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Hachface

This picture unifies our discussions of do-it-yourself plumbing and modern art:

Sarksus

I love that art.

I would pee on it.

Pony

Ludious wrote: »

Pony wrote: »

Ludious wrote: »

my wife and I both work. We make over 100k together. If she lost her job we would lose our house.

We live in a reasonably priced 1500 sq. ft. house in a middle middle class neighborhood.

How am I rich? I am not rich.

what's your monthly mortgage payments like slick

$1300

is that just your half or?

because my rent is higher than that you goose

between my government disability payment and my fiancee working, we're able to afford our rent and also have money for going out and shit

we're doing pretty okay, and when i'm raking in a decent income in addition to my disability support (eventually my income will be greater than my disability support and i'll stop getting it) we'll be living very comfortably.

we're looking to get married next year, and in another three years she'll be able to sell her condo and we'll get a new one in Toronto here. we've been looking at it, and for most of them we'd have a monthly mortgage payment in the $2000-$2200 range, and that's acceptable

what are you doing wrong with your finances, bro

Ludious

unless that's a drawing that is not art.

Drez

Ludious

That is a seizure.

Donkey Kong

Basically I am going to live here:

http://www.ctrivervalley.com/images-pictures-photos-of/Aerial-Photos-Pictures-CT/Connecticut-Attractions/1605A-Gillette-Castle-Park.jpg

But with all the stonework polished flush.

gundam470

Ludious has probably forgotten to tell us about the hookers and the drugs.

Senjutsu

living urban rather than suburban so that I don't need to own a car probably saves me a bunch money

ditto renting rather than buying, because housing tends to be expensive when you're not a 'burb dweller

Drez

Ludious

I just did the math and if my wife lost her job, I could cover our bills and groceries with $35 to spare. So my statement is a few raises inaccurate.

But what kind of pathetic life is that

nexuscrawler

that art doesn't work unless you know the title is "Fountain"

Senjutsu

dada

firewaterword

Oh man art chat has reminded me that the Smithsonian is like right over there! Yay!

Last time I was there I spent at least 30 minutes looking at a Troyon painting (The Approaching Storm) and oh god I can't wait to see it again!

Thomamelas

This chat will do.

Drez

Ludious wrote: »

I just did the math and if my wife lost her job, I could cover our bills and groceries with $35 to spare. So my statement is a few raises inaccurate.

But what kind of pathetic life is that

You could spend that $35 on some better grammar.

nexuscrawler

I like Miro

Inquisitor

Ludious. After your mortage you still take home more than most people do with their entire salary.

I think you need to own up that you live an expensive lifestyle, because otherwise nothing is adding up here.

Pony

ludious you sound like you live in a place with a ridiculous living cost and you have circumstances that put you in a position of having to spend a lot more money than most people

for example, i don't even own a car, because i live in a city with a pretty outstanding public transit system. it costs me $125 for a monthly transit pass enabling me to use the subways and buses as much as i want

we spend about $500-$700 a month on groceries, and because our rent is inclusive we don't pay utilities separate from our $1600 a month rent.

that's what it's like to live here

you sound like you live in bananaville where everything costs bananas

Ludious

I am terrified of being poor. I will be honest. Like the idea makes me shake. I grew up in a house where we got foodstamps and my mom constantly went into debt with credit cards because the car would break or the sink would explode, or whatever, and when I got my job with the government 5 years ago and started making money the idea of going back to that brings me to my knees.

Hachface

I am bbcode retarded

how do I resize that image

Senjutsu

Miro!

I love Miro

Podly

did you know that like every miro painting has a little squiggle that's supposed to represent a vagina?

FIND THE VAGOO!

Casual Eddy

podly you caught me on laundry day

all I have is a rugby shirt you can mock me for

Wash

Ludious wrote: »

I just did the math and if my wife lost her job, I could cover our bills and groceries with $35 to spare. So my statement is a few raises inaccurate.

But what kind of pathetic life is that

/raises hand

not so awesome

moniker

Fuck Dada-ism my [chat] has Mondrian!

nexuscrawler

Senjutsu wrote: »

Miro!

I love Miro

He's like a genius kid on LSD

Podly

there's vaginas everywhere!

japan

Senjutsu wrote: »

living urban rather than suburban so that I don't need to own a car probably saves me a bunch money

ditto renting rather than buying, because housing tends to be expensive when you're not a 'burb dweller

I worked out the other day that it is cheaper to rent cars as and when I need them than to buy one, provided I need a car no more than 100ish days out of 365, which seems like a pretty safe bet.

Arch

Inquisitor wrote: »

Ludious. After your mortage you still take home more than most people do with their entire salary.

I think you need to own up that you live an expensive lifestyle, because otherwise nothing is adding up here.

especially with no kids, and living in the south

i refuse to believe somewhere classified as "south" is really expensive to live unless it is like

miami

Inquisitor

Ludious, if you are terrified of being poor maybe you should adjust your lifestyle so you can put some of your insane income into savings?

Donkey Kong

WE SHOULD ALL LIVE IN CASTLES. OUR HOUSES ARE BUILT AND THEN THEY SLOWLY ROT TO THE GROUND. IT DISGUSTS ME.

Podly

Casual Eddy wrote: »

podly you caught me on laundry day

all I have is a rugby shirt you can mock me for

score

nexuscrawler

Podly wrote: »

did you know that like every miro painting has a little squiggle that's supposed to represent a vagina?

FIND THE VAGOO!

there's lots of cocks too

firewaterword

I make what'd be considered pretty good money in many places in the country. But since I reside in the bay area, it's just above adequate at best.

Sure, I could move. But that'd mean giving up this career. And that'd be dumb da dumb dumb dumb.

But I also make debatably silly choices about how I spend my money, so there's that.

matt has a problem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOZTDP8Ff9w

Wash

Seriously Ludious, you have money, don't act like you don't.

Gooey

the best smithsonian is air and space

specifically this one

mainly because

YOU CAN SEE AN SR-71 BLACKBIRD

Sheep

Bummer. I lost. Here's my chat OP.

Modern Terrifying art. From the mind of Zdzisla Beksinksi.

Irond Will

Podly wrote: »

Basically, Will, you are acting as the equivalent of the petit-bourgeois in the birth of modernism and realism in France. Back then, you always had to paint allegorically if you wanted to portray real life. But then the modernists started painting everyday scenes of real life, because it matched their socialist and/or modernist viewpoint. And many said "oh dear heavens! look at this rubbish!"

Now you can say "yes, but that was great art, and this is not!"

but that has been happening every single generation

do you really think that this is somehow the last art generation, like some raving apocalyptic, or do you think that you are merely on the conservative, dying, destructive side of history?

this is a false dilemma

especially because most "movements" in art aren't "progression" so much as bullshit dead-ends.

but you know every scrub with a brush or synth thinks he's the next picasso or stravinsky and takes the fact that everyone outside of his direct social circle thinks that everything he does sucks as validation!

because they spat on van gogh too!

moniker

Ludious wrote: »

I just did the math and if my wife lost her job, I could cover our bills and groceries with $35 to spare. So my statement is a few raises inaccurate.

But what kind of pathetic life is that

Seriously, how are you struggling? Is your toothpaste filled with diamonds?