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Kage · **01-27-2015, 01:55 PM**

You can't dual monitor Dragon Age :/

C'kayah Polaali · **01-27-2015, 02:00 PM**

(01-27-2015, 12:39 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: I can finally rant about something.

College. Loans.

Dear banks, when you want 60% of my paycheck, and rent/utilities wants the next 35%, I can't afford to even eat $1 ramen every meal for the month, let alone anything else.

That's rough, man. The collage loan industry is such a nasty scam.

Kage · **01-27-2015, 02:09 PM**

It's so sad that I am ecstatic to have finished university before the recent years. When your 4th year's tuition costs 2x the amount you paid your 1st year.... ugh.

I started to only make close to minimum payments on my loans. It sucks to owe the cost of a brand new car. D: $24,000 o7 Two years and a few months... about $4000 paid off. Fuck. Interest.

C'kayah Polaali · **01-27-2015, 04:55 PM**

Feel like getting even more pissed about it?

Gegenji · **01-27-2015, 05:17 PM**

(01-27-2015, 04:55 PM)C Wrote: Feel like getting even more pissed about it?

Jesus CHRIST that's depressing.

Kage · **01-27-2015, 05:22 PM**

And it's an old article to boot.

But I read one of the comments.

Fuck you sir. I put my money into a Bachelor's of Science in electrical engineering. I'm on salary but it's not that much. I'll be paying my loans off for years yet while I deal with rent, car loans, car insurance, and a cat I love.

FreelanceWizard · **01-27-2015, 09:30 PM**

The only way I was able to support myself through college and graduate school was with the assistance of a lot of financial aid -- loans, scholarships, and either an assistantship or work-study (both of which pay less than minimum wage). Despite the income I have these days, I come from a working class background. I've been quite lucky to get where I am now.

So, yeah. People who think those getting student loans are leeches? Who think people getting screwed by private loan companies and servicers are whiners and deadbeats? Who have no sympathy when the rungs of the proverbial ladder have been greased by plutocratic policies?

They can, to put it bluntly, go fornicate themselves with a rusty iron pole.

*cough* Sorry. My inner socialist is coming out. Smile

Cato · **01-27-2015, 09:33 PM**

There's a special place in hell for people who deliberately drive into a puddle with the intention of soaking pedestrians. Especially when it's freezing cold. Plus dirty water is a health risk. I managed to avoid getting hit myself but the people in front of me weren't so lucky.

Ha'uruh Nunh · **01-27-2015, 10:52 PM**

College loans:Â I'm "only" paying $550ish a month, while also self-funding my master's degree.Â But I've been helped out significantly by my mom when I was getting my career underway.Â Hell, she's still paying one of my loans, though I'm trying to take on all the rest.

I don't know how people who don't have that kind of family support do it.Â I graduated with over $100k in debt - and that was 11 years ago now.Â It's even worse for kids nowadays, and heaven help you if you're taking out loans for grad school.

If I had it to do over again, knowing what I know now?Â I'd have applied to cheap in-state schools and tried to get a full ride somewhere.Â The education I got, while nice, wasn't worth the crushing burden of 20-year-plus debt.

STEALTH EDIT: And another thing - I'd have considered the military/ROTC/whatever. Money for education plus early career experience? Yes please. I plan on nudging my niece/potential nephews into considering it at least. Seems too many young folks don't realize how much upside there is to going into the military young.

Naunet · **01-28-2015, 12:38 AM**

(01-27-2015, 10:52 PM)Ha Wrote: Seems too many young folks don't realize how much upside there is to going into the military young.

There is a whole heck of a lot of downside, though. Downsides that can haunt you for the rest of your life. It's honestly not something I would wish on anyone.

Kellach Woods · **01-28-2015, 01:08 AM**

the only thing I can be mad about my university years

is being stupid enough to believe in the "if you go to university you'll have A JOB guaranteed" mantra that was spouted to the youngins of my generation.

Yes, this was said regardless of degree.

arguably, actually going to university in the first place. it brought me absolutely nothing beyond more blows to an already abysmal self-esteem and lost years I could have done anything else and be somehow more productive. I graduated, but my grades were not good enough for grad school.

am I fortunate to not be in the US thus stuck with a debt I can't possibly repay with what meager salary (granted, a few of you would probably be like that shit ain't meager, but that is only recently that it got bumped up - I was doing minimum wage otherwise) I make off of whatever work I do that isn't related to my degree in the slightest? You bet I am.

However, that doesn't make me less angry at myself for being a gigantic tool nor does it make it the fault of humanity at large.

So carry on.

C'kayah Polaali · **01-28-2015, 03:33 PM**

(01-27-2015, 09:33 PM)Graeham Ridgefield Wrote: There's a special place in hell for people who deliberately drive into a puddle with the intention of soaking pedestrians. Especially when it's freezing cold. Plus dirty water is a health risk. I managed to avoid getting hit myself but the people in front of me weren't so lucky.

Tricks from my days commuting by motorcycle. I will not acknowledge the use of these techniques, nor comment on their efficiency:

- Carry a couple of big ball bearings with you. Half inchers. As a motorcyclist, it's tough to deploy them. As a ped, you can have a couple in your hand and launch them at the car when they do this. "Sorry, I was playing with them in my hand! I must have dropped them when I leapt out of your way! You almost hit me, you know!"

- Use a hammer to roughly break up a piece of spark plug ceramic. Use like the ball bearings. It does a number on windshields and paint. Clearly when the car ran through the puddle, it kicked up some debris. Wink

Another trick, from commuting by bicycle. I definitely have not tried this, but I've known people who have. Picture a spot about a foot and a half up from the bottom of the windshield, and perhaps two feet in. If you accidentally hit this spot with a U-lock, it will typically shatter the windshield.

Parvacake · **01-28-2015, 03:35 PM**

(01-28-2015, 03:33 PM)C Wrote:
(01-27-2015, 09:33 PM)Graeham Ridgefield Wrote: There's a special place in hell for people who deliberately drive into a puddle with the intention of soaking pedestrians. Especially when it's freezing cold. Plus dirty water is a health risk. I managed to avoid getting hit myself but the people in front of me weren't so lucky.

Tricks from my days commuting by motorcycle. I will not acknowledge the use of these techniques, nor comment on their efficiency:

- Carry a couple of big ball bearings with you. Half inchers. As a motorcyclist, it's touch to deploy them. As a ped, you can have a couple in your hand and launch them at the car when they do this. "Sorry, I was playing with them in my hand! I must have dropped them when I leapt out of your way! You almost hit me, you know!"

- Use a hammer to roughly break up a piece of spark plug ceramic. Use like the ball bearings. It does a number on windshields and paint. Clearly when the car ran through the puddle, it kicked up some debris.

Another trick, from commuting by bicycle. I definitely have not tried this, but I've known people who have. Picture a spot about a foot and a half up from the bottom of the windshield, and perhaps two feet in. If you accidentally hit this spot with a U-lock, it will typically shatter the windshield.

Ooooo!

Gegenji · **01-28-2015, 03:49 PM**

We here at RPC do not condone the destruction of other people's property.

... even if we'll imagine it really hard.

Du'lance Fiourtune · **01-28-2015, 06:06 PM**

Okay I don't typically play a badass on the internet, nor do I consider myself as the Chuck Norris of fighting,Â nor would I intentionally splash someone with water from a roadside puddle....

But if.......if.....if someone where to throw something at my truck for splashing them, potentially harming me or a passenger,Â the only thing getting shattered would be there face. (or at the least, I would try to)

That's how we would handle that where I'm from, and that's all I will say on the matter.

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