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bzarcherTime to see where I rank on the "spoiled brat" scale.
I'm leaving in some of Cossack's commentary on these because I agree with quite a few of them.
My score on the questionnaire: 7
Bonus items worth 5 points.
10+ points total = Fortunate Life
30+ points total = Extremely Fortunate Life
50+ points total = You deserve an ass-kicking from an poor, blind, homeless ebola-infected man. (because people who have fortunate circumstances in life should be punished severely purely for the nature of their upbringing and circumstances: bite me, quiz writer)
Education
( ) Did you attend a private primary school?
( ) Did you have professional private tutors?
(x) Did you attend a private college (as opposed to public)?
( ) Did your parents finance more than 75% of your education? (I imagine this one would get checked a lot on LJ.)
( ) Did you attend an Ivy League School . . .Yale, Harvard, Stanford etc?
( ) Did you attend a foreign academy/school (Eton, Cambridge)?
( ) (Bonus) Accepted into college only because of family connections or donations?
( ) (Bonus) Were you NOT expelled because of family connections or donations?
Growing Up
( ) Did you have a nanny?
( ) Were you a "debutante" or equivalent?
( ) (Bonus) Were you “introduced to society” at a party or ball? (The hell is this?)
(x) Were you gifted a car as a teenager? (Much like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spartanfan, it was not exactly in good condition, but she ran.)
( ) (Bonus) Was it a new car?
( ) (Bonus) Was it a BMW, Audi, Mercedes or Bentley?
( ) Did your family own a yacht, sailboat or airplane? (Only the paper variety.)
( ) Were you a member of the local Yacht Club or Country Club?
( ) (Bonus) Was this club “exclusionary” in any form? (Are you a racist bastard? Click for +10 points!)
(X) Did you attend NASA’s space camp or equivalent?
(X) Did you attend out-of-state school-sponsored events? (Hello band, hello choir.)
( ) Did you spend part of your college education studying abroad?
( ) Was your allowance more than $100 a month?
( ) (Bonus) Was your allowance more than $1000 a month?
( ) Did you take professional lessons for more than 3 activities?
Current Lifestyle
( ) Are you employed in the family business as a manager?
( ) Do you supervise manual laborers?
( ) (Bonus) Do you supervise from a seated position? (Most people who are in desk jobs supervise from a seated position. This shouldn't be a "bonus" question.)
(X) Do you travel nationally for pleasure every year? (Hauling people's crap from various cities as part of helping with moves and relocations is pleasure, right?)
( ) Do you travel internationally for pleasure at least once every 2 years?
( ) Been to Asia?
( ) Been to Africa?
( ) Been to South America?
(X) Been to Europe? (As an infant, but what the hell.)
( ) (Bonus) Been to 5+ continents? (Yes, folks, it's definently redundant...)
( ) Do you pay to have your house cleaned or yard tended?
( ) Do you fly first class?
( ) (Bonus) Have you flown by private jet?
( ) Have you ever won more than $10,000 in the lottery?
( ) Do you live with the knowledge that family money will “always be there”.
( ) Is your money considered “old money”?
( ) (Bonus) Is your net worth more than $5M?
Current Possessions
( ) Do you have more cars than family members?
( ) Do you currently own a yacht, sailboat or plane?
( ) Have you ever paid more than $50,000 for a car?
( ) Do you have a vacation house (not time share)?
( ) Do you have a “home theater”? (I can't decide if a TV with speaker system in the living room counts? The way they present this makes me think it's aimed towards people who have a room dedicated to the screen and a DLP projector and nothing else in that room...)
( ) (Bonus) Does your home theater have a popcorn machine? (Popcorn machines are cheap.)
( ) Do you have your own music recording studio in house?
( ) Own a hot tub, sauna or swimming pool?
( ) Bought animals through a professional breeder?
( ) Own AND show horses or dogs or cats?
( ) Do you have more than one kitchen in your house?
( ) Do you have house staff?
Mental Sanity
(x) Are you generally happy?
(x) Do you “enjoy” your job? (We'll call this yes at the moment - the prospects there have been slowly improving over the past 2 weeks.)
(x) Do you have time for hobbies?
Modifiers to the Fortunate Life (Normalcy Negatives. Negative one point per item. Bonus items negative five points)
( ) Does your job involve hard manual labor?
( ) Do you need to wash your hands after working?
(x) Ever been a janitor, custodian or sewage worker? (I'd agree that any job you worked that primarily involves cleaning counts - yay for Restaurant mop-bitching.)
( ) (Bonus) Been injured on the job but was ignored by your employer? (I'd check this one for all the times I fell down in the back, but the question seems to indicate a more serious injury than falling on your ass.)
( ) Ever been homeless or have lived out of a “van down by the river”?
( ) Ever been forcibly drafted?
( ) Lost a limb, eye or body functionality?
(X) Regularly take more than 2 forms of medication daily?
( ) Been physically or sexually abused?
( ) Suffered starvation or malnutrition?
( ) Contracted Ebola, Malaria, Flesh-eating virus, etc? (If you have, check the next box which says "Died in sub-Saharan Africa?")
( ) (Bonus) Been tortured by the police or military?
( ) Been forced to evacuate your home due to natural disaster or war? (
( ) (Bonus) Were you bombed by American military forces? (Are people who get bombed by American military forces even on LJ?)
( ) Suffered severe discrimination due to being a woman, minority or handicapped? (WASP FTW! :P)
( ) (Bonus) Challenged discrimination and lost?
I'm leaving in some of Cossack's commentary on these because I agree with quite a few of them.
My score on the questionnaire: 7
Bonus items worth 5 points.
10+ points total = Fortunate Life
30+ points total = Extremely Fortunate Life
50+ points total = You deserve an ass-kicking from an poor, blind, homeless ebola-infected man. (because people who have fortunate circumstances in life should be punished severely purely for the nature of their upbringing and circumstances: bite me, quiz writer)
Education
( ) Did you attend a private primary school?
( ) Did you have professional private tutors?
(x) Did you attend a private college (as opposed to public)?
( ) Did your parents finance more than 75% of your education? (I imagine this one would get checked a lot on LJ.)
( ) Did you attend an Ivy League School . . .Yale, Harvard, Stanford etc?
( ) Did you attend a foreign academy/school (Eton, Cambridge)?
( ) (Bonus) Accepted into college only because of family connections or donations?
( ) (Bonus) Were you NOT expelled because of family connections or donations?
Growing Up
( ) Did you have a nanny?
( ) Were you a "debutante" or equivalent?
( ) (Bonus) Were you “introduced to society” at a party or ball? (The hell is this?)
(x) Were you gifted a car as a teenager? (Much like
spartanfan, it was not exactly in good condition, but she ran.)( ) (Bonus) Was it a new car?
( ) (Bonus) Was it a BMW, Audi, Mercedes or Bentley?
( ) Did your family own a yacht, sailboat or airplane? (Only the paper variety.)
( ) Were you a member of the local Yacht Club or Country Club?
( ) (Bonus) Was this club “exclusionary” in any form? (Are you a racist bastard? Click for +10 points!)
(X) Did you attend NASA’s space camp or equivalent?
(X) Did you attend out-of-state school-sponsored events? (Hello band, hello choir.)
( ) Did you spend part of your college education studying abroad?
( ) Was your allowance more than $100 a month?
( ) (Bonus) Was your allowance more than $1000 a month?
( ) Did you take professional lessons for more than 3 activities?
Current Lifestyle
( ) Are you employed in the family business as a manager?
( ) Do you supervise manual laborers?
( ) (Bonus) Do you supervise from a seated position? (Most people who are in desk jobs supervise from a seated position. This shouldn't be a "bonus" question.)
(X) Do you travel nationally for pleasure every year? (Hauling people's crap from various cities as part of helping with moves and relocations is pleasure, right?)
( ) Do you travel internationally for pleasure at least once every 2 years?
( ) Been to Asia?
( ) Been to Africa?
( ) Been to South America?
(X) Been to Europe? (As an infant, but what the hell.)
( ) (Bonus) Been to 5+ continents? (Yes, folks, it's definently redundant...)
( ) Do you pay to have your house cleaned or yard tended?
( ) Do you fly first class?
( ) (Bonus) Have you flown by private jet?
( ) Have you ever won more than $10,000 in the lottery?
( ) Do you live with the knowledge that family money will “always be there”.
( ) Is your money considered “old money”?
( ) (Bonus) Is your net worth more than $5M?
Current Possessions
( ) Do you have more cars than family members?
( ) Do you currently own a yacht, sailboat or plane?
( ) Have you ever paid more than $50,000 for a car?
( ) Do you have a vacation house (not time share)?
( ) Do you have a “home theater”? (I can't decide if a TV with speaker system in the living room counts? The way they present this makes me think it's aimed towards people who have a room dedicated to the screen and a DLP projector and nothing else in that room...)
( ) (Bonus) Does your home theater have a popcorn machine? (Popcorn machines are cheap.)
( ) Do you have your own music recording studio in house?
( ) Own a hot tub, sauna or swimming pool?
( ) Bought animals through a professional breeder?
( ) Own AND show horses or dogs or cats?
( ) Do you have more than one kitchen in your house?
( ) Do you have house staff?
Mental Sanity
(x) Are you generally happy?
(x) Do you “enjoy” your job? (We'll call this yes at the moment - the prospects there have been slowly improving over the past 2 weeks.)
(x) Do you have time for hobbies?
Modifiers to the Fortunate Life (Normalcy Negatives. Negative one point per item. Bonus items negative five points)
( ) Does your job involve hard manual labor?
( ) Do you need to wash your hands after working?
(x) Ever been a janitor, custodian or sewage worker? (I'd agree that any job you worked that primarily involves cleaning counts - yay for Restaurant mop-bitching.)
( ) (Bonus) Been injured on the job but was ignored by your employer? (I'd check this one for all the times I fell down in the back, but the question seems to indicate a more serious injury than falling on your ass.)
( ) Ever been homeless or have lived out of a “van down by the river”?
( ) Ever been forcibly drafted?
( ) Lost a limb, eye or body functionality?
(X) Regularly take more than 2 forms of medication daily?
( ) Been physically or sexually abused?
( ) Suffered starvation or malnutrition?
( ) Contracted Ebola, Malaria, Flesh-eating virus, etc? (If you have, check the next box which says "Died in sub-Saharan Africa?")
( ) (Bonus) Been tortured by the police or military?
( ) Been forced to evacuate your home due to natural disaster or war? (
( ) (Bonus) Were you bombed by American military forces? (Are people who get bombed by American military forces even on LJ?)
( ) Suffered severe discrimination due to being a woman, minority or handicapped? (WASP FTW! :P)
( ) (Bonus) Challenged discrimination and lost?
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Date: 2006-04-13 02:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-13 04:25 pm (UTC)I'd say new car is a plus unless it's a POS, and a bonus if it's like an Aston Martin or a Mercedes. Otherwise, they'd probably call it a negative, because getting your hands dirty and doing your own work's apparently a negative.
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Date: 2006-04-13 05:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-14 02:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-13 04:17 pm (UTC)Were you “introduced to society” at a party or ball? (The hell is this?)
You don't know about debutante balls? Jeez, you need to watch Midnight In The Garden Of Good & Evil. That aside, rich families have this thing where all the girls dress up very fancilly, and there's a big formal party where they are announced to the rest of society.
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Date: 2006-04-13 04:27 pm (UTC)It's like saying that as far as the social circle involved is concerned, you were a nonperson for 16-18 years. That's rather disturbing.
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Date: 2006-04-13 04:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-13 04:36 pm (UTC)On the other hand, I'm the guy who's been observing "Ulysses day" with a drink, a sandwhich, and at least 1 Joyce quote for the past several years, so I don't really get to talk about silly traditions. :D
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Date: 2006-04-13 05:16 pm (UTC)Yeah, but the space needed to keep one around all the time often isn't -- more a sign of "is your house so big you can you fill it with large, silly but cool-looking things designed to impress your guests?" IMO.
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Date: 2006-04-13 05:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-13 06:15 pm (UTC)Like this item, which is marketed to the rec room market and goes for almost $700:
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Date: 2006-04-13 06:20 pm (UTC)Yeah, that's over the top.
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Date: 2006-04-13 11:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-14 02:19 am (UTC)