would date a guy still living with his parents at that age!
I’m 38 and still will not swear in front of my parents….it’s called respect people.
Respect is how you use the language in front of your parents.. if you insult them with it or use it around them while in a tirade then that’s disrespectful.. but saying.. “I stepped in s**t” is far from disrespect. Even using the f-bomb around parents isn’t really that bad depending on how you use it.
Do your parent’s not swear? Are you living in the 19th Century or something?
Opps – apostrophe fail on my part.
And spelling of “oops” fail.
My dad swears but I’ve never heard my mom swear. I’m 42 and I don’t swear around my parents either.
Excuse me while I go chase some kids off my lawn now.
My dad doesn’t swear, and my mom is dead. So no, I’ve never heard my parents swear.
I personally don’t swear because I plan to be in the public spotlight in a few years, so I need to teach myself now to not make such slip-ups. Otherwise, I might pull a Biden! haha.
Haha, I don’t think it’s a bad thing though, as long as it’s not common. I think the fail here is not the swearing itself, but the fact that he got grounded for it.
im 24 and live with my parents, whats wrong with that? It’s a tough economy out there. It’s kinda better that way to help eachother out anyways. Maybe people should worry about their own life than some 20 year old that is having a rough time being able to get on their feet. Maybe he dont have good money like the rest u of. Maybe he can’t find a job because of the economy and more qualified people are out there taking all the jobs. I think more people should worry about themselves than what others are doing, no one is perfect and everyone has had their ups and down.
Cool story, bro.
and im not a bro. but thanks
” I think more people should worry about themselves than what others are doing. . .”
Your expressed interest in what others are doing has been noted.
“Maybe he dont have good money like the rest u of. Maybe he can’t find a job because of the economy and more qualified people are out there taking all the jobs.”
If this is representative of the writing style on your resume, then perhaps we have insight into why more qualified people have been out there taking all the jobs from you.
yea i actually have a good job and in college. So i wouldn’t care about the whole someone takin a job from me because that couldn’t possibly happen. And you are probably just pissed because you have a sh**ty life. thats noted as well.
“:Maybe he dont have good money like the rest u of. ”
That’s funny, because the reason I can’t live with my dad (even to visit) is because our house went into foreclosure. And you are saying that the guy who lives at home has more money than me….? I’m pretty sure that if you are living in a house, you are better off financially than someone who just lost their house.
hahaha best title ever!
The title makes it. BriTANick FTW.
(batooooooooot…)
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Ground…? At 20? That’s even possible? After we turned about 14 neither of my parents bothered trying to ground either my brother or I. There was no sense. Then they’d be stuck with us for how ever long the grounding was.
that makes no sense! ure the kids, there not gonna ground u for like 4 years. think.
That makes no sense.
I don’t care if that person is still living with his parents, it’s pretty common to be living with your parents at 20, almost all my friends do, and they’re all beyond 20. No, what’s kinda funny/shocking is that his parents are still grounding him. I mean… 20 and grounded ? Never heard of that before !
Perhaps they are trying to get him to move out.
By keeping him in? ?_?
Yes. They’re using “my house, my rules” to get him to seek shelter where the rules are more to his liking.
This.
Although I may seem like I’m against it, I think it’s fine for a 20-year old to be living at home. The fail here is that he was grounded by his parents at his age, not that he lives with his parents at his age.
Is that a Britanick reference I see?
That was my first thought when I saw that, I’m very happy they included that.
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“The ‘C dash dash dash dash dash dash dash dash dash dash dash DASH word!”
“The hell’s a chicken faggot???”
“Oh God, oh no no, oh God….”
and I thought I would be the only one who noticed. good show, my man.
`An` Xmas tree????? Please tell me thats a typo….
Because of the “e” sound at the start of the letter “x”, “an” does sound better because of the glottal stop and is therefore in common usage.
Do people actually say X-mas?? It`s usually written as Xmas but when you speak you say the actual word `christmas`?? A christmas tree – not an christmas tree. An (E)X – mas tree sounds weird.
Yes people do say Xmas. It might sound weird to you, but for most of the English speaking world to put “an” in front of the letter “x” where it is pronounced “ekes” is acceptable.
Therefore
“I went for an X-Ray”.
but not
“I am going to buy an xylophone”.
No one else gets the How I Met Your Reference in the title?
HIMYM must have gotten the reference from the movie A Christmas Story. Best Christmas movie ever!
I have a friend who will be 21 next month and still has a curfew. He still lives under the rule of his mother, that he does.
Is that a How I Met Your Mother reference in the title?
nope
Are we not going to talk about the horrific comma splice double fail?
His writing is atrocious enough that I don’t see him earning enough to support himself.
I’m 22 and I never swear in front of my parents. Actually, I don’t swear at all. I find swearing generally disrespectful and a cheap form of expression.
OK, a massive amount of you fail massively. Most for their opinions on parents hitting kids (I won’t say which), but more pressingly, not a SINGLE person who noticed the title knows it’s from the best Christmas film ever, A Christmas Story!
You “Brittanicka” people need to be sure to drink your Ovaltine.
No offense, but uou fail because that is NOT the best Christmas film ever. The best christmas film ever is It’s a Wonderful Life.
Nuh-uh!!!!
The title was the only reason I thought this was funny! I love A Christmas Story!
best Xmas movie ever is “Debbie does Dallas”
cool story, bro
I’ll be back again, thanks for the info.