Today, my parents decided they won't pay for college because of a Fox News story that said higher education "makes you liberal." FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I found out why my parents have been trying to convince me not to go to college this year. I also found out where the $20,000 they just spent on landscaping came from. My college fund. Which is now $0. FML
Today, my parents threatened to take away my college funds. Why? Because I complained about my 10 pm curfew during break as a freshman in college. FML
Today, after 25 years of marriage, my parents decided to get a very nasty and extremely expensive divorce. Using my college tuition to pay for it. FML
Today, I discovered that when my parents offered to help me pay for college, what they really meant is they would get the forms for me to apply for student loans. FML
Today, I was offered a job that pays far more than I expected, being a high school senior. My parents decided they aren't letting me take the job, saying I should enjoy my childhood. They're also not paying for my college, which is why I was looking for work in the first place. FML
Today, I was accepted to college and received a scholarship equal to almost half the tuition. After sharing this news with my parents, I spent the next 35 minutes getting yelled at about how I wasn't allowed to go there because my boyfriend might go there. FML
Today, I finally got the nerve to tell my parents that I'm no longer going to pay them a flat percent of my salary, but only what they need to cover my expenses. Their response: "Better find a place of your own then, you freeloading bastard." FML
Today, I found out that not only does my sister consider Fox News "reliable" but her husband has been buying Trump merchandise. They owe me $1,900 but they're literally giving a millionaire money instead of me. FML
Today, I told my conservative friends over dinner that I was a bit of a liberal. They then went off on me about how liberals are lazy, stupid, and a financial burden on society. I was the only employed person at the table with a college degree and not living with my parents. FML
Today, I discovered my parents have spent my college fund because "2012 will happen" before I graduate. FML
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PinkRoseLove 0
Going to college doesn't make you liberal, it makes you smarter and more prepared in the world. Your parents are really ignorant
FernandoTorres_fml 0
Fox are idiots, they just implied that Liberal people are highly educated. They're right for once; their right wing nazi-fest is for retards.
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I_am_stupid_also 6
Facts matter. That's what the report is about. There is so much time spent "questioning authority" that students are not learning important facts that people need in order to preserve our liberty. Facts that should have been learned in any decent high school, but that is a different topic.
thekingjoe90 0
go to texas tech, that'll make you much more conservative
omgwtffmmfl 0
OP do your parents play poker? Honestly I'm not that good.
blastvortex 4
Eh? You know you're going to technically get a biased education no matter where you go right? It's not like the relative theories and proofs for everything we supposedly know to be true has any relevance in a universe as a whole. For all we know, the Earth could be destroyed in some freak cosmic phenomenon tomorrow and the entire universe would be none less the wiser for our lack of output. Sure you can be an optimist if you want, but in reality, the universe itself doesn't necessarily have any inherent meaning unless you give it some. BTW, I'm sick and tired of hearing Fox called "Faux" News. Of course they suck, not to mention they're easily farther than most from the truth they presume to blather about, but it's pretty stupid to call it something that isn't pronounced anywhere similar.
NewtonsApple 0
and that is one of many reason why your country SUCKS!!
krissypoo 0
please let them know that higher education doesn't make you liberal, education does.
krissypoo 0
please let them know that higher education doesn't make you liberal, education does.
AnonymousGalifrey 1
thats ironic because liberals are the ones who come up with stupid unedycated bullshit, for example al gore (global warming) and obama(stimulus bill and healthcare(communist))
vlk4_fml 0
#153, if you think you are so much more "edycated" than liberals, how about using some proper spelling and grammer?
majones 0
@161. Conservatives don't love war. If we could have world peace, conservatives would be all for it. Sadly, we live in an imperfect world and when there are people like Osama Kim Jong who are threatening and killing Americans, they're not going to want and sit down and sign a peace treaty. The only two options then are to either sit and watch innocent people get killed, or we can go to war and fight for what's right.
nzl_fml 0
wow how narrow-minded are your parents. sucks to be you.
jmeg_fml 0
There are fairly conservative colleges out there, especially around here. Maybe you could show them some info from Wake Forest, Duke, Furman, LSU, UA, etc. State is probably more conservative than others if you're going for an in-state education. Their statistics could help be persuasive, regardless of whether you're personally liberal or conservative.