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chuck norris calls obama the antichrist

sen akin says rape does not case pregnancy

etc

how does one live in a world where you cant tell if a headline is from 'the onion' or if a republican said something retarded

Kayla wrote:chuck norris calls obama the antichrist

sen akin says rape does not case pregnancy

etc

how does one live in a world where you cant tell if a headline is from 'the onion' or if a republican said something retarded

If Akin were raped, I doubt he would get pregnant, so that would be proof that he really wanted it.

Come to think of it? Has anyone seen the anti-christ and Chuck Norris in the same room, at the same time?

The trick is shoving their lunacy right back at them.

one of my older brother's friends dropped out of the community college after one semester and went to mexico to teach english

he says that a high school graduate with reasonable command of english could easily get a job there - he said he can help me and my twin get jobs at the school he teaches once we are done with high school

apparently by mexican standards one could live reasonably well doing that they even have socialized medicine

better than being a stripper in montreal and no republicans there

Kayla wrote:one of my older brother's friends dropped out of the community college after one semester and went to mexico to teach english

he says that a high school graduate with reasonable command of english could easily get a job there - he said he can help me and my twin get jobs at the school he teaches once we are done with high school

apparently by mexican standards one could live reasonably well doing that they even have socialized medicine

better than being a stripper in montreal and no republicans there

Kayla, seriously, aim higher. Go to med school, law school, but do not aim low.

ForgedinHell wrote: Kayla, seriously, aim higher. Go to med school, law school, but do not aim low.

Are you saying he should go to Canada?

thedoc wrote:

ForgedinHell wrote: Kayla, seriously, aim higher. Go to med school, law school, but do not aim low.

Are you saying he should go to Canada?

No, I am stating that she is a good egg and she should live up to her potential. She has a lot of options, and she should not be limiting herself. She is young and doesn't fully realize that there are people who would give anything to have her intellect so they would have more options available to them. Smart kids should be encouraged to go as far as they can, intellectually, and I can't believe I'm the only adult here who thinks and feels this way. I'm sure there are others here who understand what I am writing about.

Kayla wrote:chuck norris calls obama the antichrist
sen akin says rape does not case pregnancy
etc
how does one live in a world where you cant tell if a headline is from 'the onion' or if a republican said something retarded

How is it any-less retarded than Obama saying "at a certain point, you've made enough" or ""I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."?

Kayla wrote:he says that a high school graduate with reasonable command of english could easily get a job there - he said he can help me and my twin get jobs at the school he teaches once we are done with high school.apparently by mexican standards one could live reasonably well doing that they even have socialized medicine

and far worse living standards than some of the worst parts in America.. "socialized medicine"? this is the land of the free,not the land of the free lunch.but being the dumb liberal Twat you are,you are undoubtedly an advocate of radical wealth redistribution, a fundamentally flawed concept that ignores human nature and is justified with a false premise of "fairness".I bet you even think it's the governments duty to hand you a job?. What the fuck do they teach you kids in school these days?whatever happened to "personal responsibility"?

Kayla wrote:better than being a stripper in montreal and no republicans there

In American politics,it's always been the case of choosing the lesser of the two evils.. neither party represents my values/principles.but at-least under republicans i would be paying fewer taxes.rather have root canal than vote for a Democrat

ForgedinHell wrote:No, I am stating that she is a good egg and she should live up to her potential. She has a lot of options, and she should not be limiting herself. She is young and doesn't fully realize that there are people who would give anything to have her intellect so they would have more options available to them.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA

johngalthasspoken wrote:

ForgedinHell wrote:No, I am stating that she is a good egg and she should live up to her potential. She has a lot of options, and she should not be limiting herself. She is young and doesn't fully realize that there are people who would give anything to have her intellect so they would have more options available to them.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA

You can trust me on this, no one is worried about you aiming too low in life.

ForgedinHell wrote:Kayla, seriously, aim higher. Go to med school, law school, but do not aim low.

yeah all things considered becoming a stripper in canada or teaching english with nothing but high school education in mexico as a permanent job is not really the way to go - although a year of teaching english in mexico could be fun - or i might be able to swing a summer of doing that next summer

my best friends mom overheard her talking with me about the stripper idea and totally freaked out and called my mom who freaked out and told my dad who freaked out not because of the stripper thing but because he thought mom was freaking out over nothing - he assumed it was a thought experiment rather than anything we were seriously contemplating

in any case much drama resulted

for the moment i am assuming the boring option of going to university after high school - probably for cognitive science - there is one place where i could do that with a minor in spanish

The world is a big place. Media is a big place. One will just have to use "good internet sense" as we say in Norwegian. It's the same problem as email spam and things like it, you'll just have to be careful and take time learning and exploring so you don't make premature decisions regarding the use of information.

Regarding education it is up to the individual what to do. I hardly find you to be the "stripper"-type but if that's your calling then go with it, you may try it out for a month or two and find out it's shit or alternatively that you feel comfortable in that position.

Same with Mexico. None of them are very lucrative and none of them offer much of an easy life because you'll be far away and poorly sheltered from hardships. In the years following ones departure from high school it could be very preferable to have the shelter of friends and family. Since you've not finished high school you'd be young now, younger than me (20 years here), and I've found that experience helps a lot in going into difficult business, as I've been through some with. The difficulties I'm talking about is the suddenness of a lot of responsibility for a lot of very fundamental things in life, and given Mexico's status as a country lacking security (crime) and poor development (poor service in bureaucracy, law enforcement, service companies, and so forth) you will be lucky if you get in and out of there without any kind of problem you'd prefer to be without.

You should go for a couple of weeks visit or something first before you decide to take up a home and a job, at least that's what I would've done, although you of course have the chance to go back whenever you want it could be preferable with a visit.

University is boring. But it'll open a lot of doors, that's for sure. All ones choices are ones own, some are fit for university and some are not. I'm in the later category, can't sit on a school-bench without sleeping almost. If you can sit on a school-bench without sleeping then you are at least having a bloody hell better chance than me of completing it You must look ahead in your life, is what I would say, look ahead and watch what you see yourself as becoming and ask yourself what you want to end up as. There's nothing wrong with being a stripper or an English teacher in Mexico, but you'll find many doors closed that you might have wanted to be open, but that's only if those doors are the ones you want to have open.

ForgedinHell wrote:You can trust me on this, no one is worried about you aiming too low in life.

"aiming high" ??? With Kayla's entitlement attitude, i doubt she's gonna get far.It appears now, that our country may be leaning more and more toward this mentality. With each generation, we begin to see a growing entitlement mindset.
people have different goals in life.let me give you a little background story.i know this might sound a bit shallow,but when i was young i made it my goal to chase money.i made it a goal to make as much as i could & accumulate wealth, not so i can have some fancy shit..while my buddies were fucking around,i was working overtime,saving my money living in an efficiency apartment.I got a scholarship to university of Texas,went through the first semester,but decided it was stupid to be spending the state's money on something i didn't know what i wanted to do.the only goal i had in my mind was to make money.so i quit spending state's money on my scholarship & tuition,and decided to go hustle my ass off & figure it out.After graduating from high school,I got a job at a hotel at 17,working 60 hours a week in guest services like 5 bucks on hour and i had to drive people to & from the airport.where i was living in Austin,there was a resort hotel that i was working at,where GMAC Mortgage had their training,that's where they trained new loan officers,the whole nine.so i was picking up these trainers & taking them back to the hotel, and during that 45 minute drive from airport to the Hotel,i was picking their brains.I had it in me to be curious enough to know & interested enough to figure the shit out. and i knew more about the mortgage industry than these people out of college getting jobs as loan officers at GMAC & i was only 18 at the time.one guy arranged an interview at GMAC Austin,he saw & understood & tested me on this stuff and i was smoking it.I went for the interview & literally blew their minds.so i got a job there at 18,i was the youngest loan officer at that time.it was during a refinance boom & i was making a shitload of money.my buddies were fucking around smoking weed,playing pool,not saying there's anything wrong with that,but instead of saving their money,building up credit & bettering themselves they wasted their lives.they probably had more fun than i did at that point in their lives,while i was working my ass off.but now those same buddies of mine are broke as fuck & have a lot of credit card debt,student load debt,and I'm not. I went back to college,got my degree & now i'm working as a system analyst working on short-term contracts.I have zero credit card debt .paid off my mortgage 5 years ago.now i'm in my mid 30's, single & happy than ever before.

the so called “Generation Y,” have been raised to believe that it is their right to have everything given to them more than any other previous generation. There is no elevator to the top, you need to take the stairs.

The Voice of Time wrote:University is boring. But it'll open a lot of doors, that's for sure. All ones choices are ones own, some are fit for university and some are not. I'm in the later category, can't sit on a school-bench without sleeping almost. If you can sit on a school-bench without sleeping then you are at least having a bloody hell better chance than me of completing it You must look ahead in your life, is what I would say, look ahead and watch what you see yourself as becoming and ask yourself what you want to end up as. There's nothing wrong with being a stripper or an English teacher in Mexico, but you'll find many doors closed that you might have wanted to be open, but that's only if those doors are the ones you want to have open.

another friend of the family got an engineering degree in aerospace engineering and then decided that this is not something that she wants to do for a variety of reasons

so she went to japan to teach english - something that requires a university degree from an a university in an english speaking country - any degree - so you have a point about a university degree opening doors

after two years he says she is going to make a career out of this - the pay and living conditions are a lot better than in Mexico and the most crime ridden part of japan is safer to walk at night than the safest part of mexico - although she also says that the stories about many japanese men being rather grabby in public transit are totally true but a well placed poke in the eye will make them behave

johngalthasspoken wrote: .paid off my mortgage 5 years ago.now i'm in my mid 30's, single & happy than ever before.
There is no elevator to the top, you need to take the stairs.

There is a book 'The Total Money Makeover' by Dave Ramsey, and from what you say you could be the poster boy for the book. Most of what you say in your post is outlined and detailed in the book. My son once asked me what was a good thing to collect, thinking of the collectors market and buying as an investment. I asked him what he liked and he said he was thinking of buying with the idea of reselling to make money, so I told him, "If what you really want to collect is money, then collect money in your bank account, and don't take chances on intermediate things." We all make choices and one of mine was for the kids, my wife had a better paying job than I, so I took off for the kids, driving them to and from school, soccer practice, I was 'Mr. Mom'. Later when my daughter had a child I took care of the grandson so she could work and later she went back to school and I was then taking care of 2 grandchildren. Ramsey's book was a bit late for us but it sounds like you did everything right.

johngalthasspoken wrote:

ForgedinHell wrote:You can trust me on this, no one is worried about you aiming too low in life.

"aiming high" ??? With Kayla's entitlement attitude, i doubt she's gonna get far.It appears now, that our country may be leaning more and more toward this mentality. With each generation, we begin to see a growing entitlement mindset.
people have different goals in life.let me give you a little background story.i know this might sound a bit shallow,but when i was young i made it my goal to chase money.i made it a goal to make as much as i could & accumulate wealth, not so i can have some fancy shit..while my buddies were fucking around,i was working overtime,saving my money living in an efficiency apartment.I got a scholarship to university of Texas,went through the first semester,but decided it was stupid to be spending the state's money on something i didn't know what i wanted to do.the only goal i had in my mind was to make money.so i quit spending state's money on my scholarship & tuition,and decided to go hustle my ass off & figure it out.After graduating from high school,I got a job at a hotel at 17,working 60 hours a week in guest services like 5 bucks on hour and i had to drive people to & from the airport.where i was living in Austin,there was a resort hotel that i was working at,where GMAC Mortgage had their training,that's where they trained new loan officers,the whole nine.so i was picking up these trainers & taking them back to the hotel, and during that 45 minute drive from airport to the Hotel,i was picking their brains.I had it in me to be curious enough to know & interested enough to figure the shit out. and i knew more about the mortgage industry than these people out of college getting jobs as loan officers at GMAC & i was only 18 at the time.one guy arranged an interview at GMAC Austin,he saw & understood & tested me on this stuff and i was smoking it.I went for the interview & literally blew their minds.so i got a job there at 18,i was the youngest loan officer at that time.it was during a refinance boom & i was making a shitload of money.my buddies were fucking around smoking weed,playing pool,not saying there's anything wrong with that,but instead of saving their money,building up credit & bettering themselves they wasted their lives.they probably had more fun than i did at that point in their lives,while i was working my ass off.but now those same buddies of mine are broke as fuck & have a lot of credit card debt,student load debt,and I'm not. I went back to college,got my degree & now i'm working as a system analyst working on short-term contracts.I have zero credit card debt .paid off my mortgage 5 years ago.now i'm in my mid 30's, single & happy than ever before.

the so called “Generation Y,” have been raised to believe that it is their right to have everything given to them more than any other previous generation. There is no elevator to the top, you need to take the stairs.

But you see, Kayla already has you beat. Money is not her main goal. I find people who think money is the main goal and who kiss the ass of those who have it as quite boring and usually a little on the dim-wit side. And what have you learned in life is that you can come online and insult a girl in high-school? That's what I know about you, the rest could be entirely made up, but it doesn't matter, I know by your conduct here what sort of person you are. Petty people go around insulting others.

I stand by what I stated. The fact is Kayla would make a great trial attorney. I usually tell people to go to med school though. In any event, she is intellectually curious, which is something money grubbers typically lack.