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failed_novelty136 karma

Why did the chicken cross the road?

failed_novelty53 karma

A few days before that, Drew came into my restaurant and made everyone drink Tab.

failed_novelty25 karma

My biggest question is what's up with Greenland? Do they just constantly wash their hands and always wear biohazard suits?

Additionally, what has been the hardest part of development of the board game, in your opinion?

failed_novelty3 karma

Many, many, many people are in situations like I am. I was a stupid 18-year old and racked up a bit too much debt.

I got a job, was paying it off.

I got married. We had kids. She had debt from a similar situation.

Now, due to crappy insurance and several horrible situations (such as our landlord at one point deciding he wasn't going to fix a furnace mid-january) I'm working my ass off, seeing my kids for about an hour a day during the week (I work an hour from home, and they go to bed 2 hours after I get off of work).

Every attempt we made to pay any amount of our debt failed (sometimes our fault, other times because an emergency happened and we had to use the money to fix that instead).

I have a professional job - I work in an office, and make fairly decent money. But it isn't enough to pay for my wife's medical bills, our kid's education, maintenance on our car (which we bought for $2200, and it shows), food, rent, utilities (you know why cheap housing is cheap? there's no insulation. Keeping our home at 65 in the winter is HARD and expensive). Despite everything, we've been fighting to improve our situation for a decade.

Many times I feel like our family, and the countless others like us have been beaten down to our knees. Every time we struggle to raise, a new weight drops onto us, crushing us back down.

I agree that people should be responsible for their own decisions and actions. But this isn't about taking that responsibility away from them, it's about giving them the break they need to get up off of their knees and stand under their own power.

failed_novelty2 karma

No OP, but as a polyamorous man I can speak to this a little. Each couple is different, though.

In our marriage, yes. We have a spare room (though, being broke, we don't have more than an air mattress in it) that is used by the partner who doesn't have someone over when someone spends the night.

If someone's date isn't staying the night but sex occurs, we just change the sheets. We have a waterproof mattress pad, so if we change the sheets (and remove the pad) the bed's perfectly clean.