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Years of hard work

I hear "years of hard work" and think, "Nah, I don't want to be talented anyway." Win-win.

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More crazed bums

Yesterday I posted a simple quiz that promises to tell you what kind of crazed bum you are. You should go take it, because it's important to know. Anyway, here are the kinds covered in the quiz:

Of course, the emerging field of bum taxonomy is full of examples of other types, but they're not as well-understood as the above three. If you take the quiz and find that the results don't seem to be a perfect fit, you might consider some of these other possibilities:

• The Storytelling Bum: sometimes considered a subset of the Too Much Information Bums, the storytellers will tell you anything, not just uncomfortably personal information. They're kind of like the Homer of ancient Greece, except their stories probably won't be read by bored high school students in four thousand years.
• The Trickster Bum: will sometimes try to trick you out of your food or money, but sometimes just wants to mess with you for fun. The Trickster Bums might seem almost sane on the surface, but remember that their entire purpose in life is to break your brain.
• The Hardcore Bum: these ones are playing on hard mode. They don't complain and most of them don't beg. Even the world of the working class is cushy to them; the hardcore bums live in a world that seems almost post-apocalyptic, scavenging and battling their way through life on the margins, making do with the crumbled remnants of a broken system (how cool does that sound? BRB, becoming a hardcore bum).

Find out what kind of crazed bum you are!

Though a small group of people does choose homelessness and bumhood,  did you know that something like 40% of the homeless population suffers from mental illness? There's nothing funny about that. If you have the means, you might consider donating time or money to a local or regional shelter, or the National Alliance to End Homelessness (charity navigator information here).

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Mental Health

When they came home, the young troll looked ashamed, and they quickly found the reason why. Every trash can in the house was overturned, and the contents had all been spread about and chewed on. Dad rubbed the troll's nose it and sternly repeated, "Bad troll! Bad troll!" But we didn't know then just how bad the troll could be.

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It's a re-run, and it's still true.