After reading this thread, and knowing nothing else in the world about Rand Rover, except his own words here, I would agree whole-heartedly with the OP. He’s an ass, and he knows it and loves it. Stop feeding the troll…
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There is, but they weeded out the one who showed up for the interview.
And yes, I did steal that joke from Blackadder.
Best description I’ve ever read of Ayn Rand’s writing was “…characters hacked out of concrete with a blunt ice pick.”
Wouldn’t know, but I’ll take your word for it.
My opinions of your personality are completely irrelevant to your misunderstanding of Ayn Rand.
It’s Philosophy for Dummies.
And now I’m working while many of you are still in bed.
See? People are starting to get it.
It’s fun to be pitted by people whose opinions you don’t respect. It was fun both times it happened to me. Whatever scorn was heaped on me didn’t matter because it was being shoveled by people I could feel superior to, and their effort reinforced my superiority. If it’s at all important to “get” Rand Rover (and why one would feel so escapes me), choose a tack that won’t make him smile: state his understanding of Ayn Rand’s philosophy is flawed, or that the philosophy itself is flawed. As far as I can tell, while most of you were expressing irritation at him, he was expressing irritation at me (“drop it”), therefore I win.
Peace out, y’all.
I told you, NO cheese on my Egg McMuffin!
Sucker. I don’t see where that’s anything to brag about. I’d much rather be in bed than working. Sadly, obviously, I’m awake. Not working yet, though. My job doesn’t start until 9. Of course, I’m not a [del]bloodsucking leech[/del] high powered tax attorney, just a humble teacher.
Please. Don’t flatter yourself. I said “put up or shut up,” not “drop it.”. Now you want some hash browns with that?
Indeed, this is what I was thinking. The job is, in effect, suckling on the Federal teat.
Yeesh. I’ll go ahead and be embarrassed for you since you apparently don’t think that’s an embarrassing admission.
What? How am I sucking on the federal teat by working to reduce people’s taxes? By your definition, nearly every American with a job is sucking on the federal teat because their job wouldn’t exist if the US gov didn’t exist.
Don’t you wish you had a job that would let you spend more time with your newborn? You know, the one you used to talk about here but don’t any more?
Well, at least you’ve got your money to console you. And posting here, which I’m sure is a relief. Glad we can be your punching bag.
I have read this thread and fully endorse the OP.
:rolleyes: I work my ass off during the week so I can have the weekends generally free to spend with the most beautiful young creature that has ever pooped on planet earth. And she’ll appreciate that I can send her to private school and make sure she’s comfortable, so the money I make does make a real difference in her life, it’s not like it’s some cold comfort from an absentee dad. But if it makes you feel better to think that everyone that is more successful thajn you has a bad relationship with ther kids as a result, then keep on trucking and I feel even more sorry for you than I already did.
Well, Ale said
Suggesting, I think, that an ideal world according to Ayn Rand would probably not include a tax system that required tax lawyers. I have only read Atlas Shrugged, but based on that I don’t think she would consider you to be producing anything. Slinging fast food, on the other hand…
Hey, if you gotta work your ass off for that, more power to yah. It just cracks some of us up that you disrespect those of us who work 40-a-week but do things like “live in the town with a great public magnet school that outperforms almost all the private schools within a reasonable radius” and “prefer to have a nice little house with a good sized yard to a McMansion on a 1/8-acre in suburbia”.
The way I see it, we’re both happy, the only difference is that I’M not shitting on YOUR dreams and life because I don’t share your exact ideals–you have a pretty strong tendency to do just that.
Dude, you are the one who is bragging about how many hours he works. Not us. You are the one who couldn’t wait to get home yesterday, not so he could see his wife and kid, but so he could slag us more. Not us.
You are the one who’s attacked our lifestyles. But you can’t seem to take what you dish out.