“didn’t any of you grow up like working class or poor…and summer spent just going to park or playing in the street?
No wonder your perspectives are so entitled.”
I grew up working class in a housing project. Mum and Dad saved and took us once each year to the English seaside (where the water is dunkin donuts mikly coffee colored and there are pebble beaches). We had no car so we went by railway. We stayed in what they called caravans, i.e. early mobile homes. Fabulous fun.
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didn’t any of you grow up like working class or poor…and summer spent just going to park or playing in the street?
No wonder your perspectives are so entitled.
well i grew up poor and working class and just played in the park and in the street and never went to summer camp. but i dont know if that was the reason cuz im sure there are free summercamps out there. my grandmother was convniced that everyone at summer camp winds up getting molested by the counselors and stuff so that’s why i wasnt allowed to go.
oh and yesterday yeah i saw the comment made at the end of day which snappy took offense to. ill be honest that did come out of left field for me as i hadnt even known that was really an offensive term (i mean duh it’s offense, but you know what i mean) had no clue it really was offensive offensive and ill be honest ive used the term in the past, usually to describe people on tv.
i will say that the term WAS used a few times on the fresh prince of bel air (that comedy show from the 80s/90s with will smith moving from the hood to Bel Air).. maybe that’s why i never thought it was so offensive because the show made it sound like it was just black people casually sometimes call each other. then again black people casually call each other the N word, so make the O word can only be used that way?
And what am I even saying, 3 or 4….. more like….. well not sure how many but a lot, and it really depends on how you count. Like do you count it as a separate position just because you’re in a chair, or on a pool table or something?
Girl Scout Camp in Staten Island (used to be Camp Pouch, in the Greenbelt). I don’t know, I never had much taste for roughing it. And it was in the late fall/early winter I think. The stuff my parents did “for” me…. sigh.
The next real camping trip was with my parents and my large family upstate. That helped me develop patience in life. That’s it. Then when I went cross country with some friends during the summer when I was in college.
The last camping trip was extended when I lived in a non-winterized beach house, during the winter of course.
I need the following:
1) Hot running water
2) Electricity
3) A mirror
4) Heat
I would have beg borrowed stole to go away to camp if thought I could have been molested by some teenage camp counselor.
“ParkSloper, look it up on urban dictionary which covers it pretty well. Let’s drop it.”
Fair enough.
girl scout camp for wkend doesn’t count, Donatella.
Pool table Check
Barstool Check
Kitchen Island Check
backseat of car Check
front seat Check
Across the hood Check
Bent over the workbench Check
ParkSloper, look it up on urban dictionary which covers it pretty well. Let’s drop it.
“didn’t any of you grow up like working class or poor…and summer spent just going to park or playing in the street?
No wonder your perspectives are so entitled.”
I grew up working class in a housing project. Mum and Dad saved and took us once each year to the English seaside (where the water is dunkin donuts mikly coffee colored and there are pebble beaches). We had no car so we went by railway. We stayed in what they called caravans, i.e. early mobile homes. Fabulous fun.
quote:
didn’t any of you grow up like working class or poor…and summer spent just going to park or playing in the street?
No wonder your perspectives are so entitled.
well i grew up poor and working class and just played in the park and in the street and never went to summer camp. but i dont know if that was the reason cuz im sure there are free summercamps out there. my grandmother was convniced that everyone at summer camp winds up getting molested by the counselors and stuff so that’s why i wasnt allowed to go.
oh and yesterday yeah i saw the comment made at the end of day which snappy took offense to. ill be honest that did come out of left field for me as i hadnt even known that was really an offensive term (i mean duh it’s offense, but you know what i mean) had no clue it really was offensive offensive and ill be honest ive used the term in the past, usually to describe people on tv.
i will say that the term WAS used a few times on the fresh prince of bel air (that comedy show from the 80s/90s with will smith moving from the hood to Bel Air).. maybe that’s why i never thought it was so offensive because the show made it sound like it was just black people casually sometimes call each other. then again black people casually call each other the N word, so make the O word can only be used that way?
*rob*
And what am I even saying, 3 or 4….. more like….. well not sure how many but a lot, and it really depends on how you count. Like do you count it as a separate position just because you’re in a chair, or on a pool table or something?
Girl Scout Camp in Staten Island (used to be Camp Pouch, in the Greenbelt). I don’t know, I never had much taste for roughing it. And it was in the late fall/early winter I think. The stuff my parents did “for” me…. sigh.
The next real camping trip was with my parents and my large family upstate. That helped me develop patience in life. That’s it. Then when I went cross country with some friends during the summer when I was in college.
The last camping trip was extended when I lived in a non-winterized beach house, during the winter of course.
I need the following:
1) Hot running water
2) Electricity
3) A mirror
4) Heat
I don’t ask much. But camping is annoying.