Kevin Eastman on Storage Wars (A&E)

[Commenter 42]

Originally Posted by Panda_Kahn_fan

I don't know about Laird, but dude my GF is an artist and she LOVES making pottery. She teaches a local class at the YMCA where she teaches over a dozen people of all ages how to make pottery. And she also has sold several of her pieces to customers for extremely good prices. It's not a dead hobby no one cares about anymore, nor are those who make pottery weird.

And this GF of yours, she's also 60 million in the black?

[Panda_Kahn_fan]

Originally Posted by Commenter 42

And this GF of yours, she's also 60 million in the black?

Ah, you were just talking about pottery making in the context of being a weird hobby for the rich, never mind then.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

42, a person doesn't stop enjoying their hobbies just because they get rich. If he liked doing it before, why would that change just because he has more money? If anything, that just means he has more TIME to enjoy it!

[Prowler]

All of this simply because the guy made a pottery joke.

[Commenter 42]

Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

42, a person doesn't stop enjoying their hobbies just because they get rich. If he liked doing it before, why would that change just because he has more money? If anything, that just means he has more TIME to enjoy it!

Duckie, it's POTTERY!

Whatever. If he doesn't want the money, give here damn it.

[d_osborn]

Perhaps he could make a ceramic version of this.

[mrmaczaps]

What the hell is wrong with pottery? I took two classes in pottery in HS and actually enjoyed what I was doing... It's fun to use your hands to make things. I even made a mold so I could easily replicate a design in order to sell some items in the school store. Made a good few extra bucks in my last year of HS for it too.

Pottery is creative not unlike drawing.

[Commenter 42]

All together now everyone, defend potting. That's obviously the point.
Millennials are the worst kind of human, ever.

Here's a visual of 60 million dollars.



Here's a list of really silly things you could do with less than half of 60 million dollars.
http://agilone.com/new/?p=9962

Not that i would want to, but you could ostensibly buy P.Diddy.

yep, buy him.

I don't see pottery anywhere on that list.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Commenter 42

All together now everyone, defend potting. That's obviously the point.
Millennials are the worst kind of human, ever.

"
Millennials (also known as the Millennial Generation or Generation Y) are the demographic cohort following Generation X. There are no precise dates for when the generation starts and ends; most researchers and commentators use birth years ranging from the early 1980s to the early 2000s."

It makes no sense for it to be so broad. People born in the early 80s had completely differente childhoods and teenage years from people born in the late 90s/early 2000s. Technology from 1995-2000 feels so ancient nowadays. No way in hell me, a 25 year old born in 1990 is part of the same generation as a 15 year old born in 2001.

[Powder]

Originally Posted by Commenter 42

etc

Don't go thinking I dislike you now, but, dude, give it a God damn rest. It's far more perplexing you would hound the issue for so long than it is he's chillin' on that dough.

[CyberCubed]

Also hasn't PL been a millionaire since basically the 80's? Obviously having a lot of money is nothing new for him. If you've been that rich for 30 years obviously why would the sale from 2009 be any different?

And as said, his wife teaches in Colleges and publishes her own books, so even she makes a lot of money by working too in addition to whatever PL has

[Commenter 42]

Originally Posted by Powder

Don't go thinking I dislike you now, but, dude, give it a God damn rest. It's far more perplexing you would hound the issue for so long than it is he's chillin' on that dough.

I'd made my point, and was done. It's the crazy responses from the drome that kept the convo going. "I wouldn't want to blow my money either" it's too funny. As if he could really burn through it. That would take serious effort, it's not a paycheck from Walmart.

Straight talk, when you have that amount of money, there's an inherent responsibility, to do something with it. Money is power, and he's perched atop a huge pile, twiddling his thumbs. A lot of good could be done with those dollars.

Obviously there are other people with millions in the bank we could point at, but it doesn't change the fact that he's acting a little bit Scroogey here.

That's my real beef, but I get it, the new America is a cornered animal, lashing out at the slightest provocation; more PC than brains, devoid of a true conscience and hungry for the soapbox.

But again dude, you know me by now, I do a fair bit of yelling into the void.
I'll drop it , we're going in circles.

[Commenter 42]

Originally Posted by Prowler

"
Millennials (also known as the Millennial Generation or Generation Y) are the demographic cohort following Generation X. There are no precise dates for when the generation starts and ends; most researchers and commentators use birth years ranging from the early 1980s to the early 2000s."

It makes no sense for it to be so broad. People born in the early 80s had completely differente childhoods and teenage years from people born in the late 90s/early 2000s. Technology from 1995-2000 feels so ancient nowadays. No way in hell me, a 25 year old born in 1990 is part of the same generation as a 15 year old born in 2001.

Yeah, the idea that GenY is a Millennial, is bullsh*t. Boomers, GenX, GenY, Millennial's, GenZ.

They are all VERY different folks. I clash with most of y'all on issues due largely to being a GenY dude. I was well into College before internet was a thing, which is a hollow statement unless you were there too, a lot like kids today unable to imagine a world without facebook. Many of you probably don't remember a time when even the word Gay, the very idea or mention of it, would get you into a fight. Millenials embrace the word; my generation broke your nose.

The differences are massive, shouldn't be lumped together.

Jesus. I was in NY when it was the corrupt hell of the early 80's. Now it's freaking Disneyland.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by Commenter 42

Jesus. I was in NY when it was the corrupt hell of the early 80's. Now it's freaking Disneyland.

So how old are you? Your mid-late 30's I assume?

[Commenter 42]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

So how old are you? Your mid-late 30's I assume?

Numbers. I hate numbers. I'm older than I care to be.

[Bry]

Originally Posted by Commenter 42

Straight talk, when you have that amount of money, there's an inherent responsibility, to do something with it. Money is power, and he's perched atop a huge pile, twiddling his thumbs. A lot of good could be done with those dollars.

Well, he did run/fund the Xeric Foundation for like 20 years and gave millions in grants to up-and-coming comic creators. He may be fully retired now, but he's already done more good than... I'd say most other people who've been in his position.

I don't disagree with your point here, mind you. But credit where credit's due.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Commenter 42

Yeah, the idea that GenY is a Millennial, is bullsh*t. Boomers, GenX, GenY, Millennial's, GenZ.

They are all VERY different folks. I clash with most of y'all on issues due largely to being a GenY dude. I was well into College before internet was a thing, which is a hollow statement unless you were there too, a lot like kids today unable to imagine a world without facebook. Many of you probably don't remember a time when even the word Gay, the very idea or mention of it, would get you into a fight. Millenials embrace the word; my generation broke your nose.

The differences are massive, shouldn't be lumped together.

Jesus. I was in NY when it was the corrupt hell of the early 80's. Now it's freaking Disneyland.

Wut? When I was a kid we also would mock each other using the word "gay" as an insult. Just like I've heard the word "gay" being used numerous times as an adjective for something being stupid or crappy.

I didn't get into facebook until I was 19-20, so I damn well remember life without it.

[Commenter 42]

Originally Posted by Prowler

Wut? When I was a kid we also would mock each other using the word "gay" as an insult. Just like I've heard the word "gay" being used numerous times as an adjective for something being stupid or crappy.

I didn't get into facebook until I was 19-20, so I damn well remember life without it.

You really can't compare the two. It's not at all the same. You, not getting into facebook for years has nothing to do with the what the world was doing, being a late adopter makes you an outlier, not the rule.
I'm not challenging you, but you lived in a world that had facebook. I grew up in a world where we shared a land line, and getting a second phone extension to your bedroom was considered a big deal.
And yeah, gay was an indefensible position, akin to be called a child molester, or coping to enjoying molesting kids. Yeah, like that. You were mentally ill, and probably sick, with some disease.

That's the kind of attitude I'm talking about, it was ULTRA dangerous to be gay, much more than today. I'm sure the older members here can recall what it was like, very different from the openness of gay culture today.

[CyberCubed]

To be honest he's right. Nowadays gays are largely accepted unless you're a bigot, and lesbian kissing is so common nowadays people consider it natural. Now all girls are expected to kiss each other growing up or in College.

[Prowler]

I was only a kid at the time, but no way in 1998 would most straight people agree with same-sex marriage. You'd be immediately suspected to be gay for even bringing such issue up in a conversation. I remember a soccer player here being rumored to be gay(he wasn't) back in 1999-2001 and it pretty much destroyed his career. Even many fans of his own team would boo and jeer him with slurs.

Also in the late-80s/early 90s gays were still being blamed for HIV/AIDS. 1998 was only a few years after that. Society's mentality doesn't change overnight like that.