chapotraphouse

Mine wasn't too bad. My brother-in-law said the standard (both sides) lib shit that John Oliver didn't really bother to dispell. I just dropped the subject, honestly.

Not a raging argument as such but still a opinion from a relative.

My mother in law does some off the books housekeeping work for an aristocratic family. They're the kind of upper class people who are utterly helpless when it comes to practical stuff and who can afford never to have learned to cook, clean and do laundry. My mother in law has assumed a weird kind of parental relation to the wife and talks a lot with her.

This Christmas my in-laws were going on and on about how poor these aristocrats were and how bad it was for them. My in-laws are as working class as it gets, they are both on disability, they don't own property, they've broken their bodies doing manual labour all their lives, they have to resort to off the books work and black market trading to enjoy just a little financial comfort and here they are feeling sad about the finances of someone who owns a fucking castle, a sizable amount of farmland and several rental properties. They can afford to serve their kid to some fancy foreign elite athletics school and to employ a housekeeper and I'm supposed to feel sorry for them for having no money?

False consciousness is one hell of a drug.

Urgh my mum keeps talking shit about young people not being able to buy houses and it's just so frustrating and stupid. She's barely worked a day in her life except for some easy job in the.com bubble but suddenly she's a financial authority.

no granny, i will not be taking care of my brother another year, if he want to come with me fine im applying to grad school i hate my life i hate this town this place killed my mother and it will kill me too, i hate it here i hate breathe here, i CANT KEEP LIVING FOR OTHER PEOPLE, I NEED TO MAKE MYSELF HAPPY FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE, I HAVE GIVEN EVERYTHING OF MY SELF TO OTHER PEOPLE WHO DONT FUCKING APPRECIATE ME. MY LIFE IS MY OWN. AND ALL I WANT IS TO GO TO A NICE GRAD SCHOOL AND TO FEEL GOOD ABOUT MYSELF AND TO ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING HARD FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE.