This was considered poor in the 90s. The average American lived like the McAllisters in home alone, and you weren’t “rich” unless you were Donald Trump rich. Remember what they stole from you.
i looked at my paystub shit today (anticipating my 3% raise oh fricking joy) and just my fed withholding is 10x what homer nets. i bet it can get worse though.
>This was considered a tiny shithole of a house no one would want in the 90s
What are you talking about? No it wasn't. One of their biggest episodes in the show's history is about just how ridiculously implausible their lifestyle is- to the point where when a normal person from the outside world steps in their house and sees how gigantic it is, it literally drives him insane.
>zoomers miss the point of this episode
Grimey was a born loser who couldn’t catch a break so he didn’t know what average was. He also thought Homer had such a beautiful family because he couldn’t get laid when in reality everything about the simpsons’ life was average.
Are you moronic? I'm 37- I was 11 when this came out I know what the reaction to it was. And also that's blatantly not at all what the episode was about. It was in response to the angry criticisms people were posting on Simpson's bulletin boards in the early days of the internet about how implausible many of the things about the Simpson family's lifestyle were, so they made an episode where a normal person from the real world comes in and sees how they're living and is shocked the way an actual person would be
>better question is how they could afford Abe's subsequent old folks home (if thats an official term) bills once they'd kicked him out
Those bills are no joke- my mom is in one and it's literally $10,000 a month. It's disgusting. You have to have less than $2,000 in assets before you qualify for medicare, so that means she has to spend practically every last dime she has just to stay alive. Fricking demons
Welcome to the American dream, you have to be asleep to believe in it.
Thank God I am a dual citizen, retiring back home in my SOCIALIST country. BOO! SOCIALISM!
>Those bills are no joke- my mom is in one and it's literally $10,000 a month. It's disgusting.
there has got to be a better solution, wtf. for (less than) 10k a month couldn't you set her up in a normal apartment and pay some helper to full time care for the woman?
you'll still need to bring in the lowest rungs of humanity to keep the wheels turning >inb4 hurr israelite shit
they're doing it too in Israel rn for the same 'I don't want to clean the streets' reasons
I mean, just do the math. subtract rent and the monthly wage of one health care worker from 10k and I bet you're left with a significant sum so it's worth it.
..hmm maybe you're right. keep going with it and see it (quickly) works out in the end
likely before this thread even does
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it's a whacky situation because my family is experiencing the opposite. we have the live-in maid situation (caretaker from a poorer country) and we consider it too expensive. that's for a woman who has three children so three parties are helping out. the reason this is still going on is that the old woman is living in the old family house and it's unclear what will be done about the house once she is no longer living there. so everyone awkwardly procrastinating the decision of what to do with the house by letting her continue to live in it. but in the process we're pissing away any inheritance there could have been. this reality is setting in for some of the more hesitant now and talks about finally moving her into a "home" are moving forward. thing is, in this country that is the cheaper way. as it should be. obviously putting a bunch of people in one place and caring for all of them at once is way more efficient so I don't know how your country messed that up so badly it ends up costing 10k a month.
Not possible. She was living independently before I had to move her there and she had a small team of helpers to come and do her laundry and do her grocery shopping and clean around the house. She literally can no longer get in and out of bed without assistance. She can't go to the bathroom unassisted, she needs help feeding herself- she needs the kind of full round the clock 24 hour a day care I can't provide for her and only an eldercare nursing facility is really equipped to give her. Unlike on tv shows or in the movies, normal people don't resort to putting their relatives in eldercare unless they really have no other options.
Not possible. She was living independently before I had to move her there and she had a small team of helpers to come and do her laundry and do her grocery shopping and clean around the house. She literally can no longer get in and out of bed without assistance. She can't go to the bathroom unassisted, she needs help feeding herself- she needs the kind of full round the clock 24 hour a day care I can't provide for her and only an eldercare nursing facility is really equipped to give her. Unlike on tv shows or in the movies, normal people don't resort to putting their relatives in eldercare unless they really have no other options.
At this point just let people fricking die. Jesus christ. But no, pfizer will make a trillion dollars a year ensuring everyone lives to 95 and miserable for 20 years.
There is something totally charming about kids hanging out with zero internet or social media, stranger things was so insanely popular because people yearn for those quiet times
I want a show about kids just exploring supernatural shit/urban legends/rumors around town like me and my best friend did as kids. Stranger Things is too up its own ass, and Mr. Midnight came close but it felt like off-brand television.
i grew up in lower-mid economic burbs in the 90s, and wondered why none of the families I knew lived like that. it's because it's unrealistic bullshit.
This was considered poor in the 90s. The average American lived like the McAllisters in home alone, and you weren’t “rich” unless you were Donald Trump rich. Remember what they stole from you.
Why don't they have an inground swimming pool
Yeah and it is also a cartoon
He works hard for the money, hard for the money, oh he something something money, come on give me lots of honey!
I’m pretty sure the kitchen had a door and stairway to the basement, in the toaster Time Machine episode
No it wasn't. Grandpa had to sell his house for Homer to even put a down payment on this.
I don't remember there being 3 living rooms tbh
Let the bears pay the bear tax! I pay the Homer tax!
The finger thing means the taxes!
i looked at my paystub shit today (anticipating my 3% raise oh fricking joy) and just my fed withholding is 10x what homer nets. i bet it can get worse though.
I make triple that and can barely afford a tiny studio apartment in Queens.
>This was considered a tiny shithole of a house no one would want in the 90s
What are you talking about? No it wasn't. One of their biggest episodes in the show's history is about just how ridiculously implausible their lifestyle is- to the point where when a normal person from the outside world steps in their house and sees how gigantic it is, it literally drives him insane.
>zoomers miss the point of this episode
Grimey was a born loser who couldn’t catch a break so he didn’t know what average was. He also thought Homer had such a beautiful family because he couldn’t get laid when in reality everything about the simpsons’ life was average.
Are you moronic? I'm 37- I was 11 when this came out I know what the reaction to it was. And also that's blatantly not at all what the episode was about. It was in response to the angry criticisms people were posting on Simpson's bulletin boards in the early days of the internet about how implausible many of the things about the Simpson family's lifestyle were, so they made an episode where a normal person from the real world comes in and sees how they're living and is shocked the way an actual person would be
>The writers idea of 'a normal person' was a nuclear physics graduate with no friends
You got baited hard
This episode aired in the late 90s, NAFTA had already fcuked us over
grimes wasn't a good counter-example as an incel living between 2 bowling allies either though
I don't think I ever saw that room behind garage
The "garage"? Hey fellas, the "garage"! Well ooh-la-di-da Mr French Man.
Naw, when the Simpsons started it was making fun of the TV family's of the previous generation.
its stated its a McMansion Homer only got by tricking his father into being able to get
better question is how they could afford Abe's subsequent old folks home (if thats an official term) bills once they'd kicked him out
Abe's military service is questionable and depends on the episode's plot convenience
>better question is how they could afford Abe's subsequent old folks home (if thats an official term) bills once they'd kicked him out
Those bills are no joke- my mom is in one and it's literally $10,000 a month. It's disgusting. You have to have less than $2,000 in assets before you qualify for medicare, so that means she has to spend practically every last dime she has just to stay alive. Fricking demons
sad to hear 🙁
was referring to 'abes military service' as an assumption it would pay for his retirement
thats grim
Welcome to the American dream, you have to be asleep to believe in it.
Thank God I am a dual citizen, retiring back home in my SOCIALIST country. BOO! SOCIALISM!
i married a swedish woman for this exact reason and remain unrepentant. just a little longer.
>Those bills are no joke- my mom is in one and it's literally $10,000 a month. It's disgusting.
there has got to be a better solution, wtf. for (less than) 10k a month couldn't you set her up in a normal apartment and pay some helper to full time care for the woman?
you'll still need to bring in the lowest rungs of humanity to keep the wheels turning
>inb4 hurr israelite shit
they're doing it too in Israel rn for the same 'I don't want to clean the streets' reasons
its an unsolvable quandary ultimately
I mean, just do the math. subtract rent and the monthly wage of one health care worker from 10k and I bet you're left with a significant sum so it's worth it.
..hmm maybe you're right. keep going with it and see it (quickly) works out in the end
likely before this thread even does
it's a whacky situation because my family is experiencing the opposite. we have the live-in maid situation (caretaker from a poorer country) and we consider it too expensive. that's for a woman who has three children so three parties are helping out. the reason this is still going on is that the old woman is living in the old family house and it's unclear what will be done about the house once she is no longer living there. so everyone awkwardly procrastinating the decision of what to do with the house by letting her continue to live in it. but in the process we're pissing away any inheritance there could have been. this reality is setting in for some of the more hesitant now and talks about finally moving her into a "home" are moving forward. thing is, in this country that is the cheaper way. as it should be. obviously putting a bunch of people in one place and caring for all of them at once is way more efficient so I don't know how your country messed that up so badly it ends up costing 10k a month.
Not possible. She was living independently before I had to move her there and she had a small team of helpers to come and do her laundry and do her grocery shopping and clean around the house. She literally can no longer get in and out of bed without assistance. She can't go to the bathroom unassisted, she needs help feeding herself- she needs the kind of full round the clock 24 hour a day care I can't provide for her and only an eldercare nursing facility is really equipped to give her. Unlike on tv shows or in the movies, normal people don't resort to putting their relatives in eldercare unless they really have no other options.
At this point just let people fricking die. Jesus christ. But no, pfizer will make a trillion dollars a year ensuring everyone lives to 95 and miserable for 20 years.
i cannot believe there isn't a quest app for this.
>things are so bad that op thinks a two story house in some shitty suburb is all fancy-like
Fricking hell.
you think it's bad but in places like Moscow they started building 118sq feet "apartments"
no it wasn’t. why lie?
t. zoomie
i’m 40 though
have there ever been scenes in the hall or the bathroom?
Buddy it's a cartoon
YOU are a cartoon
>op is a millennial that can't buy a house
>gets mad when he sees teh simpsons house
kek
>no view of the basement
WHY NOT
That's a normal house unless you're a city rat. Also everyone already knows homer had a good job.
That's a normal house.
It's a shithole because three rowdy children live in it.
why are us millennials obsessed with childhood and the 90s/early 2000s
You'll never understand that image zoomie
im 29
No you arn't
alot of comfy moments in recess
>Only posts the film and not the TV show
Im well aware its a tv show
There is something totally charming about kids hanging out with zero internet or social media, stranger things was so insanely popular because people yearn for those quiet times
I want a show about kids just exploring supernatural shit/urban legends/rumors around town like me and my best friend did as kids. Stranger Things is too up its own ass, and Mr. Midnight came close but it felt like off-brand television.
No it wasn’t zoomie
>this was considered comically obese in the 90s
i grew up in lower-mid economic burbs in the 90s, and wondered why none of the families I knew lived like that. it's because it's unrealistic bullshit.