I've just about had it with my brother.

[Freeper]

Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Sep-26-11 01:26 PM
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I've just about had it with my brother.
   
It isn't over politics. It's over his drug use and the fact that he screwed off for the last nine months living off his severance package and not looking for work. He hung around the house and smoked pot until he ran out of money. He didn't draw unemployment because he didn't want to bother looking for a job or cleaning up for a piss test. Now he is penniless, drawing unemployment, but asking for money. He hasn't bothered to liquidate his small (less than $10,000) IRA yet, though.

I think I need to let him fall on his butt. He always got help from our parents before. It just aggravates me that it has come to this when he could have had enough money to start over. His health is poor, BTW, due to diabetes.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2005561

he sounds like the typical DUmmy.

[BlueStateSaint]

I'd love to see what the responses are.

[Karin]

AverageJoe90 (524 posts)      Mon Sep-26-11 01:36 PM
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8. I'm living in kind of the opposite situation.........
I've been trying to get a job for the past 3 years, without success.........not having a driver's license(thanks Dad, for claiming I wasn't 'ready' for that!) hasn't help at all, and have been highly reluctant to apply for unemployment OR welfare for fear of my parents(especially dad) making a real fuss........P.S. both parents have been Republicans since at LEAST high school.

Well, why aren't you "ready" for a driver's license?  I don't know what's going on here, but if you're 18, you can go ahead and do that.  I assume you're over 18 if you've been looking for any kind of job FOR THREE FREAKING YEARS. 

Your parents remember a time that there was a stigma to being on the public dole.  People would use it as a bridge over extremely rough times, and get off it ASAP, because it just didn't feel right.  BTW, you can't get unemployment if you haven't been employed, dipshit. 

Anyway, the brother in question from the OP had been arrested for possession some time ago, to which Mr. Stalin replies:

Uncle Joe (1000+ posts)      Mon Sep-26-11 05:59 PM
Response to Reply #87
89. The arrests would've affected his self-image whether that was instantly, overtly apparent or not.
 Edited on Mon Sep-26-11 06:00 PM by Uncle Joe
The foundation of our lives rests on our self-image and self-esteem, being arrested for most anything other than political protest would serve to damage, not buttress that bedrock foundation.

  Oh brother....

Dreamer Tatum  (1000+ posts)        Mon Sep-26-11 02:18 PM
Response to Reply #21
35. How is someone who smoked dope every day a victim of the drug war?
 How does that make sense?

Politicalboi  (1000+ posts)      Tue Sep-27-11 04:59 AM
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96. Pot is not an addiction
 It may even help with his diabetes. The problem is that work places have the right to drug test you before they hire you, and perhaps random tests at work. What one does on their own time is none of their business. Some pot smokers like myself are good workers, and don't smoke at work. Pot is better than alcohol. More people come to work hung over from booze rather than pot. If not for the drug tests, he may already have a good job. Tell him to spend some money on synthetic piss. In this environment, you have to cheat. He may be able to find some at a cigarette store. Or send him to cannabis.com. He will find the best way to cheat a test.

 

Always stellar advice at the DUmp. 

[Erasmus]

I think I need to let him fall on his butt. He always got help from our parents before.

But yet you want to raise everyone's taxes (well, everyone who works) to pay for MILLIONS of deadbeat scumbags JUST LIKE your brother?  WTF?  Cognative dissonance much?

[Ralph Wiggum]

AverageJoe90 (524 posts)      Mon Sep-26-11 01:36 PM
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8. I'm living in kind of the opposite situation.........
I've been trying to get a job for the past 3 years, without success.........not having a driver's license(thanks Dad, for claiming I wasn't 'ready' for that!) hasn't help at all, and have been highly reluctant to apply for unemployment OR welfare for fear of my parents(especially dad) making a real fuss........P.S. both parents have been Republicans since at LEAST high school.

What the hell does your parents being Republicans have to do with the rest of the story?  Or was that just an attempt at DUmmy street cred?

[Rebel]

Dreamer Tatum Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Mon Sep-26-11 02:18 PM

Response to Reply #21

35. How is someone who smoked dope every day a victim of the drug war?
   
How does that make sense?

Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Mon Sep-26-11 02:30 PM

Response to Reply #35

42. For one thing it wouldn't be "dope" if we didn't have a drug war, it might be medicine.
   
Furthermore even if it wasn't medicine, the OP's brother might not be concerned about an invasive, Big Brother piss test and thus be more motivated to seek employment.

He could thus function more productively in our modern society and not be worried about being stigmatized.

Good God these people are brick stupid. I mean, the weakest damn link. If we lived Darwin-style, these idiots would starve to death.

[SherryBaby]

Sounds like the OP needs to get her/himself to an Al-Anon meeting or two.  The rest of the posters are just making me gag.  Everyone is a victim, there is no need to take responsibility for yourself, you're excused!!   

[DLR Pyro]

Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Sep-26-11 01:26 PM
Original message
I've just about had it with my brother.
   
It isn't over politics. It's over his drug use and the fact that he screwed off for the last nine months living off his severance package and not looking for work. He hung around the house and smoked pot until he ran out of money. He didn't draw unemployment because he didn't want to bother looking for a job or cleaning up for a piss test. Now he is penniless, drawing unemployment, but asking for money. He hasn't bothered to liquidate his small (less than $10,000) IRA yet, though.

What's his DU handle?

[BlueStateSaint]

Good God these people are brick stupid. I mean, the weakest damn link. If we lived Darwin-style, these idiots would starve to death.

Or, alternately, WSHTF.

[JohnnyReb]

....not having a driver's license(thanks Dad, for claiming I wasn't 'ready' for that!)

And I would also like to say Thanks Dad...for having the backbone to say no to your idiot son...the life you saved may have been my own.

Not having a driver's license is his excuse...I guess he'll sign up for disability.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2005561

he sounds like the typical DUmmy.

But we as taxpayers should support his ass.

[JohnnyReb]

But we as taxpayers should support his ass.

Absolutely, we should support him....as soon as we finish tarring and feathering his ass we'll support it on a rail as we run him out of town.

[BattleHymn]

....not having a driver's license(thanks Dad, for claiming I wasn't 'ready' for that!)

And I would also like to say Thanks Dad...for having the backbone to say no to your idiot son...the life you saved may have been my own.

Not having a driver's license is his excuse...I guess he'll sign up for disability.

Obumbles will be by shortly will an EO proclaiming that people without a driver's license are a protected class. 

[delilahmused]

Why doesn't he/she/it just trade in his old dad for daddy government? Problem solved.

Cindie

[diesel driver]

Politicalboi  (1000+ posts)      Tue Sep-27-11 04:59 AM
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96. Pot is not an addiction
 It may even help with his diabetes. The problem is that work places have the right to drug test you before they hire you, and perhaps random tests at work. What one does on their own time is none of their business. Some pot smokers like myself are good workers, and don't smoke at work. Pot is better than alcohol. More people come to work hung over from booze rather than pot. If not for the drug tests, he may already have a good job. Tell him to spend some money on synthetic piss. In this environment, you have to cheat. He may be able to find some at a cigarette store. Or send him to cannabis.com. He will find the best way to cheat a test.

Synthetic piss?

WTH is synthetic piss?   

[delilahmused]

Synthetic piss?

WTH is synthetic piss?   

Inorganic golden showers?

Cindie

[GOBUCKS]

Synthetic piss?
WTH is synthetic piss?

I think you get a free sample when you buy a Whizzinator.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Synthetic piss?

WTH is synthetic piss?   

It's fake piss, to outfox a drug test.  GOBUCKS is talking about a device that's a fake penis, used to decant the fake piss into the sample bottle and (Ideally) fool the tester.  Wouldn't work in the military because they really do observe your junk while you're filling the bottle, but many private employer tests are not quite as rigorous.

I believe they dehydrate real, drug-free piss to make the synthetic stuff, so it will have the right biochemicals in it in case the employer checks to make sure it isn't yellow food coloring and water, but I couldn't swear to it. 

[BlueStateSaint]

It's fake piss, to outfox a drug test.  GOBUCKS is talking about a device that's a fake penis, used to decant the fake piss into the sample bottle and (Ideally) fool the tester.  Wouldn't work in the military because they really do observe your junk while you're filling the bottle, but many private employer tests are not quite as rigorous.

I believe they dehydrate real, drug-free piss to make the synthetic stuff, so it will have the right biochemicals in it in case the employer checks to make sure it isn't yellow food coloring and water, but I couldn't swear to it.  

Anyone ever seen that scene in Up In Smoke (I think) where Cheech has to provide a urine sample for his probation officer?  It's from his sister--and she's pregnant!

(It gets funnier, when Chong accidentally drinks the sample.)

[DLR Pyro]

It's fake piss, to outfox a drug test.  GOBUCKS is talking about a device that's a fake penis, used to decant the fake piss into the sample bottle and (Ideally) fool the tester.  Wouldn't work in the military because they really do observe your junk while you're filling the bottle, but many private employer tests are not quite as rigorous.

I believe they dehydrate real, drug-free piss to make the synthetic stuff, so it will have the right biochemicals in it in case the employer checks to make sure it isn't yellow food coloring and water, but I couldn't swear to it. 

maybe it's just me but it sure seems alot easier to maintain a drug free lifestyle and not have to worry about faux piss to pass a test for employment.

[DumbAss Tanker]

maybe it's just me but it sure seems alot easier to maintain a drug free lifestyle and not have to worry about faux piss to pass a test for employment.

That has always worked for me.  Apparently the DUmmies have more complicated lives than normal humans.

[JohnnyReb]

That has always worked for me.  Apparently the DUmmies have more complicated lives than normal humans.

It was working real well for a fellow in Anderson, S.C. a few years ago. He was selling his drug free pee for a premium but the government shut him down.