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Oh, oh, I understand! I understand!
Amazing that the decade which brought us "Spider-man, Spider-man. Does whatever a spider can" came up with "Hulk smashes things while I play unfitting music." Not to mention the resolution of the melody is so half-assed.
i think i just heard "o christmas tree"
what in [insert name here]'s name is this
In other news, I am continuing my quest of eating everything in this dining hall using only a single spoon.
Something to try out the next time you want to troll altrighters(I have been getting too little sleep): Ashekenazi as Tzeentch. It simulatenously explains all the contradictory anti-semitic conspiracy theories, incorporates some of the cranks' apocalyptic ravings of a societal system out of control, and for the religiously minded you could toss in some canard about a vain attempt to stave off the Apocalypse by violating the Three Oaths. Of course, you could go even further and frame their struggle a heroïc fight against entropy itself because of the latter.
You need a break from /pol/.
Jews = Tzeentch
Muslims = Khorne
Blacks = Nurgle
Gays = Slaanesh
Whaddya think?
i have no idea what is being discussed
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^^^Perfect.
Edit: Alternatively, Feminists are Nurgle, and Blacks are Orks.
at least the 90's show intro more than made up for that.
What have I wrought? Anyway, Tau=Asians, Imperium=Papists and Eldar=Roma because space arks.
It's grim darkness of modern day, and Magisterium is beset on all sides by vile forces of decay and rising alien empires.
OH YOU GOTTA BE FUCKING KIDDING ME.
FOUR BUNS. AND FRIES. ALL GOING TO WASTE.
FOR GOODNESS SAKES, JUST ASK THE CHEF TO MAKE YOU BURGER PATTIES WITHOUT THE BUNS OR FRIES. IT'S AN ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT PLACE. JUST ASK.
On second thought, Eldar should be the liberal elites.
Doublepost because totally unrelated: so I have an idea for a discussion, yet I don't know where to put it. Should I start a new thread, dump it in Book Club, or dig up General Fantasy thread? Eh, guys? Whaddya think?
Depends. Do you want a general audience to see it, or primarily the users who frequent the megathreads? If the former, make a new thread. If the latter, just post it in the megathread. Also, discussions may go on longer if you make it a general thread.
As for my update, I get the feeling that the "entitled generation" primarily boils down to "You want a life other than the suburban ideal? How dare you?" Of course, I'm biased because from personal experience, the suburbs are what I imagine purgatory looks like and suburban materialism is the embodiment of entitlement.
On second thought, I guess it wouldn't be that much interesting anyway.
I wonder if I was biased in the other direction. In any case, I've been thinking there're two sides to it. On one hand there's what you say, where folks don't just want to settle down in some random job and work there quietly. On the other you get folks who get college degree in some fad specialty that's already oversaturated the job market, or the opposite, absurdly narrow and specific hipster's delight that outside of academia is barely good for anything, and then act like the very fact that they have a diploma earns them a decent, well-paying job. I'm curious if this had happened in the past. Certainly higher education is a lot more common than it was once, but things that happen for the first time in history have a tendency to turn out they have already happened a lot of times.
I remember that before I first started university, this was essentially what we were told. The career classes told us to go with our interests, job satisfaction was more important than money, etc, and we were pressured into higher education to avoid working at McDonald's. Leaving aside the debate over what the value of higher education should be for a bit, it would have been less painful if students were informed of the relative merit of their options before being fed to the student loan sharks, because it is absurd to think a student fresh out of high school automatically knows how to plan out the rest of their life. Of course, higher education saturation came after the fact, so there's a major case of perfect information fallacy going on.
Also, I'm suspicious of the idea that university education is meant to be solely to get a better job. Isn't that supposed to be the domain of trade schools? I think another issue is that the former was pushed as a one-size-fits-all venue for higher education when some young folks would be better served by the latter.
I'm in that comfortable position that I didn't go for the humanities. These seem to bear the brunt of the problem. Engineers and computer guys just drink their way through studies and then go on to well-paying jobs. Heh heh. You know what, I did wonder several times if I wouldn't have done better if I picked some technical school and became, like, a car mechanic or what.
That part about job satisfaction and going with one's interests sounds a bit like, "join the army, travel the world, meet interesting people". Technically true, but it's the part they don't mention. (Edited out the repetition.)
Eh. I guess I'm a bit jaded. You see, these days I'm a bit jaded towards everything.
You're not the only one. I feel like we've all been so involved in making money and participating in the capitalist Ponzi scheme that we've forgotten the value of what it means to care for each other. The whole idea of degrees as a good or bad investment is one part of that, since subjects such as sociology have an important, but indirect impact on the world. On the other hand, orthodox economics tends to ignore human behaviour in favour of painting them as a rational (i.e., selfish) consumer. I get suspicious of those who denigrate the humanities, such as Dear Leader Stephen Harper and his "commit sociology" meme.
I feel a bit like a fish that wonders what's so gleamy about that worm, looking at your post. Let's see if I can avoid it.
Sociology itself is not the problem, or the humanities in general, it's just that these are stereotypically things studied by all these folks who later complain they can't get a job with their diploma. Around here we've had some actions meant to encourage people to get into "hard" sciences. There's a bit too many folks who pride themselves on mathematical illiteracy (amathematicality?), a bit too many folks after humanities when compared to strictly humanities-related places in the job market, and we could use a couple more folks with engineer's diplomas. I'm using the term "market" but I just mean, there're only so many places where a sociologist's skills are needed, market economy or not.
But I feel, we're straying away for what initially was the issue that bugged you.
Hmm...what's your country of residence again? I do agree there is a problem if there's a deficit of STEM due to what you've mentioned, and the mathematical illiteracy pride part surprises me in particular. Then again, perhaps I have not paid enough attention to the Canadian scene, since anti-intellectualism is everywhere.
Anyways, back to the "entitlement generation", I just think that it's icky that the older generation tells young people that they need to go to university to get a good job, then turns around and sneers at them when they can't get a good job after university because of the recession, higher education saturation, and other factors that couldn't be realistically forseen by most high school students. The stuff pundits say about young people, I wonder if they would say it to their own kids, or if they even have kids.
As for your fish metaphor, I honestly do appreciate that even though we may disagree on matters, you make an effort to understand my point of view. I hope that I am doing the same.
Heh, don't worry, at no point I felt you weren't. It's just, uh, I figured out in time that with my social skills, I need to be cautious or I'll start a flame somehow and not even know about it. Or something like that.
That part about being icky, yeah, I can agree. Doesn't sound right. Mhm, perhaps the way I see both sides is because of the difference in starting position, so to say.
To me it is simply an absurdity that you've got to pay for your college tuition, it's too fucking expensive and just makes you a wage slave for the rest of your life.
Someone's gotta pay for it, better you than the people that wouldn't be able to attend even if it were "free".
EDIT: To clarify, general "you", as in, "you, nondescript person that attends college".
I am subsidized to the point I only pay 50 bucks a semester. But that's because the college I go to is funded by the fact that we have a need of engineers asap.
How expensive!
Anyhow, just because it's free doesn't mean it has to be open for those who wouldn't be able to go through it.
Sometimes I feel guilty over the fact that my family could've paid for it even if it weren't free, but... well, it was the best option around even if it weren't...
*goes back to work*
You really shouldn't be. Education is a right, not a privilege.
Why would it be open to those without the capacity to go through with it?