Living at home.....unqualified to comment on....well...anything??

AudreyHepburn

I've made a number of comments recently relating to the recession and so on recently and have essentially been told I have no right to comment and no clue what I am on about because I still live it at home.

Is this right? Do you not have a right to commennt on...welll.....anything...whilst you are still living at home?

Mods this really isn't a complaints thread, more a general query because if people genuinely feel I should not get involved in these discussions I'll happily stop.

Sauve

I think it's a complaints thread.

westendgirlie

You're a citizen of Ireland, right? Then you are as entitled as the next person to have an opinion on your country.

Someone please make a Gardai thread......:D

Napper Hawkins

I think letting complete strangers wind you up and tell you how to think is your main problem.

Eric Cartman

if your still at home after 18 you dont really have an opinion

Tesco Massacre

Are you qualified to make this thread?

I mean, you're still living at home.

AudreyHepburn

Sauve wrote: »

I think it's a complaints thread.

It genuinely isn't. I would just hate to think I am insulting or upsetting anyone who is struggling at the moment.

Sauve

westendgirlie wrote: »

You're a citizen of Ireland, right? Then you are as entitled as the next person to have an opinion on your country.

Someone please make a Gardai thread......:D

You can start a thread yourself you know.

hondasam

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

I've made a number of comments recently relating to the recession and so on recently and have essentially been told I have no right to comment and no clue what I am on about because I still live it at home.

Is this right? Do you not have a right to commennt on...welll.....anything...whilst you are still living at home?

Mods this really isn't a complaints thread, more a general query because if people genuinely feel I should not get involved in these discussions I'll happily stop.

Of course you have the right to your opinion and the right to comment.
I'm sure you read the papers, watch the news and take an active interest in what is happening here and in the world.

AudreyHepburn

Napper Hawkins wrote: »

I think letting complete strangers wind you up and tell you how to think is your main problem.

Perhaps they shouldn't allow themselves to get so wound up over me?

Sauve

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

It genuinely isn't. I would just hate to think I am insulting or upsetting anyone who is struggling at the moment.

Sure they'll tell you if you are. Post away. Your opinion is as valid as anybody elses'.

Toby Take a Bow

You can comment on whatever you like (that's the whole point of Boards, as far as I can tell) but you also have to take criticism. This is especially so if you start threads complaining about people complaining (hello irony!) about 'everything' when those people don't have their parents supporting them, which you do. So people sense a level of hypocrisy and get riled by it.

Daftendirekt

Yes, of course you have the right to comment on whatever you want. Anyone to tries to silence you by pointing out that you still live at home is probably just incapable of responding to your points.

LETHAL LADY

Dont let them stop you. Girl power.

Napper Hawkins

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

Perhaps they shouldn't allow themselves to get so wound up over me?

Other people are none of your concern. Say what you like. Only an idiot would dismiss someone's opinion based on something ridiculous like that. Plenty of intelligent, educated people are forced to live at home for reasons beyond their control.

AudreyHepburn

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

You can comment on whatever you like (that's the whole point of Boards, as far as I can tell) but you also have to take criticism. This is especially so if you start threads complaining about people complaining (hello irony!) about 'everything' when those people don't have their parents supporting them, which you do. So people sense a level of hypocrisy and get riled by it.

My parents don't support me. I have a job. I just can't afford to move out at the moment.

I'm no hypocrit and I can take criticism, realistic criticism.

booboo88

Unqualified to comment on...?? Who cares if you're still living at home, I'm assuming you're working?

Tesco Massacre

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

Dont let them stop you. Girl power.

Yeah!

Don't stop, never give up, hold your head high and reach the top. Let the world see what you have got, bring it all back to you.

AudreyHepburn

booboo88 wrote: »

Unqualified to comment on...?? Who cares if you're still living at home, I'm assuming you're working?

A lot of people care apparently.

I do indeed. I simply don't have the money to move just now.

Toby Take a Bow

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

My parents don't support me. I have a job. I just can't afford to move out at the moment.

I'm no hypocrit and I can take criticism, realistic criticism.

They're supporting you in that you don't have to get a place of your own. But again, I would suggest that the criticisms of your living arrangements were made in response to comments made about people not really experiencing true hardship. I may have missed other ones where it was just sniping, in which case you should probably ignore them. And ignore the comments in general if they're upsetting you.

AudreyHepburn

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

They're supporting you in that you don't have to get a place of your own. But again, I would suggest that the criticisms of your living arrangements were made in response to comments made about people not really experiencing true hardship. I may have missed other ones where it was just sniping, in which case you should probably ignore them. And ignore the comments in general if they're upsetting you.

Most of it was just sniping alright. I do try to ignore it and suceed most of the time

It just boils my blood when the same two or three posters jump pn every comment I make.

LETHAL LADY

Tesco Massacre wrote: »

Yeah!

Don't stop, never give up, hold your head high and reach the top. Let the world see what you have got, bring it all back to you.

Thats Sclub7 I meant ginger spice.

cartell_best

Audrey, you have as much right as the next person to do what and say what you want. My advice? stay at home for as long as you can. We live once and do what you want and more importantly, do what makes you happy!

Midnight Sundance

Eric Cartman wrote: »

if your still at home after 18 you dont really have an opinion

I don't see how her livin at home or not would make her opinion any less valid. And another note, there are plenty of 18 year olds still in secondary school, should they be kicked out before their leaving one the birthday comes around??

I "moved out" when I was in college but I might s well have been at home because my parents paid for my accommodation. I did work 25/30 hours on top of a 35 hour in college week( excluding college time ) to help support myself but what is the difference between your parents letting you live at home and them supporting you in college??

And believe me I was not the only one bein supported , I would say nearly every single person in my course had their rent paid for by their parents so I do not see the difference at all. It seems pretty common practice.

Tesco Massacre

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

Thats Sclub7 I meant ginger spice.

I was testing you.

You passed.

SafeSurfer

Are you protesting about people being annoyed about your FG are great why are the peasants revolting threads?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=76679747

booboo88

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

A lot of people care apparently.

I do indeed. I simply don't have the money to move just now.

Tell them to mind their own damn business, I still live at home but for same reason, which is better than people going to cwo for evey damn thing

gurramok

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

I've made a number of comments recently relating to the recession and so on recently and have essentially been told I have no right to comment and no clue what I am on about because I still live it at home.

How old are you? Roughly now, not asking a woman her actual age

im invisible

i'm still living at home, and i'm nearly thirty... but then i dont have an opinion on anything either, so it's all good

AudreyHepburn

gurramok wrote: »

How old are you? Roughly now, not asking a woman her actual age

What relevence that?

KeithM89_old

Post wherever you want, if someone crosses the line, report it or PM a mod.