The Chat Thread (Read OP)

[King Athelstan]

I don't have the gut to look at your new posts

[Akar]

You and me both, kid.

[Mhaedros]

Old posts are hell itself

On vacation for 11 days, not sure how I feel about it yet. Just kidding, feels fantastic!

[Gigantus]

Old posts are hell itself

On vacation for 11 days, not sure how I feel about it yet. Just kidding, feels fantastic!

If that's your thing then you should try retirement, it totally agrees with me.

[Mhaedros]

Any day now, I'm sure.

[ggggtotalwarrior]

Next thing you know you’re “being sent to live at a farm upstate”.

[mishkin]

Right now I would pay to go to a gulag. (three weeks of lockdown).

[King Athelstan]

I'm already doing that for free

[Gigantus]

Right now I would pay to go to a gulag. (three weeks of lockdown).

This advisory by overworked psychological departments should come handy as a guideline then: 'Talking to your wall and plants is perfectly normal under present circumstances, only contact us when they are talking back.'

[Akar]

It's easy to retire, not so easy to retire and not starve to death.

[Commissar Caligula_]

It's easy to retire, not so easy to retire and not starve to death.

Just don't be poor. Duh

[King Athelstan]

Gosh darn it, why didn't I think of that?

[Akar]

Damnit I forgot to pull up my boot straps!

[ggggtotalwarrior]

Instead I'm getting 100k of student debt

[Gigantus]

It's easy to retire, not so easy to retire and not starve to death.

Don't equate retiring with going on pension: One retires when one can afford to stop working but doesn't have to.

[Akar]

Where does faking your own death to escape your current life and obligations fall onto that spectrum?

[Commissar Caligula_]

Instead I'm getting 100k of student debt

Thats your fault for being American. Duh

[mishkin]

are there still americans? lol (too soon? sorry).

[Akar]

nah too late actually none of them are around to get the joke

[Gigantus]

Where does faking your own death to escape your current life and obligations fall onto that spectrum?

Depends on your girlfriend's reaction after you tell her about it - might end up not faking it at all, depending on your life insurance.