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About Court Sullivan
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Emory University
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I am easily excited by spontaneous things, amusing people, random moments, minor observations, and alcohol. I'm also the editor of PIC, which manages to incorporate all of those things.
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Growing Up Poor
That's why it's refreshing to get a dose of stuff like this every now and then:
I love how different classes of society have different meanings of what's funny. For instance, growing up in a middle class family, my sister and I thought it was funny to do things like wrap really small presents in huge boxes to disguise what the real gift was. Then we'd stuff all kinds of crap around the small present to make the gift feel heavy. Of course, inside jokes played out as we opened box after box, each successively smaller than the next, and from old toys we already had. Kind of like a corny Christmas morning gift version of those Russian nested dolls. Except you eventually GOT to something, which made it all "happy middle class family jokish."
Honestly, I think growing up poor would've been much more hilarious. Thanks a lot, DAD, for keeping a job and food on the table. Didn't you know hardship is comedy?
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that might be one of the cruelest things i have ever seen a parent do to a kid's mind. on effing Christmas. damn.
My mom gave me a bunch of my old action figures as one of my presents this year so I could "keep them for my own kids one day" aka "take this crap from her house"
i feel so guilty laughing at that
I think my favorite thing about it is that the poor kid's parents are audibly upset that he was under the impression that he'd actually got a 360.
Duh, Joe, he should have known better. He KNOWS they can't afford an Xbox 360.
I grew up middle-class, and my parents still pulled shit like this. My dad used to laugh so hard he'd have tears in his eyes. I used to hate it, but now I realize it's hilarious...
That is probably the most fucked up thing ive seen in awhile, can you get any crueler? and then have people sit around and laugh about it. real cool.
Well, you managed to piss off Anonymous, so you must be doing pretty well.
It was moderately amusing, but not as funny as I expected.
If you watch the video on youtube and *shudder* read the comments, you'll see that they only pulled that joke because he peeked the night before.
Later he actually got the X-Box 360.
Which is still better than a kid.
Yeah I was thinking he probably got one eventually. It's way too cruel for them to actually do that to a kid.
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