These are my thoughts. My incomprehendible thought

I like having a place to put my thoughts because I lack the ability to speak them out loud.

[mrst-2015]

[mrst-2015]

Split Powerball jackpot equally among 300 mil Americans and end poverty in US

But here’s the problem. We’ve all heard the stories of a homeless man winning the lottery and becoming an instant billionaire and within ten years he’s bankrupt again. We ask ourselves “How does that happen?” Well, because each socioeconomic class has its own culture. What I’m NOT saying is that this is just or fair but I am saying that this is they way it is. Let me explain. Between the low, middle, and upper classes there are different cultures and they each view and treat different things uniquely. They are the “hidden rules,” if you will, of each socioeconomic class. These things go from the definition of people, the value of humor, what love and acceptance mean, how money is viewed, and so on. This may seem cruel but I have been middle class most of my life and have close family in lower class as well as high class and can see the differences. Now for examples:

Hidden rules in the lower class:

Money is to be used

When you’re living paycheck to paycheck, there’s not much room for saving money. If there’s anything left over, it’s not irrational to treat yourself to something nice, especially since this is a rare occasion.

Sense of humor is highly valued

Food: Did you have enough? Quantity is important

Decisions is made in present based on feelings or survival

How am I supposed to think about going to college in four years when I need to worry about getting a job to help at home now?

Education is more abstract in values, not reality

It’s unaffordable and going to school will only take away time I could be working and earning money now anyway.

Family structure is matriarchal

Either Dad left his family or he’s working while Mom has to stay home with the kids because daycare is too expensive so the Mom tends to be more in charge of the home

Sees world in terms of local setting

The neighborhood and town are what directly influences these citizens. They can’t afford to go on vacations across the country, let alone around the world.

Hidden Rules in Middle Class

Money is managed

There may or may not be money left over in between paychecks and are more able to splurge on some things while saving something in the meantime.

Achievement is highly valued

Food: Did you like it? Quality is important

Education is crucial for climbing success ladder

One of the biggest things someone in poverty can do to get out of poverty is get a good education. Those with a college degree typically earn much, much more than someone with a high school diploma and definitely more than a high school dropout.

Family structure patriarchal

Both parents may be working and father is more likely to be around than if in poverty.

Sees world in terms of national setting

The scope of travel extends to much of the country and maybe slightly into Canada or Mexico but not much more overseas. Connections with people in other states is doable because it is more affordable to travel to meet them.

Hidden Rules in Upper Class

Money to be conserved and inverted

They know how to invest and save their money. That’s why they’re rich.

Financial, political, social connections are highly valued

Food: Was it presented well? Presentation important

Traditions and history are most important – maintaining connections

Education is great but what you also know about who you’re doing business with, working for, collaborating alongside all matters.

Family structure is based on who has the money

Power struggle between Mom and Dad now

Sees world in terms of international

They can definitely travel internationally. Lots of cruises and resorts and Europeans trips, etc. Possible business associations in other countries. Maybe even possibly family live or are from around the world.

Basically, my point is that having money does not make you rich or poor. It’s the culture and the hidden rules a person lives by. People come out of poverty by adapting to the hidden rules of middle class. Middle class people must adapt to the hidden rules of the upper class. Two things have been shown to get people out of poverty and neither of them are (directly) money. First, it truly is all about WHO you know. Relationships will move you forward. Build a network of people who can help you out in almost any given situation or place. Second, education. Getting a college education is crucial for those trying to move up in the world. Yes, there are those who got by without one but they are far and few in between. Besides, what’ll it harm if you learn something new along the way?

[grimelords]

it’s weird that netflix used to be about mailing DVDs back and forth so you could watch movies. that seems like something people in the 1800s would do. “Jeremiah the mail-carrier died of smallpox so I’m afraid there’ll be no Wild Hogs 2 this winter.”

[mrst-2015]

Star Wars VII Spoilers

A friend of mine posted on facebook that her nephew didn’t want any Star Wars spoilers so she, her husband, and one of her sons came up with a list of “spoilers.” With that being said, there are not actually any spoilers but here we go:

I heard that they destroy the Tardis. I hope this isn't true.

Every single extra is a cameo by JJ Abrams.

It's a musical.

Chewy becomes a scientologist

They find a ruined statue of liberty and C-3PO collapses, sobbing and cursing the past humanity

It's just 100 minutes of George Lucas sitting crisscross applesauce on the floor, making lightsaber noises with his mouth and playing with action figures.

BB-8 hatches, mickey mouse emerges

It's all in an alien language, there are no subtitles

The dialogue is entirely droid beeping noises

Wall-E saves the day

Kylo Ren takes off his mask; it's really Nicholas Cage

They discover a ship full of xenomorphs

Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru faked their deaths, they now live on a commune in Utah

Dancing is outlawed, but one stormtrooper decides to go against the empire and follow his heart

Apple upgrades "R2D2" into the "R2D2 s"

The intergalactic supervillain space slug "Parsnip 4", attempts a fiendish plan to board and take over the Millenium Falcon. However, in a bizarre twist of fate, he stops for a quick poo in the space lavatory and gets stuck, resulting in he himself becoming the captive.

Matthew McCoughnahey joins the rebel alliance but is unable to get his Lincoln beyond the atmosphere

Jabba the Hutt gets his tail caught in a play-doh press

In a rather satisfying nod to the past, we learn that the Jar Jar Binks pinata is the hottest selling intergalactic birthday purchase.

Ewoks are a fantastic fuel source, and so a dark business enterprise is launched

C3PO has been programmed to only speak French.

Abrams decides to autotune all the characters to give the movie a futuristic twist

Due to Han Solo's experience with Carbonite, he develops a phobia of chocolate bars and other rectangular objects

Blue light sabers are revealed to be raspberry flavoured, wheras red light sabers taste of strawberry

Everyone is turned into babies at the end of the movie, with a teaser screen hinting at the movie "star warz: babiez"

Guest appearance from William Shatner, on the main flight deck of the Battle Star. He's in a corner selling autographs for $80 a time, and double that if you want a picture with him. Twenty minutes into the movie, his write hand is sliced off by a light saber and revenue subsequently plummets.

Boba Fett trades his jetpack in for a dapper pair of oxfords

The magnificent yoghurt planet in galaxy quadrant 8 starts disintegrating, resulting in the sad, if rather flavourful, demise of it's inhabitants.

Princess Leia gives up her part time job as a car mechanic to better focus on her dream to be a water vole.

The film cuts out midway through, as Harrison Ford pulls up a stool and says "star wars isn't real, guys. Sorry." and is promptly mauled by a rancor

Kylo Ren's saber isn't the only thing that has a crossguard; everything does. Right down to tea spoons.

"Teaspoons?" You may ask. Well, the fighting is cancelled and both sides settle their differences over a good hot cuppa.

During an early scene ins a space church, Chewbacca and Yoda mistakenly trade bonnets. The resulting dandruff transferred to Yoda causes him to stay indoors playing solitaire for the remaining 2 hrs of the movie. Fans are incensed and one even refuses to clean his bedroom until the script is rewritten and a Director's cut is shot. His Mother appears on Oprah to share her pain.

The Emperor confesses that he keeps warm under his cloak by snuggling Magwai he stole from backstage.

The credits reveal that all actors were motivated by a good pep talk from Bernie Sanders.

The casual quip from Hans Solo during a lunch break en route to planet Zarblepan, "there's nothing that I like better than a fresh radish", turns out to be the catch phrase that McDonalds puts on all 32 ounce cups. They make a fortune.

R2D2 falls in love with WD40. A very smooth relationship ensues, backed with Barry White music.

[koke-cola]

I’m not even sure which one I’m more like

[kitten-jumin]

This is the first time I have heard uptown funk

[mrst-2015]

What?

 Last night, I have a vague recollection of waking up, walking around my room, stopping at my dresser, and getting back in bed. Later, I started coughing as I have been for days now but didn’t really wake up and I hear my roommate ask me to cover my mouth. I do so then realize I’m sucking on a cough drop. When that happened to get in my mouth I’m not sure but at least it helped.

[booooooom]

Who took this photo?

[mrst-2015]

So I heard what the story is behind this...

A zoo somewhere in Asia has these drills about what to do if a tiger gets loose. They hire a man to dress up in a Tigger costumer to run around the zoo with the zookeepers going after him with tranquilizer guns. They actually tranquilizer the guy (hopefully not with the same amount of power an actual tiger would need) and carry him out on a stretcher.

I don’t know if it’s just a coincidence they carry him in front of the tiger exhibit or if it’s almost a threat or warning to the tigers to not get loose or else this is what they do.

[mrst-2015]

Y’all thought it was so funny in “Love is an Open Door” when they said they finished each other’s sandwiches. In fact, this episode of Arrested Development came out circa 2007 or 2008, years before Frozen was released.

That is all I really had to say about that...

[mrst-2015]

A baby with a baby

My niece got a baby doll for her 2nd birthday that cries when it wants its pacifier or wants to be held or will coo or be quiet when it's fine. My poor niece couldn't get it to stop crying so she started crying and shaking it. We thought it was amusing that she was able to experience what we recently experienced from her. Needless to say, the doll lasted less than seven hours after being opened before it ceased to work.

[mrst-2015]

Are they really missing?

So whenever I watch a movie where someone leaves home for an alternate dimension or is in another time or basically is gone with no hope of anyone finding them, I often think that perhaps that’s where all the people that are missing go. Or what about those people who become someone else or are put into the body of an older/younger version of themselves? Maybe not everybody is missing in the sense we think they are; maybe they’re trapped in another time, space, or body that we can’t find them in.

[mrst-2015]

I got a notification from a few news sources on my phone and honestly, my first thought was “ ‘Get down, Mr. President!’ gone wrong.”

[mrst-2015]

You know those really long weeks?

So I was talking with my mom about this because I live/work at a summer camp and this week was just super long and everyone I talked to, whether it was my fiance in another state or my mom in another city or my coworkers, everyone agreed that the week was going by extremely slowly. Like I got there Sunday night and by Monday night, it felt like Thursday already. How is it that some weeks, everyone feels they go by really fast and others are really slow but no matter what, almost everyone is in mutual agreement about the speed by which the day or week is going?

My theory:

Time travel is a thing. Someone has the ability to slow down, pause, or speed up time and when they do, though we do not know it is happening per say, we all feel its effects. Some guy has a time remote and keeps hitting pause because he’s trying to stop the love of his life from being ran down by a bus or a girl is being proposed to and slows time in order to savor the moment. I don’t know. Just a thought.

[mrst-2015]

Spotify decided to install or something before opening and the icon...it looks like a creepy guy in a dark trench coat offering to sell me a watch in an alley way.

[pastavirgin]

When I was 9 I heard someone use the phrase “pasta virgin” so they’d never had pasta before. But because what a virgin actually was had never been explained to me I just assumed being a virgin meant you’d never eaten pasta. So when a kid in school asked me if I was a virgin (because we were 9 and it was funny) I said “no I like to eat it while its still a bit hard.” I WAS REFERRING TO SLIGHTLY UNDERCOOKED PASTA.

[lolthatsme]

[mrst-2015]

This is me right now. Three papers due this week and one next week. Haven't touched a single one

[lolthatsme]

[lolthatsme]