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Robo Captain posted:Unless you are one of the people who join because it's pretty much their only option for employment . I graduated with a Commerce degree mid-recession and was single, it wasn't such a dumb option but thanks to some genetic fuckery I wouldn't have been accepted.
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Feb 15, 2015 01:31
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o.t. but if NZ manage to win the cricket world cup that'll mean John Key will get another shot at a three-way handshake with a sportsball captain
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Feb 15, 2015 01:44
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sportsball huh what a funny and cool aloof original joke besides you missed it already, they got the awkward john key stuff out of the way at the opening ceremony. E: seems like Sky City backed down, I wonder if this was in exchange for potentially speeding up the CRL instead. Butt Wizard fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Feb 15, 2015 |
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Feb 15, 2015 02:11
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Butt Wizard posted:sportsball huh what a funny and cool aloof original joke What an intensely strange thing to get mad about.
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Feb 15, 2015 03:32
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:What an intensely strange thing to get mad about. If I got mad every time someone tried to rehash a long-since played-out joke on the internet, I'd be dead many many times over.
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Feb 15, 2015 03:58
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Butt Wizard posted:If I got mad every time someone tried to rehash a long-since played-out joke on the internet, I'd be dead many many times over. You sound pretty mad. Then again sportsball fans are often quick to anger.
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Feb 15, 2015 04:14
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:
domestic_violence_stats.txt
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Feb 15, 2015 04:25
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Those anti-domestic-violence radio ads are tremendously stupid. "Don't beat ya wife if the allblacks lose!" people hearing that ad fall into two categories: 1. People who aren't colossal psychopaths who beat their spouse over sports bullshit. 2. Colossal psychopaths who don't give a poo poo about radio ads telling them not to beat their spouse over sports bullshit.
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Feb 15, 2015 04:40
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Butt Wizard posted:I graduated with a Commerce degree mid-recession and was single, it wasn't such a dumb option but thanks to some genetic fuckery I wouldn't have been accepted. Same, just with an Accounting Degree. I didn't have DNA donkery, I was just chicken about being shot in the stomach at the behest of the UN, five thousand miles from home.
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Feb 15, 2015 04:54
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Slavvy posted:Those anti-domestic-violence radio ads are tremendously stupid. I always resent the implied connection between sporting events and domestic violence. The people who beat their spouses would be beating the poo poo out of them for whatever reason, regardless of the outcome of a rugby game. In the 2 years leading up to my parents getting divorced, my father used to beat the poo poo out of my mum for any old reason - bad day at work, the train was crowded, he vaguely remembers mum saying something 10 years ago that he's decided he didn't like, mum's Japanese so stuff that Japan did to Koreans back when the Koreas were a Japanese colony, it was rainy, it was sunny, it was cloudy, there was a bit of a breeze, he loving felt like it. The All Blacks losing a game had gently caress all to do with it. edogawa rando fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Feb 15, 2015 |
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Feb 15, 2015 05:04
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WarpedNaba posted:Same, just with an Accounting Degree. I didn't have DNA donkery, I was just chicken about being shot in the stomach at the behest of the UN, five thousand miles from home. Yea I went back and got NZICA papers instead and now I'm doing it all over again trying to find my second job out of uni. The economy might be doing OK but it seems like firms are much leaner than they used to be.
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Feb 15, 2015 05:04
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Butt Wizard posted:The economy might be doing OK *sniffs* Huh, I can smell an aroma of bullshit
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Feb 15, 2015 05:05
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:*sniffs* OK as in "we aren't in the same full-blown recession I first graduated into".
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Feb 15, 2015 05:09
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Butt Wizard posted:Yea I went back and got NZICA papers instead and now I'm doing it all over again trying to find my second job out of uni. The economy might be doing OK but it seems like firms are much leaner than they used to be. Yeah, with the current deregulative atmosphere of the business sector and slashing of employee protections, employers tend to have all the means and manners to construct an enormously exploitative environment.
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Feb 15, 2015 05:38
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WarpedNaba posted:Yeah, with the current deregulative atmosphere of the business sector and slashing of employee protections, employers tend to have all the means and manners to construct an enormously exploitative environment. Even if I can get a job in the next month, the end of financial year will be in any 90 day trial period which is kind of depressing. It's kind of telling that most of the accounting vacancies right now are in BAS, I may not have a job but almost anything is better than still being in BAS.
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Feb 15, 2015 05:43
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Even for the BAS, you're looking at 400+ accountants applying for a position. Add to that that if you're a recent-ish graduate, at least half of them will have about 4-5+ years of experience over you. It's times like this I'm thankful for the strict gun laws we have here. Suicides would be through the roof if they were relaxed.
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Feb 15, 2015 06:23
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Yea, I have three years of BAS behind me I've come to the conclusion "gently caress BAS". Trying to start in commercial from the bottom all over again, now hopefully it's my turn to gently caress over some new graduates. BAS is just a race to the bottom where the only people who win are the people that either own the building or have their names on it. There's very few commercial openings at the moment and yea, a lot of them are being swamped by BAS accountants who want out just like me. How NZ universities are allowed to keep making GBS threads out thousands of BCom accountants a year is beyond me.
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Feb 15, 2015 06:33
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Robo Captain posted:Unless you are one of the people who join because it's pretty much their only option for employment . What about people that join the military because they want to soldier? I do know a couple ex-army guys, and they didn't need the money, and they didn't want to just fight for fightings sake.
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Feb 15, 2015 07:05
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klen dool posted:What about people that join the military because they want to soldier? I do know a couple ex-army guys, and they didn't need the money, and they didn't want to just fight for fightings sake. In a just world those people would be taken away to nice safe facilities to have people help them overcome their psychological problems.
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Feb 15, 2015 07:52
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I have a mate I've known since we started highschool, he's been in the army a few years now. He's a borderline aspergers manchild who joined because he wanted a job that would also take care of his every minor need for him like a big green mum. Now he seems to be more self-sufficient and more capable of social interaction with humans, and he's reasonably well off financially. I'd say on the whole it's done him some good, even if he could (theoretically) gone to uni instead and made use of his autistic-yet-powerful brain. I doubt he ever would've made it through uni; he'd probably be working at a supermarket right now if he hadn't joined. The very concept of him killing someone on purpose with a gun makes me giggle.
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Feb 15, 2015 07:53
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The only time I ever heard somebody say "sand friend of the family" irl was talking to a guy at school who was going to join the military 
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Feb 15, 2015 08:20
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Exclamation Marx posted:The only time I ever heard somebody say "sand friend of the family" irl was talking to a guy at school who was going to join the military I know we're in D&D and all, but I'm not sure the things that fuckwit teens say has any real bearing on the ethics of most people who choose to join the NZ military for reasons other than 'oh poo poo I need a job'?
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Feb 15, 2015 08:37
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fuckwit teens are the majority of people who join the army tho
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Feb 15, 2015 09:07
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this was at the end of the final year, when he'd applied btw
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Feb 15, 2015 09:13
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correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the domestic violence stats go up after a sportsball game regardless of whether the team win or lose? Seems more likely to be related to alcohol than sporting wins/losses also buttwizard before you get mad again I dont even know if there's an internet joke about the word sportsball, I heard it and thought it was funny. I've spent most of the day watching India v Pakistan so Im not pretending to be aloof in any way
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Feb 15, 2015 09:49
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y'all know making fun of sports fans and people who join the military just reeks of class-ism right?
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Feb 15, 2015 11:47
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focal ischemia posted:y'all know making fun of sports fans and people who join the military just reeks of class-ism right? No it doesn't you idiot.
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Feb 15, 2015 11:55
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It's mostly just goonery, but it would also be nice if the people we hire to shoot and capture for torture foreign nationals at the behest of our golfing partners were in it as a job rather than because they weren't enough of a sociopath to go into politics.
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Feb 15, 2015 11:58
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Ghostlight posted:It's mostly just goonery, but it would also be nice if the people we hire to shoot and capture for torture foreign nationals at the behest of our golfing partners were in it as a job rather than because they weren't enough of a sociopath to go into politics. Are you actually saying you believe the majority of people in the NZ military are there because they're sociopaths rather than because they are in it as a job, or am I just tired and reading this completely wrong?
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Feb 15, 2015 12:05
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No, I'm just agreeing with a vague sentiment at the beginning of the military bashing that a portion of military recruits, regardless of how numerically large or small it may factually be in the New Zealand army, are there because they want to kill and harm people; and, I don't think they should be given the opportunity to do so. Most of the recruits I would guess are just regular people doing their job and defending the country/securing the world.
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Feb 15, 2015 12:17
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focal ischemia posted:y'all know making fun of sports fans and people who join the military just reeks of class-ism right? Sportspeople are/are inviolably linked to the upper class in nz.
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Feb 15, 2015 12:18
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lots of military people are nice 
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Feb 15, 2015 12:21
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Feb 15, 2015 12:24
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Too late Auntie Helen did that already All John Key has to send is an angry man with a brick and a paper plane
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Feb 15, 2015 12:28
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lol @ people unironically using the phrase "military bashing" in this thread
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Feb 15, 2015 13:58
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Sorry to have made you laugh, mate.
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Feb 15, 2015 21:21
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Ghostlight posted:Most of the recruits I would guess are just regular people doing their job and defending the country/securing the world. Maybe they should learn that patriotism is weird as gently caress and you can protect the world better than going places at the behest of the US/UK to shoot "terrorists"
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Feb 15, 2015 21:30
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I would argue that the government needs to learn that more than the recruits.
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Feb 15, 2015 21:42
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:Maybe they should learn that patriotism is weird as gently caress and you can protect the world better than going places at the behest of the US/UK to shoot "terrorists" Probably worth pointing out a bunch of people who ended up going to Afghanistan were probably also in the armed forces when it was mostly doing regional peace-keeping.
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Infotainment! posted:Sportspeople are/are inviolably linked to the upper class in nz. He said sports fans, not sports people.
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