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[-] 1D10@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago

This is my mother in law to a tee, she buys second hand washing machines on craigslist for $100 - 200 they last about a year and she buys a new one. Always complaining about "planned obsolescence". I keep telling her "no one is selling a good used washing machine, they had problems with it and got a new one" Meanwhile she criticizes me for spending $700 on a washing machine we have had for 10 years now.

She has a saying "poor people have poor ways" which she thinks means that when your poor you work with what you have, I have told her it is an insult that means poor people are poor because of their actions and decisions.

[-] MummysLittleBloodSlut 7 points 4 days ago
[-] 1D10@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

My child is named after Vimes

[-] princessnorah 1 points 4 days ago

Exactly what I was gonna say.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

She has a saying “poor people have poor ways” which she thinks means that when your poor you work with what you have, I have told her it is an insult that means poor people are poor because of their actions and decisions.

I think you could maybe use less time on the Internet. Social media has a nasty habit of telling everyone that everything they hear is a code for something else; spend too long reading that junk and it’ll convince you that everyone in the world is a secret bigot.

[-] princessnorah 2 points 4 days ago

Dogwhistles are real bestie. I think this says way more about you, than the person you're replying to.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

What was described here clearly wasn't an instance of one though. It was two different people reading a saying two different ways.

[-] 1D10@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Lol, considering I heard it all the time growing up in the 80s you might be a bit off on your assessment.

I grew up in a middle class suburb where the it was used as an insult kinda like " poor people are poor because they are stupid"

She grew up in the Ozarks and they used it more as a " we got ways to make do"

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