HOCKEY

Just curious, do you consider blasting music from your phone in a mall also not rude?

Isn't that a question of volume, not use?

Now I can finally understand why everyone yells HOCKEY at tuma. Am I correct in assuming that the dude in the HOCKEY shirt is All-inMcLovin?

Exactly.

rip chet



oh, also, shedcat got a bird this morning

Game over, man! Game over!

Paxton underrated imo. Was also great in "Big Love". 61 is way too early.

Buttered that bird's muffin.

Dying from complications from surgery at 61 seems unfair, but that's life.

Exchange at a BBQ yesterday:

Person 1 is an old who works in education
Person 2 is an old who works in finance
Person 3 is a first gen millennial on the edge of becoming an old who just started their first not-retail job, in real estate

P2: P1, what's up with education? Why do kids learn about what caused the War of 1812 instead of learning about relevant life skills like how a credit card works?
P1: Yeah, it's pretty lol. I work with the young kids, but that stuff needs to be taught fo sho. It is taught in some places, but not nearly enough.
P3: They are equally important.
P1 & P2: wat
P3: You are drawing a false equivalence. They are equally important to know.
P2: You think that knowing what caused the War of 1812 is equally important for an everyday USA#1er as is knowing how to use a credit card?
P3: Of course it is. This is our history.
P2: Tens of millions of people if not far more use credit cards almost every single day in this country. Making poor decisions with them can lead to financial ruin. The only people using their knowledge of the War of 1812 are the people teaching about it and the people being forced to learn it. And you think these things are equally important for the average USA#1er to know?
P3: They are equally important!

Sounds like two pretty ignorant olds to me. If you had not specified I would have sworn that the ages were reversed based on that conversation.

Me too.
This is a very broad and difficult topic imo but if we really drive p1 and p2's philosophy here then everyone should take tests to find out what occupation they perform most successfully and then never "waste" a single second learning anything but how to perform that job to the best of their abilities once they have learned how to read and write.

I guess from a fundamental theory sort of way that would make a nation the must successful but then it's also like, wtf are we gonna do in our free time?

P4 - Hey did you hear about what happened to Google today?
P5 - I am not in IT so I do not waste time on such matters. Did you hear what happened with American Airlines today?
P4 - I do not work in transit so I do not waste time on such matters.

*blank stare*

War of 1812: my kids' teachers' job, mostly
Basic life skills: my job, mostly

I thought I was well educated, but I've never been taught how a credit card works. Maybe there's a class online I can take.

The irony of a generation who spent my generation's formative years pounding the idea into our heads that any education, no matter what topic or how much debt we accrued getting it, was the key to success in life, then turning around and preaching how we need to forget learning dumb things and learn relevant life skills like how debt works is pretty rich

I've overheard / been part of many similar conversations.

Of course the argument is dumb, not to get too political here but the problem is overpriced and inefficient education and the same dumb olds being unwilling to pay more taxes for it to get better

And math. People need to become better at math, then we wouldn't be having these dumb conversations in the first place because the avg millennial will already understand that 21% APR and a 10k card limit can get out of hand fast

It tickles me how over-confident most people are in real estate and stocks. Work your ass off to gamble that market conditions will remain uniform forever // blindly trust other people // does no meaningful research themselves (or even realizes it). Real smart.

If it's overpriced and inefficient why should we pay more? Maybe we should teach some logic, too.

P4: Any kid who has a broad education (including history) will be able to figure out how a credit card works as well as a great many other things without needing to be taught it specifically. Credit card class is far more valuable to the kids who get poor educations and a useless waste of time to those who get good ones.

Overpriced for the consumer, clearly. Maybe we should teach reading comprehension, too.

My point's not hard to understand. Olds gonna old though. It really does entertain me how much flack millenials get for being supposedly clueless/lazy when the previous two generations didnt inherit a full on recession and stagnant job growth after they graduated (with it costing like 1/10th what it does now)

Oh, I think my point stands.
I guess they didn't teach you the economic history of the mid/late 70s in school.

Among other things ...

You people are making the one political bone in my body go into a conniption.