First World Problems

2011-12-07 17:41:39

#251

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,813|6326|eXtreme to the maX

Public school toffs with no sense of perspective or their own real worth to the world can be hilarious.
Most of the ones from my class at school are still at uni on their third or fourth course, or working in pub kitchens and taking drugs to compensate.

Doesn't mean everyone from a public school is an idiot filled with entitlement fantasies but the stereotype does sometimes fit.

As does the stereotype of the jumped up mechanic who thinks hes an engineer because he did a few courses at college.
They're really bloody hard work.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2011-12-07 17:44:48)

Fuck Israel

2011-12-07 17:41:54

#252

Dauntless: Admin; +2,249|6962|London

i just posted something in this thread but it was at the bottom of the page and now it's a new page so i'm not sure if people will read what i said

it was this:

Dauntless wrote:
i don't know how to do the thing that i want to do that i said in the tech section

problem solved

2011-12-07 17:43:44

#253

Poseidon: Fudgepack DeQueef; +3,253|6758|Long Island, New York

Uzique wrote:
cheap, shit schools, easy to get into

since when are state schools shit and easy to get into o_O

2011-12-07 17:44:27

#254

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,741|6957|Oxferd Ohire

since when are they not easy to get into?

2011-12-07 17:44:31

#255

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5578|London, England

I'm not talking about private grade school, I'm talking about private colleges. The Ivy's and other small, bumfuck, expensive as hell colleges. You don't think nukchebi expects to coast for the rest of his life after he earns his Yale tie pin? People who pay for the private college education here are the same people that match your ideals of working as little as possible for the highest pay. I don't want people that do the minimum.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2011-12-07 17:45:06

#256

Ilocano: buuuurrrrrrppppp.......; +341|6887

Uzique wrote:
jay that's entirely your own bias though, cause you have a total chip on your shoulder. kids that went to private schools have "baggage"? lol. you act as if kids applying from top private schools demand their own office and VIP treatment or something. more often it's just simply the fact that they're more confident, more imbued with a sense of drive/motivation, have initiative, and are good socially. lol suggesting private school kids are like brats that don't want to work. 99% of the privately educated people i know here have FAR more work-drive and ambition than people from state schools, because a) they have pushy parents to please and b) because the private schools here are pretty relentless and instil kids from a young age with a full-day. i had school start at 7:30-8:00am (depending on term) and ending sometimes at 6-7pm, with mandatory clubs. state schools don't have that. you're always full of this bias, "boo my life" bullshit. it's funny.

I agree with zique on this. I'm a pushy parent sending my kids to private schools. $1K/month for prep-school, they better perform.
And to coincide with Zique's second point, about 20% more required coursework than any public High School.

And complaining about advanced schooling is a FWP.

2011-12-07 17:45:40

#257

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,813|6326|eXtreme to the maX

I work as little as possible for the highest pay I can get
/fwp

Fuck Israel

2011-12-07 17:45:47

#258

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,741|6957|Oxferd Ohire

Jay wrote:
People who pay for the private college education here are the same people that match your ideals of working as little as possible for the highest pay. I don't want people that do the minimum.

wat

2011-12-07 17:46:46

#259

Winston_Churchill: Bazinga!; +521|6959|Toronto | Canada

Ilocano wrote:
Dilbert_X wrote:
AR wrote:
Maybe it's because you browse through the "mature" category?
Seems to be across all categories, I can see they're covering it with makeup when before I couldn't
The bane of IPS panels.

imagine having a 27" 2560x1440 IPS panel

my black printer cartridge ran out and i changed it and my printer still wont work

2011-12-07 17:46:52

#260

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6691

Jay wrote:
I'm not talking about private grade school, I'm talking about private colleges. The Ivy's and other small, bumfuck, expensive as hell colleges. You don't think nukchebi expects to coast for the rest of his life after he earns his Yale tie pin? People who pay for the private college education here are the same people that match your ideals of working as little as possible for the highest pay. I don't want people that do the minimum.

here in the UK every college costs the same. the only hierarchy is based on entry-standards and academic research assessment. just like with the polytechnic thing you're hammering me with a stereotype and an attitude that doesn't even exist here. the system of "pay more for a college degree -> expect better life given to you" simply doesn't exist in the UK because everyone pays the same.

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2011-12-07 17:48:24

#261

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6008|Catherine Black

I have an ulcer on my tongue

2011-12-07 17:50:06

#262

Ilocano: buuuurrrrrrppppp.......; +341|6887

Dilbert_X wrote:
I work as little as possible for the highest pay I can get
/fwp

Some of us are getting paid to post on some obscure forum.

2011-12-07 17:50:39

#263

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6691

Dilbert_X wrote:
Public school toffs with no sense of perspective or their own real worth to the world can be hilarious.
Most of the ones from my class at school are still at uni on their third or fourth course, or working in pub kitchens and taking drugs to compensate.

Doesn't mean everyone from a public school is an idiot filled with entitlement fantasies but the stereotype does sometimes fit.

As does the stereotype of the jumped up mechanic who thinks hes an engineer because he did a few courses at college.
They're really bloody hard work.

to be fair i think that stereotype is a bit of an anachronism. most of the kids from my year are all doing very successful things. my gf went to a top girls school, equivalent to an old public school, and all of her friends are driven as fuck as well (more than me, really). i think the upper-middle class or whatever you want to call them don't have the wealth and influence they had, say, 50 or a 100 years ago. they still do have to work to get somewhere - you don't 'go up to oxbridge' now as a rite of passage because of daddy, nor do you (normally) get a job just because your uncle teddy knows the bank manager. ofc that still exists, and i can't deny that a few people from my class are doing some literal "wtf" stuff because they have a comfortable safety-net (one of my 'old money' friends is working with elbow grease doing the shit shift in a top restaurant, trying to become a top chef, turned down a master's at cambridge to pursue this 'dream'...) but it's hardly the same attitude. public schools are still old fashioned as hell but they do try and keep up with the modern pulse.

/fwp

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2011-12-07 17:50:48

#264

Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|5806

Finray wrote:
I have an ulcer on my tongue

I feel bad for laughing at that but it was so unexpected

2011-12-07 17:52:35

#265

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6008|Catherine Black

It's really sore and has been there for like 4 days!

2011-12-07 17:52:55

#266

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,813|6326|eXtreme to the maX

Uzique wrote:
to be fair i think that stereotype is a bit of an anachronism. most of the kids from my year are all doing very successful things. my gf went to a top girls school, equivalent to an old public school, and all of her friends are driven as fuck as well (more than me, really). i think the upper-middle class or whatever you want to call them don't have the wealth and influence they had, say, 50 or a 100 years ago. they still do have to work to get somewhere - you don't 'go up to oxbridge' now as a rite of passage because of daddy, nor do you (normally) get a job just because your uncle teddy knows the bank manager. ofc that still exists, and i can't deny that a few people from my class are doing some literal "wtf" stuff because they have a comfortable safety-net (one of my 'old money' friends is working with elbow grease doing the shit shift in a top restaurant, trying to become a top chef, turned down a master's at cambridge to pursue this 'dream'...) but it's hardly the same attitude. public schools are still old fashioned as hell but they do try and keep up with the modern pulse.

/fwp

It has changed over the years.

I went to an artsy fartsy public school which in actuality was a complete waste of money and provided a shit standard of education /fwp

Fuck Israel

2011-12-07 17:53:13

#267

Ilocano: buuuurrrrrrppppp.......; +341|6887

Winston_Churchill wrote:
Ilocano wrote:
Dilbert_X wrote:

Seems to be across all categories, I can see they're covering it with makeup when before I couldn't
The bane of IPS panels.
imagine having a 27" 2560x1440 IPS panel

A truly FWP.

2011-12-07 17:53:21

#268

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6691

perhaps stop putting your brother's and your dog's penises in your mouth, then

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2011-12-07 17:54:19

#269

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6691

Dilbert_X wrote:
Uzique wrote:
to be fair i think that stereotype is a bit of an anachronism. most of the kids from my year are all doing very successful things. my gf went to a top girls school, equivalent to an old public school, and all of her friends are driven as fuck as well (more than me, really). i think the upper-middle class or whatever you want to call them don't have the wealth and influence they had, say, 50 or a 100 years ago. they still do have to work to get somewhere - you don't 'go up to oxbridge' now as a rite of passage because of daddy, nor do you (normally) get a job just because your uncle teddy knows the bank manager. ofc that still exists, and i can't deny that a few people from my class are doing some literal "wtf" stuff because they have a comfortable safety-net (one of my 'old money' friends is working with elbow grease doing the shit shift in a top restaurant, trying to become a top chef, turned down a master's at cambridge to pursue this 'dream'...) but it's hardly the same attitude. public schools are still old fashioned as hell but they do try and keep up with the modern pulse.

/fwp
It has changed over the years.

I went to an artsy fartsy public school which in actuality was a complete waste of money and provided a shit standard of education /fwp

an artsy fartsy public school? which? i didn't know they even existed. arts and creative shit were anathema at my school. for the weirdos to take part in during their lunch-breaks, if they so desired to chase that heathen and most un-anglican of pursuits.

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2011-12-07 17:54:39

#270

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,813|6326|eXtreme to the maX

Uzique wrote:
perhaps stop putting your brother's and your dog's penises in your mouth, then

I suspect its more a question of what he's putting his tongue into.

Fuck Israel

2011-12-07 17:54:59

#271

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6691

scottish cuisine

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2011-12-07 17:55:40

#272

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6008|Catherine Black

I have been eating a lot of haribos tangfastics which probably aren't helping any

2011-12-07 17:56:20

#273

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6691

well no, sugar tends to lead to ulcers. drink some vitamin c everyday and take some minerals.

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2011-12-07 17:56:47

#274

nukchebi0: Пушкин, наше всё; +387|6544|New Haven, CT

I was reading through this debate intently to see which one of them mentioned me first.

Jay wrote:
You don't think nukchebi expects to coast for the rest of his life after he earns his Yale tie pin? People who pay for the private college education here are the same people that match your ideals of working as little as possible for the highest pay

Are you suggesting I "pay for the private college education"?

Last edited by nukchebi0 (2011-12-07 17:57:03)

2011-12-07 17:58:22

#275

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6691

i couldn't be bothered to refute jay on that cause i don't care about the american system or its problems, tbh. from what i know of it the hugely-inflated prices are pretty nonsensical because they're also hugely subsidised with bursaries and scholarships. i can pretty easily get a full scholarship to an ivy school (was looking at columbia last week with a prof) if i cared to do the (FUCKING MOUNTAINS) of paperwork and get it all handed in early. doesn't seem like its anywhere near as much a plutocracy as galt makes out it to be. blue-collar chip, again...

Last edited by Uzique (2011-12-07 17:58:55)

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