If you had to live...

[Sebastian]

...in really really poor living-conditions for a whole week, and then could go back to your "own" life, do you think would change something in the way you live afterwards?

 

[Euphanasia]

hmmmm it might spark a change in my life temporarily, but i think it wouldn't be long before i went back to my routine life because one week wouldn't be long enough to have lasting effects. now if it were a year, then i would be more inclined to say yes.

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

Are you asking me to move in with you?

You no walls having motherfucker.

 

[SicC]

Maybe short term but long term I highly doubt it.

pz

 

[vg4030]

I guess not on the scale you describe it but..

Some people are experiencing living in poor conditions now, (Not really really poor) but in Michigan with the economy etc.. everyone is becoming more frugal, for example shopping at Walmart instead of Whole Foods. This will probably go on for a while and once the economy picks up I think it will be hard for people to go back to their old ways, once they see how much they can save.

I dont think 1 week is a good time frame, that whole time you will be thinking 'only 6 days to go.. then 5 days..." if it was a month or longer I think it will hit home more

 

[masta247]

If you didn't know that it'll be just a week - if you for example thought that you lost your house, lost your money, lost everything etc. and then had to live in some kind of shithole for a week and got along with a thought that you will have to survive in those conditions and it probably won't get much better for you any sooner and then after a week some tv host visited you and said that it was just something like "The Truman Show" and you can go back to your life - I'm sure a lot would change.

If you ask only to know if it's okay to go to some dirty village on your holidays then no, I don't think it could change anything.

 

[Flipmo]

Probably not, I'm a jerk.

 

[dillaxx]

No, because I all ready do that. I lost my freedom of my apt. at school, to be able to smoke, drink, stay out as late as I want, masturbate if I need to, when I go home for the breaks, where I have a curfew, can't smoke when my parents are at home so I go to a friend's and can't drink period.

 

[Bender]

the only difference is that i would wipe my ass on german toilet paper

 

[Da_Funk]

These types of questions are so stupid and pointless. No offence Sebastian.

No, because I all ready do that. I lost my freedom of my apt. at school, to be able to smoke, drink, stay out as late as I want, masturbate if I need to, when I go home for the breaks, where I have a curfew, can't smoke when my parents are at home so I go to a friend's and can't drink period.

How the fuck do you live under such Nazism man?

 

[dillaxx]

These types of questions are so stupid and pointless. No offence Sebastian.





How the fuck do you live under such Nazism man?

I'm Indian. I dunno if you know how they are with their kids. Also remember, drinking age is 21 here and you're in Canada where it's 19. But, I dunno, my parents might be gay about that even if I'm 21.

 

[Sebastian]

These types of questions are so stupid and pointless. No offence Sebastian.

Maybe im not taking offence if you give me a good explanation for your statement.

 

[S. Fourteen]

I would buy a pack of cigarettes and roll 40 cigs out of 20 to make it last longer. I would carry a clean, dry pair of socks everywhere I go. I would develop new appreciation for ice (cubes). Aluminum cookware deteriorate under heat, so I would replace them with iron ones.

That is all for now.

 

[_carmi]

Short term yeah. But long term no.

 

[Rahim]

i would be much more gracious of the food that i have.

 

[Flipmo]

I'm Indian. I dunno if you know how they are with their kids. Also remember, drinking age is 21 here and you're in Canada where it's 19. But, I dunno, my parents might be gay about that even if I'm 21.

Its 19 in all the provinces except my province, Quebec; it's 18 here.

 

[Da_Funk]

^^ Wrong. Its 18 in Manitoba and Alberta. Probably B.C. too.

Maybe im not taking offence if you give me a good explanation for your statement.

Its like saying if you lived through the holocaust how would your perspective differ? Or being like how would you feel if your wife was killed because of something you did or didn't do? What I'm saying is you're just gonna get a bunch of bullshit answers because no one here really knows how they'd change unless they lived through it.


I forgot about that dilla. One of my best friends (well old best friend) was Indian and his dad practically beat him infront of one our friends and his mom one night. Different cultures and different values, but damn it must be hard living in a western society with parents who still have traditional values from back home.

 

[S O F I]

It's 19 in British Columbia.

 

[_carmi]

Its 19 in all the provinces except my province, Quebec; it's 18 here.

Thank god for that

 

[dillaxx]

Still, it's two to three years shorter than what I have to wait through to go through and a bottle of Gentleman Jack for myself whenever I want to. I have to rely on my black roommate from last year.