Blame the parents
A close friend (term used loosely) of mine, an only child. Her mum and dad both had really successful careers, they wern't expecting to have kids so they doted upon her and gave her everything she stomped her feet for. She was privately educated at a swanky school from ages 3-18, bought a car, holidays bought for her, designer clothes etc etc.

My actual point in all this is that she was the most unapprecative person ever to grace the planet. If she didnt get what she wanted she would hurl abuse (and objects) at her parents until they catered for her needs. They would bow down to their child who could do no wrong.

Anyway, this happened..

She only did one A level and got an E. She went to uni last year and spend all her loan + overdraft in the 1st two months so mother and father gave her money + credit card to keep her going.
She dropped out 3 WEEKS from completing her course.
She now lives in the scummiest end of town in rotten flat working in a bar.
She got fired from her 'real' job last month because at least once a week she would ring in sick.
Her mum and dad pay her rent and give her £100 a week.
Her boyfriend gives her £50 a week.
She went to Cyprus with her parents and another of my friends in July. She threw a radio at her mum because she wouldnt give her money to go to a bar.

I could reel off many an example but frankly they are tedious and generally revolve around the same idea of her acting like a complete twat...

She does nothing selfless and everything is for personal gain. Iv never met a person so convinced that the world owes her everything.
Shes lost the majority of her friends and has few people to turn to.

Still her mother and father think there is no-one more honest/loyal/generally wonderful that they could ever have as a daughter.

Money doesnt buy brains
(i should have joined myspace, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 19:50, 2 replies)

I've known people like this
and the worst part of it is, they actually will never have to live in the real world one day, which was what I always used to console myself with through gritted teeth. The parents will continue to splurge the cash their whole lives, and their money will ensure they can always make new friends/partners to replace the ones they lose through being a twat. Ho-hum. Vive la revolution.
(jennymnemonic, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 20:25, closed)

Vive la revolution?!
You want to CHANGE it?

Wouldn't that mean that they'd stop sponging off a fairly small number of people and start inflicting themselves on the rest of us?
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Tue 14 Oct 2008, 10:20, closed)