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Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)
Quiet slave

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cnut
May 3, 2016

The Bloop posted:

You might hvae a problem

Sorry, I was watching the Trump presser. Yes, I have a problem :negative:

cnut
May 3, 2016

BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

oval office is the solution to this world, not the problem

:hmmyes:

Scary!
Oct 22, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo
Instead of getting paid as a TV host he should have gotten paid the same blue collar wage as the people he worked along with on the show and gotten his healthcare off the ACA marketplace.

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

I truly value the flesh of our masters. Thank's Mike!

Do we give them a blindfold and cigarette, or allow them to rent a half million dollar strip of cloth and pay $258,000 for a drag off the butt pulled from the mouth of the previous guy?

Scary!
Oct 22, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/11/mike-rowe-responds-to-kaepernick-question-by-invoking-911-hero.html

quote:

"Hi Sam," Rowe wrote. "Nike's free to celebrate whomever they wish, and Kaepernick is entitled to his opinion -- kneeling, standing, or lying down. But if I was going to put someone's face on a billboard -- someone who epitomized bravery and sacrifice -- I might have gone another way, especially this time of year. I might have gone with this guy -- Tom Burnett."

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





Dirty jobs was cool in that it shows what we need as a society to operate and how they work. Rowe can gently caress off though

Scary!
Oct 22, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo
He let his everyman image get to his head while raking in television money. Sure, he went to those jobs (for a single day per job) but now he thinks he’s some kind of blue collar salt of the earth person even though he was able to back to a nice home and didn’t have to worry about food/job/ health insecurity.

It’s easy to act high and mighty when you can quit after a handful of years and you don’t have to worry about those things.

Significant Ant
Jun 14, 2017

by R. Guyovich
I too like to blackface as the working class once in awhile

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


Significant Ant posted:

I too like to blackface as the working class once in awhile

blueface

Rowe just blue himself the whole time.

Scary!
Oct 22, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo
Jump Mike Rowe

Low Desert Punk
Jul 4, 2012

i have absolutely no fucking money

Graphic posted:

I don't know what to say without sounding like I'm trying to be edgy. I hate this with every fiber in my being, it's one of the worst things I've ever seen, and I actually wish this condescending sack of poo poo fraud TV host would get murdered.

wait till you realize basically every American man over the age of 50 thinks the exact same thing

Graphic
Sep 4, 2018

It's like Lenin said
holy poo poo are you serious

bring back old gbs
Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Graphic posted:

holy poo poo are you serious

well they achieved everything they have by working hard for a year and buying a house for $25,000. if you cant work a minumum wage job for a single summer and save enough money to buy a brand new vehicle off the dealership lot you are lazy and entitled

Graphic
Sep 4, 2018

It's like Lenin said
this whole time i thought american boomers were heavy into revolutionary socialism

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Graphic posted:

this whole time i thought american boomers were heavy into revolutionary socialism

No those are the choomers

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

The Bloop posted:

No those are the choomers

Not really even them, though :smith:

babypolis
Nov 4, 2009

Scary! posted:

He let his everyman image get to his head while raking in television money. Sure, he went to those jobs (for a single day per job) but now he thinks he’s some kind of blue collar salt of the earth person even though he was able to back to a nice home and didn’t have to worry about food/job/ health insecurity.

It’s easy to act high and mighty when you can quit after a handful of years and you don’t have to worry about those things.

yeah thats the real obscenity of mike rowe. because he does lovely jobs one time for a big fat paycheck he gets to pretend hes the same as the dude doing that poo poo job day in day out until he croaks of some awful disease, all for a mediocre paycheck doing some task that will soon be performed by robots

the show would be cool if the message was something along the lines of "I sure do wonder why these hard working folks doing unpleasant and dangerous work are paid a fraction of what some rear end in a top hat sitting in an air conditioned office all day earns" instead of "BOY ARENT YOU GLAD THIS ISNT YOUR JOB? NEVER COMPLAIN ABOUT YOUR WORKING CONDITIONS YOU UNGRATEFUL gently caress"

babypolis has issued a correction as of 14:59 on Sep 27, 2018

Bombadilillo
Feb 28, 2009

The dock really fucks a case or nerfing it.

Rowe is also big on trade schools over college. Which isnt inherently bad, (if those jobs loving pay/have a union where you live)

But combine that with his. "Show up early to shovel poo poo with a smile on your face and you will be promoted to managment!" Ideas it gets real weird.

Number 11 on his list makes me want to die.

Life isnt fair. Be a HAPPY Amazon wage slave sleeping in a tent and dont begrudge Bezos being a trillionaire on your back.

Scary!
Oct 22, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo

babypolis posted:

yeah thats the real obscenity of mike rowe. because he does lovely jobs one time for a big fat paycheck he gets to pretend hes the same as the dude doing that poo poo job day in day out until he croaks of some awful disease, all for a mediocre paycheck doing some task that will soon be performed by robots

the show would be cool if the message was something along the lines of "I sure do wonder why these hard working folks doing unpleasant and dangerous work are paid a fraction of what some rear end in a top hat sitting in an air conditioned office all day earns" instead of "BOY ARENT YOU GLAD THIS ISNT YOUR JOB? NEVER COMPLAIN ABOUT YOUR WORKING CONDITIONS YOU UNGRATEFUL gently caress"



I think that’s why I prefer Anthony Bourdain’s show. He went to different peoples homes of different backgrounds and had meaningful conversations with them and intertwined history to contextualize rather than fetishize them.

Hard work is important, but Rowe completely misses the mark when he turns a deaf ear to people’s legitimate concerns on workplace safety and a decent wage.

Scary! has issued a correction as of 15:11 on Sep 27, 2018

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


Scary! posted:

I think that’s why I prefer Anthony Bourdain’s show. He went to different peoples homes of different backgrounds and had meaningful conversations with them and intertwined history to contextualize rather than fetishize them.

And now he's dead

let that be a lesson, shovel poo poo for minimum wage unless you want to die.

World War Mammories
Aug 25, 2006


https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/766024610051715072

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

spacetoaster posted:

I asked the principal. Each of the companies that gets advertising space on the kids folders pays 500 bucks.

Would anyone like to buy an ad for somethingawful.com to go on kindergartener's school folders?

Real talk ask the principal if they'd be interested in some kind of gofundme or whatever because I absolutely would kick in $500 to buy back the loving alphabet or adopt a letter or whatever and I'm sure a lot of other people would too. Can you say what state this is in? My mom worked at an elementary school and then the school board here in Florida for 15 years and if this bullshit was happening at any of the schools she worked with she'd probably have stormed in and torn down that bullshit herself.

Scary!
Oct 22, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo
D is for Dear Richard

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

I'm considering linking her that picture but I'm hesitant because she's an old woman now and I don't want to give her a loving stroke

got any sevens
Feb 9, 2013

by Cyrano4747

ate all the Oreos posted:

Real talk ask the principal if they'd be interested in some kind of gofundme or whatever because I absolutely would kick in $500 to buy back the loving alphabet or adopt a letter or whatever and I'm sure a lot of other people would too. Can you say what state this is in? My mom worked at an elementary school and then the school board here in Florida for 15 years and if this bullshit was happening at any of the schools she worked with she'd probably have stormed in and torn down that bullshit herself.

you'll just drive up the price and get outbid by the corps again.




m is for microwaves mom

Cacafuego
Jul 22, 2007

Graphic posted:

I don't know what to say without sounding like I'm trying to be edgy. I hate this with every fiber in my being, it's one of the worst things I've ever seen, and I actually wish this condescending sack of poo poo fraud TV host would get murdered.

Be the change you want to see in the world, friend.

^^P is for Puckins^^

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

ate all the Oreos posted:

Real talk ask the principal if they'd be interested in some kind of gofundme or whatever because I absolutely would kick in $500 to buy back the loving alphabet or adopt a letter or whatever and I'm sure a lot of other people would too. Can you say what state this is in? My mom worked at an elementary school and then the school board here in Florida for 15 years and if this bullshit was happening at any of the schools she worked with she'd probably have stormed in and torn down that bullshit herself.

Schools are weird as hell.

I sub all over this very large city school system and the difference between the schools is crazy.

For example: There one school that has amazing lunches. Like salad/sandwich bar, actual meat and vegetables made by the cooks/staff. All the other schools are serving cardboard microwave garbage.

I'm pretty sure the little blue haired old lady running the lunch room there is some kind of gangster who just gets poo poo done.

SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

I refuse to live in a world where my only purpose for living is to work for someone else to take the value of my labour and keep it for themselves. There's so much more to life than achieving the highest productivity levels. Human beings are valuable even if they don't or can't work.

gently caress capitalism. I want to live.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
Sounds like you lack civic virtues, citizen.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
I love to spend my life working my rear end off under an unsustainable workload so I can afford recreation to relieve myself of the stress of an unsustainable workload.

Bombadilillo
Feb 28, 2009

The dock really fucks a case or nerfing it.

steinrokkan posted:

I love to spend my life working my rear end off under an unsustainable workload so I can afford recreation to relieve myself of the stress of an unsustainable workload.

Hey hey hey. 11. Life isnt fair

Cacafuego
Jul 22, 2007

Picnic Princess posted:

I refuse to live in a world where my only purpose for living is to work for someone else to take the value of my labour and keep it for themselves. There's so much more to life than achieving the highest productivity levels. Human beings are valuable even if they don't or can't work.

gently caress capitalism. I want to live.

if you’re working retail or another corporate wage slave job and you aren’t stealing everything you can possibly get, I don’t know what to tell you

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos
Dirty Jobs was a fun show because it was about this dumbfuck actor having to see what people have to do to survive. Somewhere along the way he forgot that he was the dumbfuck actor.

Solar Coaster
Sep 2, 2009
Never forget Mike Rowe got his start as a shill for QVC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rChjMRfi40c


"Cats are kinda bizarre"

Screaming Idiot
Nov 26, 2007

JUST POSTING WHILE JERKIN' MY GHERKIN SITTIN' IN A PERKINS!

BEATS SELLING MERKINS.
If there was some way to keep Rowe's appearance and voice and implant a non-poo poo personality I'd be all for it because the man has a lovely voice and physical charisma to spare, but then he says his rear end in a top hat "opinions" and I just want to see him mauled to death by a pack of rabid hyenas who then poo poo on the still-twitching carcass.

He is a traitor, a mouthpiece for the top 1%, living propaganda designed to make the suffering classes proud of their plight and resistant to any meaningful change. Mike Rowe points to poo poo-waders and crab fishermen and calls them heroes, and says that their scars are badges of honor more worthwhile than any amount of money, healthcare, or job security.

I hope he shoves a lightbulb up his rear end and bleeds to death on the shards.

Graphic
Sep 4, 2018

It's like Lenin said

Peanut President posted:

Dirty Jobs was a fun show because it was about this dumbfuck actor having to see what people have to do to survive. Somewhere along the way he forgot that he was the dumbfuck actor.

got any sevens
Feb 9, 2013

by Cyrano4747
in jail dirty jobs is one of the most popular shows. that and all those street racing shows

Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!

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Oneiros
Jan 12, 2007



Peanut President posted:

Dirty Jobs was a fun show because it was about this dumbfuck actor having to see what people have to do to survive. Somewhere along the way he forgot that he was the dumbfuck actor.

I really enjoyed DJ because it was basically "look at all these awful, dangerous jobs people do to keep your lazy rear end alive and comfortable and civilization running while getting paid peanuts".

Of course because this is hellworld people don't react with "oh my god that's awful why do we treat people this way workers of the world unite!" but instead "bend over and beg for the same you piece of poo poo".

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