I'm from the south so I know how devastating it is getting the clap from cousins.

And the crowd can hardly contain himself!

I was sure it was late, but look at the last angle. You can pause it and see that the buzzer sounds before the actual clock hits double zeros, and that the ball is out of his hands at .01

I’d let it go at this point, there’s really no need to badger him.

I’m 6' 3". I’m familiar with this hell.

I dunno man, people who recline their seats are soulless monsters.

“...that’s the way this amateur sports league is set up. We’re supposed to be having fun, but all the money is in these basketballs that colleges play with. But it’s an amateur sport, we’re just here for fun. It’s not really that serious. So I guess any ball should be OK. [...] But in this amateur sport of college,…

This motherfucker is so corny I swear Congress is gonna subsidize him in the next farm bill.

Les Misérables de Cleveland here will never get old. Never.

That’s a little more complicated, but a lot more fun than just “buy everything I want”.

Awesome. You’ve got cheerleaders here.

I already am, which is why i’m only saving about 5% of my income for savings :\ Trying to get that dept out asappppp.

Nope, you’re good. Having a budget means more freedom to do things. At first it might be a bit restricting as you unlearn some bad spending habits. However, the first time you take that family vacation without having to worry about how much you’re spending makes it all worth it.

Tell me about it. I began my infancy as a middle class kid and things quickly deteriorated until we sat at the poverty level by the time I was 5, exactly one year after my parents entered into a home mortgage. In poverty I stayed, despite working everywhere from Arby's to Capitol Hill as an accountant, until I gave up…

I think the craziest thing is that I initially missed that this was per-household. I'm a single-income no-kids household currently and I'm upper-class on my own and although I do feel a sense of financial security (I don't have to save money if I want a fashionable pair of pants or a video game), I don't feel like my…

It really is frightening. I grew up dirt poor. I mean I didn't KNOW we were dirt poor until maybe middle school but I remember noticing our house was smaller, our cars were older.. it bothered me. So my parents explained (and educated) me on "living within your means." Their home and cars were paid for and we didn't…

This really resonates with me (and from the look of it, a lot of readers of the comments). Thanks for this.

But I would counter that perhaps they have already lived like you do. I for example make well above the upper-bound Middle class number for my region (though I would not call myself above middle class by any means, I think these numbers are kind of screwed). But I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks, got myself…

This is a really great thread. Misha, you sound like my financial twin. My husband and I have "good" professional jobs, and make a little under $100k/year and we own a small house in the Bay Area. We are exhausted-truly burned out and exhausted- by our financial situation. After our mortgage, childcare, medical…