Dropped. Not worth arguing it any longer anyway, since nobody’s opinion is likely to change.
If you don’t think that’s properly written, you’ve got another thing coming.
Why is everyone still feeding the troll?
I wouldn’t be so sure. Having a degree no longer automatically means “High-paying job with lots of travel and a hot secretary”.
There are, as you may have gathered, a lot of people on these boards who have Tertiary Qualifications. There are at least a couple of people here entitled to call themselves “Dr.”, several more with Masters degrees, lots with Bachelors degrees, and plenty with formal trade qualifications.
I’m not going to get into the whole “Universities vs Community Colleges” thing because I’m not in the US and the situation is different in this part of the world, but I will say that people disagreeing with your views and/or trying to change your views does not make them “Insecure”.
I would think so. I can purse my MA while teaching. So, I don’t have get my MA and finish law school. Hence, I will be younger.
If they weren’t insecure, most of them wouldn’t care what I thought.
That’s great, but not in any way related to my point that having a degree doesn’t automatically mean you’ll get an awesome, high-paying job.
I don’t really like sweets that much. Things like donuts, cakes, or pies, I’m not sure why, they’re just… sticky and I don’t like the way they taste. If it matters, I’m American and enjoy other unhealthy foods, like fried food. Just thought I’d let you know, we’re not posing. We just don’t like sweets.
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Hopefully, Trubie, you will eventually mature enough to base your sense of self-worth on something more substantial than what college you attended.
Heck, I’ll let you in on a little secret: Not only did I attend a (gasp) community college, but I never finished! I got a good job offer and quit. Yet, somehow, I ended up with a teaching credential in computer science, guest-lectured at U.C. Berkeley, chaired panels for the U.S. Department of Education, wrote over 20 books (one of which is currently used as a college textbook), and got a patent for some of my work. And you know what? None of those things affect my feeling of self-worth. They aren’t what I am. They’re just some stuff that I did. They are no more or less important than the hundreds of other things I’ve done. I’d enjoy being able to go back to college and get an degree someday. But it wouldn’t make me one whit better or worse than I am now. And I certainly wouldn’t lord that degree over people who didn’t have one.
There are many millions of people who went to four-year colleges just like you did. Some are idiots. Some are brilliant. Many went on to get advanced degrees. There are also people much smarter than you went to junior colleges, or no college at all. You really need to let this stuff go.
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This is me, starting the slow build clap…is there a name for that?
Anyway I really love it when I’m reading along in a thread and getting more disturbed with each post down the screen until finally some cool ass doper comes in and says exactly what I’m thinking in exactly the right way.
Thanks Mr. Wombat Robson. Today you are that cool ass doper. 
I dunno, I have spent a fair amount of time in Europe, and it seems to me that in general, Europeans eat a LOT more sweets (pastry, cake, chocolate) than your average American.
I think where the majority of Americans consume more sugar than the average European would be via soda, which is not nearly as ubiquitous in Europe as it is around here.
For the record, I am not a big sweets person myself, I dont care for cake or doughnuts, though a bit of ice cream or slice of pie is good once in a while…
Because I can feed the troll or reread Six Characters in Search of an Author and I don’t wanna read Pirandello right now.
I am prejudiced against people who don’t like bacon.
I’m prejudiced against people who say they’re not prejudiced, since we all are at some level on some subject.
Lots of these are already mentioned:
- People who smoke a lot. Funny though, at the same time I’m prejudiced against health freaks.
- People who play golf or own yachts.
- People who read horoscopes or believe in conspiracy theories.
- People who won’t eat garlic or onions because it smells.
- People who prefer cats over dogs.
- People who only speak English and don’t want to know any other language.
- People who own lots of Apple products.
- Women who constantly dye their hair blonde when it doesn’t suit them.
- Men with really prominent unibrows. It screams of “I’m no metrosexual fag, I’m not gonna get rid of any excess hair no matter how horrible it looks”.
These are only prejudices, though. Once I get to know the person my opinion of them may obviously improve.
I resent strangers who don’t speak English when I eavesdrop.
Hello, sister! Seeing people with no white band at the end of their fingernails makes me want to go on a rant about Your Fingernails Are Your Finger’s Shields, You Idiot - I usually refrain from it but grrrrhrghrgharhagmrglrmrglgh! By the time I was able to give that rant to Middlebro in a fashion and at a time when he’d be willing to hear, his thumbnails were triangular… they’re back to being nice and square, but bloody hell, how can you do something like that to yourself and not realize it? (He knew he bit his nails, but hadn’t noticed the deformity)
I am prejudiced against people with “pure humanities” backgrounds. I probably should smack myself repeatedly about that, given that one of the things I find irritating about many of them is their negative reactions to science and technology… I’ve had negative experiences with the “I went into humanities because I don’t get what science is” since 10th grade, so I know where the prejudice comes from; it’s also not something that blinds me. But if I hear “I have a degree in philosophy”, my reaction will be to think “uh oh”.
I’m also wary of any book that’s “praised in literary circles”. Again, I’ll give them a try… but too often they end up filed under “P for Pretentious”.
I’m that way with food that is labeled “gourmet”. I figure if it has to call itself out like that, it isn’t.
I’ll try to help get things back on track again:
I do have a legitimately strange prejudice against people that smoke. Strange, because I smoked (I only quit recenty again). Sure, it was okay that I smoked, because I’m smart and I understand the risks. But those other people that smoke? What a bunch of idiots.
If someone has a dog that is obviously not neutered or spayed, I count that as a serious black mark against them.
I think that people who ride motorcycles without helmets are 1) stupid and 2) have a death wish.
I’ll admit I feel a bit irritated when I see brand-new Lincolns, Lexus SUVs, and Cadillac Esplanades in the parking lot of the low-rent, trashy apartments down the street. I understand people can choose to spend their money any way they like, but living in the cheapest, nastiest apartments in the area and spending $88,000 on an Esplanade (I just Googled that price) seems like a strange way to live. If your fancy car impresses your date, you certainly can’t bring them home.
People who spell lose as “loose” will forever drive me crazy.
Also, people who never read books for pleasure, women who shave their eyebrows only to draw them horribly back on, and people who text and/or mess with their phone while in a class/meeting, or while talking to me in person.