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Hey, reverse racism!

Was looking at income data here.

For white only households that make more than $250,000 the mean income is $438,326.

For black only households that make more than $250,000 the mean income is $557,837

This is an outrage that must be corrected! And also must ignore that white only households make up 85% of all $250k+ households while only making up 71% of the total population and black only households make up only 3% of the $250k+ households while making up 12% of the total population.

No point in this post. Just playing with numbers and outrage.

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Originally Posted by Alex (Post 331615)

He'll just need to gift her all of his stuff over the last years of his life so that it can't be claimed as part of his estate to pay off debt.

I hate that you used "to gift" in this sentence.

It's a usage of the word that is almost 500 years old. I'd have thought that enough time to get over it.

I classify myself as "Rich" but I have a different definition:

1) Stoat and I can afford to go overseas every 2-3 years for an average of about 5-6 weeks at a time. That makes me feel rich.

2) I am alive after a triple bypass. That makes me feel Priceless, let alone rich.

Yeah, if I could just stay off work for 5 -6 weeks and not even afford to go anywhere, I'd feel astronomically rich.

I'm pretty happy about the whole Lash alive thing though.

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Originally Posted by Alex (Post 331675)

It's a usage of the word that is almost 500 years old. I'd have thought that enough time to get over it.

As a noun, fine. As a verb, ew.

As a verb, 500 years. Admittedly it is a more common usage in British English but it is a perfectly acceptable usage, even if derided by self-appointed usage Nazis as some recent form of devolution of the language.

But if it was good enough for both Louella Parsons and Henry Fielding then I'm ok with it.

As the Mirriam-Webster Dictionary of English Usage says:

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Gift did not become a controversial verb until it began to appear with some regularity in American newspapers and magazines. Its adoption by Hollywood gossip columnists probably did not to help its reputation...

Most of the criticism of this verb has been from American sources. Usage panelists in particular cannot abide it...The British seem to regard it with somewhat greater tolerance...

Dictionaries, both British and American, treat it as standard. Its detractors say the usual things about the impropriety of using a noun as a verb, but that argument obviously does not stand up either against more than 400 years of historical evidence or against the many noun-verb pairs that draw absolutely not critical attention whatever. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the verb gift.

So, long way of saying I'm sorry that you hate I used the word that way but maybe I've gifted you with a bit of knowledge as a result. And if not, then you've gifted me the opportunity to realize I'm not really sorry.

And I will gift Alex with some VAM.

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Originally Posted by Alex (Post 331615)

Unless she's cosigning for the debt, why would she care?

He'll just need to gift her all of his stuff over the last years of his life so that it can't be claimed as part of his estate to pay off debt.

Note taken.....

I've worried that we would be leaving debt to our kids. We have a bit. Working on it.

I've also wondered whatever happened to any debt that my mother in law had prior to her death. I guess now I know it doesn't matter.

Lash~ YES!! We are all the more rich since you survived your surgery!!! I think the people on here who are able to share one anothers company are very rich, indeed.

I was reading a book the other day (World Trek: A family Odyssey) in which this family traveled around the world in just over a year.

The author was struck by the realization that the "poorest" people in the world also seemed to be the happiest.

Now, I don't imagine if you take someone who is used to having modern comforts and made them live without that they would be any happier....but if you start off with nothing and live only around people with nothing.....maybe you would be :)