You guys are missing the point on the cake thing. Common people can't afford a similar wedding cake because it's marked up by a very large factor that is driven by pricing yourself in the range of rich people.

This is fine. Cake-makers can use whatever pricing strategy maximizes their profits but it sucks when regular people have to serve Kroger cake at their wedding.

This is clearly all the fault of too many people going to college and not enough people going to cake trade school to fill the mid-tier wedding cake market

Also Triumph I agree with you. My whole "rich parents" thing is way overblown. But even for regular non-rich people, the actual buyer is gubmint loans so common folk rack up ridiculous debt because they aren't hit with a cash outlay when shopping.

None of this is "good".

where the hell is that 2p2 like button

The new hotness is pie and ice cream at weddings.

****ing awesome, dirt cheap. Marie Callendar's doesn't have a wedding fee, you just buy a pallet of awesome pies and dig in.

/Life advice.

Wedding cake market is hard to bust into. Ex-sorority girls have a stranglehold on the industry.

You're thinking of cupcakes. Based on my viewings of Food Network challenges, the cake market is dominated by tatted up possible junkies

a white friend of mine marrying a white woman had a wedding reception where they only served tacos and booze. i couldn't complain

probably related aside: within 6 months his wife divorced him after telling him he cheated on him (he wanted to stay with her even after she told him)

/counterlife advice

See it's stuff like this that seems to be ingrained in us in the US and just seems wrong to me. There is nothing wrong with a trade. I'm going to be a shepherd, I'm going to get a flock of sheep and tend to them.


EDIT: RE: school - look how ****ty my HS was:

Starter marriage!

the thing about bears is they always look like humans in bear suits to me

Interesting. . .

One of the funniest stories I've ever heard was from a friend of mine who visited Vietnam, went to a zoo, and they had a show with a bear riding a bicycle. Then the bear got pissed off and escaped, like just ran into the rest of the zoo where tons of people were, and the guys running the show just kind of shrugged it off.

damn that thing is ugly. it should mate with the steroids dog that's always posted here to make sure the kids have a little more muscle tone

it's pretty good if your dad bought out the entire thing and you were the only one going there

(i don't know about the origin of this joke nor am i trying to pile on it)

part of the other thing about a trade is that you actually have to be good at something - it's not as simple as STA makes it out to be

Seems like every time my considering becoming a math teacher reaches its apex, somehow Election is on a tv in my eyesight somewhere and it gets shot down again.

In the history of mankind, has anyone ever put a glove on that was in their garage and not thought "Oh God I just know there's a spider in here." ??

From the article KC linked...

Greatest movie bee sting ever

Had an ice cream bar (various favors and toppings) as the primary dessert at my reception. People loved that ****. Simple as hell and cheap and awesome.

Damn, logging this in the mental archives

Kinda reminds me of that Ohio HS rape case, where locals were like, "Oh no, these young men's promising futures of being leaders are now ruined." and I'm like, "Well what about all the other people who won't have cold-blooded probably psychopathic people 'leading' them? Net positive, addition by subtraction?"

Triumph,
I didn't say learning a trade was easy or simple, I said it didn't require mathematical ability.

The article actually talks about that Ohio HS rape case, funny enough

Uh, what?

The problem with society bastardizing teachers is clearly a major problem with the quality of people choosing to enter the profession. I'm not saying you need the smartest folks teaching K-6, but you need the best possible people for the jobs, and that's obviously not what you're getting now--particularly in areas of highest need. Of course for high school, the intelligence of professors--and I mean intelligence in the broadest sense-- is going to be crucial for student development.

If the job is made more attractive and not constantly berated by lolprivate sector professionals and know-nothing conservative front groups than obviously you will get more talented people entering the teacher pool.