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For about the first 22 years, being a parent at Christmas is a net losing proposition. But after that...
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Why is the chart blurred out at 65 years? Is that when us old people are supposed to off ourselves?
that is when you start collecting the phat checks when every 1st and 15th are christmas.
but, but... what about the gift of Obama and a liberal mind?
They're your imaginary friends. And all along you thought that was God.
Tee hee hee
Even God's nicer to atheists than Obama and his Fellow Travelers
Knuks is a closet Southpark fan. Tee hee :-D
That's a great episode.
You've died or on a Obamacare death panel review case.
/sarc
Via: biasbreakdown.com
The first bias is exemplified by the fact that future admiral Farragut was a prize master in the US Navy and took command of a ship at age 12 during the War of 1812.
Nowadays we are schooled to be stupid, obedient dependents. What is now "child labor" - and there are/were many abuses - used to be emulation. One worked and learned at the hand of a master. Childhood ends everywhere in the world by age 12, but through the miracle of modern schooling we've extended childhood at least 10 years, and for some, a lifetime.
For those of you who take your 12 year olds into the woods and teach them to hunt and fish, I tip my hat.
+1. Adolescence is a myth. & schools are for fish.
Common core education will fix the fish in new math skills.
Glad you asked comrade.
http://business.time.com/2013/08/14/a-good-death-how-boomers-will-change...
It's a graphic respresentation of your failing eyesight. Everything you look at is blurred by that stage: your children's faces, lunch, speed limit signs, everything.
By the time that YOUR CHILD is 65 Years old...YOU ARE DEAD.
The Age on the 'x'-axis is the CHILD'S AGE....NOT YOURS.
Why is the chart blurred out at 65 years? Is that when us old people are supposed to off ourselves?
The chart is for the age of your child, not you or your mental age.
I didnt know what to get this christmas cause I missed the Annual Hedgeless List.
Sweet, my Son turns 22 next year!!!
Good Lord, the money I spent on toys and video games, not to mention medical bills.
"Dear Kids,
I would appreciate single malt scotch, fine cigars, and cash.
Love,
Dad"
I didn't spend much on toys, but the medical bills suck ass (popcorn kernel up the nose, broken this or that, stitches, stupidity, whatever...). The other thing you msised is the amount of food these little critters consume; good lord!
I'd take one out of the three you listed from my kids, but i think i'll just ask for scotch from now on and tell them the name and brand to buy so I don't end up with a blended Dewars...
Well I should hope if your son is of the age to buy alcohol that by now you've taken it upon yourself to give him a proper education in spirits such that you'd not need to specify a brand and be confident the lad could make a fine choice on his own. Indeed Dewars is to scotch as Gallo is to wine. Regrettably so many do not know the wide breadth of scotch that is available, only having ever tasted Dewar's and swearing never to sip such kerosene again as long as they live.
If you ever have the chance visit the Scotch Whisky museum in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was a revelation for me.
That's the OLD model...... these days you're paying for college for as long as they can stretch it out - then they move back home because there aren't any jobs. Don't you DARE get rid of 'their' room or plan on making the basement a 'man cave'.
If you're lucky they finally get a livable job and move out around 30. If THEY are lucky they manage to et married - but put kids off for a decade - or forever - depending on finances. Plan on 'helping out' regularly as needed.
Once YOU drop dead then maybe they move back and take over your house (if it's not still mortgaged to the hilt) and THEN have kids.
I think the 'parental benefit' remains in the red pretty much forever. Not complaining - the world they're inheriting sucks big time - they'll need all the help they can get.
Gotta love that 'senility' on the chart above is kicking in at 57...... what's the median age of US Senators?
What's this shit about too old and too senile at 57?!
I barely drool.
Shit, I'll be 60 in a couple of weeks.
Can still burn my 20 year old son on my mountain bike.
I'm going down fighting!
hey old man, maybe he's letting you win, or maybe your experience is an advantage, or he's taking things steady so as not to kill himslef?
i'm a similar age and train every day so keep training, live long and strong.
Lear to read a chart.
It's the age of your chilrdren.
Exactly! Gotta bust your balls for fun. Learn to spell if you're going to correct someone, or else it's you who looks stupid too.
/good fun
Typographical errors are not spelling errors, and vice versa.
sometimes the conversation not worth making a correction
WTF?
I like the fact that families are being forced closer together because of financial necessities.
Just like most organic life`forms. Humans take the path of least resistance.
Change comes from a massive shift that's unforeseen.
Volcanoes, sunspots, Ice Ages, Corrupt central banksters, ect...
No kidding. All of my baby boomer half-sibs live in a different state. DC has done an excellent job of brainwashing/incentivising people in many different ways that are detrimental to the family structure, but empowering to the state. Needless to say, I don't talk to them because of it.
1/2 sibs. Uhh Ohhh. Blood is thicker then water. ;-)
When the grandson just smiles at me, it's like getting a million bucks.
Sooooo sweet!
When my kid smiles at me it's usually because he wants something (like $$). How cute. Except he's still in college.
That is when they call you from college...when they NEED something.
I'm going to be 68 and I can hit anything within 15 meters with my GLOCK. 200 meters with my Remington 700 (head shots)
I ask for brass, primers, powder, bullets and a decent bottle of Reisling.
Take a look at this guy's skills with a Sig Sauer P320...VERY impressive!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCtzQRkrj0U
I find I must constantly de-program my kids when they come home from the Common-Core Indoctrination Center (formerly known as public school). My message to them is very simple:
Think for yourself
Stay out of debt
Hopefully there's a Christmas in 2025 or so and I'm around to see how it works out re: the returns chart above...
I give it a 50% chance...
Nominate for the worst ZH post of the year.
If you have children, you have been blessed beyond charts. And if your children have children of their own, your cup is overflowing with gifts. And Christmas is about a still greater gift...
My best gift this year was having my 27 yr old finally move out. Of coarse I had to give him a job at my company for which he wasn't qualified and pay him a salary above that which he earned.
Somehow overnight my Ms went from "dont force him to go to work with you" to "you have to give him a job".
And the little peckerhead wont even consider finding a mate and giving me some grandkids. So I coach kids' softball every spring and fall and call the little girls my 'rental' grandkids.