I only got 4 points!
Apr. 12th, 2006 02:08 pmDoes this mean I have an Unfortunate Life?
Fortunate Life Meme
Written from American Perspective
One point per item
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.
[my annotations here - you'll want to delete them if you copy it from me]
Education
( ) Did you attend a private primary school?
( ) Did you have professional private tutors?
( ) Did you attend a private college (as opposed to public)?
(1) Did your parents finance more than 75% of your education?
( ) 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?
( ) Were you gifted a car as a teenager?
( ) (Bonus) Was it a new car?
( ) (Bonus) Was it a BMW, Audi, Mercedes or Bentley?
( ) Did your family own a yacht, sailboat or airplane?
( ) Were you a member of the local Yacht Club or Country Club?
( ) (Bonus) Was this club “exclusionary” in any form?
( ) Did you attend NASA’s space camp or equivalent?
( ) Did you attend out-of-state school-sponsored events?
( ) 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?
( ) Do you travel nationally for pleasure every year?
( ) Do you travel internationally for pleasure at least once every 2 years?
( ) Been to Asia?
( ) Been to Africa?
( ) Been to South America?
( ) Been to Europe?
( ) (Bonus) Been to 5 continents?
(2) 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”
( ) (Bonus) Does your home theater have a popcorn machine?
( ) 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? [Does the in-law unit that
dbubley, co-owner, lives in count towards 2 kitchens? I don't think so.]
( ) Do you have house staff?
Mental Sanity
(3) Are you generally happy?
(4) Do you “enjoy” your job?
( ) 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?
( ) Ever been a janitor, custodian or sewage worker?
( ) (Bonus) Been injured on the job but was ignored by your employer?
( ) 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?
(4) Regularly take more than 2 forms of medication daily?
( ) Been physically or s*xually abused?
( ) Suffered starvation or malnutrition? [besides dieting 8-) ]
( ) Contracted Ebola, Malaria, Flesh-eating virus, etc?
( ) (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?
( ) Suffered severe discrimination due to being a woman, minority or handicapped? [not yet!]
( ) (Bonus) Challenged discrimination and lost?
Fortunate Life Meme
Written from American Perspective
One point per item
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.
[my annotations here - you'll want to delete them if you copy it from me]
Education
( ) Did you attend a private primary school?
( ) Did you have professional private tutors?
( ) Did you attend a private college (as opposed to public)?
(1) Did your parents finance more than 75% of your education?
( ) 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?
( ) Were you gifted a car as a teenager?
( ) (Bonus) Was it a new car?
( ) (Bonus) Was it a BMW, Audi, Mercedes or Bentley?
( ) Did your family own a yacht, sailboat or airplane?
( ) Were you a member of the local Yacht Club or Country Club?
( ) (Bonus) Was this club “exclusionary” in any form?
( ) Did you attend NASA’s space camp or equivalent?
( ) Did you attend out-of-state school-sponsored events?
( ) 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?
( ) Do you travel nationally for pleasure every year?
( ) Do you travel internationally for pleasure at least once every 2 years?
( ) Been to Asia?
( ) Been to Africa?
( ) Been to South America?
( ) Been to Europe?
( ) (Bonus) Been to 5 continents?
(2) 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”
( ) (Bonus) Does your home theater have a popcorn machine?
( ) 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? [Does the in-law unit that
( ) Do you have house staff?
Mental Sanity
(3) Are you generally happy?
(4) Do you “enjoy” your job?
( ) 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?
( ) Ever been a janitor, custodian or sewage worker?
( ) (Bonus) Been injured on the job but was ignored by your employer?
( ) 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?
(4) Regularly take more than 2 forms of medication daily?
( ) Been physically or s*xually abused?
( ) Suffered starvation or malnutrition? [besides dieting 8-) ]
( ) Contracted Ebola, Malaria, Flesh-eating virus, etc?
( ) (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?
( ) Suffered severe discrimination due to being a woman, minority or handicapped? [not yet!]
( ) (Bonus) Challenged discrimination and lost?
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Date: 2006-04-13 05:00 am (UTC)