I have a nosebleed ticket to the first RATM Oakland show that I bought after waiting 30 mins in the randomized queue and that was the only one left.
I later managed to buy a floor ticket to the 2nd show so I probably won’t be using that one. If anyone is interested in it I might sell (at face value obviously, just not sure yet if I’ll just go to both shows).
squints at picture on the brochure
That’s… that’s not the Mexican border… is it?
Smirkiest recruiting poster ever.
That’s a clip from Matrix 4. Book it.
This.
Ive said this before but when i was dirt poor i lived off of BK’s two burgers and two fries for $2.22…and other dollar menu stuff. Could of eaten a little cheaper at home i guess but was just renting a room at the time so i had no where to really cook anyway.
The fun part was it was all i ate so i was probably only getting 1500 cal a day and was at my lowest weight in my life.
Where I live I can get two Sausage McMuffins and a large Diet Coke for just a hair over three bucks. Fuck that is cheaper and better than getting breakfast at a gas station.
Two Sausage Egg McMuffins and a large diet Coke would be like four bucks more expensive crazy enough.
It was a legit shock to me when I moved to the US that people over 21 eat at fast food chains on a regular basis.
I dont eat out much anymore but sometimes im tired from work or dont have anything at home i want and ill get something on the way home. Plus i like the taste of some fast food.
Food snobs…itt…
Fast food is American comfort food now.
Finally someone mentioned the real reason fast food is popular. Though have you tried homemade broccoli?
Well if she’s allowed to condescendingly straw man…
"I don’t understand why everyone doesn’t want to live alone in an apartment in their 40s wearing thrifted clothes and cooking welfare green pepper burgers on a hot plate. ItS aLl AnYoNe NeEds!?! "
Pretty sure the original tweet was meant to be about sit-down restaurants, I have no idea why everyone is focused on fast food.
In b4 “why pay 9 dollars for pho when you can raise a cow yourself?”
My dirt poor go-to was Little Caesar’s. $4.99 large cheese pizza carry out only. I added my own pepperoni and there’s two days worth of meals. Of course I can’t even look at Little Caesars pizza now.
This is a super standard argument between people who grew up in the developed world (OK I mean the US basically) and people who did not. We take our conveniences super super seriously over here.
Zara I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I’d also consider the possibility that your perspective would be seen as pretty weird over here. You really should visit/live in the US at some point. Your skillset is heavily in demand and it would be an interesting experience for you I think.
@Canada you’re also both right and wrong simultaneously here. You’re absolutely right that people should just earn more money in the US and shaming them for stuff like buying food at restaurants is bullshit. At the same time zara isn’t those people. She’s a Russian who grew up in very weird circumstances and has never lived in the US. She never developed the going out to get fast food habit and her perspective is just massively different wrt what a normal living standard is.
If you’re ever really poor you just buy rice and canned beans in the US. Cost per meal is like .30 or something and you can live on it indefinitely if need be. The real problem in the US for poor people is affording rent + electricity+ transportation + healthcare + education. Our food costs are quite low no matter how you get it. It’s also important to note (and zara may not be as aware of this) that a lot of poorer folks don’t have easy access to a food vendor that isn’t a gas station or a fast food place. The real inconvenience isn’t the cooking it’s the travel to go buy the ingredients. As someone who rode the bus in the US for years I can tell you that it’s definitely possible for going to get food at a grocery store to involve a 2 hour round trip in some worse neighborhoods in the US. The Mcdonalds equivalent is of course at every bus stop basically (and next to your job and your house).
More importantly is “if you are working on paying off debt,” if you don’t want to pay off your debt then order a Surf and Turf whenever you want for all DR cares.
Like following a personal trainer and getting mad at him for posting that you should do some jumping jacks everyday…
Rent in my city averages about 2k USD a month now. 1 bedroom. It ain’t the burgers and ramen keeping us poor.
