Dating on the other side of the tracks?
There was a time when you wouldn’t think of dating outside your socioeconomic class. According to a lot of people, this is still an issue in modern day dating. There are still mothers that ask their sons, “Who are her people? What do they do?, ” and if he doesn’t respond with an acceptable profession that signifies affluent wealthy family? Well, that is where things get a little tricky.
Whether you are from a modest, working class family or a wealthy, powerful one, when you make a decision to break from tradition, you have to be prepared for the backlash. A lot of couples realize they are not built for this and others become closer because of it. Do you think our upbringing and our socioeconomic status is an issue in your dating life?
Have you ever dated someone that seemed to come from a completely different world than you? Perhaps you are used to down home, unpretentious surroundings (like me!) and you met someone who spent their childhood in boarding schools and mansions. Do you think it could work?
When we talked about family disapproving of the person you were dating, I wondered how this situation would play out once things got to be serious. Once the family has come to accept your mate, how do you think the cultural and social differences would impact your relationship?
Do you think single people still have to contend with “dating from the wrong side of the track” or has society moved beyond that school of thought?
By Wise Diva, Misadventures in Atlanta Dating Blog
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361 comments Add your comment
destin dawg
March 28th, 2011
7:22 am
” Wrong side of the track ” is not exactly the same as ” modest, working class “… so this is a loaded question… there are lots of reasons why some are not more successful… watch for alcoholism, mental illness, or just unstable.. as in multiple jobs / divorces… perceptions can be deceiving too .. many big homes, fancy cars are financed.. $$$ won’t buy happiness.. especially your in laws $$$
Geechee
March 28th, 2011
7:54 am
Does anyone really care about this? Beyond physical attraction, all that I ask for and search for in my companions are that they are intelligent, educated and independent (not clingy). I’ve dated/married ladies from wealthy families and some who were bankrupt and didn’t know it.
Jumping the Broom
March 28th, 2011
8:17 am
In my experiences, people from a much higher SES usually don’t run in the same circles as us common folk. So, no. I and likely never will.
The wealthy are not to be confused with new $, either (read: I just got drafted and now my family is set for life, I have the hottest record out now we’re set for life, etc etc)
Reggie
March 28th, 2011
8:53 am
All I ask is that she be pretty, nice, thoughtful and rate “having sex” right up there with “having air to breathe”. I’m not hard to please….
MC Hammock
March 28th, 2011
8:55 am
There’s a difference between “being wealthy” and “being financially arrogant”. I’ll take the first one, but won’t take the second one no matter what she looks like.
RichDiva
March 28th, 2011
8:56 am
Those of you that think money can’t buy happiness just don’t know where to shop.
Al Bundy
March 28th, 2011
8:58 am
Just make me a sammich and serve it to me naked, all right? Please refrain from speaking until the commercial starts.
Neo
March 28th, 2011
9:01 am
Look, women look at money much the same way that men look at boobs. You can fall in love with someone that doesn’t have it(them), but it’s easier to fall in love with someone that does. Got it?
Change the topic
March 28th, 2011
9:05 am
Ever seen a photo of Lisa Ann? When you look like that, you can date or marry just about anyone in any economic bracket you choose. That woman is simply the most beautiful creature on the face of the earth. End of story, no sequels and no additional comments necessary.
knockoutblonde
March 28th, 2011
9:08 am
Interesting comments so far. Having a LOT of money really isn’t necessary. Having enough to be comfortable is. I don’t decide to date or not date just because of economic standing, unless you are homeless. However, many still do. It’s a fact of life. I make enough money where I don’t have to worry about that. Those that do are looking for a sugar daddy or a sugar mommy. Most of my needs don’t revolve around monetary boundries. Those are the ones that I’m most concerned about.
knockoutblonde
March 28th, 2011
9:21 am
I was being sarcastic about the “interesting comments” by the way.
Randyt (aka Been There, Done That, Got THIS T-Shirt and Many More)
March 28th, 2011
9:25 am
Been There, Done That, Got THIS T-Shirt and Many More…yup, big time.
I married way up…cotillion, country club, 5Br 3bath house in a nice suburb of a real city…AND YES IT CAUSED PROBLEMS THROUGHOUT. My inlaws NEVER got past my background even though I know I read probably more than all of them combined, been more places, done more, raised myself up from the basement to the penthouse MYSELF.. Here is what they saw…
Pure Hillbilly. I came from the wrong side of the tracks. I lived in an 8′by 45′ trailer until I was twelve…homes on three sides of the first house I lived in had outdoor plumbing.
My mother-in-law would make snide comments thinking I would not understand but everyone else would. As the guy said in “Sweet Home Alabama”, “just cause I talk slow, don’t mean I’m stupid”.
It causes problems, they with their look down their noses attitude…and me with my stubborn pride. Yes It does make a difference, I know first hand.
Simple Man!!!!
March 28th, 2011
9:32 am
Its Funny that when I made 40K a year, I felt like I could date ANYONE I wanted, regardless of their Economic standing…When I got to 75K or so,I started to notice that my dating pool was shrinking…Now that I am into 6 figures, I am keenly aware that money matters up and down….Its sad, but unfortunatly true…..
Randyt (aka Been There, Done That, Got THIS T-Shirt and Many More)
March 28th, 2011
9:32 am
Another thing. Even if that person loves you, he/she is till cuaght in the middle between you and his/her family. It can and often does cause a lot of tension…tension that no relationship needs.
Geechee
March 28th, 2011
9:42 am
@Randy: Your story matches mine almost exactly. My ex-inlaws were nice enough, but I was always made to feel that I just didn’t belong with them, like I was fortunate to have married into their family. Their daughter has since made poor choices in husbands and Daddy has to help her out financially while my professional career thrived and I have had financial success. Maybe it’s petty, but I chuckle at how things turned out.
One thing I can say about having money is that it does attract more attractive and accomplished women. Money and position do seem to be an attractive quality for many women and having it moves you up on the totem pole. I didn’t make the rules, but I can tell you it is true. The problem Randy, is like you I earned everything and I am not looking to be anyone’s sugar daddy. In the end, I search for women with an attitude like knockoutblonde who can actually hold a career and a conversation.
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
9:42 am
Good morning.
abc
March 28th, 2011
9:43 am
Baby brother married a chick that was what I’d characterize as ‘rough around the edges’. It was irritating to be called ‘hon’ all the time by a 20 year old. I think it was ingrained from her waitressing experience. Crack took hold of her, she disappeared, never to be heard from again. Now baby brother won’t have a relationship, or even date, going on 10 years now — but I have to say, he’s better off than with that piece of trash.
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
9:53 am
“There are still mothers that ask their sons, “Who are her people? What do they do?” – I hope this will always be the case.
But, when someone falls in love, sometimes the family may be overlooked if they disapprove. No doubt, strained relationships all the way around. Some feel it’s worth it and believe they can weather the storm together. Some succeed and some don’t.
Chink
March 28th, 2011
9:53 am
What is important to me is being with someone who can hold their own. I really don’t care what my family thinks… I am not one of those people paper chasing ..I just want a comfortable life, nothing extravagant. With the ability to do the things I want to do without issues.
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
9:55 am
Morning blogville….
First off, let’s qualify this a bit: There are those who think they have $$ and then there are those who really have money. And the latter don’t much associate with the rest of us, as Jumping the Broom touched on, so those types of cross-socio-strata relationships just don’t happen. For the most part, what we’re talking about are varying degrees of working class, some of whom have been able to accumulate a few more of the scraps that fall off the table of the truly wealthy than others.
AmazonRed™
March 28th, 2011
10:05 am
Morning all -
Well, despite my bougie upbrining, I still didn’t grow up in the ‘burbs. There were definitely hood elements to my neighborhood.
My first boyfriend was from a place called the “jungles” He wasn’t a bad boy tho, just lived in a bad neighborhood. He definitely had hood survival skills that didn’t necessarily translate into worrying about things like homework. Our relationship was good for him, as he probably wouldn’t have gotten out of high school without my help/influence/encouragement. I think he got word he was graduating like a few days before the ceremony.
In any case, our backgrounds came back to haunt us when it was time to go off to school. He went to community college and struggled, and didn’t understand my new life in dorms and partying in a new city.
AmazonRed™
March 28th, 2011
10:09 am
My family would be accepting of me dating someone from the other side of the tracks as long as he treated me right and made an honest living.
I make a (very) modest salary and will admit dating someone who has much better means than me can be intimidating.
Reggie
March 28th, 2011
10:14 am
The most powerful aphrodesiac for women in the known medical world….money and/or power. Nothing else even comes close.
Geechee
March 28th, 2011
10:20 am
@Reggie: Amen brother. The view near the top of the totem pole sure is sweeter.
MC Hammock
March 28th, 2011
10:29 am
Preach on, Reggie. And all the congregation said…..
Danny
March 28th, 2011
10:32 am
Yup. If you want that trophy fish, then you have to use the shiny lures.
Danny
March 28th, 2011
10:37 am
I can imagine the flocks of women about to descend upon us stating their rebuttal, but it doesn’t change the facts. It was the case before, it’s the case now and it will always be the case. Accept it and life will be much simpler.
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
10:41 am
@Danny ~ I think we women are sitting in the cut just reading you guys. Nothing is being said we don’t already know.
AmazonRed™
March 28th, 2011
10:41 am
I can imagine the flocks of women about to descend upon us stating their rebuttal
How’s that working out for ya? Sheesh. The attitudes of you men…
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
10:42 am
Yeah…what Swiss said. I’ve never run in the circles of folks who have significantly out-earned me to the point that it would be an issue.
Much like kob said, my concern is that you can manage your financial responsbilities with a bit of ease. No…you don’t have to be rolling in dough, but if you are living check to check and pillar to post (especially because of bad decisions and lack of money management skills), well…you and I are not a good match.
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
10:44 am
Exactly, ARed!
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
10:45 am
Red – Cosign 1009a.
TenderRoni
March 28th, 2011
10:46 am
trophy fish…oh WOW!
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
10:48 am
shiny lures! Any man that feels that’s the only way to get a woman, then he has issues and leads only with his wallet to snare a woman.
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
10:51 am
It was the case before, it’s the case now and it will always be the case. Accept it and life will be much simpler.
Shoot! I guess he got us straight then, huh Way to funny. I got my snacks ready and waiting……..for the flock of blog women to descend….waiting…..waiting….waiting….
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
10:59 am
Good rainy morning all!
I would say I’ve had a taste of both worlds and been very fortunate in that respect. Both of my parents came from humble, yet hard-working and high-achieving backgrounds. For example, my great-grandfather on my mothers side was the first AA postman in that small south GA town. That was his side gig – the family business was carpentry and fine furniture upholstery. They both went on to accomplish great things together. I understand what REAL wealth and high society is. A lot of people have no idea about such a world in the AA community. I also have had times where I had to struggle and understand that side of the world too. I’ve held 2 & 3 jobs at a time. You do what you have to do.
My family can be bougie, but as long as you are respectful, have a strong work ethic, carry yourself with dignity, and treat me right, you’ll have no trouble with them. Education is big with us, true, but not mandatory if the above factors are present and you have some drive about yourself to accomplish things.
Simple Man!!!!
March 28th, 2011
11:06 am
Danny, What the hell were you thinking???
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
11:11 am
First off, let’s qualify this a bit: There are those who think they have $$ and then there are those who really have money. And the latter don’t much associate with the rest of us
So true. Not really many of us have encountered TRULY wealthy folks. I work around six figured folks and deal with the same. If not that, it’s the high end of 5 figures but nowhere does that place one in the “wealthy” category. So yeah, there are folks that THINK they have money and those that truly possess wealth. Families that perpetrate bougie and snub folks versus born bougie and snubbing folks ain’t the same either. With that being said, I haven’t encountered no “rich” folks but even so, I don’t have much for the fake ones or the real ones. What makes a person is character. Can’t be bought, earned nor purchased. Neither can you be born into character. You can be reared with it though.
Randyt (aka Been There, Done That, Got THIS T-Shirt and Many More)
March 28th, 2011
11:14 am
Re: “The most powerful aphrodesiac for women in the known medical world….money and/or power. Nothing else even comes close”.
I truly wish I could say that I disagree with this, but actions speak louder than words and I’ve seen this many, many, many times. Women do have a strong basic need for “security”…real or perceived. I’ve hardly ever met a lady who would admit to herself that she is this way,but I’ve seen so many good men dumped (if they ever got out of the starting gate at all) because the wallet wasn’t as thick as the “Batchelor #2″. Some of those gals are still looking (including two at least who dumped me when I was still on the bottom looking up, both of which would take me back in a heartbeat now, but the door locked behind them). They found out the hard way that wealth and power does not mean stable and marriable.
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
11:18 am
Celisea – Folks have no idea! Plus, when some people hear “money” and “educated” they automatically assign the stereotype “snob”. That’s not fair. A lot of the “truly” wealthy people I have come in contact with are some of the kindest. They have nothing to prove, no need to flaunt. They actually have that “character” you spoke of.
At the other end of the spectrum, some of the snobbiest, nasty people I know don’t have a pot to p in when you pull back the layers!
Jenna
March 28th, 2011
11:30 am
This topic isn’t real high on the ecxitement scale and from the discussion so far, isn’t going to end well. Danny, Reggie and Randy have valid points, but really is only mostly true with the women that use their looks to move up the economic scale. While they are the most attractive visually, come up short in the character department. Ared, Kimmie and SexyCool have valid points when dealing with the character and ease of marraige group. No one LIKES to be considered in the group that would “trade up”, but a lot of women will do this for money (security) just like men will “trade out” for the younger, more attractive woman. Neither is admirable by a long shot, BUT that’s the world we live in. Make your choices and then live with the outcome. I know people from both sides that are unhappy because they wish their spouse made more money or would take care of themselves to be more attractive. It’s a funny world we live in, but it’s all we got.
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
11:35 am
Kimmie – Absolutely….everybody that’s got it don’t always fit into the typical stereotype of snob and some wannabes need to stop. LOL I think there’s a fair mixture of both ends of the spectrum (and some in between). I see nothing wrong with having nice things or living well but I have a problem when you project your accomplishments on other people and use that as a guage as to whether some people are “good enough.” Heck we’ll all God’s children and all “good enough.” Not we may always be a good fit for each other but that should be determined by class/status.
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
11:37 am
Now not “Not” …..and shouldn’t be determined not “should be…..”
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
11:37 am
see nothing wrong with having nice things or living well but I have a problem when you project your accomplishments on other people and use that as a guage as to whether some people are “good enough.”
Worth repeating!
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
11:41 am
This may not be directly on topic but sorta kinda….
When we went to Miami naturally just about all attending are what we’d consider bougie. The last leg of the trip was doing a Habitat for Humanity project. The young lady awarded the home was on site working alonside us, getting in her required hours. After the site leader introduced and sort of blandly went into her background of making strides to improve her life, folks started gawking and gazing at her like some science project. When you can guess, irked the heck out of me. All the uppity folks asking a gazillion questions. Soooo, where do you work? Do you have kids? Wow, who keeps them? So you’re turning your life around huh? Greeeeat. What will you do with no education though? Community college you say? Oh, okay, but how can you make it if you go back to school? Who’s going to babysit your kids? Wow, so it’s been rough huh? Seriously, everybody has encountered some form of adversity. We need to quit faking the funk. That chick was answering questions left and right as if she was on stage. Ya’ll know me, I pulled her coat tail. She gave me a ride to the hotel (no taxi would come to that neighborhood) and I gave a sister to sister talk about coming up and staying up
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
11:43 am
I didn’t wait for the bus, I left ahead…I was bout done with the uppities…in case somebody is wondering.
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
11:44 am
Good for you Celesia. I would have done the same thing.
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
11:46 am
Leggs –
I was so proud of her. Although, I had to call foul on “picking up her boo” when taking me back. He should have been at work…lol
DreamsMaterialize "Free Me-Lo"
March 28th, 2011
11:46 am
Morning
My family doesn’t really subscribe to the “good enough” philosophy. Both come from modest means and worked their way up. They often get invited to join various clubs and organizations, but they’ve always refused. They just aren’t into that kind of stuff. If you’re a good person, you’re more than welcome to sit at our table, if not then you can kick rocks…no matter what your socioeconomic status.
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
11:49 am
“Seriously, everybody has encountered some form of adversity.”
I love how the ladies are “descending”….er, um, *representing* today.
More to Cel’s point, just because the spoon in your mouth is platinum (silver is so passè), it doesn’t mean that your background is and upbringing was desirable. Dysfunction exists at every income level.
CoolShadow
March 28th, 2011
11:50 am
Wealth is relative. What’s balling to some is a mere pittance to others. Financial resources may differentiate social strata but intangibles like respect, intelligence, stupidity, etc. transcend those boundaries.
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
11:50 am
Celisea – And see, those uppity people actually think they have “class” because of their socie-economic status. When really, with their condescending attitudes, they have no class at all.
Dreams – If you’re a good person, you’re more than welcome to sit at our table, – I like this, so true with us as well!
Jumping the Broom
March 28th, 2011
11:55 am
@ AmazonRed, “the jungles”? Might you be from California by chance?
cba
March 28th, 2011
11:59 am
Celisea, having read many of your posts; your action was not surprising at all. As my late maternal grandma would say ” you a good ‘oman”
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
12:01 pm
Kimmie – Exactly. They threw shade and missed the point of it all. That girl was so happy. Happy having move forward from the last point to that point…which is all that matters. Getting her first home, something to call her own and a place for her girls. I didn’t give a second thought to whatever areas she lacked. I was thinking heck you did this, you can do greater things.
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
12:02 pm
cba – Celisea, having read many of your posts; your action was not surprising at all. As my late maternal grandma would say ” you a good ‘oman”
Awwwww, that’s sweet. Thank you.
Jumping the Broom
March 28th, 2011
12:04 pm
I’m a woman and I don’t disagree with the money and “shiny things” references. In my experiences, the gold digging types are exactly the kind of women these type of men tend to attract, so naturally they would be swayed by such.
Show me a financially stable man who will pass over the buxom bombshell for the “average” chic who has it together, and I will sell you prime swamp land in Los Angeles.
For Real
March 28th, 2011
12:06 pm
Wealth, Rich or Just Making it…… None of it matters because character can’t be bought. Right side or wrong side, what I often find is the “Just Making It” crowd are the ones most concern with tracks. The wealthy are insulated from the Rich and Just Making It crowd.
Off on a Tangent:
This world was founded upon the class system. Money somehow equates to Better. Ivy college is better than a community college as if 1 + 1 doesn’t equal 2 at both colleges. The wealthy has always pitted the middle class against the poor. Making the middle class and the poor clamor for the wealthy approval. Which is why you middle class and the poor saying taxing me is okay but don’t tax the wealthy cause they give us jobs.
Simple Man!!!!
March 28th, 2011
12:06 pm
I am reading the comments and I am glad to read that most of our blog family does not buy into this mentality….But the looking down the nose thing does not just end at the wallet…I saw it happen in college when guys who were cool with each other fellout because one chose one frat and looked down on those that didn’t…I see it now when I have lost touch with a friend of 20 years because He decided that being associated with the 100 Black Men was worth more than a lifetime of growth and bonding. As has been said many times already, The draw of the other side of the tracks is powerful…Glad my parents gave me more than that
NY state of mind
March 28th, 2011
12:06 pm
I have dated men who out weighed me in finances and education and vice versa- I held my own round for round in each realtionship. He made more than I did and thought his ivy league education and my community college education made him smarter than me….it did not it only meant he owed more in student loans.
What I have come to realize is that a level “playing” field works best for me. #dontjudgeme”
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
12:07 pm
“In my experiences, the gold digging types are exactly the kind of women these type of men tend to attract…”
Jumping the Broom — Yeah, funny how that works, eh? You fish with gold-digger bait & you catch gold-diggers… Who knew?
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
12:09 pm
Great ingredients to a wonderful life is, health, laughter, good character, respect, communication, sex and empathy!
For Real
March 28th, 2011
12:09 pm
“Show me a financially stable man who will pass over the buxom bombshell for the “average” chic who has it together, and I will sell you prime swamp land in Los Angeles.” – So, “buxom bombshells” do not have their ish together but “average chics” do? What exactly does a “buxom bombshell” and an “average chic” look like?
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
12:10 pm
“They often get invited to join various clubs and organizations,”
Unfortunately, many civic and social organizations exist simply for the sake of being exclusionary and fans of themselves. Places to go and say, “Look at me. Look at all I’ve done. Look at how great I am.”
And most often, they require financial commitments that amount to little more than buying acceptance.
For Real
March 28th, 2011
12:12 pm
Anytime anyone needs to put another person down for what they do have or put a person down for what they do not have is a person that’s not happy with themselves.
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
12:13 pm
Simple – Did he not realize that he could have remained your friend and still been in the 100 Black Men? I know some great brothers in that organization – he had it all wrong!
Jumping the Broom
March 28th, 2011
12:13 pm
“I’ve hardly ever met a lady who would admit to herself that she is this way,but I’ve seen so many good men dumped (if they ever got out of the starting gate at all) because the wallet wasn’t as thick as the “Batchelor #2″. Some of those gals are still looking (including two at least who dumped me when I was still on the bottom looking up, both of which would take me back in a heartbeat now, but the door locked behind them). ”
Not mad at the last part at all
and indeed women innately crave security, who doesn’t? Society has brought us up on the notion that the man is the provider. I will not lie; if a man could not hardly provide for himself I certainly wasn’t looking at him seriously. I don’t mean take care of me, I mean be a provider, head of household, etc.
If a man shows me that he is not capable of being a provider I will kindly show him the door. My father instilled this in me at a very young age, and modeled it by always providing for us no matter what.
Jumping the Broom
March 28th, 2011
12:16 pm
@ For Real, you misunderstand me. I suppose I should have said “buxom gold digging bombshell”
All of the men that I know that are well off have this type of woman on their arm as a trophy. She certainly wouldn’t be there if the $ wasn’t.
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
12:17 pm
“The wealthy has always pitted the middle class against the poor. Making the middle class and the poor clamor for the wealthy approval. Which is why you middle class and the poor saying taxing me is okay but don’t tax the wealthy cause they give us jobs.”
For Real — Why can’t more people see this? You’ve got teabaggers railing against teachers’ unions, with their extravagant $60k salaries & health benefits, but they don’t seem to mind the billions in tax breaks to people so rich they don’t even notice it. As if those rich folks are creating jobs. Bullsh!t. They’re not. They’re buying up stock, they’re buying expensive luxury items, but that doesn’t create jobs. Demand for everyday items creates jobs. And you create demand by putting more money in the hands of as many people as possible, not by concentrating all the f__king money in the hands of as few as possible. I’ll never understand how people can fail to see this….
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
12:21 pm
I’ll never understand how people can fail to see this….
Swiss – Because the rich are rich enough to make sure most people DON’T see this! You know, dumb-down, cut education, keep everyone clueless! Have them voting AGAINST their own best interests!
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
12:21 pm
“All of the men that I know that are well off have this type of woman on their arm as a trophy. She certainly wouldn’t be there if the $ wasn’t.”
JTB – that makes the assumption that EVERY well off man is with a woman simply and only because of his money. It also makes the assumption that carrying a set of “tig o bitties” mean that you can’t possibly have it together. Yeah…no, don’t agree with that.
Jumping the Broom
March 28th, 2011
12:22 pm
Cool Shadow- wealth is SO not relative. LOL, either you have it or you don’t. Lotta folks THINk they have it, and are sadly, sadly mistaken.
cba
March 28th, 2011
12:23 pm
A few months ago, in an interview, Andy Young said classism is way more damaging than racism. I think this great recession has manifested the traits of both. They both can be a cancer to society.
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
12:23 pm
Actually, I know the answer to my own question… I see it all the time w/ folks I grew up with — these ultra-right-wing parrots, who just eat up & regurgitate whatever talking points they got from Rush or Glenn Beck that day. Scary thing is, I see most of these folks posting on FB about how they’re home-schooling their kids because they don’t want them to be “indoctrinated” be “government schools.” All I keep thinking is how f__king stupid these azzholes were in school — and now they’re going to be responsible for teaching their kids…? Okay, I’m getting depressed now…
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
12:24 pm
Oops… “by” not “be”
Simple Man!!!!
March 28th, 2011
12:24 pm
Kimmie…Damn shame too….he has turned into one of those brothers that got into his 40’s and felt like he needed to have those kinds of associations to feel like he has accomplished some things. I don’t understand it now, and I am not sure if I ever will….
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
12:28 pm
“All of the men that I know that are well off have this type of woman on their arm as a trophy. She certainly wouldn’t be there if the $ wasn’t.”
When people see Mrs. Swiss & I together, they often think I must be loaded to have such a hot wife. But, of course, I’m not. Really, it’s just my enormous c0ck that landed her…
Dan - Simply....Superior
March 28th, 2011
12:29 pm
@Swiss (12:17)
Two words: American Idol, Reality TV or the internet – take your pick.
Long range/term thinking is a thing of the past.
Jumping the Broom
March 28th, 2011
12:29 pm
@ SexyCool, no it does not, as I was only speaking to the well-off men that I KNOW.
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
12:29 pm
Swizzie – you’re a nutcase.
Simple Man!!!!
March 28th, 2011
12:30 pm
Hey JOB, is wealthy defined as having 1,000,000 or as making 250K a year? How about making 80k but having a net worth of 3mil??? In my eyes, in either case, that makes it ralative….
Jumping the Broom
March 28th, 2011
12:31 pm
@ i’m swiss. I did not want to go there, since it’s a whole other topic and what not. But I was certainly thinking it being a much bigger “AFRO-Disiac, than $$ and power. No pun
But I digress…
Simple Man!!!!
March 28th, 2011
12:31 pm
relative = ralative (sorry ’bout that)
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
12:32 pm
Okay…so, you’re referring to folks you know PERSONALLY. I was going with the more general thought of folks we know OF.
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
12:33 pm
Sidebar – is it just me or was the thunder WAY louder than normal last night? Sounded like there bombs being dropped in my neighborhood.
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
12:33 pm
Simple – Some folks(wannabees) are just like that. They are victims really. They’ll never understand what’s really important in this world. When the chips are down, who will really be there to just bring you a glass of water, my mom used to ask.
I get asked to join such organizations alot as well. Some people that are impressed by such things are shocked when I am not. I am all about making a real difference to people that really need help. Not giving money to organizations where it MAY trickle down to those in need. And having hen parties with a bunch of folk that don’t truly care about me but what I can do for them.
Don’t get me wrong, a lot of organizations do great things in the community. I just don’t have the need to see & be seen.
AmazonRed™
March 28th, 2011
12:34 pm
@ AmazonRed, “the jungles”? Might you be from California by chance?
Jumping the broom – You know it!
You must be new here so welcome!
Jumping the Broom
March 28th, 2011
12:34 pm
Wealthy and rich are not the same. Wealth has been passed down from generation to generation, you can’t get rid of wealth. Heck even Hammer blew through $100 million, but wealthy that guy was NOT
Rich= LeBron James
Wealthy= the guy that signs his checks
Jumping the Broom
March 28th, 2011
12:36 pm
@ SexyCool, I specifically said “all the men I know”, and “in my experiences”.
Sorry for the confusion.
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
12:36 pm
@SexyC ~ startled we wide awake at 3:58. I thought I had a laser show going on in my room. It was unbelieveable LOUD!
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
12:37 pm
JTB – Understood that the first time. My follow up statement was to communicate MY interpretation of your original statement, not a request that you further qualify it.
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
12:39 pm
Sidebar – is it just me or was the thunder WAY louder than normal last night?
I heard and felt it too. Booming that loud and so big that I could feel it underneath and all around me…my mind reflected on the power of God and facing him one day. Seriously. That’s all.
B 4 Real?
March 28th, 2011
12:39 pm
If someone is signing your 50K to 5 million dollar check and patting you on your head you are nowhere WEALTHY, please stop fooling yourself, thats pocket change!!
Jumping the Broom
March 28th, 2011
12:40 pm
kimmie brings up another great distinction between the rich and the wealthy: the wealthy (arguably) aren’t as likely to *flaunt* their wealth. New money will have it on display. “stunting/balling” is what I believe they call it
Jumping the Broom
March 28th, 2011
12:41 pm
“Understood that the first time.”
Great, moving right along…
cba
March 28th, 2011
12:43 pm
@ SexyCool,how did your dog react to the thunder? Since we had our dog fixed, thunder drives him crazy. I hate to admit this, in order to calm him down, he slept ON TOP OF COVERS @ foot of bed.` NEVER, EVER in my life I thought I would allow this.
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
12:44 pm
cba – either she was fine or I couldn’t hear her over the thunder. (lol)
For Real
March 28th, 2011
12:44 pm
JTB: “All of the men that I know that are well off have this type of woman on their arm as a trophy. She certainly wouldn’t be there if the $ wasn’t.” – I still don’t agree with that… I don’t know how many “well off” men you know but I also do not know how you define “well off” either but logic just doesn’t seem to add up.
Swiss: “I’ll never understand how people can fail to see this….” – Because some people need a reason for why they aren’t Rich. I mean you can’t play the victim if you don’t have a villain. But you have to give it to the wealthy, they have managed to pull the biggest coup of all times. The wealthy has managed to pit the middle class against the middle class. First they came for the teachers then it’s women’s right and it’s on to eliminating Social Security & Medicare. Welcome to the New World Order where companies dictate everything in your life.
Randyt (aka Been There, Done That, Got THIS T-Shirt and Many More)
March 28th, 2011
12:45 pm
Regarding the comments aboout old and new money, this is best exhibited by sports figures. It is amazing how they can earn more in a year than most people will earn in a lifetime, and still be bankrupt 60% of the time by their 4th year out of the league. Living with riches is a lesson in and of itself. Many people can’t handle it. Strange.
Jumping the Broom
March 28th, 2011
12:46 pm
Speaking of the thunder and facing God, I was awakened at 3:30 by the first bout of it, found myself frustrated by not being able to get back to sleep, had the mother of all thunder claps come through at about 5am and immediately THANKED GOD for me being awake bc had I been sleep I am certain I would have had a heart attack.
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
12:48 pm
Wealthy folks that are born and bred into that money that replinishes itself and never fully understanding how or where the money came from until someone explains the family history or come to know it. Or their great great great grandpappy made enough money to last until the last person is born in the bloodline…lol THAT’S wealthy. Because you have a corner office and a parking space right outside the door, won’t qualify.
B 4 Real?
March 28th, 2011
12:50 pm
You are either Wealthy or Poor, the wealthy created the middle class concept so people who think they have made it wouldn’t raise hell when they arent invited to the country club.
So, please put more ice in my drink on the way back to your 5 series bmw, Baller!!!
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
12:51 pm
Financial status does not deter me from dating a certain individual as long as they are smart with what they do have. When determining a persons background for serious dating I just prefer that she is not an only child and that she comes from a dual parent household in which a good example of how a man and woman should be together was set.
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
12:53 pm
I’m ready to go
Randyt (aka Been There, Done That, Got THIS T-Shirt and Many More)
March 28th, 2011
12:55 pm
I do think that inherited wealth is far less common than people think. You look at Forbes richest men, and you have a hard time finding a “Rockefeller” in there anymore, and haven’t for awhile. Most of theose mansions on the Gold Coast on Long Island (The Great Gatsby era)were sold decades ago to pay their taxes. Most have been great investors or computer geeks that had a great idea. Most wealthy people I know earned it, by way of thinking of a “better mousetrap”…or busting their azzes 60 – 70 hours per week for years until they made it to the top…or both Usually there was a lot of sacrifice that put them where they are…not always, but most I know paid their price.
For Real
March 28th, 2011
12:55 pm
Wealth is built by each generation. 5 million can turn into a billion if you teach the generations after you to how to make money.
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
12:57 pm
Wealth is built by each generation. 5 million can turn into a billion if you teach the generations after you to how to make money.
yep
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
1:01 pm
Usually there was a lot of sacrifice that put them where they are…not always, but most I know paid their price.
Randy – This is true of those I know. Most were not born into it. Most were not “given” anything. That’s what I meant when I said I come from a family of “hard-working high achievers”. They may not have aquired a lot of wealth, but made enough to at least educate themselves and those after them so they could achieve.
Blackfoote
March 28th, 2011
1:01 pm
@Leggs (12:09) perfect recipe for living. What kind of world would it be if everyone remotely thought the same.
Celsiea good points with the salary figures you make what you can make unless you can write the check.
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
1:03 pm
Hey Blackfoote
Dan - Simply....Superior
March 28th, 2011
1:04 pm
“Promise me you’ll invest, promise me you’ll ball, promise you’ll save three fourths of it all,
cause wealth is the word, rich is around the corner from the curb..”
–Andre Benjamin “Hollywood Divorce”
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
1:05 pm
“Most wealthy people I know earned it, by way of thinking of a “better mousetrap”…or busting their azzes 60 – 70 hours per week for years until they made it to the top”
Those are just the ones you hear about. Or should I say the ones the “old money” want you to hear about so you’ll believe that one of these days, that’ll be ME in that mansion. Hell, most of the folks who claim to be self made actually inherited a sh!t ton (Donald Trump, I’m looking at you).
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
1:08 pm
@Blackfoote ~ I too wish people were a little more caring for their fellow man!
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
1:10 pm
I’ve pretty much let go of the idea of *working* my way to riches. I’m all about that MegaMillions now, dawg. (lol)
Seriously though, the measuring stick by which I measure success has changed over the years and it has come less to do with a bank account balance than it does peace of mind. (Although, I am fully aware that a healthy bank account balance can go a long way in establishing peace of mind.)
Blackfoote
March 28th, 2011
1:10 pm
Hey Celisea sorry for spelling your name wrong.
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
1:10 pm
Those are just the ones you hear about. Or should I say the ones the “old money” want you to hear about so you’ll believe that one of these days, that’ll be ME in that mansion.
Swiss – Naw, in the AA community, very few trust fund babies. Most of my people had to work hard. Too many on the outside looking in think the only rich among us are the athletes & entertainers. A lot of hardworking AA success stories out here that are not publicized.
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
1:12 pm
Blackfoote – Hey Celisea sorry for spelling your name wrong.
No problem. It’s just us in here. Don’t mind the typos
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
1:13 pm
Family Business equals generational wealth. Farming, Livestock, feed and land been that way..3 Generations
At some point you have to think longterm and not immediate gratification.
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
1:15 pm
At some point you have to think longterm and not immediate gratification.
Purple – So true, but that’s a tough sell in this microwave society we live in today!
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
1:17 pm
kimmie — I think we’re talking about two very different levels of “wealth.” I’m talking about folks who are in that group of 400 individual people in this country who have as much combined wealth as the other 500 million of us put together.
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
1:19 pm
O/T ~ one of the male parents on the track team contacted me via email saying “Hi Beautiful!” I found the email in my junk folder and wondered who this person was. It finally dawned on me who he was. His ex-wife (divorced in 1995) is also one of the parents and we all sit together. I thanked him for the compliment and when he forwarded his phone number to me asking for mine, I had to decline. He sent one other “suggestive” email and I had to tell him straight up that I took offense because he doesn’t even know me. (This is the msg he sent
Oh you keeping that body tight, so…. I don’t have to worry ,bout you being wore out and out of breathe! You got Milk! 
Lol! Milk,does the body Good.) I see no reason to continue communicating with him because he’s not my type. (In case you’re wondering, he got my email address from the email tree of all the parents.)
I went to a neighboring waterhole with 2 other moms from the team this past Saturday. While we were having our drinks and wings, he called one of the moms. The mom said “he’s been blowing up my phone all week.” We asked who and when she told us I started snickering. I told her he has been contacting me as well and even asked if I felt anything for him. She talked for a min then asked if I wanted to say hello. I said sure. Now, you guys may tackle me for this, but this is how I felt. I wanted to say hello simply to call foul on him attempting to sample the water in our small pool to see which one of us would bite. Sure, he can contact anybody he likes, but I wanted him to know that we are hip to him trying to strike up a conversation with the both of us at the same time….had to call foul on the play!
I already know who will pounce first!
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
1:19 pm
Oops, longer than I thought.
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
1:19 pm
Swiss – Gotcha.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
1:21 pm
kimmie, I agree.
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
1:22 pm
Leggs – Yuck! That’s the only word I could think of to describe dude. No finese at all.
And you have the right to feel the way you want to feel.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
1:23 pm
Well Leggs, I promise you one of those very women at that table have hooked up with him or will. He’s single the ladies are single who cares how he tries to mingle. LOL
Randyt (aka Been There, Done That, Got THIS T-Shirt and Many More)
March 28th, 2011
1:26 pm
@ im swiss…not my experience and I was a stockbroker with two major firms for 14 years and knew a lot of rich people. There were some who were 2nd generation, but not a long line of generationsof “old money”. There is a saying that the time from “shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves” is three generations…from the time the one built the wealth, til the descendents pizz it away.
My richest client when I was a broker for Paine Webber was running the family business for his brother and sister. His father was an itinerant coal miner. who had a talent for driving big equipment. One day the company his father was working for bought a new digger and asked him to drive it. Instead he proposed that they sell it to him instead of paying him his wages, he would drive it for them during the week…and on the weekend it was his to use. He saved enough to buy a small mining rights holding (by earning money on the side with the barefisted fighting matches) and he would mine and the mother would drive the truck on Saturdays and Sundays. Worked his butt off…and sold it in the 70’s for the paltrey sum of 89 million dollars.
This is what I have seen more of.
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
1:26 pm
Leggs – what is most unfortunate about that whole deal is that o’girl won’t see it for the foolishness that it is. Instead, she will get a rush that she *won* him and will miss this very important clue into it’s character for what it is.
Buddy was throwing out bait left and right and hoping for a nibble.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
1:28 pm
Leggs, you got milk! I don’t have to worry about you being wore out and out of breath! LOL
On a more serious note I would watch the guy around you alls daughters if he is that horny he may just be eyeing the little girls as well.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
1:30 pm
A lot of generational wealth up here in the farmlands and also when they started discovery oil up here in the last few decades has really boosted an already stable economy for land owners
For Real
March 28th, 2011
1:31 pm
Swiss: Exactly and those are the ones always talking about pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps.
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
1:32 pm
@PR ~ I promise you this as well…neither of the ladies at the table with me that night has or will hook up with him. Out of the 3 of us, no one likes him like that, and one is married w/no intentions of cheating!
Blackfoote
March 28th, 2011
1:32 pm
LOL…..@Leggs threw out the red challenge flag.
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
1:32 pm
Leggs – No foul calling here….on nobody but him. You should have put him on blast. Yeah, if ole girl is asking if you’re feeling, clearly she’s interested….even though it’s been revealed that he’s shady.
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
1:32 pm
@PR ~ I watch all men around my daughter.
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
1:33 pm
Purple, you’re right about watching the daughters! That’s actually one of the things that popped in my head when reading her post!
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
1:33 pm
@Leggs threw out the red challenge flag.
How bout a can of blackflag for him being an insect.
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
1:34 pm
“if ole girl is asking if you’re feeling, clearly she’s interested”
Double co-sign…even though you obviously feel strongly that he will get no play. Me not so sure.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
1:34 pm
I laugh at the whole “Put On Blast” that women do. That does not bother men at all, if anything it’s more advertising. LOL A smart man knows that women in a certain circle will talk to each other. He was probably banking on that and seeing who would bite. LOL
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
1:35 pm
you’re right about watching the daughters!
Something I’ve always been in tune with. Not saying I’m not a good judge of character but that’s why, my kid turning 16 in 2 weeks, have only met 2 other dudes outside of her dad. Ut uh, don’t play that.
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
1:35 pm
Yep, he’ll get play.
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
1:36 pm
@Celisea ~ he was asking me if I was feeling him. I wanted to put him on blast, but I’m working on my people skills (LOL). I just needed him to know that I knew. I’m not your bait and switch type of gal.
Yes, shady’s a good word in this instance…as well as STUPID!
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
1:38 pm
Purple – Laugh if you want. Sleaze will attract weak.
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
1:38 pm
PR – I laugh at the whole “Put On Blast” that women do. That does not bother men at all, if anything it’s more advertising.
Not for his sake but the women. Just a repellant though for him. Clearly if he’s not good, he’ll just move that behavior to the next circle. No need in my circle though tolerating or entertaining the bug man.
SexyC – That’s what I gathered too when she asked Leggs if she was interested. Just finding out that you’re trying to hit on me and another lady in the circle is reason enough to shut it down…all the way.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
1:39 pm
Leggs reference your 1:32, I would not make that promise. Women are not always honest with their other lady friends. One will hook up with him and enjoy it but when its brought up in the womens convo she will still talk bad about him…but yet will go see him right after you all disperse. Not saying this is a bad thing just saying that’s how it is.
Also, outside of him being so direct in the initial email I don’t see anything wrong with him trying to see which one he can get. No different than walking up to a table of ladies in a lounge/bar/club or AppleBee’s …put some words out there to the whole group and see which lady responds. Nobody at this table…turn around and go to another. LOL
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
1:39 pm
Leggs – he was asking me if I was feeling him
Gotcha.
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
1:40 pm
Exactly…and certainly no need for me to question your feelings.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
1:40 pm
kimmie, and if a man does something to warrant being put on blast he probably already views those involved as “sleeze” He is not looking for wife material because if he were doing something to be put on blast would not have occurred.
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
1:40 pm
Oh..okay…gotcha x 2. (lol)
For Real
March 28th, 2011
1:42 pm
“Women are not always honest with their other lady friends. One will hook up with him and enjoy it but when its brought up in the womens convo she will still talk bad about him…but yet will go see him right after you all disperse.” – Happens everyday and twice on Sundays.
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
1:42 pm
Sorry PR, that mess ain’t cool. Emailing and calling women in the same circle to see which one will bite? Having teenage kids and a divorcee = too old for that mess.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
1:42 pm
Leggs is just mad because she would be wore out and out of breath. LOL
j/k Leggs, knock the dust off. LOL
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
1:43 pm
Celisea, next he is going to add them on Facebook LOL
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
1:43 pm
You ain’t confident enough to go at it one at a time? Shady shady
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
1:44 pm
Celisea, next he is going to add them on Facebook
I wouldn’t doubt it. Well not Leggs…she ain’t going for that.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
1:45 pm
Confidence is doing the whole group…preferrably at once. If it were me I would have sent one mass email no “BCC” just straight CC.
“Who want it!”
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
1:46 pm
For Real, you know what I am talking about. For some reason there is mystique about someone whom everyone else does not like. LOL
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
1:47 pm
Purple/Leggs – He’s just being his sleazy self. He’s showing you and all the ladies up front what he’s all about. I actually respect him for that. The quality ladies, like you Leggs, don’t have to wonder or waste your time. He’s not your type, but to a different type of woman, he may be just what the doctor ordered.
I just don’t go for men that give off that type of aura. Like he’s licking his chops and drooling after you. Texting has made it easy for dudes to do that when they used to have to say it to your face or at the least on the phone. Whichever way, it always made me uncomfortable. But to each his own – and yeah, some go for it.
Blackfoote
March 28th, 2011
1:51 pm
“How bout a can of blackflag for him being an insect.”
Celisea dude trying to play two for one and it didn’t matter to him wich one…..LOL
Hell y’all know Leggs wasn’t about to fall in that trap.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
1:52 pm
kimmie, I agree if you would have gotten that email/call he would have known after the first time that nothing was going to happen. But yet one of the ladies responded that he has been blowing her phone up. Hmmm, if he keeps calling..why hasn’t she made the pint clear?
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
1:53 pm
Purple – You’re right, hopefully no man would go for wife-material like that.
And you are absolutely right about women not being honest with lady friends about such. I’ve had it happen in my circle of friends. It’s because they are embarassed. He’s not the type you show off to the friends and family and are proud to have people know you are with. He’s just somebody to mess around with. And she’s the same to him.
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
1:54 pm
Randy — Again, I think we’re talking about two different classes of wealthy. Now, granted, to me, $89 million would be rich as f__k, but there are a select few — who control the vast majority of wealth in this country — for whom that is chump change — those who have more money than they, their children, grandchildren, great grandchildren — all the way down the line — could ever spend without ever having to work a day in their lives.
Oh, and I meant to say earlier, to further illustrate your point about athletes & wealth… 2010 payroll for the entire Atlanta Braves roster: $84 million. 2010 salary for CEO of Liberty Media (company that owns the Braves): $87 million. There’s rich, and then there’s rich…
Blackfoote
March 28th, 2011
1:54 pm
“Confidence is doing the whole group…preferrably at once.”
LOL……@Purple
Like playing jaxstones….LOL
DreamsMaterialize "Free Me-Lo"
March 28th, 2011
1:57 pm
Purp is right, dudes don’t care about getting put on blast. That dude is acting off a principle that lots of dudes use: “act now, apologize later”. Basically, push the envelope and see if you get what you want. If you get called on it, just apologize and take a different approach.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:00 pm
kimmie, I have seen that with women as well but somehow the guy comes out as the bad person in it all. His approach sucks but he is who he is, if you lay down with dogs don’t be mad if you come up with fleas. But yet one of those women will bite, get hurt when he moves on to the next group and then paint him to be a scumbucket…when from “go” all he wanted and was about was the booty. LOL Moral to the story is, don’t have an email or cell phone. LOL j/k
Blackfoote, yep just get them all in one swoop…or atleast the majority. LOL
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
2:00 pm
You guys are right in that such dudes don’t care about being on blast. Obviously from their actions they don’t care.
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
2:00 pm
Dudes in situations such as these do not care about being put on blast. Neither does the chick whose attention he has managed to catch.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:02 pm
Dreams, for dudes you can put being put “on Blast” right beside “closure” LOL
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:04 pm
If anything being put on blast helps his case because if only one woman is interested and why he is getting such an angry reaction from a woman..it was all worth it. “Hmm, he must be good for her to get that mad, let me get some!” LOL
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:05 pm
Next time he should just walk in with his wang out and see what happens. LOL that’s what Swiss would do.
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
2:06 pm
Purple — I believe the technical terminology is “rock out with my c0ck out”
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
2:06 pm
Purple – In my example, neither really is a bad person. That is unless someone is cheating on a spouse. I’m not talking about that. I’m saying there is something about dude that makes her not want to be seen in the light of day with him. Nothing to brag about. His looks, his character, his rep, something. And she has hit rock bottom for being hard up enough to mess with him. No, she has no right to come up later about how he’s no good because EVERYBODY knew that, including her!
Neither come up smelling like a rose, but hey, they are grown and it’s a free country.
DreamsMaterialize "Free Me-Lo"
March 28th, 2011
2:07 pm
those who have more money than they, their children, grandchildren, great grandchildren — all the way down the line — could ever spend without ever having to work a day in their lives.
Swiss and then there’s people who don’t even appear on any list (like the Rothschilds) because their wealth is so extensive it can’t even be evaluated.
Randyt (aka Been There, Done That, Got THIS T-Shirt and Many More)
March 28th, 2011
2:08 pm
@ Im swiss…true. The 89 million was in the seventies. Factor in inflation and the number is pretty good. Also knew a pair of accountants (twin brothers) in Knoxville that worked for very low wages for a coal company for years, but were given stock in the company in lieu of salary. Sun oil bought that company out, again in the 70’s, for 240 million. They did well for their hard work.
Not sure how much wealth is still closely held, as you suggest. I probably ought to read all the way down in Forbes and not just the top 50 or so (Gates, Buffett, the Mexican who ran Telefundo de Mexico, or the guys at Google, Apple, Home Depot, and Facebook). I suspect the true answer lies somewhere between our views.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:11 pm
kimmie, okay I understand. Basically she is just filling a void or he is just scratching an itch.
DreamsMaterialize "Free Me-Lo"
March 28th, 2011
2:12 pm
Next time he should just walk in with his wang out and see what happens.
Purp This is a dude’s version of closure. There’s no doubt about where things stand after this. Either she’ll call you every disgusting thing in the book or she’ll give you some. And at the end of the day, that’s all dude really wants to know.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:14 pm
Dreams, exactly.
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
2:14 pm
“I suspect the true answer lies somewhere between our views.”
Randy — Probably so. Actually, whether it’s old money or new money is really beside the point… what irks me is how working stiffs can be so easily convinced to turn on each other, while the folks with the real money just keep getting richer & richer…
Randyt (aka Been There, Done That, Got THIS T-Shirt and Many More)
March 28th, 2011
2:15 pm
…dont want to forget Oprah and Tiger Woods (and Tiger Wood’s ex-wife LOL)
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
2:16 pm
what irks me is how working stiffs can be so easily convinced to turn on each other, while the folks with the real money just keep getting richer & richer…
Swiss – Irks me too!!!
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
2:18 pm
Blackfoote – Celisea dude trying to play two for one and it didn’t matter to him wich one…..
I know right…just plain stupid.
For you that are saying a dude like that cares nothing about being put on blast…it’s obvious by the lack of class he possess or or any upstanding type traits for that matter. Putting him on blast is more of a repellant for him to back off and carry that mess on to the next bunch….not to save or convert him, just want it to be known that I’m not the one… Putting on blast is more so that it’s crystal clear that I’m not rolling like that…not hoping he will shriek down and do better, just to carry that foolishness somewhere else.
Randyt (aka Been There, Done That, Got THIS T-Shirt and Many More)
March 28th, 2011
2:18 pm
@ swiss…in the immortal words of our banished but not forgotten colleague, sometimes/most of the time, it is their “own middy fickin fault”. We all should take responsibility/ownership of our successes and our failures…and remember and accept that “life isn’t fair, never has been, never will be”.
Blackfoote
March 28th, 2011
2:19 pm
Man y’all are nuts……LOL
You know the ladies have full visual of Swiss doing his thang with his wang…….LOL
cba
March 28th, 2011
2:20 pm
Old money = the late Sam Walton. If he was still alive, he would be world richest by a long shot.
Now, three or four of his kids are in the top 50 and a Wally World on every corner and one coming near you.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:21 pm
Celisea, but most women won’t pay attention to the warning or do you think that they will?
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
2:22 pm
@PR ~ Ok, I’ll back up. I’ll make the promise on the married woman because I know where she stands on a lot of issues. The other single lady he tried to talk to, anything can happen. Ok, I’ll give you half of that promise leaning in your favor, PR.
But your joke about being mad because I’m worn out was funny.
“Hell y’all know Leggs wasn’t about to fall in that trap.” – Most definitely, Blackfoote. His approach was scummy at best, and the fact that he’s short w/a patch of hair on the top of his head (you know like those plastic dolls that had a wave of plastic hair at the top), is a turnoff.
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
2:23 pm
Dreams – Purp This is a dude’s version of closure.
Naw Dreams, that’s tasteless and disrespectful. And if you think doing something is just a casual move then I can only shake my head. There are plenty of dudes that moved on from relationships without formal “closure” and without getting as grimey as one can get. There’s still a difference.
Randyt (aka Been There, Done That, Got THIS T-Shirt and Many More)
March 28th, 2011
2:25 pm
@ swiss I don’t begrudge wealth. To clarify, I am trying to say that building wealth takes generations sometimes. My total inheritance, unless things change, will have been $123 from my grandmother’s estate…yet I have more than my parents ever did. I had a somewhat higher “launching pad” than they did. My children have a higher “launching pad” than I did, so hopefully they will build more. My grandchildren can hopefully leverage that even more. With the exception of “Royalty”, most wealth started somewhere with poverty and hard work.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:25 pm
Legs, I did not say you were worn out. I said you would be wore out because you are out of practice. LOL Dude chest will be sticking all out and stuff. LOL
Celisea, you are putting feelings into what Dreams and I were saying, don’t take it literally. We were just putting an emphasis on being direct and not sending mixed signals
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
2:27 pm
That example right there is prime real estate on men being outright stupid and disrespectful all the while thinking they’re giving someone a compliment. I told him how the email was disrespectful and saw no reason for him to even mention my body. He said he was joking but realized it was borderline provocative. Cool, all it showed me was he was a slimy character.
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
2:27 pm
Randy — I agree with you, except that economic policy should not be about what is fair, it should be about what is best for the entire economy. And to put it in overly-simplistic terms, having a few people with more money than they could ever spend (whether or not they “earned” it) while the vast majority of people are doing well just to get by is not good for the economy. Whether it’s fair or not, that imbalance needs to be lessened (via tax codes, regulation, whatever) or else we’re on the path to becoming a 3rd world country.
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
2:28 pm
“Putting him on blast is more of a repellant for him to back off and carry that mess on to the next bunch”
THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT IT IS!!!
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:29 pm
Leggs, very rude of him but some woman of lesser caliber it has worked on before. Men stick to what works and some woman ruined for some others.
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
2:29 pm
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:30 pm
Im rude but I would never be as rude to say you were worn out. I don’t know you like that. Now if we were to hook up and I just fell right in and could not feel the walls. I still would not say you were worn out for two reasons 1 I am discreet and 2 I would be ashamed. LOL
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
2:30 pm
@PR ~ being out of practice has nothing to do with. I am exercising building up my stamina, as well as my agility. When time comes, I’ll be able to crack a knutt with my thighs (I’m cracking myself up).
Randyt (aka Been There, Done That, Got THIS T-Shirt and Many More)
March 28th, 2011
2:31 pm
“Whether it’s fair or not, that imbalance needs to be lessened (via tax codes, regulation, whatever) or else we’re on the path to becoming a 3rd world country”.
I’ve spent enough time overseas to see what eventually happens when you punish the successful to reward the “needy”. Most of the European community is sinking like a rock right now because of their social reforms. At the end of the day, economic success is directly related to production…not government programs.
My take…and I still love ya man
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:33 pm
Leggs, that plan sounds all fine and dandy but once you get probed all bets are off. LOL
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
2:33 pm
PR – Celisea, but most women won’t pay attention to the warning or do you think that they will?
First of all, all break ups aren’t initiated by men, therefore woman ain’t “hanging on.” Next, if the man does initiate the breakup, many many woman may not like or agree but that’s not to say the don’t possess class, chuck it up and move on
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:34 pm
“At the end of the day, economic success is directly related to production…not government programs”
Clap, clap, clap, clap
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
2:35 pm
SHET UP, PR!
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:35 pm
Celisea, what in the world are you talking about?
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:35 pm
Leggs, Mike Tyson said it best. “Everyone has a plan until they get hit!”
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:36 pm
LOL
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
2:36 pm
Dontcha ya just love a place where several conversations can take place with missing a beat
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
2:38 pm
PR – Celisea, what in the world are you talking about?
I could ask you the same. What world are you from where a dude walks in with is wang out and hollering at whatever woman in the room will open up (pun intended). In my world, women have a very small level of tolerance for bullcrappery. I say this in love blogmate.
Blackfoote
March 28th, 2011
2:38 pm
Leggs that is funny but it is gauranteed he has done it before on some other woman who fell for it.
Dan - Simply....Superior
March 28th, 2011
2:39 pm
@Randy T/PR
If economic success is tied to production, then the corrollary would be that their needs to be demand.
If there is no demand, there is no need for production.
And, if the majority of the people that create the demand have no jobs, there is no need for production.
And you all say……?
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
2:41 pm
Randy — I’m not even talking about government programs… just revising the tax code would be a nice start. There’s all this wailing & gnashing of teeth over our deficit (rightly so), but we’re arguing over slashing $$ for education, housing grants, etc. — all of which make up a miniscule fraction of our budget — but nobody will touch defense spending or social security and most annoyingly we still insist on giving away billions by refusing to take the highest tax rate back to the 1990’s level (a mere 3% increase on people who won’t feel it). And I seem to recall that higher rate didn’t cause the world to end in the 90s…
My take… but I still love ya, too, bro…
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:42 pm
Celisea, did you read where I said don’t take the wang out literally?
Dan I say choose the right industry or choose where there is a necessity for said demand…or just be able to reinvent yourself. If people want it they will find a way to buy it. Plenty of broke people who are leaving above their means and spending utility bill, diaper and food monies on stuff that they do not need. That is not the providers fault but the consumers.
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
2:42 pm
Celisea, what in the world are you talking about?
PR – I just went back to reread…I’m waaay off
DreamsMaterialize "Free Me-Lo"
March 28th, 2011
2:43 pm
There are plenty of dudes that moved on from relationships without formal “closure”
Celisea I agree. I moved on from all my relationships without “closure.” Closure and respect are mutually exclusive though. One has nothing to do with the other. People get closure however they get it. Some will get it disrespectfully, some will be noble, and others won’t care either way.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:43 pm
Randyt, Swiss that is enough man on man love
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:44 pm
Celisea, you are just upset that you called off 2038 and you know that you really should not have. LOL
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
2:45 pm
I ain’t retracting my statement about the pulling the wang out
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:47 pm
Celisea, okay then i will retract my wang! :0
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:48 pm
And we are still friends. See Celisea that is closure just like Dreams said. LOL
Neal
March 28th, 2011
2:48 pm
Why all of the class warfare? People get to a position of wealth through long hours and busting their rear end. People that get rich through a fund or trust happens LESS than 1% of the time. Many of the wealthy have put in YEARS of school and accumulated thousands of debt from loans to pay for that schooling. Then some group comes whining as to why they aren’t given the same perks and why they don’t make the same money. You have no right to anyone ele’s money…period. Wealthy people get and stay that way because they keep doing what got them there. The poor, well same thing. You can change your economic position with hard work and changing your habits. Don’t whine about how it isn’t fair, because in the real world, it is. There is room for ANYONE at the top, but there isn’t room for EVERYONE. The wealthy produce jobs, purchase extravagancies that create jobs and if you just tax them out, those jobs leave. I am so sick of people complaining about this. It’s the real world. Lead, follow or get out of the way.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:49 pm
Am I the only person who thinks being wealthy and rich are two different things? I just jumped into the conversation today without reading all of the comments.
Blackfoote
March 28th, 2011
2:50 pm
Randyt I saw it last night 60 minutes all the American Co abroad want to come home but the 35% tax brackett they’er in is preventing them to do so Cisco Sytems CEO says they have 40 billion just sitting there in Zug Switzerland not mention Google, GE, Westinghouse.
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
2:50 pm
I gotcha, PR/Blackfoote.
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
2:50 pm
And, listen, I’m no fan of government, either. But it seems odd to me that many who are most distrustful of government regulation have seemingly complete confidence in “the free market” (i.e. corporations) Corporations — whose openly stated reason for existence is to f__k you as hard as they can while squeezing ever possible penny out of you to put towards their bottom line. Corporations are all for the “free market” until they f__k up & then it’s all about how bad it would be for the economy if they were allowed to go under…
NY state of mind
March 28th, 2011
2:51 pm
Good Afternoon Fam: PR, Black, For Real, Leggs, Sexy, Swizzy (swiss), Chink, Amazon and MC!
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
2:52 pm
Dreams – I was speaking more so to the “casualness” you displayed if ever someone pulled their wang to get the message across. The rest of what you posted at 2:43 I already know.
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
2:52 pm
Purple — Don’t worry, we didn’t forget about you — there’s enough love to go around…
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
2:52 pm
Sometimes ya’ll some nasty disrespectful bastids.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:53 pm
Hello NY State of Mind!
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
2:53 pm
Aw hell…isn’t it obvious? We are all plugged in to The Matrix.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:54 pm
Celisea, you honestly think that a man has actually walked into a room full of women and pulled his wang out…outside of a photoshoot?
Swiss, I am not down with the swirl. LOL
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
2:55 pm
Hey NY.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:55 pm
Who makes you spend you hard earned cash on stuff besides taxes?
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
2:56 pm
Hey SexyCool I am just piggy backing on NY’s hello’s
cba
March 28th, 2011
2:57 pm
Randyt/Swiss, last night, 60 minutes did a story on the number of American Corp moving their headqtrs overseas to avoid the 35% corp tax. Some of the companies only have a PO Box. The CEO from Cisco was the only one to grant an interview. I think it was reported that GE only paid 3% corp tax.
Randyt, since you have been overseas alot. How do salaries compare to the US? I think avoiding the high tax is only part of their decision. Ironically, some of these countries would be considered socialist by the same people who are moving their assets there.
When someone like Kim from the RHOA is making six figures, production as I know it is a thing of the past.
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
2:57 pm
Are you saying we’ve been sucked into a vortex?
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
2:57 pm
Hello NYSoM!
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
2:59 pm
“The wealthy produce jobs, purchase extravagancies that create jobs and if you just tax them out, those jobs leave.”
Actually, they don’t. Or at least not as many as you could produce by spreading that same tax break across many more lower-income people. How many man hours does it take to produce a single $1,000,000 luxury car? How many man hours does it take to produce 66 $15k cars? It’s not about class warfare or what’s philosophically fair — it’s about what actually benefits the overall economy. And, incidentally, the higher demand created by putting more $$ in the hands of a greater number of consumers helps the people at the top of the food chain even more than the higher tax rate would hurt them.
DreamsMaterialize "Free Me-Lo"
March 28th, 2011
2:59 pm
economic success is directly related to production…not government programs.
Randy I think people often present a false dichotomy as if you HAVE to choose between the market or the government. The truth is that you have to find the right balance between the two. Some things need to be regulated, and some probably need to be subsized. The market would still have factories employing and abusing 10 year olds without government regulation. Also, consumers don’t want to ever have to pay the REAL cost of the things they consume. The government subsidizes many industries so as to make it affordable. If people had to pay the true cost of groceries or transportation, they’d probably riot. Shoot they’re almost ready to riot over gas prices. Have people ever actually thought about how gas prices could stay at about $1 for like 30 years, while the cost of everything else went up?
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:00 pm
Swiss, you should be a hippie and a mormon. LOL
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:01 pm
I’m just going to grow some weed smoke a little bit..sell a little bit, stay off the radar of the law and live off of the land..LOL
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:04 pm
Willie Nelson is my hero!
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
3:04 pm
Dontcha just love this day and age? I couldn’t remember a number I needed to I logged in and looked at last month’s bill.
Blackfoote
March 28th, 2011
3:05 pm
Randyt, Swiss that is enough man on man love
Hey I caught that Purple Swiss and Randyt too much man love pass Swiss a t-shirt Randyt got one.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:05 pm
Blackfoote, it’s done!
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
3:06 pm
“you should be a hippie and a mormon. “
Purple — Who’s to say I’m not…?
DreamsMaterialize "Free Me-Lo"
March 28th, 2011
3:07 pm
I was speaking more so to the “casualness” you displayed if ever someone pulled their wang to get the message across.
Celisea Oh, that’s because I didn’t take Purp’s example of pulling out his wang literally. I thought he was using an extreme example to drive home the point that there is value in being direct.
Neal
March 28th, 2011
3:07 pm
I’m Swiss, companies are out to make a profit and not a charity. That’s how they expand, pay employees and keep the business going. If you think they are too expensive, don’t purchase their products. You have no say in how much profit they make. That’s up to the share holders and CEO’s. Only Liberals like to say that a person or company is making TOO MUCH money. What? Are you kidding me? That’s why we have this bozo running the White House that thinks he can spend as much as he wants on anything, regardless of whether or not we have the money. That’s why the House was taken over and the Senate will follow. It’s called Free Enterprise and it’s what rewards the acheivers.
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
3:07 pm
I couldn’t remember a number SOOOO (NOT to) I logged in…correction
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:07 pm
Dreams 3:07, exactly!
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:08 pm
Celisea, do you need a hug today?
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
3:08 pm
I’m just saying that most things are not as they seem. Many times there are layers of reality to most any situation. And most of us can’t see that because we are kept busy focusing on the act of simply surviving.
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
3:09 pm
Men stick to what works and some woman ruined for some others.
Purple – I disagree. Men do what works as the situation calls. The approach to someone they respect is very different from the ones they don’t. A true man of character treats ALL with respect and doesn’t just do what he think he can get away with, but that’s another subject. And every tub sits on it’s own bottom – those women that fell for the okie doke ruined things FOR THEMSELVES!
Randyt (aka Been There, Done That, Got THIS T-Shirt and Many More)
March 28th, 2011
3:10 pm
honestly Swiss, I agree that corporate ‘officers, CEOs etc.) salaries have gotten obscene. I don’t think that is fair to the shareholders or the public who are absorbing this. I also agree that bailing out corporations (and states, and frankly darn near anyone) is BS. But for corporate taxes, I would comment though that sometimes corporations get an unfair shot from the Michael Moore’s of this world because of the one question they never seem to ask…”who is Exxon” (for example) is ‘he’ some evil rich ba$tard that screws everyone”? Frankly ‘he’ is most of us who have a 401K, he is the shareholders who want to profit in some way from the risk taken with their investments, ‘he’ is a ‘union’ of investors that includes most people.
Just one caveat…when your politicians talk about taxing those obscene profits of these evil large corporations, who is really getting taxed? I’ll give you a hint, expenses get passed through, and tax is an expense just like any other expense. It is that poor working stiff that is getting nailed at the gas pump…not big bad Exxon. (and for the record, I am no fan of Exxon…just using them as an example). Don’t believe all you hear on MSNBC (or Fox)…they have an agenda.
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
3:10 pm
Neal, can you take that over to one of the political blogs please. This is a dating blog.
Blackfoote
March 28th, 2011
3:11 pm
Hello Ms. NY former For Real For Real.
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
3:15 pm
Kimmie – Men do what works as the situation calls. The approach to someone they respect is very different from the ones they don’t. A true man of character treats ALL with respect and doesn’t just do what he think he can get away with, but that’s another subject.
Applaud applaud applaud….
Dan - Simply....Superior
March 28th, 2011
3:15 pm
I’ll say this,
Anybody that uses the phrase “free market” without using the “invisible hand” hasn’t read Smith and that person is merely parroting a phrase they’ve heard from someone else
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:18 pm
SexyCool, are you ignoring my hello’s to you? Hello again! lol
DreamsMaterialize "Free Me-Lo"
March 28th, 2011
3:18 pm
Anybody that uses the phrase “free market”
Dan Free Market is an illusion.
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
3:18 pm
Hey, BigHeadDude….my bad. (lol)
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:20 pm
kimmie, as a man I am saying men do what works to get their desired results and if it worked before they will stick to it. If his result was a one night slump and bump he will do what worked to get it the first time. I am saying some woman messed it up for others to mean that some woman fell for the slum and bump spill now said guys is trying it on other women until he finds one that it will work on again.
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
3:20 pm
My coworker just told me she’s lost 20 pounds and asked if I could tell……
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
3:21 pm
Randy — I agree with you there… when I’m referring to tax rates, I’m specifically referring to the individual tax rate — and the inability to raise the top rate by 3% (GASP! Socialism!), also known as the same rate as we had pre-W. For corporate tax rates, I’m fine with offering incentives for those that actually create jobs here as opposed to India, etc.
Neal You’re right about one thing, corporations are all about profit. But capitalism doesn’t mean the complete lack of regulation. The corporate motivation is purely profit. That’s it. If it will increase the bottom line, they’ll do it (if allowed), no matter who or how many they have to f__k to do so. That’s why there has to be a good balance between free enterprise & reasonable regulation.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:21 pm
SexyCool, aww shucks you always know just what to say
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
3:22 pm
Is there still operators, as in BellSouth/AT&T operators?
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
3:22 pm
Oops… more bold than I intended there
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:22 pm
Celisea and you said?
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
3:23 pm
Cel – if she had to ask…..
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
3:23 pm
PR – I hesitated…and then told the truth, of course I was soft with it and encouraging…lol
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:24 pm
Me thinks Celisea got into my private stash
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
3:24 pm
SexyC – Cel – if she had to ask…..
lolol..I know right. I just said something like well usually you can tell (close lose, feel better) before it becomes apparent to others.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:25 pm
LOL maybe women can tell women the truth about weight…but men sure can’t
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
3:25 pm
PR – Me thinks Celisea got into my private stash
You’re a nut
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
3:26 pm
clothes not close…what was I thinking
Blackfoote
March 28th, 2011
3:26 pm
Obama been called lots of names. The man just wants to level the playing field.
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
3:27 pm
PR – maybe women can tell women the truth about weight…but men sure can’t
As much as you may believe and have been convinced, lying IS NOT in your DNA.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:27 pm
Yeah and Leggs wants to crack me with her thighs.
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
3:28 pm
C’s coworker: Hey, C! Guuuuuuurl, you know I done lost 20 pounds from watching those P90X commercials. Can you tell?
C — Oh no, honey, you didn’t lose it — it’s right there on your azz….
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:29 pm
Celisea, neither is being stupid.
Hey what did you do this weekend? You seem way off today, some guy piss you off?
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:29 pm
Swiss, LOL
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:31 pm
Aspirin is perfectly legal, but if you take 13 of them motherf***ers, it’ll be your last headache.
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
3:32 pm
“…as a man I am saying men do what works to get their desired results and if it worked before they will stick to it. If his result was a one night slump and bump he will do what worked to get it the first time.”
And, my stance is if you’re grimy like that then approach likewise grimy women. And, if you didn’t know if I’m grimy or not why take the chance in me finding out you are only to definitely not give you the time of day. Step respectfully at all times. Low lifes should seek other low lifes. Another one bites the dust….
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
3:32 pm
Purple – You pretty much said what I said, but okay. That’s just life though. A few slimy dudes going around saying stupid stuff to find someone desperate enough to take up time with them – hadn’t ruined a thing for anyone. Just a fact of life.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:32 pm
Some of yall ladies is looking for an 100% good man, and I had a meeting with all these men in attendance and established that there is no such a man. So stop looking for him. Some of yall had a 98% man and yall got rid of him for 2% now you siting next to a 71% man hoping he upgrade.
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
3:33 pm
Celisea ~ I got the impression you couldn’t tell.
Bet you wish you had a Kit Kat! 
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:34 pm
Leggs, is there a lowlife outfit he won’t know until he asks. LOL
kimmie, I just like talking to you because you are cute and smell good So I will flip remix and retype whatever you say with yo sexyself!
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
3:34 pm
Swiss – She came to my floor to visit for a sec and it was just thrown out there midconvo…lol I was taken aback at first and then gave her a look over and was like, (slowly hesitated with), noooo I can’t tell…YET…but you know how it it girl, sometimes it just takes a minute.
Actually, Swiss, I’m good…had a GREEEEEEAT (as in Tony the Tiga) weekend
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
3:34 pm
Purp – I’m good with my 80% man. The other 20% is all smoke and mirrors anyway.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:34 pm
Celisea, smells like she is high today
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
3:34 pm
Not Swiss (on the great comment) but PR…
Yeah I am off a bit today.
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
3:35 pm
Purple – And none of these ladies want anything to do with those men that actually listened to anything you had to say!
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:36 pm
“If your puddy was so good, you would drive a better car.”
Katt Williams
SexyCool you are on lock. I ain’t even much gon try and flirt with you. LOL
Celisea, pothead I asked you about your weekend not Swiss. LOL
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
3:36 pm
Purple – Thanks, flattery will get you nowhere!LOL!!
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:37 pm
kimmie, whatever you say is nothing but the truth baby!
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
3:37 pm
Well he never asked, PR. And you can definitely tell how someone carries themselves.
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
3:38 pm
Leggs – Celisea ~ I got the impression you couldn’t tell.
I couldn’t…lol She was cool though about my answer
PR – Not high dude…probably blog overkill.
Blackfoote
March 28th, 2011
3:38 pm
“Low lifes should seek other low lifes”
LOL…..@Leggs
You’re calling out mostly the whole world…….LOL
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
3:38 pm
And, for the record, I would like to think one can look at me and not even think “grimy.”
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:39 pm
Gas is so high. Hot Damn gas. Sh!!t!! You are not supposed to be at the gas station making life decisions. You just at the pump, “Did I eat today?” – Katt Williams
Randyt (aka Been There, Done That, Got THIS T-Shirt and Many More)
March 28th, 2011
3:40 pm
Last comment, then back to dating, only to answer CBA.
Wages are usually lower or equal, but the people keep much less of what they make because most of what is paid as income goes back to social programs.
People have smaller, older ‘row houses’ that sometimes stay in families for generations, new housing is seldom noted and very expensive.
They have medical programs that pay for all services but that is somewhat different over there from the granite and ornate offices filled with millions of dollars of medical equipment we are used to. There are occasionally treatments that are withheld because someone in government deems it “experimental” and not “in the budget”. Most is “triage”, you wait in line (not in the offices although that too…I mean it is often a long wait until services are “approved”, and you are behind anyone who is perceieved to have a more urgent need, meaning you can wait from months to years for “non life-threatening” services or operations.
Doctors are somewhat limited because their earnings potential is contained so it is not as exciting a profession as here.
Dentists have mostly opted for ‘private practice’ because the national program pays so poorly, so one can wait a year and a half for basic dental services often (one of the reasons other than genetic for a lot of poor teeth there).
Is there an advantage to national healthcare…no question. One can argue that their ‘preventive medicine’ might be better because there are no financial barriers. The problem is that it isn’t the healthcare we know. It is, instead, long waits, probably less diagnostic services, more “pedestrian” care… A trade off, certainly, but would be a rude awakening for those of us who have good insurance.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:42 pm
The little book reading, plainly dressed nerd will be the woman to rock your world. You can not read a book by it’s cover..The woman wearing hoochie momma clothes and has a nice booty pop on the dance floor only does missionary.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:44 pm
What’s the whore uniform look like?
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
3:44 pm
I’m having leftover ribs (grilled in the rain…yeah baby) for dinner.
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
3:45 pm
“The little book reading, plainly dressed nerd will be the woman to rock your world”
Purple — Amen, brother…
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
3:48 pm
@NY ~ I’m leaving at 4:00. Would you mind leaving the E.O.D.?
Randyt (aka Been There, Done That, Got THIS T-Shirt and Many More)
March 28th, 2011
3:48 pm
I’m Swiss…actually, I was probably one of the few, conservative or liberal that held the belief that extending the tax cuts AND extending the unemployment benefits were wrong. A quick history lesson though…Bush lowered the tax rate (true), after Clinton raised it (true), after Reagan lowered it (true)…and I can’t remember from there, so not sure how far we need to go back to decide was it a tax cut, a tax equalization, or what
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
3:49 pm
Purple/Swiss – Quit telling my secret – about the nerds!
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:51 pm
LIke I said kimmie, everything you say is right
LOL
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
3:52 pm
“You can not read a book by it’s cover.”
PLito – doesn’t stop you guys from trying. This morning, I was up at ABC getting a sandwich. This older gentleman walked up to me and was very complimentary. He ended it by saying, “Some man is really lucky.”
I smiled and said thank you. But in my mind, my first thought was “How do you know?” I could be some empty airhead or some hateful, horrible chick. Hell, there *could* be some lucky woman. (lol)
But…he drew a conclusion based on appearances. And whereas really, it was nothing more than a compliment, there were a lot of assumptions made.
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
3:53 pm
Randy — Here you go. As you can see, the top rate has been reduced drastically since the 80s and the threshold for what qualifies as the top bracket has been increased substantially (granted, there’s inflation to factor in).
Leggs
March 28th, 2011
3:54 pm
Ok, ladies and gentleman…if NY doesn’t step to the plate, the bag is in the air.
PEACE!
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:57 pm
SexyCool, when a woman is happy she just glows and that glow/light is attractive! Besides we men know when another man has marked his territory. LOL
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
3:57 pm
SexyCool blogs like a happy woman in a happy relationship…others…not so much. LOL
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
3:58 pm
kimmie — It’s not a secret. Me & Purp have already told the other blog dudes all about your skillz…
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
4:01 pm
kimmie, I did not tell anyone…I just showed them the video clips before I sold it to Vivid!
Blackfoote
March 28th, 2011
4:01 pm
SexyC:
I say that to attractive women all the time. It’s based on their outter appearance and for me it’s just a compliment cause a few of them wont even acknowledge the overture.
Blackfoote
March 28th, 2011
4:06 pm
LOL…..@Swiss&Purple
Kimmie what you gon do with them……LOL
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
4:08 pm
Blackfoote, you haven’t seen the video huh?
DreamsMaterialize "Free Me-Lo"
March 28th, 2011
4:08 pm
I’m having leftover ribs (grilled in the rain…yeah baby) for dinner.
Celisea Dang you grilled some ribs and didn’t even invite me?
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
4:10 pm
Dreams, Celisea is just grimy like that.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
4:13 pm
What do tigers dream of when they take their little tiger snooze? Do they dream of mauling zebras, or Halle Berry in her Catwoman suit? Don’t you worry your pretty striped head, we’re gonna get you back to Tyson and your cozy tiger bed. And then we’re gonna find our best friend Doug, and then we’re gonna give him a best friend hug. Doug, Doug, oh, Doug, Dougie, Dougie, Doug, Doug! But if he’s been murdered by crystal meth tweakers,
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
4:14 pm
Not you fat Jesus, slide it on back.
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
4:15 pm
Blackfoote – I really don’t know what to say! I was giving nerds a high 5 because I’ve always loved them and even set to marry one. Now all of a sudden there is a video out!
Purple/Swiss – You do know there is a fee for viewing, right? I don’t come cheap! I need to milk my 15 minutes of fame, just like Kim Kardashian!LOL!!!
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
4:16 pm
kimmie, your check is in the mail. LOL
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
4:17 pm
Purple – Okie dokie!LOL!!
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
4:18 pm
“I don’t come cheap!”
No, but you do come loudly… Just sayin’….
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
4:20 pm
LOL@ Swiss!
Blackfoote
March 28th, 2011
4:20 pm
Hey Purple Vivid films are the best at what they do…..LOL
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
4:20 pm
Purple — She left herself wide open to that one — just like in the video, come to think of it….
DreamsMaterialize "Free Me-Lo"
March 28th, 2011
4:21 pm
You do know there is a fee for viewing, right? I don’t come cheap! I need to milk my 15 minutes of fame, just like Kim Kardashian!LOL!!!
kimmie, kimmie, kimmie I knew you were torn up about me not taking you to Waffle House, but videos? I didn’t know you’d take it so hard… lol
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
4:22 pm
Swiss, LOL
Dreams, what do you mean you didn’t know she would take it so hard? That’s the only way she likes it!
Blackfoote
March 28th, 2011
4:24 pm
Dreams that’s just wrong of Celisea grilling ribs and didn’t call out the blog crew I had a couple of slabs to throw on there.
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
4:24 pm
Okay, you all are getting a little too crazy! But what did I expect? There is a price for fame, I guess!
Blackfoote
March 28th, 2011
4:26 pm
Kimmie you’re in a web Spider Man couldn’t get you out of….LOL
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
4:28 pm
“Kimmie you’re in a web Spider Man couldn’t get you out of…”
No, I think the one thing we can say for certain is that kimmie has knocked off all of the cobwebs…
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
4:29 pm
All I can do is laugh!!
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
4:30 pm
kimmie laugh all the way to the bank!
DreamsMaterialize "Free Me-Lo"
March 28th, 2011
4:30 pm
Kimmie you’re in a web Spider Man couldn’t get you out of…
Nah, kimmie is super savy and classy. She can elude the web, all while wearing heals, looking fly, and having every strand of hair in place.
Night ya’ll.
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
4:31 pm
You brought this on yourself, kimmie… Just like the Jello & the Astro-Glide.
Blackfoote
March 28th, 2011
4:31 pm
Oh No Swiss…….LOL
I got a feeling Kimmie will have all of us wearing t-shirts tomorrow.
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
4:32 pm
Thanks Dreams, you’re my only friend!LOL!!
Good night all!
kimmie
March 28th, 2011
4:33 pm
Blackfoote – That’s right, and charging $20 for those shirts too!LOL!!
DFW D.C.
March 28th, 2011
4:34 pm
We don’t need no groceries, we can fill up on love alone- Anthony Hamilton
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
4:34 pm
All of the women are gone now?
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
4:35 pm
Thaat’s my kimmie and don’t you forget it. LOL
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
4:38 pm
Dreams – You’re always invited to break bread
Blackfoote – Next time we’ll make a go at it…your ribs, my crib (see it rhymes)…corny I know…lol
NY state of mind
March 28th, 2011
4:40 pm
@Leggs..I’m sorry..were you asking me something? I’ve been away in a meeting.
Randyt (aka Been There, Done That, Got THIS T-Shirt and Many More)
March 28th, 2011
4:40 pm
Ahhh Swiss, that was a good and a bad pdf of the income tax rates. Good becasue I like that it has them all, bad because I just realized how little I get of my travel “bumps” after mentally adding state, sales, medicare, SS, etal…guess I’m rich though so I guess that counts for something
.
I am afraid, no joke, about bracket creap…it happens. pPrsonally I am a flat taxer, and a Jeffersonian Anarchist…less government, all pay the same percentage, no loopholes…but no one callednd asked for my opinion (strange how that happens, I’ve been right by the phone).
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
4:41 pm
NY she want’s you to leave the end of the day quote.
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
4:43 pm
I’m fighting a migraine…wonder if M&Ms and a diet coke will help…let me try it
Blackfoote
March 28th, 2011
4:49 pm
Celisea we can make that work.
NY state of mind
March 28th, 2011
4:49 pm
Oh my..I got nothing right now…I cant even think at this moment..my meeting was a little to th left. The first thing that comes to mind after this long day I’ve had is: Do not Judge or you too will be judged!
Good Night Fam!
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
4:55 pm
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it. — Jack Handy.
So long, folks!
Simple Man!!!!
March 28th, 2011
4:55 pm
Kimmie…I wish I woudda known!!! E’rbody know how much I loves to movies!!!
Celisea
March 28th, 2011
4:55 pm
Alright now Blackfoote – The next time I fire up the grill, you’ll get the first invite
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
5:01 pm
“If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.” — Jack Handy
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
5:02 pm
“I was sad, because I had no shoes.
Until I met a man that had no feet.
So, I took his shoes, cuz hey, he wan’t using them!”
Randyt (aka Been There, Done That, Got THIS T-Shirt and Many More)
March 28th, 2011
5:04 pm
Oh swiss, meant to say thanks for that pearl of wisdom last week about walking a mile in someone else’s shoes…priceless. Worked well with my cynical glasses that I usually wear.
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
5:04 pm
LOL Swiss where do you get these?
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
March 28th, 2011
5:06 pm
Purple Rain
March 28th, 2011
5:11 pm
Thanks!
SexyCool
March 28th, 2011
5:21 pm
“It takes more courage to live strong than to die slowly.”