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DEM FAN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 10:45 PM
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Things That Cost To Much. Video Games.. Medical Care.. Hair Cuts..
Cd's..A Vehicle.. Razors.. Some Magazines.. Air For Tires..
What Can You Come Up With.
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CarlBallard Donating Member (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 10:48 PM
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1. I haven't paid for a haircut in years
First my hair was long, and I just let it grow, and now I just keep it really short with my beard trimmer.
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 11:21 PM
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6. yeah, my "haircuts" involve
dragging a razor over my scalp every other day. If I do let it grow for more than a week or so, I head out in the yard with the clippers, then come in and drag the razor over it. No $20 scissor work for this guy!
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CarlBallard Donating Member (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 11:41 PM
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9. I used to drag a razor over my scalp
Then I realized that being a white guy with a shaved head is bad enough. But add to that that I have dark skin for a white guy, a unabrow, and a gotee, and I realized I looked like Mussolini's evil twin from anonther dimension. So now I just keep it short.
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 12:02 AM
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14. Yeah,
I'm probably more of a "fester" than a mussolini, but the shaving keeps me away from that awkward point where all the hairs that initially started out at zero length have somehow grown back at wildly varying rates.
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ameriphile Donating Member (214 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 10:49 PM
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2. How could you forget

Health insurance!
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 10:50 PM
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3. water, water filters, excedrin, required textbooks,
and any items made specially for us southpaws, the most discriminated against minority on earth. :-)
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 11:15 PM
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4. I recall from my college days that textbook publishing was a racket
At least back then. I remember being a late addition to a German class and the campus store was out of the latest edition of the textbook. I found a used previous edition, meaning from the previous year. I thought how different could it be? I mean it's first-year German, after all, and I bet the language fundamentals hadn't changed much. Well they totally switched around the exercises, making it tough for me to follow the class.
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 11:18 PM
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5. Same thing with the text our department uses...
primary source articles' page numbers are changed. A paragraph is added hither and yon, and then it becomes the "third edition."

My students pay $125 for a required text for my class. Sometimes, if they take the 101 section, the book they buy for that class will be outdated by the next semester, and when they enroll in 102, they have to buy another edition of the same text.

And that doesn't include the accompanying reader or guide. Books for 12 hours of classes can be as expensive as tuition itself.

Oh, and add tuition to PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES to that list of things that are TOO expensive.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 11:22 PM
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7. Oh don't remind me!
I have to buy 12 credits worth of textbooks in 2 weeks, and I'm dreading it!! 2 of which are 4 credit Science classes, sure to be accompanied by big, heavy, $100+ textbooks. :mad:
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SweetZombieJesus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 11:24 PM
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8. Yet another reason I'm glad I dropped out of college
Higher learning my ass.
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 11:53 PM
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10. Cable TV.......
.......waaaay overpriced.
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SweetZombieJesus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 11:55 PM
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11. Yeah, I'm basically paying 75 bucks a month for Comedy Central
I wish I could pick what channels I want and pay for them and them only.
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pizzathehut Donating Member (97 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 12:33 AM
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15. Amen, What good is 100+ channels...
when all but 4 or 5 are cool. Junk like cspan, home shopping network, and all their clones just waste bandwideth.
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Prisoner_Number_Six Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 11:56 PM
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12. Food. Gasoline. VEHICLES.
Water, natural gas, movie tickets, new eyeglasses (WAY too expenisve!!), a good, sharp pocket knife, laptop computers, and IHOP breakfast.
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 12:00 AM
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13. I hear that video games in England cost about 20% of what they do here.
:wow:
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 12:34 AM
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16. Root canals, soda pop, paperback books, cereal, new vehicles
and children's shoes, you should be able to turn them in for a deposit because they grow out of them two weeks after you buy them.
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