Financial Problems are like having a large obelisk lodged in your ass

[Taverner]

And you can't take it out

Sure you can find a comfortable place to sit, here and there, but it's always there, reminding you how far up your ass it has gone...

[Dr Morbius]

1. I prefer a somewhat less graphic metaphor.

When you fall in a hole, the first thing they do is hose down the sides - to make it harder for a fellow to climb out. And then at the top edge of the hole they build a fence which it takes six months to climb. Then, only then, can one proceed to improve one's credit rating and thereby avoid more financial problems. This country is all about making damn sure "failure" is duly punished.

Doesn't really matter if you got pushed in that hole in the first place.


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Do you notice a societal drift in America towards scatological metaphors? It's like we cannot find any human way to relate to one another so we adopt an animalistic relation. This is not a comment on you but more on the growing trend of comparing the subject of the day with sodomy or copulation. George Bush screwed the country; tea-partiers as tea-baggers; et cetera. Is this an inevitable change or mere exposure of the decay already present?

[dimbear]

3. That trend is cyclical. Comes and goes.

Compare English literature, especially the Elizabethans. In the normal progression, the next step is a wave of prudery.

[Brickbat]

2. I know exactly what you're saying.

Co-misery isn't comforting, but I do know exactly what you're saying. (I'm giving you a Minnesota arm-pat.)