Generations of young people went off to war when they turned 18. Kids have it so tough these days.

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[–]NastyWetSmear 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Awwww, did diddums have to do his homework and eat noodles? Man, I remember once a month buying a bag of 20 dim sims and a pack of 10 2 min noodles when I was studying in University. Sure, it wasn't great for you, but I don't remember ever having a big'ol cry about it.

[–]WoodyWoodPeckerHah he he he hah! 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I joined a fraternity that had a cook who cooked us homemade meals.

[–]NastyWetSmear 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

I think Fraternities are an American thing that never took off over here, but I know there'd be other options if I ran out of dim sims.

[–]WoodyWoodPeckerHah he he he hah! 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Room and board plus home-cooked meals. For the price of an apartment. You just have to have a high enough GPA and be accepted by the members.

[–]Musky 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

A carton of Maruchan hot & spicy beef ramen has long been a pantry staple of mine. It's handy for when you don't feel like cooking, it's cheap, and it lasts forever.

[–]NastyWetSmear 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I try and avoid them, but I keep them stocked in the cupboard. Something happens, you can go a good long while on those guys... And, if I'm honest, 2 min noodles might be shit, but they taste pretty good.

[–]Hematomato 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's hard to go off to war and risk your life and be forced to kill people who might have otherwise been your friends.

But it's also hard to sit alone in your room in your mom's house just wondering what the fuck the point of your existence is and whether you have any hope for a meaningful future.

[–]Rah 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You could support comfortably a family of 5 with a single income white-collar mid-management salary.

You could buy a house by working four years of summer jobs.

You could buy a mid-tier car within a year of low savings.

You could do all this, plus retire, and never care about money in your miserable life. The only cost? Your sons and grandsons will be worse off as you sell their future for pennies.

This is the real cost. The banking central monopoly has instituted global child sacrifice, but not physical, rather financial. You sacrifice your child's financial future for your own gain. Children and the young are depressed because no one has gave them spiritual solace on their strife, nor supported them through their endeavours. We are stuck in a world where the only path to sure success is a good devil's contract where you sell your soul for a good bid. There are those who are blessed who get to keep their souls and survive on a meager monthly wage to support their families, and they become an ever shrinking minority.

[–]Brewdabier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You try sitting on your ass every day with nothing to do but play with your phone and read reddit, I bet it's hard work.

[–]Mcheetah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is First World Problems to a T. Try being a 20 year old in Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, or the Democratic Republic of Congo... That is, if you survive to 20 and end up being the best child soldier on your squad. Whining about being in college and having a new upper middle class stepdad sounds like the "problems" of someone who spends all his time on Twitter.

[–]gloomy_bear 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What's even funnier there's some countries where they sent underaged adolescents boys off to war. This person who stated that happened when they were young lived in continental Europe.