I just heard the most disgusting commercial

[Oeditpus Rex]

on the Giants-Brewers game. It was for some kind of start-your-own-business thing, and this guy said, "As a corporate executive, I had a six-figure income. But with a wife and two kids, I needed more."

:puke:



Edit: Typo. (Happy now, Call Me Shirley?) :grr:

[XemaSab]

1. Where's billy been?

:shrug:

[billyskank]

15. Sorry!

I missed a Rex opportunity! I have been playing catch up ever since my car screwed my daily routine up! x(

[XemaSab]

17. I was lonely.

:(

[billyskank]

19. Oh no!

:cry:

How can I make it up to you? :hug:

[XemaSab]

20. You still haven't made up

for saying you didn't want to meet me! :cry:

[billyskank]

22. When did I say that?

I don't believe I can have said that, because it is completely untrue! :o

[XemaSab]

29. A few months ago

It was horrible! :(

[billyskank]

32. I must have been insane

The flagellation may now begin.

[XemaSab]

33. You must have been

And I told you before, I don't spank, but I do give very firm lectures. :P

[Not_Giving_Up]

2. Nice

I once worked for a guy who said "anyone who doesn't make at least $100,000 a year is living in poverty." Of course, he thought that eight bucks an hour was an awesome wage for me.

[Call Me Wesley]

3. Very well put.

I couldn't have expressed it more thoroughly by myself. :applause:

'As a corporate executive, I had an income. But with a wife and two kids, I need passion.'

Just sayin'.

[Sugar Smack]

4. Those commercials make me want to hurl.

The ones I see on weekends during cheap-thrill movies are terrible.

"I had a six-figure income. But with a wife and two kids, I needed more" is rather constant. And the smugness of is maddening.

[In_The_Wind]

6. Please turn your head.

Don't hurl in my direction.

[Sugar Smack]

8. Never! Plus if you were here, we'd have far more important

places to see than my living room with the Saturday tube on. LOL!! :woohoo:

[In_The_Wind]

11. You have an excellent point there! I can't wait!

Do I have to PM nnns to see when you have a free weekend? :evilgrin:

[Sugar Smack]

12. Any weekend but Easter weekend, m'dear-

I can't wait either! :toast: :bounce: :woohoo:

[In_The_Wind]

14. The third weekend in March is out for me.

The family is throwing a birthday party for Jon's 93 year old mother.

[Sugar Smack]

16. Gotcher PM- *wank wank*

;-) ;-)

[redqueen]

5. *sigh*

:cry:

[AllegroRondo]

7. You left out the most important part

whats the score?????

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. 6-3 Giants

Just about to start the fourth.

Giants got four in the third.

[no name no slogan]

9. Some rightwing one-termer assbot congresscritter said something like that

He was some rich-ass Republican from the 'burbs. I forget what district, but it was in one of Jim Hightower's books from the late 90s.

The congresscritter said something like how his $200,000 income was "barely" middle-class, and how somebody wasn't upper-class unless they made over 1/2 million a year.

Needless to say, he lasted one term before the good folks from back home found him more suitable employment.

[hfojvt]

30. I have seen that in the congressional record

they extended the child tax credit to families making more than $100,000 a year and said they were doing it for the middle class.

This crosses party lines though. Some Democrats say the same things:

"I billed more than $750,000 for the firm, which netted me $150,000.
But my expenses continued to outrun my earnings. And my stress level
was, if anything, higher than ever." "Friends in high places" Webb
Hubbell 1997 p 149

"Although my $124,000 salary at Justice wasn't as much as I'd made
at Rose, with Suzy's salary and money in the bank, we thought we'd
be okay for a while. op cit p 207

edit: In 1993, an income of over $126,233 made you one of the top 5% richest families.

[Redstone]

13. Needed more what?

Redstone

(PS: Your edit note was fucking hilarious. Not dissing CMW...it was just a damn funny note.)

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. Thanks

It made a helluva lot more sense before Call Me Shirley edited his post. :grr:

[Call Me Wesley]

23. Why?

I just had a little typo there I wanted to fix to meet up your standards.

I apologize if that hurt you. Sorry sorry sorry!

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. ...

[Call Me Wesley]

26. ///

If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? I ... I am no longer infected.

[Call Me Wesley]

21. Sure

Go ahead and diss me. :cry:

:rofl:

[In_The_Wind]

25. I already picked on you.

Can you feel the love?

[Call Me Wesley]

28. :blushing:

As I said before, thank you for being! :loveya:

Redstone

[In_The_Wind]

31. *

* BTW I saw your original post up-thread before the edit.






just sayin'

[Call Me Wesley]

34. LOL!

It was all his fault. *points to Oeditpus Rex*

[Oeditpus Rex]

36. Oh, sure

Blame the twit. :cry:

[In_The_Wind]

37. I like that!

*points to Oeditpus Rex*

[Call Me Wesley]

38. Can you tell,

that I once was an admin on a RPG game? *smirks* :rofl:

[In_The_Wind]

39. I had no idea!

[Call Me Wesley]

40. I was an idiot then ...

And it ruined the whole fun of playing it. (I was an elvish knight, by the way.) ;)

[Initech]

27. All commercials are disgusting, but this one takes the cake

Really, why does a guy with a wife and two kids and already has a six figure income need more money?

Only one word describes someone like that:

ASSHOLE

[rockymountaindem]

35. I think they put Mr. Six Figure in there

because they only want that kind of person to sign on to whatever game they're running.

No sense telling some minimum wage worker with nothing in the bank how much money he can make working from home if he'll pay a mere $300 for your valuable information. He's not going to be able to pay that.

Someone with a six figure income, on the other hand, may figure that $300 isn't much to lose and will sign up on an impulse. I don't think the idea is to suggest that people should be more greedy, it's just a function of the greed of the people putting on the ad.

[NMMNG]

41. Of course he did

Those he and she SUVs, McMansions, private school tuitions and country club fees aren't cheap you know. :eyes:

[Oeditpus Rex]

42. Yeah, plus

soccer camp, band camp, cheerleader camp, gymnastics camp, swim camp, tennis camp, fat camp, fundie camp...

[NMMNG]

43. Like this one time, at band camp....

:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

44. Well, hell, Buffy

Don't stop now.

[NMMNG]

45. I was just repeating from the movie

I've never actually been to band camp. :shrug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

46. Neither have I

I was counting on you for some good stories. :cry: