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ha ha bloody has to be my favorite canadian word. My aunt was canadian and I said it one time and she got pissed (when I was youngster).
PS steve, all the college won't change the fact that yer mom's a *****.
PS steve, all the college won't change the fact that yer mom's a *****.
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How true - people associate education with intelligence. I have a bachelors in Accounting from a good school and I can honestly say that in my four years in school I really didn't learn anything someone with common sence couln't pick up. Some of my prof's were so retarded they would go on and on and be wrong - someone in class would point out that it wasn't what the book was saying and they'd get all flustered - funny ****.
Anyways - here in sleepy ol Florida I make almost double because I have a degree. Without my degree I would make jack and be doing the same if not more work than I do now. Funny thing I got my current job from a referrel from a job offer I turned down because they have a hard time finding edjumacated people in this area. I turned down a CPA firm and they referred me to a customer in the private industry and well yeah..
School is just a way for society to funnel money and hopefully weed out the really really dumb people. Cuz you don't have to be bright to pass college, you just have to show up every now and then.
Anyways - here in sleepy ol Florida I make almost double because I have a degree. Without my degree I would make jack and be doing the same if not more work than I do now. Funny thing I got my current job from a referrel from a job offer I turned down because they have a hard time finding edjumacated people in this area. I turned down a CPA firm and they referred me to a customer in the private industry and well yeah..
School is just a way for society to funnel money and hopefully weed out the really really dumb people. Cuz you don't have to be bright to pass college, you just have to show up every now and then.
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[quote name='Amy' date='Jun 7 2005, 01:33 PM']School is just a way for society to funnel money and hopefully weed out the really really dumb people. Cuz you don't have to be bright to pass college, you just have to show up every now and then.
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That's what I'm banking on. I should go out and buy a new M5 right now, I can feel the money coming already!
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That's what I'm banking on. I should go out and buy a new M5 right now, I can feel the money coming already!
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From: Stuart, FL
[quote name='banzaitoyota' date='Jun 7 2005, 04:24 PM']i have to agree with you Scott
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America will suffer as a whole from the fact that skilled labor is no longer a "good" option. anything manufactured in the US will ultimately suffer, it's hard to take pride your work when you are working a supposedly "shitty" job. It's already being seen in the construction industry. In my Dad's era you took pride in your work, your family took pride in it "my dad built that" " my husband built that" no longer is that case.
I personally have far more respect for people like my mother in laws boyfriend who does a good job and takes pride in the work he does then the pencil pusher with a 4 year degree peddling junk bonds to old ladies and draining people's life savings pushing the next enron stock on them.
In past generations high school prepared students for LIFE. In many cases it taught them a trade, it gave them the skills to do something that would put food on the table and a smile on the person's face, however today's high schools prepare kids for college, that's it. It prepares them to get into college and get a degree. That sucks in my opinion.
Watching someone work with their hands, take pride in it and come up with a finished product is amazing. My dad helped me build a bulkhead for my boat a couple weeks ago and it made think that it was definetely something I want to learn, I want to make my own things and appreciate their worth based on the hard work and skill i put into it.
Look at the crap furniture available in stores, try to find someone to make you a custom cabinet, I cant think of one local cabinet shop left. So you settle for crap.
Soon we'll be settling for crap in every industry cause "it's all we can get"
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America will suffer as a whole from the fact that skilled labor is no longer a "good" option. anything manufactured in the US will ultimately suffer, it's hard to take pride your work when you are working a supposedly "shitty" job. It's already being seen in the construction industry. In my Dad's era you took pride in your work, your family took pride in it "my dad built that" " my husband built that" no longer is that case.
I personally have far more respect for people like my mother in laws boyfriend who does a good job and takes pride in the work he does then the pencil pusher with a 4 year degree peddling junk bonds to old ladies and draining people's life savings pushing the next enron stock on them.
In past generations high school prepared students for LIFE. In many cases it taught them a trade, it gave them the skills to do something that would put food on the table and a smile on the person's face, however today's high schools prepare kids for college, that's it. It prepares them to get into college and get a degree. That sucks in my opinion.
Watching someone work with their hands, take pride in it and come up with a finished product is amazing. My dad helped me build a bulkhead for my boat a couple weeks ago and it made think that it was definetely something I want to learn, I want to make my own things and appreciate their worth based on the hard work and skill i put into it.
Look at the crap furniture available in stores, try to find someone to make you a custom cabinet, I cant think of one local cabinet shop left. So you settle for crap.
Soon we'll be settling for crap in every industry cause "it's all we can get"
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We've also done everything possible to keep idiots alive. When i was kid there were no ******* bike helmets, you fell off yer bike and bumped yer head you were a ******* idiot and inevitbly one of the other life threatening toys would soon weed you out of the shallow end of the gene pool. 
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[quote name='Sinful7' date='Jun 7 2005, 04:47 PM']^^^ Whoa Mr. Rant.
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HA HA I know what degree you should get, you should get a woman's liberties degree, UW has one. You could sit around and talk about how yer vagina hurts with them and how sensative "the steve" is.
yea you need to start referring to yourself in the third too.
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Mr Rant
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HA HA I know what degree you should get, you should get a woman's liberties degree, UW has one. You could sit around and talk about how yer vagina hurts with them and how sensative "the steve" is.
yea you need to start referring to yourself in the third too.
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Mr Rant
