Workin' 9 to 5...

I never even went to university. In fact, I only barely passed Year 12.

And here I am with a $2m + house, $2m + in the bank, a shitload of shares worth…hell, I dunno, an additional property in the sticks worth nearly $1m and a new Lexus.

Granted, I inherited alot of it. But I invested well and made a shitload. Any other dickhead with half a brain would have blown the inheritance.

Makes me wanna go up to my old Year 11 math teacher, grab him by the collar and rub his face in it for calling me a flake and an abject failure.

Take that, asshole.

Sounded impressive until you said you inherited most of it.

How to get rich . . . .

  1. Get in rich granny’s will.
  2. Drop out of school.
  3. Wait for granny to die.

It’s so simple. I don’t know why everyone doesn’t do it.

^

Why does your avatar have his hand down his pants?

Too many ladies go nuts when they see Ville Vallo so he’s gotta protect his goods, yo!

I never even went to university. In fact, I only barely passed Year 12.

no way, bro!!! You seem so smart!

And here I am with a $2m + house, $2m + in the bank, a shitload of shares worth…hell, I dunno, an additional property in the sticks worth nearly $1m and a new Lexus.

probably worked your ass off for it too!!! fuck taxes! those greedy poor people wanting to get a cut, let them work for their own money!!!

Granted, I inherited alot of it.

what an asshole!

But I invested well and made a shitload. Any other dickhead with half a brain would have blown the inheritance.

You didn’t invest shit. You let some twit tell you were to put that money. All you did was say, “Ok.”

An educated person would parlayed it into to more money than you did, asshat!

Makes me wanna go up to my old Year 11 math teacher, grab him by the collar and rub his face in it

In what??? Your inheritance? that’s nothing you had any control over! Damn fool!

for calling me a flake and an abject failure.

No, he was right.

Take that, asshole.

Take what???

Because you were coherent enough to say “present” (notice the pun, or are you too stupid for idioms too?) for roll call during some poor bastards dementia based will reading that bequeathed you sums of money…?? Damn, you really are stupid… smoke up broseph it makes you smarter. There is probably nothing else you’re good for.

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grmpysmrf

I’m with void and piko on this one. All I really wanted to do was front a band. Some of my earliest memories as a kid were watching videos on mtv, mainly the hair bands haha. But outside of watching hair bands I was very cultured in music. I was one of the few kindergartners who could say Guns N Roses and Metallica were my favorite bands. I was going to concerts since I was in the womb. If you count those as being there then my first concert was Judas Priest on the Turbo Lover tour. I was also one of the few kids who actually went to concerts with their parents. I’ll take a minute to list the many bands I’ve seen. Some of which were openers. And I’m sure you’ll get a good laugh at some the I’ve seen. This is also a list of bands I saw before I was 18.

Judas Priest (in the womb)
The Mentors (in the womb once again)
Robert Plant
GNR
Def Leppard
Van Halen (or rather Van Hagar)
Aerosmith (twice)
No Doubt (laugh it up)
Weezer (who blew No Doubt out of the water as an opener)
Skid Row (three times and the opened every time)
Mr. Big
Page & Plant (twice. Second was as close to a Led Zeppelin show as ur gonna get)
Jackyl (one of the more funny bands I’ve seen)
B.B. King
John Lee Hooker
Joe Satriani
Steve Vai
Eric Johnson (who unfortunately had shit sound)
Kenny Wayne Sheppard
Ozzfest 2000- Outside of Ozzy it featured Pantera(which I am proud to say I saw on their last tour), Godsmack (Maybe the worst band that I can remember seeing during my childhood), Soulfly, Kittie(Laugh all you want but they were fucking entertaining and I got a hug from Morgan before the show) and many other bands not worth mentioning.

Finally the last show I saw before the age of 18 was KMFDM. Met Raymond Watts and Lucia after the show. I’ll share the whole experience another time.

But other than concerts(and I believe there were more that I can’t remember) I was just heavily cultured in music. My dad used to wake me up with Led Zeppelin every morning when I was 4 or 5. He also used to play Cat Stevens which I loved. Also lots of Blues music was on the tape deck. I also went thru a phase where I was heavily into Black Sabbath. I think that’s when I decided I wanted to be a singer. Maynard also was a huge influence as Mer De Noms was on repeat on my stereo for a good year. I then got into Black Metal when I was 16 and finally started indulging in underground metal. After becoming a bit of a musical snob(which I still am to an extent today) the industrial days began. Mostly with Ministry and the side projects. KMFDM and PIG were also favorites. I started to get so much influence I could’ve started my musical journey.

Well that didn’t go so well. I recorded one demo in a band called Nargoth and looking back it sucked. Badly programmed drums and my vox weren’t warmed up. The most I took was maybe a 2nd take on one of the songs. Plus the guitars weren’t produced very well. Too digitized but that’s what you get when you go with a raw sound on a computer. I also did one show with a band called Apocryphos that went horrible as I took the BM gimmick too far. I’d rather not explain but I will say it didn’t involve any rituals on stage. I also did some session work with a band called Gestalt Based Audio but nothing came from those sessions. During senior year my drug days began. Ecstasy and pot was quite the combo for quite some time. Psychedelics were also thrown in the mix but not as much. I pretty much became a lazy pot head and always just dreamed and talked about how cool it would be to be in a band. I then moved away from all my friends in 07 and life started downward spiraling within months. I won’t get into the details bc I’ve said bunch already. A couple of year later I wound up in the mental health system and here I am at the age of 24 living in a board & care that caters to ppl with mental illness living off of $21 a week that I get from my ssi check. My voice is gone and my drumming skills aren’t all that great. I really should’ve stuck with drums which I had started when I was 4. If I put the effort in I could’ve been a great drummer or singer, but I didn’t. I’m taking a intro to electronic music and MIDI class at the local JC out here but I’m not making anything that’s really satisfying, despite having an A in the class. Thing is I’m not a musician. I still dream of making it but I feel as if I’m too old to do it. I know Al didn’t make it til his 30’s but I feel like I’ve lost it. Fuck talking about it is getting me really bummed. This and missing Retrospectacle is not a good mix. Life doesn’t totally suck but it could be a whole lot better. If I was to be in a band I’d be Groovie Man looking for Buzz McCoy. Frankie just fronts TKK while Buzz does all the music. But again I feel like I’ve lost my gift. Maybe I never had it and was just delusional

Gee, I wish I was a blue collar state school English temp teacher with fuck all future prospects and a shitty musical taste to boot (“Hey guys, Slash’s new cd RUUULLLEZZZZZ”).

That’s the kind of thing that dreams are made of. Think of all the gnarly stuff I’d be able to do. Wow, maybe I’d work in one school for a couple of weeks teaching a bunch of future blue collar retards, til they let me go, then I’d be unemployed for a while til the next gig came around!!! Win on all accounts!!!

Aahh Fuck it. Guess I’ll just have to make do with the little I’ve got.

Wonder what Jamaica’s like this time of the year.

Shitkicker. Shine my shoes while you’re down on the floor grovelling for spare change.

I’m still not quite sure I get your point. You almost failed high school, but you caught a lucky break and inherited a buttload of cash. OK. Good for you.

Sure, that’s cool if you wanna brag about the moolah to your teacher, but, aside from him being jealous (heck, I know I am) about your good fortune, I don’t see how you’re proving him wrong on anything.

Are you wealthy and comfortable? Sure, it seems like you certainly are. Have you actually accomplished anything? I don’t know. Based strictly on your post, I’d say no.

Typically, people who are successful like to talk about what they’ve achieved, not just what they own.

But hey, Congratulations. I guess.

probably worked your ass off for it too!!! fuck taxes! those greedy poor people wanting to get a cut, let them work for their own money!!!

You[/i] didn’t invest shit. You let some twit tell you were to put that money. All you did was say, “Ok.”

An educated person would parlayed it into to more money than you did, asshat!

Well, let’s see…

My family sold off their business and, being a major shareholder, I got a small cut of the profits of the sale. Immediately after, I took over an ailing timber supply business who were running at a $200k a year loss, fired the board of directors and a few scumbag labourers who were running the place dry with their cheats, scams and bogus claims, hired my own board and started up again from scratch - even though I had never worked in the timber industry.

THe first year we ran at a loss,so, rather than cry over spilt milk, I flew to Malaysia, scouted out a major construction company and spent nearly six months bargaining and petitioning for a potential $2m a year contract against interested parties and major players from Britain, Dubai and The Netherlands - the stress of which almost sent me to the nuthouse, seeing as I could potentially have lost everything on one gamble.

With little to no experience or business acumen I pulled off a major coup and against all odds won the contract, much to the chagrin of all involved. Flew back to Melbourne, spoke to a contractor about expanding the business to include the workload which the new deal would bring us and sunk a further $500k of my own money into the business - once again massive gampble if it didn’t pay off.

After two nervous years of sweating it out and busting a gut to appease our (cutthroat) Malaysian clients I turned a business that was running at a substantial loss into a $3m a year profitable venture - as I said with little to NO business acumen or experience - basically after falling down a thousand times, making a thousand mistakes but perservering until I found a way through.

In fact I did so well that I ended up selling the business to the Malaysians who made me a deal that no sane minded business owner would turn down.

Since then I’ve sunk some money into an inner city club, built up a substantial share portfolio ( with NO ONE to show me HOW to invest) and donated over $100k in the last year alone to charity.

If that’s not good enough for you, cock knocker, then I really couldn’t give a shit. However, with all of that in mind it’s little wonder I treat your attempts at character assassination a little like someone had farted in the room.

Character assassination? If me pointing out when you act like a complete douchebag is character assassination, then yeah, I’m a professional hitman, Kiddo.

I just think you come across as a little man desperately overcompensating for something. Yes, yes, I know. It’s not that. I don’t need to see it. Really. I’ll take your word for it.

Seriously, though. Good for you regarding your accomplishments. If you’d actually talked about some of those experiences instead of bragging about your shiny toys like a 5 year old with a new GI Joe, I would have given you a much different response.

If you’re so thin-skinned and fragile ego’d that you think my reactions to your retarded posts are character assassinations (as opposed to just smartass wise cracks), you’re gonna need a lot more than a $2Million house to protect your little fragile little psyche.

Carry on, Richie Rich.

Gee, I wish I was a blue collar state school English temp teacher with fuck all future prospects.

Do you know anything? Temp? who the fuck is a temp? You should write a book… Olsen an Autobiography: Wrong Again!

At least I work for my shit, pussy.

teaching a bunch of future blue collar retards

At least they’ll be smarter than you and then they’ll go on to 9th grade… hey at least you don’t have to shave your balls.

Aahh Fuck it. Guess I’ll just have to make do with the little I’ve got.

as far as intelligence goes… well at least you know.
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grmpysmrf

Well, let’s see…

My family sold off their business and, being a major shareholder, I got a small cut of the profits of the sale. Immediately after, I took over an ailing timber supply business who were running at a $200k a year loss, fired the board of directors and a few scumbag labourers who were running the place dry with their cheats, scams and bogus claims, hired my own board and started up again from scratch - even though I had never worked in the timber industry…

No offense Olsen, but I think the bottom line here is that you should acknowledge that you indeed did come from a position of privilege with your inheritance and family wealth order to make all this shit happen. It’s not like you pulled yourself up from your bootstraps like Warren Buffet did, coming from a working class poor family to a becoming a multi-billionaire through hard work and perseverance alone… you had a strong foundation to work with that many people less fortunate than you do not.

Frankly I think your attitude towards working class people stinks. I mean really now, if you hadn’t come into that money or gotten that boost from selling the family business isn’t it realistic to say that chances are you would have likely turned out to be just another “blue collar retard” with a high school diploma? (While I know you were replying to Grumpysmurf’s post when you made that statement, and couldn’t care less about the actual insult, it seems disgusting to me that you obviously think you’re somehow BETTER than these people. Yes, I’ll admit there are a lot of neanderthal brain-dead blue-collar retards out there, but there are also many intelligent, hard working, blue collar people out there who are decent people and are doing the best with the cards they’ve been dealt in life, and this includes friends and family members of mine, so yeah I take offense to your arrogant classicism.

Lotta butthurt in this thread…

So, anyway, I think I wanted to be a cop.

I almost became one, actually, was certified and everything …had 400+ credit hours, even passed the fitness test and got tear gassed AND pepper sprayed (!) for it…

And then basically couldn’t get certified for the next 12 months due to excessive state budget cuts. Fantastic!

Ironically, I’m working on getting a position as a dispatcher for NYPD at the moment.

That sucks, JLW. I hope you get your shot.

I think the bottom line here is that you should acknowledge that you indeed did come from a position of privilege with your inheritance and family wealth order to make all this shit happen. It’s not like you pulled yourself up from your bootstraps like Warren Buffet did, coming from a working class poor family to a becoming a multi-billionaire through hard work and perseverance alone… you had a strong foundation to work with that many people less fortunate than you do not.

I’ve been pretty much suffering through his temper tantrums for pointing this shit out for a couple years now… I’ve now just boiled it down to language he understands: “ignorant cock-sucker!” Now just waiting for his little bed buddy Amlux to come out as a silver spooner too and the Aussie circle of ignorance will be complete!
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grmpysmrf

And then basically couldn’t get certified for the next 12 months due to excessive state budget cuts. Fantastic!

or as Olsen interprets it

[policing] a bunch of future blue collar retards, til they let me go, then I’d be unemployed for a while til the next gig came around

you’re a loser for not inheriting your hard work! I bet you more than just barely passed High school too… what a chump!
Late,
grmpysmrf

If you had asked me at age 13-15 if I would end up doing what I do today, I would have told you that you were crazy.

Very early on, I was fascinated by Chemistry and the magic of flight. Additionally, I can also draw/paint very well, but it doesn’t pay the bills.

Today, I make the impossible possible.
I do what others dream.

It pays the bills and I can buy a pair of shoes if I want them too. I am self-made.

[reply]I have not had a drink since the night before I was fired and don’t plan on it anytime soon.

What?!? What kind of a rockstar to do want to be?[/reply]

A pretty shit one!

Grumpy don’t tar us all with the same brush, just because Olsen is a cocksmoker doesn’t mean all Australians are. Not all Americans are dumb right? Yeah he’s a dipshit who thought a thread about childhood ambitions was his chance to brag to people (who probably don’t care). He inherited a shit load of money and lives in a flashy house (btw most houses in that suburb are worth around that much, it’s not that incredible to own a $2m+ house in the inner bayside suburbs) and owns an expensive but shitty car, big deal.

He also thinks that only barely passing a rather basic level of schooling is something worth mentioning, go figure.

Oh JLW, I’ve done some emergency services dispatching, crazy stuff!

Well, let’s see…

My family sold off their business and, being a major shareholder, I got a small cut of the profits of the sale.

Several fails here:

Family businesses don’t have shareholders!=FAIL

If they did and you were:
A major shareholder=major cut of profits not a small cut… No foolin’ you failed econ. FAIL

Major shareholder=major decision maker… no wonder family sold their business and cut you in for a ”little bit” who wants a high school flunky making major decisions about the company? FAIL

Major shareholder=buy in. High school kids don’t have that kind of scratch which means daddy allowanced you in. which means you still have no work! FAIL

Immediately after, I took over an ailing timber supply business who were running at a $200k a year loss, fired the board of directors and a few scumbag labourers who were running the place dry with their cheats, scams and bogus claims, hired my own board and started up again from scratch - even though I had never worked in the timber industry.

Here’s a whole bunch of space worth of I don’t care.

But If I did care this is how I would fix your last statement for you

even though I had never worked

THe first year we ran at a loss,so, rather than cry over spilt milk, I flew to Malaysia, scouted out a major construction company and spent nearly six months bargaining and petitioning for a potential $2m a year contract against interested parties and major players from Britain, Dubai and The Netherlands - the stress of which almost sent me to the nuthouse, seeing as I could potentially have lost everything on one gamble.

Don’t they fuck children in Malaysia? I guess we know how you brokered your deal. Face down ass up. That is, if any of this is actually you and you’re not just repeating shit that you heard daddy tell his friends on the phone

“Almost put you in the nut house?” I think the Ghetto would be more appropriate. You spoiled, know nothing, retard

With little to no experience or business acumen I pulled off a major coup and against all odds won the contract, much to the chagrin of all involved. Flew back to Melbourne, spoke to a contractor about expanding the business to include the workload which the new deal would bring us and sunk a further $500k of my own money into the business - once again massive gampble if it didn’t pay off.

No you didn’t

After two nervous years of sweating it out and busting a gut to appease our (cutthroat) Malaysian clients I turned a business that was running at a substantial loss into a $3m a year profitable venture - as I said with little to NO business acumen or experience - basically after falling down a thousand times, making a thousand mistakes but perservering until I found a way through.

No you didn’t

In fact I did so well that I ended up selling the business to the Malaysians who made me a deal that no sane minded business owner would turn down.

Let’s see how accurate your math teacher was… 2 houses totaling 3 million dollars, 2 million in the bank, and over a hundy large for charity, (for tax purposes no doubt) and a $70,000 lexus for a grand total of 5,170,001…plus all of your “+s” which, generously, probably puts you at about 7 million, which you have after selling 3 million dollar a year business. Yep, you are fucking stupid!!!

Since then I’ve sunk some money into an inner city club, built up a substantial share portfolio ( with NO ONE to show me HOW to invest) and donated over $100k in the last year alone to charity.

No you didn’t

If that’s not good enough for you, cock knocker, then I really couldn’t give a shit. However, with all of that in mind it’s little wonder I treat your attempts at character assassination a little like someone had farted in the room.

Character assassination? You’re the one that told everyone they’re lazy since they didn’t inherit their money. You shot yourself in the face dipshit! Your whole life is FAIL, even high school LOL HAHA Fuckin’ retard. Jack ass! You’re too stupid to realize it!

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grmpysmrf

Grumpy don’t tar us all with the same brush,

No, not at all. I was thinking of the big 3 that defend all things conservative/Fox News, cause they’ve never worked a god damn day in their life. Although, I’m a lot more cool with one of the 3, now that that one is a little more grounded about it, but the other two fucking tools, that spout off without the sense god gave a fuckin’ mule, are just fucking dim witted and one so much so he has no problem telling people.

He also thinks that only barely passing a rather basic level of schooling is something worth mentioning, go figure.

I thought that was odd too. but when you are a lazy, stupid shit, what else do you have to brag about?

look how lazy/stupid I am… har har derp derp

we’re cool lady, we buried the hatchet awhile ago.
Late,
grmpysmrf