TTBM #4? 5? I don't even-

BUT SERIOUSLY GUYS WHY THE BLUE?!

WELL I QUITE LIKE THE BLUE

WHAT OTHER COLOR DO YOU WANT

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TREE?

I LIKED THE TREE.

BRING BACK THE TREE.

#THETREE2015

You mean you don't see the tree? I guess you need to have a Treehouse Premium account...[]

Pffft. That's so old-fashioned!

It's all Free-to-browse nowadays!

With microtransactions for unlocking individual posts!

You're what's killing the Internet....[]

GO BACK TO RADIO SHACK, OLD MAN.

TTBM: I paid

$113

for this psych textbook

now, overpriced textbooks are a staple of the American Education System, so I was almost willing to let this slide

but

it's not a hardcover

it's a paperback

and there's no binding for the cover and pages

as in, it does not come bound

not even stapled

all the pages and the front and back cover are their own looseleaf sheets that I must fasten together myself

all I got are just holes for them to be put in one of my binders, assuming they fit

listen here children

I don't wanna sound like an entitled millennial or whatever

but

I like it when I can pay for a book that is already in book form

is that too much to ask?

one hundred thirteen dollars

I could have gotten an already in-book-form book for less than half that if I looked around online

and still had money for like

5 pizzas

maybe more

and a soda

let this be a lesson children

buy your shit online

That is money I will never get to spend on pizza now

and that's a tragedy

UPDATE:

just noticed

on the front cover

it says "BUDGET BOOKS"

"LOOSELEAF=LE$$"

BUDGET

$113

LE$$

budget

textbook

as in, for college kids

$113

college kid budget

community college at that

whoever thought of that

you funny

I kill you last

That is some amazing slam poetry, Dew...[]

Geez, that's ridiculous Dew. The most expensive book I've had to buy is $85, also paperback but it has nice glossy pages with illustrations and examples and everything.
Maybe if you keep it in good shape you can at least resell it to a new student next year?

In an era where most of the knowledge of our entire species is available for free, for anyone who is able to access the internet, I have definite ethical issues with selling school textbooks for $113. Even if they were complete.

The fuck is a book?

It's like this thing where you chop down a tree and then write on it's corpse using a squid's bodily fluids.

It's pretty metal.

You forgot the, sometimes, animal skin for the cover.

Dew why would you ever buy a book?

Especially a schoolbook

I could probably find you a copy of the whole thing online if I had the name of the book

And then all you would've had to do was print it.

It would've cost you, like, 5-10 dollars to print

And that's if you print it at the public library

I thought I needed it, and was all "man, probably only gonna be $50, tops" but then the charge came up and I panicked and handed the guy my debit card, because I didn't want to be the asshole in the bookstore being all "uhh I can't pay for this I'm just gonna walk away now"

I guess what I'm saying is, this is mostly a symptom of a larger problem of mine. But that's neither here nor there.

"Oh, shoot, I forgot my wallet in the other room. Give me a second"

And then leave and never come back. Ever.

"LIBRARIAN. THERE IS A FLY IN MY BOOK. I DEMAND A REFUND."

"This book is like ebola"
"Why?"
"I'm not gonna get it. *put the book down and moonwalk out*"

TTBM: Minus. Five. Degrees. Fahrenheit...I hate winter. []

TTBM: So, we get a call at 3:30 in the morning from my brother. He says he's not drunk, but the cop he's with is inclined to disagree. Luckily, the cop is a nice guy, and there's no DUI, since my brother didn't leave the parking lot.
so dad and I go out  to get him and his car, and I drive his friends back home. They provide lighthearted chat, with such remarks as a jovial "You're gonna get fucking REAMED by your dad!" and "Do you know how lucky you are dude? Dude, dude, do you know how lucky you are" and "He's blacked out dude" and"Dude, do you know how LUCKY you are?"

So I get his friends home, and then he and I head home, where dad already is.
My brother goes upstairs to our room, and I go upstairs about a minute later. I hear the blinds crashing about, and I assume it's him being angry and messing shit up.

Nope

He jumped out the window.

to the concrete patio below.

headfirst, it would seem.

had I been a couple seconds quicker I could have wrestled him back in before he got the chance to do so

but c'est la vie, que sera sera, fucking whoops we all make fucking mistakes right?

doesn't seem all that serious

not that we knew at first

he's in the hospital now

I'd like a hug

but right now I'm going back to bed

well... shit... damn that's heavy. How bad is it for you guys?

Minor skull fracture. Nothing to be overly concerned about.
Aside from it being received from a drunken impromptu suicide attempt
We're all holding up alright. There's just a heavy air of emotional uncomfort around everyone right now.
but it will be alright.

Man Dew, all my thoughts and prayers with you and your family...[]

Indeed, I hope everything will work out well for you and your family