• over_clox@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    We live in a society where it’s advisable for everyone to carry tampons, whether female or male, just in case of a gunshot wound ☹️

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        Sadly I agree ☹️

        Still, I got the nuts to literally pull the barrel to my head and dare them to do it.

        They think twice when I do that, and I’m still here.

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          I see I’ve been downvoted, not like I care.

          I’m smart enough to analyze my opponent, and even smarter to know when the gun ain’t loaded.

          Do you folks have any idea how fast people shit their pants when they realize they tried to shoot you in the head with what you already knew was an unloaded gun?

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          That might be how it works for Hollywood tough guys, but that’s not how it works in real life.

          In reality, when someone holds a gun to you and you tell them to go ahead and shoot, they aren’t impressed and intimidated by how much of a badass you are, they just shoot you.

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            Excuse you, but I’m telling real life here. I have zero fucks to give.

            My own nerve to retaliate in such a way shocked my potential attackers so much that they didn’t know what to do.

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              Excuse you, but I’m telling real life here. I have zero fucks to give.

              Yeah and I’m the king of Nepal 😄

              My own nerve to retaliate in such a way shocked my potential attackers so much that they didn’t know what to do.

              Suuure it did… 🙄

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            Oh I love it, folks can hate me all day long. Guess who is still alive, after having a gun pulled to my head more than once.

            I have a force to my voice that’ll make anyone piss their pants, when I need to use such voice anyways.

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              I have a force to my voice that’ll make anyone piss their pants, when I need to use such voice anyways

              And I can shoot lightning bolts out of my ass.

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                Better be careful. He sounds like he means business. You don’t wanna be on the receiving end of the piss voice.

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                  I wonder if his piss voice conducts electricity like its namesake, in which case I better watch my ass while farting around him 🤔

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    Ok let’s poll Lemmy. Upvote me if you can. Downvote me if you can’t. I can so I’ll keep my own upvote.

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      5 months ago

      Can’t see downvotes, assume everyone is okay. New article: 190% of people on Lemmy can afford a $1,000 emergency expense

      Edit: 190% was a typo, but leaving it in there

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          Or just broadly financially literate people. I only make $34k AUD.

          I’m incredibly fortunate that my parents were able to teach me financial literacy. I’m also incredibly lucky that I have the personality type to be happy “slumming it”, almost taking a sick pride in how far I can make a 50c bar of soap stretch to clean my entire body, house and laundry, so living within my means has been possible even when my means is a couch in a 4 bedroom share house with 10 roommates. (some of the best years of my life, which is far from the usual sharehouse experience)

          Because of a congenial illness, my start in the work force was delayed and is still partly inhibited. But I made a point to put a bare minimum of $20 from every pay cheque straight into a term deposit that I couldn’t touch. When it hit $1000, it moved into a more accessible emergency account, and began saving up the term deposit again. When things are easy I bump that savings contribution up as much as I can. The emergency fund is now a comfortable 5k, with another 10k in the term deposit, that’s 15 years years of savings. The only reason it’s as much as it is, is because I’ve been incredibly lucky to have very few genuine emergencies that require immediate payment. If I can put an unexpected expense on a payment plan, I do.

          There are “emergencies” I have ignored because the cost wasn’t worth it. I’ve had 9 teeth extracted, I probably could have saved them all if I forked out a few thousand for a root canal, but it made more financial sense to just let them get bad enough that I could get them extracted for free at the dental school, since now I will never have to worry about those teeth them (I’ll only have to worry about jaw bone loss).

          I’m lucky that I never had to get involved with credit card debt. I didn’t have “the bank of mum and dad”, but between my 60 cousins and 20 friends, I can borrow $10-20 from everyone to cover something big, and pay it back slowly interest free, and I make sure I do the same for them, it’s only $20 after all. I relied on that a lot when I was young and still building my emergency fund, and that’s certainly a privilege not everyone has.

          I’m privileged to be financially educated and have a social safety net, but by the living standards set by my country, I’m far from wealthy.