I don’t understand why people would want to create barriers to entry and potentially make things such a struggle by not going to school and getting a degree. You might say “You spend a lot of money in college and it doesn’t guarantee you anything!”. Well of course, nothing is guaranteed. But it is a huge investment in your life. A degree opens exponentially more doors by just having that ‘piece of paper’. Why limit yourself from the start of your life? University teaches you responsibility, task handling, working with others in leadership roles, taking accountability for deliverables, etc. You are armed with the skills necessarily to function in the work force. Rarely do you hear someone say “Glad I didn’t go to school!”, but rather commonly hear “I wish I got my degree/I would like to *job x* but I need University for that” more often. But trust me, what I’m saying makes a whole lot of sense (that you can only fully appreciate when you actually went through the process, as I have). -GreyFox51
This is where your argument fails for me. The only selection of people in your analogy didn’t go to college. Of course people who didn’t go to college are going to wish that they did at some point. It’s been fed to them as the only way of succeeding in life. Your analogy doesn’t consider the college graduates regretful of his/her overwhelming debts in a struggling job market, which is more and more common every day. How many college graduates are saddled with debt and unable to find a job in their market of their degree? All the skills you listed as reasons for going to college have already been delivered to you in high school, but I’m not against higher learning and education at all. You can get a degree over the internet in half the time and a fraction of the costs. The only reason to go to a university and live in the dorms is to network. I’m not even kidding. Getting good grades in that scenario is a complete joke. Get good grades with an internet college and save your money. Or, you take the corresponding entry level job, spend 4 years working harder than the lazy retard who paid for a degree and relish his bitching when you are offered his promotion.
A store recently burned down and my great grandma said she thought it was Jewish lightning. Oh, how awesome it must be to be so old you can say whatever you want. -Hezzert1ne
Among the their various racial stereotypes, I’ve never heard the one about them being prone to committing insurance fraud. Thanks for the heads up, I guess.
JUST SAW 20 MINUTES OF STARSHIP TROOPERS AND I MUST SAY, THAT MOVIE IS TERRIBLE -wareagles91
Its a satire of cliches. It’s not your thing. It’s cool. Some people get offended because they are cliche’d people though, and caps lock makes you look angry. Just saying.
Give me a work industry worse than the food industry. i got nothing. i hate it. -AdaptiveTheory
Me neither. Besides the ridiculously hot temperatures in wool coats, no breaks, low pay, 60 hour work weeks and ironic inability to not be able to enjoy any of the food you’ve spent your life preparing, by far, the worst part about it is the essential need to be working while everyone else is having fun. Nights, weekends, and holidays all the time. Every other shitty job you can think of, there’s a guy who woke up two hours before him to make him breakfast. You can’t even consider a dangerous job worse because they get payed for their potential sacrifice, and while the kitchen ranks among the most dangerous work environment around, there’s notoriously meager pay.
Ever get so hungry that you stop being hungry?? -nibmunkey
Actually, when you first think you are hungry, you are not. That’s food withdrawal. Your body is telling your mind your stomach and guts are empty and its available for more food. People mistake it for hunger. I wager you have never actually felt hungry, unless you fast for more than a day or have been so sick that you can not eat. You need at least three without food to actually be hungry. When you are hungry, you’ll notice a different feeling.
Michael Pitt’s acting in Boardwalk Empire is distracting. It’s almost to the point where the I might just stop watching the show because of him. Tommy Wiseau probably would have done a better job in that role. -AbbuvDaKlowdz
Hes the DiCaprio ripoff main character, right? My jury is still out on him. I like the immigrant widow, though. I very much enjoy her acting. Regretfully, I don’t know her name. Also, I was wondering what was going to be Nucky’s “Pool Ducks”. You know, the certain quirk of his that we can relate to and makes us root for him, and it’s completely awesome that Nucky’s is hating racism and sexism. He’s two-faced about everything, except bigotry. Awesome.
What percentage of slave owners do you think treated their slaves pretty good? -CanadiAnne
I bet its surprising. I mean, farm work is very hard labour. There is no dispute to this. At all. But I would wager that there were some pretty good situations. Days off, 3 squares a day of varied foods, holiday considerations. Granted, I’m only basing this off the amount of period wills that show a lot of slaves accepted jobs from their southern slave masters after being freed, or the owner died. Slavery was wrong. I’m not defending it. You rape a girl on a bed of roses while stuffing Ghiradelli chocolates into her screaming mouth doesn’t make it a resonable crime. I’m just saying, I bet it was more Forrest Gump than it was Roots that people give the situation credit for.
When homosexuality is accepted, what retarded sub-culture will liberals latch onto next? -Lightfroodom
Whichever the butthurt conservative’s delicate sensibilities get offended by and have to cry about.
Dave Chappelle quitting his show was a genius move from a financial standpoint as well as a personal standpoint. For one thing, doing the show was creating a personal hell for him. It was loads of work and took loads of time and it was getting to him. By quitting he showed real guts. He walked away from a multi-million dollar paycheck simply because he didn’t like his job. That takes some balls. By doing so he was able to make his life much much easier. He was actually able to spend time with his family and enjoy his earnings. Chappelle quit the game when he got what he needed: Recognition and wealth. By quitting the game he managed to keep something he could have lost: Respect.
No need for a Chappelle apologist to make him out to be some sort of martyr. He quit because he put personal needs in front of all else. Maybe you can quit your job because they make you feel inferior in some way and you don’t need the money. But the rest of us have people relying on us to get things done and feel like we lose a little dignity every day when we do some part of a job we hate. I’m sure if your boss sold off your job and flew to Bermuda because he didn’t want to do backorder reports anymore, youd want the right to feel disappointed. You aren’t allowed to lose any respect for the guy? He did two sympathetic spots on the Studio and Oprah and everyone buys that he’s the victim. Those were real hardball questions he was being asked there. Good people can have selfish, negative moments. Which is exactly what happened.
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