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Shumagorath posted:Military service to fund education definitely has some negative cultural / economic implications but the skills, work ethic and maturity gained are almost as valuable as a good co-op year which you only see in top-level STEM programs. That, and everyone I've ever seen at a rally demanding free tuition wouldn't last ten minutes in basic or a math class. You also get to compound the world's problems by killing children with drones, enforcing american hegemony and creating the petri dish of misery and contempt that provides the political will for ISIS to exist. Its a coin flip but that theology degree isn't going to pay for itself.
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I await the day years from now when the word 'selfie' is synonymous with 'masturbation'
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*complains about millennials* *is a millennial* mellennial.jpg
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It's weird/bad that a bunch of hosed up GiP freaks invaded the loving Millennial.jpeg thread. Also I refuse to be lumped in with "millennials". I'm solidly "generation-y". 
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Aug 26, 2015 06:06
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corpuscollossus posted:You also get to compound the world's problems by killing children with drones, enforcing american hegemony and creating the petri dish of misery and contempt that provides the political will for ISIS to exist. Its a coin flip but that theology degree isn't going to pay for itself.
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Ratjaculation posted:rename thread to goon.jpg 
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Ocean Book posted:i feel like a lot of millenial hate is misdirected hate that should be at smartphones, which are a force of evil and a virus that has invaded all living generations at this point.  But even if you could somehow implant smartphone/internet technology onto previous generations to see what teenagers would do with it, I can't imagine any of them would do anything as tone-deaf as this: 
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Aug 26, 2015 06:14
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Jesus Christ are those stupid scarves ever going to go away?
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I took a bunch of students on a field trip today. At the beginning of the school year, we take our 8th grade class (all 500 of them) to the university down the road. My group kept separating into a faster and a slower group, which made it difficult to cross the roads as a group. I had to keep urging the slow group to hurry up. When we get to the university (About a 4 block walk) one of the girls in the slow group proudly shows me the 39 selfies she managed to take on the walk over. 39 selfies in 4 blocks. Less than a 20 minute walk. I pointed out that maybe, just maybe, the fact that she was stopping to take all these selfies was the reason her group was holding everybody back. She pointed out how important it is for her to get all these pictures "Because the next one might be even better than the others!" Then this sad behavior continued when we actually got to the college. The people in charge of the day had lots of activities planned. And this girl and her friends never actually participated in anything. They stood there, taking selfies in front of other people who were actually doing the activities and then posting these selfies by the dozen on facebook. For them, the entire day was about proving they had been there when stuff was happening, rather than actually doing all the stuff. There is no facepalm big enough for this situation.
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genesplicer posted:I took a bunch of students on a field trip today. At the beginning of the school year, we take our 8th grade class (all 500 of them) to the university down the road. My group kept separating into a faster and a slower group, which made it difficult to cross the roads as a group. I had to keep urging the slow group to hurry up. When we get to the university (About a 4 block walk) one of the girls in the slow group proudly shows me the 39 selfies she managed to take on the walk over. take a chill pill, grandpa *takes selfie with your post*
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genesplicer posted:I took a bunch of students on a field trip today. At the beginning of the school year, we take our 8th grade class (all 500 of them) to the university down the road. My group kept separating into a faster and a slower group, which made it difficult to cross the roads as a group. I had to keep urging the slow group to hurry up. When we get to the university (About a 4 block walk) one of the girls in the slow group proudly shows me the 39 selfies she managed to take on the walk over. Hahaha you have to deal with those little ingrate shitballs as part of your job
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corpuscollossus posted:You also get to compound the world's problems by killing children with drones, enforcing american hegemony and creating the petri dish of misery and contempt that provides the political will for ISIS to exist. Its a coin flip but that theology degree isn't going to pay for itself. those are the fun parts though  I'm not understanding, you get to do all that fun stuff while getting free education, it's a big fat silly secret
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this can't be real... I mean I've seen enough time traveling movies to know that poo poo would get hosed up if they made contact with each other
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It must get tiresome ironically supporting the Taliban around here.My Q-Face posted:You think it takes work ethic to go sit in a desert for 12 months, ride around in armored vehicles most of the time, and walk around occasionally? I'll admit, there were some who busted their rear end and worked because it needed to be done and I admire them, but the vast, vast majority were too lazy to check their own oil, too lazy to change a tire, and too lazy to pull the big bright red "stop" button back out before they tried to turn on the generator and decided it was broken when it didn't start. The vast majority were too goddamned lazy and self-absorbed to pitch in to get a job done right, because "it's not my job", because they had more pressing things to do like get back to their hooch to play CoD all night. Frankenstyle posted:Wah, wah, wah. "The future isn't pretty enough, make me a better one". Go out and dig one out of a landfill you lazy bastards. ghlbtsk posted:
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 Go gently caress yourselves. Not all of you. Just most of you.
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VagueRant posted:In fairness, I'm pretty sure this is true of soldiering throughout history. To an extent, which is why I sneer at the soldiers and veterans saying "I'm not like the rest of those lazy millennials, I went to War!" War is (and always has been) about 99% sitting around waiting for poo poo to happen. And also when the senior leadership stands around saying "you're great, you're wonderful, you're the elite, you're part of the point four five percent of Americans who have volunteered to fight since 9/11, you're special just because you put on the uniform", it's not at all surprising that so many come back thinking the rest of the country owes them something (beyond VA benefits and care and such).
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My Q-Face posted:To an extent, which is why I sneer at the soldiers and veterans saying "I'm not like the rest of those lazy millennials, I went to War!" War is (and always has been) about 99% sitting around waiting for poo poo to happen. And also when the senior leadership stands around saying "you're great, you're wonderful, you're the elite, you're part of the point four five percent of Americans who have volunteered to fight since 9/11, you're special just because you put on the uniform", it's not at all surprising that so many come back thinking the rest of the country owes them something (beyond VA benefits and care and such). Not disagreeing, soldiers are incredibly lazy and mostly inept. But it's stupid easy to get way ahead in life by joining the military unless you already are a trust fund baby or something. Typically Joe spends all his money on cars and strip clubs and alcohol, but if you can plan ahead, it's probably one of the best means of upward mobility there is. You don't even need to do anything to offend liberal sensibilities, you can be a finance clerk/veterinarian services (food tester) or in the coast guard or something. That's the best thing about the military, infantrymen get paid the exact same amount (in general) as water purification dudes and everyone gets the same GI Bill. Justin Tyme fucked around with this message at 07:14 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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the sad thing is, people used to photograph each other at war memorials before the inventions of smartphones. saw it myself with a ww2 memorial in London. technology changes, (stupid) people stay the same.
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Ocean Book posted:i feel like a lot of millenial hate is misdirected hate that should be at smartphones, which are a force of evil and a virus that has invaded all living generations at this point. so look they're great and they're here to stay, okay? we're so integrated with them and they'll get so small soon it'll go right into your face/hand! no no shh shhhh no don't fight it, yes, yes shh. you're okay, see how small that was? it's inside you now. soon billions and billions of them, self replicating using allllll those calories you never needed in the first place. it's no problem. now they're better than cells, perfect replicators with telomeres that don't wear down! you don't need those old school cells, you can replace them! yes even those pesky neurons, its one at a time shh don't worry perfectly safe, thats right go to sleep
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My Q-Face posted:To an extent, which is why I sneer at the soldiers and veterans saying "I'm not like the rest of those lazy millennials, I went to War!" War is (and always has been) about 99% sitting around waiting for poo poo to happen. And also when the senior leadership stands around saying "you're great, you're wonderful, you're the elite, you're part of the point four five percent of Americans who have volunteered to fight since 9/11, you're special just because you put on the uniform", it's not at all surprising that so many come back thinking the rest of the country owes them something (beyond VA benefits and care and such). I'm not saying your perception of this poo poo doesn't happen, as a matter of fact, there is a group of weirdo kids trying to claim "credit" by playing dress up as soldiers and trying to get a free lunch at the Golden Coral or something. That being said, this is not my experience at all and seems to be very different from yours. Most of my peers are pretty well adjusted or just want to be left the gently caress alone. They don't like the whole "Oh, well thank you for your service sonny!" bullshit or any special attention. Yeah, I like going on hikes by myself and getting my free day pass at our state parks for being a vet, but I don't wave flags or basically draw any unneeded attention to myself if I don't have to. Sorry you seem to be surrounded by lovely people. I've not had that luck.
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The Protagonist posted:so look they're great and they're here to stay, okay? we're so integrated with them and they'll get so small soon it'll go right into your face/hand! no no shh shhhh no don't fight it, yes, yes shh. you're okay, see how small that was? it's inside you now. soon billions and billions of them, self replicating using allllll those calories you never needed in the first place. it's no problem. now they're better than cells, perfect replicators with telomeres that don't wear down! you don't need those old school cells, you can replace them! yes even those pesky neurons, its one at a time shh don't worry perfectly safe, thats right go to sleep 
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why do (mostly old) people get so mad about selfies? what is it thats so enraging?
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Sonofsilversign posted:why do (mostly old) people get so mad about selfies? what is it thats so enraging? I wouldn't say they are inherently bad, but some people WAAAAAYY over do it. I have friends on facebook, and I'm in my early 30's, that post a new profile pic every other day or two. That's.... weird. My last "selfie" was taken maybe 2 months ago. I don't take pictures of myself. Other people do. I'd imagine it comes off as extremely narcissistic. Just more fuel for the "drat those kids" generations. If taking a selfie is the worst of the millennials, then I'll take it. Better than completely loving up our country and distorting our values.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Better than completely loving up our country and distorting our values. Well does it count as loving it up and distorting the values when they arrived to us already broken?
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Pennywise the Frown posted:our values.
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how are old people so naive? must be growing up with like 3 tv channels lmao
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She's either standing in the grave or she's really short.
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Sonofsilversign posted:how are old people so naive? must be growing up with like 3 tv channels lmao HEY! We had local UHF stations too.
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lol at all you fucken dinosaurs who can't identify an obvious photoshop
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durrr at least i know how outlook works *breaks hip*
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This is how I know I'm old and/or not a narcissist: it would never ever occur to me to take a picture of myself. That would be like saying something only you think is witty, laughing at what you just said and then high-fiving yourself. Now do that every 30 seconds.
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