I think I've found the source of stupid in America.
There is a female in my office who is pregnant with her third child. She claims to have some form of dyslexia and is pregnant with her third child. One of her children has some form of Aspergers/autism, yet here she is, making another one.
She asks a lot of questions about mundane things outside of work stuff, and expects others around her to just answer her. Most of the time someone jumps and answers her stupid question, probably because they want to feel smart.
Here is the problem. We have smart people with few or no children, who choose to be smart, doing all the work for these lazy, co-dependent idiots who keep populating the Earth with their low-grade, lazy ass little turds.
It infuriates me that this gestating bitch is so lazy and numb that she would rather call a catering company, on her telephone, to have an employee who makes shit for pay explain to her in full detail what something on their menu is rather than just fucking Google it and see for herself with her own crossed stupid eyes.
She will not eat at a restaurant that doesn't have pictures on the menu. She will not eat at fancy places that use big words that she can't understand (and we know she won't use her fucking phone to Google it and find out)
She is the reason mom and pop places fail in my town. She is the reason chain restaurants and giant corporations like Walmart are fucking KING here. She is too fucking stupid to learn anything or think for herself. She doesn't want to have to look for something she wants it handed to her on a cheap plastic Chinese plate.
I HATE HER.
I want everyone like her to remove themselves from my sight. Get out of my town and off my lawn!!
FUCKING FUCK!
Her skin would be better used to help burn victims. AND SHE KEEPS BREEDING!
Darwin doesn't care how SMART a species is.
We must kill it, Roger.
We must kill it with fire.
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on February 23, 2013, 12:50:30 AM
We must kill it, Roger.
We must kill it with fire.
Gonna get tired.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RRdFBsy5gEU/TzczVwwkyjI/AAAAAAAAAG0/Y60OEd-cu-0/s1600/Eye+rage.jpg)
I work with someone sort of like that. 4th kid, baby-daddy don't wanna marry her cuz 'he'd never marry a girl like her'. Calls out of work 3/4ths of the time because she doesn't want to lose her welfare but she's cool with doing it because affirmative action means she can't be fired. When she does work she doesn't do anything but talk to people and not work because she doesn't want to mess up her nails (acrylic nails are not allowed at our work in the first place) and having a kid hurt her back so she can't do any of the heavy stuff. Half our work is messy. The other half is heavy. She won't do either part because well, nails and back pain. This isn't my take. This is what she said to me. Shit, she's said it to our boss.
She's also told us all about her weekend-long club crawls and her Zumba and pole-dancing classes that she goes to every day and how her kids get balogna sandwiches and NyQuil for dinner while she eats ice cream cake and steak.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on February 23, 2013, 07:42:13 AM
She's also told us all about her weekend-long club crawls and her Zumba and pole-dancing classes that she goes to every day and how her kids get balogna sandwiches and NyQuil for dinner while she eats ice cream cake and steak.
Seriously?
New York?
New Jersey?
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on February 23, 2013, 07:42:13 AM
I work with someone sort of like that. 4th kid, baby-daddy don't wanna marry her cuz 'he'd never marry a girl like her'. Calls out of work 3/4ths of the time because she doesn't want to lose her welfare but she's cool with doing it because affirmative action means she can't be fired. When she does work she doesn't do anything but talk to people and not work because she doesn't want to mess up her nails (acrylic nails are not allowed at our work in the first place) and having a kid hurt her back so she can't do any of the heavy stuff. Half our work is messy. The other half is heavy. She won't do either part because well, nails and back pain. This isn't my take. This is what she said to me. Shit, she's said it to our boss.
She's also told us all about her weekend-long club crawls and her Zumba and pole-dancing classes that she goes to every day and how her kids get balogna sandwiches and NyQuil for dinner while she eats ice cream cake and steak.
Well, you know that female sociopaths are not that rare... maybe 1 in 100. Some of 'em are bound to have children.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on February 23, 2013, 07:42:13 AM
I work with someone sort of like that. 4th kid, baby-daddy don't wanna marry her cuz 'he'd never marry a girl like her'. Calls out of work 3/4ths of the time because she doesn't want to lose her welfare but she's cool with doing it because affirmative action means she can't be fired. When she does work she doesn't do anything but talk to people and not work because she doesn't want to mess up her nails (acrylic nails are not allowed at our work in the first place) and having a kid hurt her back so she can't do any of the heavy stuff. Half our work is messy. The other half is heavy. She won't do either part because well, nails and back pain. This isn't my take. This is what she said to me. Shit, she's said it to our boss.
She's also told us all about her weekend-long club crawls and her Zumba and pole-dancing classes that she goes to every day and how her kids get balogna sandwiches and NyQuil for dinner while she eats ice cream cake and steak.
This... just turned me into an insane person.
Good job, whoever the fuck you are.
She isn't rare though, we have many here. But I would not be able to keep my mouth shut if she were in my presence for I am the caller out of this kind of horrible shit.
Fucking FUCK I hate these people. They must be destroyed!!
We euthanize animals for the crime of being born, but allow these pieces of shit to linger on WHY?!?!?
WHY?!?!
I have limited experience with Americans, but I'm always shocked in the end. I've always thought that the "stupid american" is just a stereotype and a bit of exaggeration for comic purposes. And then I chatted with some USA chicks who I met in Bulgaria. Let me just say, that the smartest one of them would not fucking shut up about cosmic awakening, ancient aliens, astrology, occult bullshit (like not even decent occult bullshit, but the new-age gigantic crap, that I truly didn't know anyone but old crazy women believed in). And she was the smartest. The others were worse.
I think that the source is the lack of aesthetics. I feel like everything you got in the US is oversimplified, everything is entertainment (isn't that the basis of your culture?). I don't really know what to think about conspiracy theories, but I feel like your country is making its people stupid on purpose.
And I think that everything that gets put out for mass consumption there is just aesthetically off. Compare EU rave culture to US rave culture for example. In the EU from my experience, you have badass clubs, nice girls, people who dress well (generally) and really good music (no need to list all the awesome European DJs). And in the US you have teenagers wearing TOO MUCH FUCKING TACKY COLORFUL SHIT, yelling YOLO MOLLY YOLO MOLLY SKRILLEX. Sorry, America, you're doing it wrong.
Quote from: Dalek on February 24, 2013, 11:17:36 AM
And I think that everything that gets put out for mass consumption there is just aesthetically off. Compare EU rave culture to US rave culture for example. In the EU from my experience, you have badass clubs, nice girls, people who dress well (generally) and really good music (no need to list all the awesome European DJs). And in the US you have teenagers wearing TOO MUCH FUCKING TACKY COLORFUL SHIT, yelling YOLO MOLLY YOLO MOLLY SKRILLEX. Sorry, America, you're doing it wrong.
We already know this.
The other factor is that we have very few people who are wealthy enough to travel; by a huge margin, most of our population is too poor to travel out of the country for pleasure, including nearly all of our academics. Wealthy people here tend to be 100% plugged into the system, probably because the only way they can live with themselves is to BUY IN COMPLETELY, typically making them unpleasantly ignorant and shallow.
Also, be forewarned: young Americans from wealthy, highly privileged backgrounds will almost universally deny being wealthy. Having bought into the system, they will say with utter conviction that they grew up just barely middle-class, often citing the fact that there were black children in their elementary school or that they wore their older siblings hand-me-downs. I am not making this up.
Actually, come to think of it, I was feeling a little defensive because we actually do have AMAZING art and culture, but then thinking about it I realized that everything good is found at the street and grassroots level... it rarely makes it to mass-consumption. Which means that the wealthy are never exposed to it, and nobody ever sees it internationally.
This all makes me want to
:enough:
Things that are not uncommon in the US: people who move their lips when they read, spell out third grade level vocabulary words and ask what they mean, say things like "I don't even know how to turn a computer on", call me asking when they're going to marry strangers they've fixated on, spray their kids' heads with Raid to kill lice, "train" six week old puppies by keeping them indoors 24/7 and then beating them for pissing/shitting on the floor, think Bud Light is AWESOME, make "instructional" youtube videos about shit they don't know, buy cd's by people like Nickelback, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift and Rascal Flatts, wouldn't go to Paris if they won a trip all expenses paid because the other po'buckers told them "the french are rude", have giant sagging stomachs and still wear everything skintight and spandexy, put their (orange) lipstick on crooked, run over cats on purpose, fuck guys from the karaoke bar, wear t shirts with crying eagles and shit, blame everything on "the Mexicans taking our jerbs" and "welfare queens", watch Maury Povich FAITHFULLY, think Vince McMahon has it in for his wrestlers IRL, have comb-overs, and wore cowboy hats in the newspaper pics of their wedding announcements.
Among other things.
MANY other things.
Also: this country makes people famous for being Octomom.
It's really been that way from the start, I mean analyze the lyrics of Yankee Doodle.
Quote from: Mome Papess Trivial on February 24, 2013, 10:56:49 PM
It's really been that way from the start, I mean analyze the lyrics of Yankee Doodle.
:eek:
Why would you SAY such a thing?
:eek:
Quote from: Dalek on February 24, 2013, 11:17:36 AM
And I think that everything that gets put out for mass consumption there is just aesthetically off. Compare EU rave culture to US rave culture for example. In the EU from my experience, you have badass clubs, nice girls, people who dress well (generally) and really good music (no need to list all the awesome European DJs). And in the US you have teenagers wearing TOO MUCH FUCKING TACKY COLORFUL SHIT, yelling YOLO MOLLY YOLO MOLLY SKRILLEX. Sorry, America, you're doing it wrong.
And they are doing it in an abandoned warehouse.
Also, "Rave" is not a culture.
TGRR,
Knows that it is technically a subculture, but refuses to acknowledge it. Oh, wait.
This bitch is making my job difficult, by simply not reading my notes that I leave behind for her.
Read my fucking notes, and you will see what this student needs. Instead of bringing me half assed incomplete shit that you think is finished to try and "wrap up".
They're not fucking done, their FAFSA is fucking incorrect. READ MY NOTES. You stupid vapid bitch.
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on February 25, 2013, 05:11:01 PM
This bitch is making my job difficult, by simply not reading my notes that I leave behind for her.
Read my fucking notes, and you will see what this student needs. Instead of bringing me half assed incomplete shit that you think is finished to try and "wrap up".
They're not fucking done, their FAFSA is fucking incorrect. READ MY NOTES. You stupid vapid bitch.
SEE WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT?
Quote from: Dalek on February 24, 2013, 11:17:36 AM
And I think that everything that gets put out for mass consumption there is just aesthetically off. Compare EU rave culture to US rave culture for example. In the EU from my experience, you have badass clubs, nice girls, people who dress well (generally) and really good music (no need to list all the awesome European DJs). And in the US you have teenagers wearing TOO MUCH FUCKING TACKY COLORFUL SHIT, yelling YOLO MOLLY YOLO MOLLY SKRILLEX. Sorry, America, you're doing it wrong.
To be fair, I think that it one of the most endearing parts. I look around and everything's grey and brown. It's the middle of summer and the trees are green and the sky is blue, but EVERYTHING IS GREY AND BROWN. All the cars are black, gray, white and brown. Christ, it's boring.
I walk from my work to the bank wearing something like this http://www.rustyzipper.com/shop.cfm?viewpartnum=220592 and
I get weird looks for not being grey and brown enough. Sorry for not wearing super serious colors all the time.
Beyond that, Squiddy and Stella are pretty nail on the head about how I feel about most people.
Quote from: /b/earman on February 23, 2013, 02:50:08 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on February 23, 2013, 07:42:13 AM
She's also told us all about her weekend-long club crawls and her Zumba and pole-dancing classes that she goes to every day and how her kids get balogna sandwiches and NyQuil for dinner while she eats ice cream cake and steak.
Seriously?
New York?
New Jersey?
Georgia.
Quote from: Pope Partum Depression on February 24, 2013, 07:25:32 PM
Things that are not uncommon in the US: people who move their lips when they read, spell out third grade level vocabulary words and ask what they mean, say things like "I don't even know how to turn a computer on", call me asking when they're going to marry strangers they've fixated on, spray their kids' heads with Raid to kill lice, "train" six week old puppies by keeping them indoors 24/7 and then beating them for pissing/shitting on the floor, think Bud Light is AWESOME, make "instructional" youtube videos about shit they don't know, buy cd's by people like Nickelback, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift and Rascal Flatts, wouldn't go to Paris if they won a trip all expenses paid it because the other po'buckers told them "the french are rude", have giant sagging stomachs and still wear everything skintight and spandexy, put their (orange) lipstick on crooked, run over cats on purpose, fuck guys from the karaoke bar, wear t shirts with crying eagles and shit, blame everything on "the Mexicans taking our jerbs" and "welfare queens", watch Maury Povich FAITHFULLY, think Vince McMahon has it in for his wrestlers IRL, have comb-overs, and wore cowboy hats in the newspaper pics of their wedding announcements.
Among other things.
MANY other things.
O.o That is my childhood right there. Sans karaoke, ain't no one knows that is where I grew up. Everything else? Spot fucking on.
Quote from: trippinprincezz13 on February 25, 2013, 05:47:01 PM
Quote from: Dalek on February 24, 2013, 11:17:36 AM
And I think that everything that gets put out for mass consumption there is just aesthetically off. Compare EU rave culture to US rave culture for example. In the EU from my experience, you have badass clubs, nice girls, people who dress well (generally) and really good music (no need to list all the awesome European DJs). And in the US you have teenagers wearing TOO MUCH FUCKING TACKY COLORFUL SHIT, yelling YOLO MOLLY YOLO MOLLY SKRILLEX. Sorry, America, you're doing it wrong.
To be fair, I think that it one of the most endearing parts. I look around and everything's grey and brown. It's the middle of summer and the trees are green and the sky is blue, but EVERYTHING IS GREY AND BROWN. All the cars are black, gray, white and brown. Christ, it's boring.
I walk from my work to the bank wearing something like this http://www.rustyzipper.com/shop.cfm?viewpartnum=220592 and I get weird looks for not being grey and brown enough. Sorry for not wearing super serious colors all the time.
That's not tacky colourful shit. This is http://www.loupiote.com/photos/3979954470.shtml
Quote from: Dalek on March 02, 2013, 09:36:53 AM
Quote from: trippinprincezz13 on February 25, 2013, 05:47:01 PM
Quote from: Dalek on February 24, 2013, 11:17:36 AM
And I think that everything that gets put out for mass consumption there is just aesthetically off. Compare EU rave culture to US rave culture for example. In the EU from my experience, you have badass clubs, nice girls, people who dress well (generally) and really good music (no need to list all the awesome European DJs). And in the US you have teenagers wearing TOO MUCH FUCKING TACKY COLORFUL SHIT, yelling YOLO MOLLY YOLO MOLLY SKRILLEX. Sorry, America, you're doing it wrong.
To be fair, I think that it one of the most endearing parts. I look around and everything's grey and brown. It's the middle of summer and the trees are green and the sky is blue, but EVERYTHING IS GREY AND BROWN. All the cars are black, gray, white and brown. Christ, it's boring.
I walk from my work to the bank wearing something like this http://www.rustyzipper.com/shop.cfm?viewpartnum=220592 and I get weird looks for not being grey and brown enough. Sorry for not wearing super serious colors all the time.
That's not tacky colourful shit. This is http://www.loupiote.com/photos/3979954470.shtml
Finally, a purpose for recycled Mardi Gras beads.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on March 02, 2013, 07:24:50 PM
Quote from: Dalek on March 02, 2013, 09:36:53 AM
Quote from: trippinprincezz13 on February 25, 2013, 05:47:01 PM
Quote from: Dalek on February 24, 2013, 11:17:36 AM
And I think that everything that gets put out for mass consumption there is just aesthetically off. Compare EU rave culture to US rave culture for example. In the EU from my experience, you have badass clubs, nice girls, people who dress well (generally) and really good music (no need to list all the awesome European DJs). And in the US you have teenagers wearing TOO MUCH FUCKING TACKY COLORFUL SHIT, yelling YOLO MOLLY YOLO MOLLY SKRILLEX. Sorry, America, you're doing it wrong.
To be fair, I think that it one of the most endearing parts. I look around and everything's grey and brown. It's the middle of summer and the trees are green and the sky is blue, but EVERYTHING IS GREY AND BROWN. All the cars are black, gray, white and brown. Christ, it's boring.
I walk from my work to the bank wearing something like this http://www.rustyzipper.com/shop.cfm?viewpartnum=220592 and I get weird looks for not being grey and brown enough. Sorry for not wearing super serious colors all the time.
That's not tacky colourful shit. This is http://www.loupiote.com/photos/3979954470.shtml
Finally, a purpose for recycled Mardi Gras beads.
There is a whole album of these photos. "Kandi Kids" Best so far? http://www.loupiote.com/photos/2470888966.shtml?s=72157604940284967
I kinda hate you right now, Dalek.
http://www.loupiote.com/photos/3979201469.shtml
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on March 02, 2013, 07:28:35 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on March 02, 2013, 07:24:50 PM
Quote from: Dalek on March 02, 2013, 09:36:53 AM
Quote from: trippinprincezz13 on February 25, 2013, 05:47:01 PM
Quote from: Dalek on February 24, 2013, 11:17:36 AM
And I think that everything that gets put out for mass consumption there is just aesthetically off. Compare EU rave culture to US rave culture for example. In the EU from my experience, you have badass clubs, nice girls, people who dress well (generally) and really good music (no need to list all the awesome European DJs). And in the US you have teenagers wearing TOO MUCH FUCKING TACKY COLORFUL SHIT, yelling YOLO MOLLY YOLO MOLLY SKRILLEX. Sorry, America, you're doing it wrong.
To be fair, I think that it one of the most endearing parts. I look around and everything's grey and brown. It's the middle of summer and the trees are green and the sky is blue, but EVERYTHING IS GREY AND BROWN. All the cars are black, gray, white and brown. Christ, it's boring.
I walk from my work to the bank wearing something like this http://www.rustyzipper.com/shop.cfm?viewpartnum=220592 and I get weird looks for not being grey and brown enough. Sorry for not wearing super serious colors all the time.
That's not tacky colourful shit. This is http://www.loupiote.com/photos/3979954470.shtml
Finally, a purpose for recycled Mardi Gras beads.
There is a whole album of these photos. "Kandi Kids" Best so far? http://www.loupiote.com/photos/2470888966.shtml?s=72157604940284967
All that crap would make me so claustrophobic.
Also, dear Lord, Dalek, I hope that isn't what people in your country really think American youth are like.
Naw, they're far too thin to be Americans.
Remember, for a good 20 years, our perceptions of you were strongly shaped by Jerry Springer and the like.
Quote from: Cain on March 02, 2013, 10:14:31 PM
Naw, they're far too thin to be Americans.
Remember, for a good 20 years, our perceptions of you were strongly shaped by Jerry Springer and the like.
Well, that's pretty accurate, to tell the truth.
To be fair, though, I haven't seen a screaming obese woman in skimpy clothes throw a chair in her husband in weeks.
Quote from: Pope Partum Depression on March 02, 2013, 11:29:31 PM
To be fair, though, I haven't seen a screaming obese woman in skimpy clothes throw a chair in her husband in weeks.
Haven't been getting out much? Or is poor weather keeping them indoors?
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on February 25, 2013, 05:11:01 PM
This bitch is making my job difficult, by simply not reading my notes that I leave behind for her.
Read my fucking notes, and you will see what this student needs. Instead of bringing me half assed incomplete shit that you think is finished to try and "wrap up".
They're not fucking done, their FAFSA is fucking incorrect. READ MY NOTES. You stupid vapid bitch.
If she is dyslexic I can't blame her for avoiding reading. Reading sucks for dyslexics.
IT IS PART OF HER JOB!!!!!
ya know?
They are the 99 %, sh**; we're doomed
Quote from: Dalek on March 02, 2013, 09:36:53 AM
Quote from: trippinprincezz13 on February 25, 2013, 05:47:01 PM
Quote from: Dalek on February 24, 2013, 11:17:36 AM
And I think that everything that gets put out for mass consumption there is just aesthetically off. Compare EU rave culture to US rave culture for example. In the EU from my experience, you have badass clubs, nice girls, people who dress well (generally) and really good music (no need to list all the awesome European DJs). And in the US you have teenagers wearing TOO MUCH FUCKING TACKY COLORFUL SHIT, yelling YOLO MOLLY YOLO MOLLY SKRILLEX. Sorry, America, you're doing it wrong.
To be fair, I think that it one of the most endearing parts. I look around and everything's grey and brown. It's the middle of summer and the trees are green and the sky is blue, but EVERYTHING IS GREY AND BROWN. All the cars are black, gray, white and brown. Christ, it's boring.
I walk from my work to the bank wearing something like this http://www.rustyzipper.com/shop.cfm?viewpartnum=220592 and I get weird looks for not being grey and brown enough. Sorry for not wearing super serious colors all the time.
That's not tacky colourful shit. This is http://www.loupiote.com/photos/3979954470.shtml
Oh I know what you meant. The hippy dress was more of my complaint about the general blahness of everything out. I've seen the kids like that. It's a bit excessive for me, personally, but it still brightens things up so doesn't bother me none.
Edit: That neon hair one was a bit *YIKES* though usually when I've seen people that done up it's for some party and not as excessive day-to-day. To each their own.
Quote from: trippinprincezz13 on March 04, 2013, 05:48:42 PM
Quote from: Dalek on March 02, 2013, 09:36:53 AM
Quote from: trippinprincezz13 on February 25, 2013, 05:47:01 PM
Quote from: Dalek on February 24, 2013, 11:17:36 AM
And I think that everything that gets put out for mass consumption there is just aesthetically off. Compare EU rave culture to US rave culture for example. In the EU from my experience, you have badass clubs, nice girls, people who dress well (generally) and really good music (no need to list all the awesome European DJs). And in the US you have teenagers wearing TOO MUCH FUCKING TACKY COLORFUL SHIT, yelling YOLO MOLLY YOLO MOLLY SKRILLEX. Sorry, America, you're doing it wrong.
To be fair, I think that it one of the most endearing parts. I look around and everything's grey and brown. It's the middle of summer and the trees are green and the sky is blue, but EVERYTHING IS GREY AND BROWN. All the cars are black, gray, white and brown. Christ, it's boring.
I walk from my work to the bank wearing something like this http://www.rustyzipper.com/shop.cfm?viewpartnum=220592 and I get weird looks for not being grey and brown enough. Sorry for not wearing super serious colors all the time.
That's not tacky colourful shit. This is http://www.loupiote.com/photos/3979954470.shtml
Oh I know what you meant. The hippy dress was more of my complaint about the general blahness of everything out. I've seen the kids like that. It's a bit excessive for me, personally, but it still brightens things up so doesn't bother me none.
Edit: That neon hair one was a bit *YIKES* though usually when I've seen people that done up it's for some party and not as excessive day-to-day. To each their own.
I get it. There has to be a middle ground.
It's like houses. The local white yahoos are all painting their houses the color of bile or stale pea soup in reaction to a few orange and purple houses owned by Mexicans.
Me, I'd go with something like the "painted ladies" in San Francisco. They'd probably torch it, though: "AH DON'T KNOW WHUT THEM COLORS IS FOR!!!!! BURN IT!!!!!!!"
Tonight I was at the store and saw another person complaining that she couldn't get hot food with food stamps.
The guys behind the food counter explained that it was the EBT program's rules but they couldn't break them. The lady asked them to mislabel the food as cold product instead of hot. The guys said they couldn't do it. She huffed and got ordered the cold product.
I noticed her iPhone and her fancy manicure. I noticed she and who I assume was her husband were bundled up in layers and heavy coats. I also noticed her two kids, both somewhere between three and five-ish, didn't have coats or more than one layer or shoes and it was below thirty outside. For a Georgian, that's Ice-Age temperatures.
I'm not sure what to think about this. I'm not sure what the appropriate response is. Mostly I have revulsion. But I don't know the entire story, I just know what I saw.
Mostly, I guess, I'm pondering my reactions to scenes like this. They're becoming incredibly common.
I don't know how to untangle that mess. Education is a good place to start.
Ignorance and apathy are swallowing the "middle class," too...wolfing down all the color and hope, positivity and potential blotted out by hopeless self-concern and blindness in broad daylight. Some of those parents simply *can't* empathize or care about their own kids. You could point out the glaringly obvious but they won't see. They'll refuse to see. That's why Nigel can't save the world, no matter how many phonecalls she makes or foster kids she adopts. There'll always be another messed up kid whose parents are sort of...fine with their kid staying in a homeless shelter. I would piss myself not knowing where my kid is and it's quite possible their kid could be raped and murdered for three days before someone thought to ask which parent or friend's house the child was staying at.
Maybe it's too many rats and not enough cheese and now we're starting to eat our young.