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WCT July 6-July 10 2009

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Bobthemagiccow:
I'm feeling pretty sympathetic to Penelope here. I wouldn't take in a homeless lover either, I'd tell them to get their shit together and withhold nookie until they do. Come on, Pen-Pen, light a fire under that guy's ass. Poets don't support themselves with poetry - Wil needs a day job. Although it would be pretty hilarious to see him try to join the avant-garday buskers: http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1064

Ghanima Atreides:
Frankly, I think they're both wrong here. First, Penny got herself blinded by the idea of romance with a soulful, artistic guy who wrote her naughty poems and went on self-discovering journeys and didn't stop to think (or ask) about his real life, outside books and ideals, and get to know the real guy. Secondly, Wil, with no job and place of his own, just evicted from his parents' house, didn't exactly do the smartest thing by going off into the wild and spending all his reserves, then coming back to a girlfriend he doesn't even know and asking if he can move in.

Those two moving in together, at this time and under these circumstances would most likely be a disaster. Granted, Penny doesn't know the details regarding Wil's situation and she could have asked first before calling him a complete loser, but yeah, they need to come down from the clouds, both of them.

maddness:
Wow. Penelope is a bitch. I mean, seriously? One minute she loves the guy and the next she's calling him a "total fucking loser" because he's currently jobless and living with his parents. I fully agree that Wil needs to get his shit together, but her attitude about it is just unnecessarily nasty and harsh. She didn't even find out any details before she went straight to thinking he was a shiftless, lazy bastard. For all she knows he's just currently between jobs and had to move back in with his parents. Granted, the odds are he's just never had to work and he's been living off his parents until now. Honestly, though, when someone is approaching 30 and has always lived at home without working it's as much the parents fault as it is the "kids".

Man, I lived with my mom til I was 21 ... probably would have lived there a few years longer if I hadn't picked up and moved in with The Man. I was working, making $8/hour, and there was no way I could afford to live on my own where the cheapest rent you could find was $700/month in questionable areas. Shoot, before that I was working labor temp making about $23/day! With my sadly lacking social skills the odds of hooking up with a rent share situation were minimal. I was talking to this one co-worker about possibly going in on a place together, she also lived with her parents, but she quit when someone was promoted over her and that was that.

Sometimes getting/keeping your own place isn't easy. If Penelope were me, she'd give him a couple of months to find a job and kick in for rent or find another place to live.

LunchBagArt:

She can do better.

Alus:

--- Quote from: LunchBagArt on 07 Jul 2009, 08:15 ---She can do better.

--- End quote ---

totally

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