I can’t be the ONLY one who’s noticed what a bad rap students seem to get. I’ll admit, there are a more than a fair number of fuckheads and vapid sluts among their numbers, but not every student is a stumbling, binge drinking bag of puke on legs. They’re kids who are without parental supervision for the first time, of COURSE they’re gonna go overboard, they don’t know their own limits. I defy you people who just want to toss them out of the city on their collective asses to say that you weren’t like them at least ONCE while you were in school.
This article appears in Sep 11-17, 2008.
Well, just watched a piece on CTV about all that mysterious garbage that showed up over the long weekend in the south end.Seems more than coincidence that students are moving in / out for the edumication season and piles of crap are growing like grape vines with no particular owner taking responsibility for them. No wait, they are just the invisible garbage aliens building their new homes before taking over the HRM.I can say with certainty that I never spewed out junk like that, on the sidewalk no less, when I was on my ” own ” for the first time.Here’s a word for ya, responsibility look it up.
Man these kids are on their own for the first time, there is nothing set up for them to get rid of furniture and trash. How about the city set up a large trash pick up day on like sept 2nd or 3rd? Not like the city cant see this coming every sept and may.
or just leave it…frankly you can sometimes find really good furniture sitting on the curb after some student decided they needed something new with daddy’s money…….it’s an annual tradition, the cruising for furniture after the students arrive…
As we get older we tend to forget what it’s like to be on our own for the first time. As for the daddy’s money stereotypical university student, they’re out there, but not all uni kids are like that either. I’m with the OP, give these students a break. They’re not all thundertwits.
Yes, please, can we permanently retire the “daddy’s money” thing? Yup, some kids have wealthy parents. How dare they?! Those bastards!Few expressions show as much churlish, bitter resentment as this one does. It drives me batshit. (I don’t think you were using it this way Hedgy….but I was just sayin’)You want money? Go make some fuckin’ money and leave the “snotty rich kids” alone!
Oh I realize it’s usually said with utter distain and loathing…but I just got out of the school system and I knew way to many people with parental credit cards they abused and yet never saw the bill or you-spent-how-much shit from NOT to bring it up occasioanlly. Almost as much as I hate the ‘fake poor’- you know those kids with tons of cash who like to bitch about how broke they are, while pounding back expensive booze and wearing designer pre-ripped jeans. but really, I’m not complaining: as I said before, parents or students with the cash anda willingness to buy new overpriced furniture and leave their old, perfectly good and often fabulous stuff on the side of the road instead of selling their possessions like the rest of us are what’s furnishing my apartment right now 😉
I knew what you meant Hedgy; as I said my comments weren’t directed at you, just at that expression. For the record I am not a snotty rich kid and i never got a penny from my parents…hopefully my kids will have more opportunity than I did to spend daddy’s money 😉
Get over it, thats what the transistion phase of being a student is, you drink, fuck, and sometimes(hopefully) study. Then after a couple of years of doing this you (hopefully) decide you need to grow the fuck up and get over it. Then you complain about the next batch of youngins that do the shit you used to do!How do I know? I have just described what I have turned into! haha