My only shortcoming is that I don't acknowledge my shortcomings.
"Ok we aren't such things and birds are pretty advanced. They fly and shit from anywhere they want. While we sit on our automatic toilets, they're shitting on people and my car while a cool breeze tickles their anus. That's the life."
Old Conservative Faggot Joined: Sat May 15, 2010 12:19 am Posts: 4308 Location: Winchester Virginia
I didn't think there was anything to rationalize. I'm chubby. I'm "old." I have procreated. I accept it and I don't blame others for it, which I think is kind of the opposite of rationalizing. It is what it is...and I'd probably stop repeating myself if there was any evidence that anything sunk in to some people's thick skulls. I'd probably leave off on the long-winded, overly-precise explanations and not explain the same things the same ways every other thread if the response to short, simple statements in every other thread wasn't silly shit like "fuck you, got mine" and "do you believe in Santa Claus."
Querulous Quidnunc Joined: Wed May 12, 2010 8:41 am Posts: 4695
I really hate the "got mine" defense.
Just take any point one of "the 1%" on this board (har har) says and go
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Got mine
It should be:
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Got mine.....because I wasn't a dumbass with a shitty liberal arts degree who got butthurt when I graduated and finally figured out that no one wants to pay for my thoughts on Aristotle and Women's Suffrage.
Also Tuhl, not knocking the law degree...but this:
During the recession, the logic was ubiquitous: The economy is terrible—better to wait it out! It is a three-year fast track to a remunerative, respectable career! It's not just learning a subject—it's learning how to think! Law school, always the safe choice, became a more popular choice. Between 2007 and 2009, the number of LSAT takers climbed 20.5 percent. Law school applications increased in turn.
But now a number of recent or current law students are saying—or screaming—that they made a mistake. They went to law school, they say, and now they're underemployed or jobless, in debt, and three years older. And statistics show that the evidence is more than anecdotal.
I considered law school, then decided against it. My sister is a lawyer for Paul Hastings and still has a crap ton of law school debt she's facing. You gotta be smarter than the markets. Anticipate where demand and jobs will be.
Bottom line, learn how to build web sites/code/general technology and you'll do just fine. If you don't want to do that, and you happen to get a degree in something where there aren't a lot of jobs, or the job market is highly competitive, don't cry about it. You made the decision. Dust yourself off, man up, and fucking figure out how to get paid.
I think everyone at Occupy Wall Street should watch this scene 1000 times:
French Faggot Joined: Tue Jun 10, 2008 1:15 pm Posts: 5227 Location: New Jersey
Jubbergun wrote:
all that shit
While I'm happy I got the rise that I did (and to be clear, I was definitely insulting you), the point was more to illustrate that you're the everyman. Specifically, you're the everyman that all the people from my generation and younger were trained not to be from an early age. We're supposed to be educated and have careers, not hold two-year degrees and live from paycheck to paycheck. But it turns out that the only people allowed to be entitled douchebags are the simpletons who got business degrees, or the ones who did math-finance because real math was too hard, and everyone else is a no-good hippie who had the baton to the face coming.
America's youth has every reason to be pissed. "Go get a minimum-wage job" isn't going to make them less pissed, it's going to make them more pissed. Your troll logic about how they really should have known better is too little too late, because doomsayers like you were the very same ones pushing said young people not to make the same mistakes you did, to go to college and make sure they got themselves a degree, because that would make them valued and hireable.
So it's not about occupying a job. It's not even about the tired old leftist rhetoric that you so despise. It's about not being lied to. It's about some semblance of fairness. It's about the ability for the wealthy to improve the world, and then refusing to do so. It's about double-dealing and stepping on the middle class, so that another suit can buy a fourth car that he never drives. The rich can still be rich. They just can't be so rich that even Solomon would be embarrassed.
But really, are you serious about job creation? Because your political party sure as fuck isn't.
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