Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127

[Dallas-Dakota]

I got a tendum jump for graduating high school.... >.>

[Recaiden]

Good grades=/=good education.
Personally, I got money if I did well on my standardized college admission tests, and that's it.

[Fredthefighter]

Your parents are foolish generous. I got no kind of reward for my results at any stage of my education.

It was sort of an added motivation is what my dad said.

And he said my sister would get the same kind of deal when she finishes her GCSEs.

[Zordrath]

Isn't a good education enough of a reward?

Not in a subject as thoroughly useless as latin

[Thufir]

Isn't a good education enough of a reward?

The grades were the result of my good education, so that wouldn't really make sense.
Well, I suppose the extension of my good education by me getting into 6th form and uni counts, but whatever.

Anyway, the thing is, that's my point. You get good grades, you get the benefits of having gotten good grades with regards to further education and future job opportunities. Monetary rewards should not be necessary, because I didn't get any, so I don't see why other people should.

[Dragonrider]

I just sprayed peach juice all over my computer from laughing.

...My parents didn't believe in monetary rewards for good behavior (but they also don't believe in grades, and I didn't ever get any till 10th grade when I started going to school, at which point I was old enough to decide whether I was going to do well or not try. I did well. ).

I did get charged a dollar every time I hit my brother, though. And vice versa.

[Fredthefighter]

I guess I just have generous parents. Different parents have different styles of parents. If my parents want to give monetary rewards to me and my sister, that's there decision. If your parents don't want to give monetary rewards to you, well that's their decision, and you have to deal with it, because until you leave home, what they say is pretty much final.

If people could make it so that other people couldn't have things just because the original person doesn't have those things then everyone would have nothing in the end.

[Rutskarn]

I was never given any sort of fiscal guidance besides the vague "save your money" stuff. Doesn't matter, I'm tightfisted as hell.

[Dragonrider]

I guess I just have generous parents. Different parents have different styles of parents. If my parents want to give monetary rewards to me and my sister, that's there decision. If your parents don't want to give monetary rewards to you, well that's their decision, and you have to deal with it, because until you leave home, what they say is pretty much final.

If people could make it so that other people couldn't have things just because the original person doesn't have those things then everyone would have nothing in the end.

Um...I wasn't criticising your parents, Fred. And I have left home now, although still under their auspices, as they're paying for my (very expensive) eddumacation....

They did give me money every month to buy my own clothes and stuff and teach me budgeting. It didn't entirely go as planned, though, because instead of setting money aside every month, I just saved it all and shopped exclusively at thrift stores.

[Fredthefighter]

Um...I wasn't criticising your parents, Fred. And I have left home now, although still under their auspices, as they're paying for my (very expensive) eddumacation....

They did give me money every month to buy my own clothes and stuff and teach me budgeting. It didn't entirely go as planned, though, because instead of setting money aside every month, I just saved it all and shopped exclusively at thrift stores.

I was mainly talking to Thufir. And the white text. But I guess it still stands... sort of.

And I don't get pocket money off of my parents. And I've had saving my money hammered into my skull. All I get each week is money for my karate lessons. I get to keep the change (all £3 of it). So in effect, I make £3 to £10 a week, depending on whether I go to karate that week or not. So while my parents are quite generous when I succeed, at other times they are very tight with their money, just like me.

In fact, the only big purchases I've ever made are:
My GBA SP (£120 with two games).
My PS3 (£280 with two games).
That's it for massive purchases.

[Dragonrider]

I bought my laptop for $550 two years ago.

Well...supposedly my mum and dad paid for half of it but what really happened is that I paid for all of it and they gave me an IOU for $225, which I've never called in.

[Thufir]

Well, I need to get back to my student house which has no internet. So adieu.
I leave you with this, and as your god I insist that you read it this time:

I win on singing.
To be more precise, I've been singing Handel's Messiah for 7 consecutive days and have 2 more to go. Britlanders, listen to Radio 3 at 6:30 on sunday and know that I am there, singing in the Royal Albert Hall with 300 other members of assorted youth choirs from around the country.
It's going to be awesome.

[Fredthefighter]

I bought my laptop for $550 two years ago.

Well...supposedly my mum and dad paid for half of it but what really happened is that I paid for all of it and they gave me an IOU for $225, which I've never called in.

My laptop was an early christmas present.
In fact, most of my stuff is early presents and minor things I've bought with my own money. Most of my games are presents, most of my books were bought with gift cards or as presents and even my Nintendo DS was an early christmas present. Yay for using Christmas to my advantage!

EDIT: Thufir, I can't promise that I'll have the radio turned on/remember, but I'll try and listen (if I can remember what frequency BBC Radio 3 is anyway).

[Alteran]

My much-loved laptop was a gift around last May. I had been wanting one for a while, and my parents were finally convinced that I needed one for school and general use. Things have been so much easier since I got one, fighting over the computer is now a thing of the past!

Funny that I quit MMORPGs just a month or so before I was no longer in danger of being kicked off of the computer during a team thing.

[Fredthefighter]

My much-loved laptop was a gift around last May. I had been wanting one for a while, and my parents were finally convinced that I needed one for school and general use. Things have been so much easier since I got one, fighting over the computer is now a thing of the past!

Funny that I quit MMORPGs just a month or so before I was no longer in danger of being kicked off of the computer during a team thing.

High five!

I rarely ever have to fight for a computer. Mainly because my sister has her own computer. But before my laptop.... GRRRRR, well, let's just say that my sister seemed to prefer my computer to hers for some reason, despite the fact that hers was faster anyway.

[Destro_Yersul]

My brother and sister both have laptops. I don't. I have a desktop. It's big and black and powered by the awesome given off by my beard.

[Fredthefighter]

My brother and sister both have laptops. I don't. I have a desktop. It's big and black and powered by the awesome given off by my beard.

Woah. That is awesome. *Bows down*

[Shadow_Elf]

Hey! A Thread that looks like fun! I wanna try it!

I don't have a laptop, but I am basically the sole user in my household of our massive (very very massive) G5 Mac Desktop, so its almost like I have my own computer. In fact, for most of the summer, I have had TWO of my own computers, since our poor, neglected Frankenstein PC was also infrequently used by my family. When school starts up next week, though, I'm sure my sister will need to use it a lot, so I'll be back down to one computer.

[Alteran]

High five!

I rarely ever have to fight for a computer. Mainly because my sister has her own computer. But before my laptop.... GRRRRR, well, let's just say that my sister seemed to prefer my computer to hers for some reason, despite the fact that hers was faster anyway.

*high five*

I had, on occasion, fallen asleep waiting for my mother to finish with the computer. I'm not sure how past-me survived.

Hey! A Thread that looks like fun! I wanna try it!

Shadow! It's about damn time!

I'm on the last of the Dao, I should have them mailed to you within the hour.

[Shadow_Elf]

Shadow! It's about damn time!

I'm on the last of the Dao, I should have them mailed to you within the hour.

Speaking of when its about damn time...

[Alteran]

Speaking of when its about damn time...

Who, me?

Couldn't be. *shifty eyes*

[Phase]

I have both a desktop and a laptop. I tend to have them both open at the same time.

[Moff Chumley]

I have a mac.

*runs*

[Neko Toast]

I have a mac.

*runs*

I should have known. *pulls out a bat, and starts following him at a walking pace* You can't run forever, you know.

[Dragonrider]

I have a mac.

*runs*

Suckaaaaaaaaaaaa.

...so does my roommate.

[Moff Chumley]

I should have known. *pulls out a bat, and starts following him at a walking pace* You can't run forever, you know.

Or can I? *hops into hippie bus*

[Pyrian]

I did get charged a dollar every time I hit my brother, though. And vice versa.

Do you get to pre-pay? "I just gave mom $5, so behave or else!"

[billtodamax]

Or can I? *hops into hippie bus*

Look out for the spike strips and landmines!

[Neko Toast]

Look out for the spike strips and landmines!

He'll figure it out on his own.

[Coidzor]

2) Coidzor thinks Cornwall is in Wales?

Well, to be honest, I usually just think Cornwall, Wales, and Northumbria are all next to one another. All sort of squashed together like it is over there where things are all small.

So you just overloaded on thrift store clothes or you actually built up a fair chunk of change?