What's The Most OUT OF TOUCH Thing Someone Said? 

“Can’t risk getting sick while poor” is an America Horror Story if I’ve ever heard one

Money can't buy happiness, but poverty can buy a lot of misery.

There were two ladies talking and one was relating that she felt unhappy. The other says "Whenever I'm down in the dumps, I get a new hat". The first says " I was wondering where you got them."

I'm on disability and it's foolishness. I can hardly afford meds because they don't see it as necessary

As a college freshman who grew up below the poverty line, whose parents are still barely hovering around it, plus have very limited contact with me due to family tension, I’ve heard way too many “Oh but your parents can help” for it to be even remotely amusing anymore.

I saw a TikTok of a mom and her disabled son who had a feeding tube. She recently made a video about how since he can’t taste anything, she uses that to her advantage and feeds him old, almost expired food that she needs to “get rid of”. The comments ripped her to shreds. That’s your kid lady, not your garbage disposal.

I was listening in on my college roommates Skype meeting with his employers. They had just switched to new hours, closing the place for 3 days a week, claiming their employers would be happier, because they would have more time at home. Well, dropping those three days (they had previously been a 12/7 store), lead to more people being scheduled the rest of the week, meaning no one was getting more than 30 hours a week. with a 32hr/wk requirement to get their fulltime benefits. During the meeting, the SALARIED manager said, and i quote, "Its just a few hours a week guy, we all had our hours reduced, just enjoy the extra time at home." The HR manager was the one to interject with "Sir, they arent salaried, they get paid by the hour. Its a difference of 700$ per week, on average, for them."

"When are you going to get off that disability, get a job, and move out on your own and not live with them roommates?" - My grandpa, who still thinks a 33 disabled woman who can barely stand or walk would be able to hold down any kind of fulltime job that would pay enough to allow me to afford any kind of living situation on my own. I'm already dealing with my insurance telling me my need for physical therapy isn't medically needed (despite all of my actual doctors saying I do need it, badly), I don't need to make things any more difficult by trying to live on my own and without help from friends who are also my roommates.

I've read it estimated that for people to be able to afford to live on a part time salary and buy a house, as people did in the 60 & 70s, MINIMUM wage would have to be over $150 per hour

Yes, save that college money if you can. I got my AA in 1974 and students today pay more for a semester's textbooks than I paid for a semester's tuition! (I'm old enough to remember being able to buy a small fries, small drink, and a regular hamburger at McDonald's and still get two cents back from my dollar.)

"I don't think that anything that's natural can be bad for you." Bears are natural, and they will bite your face off. The ground water in Fairbanks, Alaska is naturally rich in arsenic, which can really ruin your whole day.

"For lawn" for "forlorn" made me chuckle. I've read about auto correct problems.

It's so frustrating to be on disability or even income support! Where I live, income support will pay you a MAX of $900 a MONTH and if you are lucky enough to have family that can loan you the rest of the money you need, then you no longer qualify for the support. It's also insulting to have politicians use what little disability supports there are to try and get more votes. It's very easy to tell when a provincial election is coming up because suddenly the amount you get goes up. This is immediately followed by some change that makes disabled people's lives harder after the party has been elected. My most recent example: old political party ties disability payments to cost of living increases (not the actual name but I don't remember the actual name) so anytime the cost of living goes up, disability payments would increase by the same amount. Old political party gets voted out and new political party immediately axes this and changes the payment date from a few days before the end of the month, to the first of every month. New political party wins latest election by the skin of their teeth. Disability payments are once more tied to cost of living increases and payment dates are moved back to a few business days before the end of the month

We used to go to food banks often. A lot of stuff we got was opened even though they're supposed to not accept it. One time we got a chocolate log cake only to open it and find it covered in mold bevause it was actually an icecream cake that hadn't been stored in a freezer, again, the food bank aren't supposed to accept that. I was sad because i didn't get sweets often and really looked forward to cake.

I didn’t know until watching this video that there are countries that don’t have citizenship-by-birth policies but, frankly, I’m not surprised.

Out of touch people need to live our lives in this day and age for 2 years see how they change their tone

I had a high school guidance councilor tell my entire graduating class "anyone who doesn't go away to college doesn't deserve to go to college."

Oh the one about telling someone they need to date a "ugly" person hits me the wrong way. I had a former co-worker tell me that I needed to stop acting nerdy, go to a gym, and "Man" up for any woman to like me. This go-worker got kicked out of the military for sleeping with up too 25 women including his CO's wife and daughter.

My parents worked in Africa for 6 years. A few years ago, one of their black African friends came to visit us from the Congo. The yuppies in our church were legitimately shocked to learn that this guy had a new iPhone, knew what internet was, had internet, had a car, knew how to drive a car, dressed nicely in new jeans and a button up shirt, and he was in no way among the wealthy elite in his country. Oh, he also spoke like five languages fluently, knew how to program car computers, and had other commonplace 1st world skills. Their incessant questions and subsequent shock and surprise that he was so modern clearly annoyed him

I heard someone say "pretending to be autistic is a good way to get government payments!" on a video of an autistic man. And also people assuming that if you're disabled, you must be lazy, sitting at home doing nothing, on disability and getting loads of money from the government! Not only does being on disability keep you poor, but it is so incredibly hard to get on in the first place.

About giving stuff to the homeless: I carry folded-up $10 bills with me to give. Money gives you some kind of independence and the ability to make choices. I went without for so long that I know how much that little bit helps.

as a student of an international school student in southeast asia whose parents can barely afford the school fees but pay through their noses because they care about the education of my brother and i, the stories i tell my mother in the car on the way home from school resemble these stories. :')

The most out of touch thing someone has said (which I read about in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations) was Louis XIV of France, also known as "the Sun king". It was said after he heard that his forces had lost a battle: Has God forgotten all I have done for HIM?

Had a couple valley girls ask me if orange trees grow in China. I'm American born Japanese, don't speak a lick of it, and they couldn't understand what that meant.

"Your cramps aren't really that bad." Said by two cis men, my dad and my psychiatrist. I have endometriosis, fibriods on my uterine wall, and PCOS. So, yes. My cramps *are* really that bad.

I had to prevent myself from banging my head against a wall hearing some of these

I had four years of college money coming from the VA for being the daughter of a 100% disabled veteran (to be used by my 23rd birthday). I knew I would need my master's in Library Science to be a librarian. Mom and Dad paid for my first year at community college and a part-time job at McDonald's paid for my sophomore year. I got my BA at a four-year college so closely affiliated with my junior college that only one of my classes was argued over before being accepted. I got my MLS at a university. Sure, I had to cram a two-year program into three semesters, but I had that MLS just two months after my 23rd birthday.

I think that one about people being confused that there are some urban places in Africa mostly comes from PSAs and donation ads.

I had a therapist tell me once that watching my mom get beat and have knives held to her throat every night shouldn’t have effected me because it didn’t happen to me as if second hand trauma or PTSD isn’t real

I'm on dissabillity as well 😮‍💨, an the absurdity is pure madness 😵‍💫😠!!

I remember watching your (and other reddit RU-vidrs) channels when they were racking in views. Hope you're still doing good mostly facts

When I was in second or third grade, we were looking out the window and saw a car we thought looked cool. One of my classmates described the car as "sick," causing our teacher to yell at him, saying, "Since when does the word sick mean cool". Fortunately, she did apologize later when she realized he was telling the truth

My older sister’s counselor told her to talk out as much student loans as she needed during college as she could pay it off afterwards. Really a dumb advice and my sister didn’t do that as it was ridiculous

I knew about this young woman who worked out of a wine store, which was situated near the entrance of a supermarket. As expected, her job was to sell wine bottles and wine coolers, pretty standard stuff to passersby. During one day, when I happened to be in the area, the wine shop server was offering an Irish cream sample to a customer. The customer doesn't just say 'No thank you', like a function human being, no no. They react to this woman just doing her job as if she was part of the Salem witch trials. Because not only she have to say no, she had to make it apparent to her, and me (because I was less than 10 feet away) that not only was it a moral sin to assume that she wanted Irish cream for sampling, but that she was also a vegan. As soon as this was brought to light, my eyes dart over to glance at the wine girl's expression, then back to the customer. As the customer continues her tirade, she reaches into her shopping cart of purchased goods, and pulls out a carton of milk, but it was almond milk. (For reference, I didn't know farmers had the ability to extract milk from the mammary glands of almonds, or that almonds HAD mammary glands) But anyways, the customer presents this carton of almond milk into wine girl's line of sight and comments on it, "I prefer ALMOND MILK, because it comes from almonds, and doesn't involve harming and abusing cows." The way she said it too also gave me the impression that she believed wine girl had something to do with cows on Epstein's island. But as I looked upon wine girl's face again, I could read in her eyes that she is just screaming internally, and trying to block out the verbal sewage the customer decided to throw back in her face. After the customer finally walked away, I felt it was necessary to check in with her to make sure she was okay.

9:09 - My guidance counsellor was straight up " You don't have the marks for Uni - go to College" - I got in, loved it, and was on the Dean's list (briefly) - I then went on to Uni anyhow. Great times, but I recall loving going to College so I can get my hands busy in the various labs they had.

Years ago, my husband had major health issues that led to our family falling on hard times. I was a church goer back then. With only 1 or 2 exceptions, church people were the least sympathetic. It was like we were being shunned. Finally someone said that this happened to us because we weren't "right with God" and that we deserved everything that happened to us because we lied about our beliefs. I don't go to church anymore. I still believe in god. I just don't believe in Christians.

I used to work for this really awesome boss who paid really well for physical and logic based mental work. He is incredibly kind, understanding and really cares for his employees. I hated the work I did, but I stayed longer than I should have cause I liked him. Now when I find someone looking for a job, I try to send them his way. If they end up liking the work, then they would probably stay forever.

Years back when I made my first run at college. "Just get a degree in anything, the degree is what matters, not the subject." LOL

Most ‘expired’ dates aren’t real. They’ve even started calling them ‘best by’ dates because of the scam

I was talking to my co-worker about my mother's tribal people and a customer called me a liar. She told me that all "Indians" are dead and were killed by the cowboys in the 1800s.

Getting disability is just about impossible too. Being homeless and severe mental health issues don't help either.

I was going through some of my dads old stuff and there were some clothes (my dad had died 10 years earlier, these clothes were falling apart) I asked my mom if any of it had sentimental value(concert tees and things like that) she said no, I could just donate them. I told her (we would get more use out of these cutting them up and using them for towels than someone unhoused. They were gross. They ended up being tossed 🙄 it’s infuriating now lightly used things, absolutely… but don’t donate trash. That is inhumane

I grew up in the 80s and 90s. Back then, you were EXPECTED to go to college. That was the only reason I went. All I wanted to do is make a comfortable living, in a world where the money seemed to be in the professions that have zero work/life balance. I’m not sorry I had the college experience, but I wonder if I really needed it. I graduated with some debt, and proceeded to get stuck working retail for 20 years. After taking care of my debts, I left that world, got my CDL, and started working for my local school district as a bus driver. I have to say , I love where I am right now. I love my job, it pays more than I’ve ever made, and the benefits are fantastic. Yes, it has its challenges, but I will gladly take my worst day of dealing with kids and parents on a bus, to my best day of working with endless Karens in retail. We don’t all have to go to college, kids. If anyone tries to tell you differently, they’re full of shit.

the disability judge who looked me in the eyes and said "I don't think you are disabled. it says i have decide if you could get a job and you could. your health issue means you couldn't Keep one and would be fired within weeks, but you could Get one so disability denied" i barely, Barely was able to not ask if his office was hiring. but i kept my mouth shut, which my advocate thanked me for later, since it might have mad reapplying later harder.

As someone who got an appartment at 24: It was all parents. I had half the downpayment, but the main issue was actully the income rules for my country (not US). The morgage is also in my dads name. I pay all expenses. With my salary and student loans I would only have been eligible for half the morgage, despite being able to pay it all on my own. The appartments I could have afforded (if i was very lucky) were tiny studios where you had to choose between a couch and a bed. Now I have an appartment I can actually live in, have a partner move in, and even have space to comfortably have a toddler running around before I have to move.

When gas prices were really high years ago a co-worker said I should get a car that gets better mileage than my truck. My truck is paid for and insurance is low. Even if a car gets 32 mpg insurance alone makes it cheaper to keep my truck even if the car is free.

Honestly, it's a tie for me: I've heard a person learn about several people get into a car accident, and at least two of them were unfortunate enough to lose their lives. The person in question acknowledged that the victims of the crash, but then said something along the lines of, "It's a good thing they found Jesus.. Their souls are ripe for the picking." Like time and place, lady.. The other one was when I have someone who I thought was a friend recommend I see my doctor about my severe anxiety issues. I was put on two medications across 3-4 months to help 'take the edge off'. Here I thought things were going good, but that same person who suggested I got help turned around and said to my other friends that I was a drug addict, behind my back. Yes, for anxiety medication, because apparently for them, anxiety isn't real. Turns out that person was gaslighting everyone, and was saying outrageous things like that on the regular, even outside of my presence.

Somehow you always upload right when I'm going to sleep lmfao

Educating my dad on rental prices, him not having rented since 1987, was so, SO satisfying. Especially since my region is high CoL.

Some people don’t really care about helping others, they just don’t want to feel like they’ve wasted money.

28:30 RIP Jessica Walter.

Disabled in iowa. The system is designed to keep us at the bottom

The CEO of Kellogs just had a "just let them eat cake." Scandal when he suggested Cereal for a substitute dinner option.

One of my former employers paid me barely minimum wage, and the job was extremely stressful and demanding. She had the audacity to say "look, you're favorite, and I see it's getting to you. Why don't you take a few days off, go to the beach or something, and just enjoy yourself, you'll feel better." We didn't have any paid vacation days, so I asked her how that could work? She just looked like an innocent deer in the headlights, and seriously said "oh, obviously you wouldn't be paid. But your job would still be here, and you'll feel better if you go party for a few days." IF I COULD AFFORD THAT I WOULDN'T HAVE WORKED THERE!!!!

I was one of those people who was in the military, a week less than three years. One of the benefits is being able to buy a house with no money down. We did have to have maybe $1500 for miscellaneous but much easier to save that amount than a 20% down payment plus miscellaneous costs.

29:20 I’ve avoided watching the Kardashians for about 20.25 years. I’m about 20.25 years old, in case you’re wondering.

Loved the Good Place reference. I feel cultured.

8:28, I would ask for advice from the school janitor before I ask the guidance counselor. Community/junior colleges are inexpensive, credits transfer. The first couple of years are similar if not exactly what one would be experiencing at a university. Or one could join the military and have one’s education paid for in full with a decent monthly stipend.

I'm on disability and I had to get a job because I wouldn't have been able to afford to feed myself or pay bills on just disability since rent where I live would take pretty much all of my check. 😠 I'm actually afraid to get a roommate just for the ability to move into a bigger apartment because there's a high chance of my disability being cut off and I won't be able to survive on just my paycheck. 😨

I genuinely didn’t know about the “not citizen at birth” thing for other countries. I’m terrible at history and government. In USA. 😬

Story 40: Didn't look it up, but I'm fairly certain that's from Arrested Development. Sounds like something Lucille Bluth would say.

My siblings and I have a house because we inherited it from our parents. We're all on retirement pay and it takes all of our incomes to keep it going.

Story 5: I was swept up in that sales pitch. went to a cram school/university first, dropped out at the end of the semester, and am now riddled in debt. I wanna die lmao

I was supposed to rent an apartment with a friend. She was paying way less, 400 of 1200 and got upset she didn’t have a bedroom or a closet. When I asked her if she was comfortable contributing more to increase our budget… she told me to ask my parents. She worked part time and went to school. I worked full time and my parents did not help me with anything towards my own expenses besides some minor furniture. It was insane she even said that. We’re no longer friends anymore for obvious reasons. Her backing out last minute and then getting room mates and paying 800 each didn’t even bother me. I could afford it. It was just the principal. Wasnt even why I stopped talking to her in the end. I miss her sometimes but that comment always stops me from reaching back out 😕

Someone out there has to be eating MASSIVE amounts of creamed corn because otherwise, how does it stay on the market? When I was poorer than most dirt and going to the food bank weekly, I would end up wiht the stuff. I found I had to add a LOT of salt to make it edible. Not worth it, really.

my mother and sister dont understand what its like to be shorthanded or what it takes to take time off i cant just forward my phone and someone will take over my responsibilities

The worst tthing that VERY MUCH should be outlawed : "Non natural people" (Corporations and not physical individuals) owning homes of ANY kind. This is what is making housing unaffordable as shit. Sure energy costs are also a factor, as well as regulatory and admin fees, but the vast majority of homes owned for sale, often entire neigbourhoods are in a corporations hand. And since everyone needs a roof over their head if they want to live, not just exist. They can charge whatever the fuck they want , cause people sure as hell cant quickly make a downpayment for construction with todays wages being stagnant while everything had a 6x increase AND they have the money to not need to sell and can just sit on their property costs People were able to buy homes becasue they relatively made 6x more . Imagine minimum wage being 6-8k not ~1k a month while everything else stays the same

"I'm an alpha male." That concept as it's commonly (mis)understood exists nowhere in the natural world, and the guy who came up with it did so by observing wolves in captivity fighting over too little space; you're basically bragging about being the toughest convict in the prison-yard.

5:45 That’s when you say ‘but I wanna take it home.’ And take it home and trash it.

😂😂😂 ppl be goofy AF

I mean renting IS a waste of money... But that doesn't make the guys comment any less out of touch, and sometimes renting is a better option than buying a falling apart house or trailer home that you still have to rent land for. Everyone should strive to buy over rent when they can, but WHEN you can is very situational.

My family telling me investments are bad in our religion when I mention getting a CD/gov bond for my education. One of the parts of my religion I choose to ignore

In the 1970s I bought a 3-bedroom house for less than most people pay for a lower end car

Had a CFO tell me once when I told him I couldn't stay without a dollar more an hour or I would go into debt to work there.."yeah I don't know how you make it on so little" I needed like 12 bucks from 11.

The one about the wife's brother dying was just the boss trying to cheer his wife up and OP took it as an attack cause he was litterally jealous that he doesnt have the resources to do the same

"Considering you're autistic, you pass for normal really good!" Or something to that effect.

15 minutes of sunlight is good for *almost* anyone. But there’s got to be somebody it’s not good for. I’m literally prescribed 20 minutes of sunlight without SPF every day possible and a high amount of vitamin D supplement every day I don’t get that. But any longer than 20 minutes in the summer and I need pretty high SPF because I tend to burn after 30 minutes. At one point I didn’t burn at all somehow.

28:23 it sounds like you need to make a mayonegg!

"You cannot have autism if you have an A in English. Autists never get good grades!" - My former English teacher

20 states a ton i have only been to about 14 but i flew to seattle then drove from their back to alabama was only 8. To hit 20 states fast i would need to drive to maine instead.

Yeah, after watching this whole thing it just reminds me how much I definitely dislike humanity. Especially those who come from a whole lot of money. Seriously, I don't pity billionaires.

Being happy and healthy is much better than being rich. Everything over cost of living plus savings is sufficient to be happy.

So I just had my uterus one ovary and both fallopian tubes removed for shits and giggles??

I hate everything I just heard, except Mr Facts' singing.

My ex mil said African Americans didnt have their situation because of poverty or racism. It was because of sin.

Dude don’t diss cream corn love that shit.

Got one, grandma questioned me why I'm not married. Gee maybe it's because inflation has doubled the cost of food in the past decade and I cannot afford to feed two people since I only got a 5% raise in the same time, perhaps it's because divorce rates have never been higher and it's a fool's errand in this sociopolitical climate, or even because noone I date wants to put up with her nicotine nagging because she cannot leave anyone alone for more than 12 hours while being a compulsive smoker.

I NEED to know the reasoning for story 42 😰🤣

Take back what you said about creamed corn

"The economy is doing great"

20:40 gal gadot playing victim while tens of thousands of 🇵🇸 kids get unalived day after day

You actually can work with disability in Canada, or at least here in Ontario.

“I wish I was autistic. It’s so cool.” Idk about you but I certainly wouldn’t count screaming fits over _clothing_ to be cool.

Neverwinter Nights 2. Bad plot, even worse voice casting on my language, borring characyers and god awful system of 3.5e Seemingly boring Pathfinder:Kingmaker, which was based on modified 3.5e hooked me on a good few hundred hours and i still want to play it. Even more on a WotR

What game is this though?

My best friends step dad grabbed my boob after continuously telling him no. Fast forward, something happens having to do with that situation and I stop talking to her. Fast forward even further, I decide to try and rekindle and see if she has anything to say. She goes on a tangent about how her boss sexually harasses his employees and also has consensual sexual relationships with women in the office, she said he touches some of them inappropriately. Aside from turning a blind eye, She said “I wouldn’t want it to happen to me. I would but for the money so I can get paid”. It was no more than 3-4 months since it had happened. I haven’t talked to her since.

REPEAT !

Why are you hating on cream corn?

what happeneed to old narrator? :(

One time, my job fired me the day after Christmas. I went to my (wealthy) grandmother to ask for help, having never done so before and knowing she helps my younger brothers with a multitude of things including a down payment on a house and an engagement ring. She asked me if I'd checked the newspaper for jobs and told me good luck. 🙃This was in 2020 and I was really only hoping for one rent payment or maybe some groceries, but I'll go fuck myself I guess 😂😂