Melty Little Snowflakes Outraged That YAF Pranked Them Into Rejecting Socialist Redistribution of Grade Point Average

I don't understand this premise -- doesn't everyone get A's in college now? Or a B, if you literally never come to class and fail the exam.

Well, I guess there's a difference between summa cum laude (4.50 GPA) and bottom of the class (3.82 GPA).

YAF wanted to test the snowflakes' dedication to the redistribution of earned rewards, and so asked snowflakes to sign a petition stating that the top 10% of the class would have some of its GPA "knocked off" so it could be redistributed to the bottom 10% of the class, For Fairness and Equality.

They mostly objected, the Dears.

But the funny part is that they're getting angry and demanding consequences for simply having their stupid principles poked around a bit.

Below, the triggering video what triggers.

Posted by: Ace at 06:30 PM

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1 Well, I think we can see that it is the bottom of the barrel getting into these colleges and spouting this nonsense. Why would any thinking person attend? The profs are no smarter or more educated than the students. The blind leading the blind into a ditch.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 30, 2017 06:24 PM (NXsWM)

2 Lol..

Posted by: tbodie at May 30, 2017 06:24 PM (wm53o)

3 top 100

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 30, 2017 06:24 PM (wmaTe)

4 Looks like white privilege to me.

Posted by: pep at May 30, 2017 06:25 PM (VPqiy)

5 You can hardly blame them. Your own hypocrisy is supposed to be secret. Everyone else's hypocrisy is fair game, though.

Posted by: huerfano at May 30, 2017 06:25 PM (TO4Og)

6 Point and laugh, everybody. Point and laugh.

Mockery. It's what's for dinner.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 30, 2017 06:26 PM (JO9+V)

7 >>>Well, I guess there's a difference between summa cum laude (4.50 GPA) and bottom of the class (3.82 GPA

Summa bottoms cum loudly.

Posted by: Barry O. at May 30, 2017 06:26 PM (py3x2)

8 Hey, those are my grade points...

Posted by: An Observation at May 30, 2017 06:27 PM (Nfuda)

9 With snowflakes, its always someone else that has to give up something but not them.

Posted by: Beartooth at May 30, 2017 06:28 PM (/8EBC)

10 I like these kids what got spunk

Posted by: kallisto at May 30, 2017 06:28 PM (kD8Fh)

11 Isnt this two stage thinking, one more than snowflakes can comprehend?

Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2017 06:28 PM (Ot7+c)

12 You didn't build that GPA - society did.

Posted by: An Observation at May 30, 2017 06:29 PM (Nfuda)

13 They are not very good with mockery, are they?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 30, 2017 06:29 PM (ZgkX8)

14

The yellow sweater pyrsyn: "Barber, please give me a haircut that says I am offended by everyone and everything."

Barber: "Say no more!"

Posted by: imp at May 30, 2017 06:30 PM (XIXZz)

15 Something, something, a snowflakes scorn.

Posted by: Beartooth at May 30, 2017 06:30 PM (/8EBC)

16 The truth of the matter is that distribution sounds great when you're (theoretically) the distributee. When you're the distributer, it sucks.

I can't tell you how many friends I've had who went from full on in favor of wealth distribution in college to a more, ahem, nuanced position when they started getting pay checks.

When you see a 1/4 to a 1/2 of your paycheck disappear every pay period, your perspective suddenly changes.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 30, 2017 06:30 PM (wmaTe)

17 Free stuff.

There is never enough.

Posted by: Affirmative Action Jackson at May 30, 2017 06:31 PM (wEAnZ)

18 I'd call them kindergarteners but that would be insulting kindergarteners.

Posted by: freaked at May 30, 2017 06:31 PM (BO/km)

19 Excellent. I've heard of teachers doing this and of conservatives using the analogy to explain to young idealist students what socialism really is but I love them doing a fake petition.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 30, 2017 06:31 PM (eASYU)

20 The Professor was all for it, lol

Posted by: Batterup at May 30, 2017 06:31 PM (mtGE/)

21 4.50 GPA

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I love that grade inflation made us change the upper grade.

Is that 4.50 still considered measured on a 4.0 scale?

Posted by: Hate Has No Home Here But He Knows the Wi-Fi Key and Helps With The Weedeating at May 30, 2017 06:32 PM (fD1ST)

22 20 The Professor was all for it, lol
Posted by: Batterup at May 30, 2017 06:31 PM (mtGE/)

makes his job much easier. "A-'s for all!"

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 30, 2017 06:32 PM (wmaTe)

23 The Professor was all for it, lol

Posted by: Batterup at May 30, 2017 06:31 PM (mtGE/)

Ten bucks says the same professor signed the petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 30, 2017 06:33 PM (JO9+V)

24 I do love to see irl shitposting like this.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 30, 2017 06:34 PM (TwwWO)

25 And these idiots will run everything in the not too distant future, I should be dead by then. Sucks for young people though.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 30, 2017 06:34 PM (6Ll1u)

26 The Professor was all for it, lol

Posted by: Batterup at May 30, 2017 06:31 PM (mtGE/)

Ten bucks says the same professor signed the petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide.

Posted by: Count de Monet

Another twenty says that he would not support sharing his paycheck and retirement bennies with the school janitor.

Posted by: Joe Mama at May 30, 2017 06:34 PM (wEAnZ)

27 I'm smart. Every standardized test, every teacher, all indicate that I'm not an idiot. My girlfriends would disagree, but oh well...

Anywho, I'm currently in grad school and I'm the top student in the program. However, thanks to grade inflation and these special snowflakes, I don't know if that actually.means anything. I'm doing better than my peers, but I live with this underlying fear that I only think I know the material, and that everything has actually been dumbed down to the point of uselessness.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 30, 2017 06:34 PM (f73eO)

28 "The professor responded later in the forum that he disapproved of the petition's "methodology," saying he felt tricked as he thought it was either a commentary on the ineffectiveness of standardized testing, or simply a joke."

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The meanies tricked a professor because they expected him to know what he believed and why.

Posted by: Hate Has No Home Here But He Knows the Wi-Fi Key and Helps With The Weedeating at May 30, 2017 06:35 PM (fD1ST)

29 >>>>And these idiots will run everything in the not too distant future, I should be dead by then. Sucks for young people though.
.
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.These idiots won't be running anything except the fryolator at McDonalds. It's the quiet ones taking the actual STEM classes that will be running things.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 30, 2017 06:35 PM (le7jz)

30 Ten bucks says the same professor signed the petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 30, 2017 06:33 PM (JO9+V)

My wife uses that line all the time on Facebook. Amazing how many people agree with her to ban it.

Posted by: Beartooth at May 30, 2017 06:36 PM (/8EBC)

31 Consequences are for BadThink, H8rz!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 30, 2017 06:36 PM (oVJmc)

32 but I live with this underlying fear that I only think I know the material, and that everything has actually been dumbed down to the point of uselessness.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 30, 2017 06:34 PM (f73eO)

Shorter
We're fucked if I'm the smartest guy in the room.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 30, 2017 06:38 PM (z79tQ)

33 I'm sorry, but a 'distribution' is still unfair.

All comrades must receive the same grade.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 30, 2017 06:39 PM (oVJmc)

34 .These idiots won't be running anything except the fryolator at McDonalds. It's the quiet ones taking the actual STEM classes that will be running things.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 30, 2017 06:35 PM (le7jz)

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The ones taking the STEM classes will have to run the HR gauntlet where these idiots will be working, advancing, and will have all the power they need.

Posted by: Hate Has No Home Here But He Knows the Wi-Fi Key and Helps With The Weedeating at May 30, 2017 06:39 PM (fD1ST)

35 It was cutting edge humor! QUIT MAKING FUN OF ME!!!

Posted by: Kathy Griffin at May 30, 2017 06:39 PM (qJhUV)

36 What we need is height redistribution. Obamacare should mandate leg lengthening and shortening procedures for all!
Check your tall privilege.

Posted by: Robert Reich at May 30, 2017 06:40 PM (py3x2)

37 You could literally make a video a day highlighting liberal hypocrisy and not only wouldn't they accept that their positions are hypocritical they would respond just as they have here, screeching that they were tricked and it's unfair!

Liberals are boring and worse, too stupid to even reason with. Best just to crush them.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 30, 2017 06:40 PM (/tuJf)

38
MOLON LABE!

THIS!
IS!
LIBRARY!

Posted by: Studious Asian Guy at May 30, 2017 06:40 PM (oVJmc)

39 I've been triggered!

Posted by: Mister Ed at May 30, 2017 06:40 PM (IqV8l)

40 Kneel down here, snowflake.

Posted by: goon at May 30, 2017 06:40 PM (EaQ6/)

41 The ones taking the STEM classes will have to run the HR gauntlet where these idiots will be working, advancing, and will have all the power they need.

When your HR department hires its first SJW, it's over. She (it's almost always a she) can't get fired. But she can get all her enemies fired.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 30, 2017 06:41 PM (6FqZa)

42 So when do their professors start getting sued for destroying the lives of these brain damaged children?

Posted by: Northernlurker at May 30, 2017 06:41 PM (TKxip)

43 34
The ones taking the STEM classes will have to run the HR gauntlet where these idiots will be working, advancing, and will have all the power they need.
Posted by: Hate Has No Home Here But He Knows the Wi-Fi Key and Helps With The Weedeating at May 30, 2017 06:39 PM (fD1ST)

I also wonder how many of these idiots plan to go into government.

Posted by: rickl at May 30, 2017 06:41 PM (sdi6R)

44 >>>These idiots won't be running anything except the fryolator at McDonalds.

With a $15 minimum wage? Ha!

Posted by: Frybot 5000 at May 30, 2017 06:42 PM (py3x2)

45 These idiots won't be running anything except the fryolator at McDonalds. It's the quiet ones taking the actual STEM classes that will be running things.

The STEM students will be designing and fixing the robots that put the other ones out of work.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 30, 2017 06:42 PM (oVJmc)

46 Instead of reflecting upon the evidence that they are first class hypocrites and maybe rethinking their views. They lash out and become a bigger fool. However, I'm willing to bet their parents are outraged that their snowflake was exposed.

Posted by: Beartooth at May 30, 2017 06:42 PM (/8EBC)

47
What we need is height redistribution. Obamacare should mandate leg lengthening and shortening procedures for all!
Check your tall privilege.
Posted by: Robert Reich

Do I have the bed for you!

Posted by: Procrustes at May 30, 2017 06:42 PM (IqV8l)

48 Does the axe still whisper, as it comes down? Maybe it issues an apology as it separates your mind from the rest of your useless existence. But, given how life works, probably not.

Posted by: goon at May 30, 2017 06:43 PM (EaQ6/)

49 When I retired from the USAF back in 2012, I went back to grad school to get my History M.A. It was....interesting. The students were nice, and certainly the older ones were much like me, especially the ones that had had jobs, were raising kids, etc...

But the undergrads were like a bunch of puppies. Clueless, perky, and completely oblivious what the rest of the planet was actually like. They succeeded in college by doing exactly what the professor told them and agreeing with those professors 100 percent of the time, no matter what. America was really the 'evil empire' in the Cold War? Yes sir, sounds good to me. Slavery was a uniquely American evil? You got it, professor. Mitt Romney is a heartless right-wing extremist and religious nutjob who wants to plunge society back to the 1700s? Sure, professor, I'll vote for Barack, he's cool, I saw him on the Daily Show, he sure was funny.

Young, fat and dumb. But nice. That pretty much sums up the undergrads and most of the grad students during my two years back on campus......

Posted by: Pave Low John at May 30, 2017 06:43 PM (OejZ/)

50 The ones taking the STEM classes will have to run the HR gauntlet where these idiots will be working, advancing, and will have all the power they need.
Posted by: Hate Has No Home Here

Indeed. Do you think your virtue, you ability, you achievement is enough? You have to think right, speak right and be seen as a team player.
Step out of line, and down you go. What good does your STEM degree do now, that the HR thought leader from Brown is in charge of YOUR life?
You're an MD? Haha!
The government controls your profession. How does that taste, smart guy? Some knuckle draggin GS-14 with a BA from McNeese State has power over you.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....Don't follow me! at May 30, 2017 06:43 PM (S6Pax)

51 Ya those STEM guys are known for their Alpha male ways, the sexbot is for them as a control mechanism only.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 30, 2017 06:43 PM (6Ll1u)

52 It's true. HR departments have out-sized influence in corporate America, especially at larger companies that have been co-opted into The Borg.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 30, 2017 06:44 PM (+7/1f)

53 Unfortunately, the STEM students are often leftists too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 30, 2017 06:44 PM (qES5k)

54 I want more of this just like I wanted more Mohammed cartoons.

I want these retrograde people fooled and mocked until they are lying exhausted in the streets, panting like overheated dogs in the August sun.

Posted by: Meremortal, at May 30, 2017 06:44 PM (3myMJ)

55 When will these children start getting sent to bed without supper.

Posted by: Northernlurker at May 30, 2017 06:44 PM (TKxip)

56 Next up, survey of College students on redistributing their stash of weed, cell phones and minutes and wardrobe for purposes of "equality". heh

Posted by: The Walking Dude at May 30, 2017 06:46 PM (ARzf8)

57 They would have assassinated me, probably, except that I am such a bad poker player that even those idiots would know that you don't EVER slay the golden goose.

Posted by: goon at May 30, 2017 06:46 PM (EaQ6/)

58 Everyone is conservative about their own work.. even when their work is school. But, they don't appreciation when it is pointed out to their pudgy little faces.

Posted by: DaveM at May 30, 2017 06:46 PM (FNtbC)

59 "But the undergrads were like a bunch of puppies."

Grade inflation contributes to this. It's easier to glide along. And there's a harsher penalty for getting one bad grade if you buck even one professor.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 30, 2017 06:46 PM (+7/1f)

60 My high school (withholding name and year I finished because it does not deserve the credit), as all do in its school district, declares the top 10% of the class to be valedictorians. So who gives the valedictory speech at the high school yawner, er, graduation? Why, that is determined by a popularity contest. When presented with my ballot, along with a note explaining this wonderful tradition, I wrote "James Hetfield". The snowflakes have been under construction for a very long time.

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at May 30, 2017 06:48 PM (mdqKG)

61 It strikes me that many years of liberal lawmaking has put HR departments into the role of Political Officers, all out of fear of lawsuits.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 30, 2017 06:48 PM (oVJmc)

62 It's seemingly easy to trick people with these kinds of questions these days, as this type of prank happens in various forms a lot. I'm of the opinion that critical thinking skills are in short supply, and so is the cynicism necessary to sniff out when someone is playing you.

Someone on the inside of the ivied walls would have to verify, but I suspect a true liberal arts education would not only expand on the knowledge base of what was learned previously, but teach students how to learn and think critically. Instead they go to classes that teach them what to think. Success is defined by parroting, internalizing, and advocating for whatever gibberish is on the menu du jour.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 30, 2017 06:48 PM (z79tQ)

63 The people who have disagreed most strongly with me are also the people who have done the most to shape my convictions. The snowflakes will never develop real, honest to God, convictions.

Posted by: Northernlurker at May 30, 2017 06:49 PM (TKxip)

64 37 You could literally make a video a day highlighting liberal hypocrisy and not only wouldn't they accept that their positions are hypocritical they would respond just as they have here, screeching that they were tricked and it's unfair!

Liberals are boring and worse, too stupid to even reason with. Best just to crush them.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 30, 2017 06:40 PM (/tuJf)

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The worst part is that they don't see it as hypocrisy. They truly believe that identical situations can, and should, be handled differently from one day to the next.

Could you imagine being a five year old of one of these six year olds? No wonder so many kids are f*cked. They're not being taught that there are definites. I'll bend or chip around the edges on certain situations, but I'll try to explain the "why" behind it*. I very much know that what my kids see me do one day they need to see repeated the next.

* The latest was giving money to a bum. I usually discourage it, but I asked him why he was begging and he told me he needed a drink. He was honest with me, and I gave him the money for the wine. Because he was honest, and I push honesty harder than anything.

Posted by: Hate Has No Home Here But He Knows the Wi-Fi Key and Helps With The Weedeating at May 30, 2017 06:49 PM (fD1ST)

65 When you see a 1/4 to a 1/2 of your paycheck disappear every pay period, your perspective suddenly changes.

*******************

Those are the ones that suddenly wise up fast when the real world bitch slaps them upside the head.

It's the one that persists in their fucking idiocy and can't seem to understand cause and effect (like a libtard in Austin complaining about high taxes) that need to be fired from one of our sub's torpedo tubes into the bermuda triangle.

Posted by: Gaylord Farkemall at May 30, 2017 06:49 PM (+dsLj)

66 This past weekend I watched people wait in line to sign Calif. senate bill ballot initiative sheets for 'free healthcare.'

No, it wasn't in front of the local chapter of Chairman Mao's Peace and Justice Center, in fact, they were run of the mill library patrons. Old and young people. White, Chinese and Mexifornians.

Most of the people in the queue would probably consider themselves middle class.

Posted by: 13times at May 30, 2017 06:50 PM (WHVu+)

67 I would like, no, sorry, love is the word I wanted to use ... I would love to be the one to tell these children to move forward while they are under the iron hand and trapped. Move forward. I'm sure that these kids would do just fine. uh-huh. Maybe they would do okay. I'm skeptical though.

Posted by: goon at May 30, 2017 06:51 PM (EaQ6/)

68 The utter stupidity of these people who are somehow considered college material astounds me. I guess colleges expanded when there were so many kids growing up but the baby boom is over and they have all these seats to fill, so lower expectations.

Like the video of Evergreen college - the second one. At about 3:50 a girl is reading a complaint of some sort and cannot sound out and read "pigeon-holed", "trans-disabled", or "allegations". She read at a haltingly 4th grade level, yet is somehow enrolled at a college. (Pass given if it was perhaps written in cursive by someone else. Lord knows they can't read or write cursive these days.).

Posted by: cfo mom at May 30, 2017 06:52 PM (RfzVr)

69 I'm trying to think of the name --- it slips my mind --- but there's a crusty old (and tenured) prof at Harvard who gives his students two grades. One is the official inflated A or A- that goes on their record and the other is what he thinks they really earned.

This infuriates a small minority of kids. But surprisingly most like it. Many respond by working hard to improve their unofficial grade.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 30, 2017 06:53 PM (0jtPF)

70 Gimme my EGT card!

(Electronic GPA Transfer)

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 30, 2017 06:54 PM (8iiMU)

71 Anywho, I'm currently in grad school and I'm the top student in the program. However, thanks to grade inflation and these special snowflakes, I don't know if that actually.means anything. I'm doing better than my peers, but I live with this underlying fear that I only think I know the material, and that everything has actually been dumbed down to the point of uselessness.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 30, 2017 06:34 PM (f73eO)

It is a low bar, but you have managed to step over it. /sarc

I would worry about it less though. For myself, I always look at it this way: am I performing up to my expectations? (No.) Whose opinion do I value most? (Outside of my family, John Wayne and Ronald Reagan- no one I work with.)

Compete against yourself and do what you think you need to do and you will do better than trying to live by their standards. That you worry about it says you already have the right mindset.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 30, 2017 06:55 PM (ZgkX8)

72 I enjoy reading about public schools which emphasize teaching "critical thinking." Then it's even funnier when I think of the people teaching critical thinking.

The ones who stand up at political forums and face the back of the room when confronted with differing opinions.

The ones who were the dumbest students on campus.

Posted by: Furious George at May 30, 2017 06:55 PM (j+dfT)

73 Turns out that the free universal health care for Cali costs more than the entire state budget, buy hey let's pass it and worry about that later.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 30, 2017 06:56 PM (6Ll1u)

74 Everyone gets a trophy!

Posted by: rd at May 30, 2017 06:56 PM (XSEwK)

75 "The professor responded later in the forum that he disapproved of the petition's "methodology," saying he felt tricked as he thought it was either a commentary on the ineffectiveness of standardized testing, or simply a joke."

Whatta dunce. Too stupid to know it's a knock on your "intelligence", not a knock on standardized testing.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2017 06:56 PM (U2rG9)

76 Turns out that the free universal health care for Cali costs more than the entire state budget, buy hey let's pass it and worry about that later.

You think it's expensive NOW, wait until it's FREE!!!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 30, 2017 06:57 PM (oVJmc)

77 I have better things to do. I can put on some pants and go to Moe's and get some tacos! I don't have to re-watch these videos and wonder where the citizens with baseball bats are sleeping drunk under the sycamores. I'll take a drunk kid into the bush with me any day, compared to these activists.

Posted by: goon at May 30, 2017 06:57 PM (EaQ6/)

78 "49 When I retired from the USAF back in 2012, I went back to grad school to get my History M.A. It was....interesting. The students were nice, and certainly the older ones were much like me, especially the ones that had had jobs, were raising kids, etc...

But the undergrads were like a bunch of puppies. Clueless, perky, and completely oblivious what the rest of the planet was actually like. They succeeded in college by doing exactly what the professor told them and agreeing with those professors 100 percent of the time, no matter what. America was really the 'evil empire' in the Cold War? Yes sir, sounds good to me. Slavery was a uniquely American evil? You got it, professor. Mitt Romney is a heartless right-wing extremist and religious nutjob who wants to plunge society back to the 1700s? Sure, professor, I'll vote for Barack, he's cool, I saw him on the Daily Show, he sure was funny.

Young, fat and dumb. But nice. That pretty much sums up the undergrads and most of the grad students during my two years back on campus......"

Sounds exactly like my experience going back to school for my M.A. in history. My conservatism was tolerated because "well, he's a vet".

What's worse was grading the snowflakes' papers. It was as if someone wanted to destroy whatever vestiges of respect I had for public school (see an above post for an example of another reason I have to hate the system). The level of intellect and preparation students have for college material will shock you.

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at May 30, 2017 06:58 PM (mdqKG)

79 I'll take a drunk kid into the bush with me any day, compared to these activists.
Posted by: goon
______

Me too!

Posted by: Harry Reid at May 30, 2017 06:58 PM (j+dfT)

80 The only students averaging 3.8 are the ethnomusicology majors.

Many STEM majors struggle to get 3.0s. I think the MechE majors in my year had around a 2.8 or 2.9 average.

Posted by: Sjg at May 30, 2017 06:59 PM (gDSJf)

81 This is a very old "trick." We pulled it, among others, when I was in college.

As I said earlier about this story, it's the Econ 101 equivalent of holding your thumb between two fingers and saying you stole someone's nose.

If you fall for it, you have the mind of a toddler.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 30, 2017 06:59 PM (wB8Tg)

82 we used to have an idiot sports anchor with a scholar athlete of the week that he would invariably describe as having a "4.2 GPA out of a possible 4.0". Hi Scott Murray!

Posted by: Flying Allende Brothers at May 30, 2017 07:00 PM (nFwvY)

83 I have a friend who is a professor at Middle Tennessee State University.

Back in 2015, they suspended a fraternity charter for hanging a joke banner at the start of the year that read "Freshman Daughter Drop-Off".

Now, she considers herself edgy and likes to curse during lectures and has students make snarky, political memes as a project. Back in 2015, when the events unfolded, I warned her that the PC stuff and triggering could, eventually, rear its ugly head at her should a student deem her edgy style to be offensive. She blew me off (not in a good way) and lambasted me for being a "Conservative asshole"

She proceeded to unfriend me on social media and even blocked my cell phone (which she proudly announced in her farewell text). Fast forward two years and I receive a text out of the blue. It turns out one of her students decided that her edginess was creating an unsafe educational environment. As a result, her contract was not renewed. She managed to begrudgingly text "I guess you were right." I didn't gloat, but instead helped her find a job bartending until she landed another gig at a community college.

When I see madness at places like Evergreen State, it's hard for me not to think that the administrators and faculty are getting exactly what they deserve. You can train a pit bull to attack intruders, but eventually it will wind up attacking a friend, family member or even you.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at May 30, 2017 07:00 PM (LpKiB)

84 People with this mindset "understand" what's wrong with it, they just don't care.

If it benefits them, they want to to steal it. Simple as that.

Same with the whole "hate speech" hypocrisy. As long as they get to decide what the rules are, they have no shame deciding when speech can be free.

Posted by: xanax at May 30, 2017 07:01 PM (UeNv0)

85 if you have a 4.0 GPA, you're an A student

if you have a 4.1 GPA, you're a B student

Posted by: Flying Allende Brothers at May 30, 2017 07:03 PM (nFwvY)

86 She proceeded to unfriend me on social media and even blocked my cell phone (which she proudly announced in her farewell text). Fast forward two years and I receive a text out of the blue. It turns out one of her students decided that her edginess was creating an unsafe educational environment. As a result, her contract was not renewed. She managed to begrudgingly text "I guess you were right." I didn't gloat,

I would have asked her, "who's this?"

Oh yes I would have.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2017 07:03 PM (U2rG9)

87 if you have a 4.0 GPA, you're an A student

if you have a 4.1 GPA, you're a B student
Posted by: Flying Allende Brothers

4.2 = A student with a brown nose.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2017 07:04 PM (U2rG9)

88 Word is that Arianna will come back to Manchester for a benefit show. If so, fair play to her.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 30, 2017 07:04 PM (+7/1f)

89 Word is that Arianna will come back to Manchester for a benefit show. If so, fair play to her.

Muzzies are packing new bombs as you type.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2017 07:05 PM (U2rG9)

90 When I see madness at places like Evergreen State, it's hard for me not to think that the administrators and faculty are getting exactly what they deserve.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at May 30, 2017 07:00 PM (LpKiB)

Oh, not half of what they deserve, on average.

Sadly I need to add a disclaimer - they deserve unemployment and humiliation. I think a lot of these places need to be defunded because they serve no useful purpose.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 30, 2017 07:05 PM (wB8Tg)

91 Malcolm Tent is a very forgiving friend

Posted by: Flying Allende Brothers at May 30, 2017 07:05 PM (nFwvY)

92 OT. Government Civility Minnesota style

MN Governor Foster Brooks Dayton just line item vetoed the MN Legislative Budget for the next two years. He is pissed because the Republicans put a poison pill in the tax bill; if the tax reform bill is not signed, the the MN Department of Revenue is defunded for the next two years.

That is Minnesota Nice.

Posted by: rd at May 30, 2017 07:06 PM (XSEwK)

93 Here's how far we've come from when I was in school.

My senior year, I was in a class where 33% of our grade was going to be based on a research term paper. It was a large class where the professor gave a lecture once a week and then we met twice a week with TAs, grad students, who led smaller subsets. The net of this was that the professor, who was quite good and renowned in his field, didn't really know any of us personally.

The kicker was that we were assigned lab partners from amongst our smaller groups. We didn't get to choose them, they were assigned. Well my lab partners were 3 meatheads from the hockey team. Great hockey players, not great students.

So I made a deal, I would do the research and write the paper, their end of the deal was simply to get it typed. What could go wrong? Well I'll tell you what could go wrong.

They thought it would be a great exercise in free enterprise to sell the paper to other groups from other break out sessions. I mean, it's not like these grad students ever met to discuss things.

Long story short, they did meet to discuss things and I got an F because they realized there was widespread cheating. Naturally, I went to the professor to plead my case. He gave me two choices, tell him who I was and who my lab partners were or accept the grade.

Well there was no way I was going to turn these guys in, mama didn't raise any idiots, so I had to suck it up and take the F. So in effect I got a reverse GPA redistribution and there wasn't a damn thing I could do about it. No crayons. No coloring books. No safe spaces.

I still prefer that world.

Somehow, I survived.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 30, 2017 07:06 PM (/tuJf)

94 71 I do what I can, but my fear is that I don't know what I don't know, so it's difficult to study for it outside of class.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 30, 2017 07:06 PM (f73eO)

95 IICR correctly, this is actually based an old study about how students who want redistriution of wealth did not want the same when it came to their GPA's. I'm shocked it took somebody this long to trigger snowflakes and make a viral video.

Always be searching for the hidden value.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 30, 2017 07:06 PM (2qHjF)

96 I would have asked her, "who's this?"

Oh yes I would have.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2017 07:03 PM (U2rG9)

....

Don't think it didn't cross my mind.

However, I've always had a great affinity for how Barry Sanders used to nonchalantly toss the ball over to the referee after scoring a touchdown rather than spike it and dance.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at May 30, 2017 07:07 PM (LpKiB)

97
The USAA financial services firm is reinstating its advertising on Sean Hannity’s Fox News Channel program after receiving heavy criticism for its initial decision from many of the military members and veterans that it serves…

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 30, 2017 07:07 PM (IqV8l)

98 It's almost as if whining about some outcome you didn't like and demanding that school administrators do something about it has become a way of life for these addledpates.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2017 07:08 PM (2mC6G)

99 " I think a lot of these places need to be defunded because they serve no useful purpose."

Oh, I wouldn't say that...

Posted by: George Soros, building an army of brain dead chimp people at May 30, 2017 07:09 PM (1aMQH)

100 Anyone get any new opinions on America from Ariana?

Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2017 07:09 PM (Ot7+c)

101 94 71 I do what I can, but my fear is that I don't know what I don't know, so it's difficult to study for it outside of class.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 30, 2017 07:06 PM (f73eO)

Look up the article "Nobody knows what the F*ck they are doing." It starts with a reference to Donald Rumsfeld's Known Knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns. Rings true to me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 30, 2017 07:10 PM (ZgkX8)

102 Most of the people in the queue would probably consider themselves middle class.
---

Hahahahaha

People are the Stupid.

"You'll be able to keep your doctor"

"Your premiums will go down an average of $2500 per year"

Stupid, stupid people.

Sorry. Sheeple.

They don't even deserve to be acknowledged as people.

/free healthcare for all? Sign me up! Can I buy some lotto tickets and get an extended warranty too?

Posted by: shibumi at May 30, 2017 07:11 PM (aT+Bx)

103 "Muzzies are packing new bombs as you type."

Hope not.

Targeting a mostly tween girl event is diabolically clever. Has a high terrorism multiplier effect. What could be more cowardly? Hitting child day care centers?

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 30, 2017 07:11 PM (+7/1f)

104 "It's almost as if whining about some outcome you didn't like and demanding that school administrators do something about it has become a way of life for these addledpates."

Next, the storming of College Admin buildings across the nation to demand double portions of graham crackers and extended nap times.

Posted by: Twin Cities Daydrunk, still a Tigers fan at May 30, 2017 07:11 PM (1aMQH)

105 Affirmative action is a kind of redistribution.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 30, 2017 07:12 PM (vRcUp)

106 101. Yup. Dunning-Kruger is, as the kids say, 'a thing.' Knowing of its existence and power, and then applying that knowledge.....that's a whole other ballgame.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 30, 2017 07:12 PM (TwwWO)

107 Somebody should hack the big screen at the next Ariana concert and show the donut licking I hate people video. These people have dollar signs in their eyes only.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 30, 2017 07:15 PM (6Ll1u)

108 They're accusing the film makers of being heartless to low income students. Are they saying low income students are dumber than wealthy ones? I notice the ones who wouldn't sign the petition said they worked hard for their grades. Are they saying low income students are lazy? It amazes me how clueless they are in their "compassion".

Posted by: NavyMom at May 30, 2017 07:15 PM (Oelm8)

109 Targeting a mostly tween girl event is diabolically clever. Has a high terrorism multiplier effect. What could be more cowardly? Hitting child day care centers?

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 30, 2017 07:11 PM (+7/1f)

Soon after 9/11 I predicted (it isn't like I printed some royal decree) that they would come for our schools. I probably did write about it when I had a blog - the Beslan massacre happened in that timeframe. But anyway, if you really want to fuck with Americans, you go after their kids. That was my reasoning, anyway.

To date I have been joyfully incorrect.

I hope to remain so.

Posted by: blaster at May 30, 2017 07:16 PM (jHrzU)

110 Posted by: Malcolm Tent at May 30, 2017 07:00 PM (LpKiB)

You're a far better person than I am. Hats off to ya. I would never have acknowledged her existence again.

Posted by: cfo mom at May 30, 2017 07:17 PM (RfzVr)

111 4.50 GPA

---

I love that grade inflation made us change the upper grade.

Is that 4.50 still considered measured on a 4.0 scale?
Posted by: Hate Has No Home Here But He Knows the Wi-Fi Key and Helps With The Weedeating at May 30, 2017 06:32 PM (fD1ST)

Evidence indicates that it's a 0-10 scale.

Posted by: filbert at May 30, 2017 07:19 PM (s5o+q)

112 Anywho, I'm currently in grad school and I'm the top student in the program. However, thanks to grade inflation and these special snowflakes, I don't know if that actually.means anything. I'm doing better than my peers, but I live with this underlying fear that I only think I know the material, and that everything has actually been dumbed down to the point of uselessness.

Alex,

The way to know if you really, truly understand the material?

Can you actually teach it to someone else? Answer their questions? Make them understand?

Posted by: rd at May 30, 2017 07:19 PM (XSEwK)

113 108 They're accusing the film makers of being heartless to low income students. Are they saying low income students are dumber than wealthy ones? I notice the ones who wouldn't sign the petition said they worked hard for their grades. Are they saying low income students are lazy? It amazes me how clueless they are in their "compassion".
Posted by: NavyMom at May 30, 2017 07:15 PM (Oelm

Well, it is pretty simple- they are true racists. Not racists in what they say (although this is an example) but racists in what they DO.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 30, 2017 07:21 PM (ZgkX8)

114 If Ariana pulls this off, it's a big fuck you to the terrorists, taken at some personal risk.

For that, I'd forgive her donut licking, as she'll have done more in the GWOT than most of us.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 30, 2017 07:22 PM (+7/1f)

115
As long as you pass enough credits to get the degree, who gives a flying fuck what your GPA is? The typical employer generally doesn't ask.

Unless you're looking to spend your life living off of student loans for decades by doing graduate work and partying, but mostly partying.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 30, 2017 07:22 PM (quw2O)

116 "The hypocrisy is obvious. Liberals embrace socialist policies when their own property is unaffected, but when socialism affects them personally, watch them become advocates of free enterprise instantaneously," the foundation stated on its website in announcing the contest.

That's not really the point. I don't care if lefty turds are more than happy to redistribute their own "grades". That still doesn't make their commie bullshit any more sensible.

The point is not about hypocrisy but it's about merely needing to change a couple of incidental elements of their stupid schemes and they realize how idiotic their ideas sound to everyone, including themselves (but who gives a shit about that?). It is not that they want to keep whatever good grades they get all themselves. I could not care less about that. It's about the mask being taken off of their jaw-droppingly stupid and anti-progress ideas.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 30, 2017 07:23 PM (zc3Db)

117 Oh look, the secret service is checking out Kathy Griffin. Evidently, cutting the head off POTUS- even in effigy- is not kosher.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 30, 2017 07:24 PM (ZgkX8)

118 Posted by: filbert at May 30, 2017 07:19 PM (s5o+q)

Oh yeah. My granny learned more in her 4 years of public school than these kids have in 12+.

Posted by: cfo mom at May 30, 2017 07:24 PM (RfzVr)

119 There you go, Marx: you got the Boomers to reject the Greatest Generation and all the Hippies' kids rejected you right back to the Founding Fathers. Meanwhile a lot of redistributionists aborted their way to oblivion.

Now get out there and drain the swamp kids!

Posted by: 80's music fan at May 30, 2017 07:25 PM (HCnEB)

120 On the other hand, does anyone else look at the left going completely off the rails and kind of welcome it? I remember my Dad (who still says this) saying in the 80's that the left was full of a bunch of America hating neo-stalinists.

I kind of welcome them saying exactly what we all knew they were thinking for decades.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 30, 2017 07:26 PM (ZgkX8)

121 wankers

Posted by: thathalfrican - Luchini aka This Is It What at May 30, 2017 07:26 PM (IYHxL)

122 This is video is a little useless, because we don't know the politics of the students beforehand. Maybe they just happened to choose other conservative students.

Posted by: Gem at May 30, 2017 07:28 PM (uaHyk)

123 I'm doing better than my peers, but I live with this underlying fear that I only think I know the material, and that everything has actually been dumbed down to the point of uselessness.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 30, 2017 06:34 PM (f73eO)

Nobody knows if they know the material straight out of undergrad or grad.

Can you take what you passed on tests in school and apply it in real life ? Well ... you ain't going to exactly know that either until you try.

Because no college or university has a syllabus to prepare you for real life. At some point - no matter how much you study - you're just going to have to fucking wing it.

Posted by: ScoggDog at May 30, 2017 07:29 PM (fiGNd)

124 I remember when P.J. O'Rourke pulled the same on his daughter when she complained about something not being "fair".

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at May 30, 2017 07:29 PM (17uEM)

125 Is it possible to be bottom of the class (3.82 GPA) at football and summa cum laude (4.50 GPA) at rape? What kind of college is this?

Posted by: Fritz at May 30, 2017 07:29 PM (TNQMS)

126 114 If Ariana pulls this off, it's a big fuck you to the terrorists, taken at some personal risk.

For that, I'd forgive her donut licking, as she'll have done more in the GWOT than most of us.
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 30, 2017 07:22 PM (+7/1f

Posted by: Gem at May 30, 2017 07:29 PM (uaHyk)

127 Shit, I made a lot of money doing other people's term papers my last couple years of school. Highlights to follow:

The year after I took it, I did FOUR final papers for the mandatory ROTC military history class. These for a professor, retired brigadier general, that I had had for several other classes, including one the semester these other guys were taking him for 320.

It was goddamned hard to make four different people sound like them and not sound like me, while still producing twenty pages of quality battle analysis according to the principles of war per FM 100-5.

Two hundred bucks a whack, though. That was good money in 199x.

A year later, my next door neighbor who was very hot, very smart, and unfortunately lazy as shit since she was already rich (which was good because she never blinked at what I charged her for a paper) came to me. She needed a four person group project for a 400 level business school marketing class, and needed it in 48 hours. It was something like forty percent of their final grade. I had them over a barrel and they knew it.

Five hundred bucks each. Cash. No checks. Get your equally hot friend the fuck out of my room because she's making googly eyes at me like she can fuck me to get out of paying the five bills. She can't.

This was the very early days of the Internet, and I massively plagiarized portions of FedEx's annual shareholder conference reports for three years running. They got As, I made two grand in cash, her hot friend tried to fuck me for a rebate, got mad when I told her no, and I was convinced from that moment on that every business school degree on planet Earth was fucking bullshit.

Posted by: Colonel Kurtz at May 30, 2017 07:30 PM (A17MJ)

128 More irl shitposting - a normie wants to #FreeKekistan

https://youtu.be/zc7Ca02U_T4

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 30, 2017 07:30 PM (TwwWO)

129 Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 30, 2017 07:22 PM (quw2O)

They may not ask, but from what I understand an unlisted GPA is generally assumed by recruiters/ HR drones to be less than 3. Assuming a human even looks at your resume before it's filtered out.

Obviously, once you have a few years of experience after college it stops mattering much, but new grads it's a pretty big deal.

Posted by: Sjg at May 30, 2017 07:30 PM (gDSJf)

130 Whoops. Hit post too soon. Is Ariana Grande a favorite musician of yours, Ignoramus? Just curious.

Posted by: Gem at May 30, 2017 07:31 PM (uaHyk)

131 Who is Jonathan Bernstein and why does have a platform?

My mother still reads the local and state papers. Even though she is internet savvy, has an iphone and a tablet, she likes the printed papers to keep up with the obituaries. ( I kid you not)

Today, she had one paper open to an article by this Bernstein which was nothing but hypotheticals, based on no evidence , about Trump being impeached. It was pure, outright sedition, and nothing but.

I. am. livid.

This is the dreck: https://tinyurl.com/y76zba29

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at May 30, 2017 07:33 PM (oQQwD)

132 They should have made the petition to have a vote on whether to implement GPA redistribution. That's how democracy works, right?

Posted by: OCBill at May 30, 2017 07:33 PM (df+Zi)

133 GPA is just as inheritable as wealth. And as squanderable.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 30, 2017 07:34 PM (LTHVh)

134 They may not ask, but from what I understand an unlisted GPA is generally assumed by recruiters/ HR drones to be less than 3. Assuming a human even looks at your resume before it's filtered out.

Obviously, once you have a few years of experience after college it stops mattering much, but new grads it's a pretty big deal.
Posted by: Sjg at May 30, 2017 07:30 PM (gDSJf)

I've never heard that before. My SIL works in HR recruiting (headhunting), and she and I have talked about this a few times -- according to her, no employers ask about GPA's from her candidates and if the candidates take up too much room on their resumes with GPA's and Honor List and other school-related stuff, employers assume they are trying to cover up for having a thin resume with no work experience or anything to indicate that you know how to do anything other than get "B's" (or even "A's") in college... a skill which does not translate well to the workplace.

...So, I don't know. Might differ on geography, industry, and company -- but in my experience, having never listed nor mentioned my GPA to any company, it's never slowed me down

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 30, 2017 07:34 PM (wmaTe)

135 More irl shitposting - a normie wants to #FreeKekistan

https://youtu.be/zc7Ca02U_T4
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 30, 2017 07:30 PM (TwwWO)

A man near the Mexico Borderr with Texas posted a Facebook photo of the 13lb Bullfrog that he caught a few days ago. I had the tab opened earlier today to share, but my shit froze up.

Some say it's Kek. This would not surprise me. Worth the time to search. I'll post a link if I run across it because 13lbs bullfrog.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 30, 2017 07:34 PM (2qHjF)

136 They may not ask, but from what I understand an unlisted GPA is generally assumed by recruiters/ HR drones to be less than 3. Assuming a human even looks at your resume before it's filtered out.

Obviously, once you have a few years of experience after college it stops mattering much, but new grads it's a pretty big deal.

Posted by: Sjg at May 30, 2017 07:30 PM (gDSJf)

Undergrad GPAs matter in applying to grad schools and professional schools - law school, med school, etc. There are still the standardized tests (MCAT, LSAT, GRE, ... thank G-d) but the grades are certainly looked at pretty seriously.

Unless, of course, you have bean-counting advantages that outweigh any silly considerations of intelligence, competence or ability.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 30, 2017 07:35 PM (zc3Db)

137 No. I couldn't name a single song of hers. She has pipes though.

She's been beaten up here in the past.

I'm just trying to be fair.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 30, 2017 07:35 PM (+7/1f)

138 The odds of terrorists hitting another Ariana Grande concert in Manchester are vanishingly small.

The terrorists are very good at making Western governments react to what they do.

Terrorists: 9/11
Response: Create a new massive expensive bureaucracy, the TSA, to search and inconvenience all airline passengers.

Terrorists: The shoe bomber
Response: Now passengers are made to take their shoes off as well.

Terrorists: Manchester
Response: No doubt there will be heightened security at concerts in England, and probably elsewhere.

And so forth.

Meanwhile the terrorists will find an entirely different target to attack, once again taking the authorities by surprise.

Posted by: rickl at May 30, 2017 07:35 PM (sdi6R)

139 They should have made the petition to have a vote on whether to implement GPA redistribution. That's how democracy works, right?
Posted by: OCBill

No. You have an inalienable right to your GPA.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 30, 2017 07:35 PM (vRcUp)

140 You can't get away with plagiarism like that nowadays. I mean, sure, there are people who do sell papers, but you can't lift it in chunks like that from the webz.

Posted by: Gem at May 30, 2017 07:36 PM (uaHyk)

141 Posted by: Gem at May 30, 2017 07:31 PM (uaHyk)

She is not a musician.

Posted by: cfo mom at May 30, 2017 07:36 PM (RfzVr)

142 The charity concert is bullshit. They should go play in Raqqa Syria without guards. Ariana Grande literally wants Muslims to replace populations in Europe and America. Fuck her and her ilk.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 30, 2017 07:37 PM (2qHjF)

143 This "one love" Manchester concert will be all "let's be nice to the muslims, Trump is a h8r, yada yada yada."

Posted by: josephistan at May 30, 2017 07:37 PM (ANIFC)

144
Ten bucks says the same professor signed the petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 30, 2017 06:33 PM (JO9+V)

Oxygen dihydrid. Splitter.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 30, 2017 07:39 PM (lxioR)

145 No. You have an inalienable right to your GPA.

A well numerated GPA being necessary to the security of a Free Ride, the right of the Snowflakes to keep and bear their's shall not be infringed.

Posted by: ScoggDog at May 30, 2017 07:39 PM (fiGNd)

146
37 No. I couldn't name a single song of hers. She has pipes though.

She's been beaten up here in the past.

I'm just trying to be fair.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 30, 2017 07:35 PM (+7/1f)

Okay. It is a nice gesture.

Posted by: Gem at May 30, 2017 07:39 PM (uaHyk)

147 She's been beaten up here in the past.

I'm just trying to be fair.

I'm waiting for her to do porn. For this, I will pay.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 30, 2017 07:39 PM (LTHVh)

148 The BMD test today was successful.

http://tinyurl.com/yctlakzh

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at May 30, 2017 07:40 PM (RuyTK)

149 147. Dude.....torrents......

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 30, 2017 07:40 PM (TwwWO)

150 117 Oh look, the secret service is checking out Kathy Griffin. Evidently, cutting the head off POTUS- even in effigy- is not kosher.

==

Sexism!!!!

Posted by: votermom pimping great books at May 30, 2017 07:41 PM (hMwEB)

151 Speaking of Raqqa, the Syrian Kurds started to receive weapons and ammunition about 24 hours ago. Courtesy of the Golden Haired Scalp Weasel.

Score one for President Trump. Take one away from captain maccain.

Story over at the CTH

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at May 30, 2017 07:41 PM (d76uN)

152 I'm beginning to think I won't be able to hire anyone younger than 40 soon... I mean the risk is too great.

Posted by: Inogame at May 30, 2017 07:41 PM (ySZHT)

153 147 She's been beaten up here in the past.

I'm just trying to be fair.

I'm waiting for her to do porn. For this, I will pay.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 30, 2017 07:39 PM (LTHVh)

The Ariana Grande / Kathy Griffin video is pretty well known on the Deep Web ...

Posted by: ScoggDog at May 30, 2017 07:41 PM (fiGNd)

154 Fans, critics and haters all give too much energy to hollow-headed celebrities.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 30, 2017 07:41 PM (wB8Tg)

155 >>Oh look, the secret service is checking out Kathy
Griffin. Evidently, cutting the head off POTUS- even in effigy- is not
kosher.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop

It is, however, halal.

Posted by: Aviator at May 30, 2017 07:41 PM (/Nite)

156 Oh look, the secret service is checking out Kathy Griffin. Evidently, cutting the head off POTUS- even in effigy- is not kosher.

ANTI-SATIRISTS!!!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 30, 2017 07:42 PM (oVJmc)

157 The Ariana Grande / Kathy Griffin video is pretty well known on the Deep Web ...

I'm retching yet intrigued.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 30, 2017 07:42 PM (LTHVh)

158 Palp would be the one who'd know. Get to searchin' Grump.

Posted by: cfo mom at May 30, 2017 07:42 PM (RfzVr)

159 What will they do with all the clown college graduates now that the circus has folded?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 30, 2017 07:43 PM (IqV8l)

160 Oh look, the secret service is checking out Kathy Griffin. Evidently,
cutting the head off POTUS- even in effigy- is not kosher.

What part of a PROFESSIONAL humorists does the SS not understand?

Posted by: Bruce at May 30, 2017 07:43 PM (8ikIW)

161 >>If Ariana pulls this off

I'll catch it on Pornhub.

Posted by: garrett at May 30, 2017 07:43 PM (ZxtQa)

162 If she really wants to promote healing, she should have James Taylor open for her.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 30, 2017 07:43 PM (oVJmc)

163 Now I know, when we have accumulated sufficient wealth to last our lifetime, we should pursue other matters that are unrelated to wealth ...

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at May 30, 2017 07:43 PM (e8kgV)

164 So, a guy in an ancillary department at my cr@ptastic part time job hit his wife over the head with a blade of an axe, and then went to work.

Came home 14 hours later, and called 911 about a break in. Wife is in critical condition. Fake break in obviously.

The husband is in jail, but damn. I don't know the guy, but it's disconcerting knowing that any random person you work with is capable of an axe attack.

Also...I expect lots of more this sort of thing to happen. The business is closing after 30 years and people are literally going crazy.

Posted by: shibumi at May 30, 2017 07:43 PM (aT+Bx)

165
Some say it's Kek. This would not surprise me. Worth the time to search. I'll post a link if I run across it because 13lbs bullfrog.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 30, 2017 07:34 PM (2qHjF)

Its not Kek...

Its Jeremiah... I know, he was a good friend of mine...

and had some mighty fine wine...

Posted by: Don Q, singing the Song of Angry Men at May 30, 2017 07:43 PM (NgKpN)

166 That Asian guy is standing in a hole, right?

Posted by: wth at May 30, 2017 07:44 PM (HgMAr)

167 >>Its Jeremiah... I know, he was a good friend of mine...

and had some mighty fine wine...

Always.

Posted by: garrett at May 30, 2017 07:44 PM (ZxtQa)

168
The husband is in jail, but damn. I don't know the guy, but it's disconcerting knowing that any random person you work with is capable of an axe attack.

Also...I expect lots of more this sort of thing to happen. The business is closing after 30 years and people are literally going crazy.

Posted by: shibumi at May 30, 2017 07:43 PM (aT+Bx)

You know the Guys who did Columbine? They both delivered pizza to my house... part of the tips I gave them helped buy those guns...

Talk about a weird queasy feeling...

You just never know when you will have a brush with Evil...

Posted by: Don Q, singing the Song of Angry Men at May 30, 2017 07:45 PM (NgKpN)

169 I'm waiting for her to do porn. For this, I will pay.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 30, 2017 07:39 PM (LTHVh)
............

Somebody must be glazing that donut.

Posted by: wth at May 30, 2017 07:45 PM (HgMAr)

170 I have been writing for awhile I pity anyone having to hire or go to a professional who has graduated recently. These young people 1 think the world owes them something and 2 if they don't get their way its lawsuits right away. Its what they seem to be taught and shown.

Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2017 07:45 PM (Ot7+c)

171
If she really wants to promote healing, she should have James Taylor open for her.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles

They could do a duet of Mockingbird.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 30, 2017 07:46 PM (IqV8l)

172 Baby, hit those donuts one more time.

Posted by: Britney Grande at May 30, 2017 07:46 PM (Tyii7)

173 So, a guy in an ancillary department at my cr@ptastic part time job hit his wife over the head with a blade of an axe, and then went to work.

Well ... at least he was incompetent.

Imagine if he'd attached the blade of an axe to a handle made for said implement.

Posted by: ScoggDog at May 30, 2017 07:46 PM (fiGNd)

174 Oh look, the secret service is checking out Kathy Griffin.
............

Glad it's them and not us, that's one female body we don't want to inspect.

Posted by: the FBI at May 30, 2017 07:47 PM (HgMAr)

175 Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 30, 2017 07:34 PM (wmaTe)

I very well could be wrong, I'm just going by what I heard when I was finishing undergrad. The "conventional wisdom" was that it's a good idea to list GPA over 3 and as you add experience you start leaving the GPA off unless it was very impressive. A couple years out it would be gone from your resume except for maybe a mention of honors because, as you say, focusing too much on school could be to your detriment.

Posted by: Sjg at May 30, 2017 07:48 PM (gDSJf)

176 My son wanted to go to Brown when he saw in their literature that the lowest grade they would give was a "B".

Too far away for his mother, scholarship or not.

Posted by: Javems at May 30, 2017 07:48 PM (yOqwj)

177 >>So, a guy in an ancillary department at my cr@ptastic part time job hit his wife over the head with a blade of an axe, and then went to work.

>>Came home 14 hours later, and called 911 about a break in. Wife is in critical condition. Fake break in obviously.

He hit his wife in the head with the blade of an axe and didn't kill her? He must play for the Mets.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 30, 2017 07:48 PM (/tuJf)

178 The charity concert is bullshit. They should go play in Raqqa Syria without guards. Ariana Grande literally wants Muslims to replace populations in Europe and America. Fuck her and her ilk.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 30, 2017 07:37 PM (2qHjF)

If ISIS took out only her I'd send them a fruit basket.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 30, 2017 07:48 PM (F22+S)

179 Ariana has been beaten up in the past?

Does that mean Kathy Griffin could get beaten up in the future?

Posted by: Meremortal, at May 30, 2017 07:48 PM (3myMJ)

180 #139 inalienable right

But we don't have an inalienable right to our earned rewards. The income tax, Kelo, etc, show that those rights are very alienable.

My point is similar to Heinlein's bread and circuses point, and more simply when asking whether it's okay to rob Peter to pay Paul, you can nearly always count on Paul's support. Especially nowadays. Imagine the class warfare case studies breaking out all over campus between the high-GPA and low-GPA classes. It would be a thing of beauty.

Posted by: OCBill at May 30, 2017 07:49 PM (df+Zi)

181 If ISIS took out only her I'd send them a fruit basket.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 30, 2017 07:48 PM (F22+S)
........

and maybe some donuts

Posted by: wth at May 30, 2017 07:50 PM (HgMAr)

182
He hit his wife in the head with the blade of an axe and didn't kill her? He must play for the Mets.
--

Yeah, I think it was more of a "bludgeon" thing as opposed to a "blade in the skull thing." That's the impression I got.

/and you people wonder why I look at potential mates and think "will you be the man who buys at million dollar insurance policy on my life, murders me in cold blood and then blames it on a botched robbery?"

Posted by: shibumi at May 30, 2017 07:50 PM (aT+Bx)

183 Mark Steyn has been on fire the past week:

https://www.steynonline.com/7858/the-ruin-of-england

Posted by: logprof at May 30, 2017 07:52 PM (GsAUU)

184 'The Davidson Bubble' is well known. They have very deliberately distanced themselves from its conservative Presbyterian heritage.

Curiously, Davidson is high on the list of campus rape reports, imagined, or not. Either way it's a bad sign.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 30, 2017 07:52 PM (OdK9v)

185 >>Yeah, I think it was more of a "bludgeon" thing as opposed to a "blade in the skull thing." That's the impression I got.

Oh that is just a huge fastball right down the middle....

must resist.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 30, 2017 07:52 PM (/tuJf)

186 I've never heard that before. My SIL works in HR recruiting (headhunting), and she and I have talked about this a few times -- according to her, no employers ask about GPA's from her candidates and if the candidates take up too much room on their resumes with GPA's and Honor List and other school-related stuff, employers assume they are trying to cover up for having a thin resume with no work experience or anything to indicate that you know how to do anything other than get "B's" (or even "A's") in college... a skill which does not translate well to the workplace.

...So, I don't know. Might differ on geography, industry, and company -- but in my experience, having never listed nor mentioned my GPA to any company, it's never slowed me down

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 30, 2017 07:34 PM (wmaTe)

My favorite was learning that the local colleges have a mandatory volunteer community service requirement.

Re-read it. Mandatory volunteer requirement. Yep. Hey kids, that stuff that we make meth addicts and drunks do as punishment? Yeah, you're going to do it, too, and you're going to pay for the privilege.

It irritates me to think of some kid without much money who couldn't pay for all of the extracurricular stuff Buffy and Todd could call Daddums to send a check for, but who was willing to go out and slop soup to homeless people on the weekends in order to make his resume or application look better for the next level.

HR killed it because they didn't understand it.

Posted by: Hate Has No Home Here But He Knows the Wi-Fi Key and Helps With The Weedeating at May 30, 2017 07:52 PM (fD1ST)

187 This should be a 2 part video. First petition approach should be the GPA sharing and then later they should be approached again about wealth. This will show better whether they're being hypocrites or not.

Posted by: Jason at May 30, 2017 07:53 PM (uYpPl)

188 Isn't Davidson the Oberlin of the South?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 30, 2017 07:53 PM (LTHVh)

189 shibumi

Only a fool or a Leftist would not cherish you and protect you. You is good people.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 30, 2017 07:53 PM (u82oZ)

190 >>If ISIS took out only her I'd send them a fruit basket.

Posted by: Country Boy

We'll throw them off the roof.

Posted by: ISIS at May 30, 2017 07:53 PM (/Nite)

191 No. I couldn't name a single song of hers. She has pipes though.

She's been beaten up here in the past.

I'm just trying to be fair.

Posted by: Ignoramus

Fuck that cunt. Bing Ariana Grande anti American comments.
And she isn't being "brave" in regards to her benefit concert. A WHOLE lot of security people will be hanging their asses out for this twat.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2017 07:54 PM (U2rG9)

192 Does that mean Kathy Griffin could get beaten up in the future?
Posted by: Meremortal, at May 30, 2017 07:48 PM (3myMJ)

OK ... I can't take this anymore. I checked the earlier thread. For crying out loud ... somebody actually posted they'd pray for me because I thought she was a One.

Really ?

I went back and did another Google search. Yeah ... her facelift sucks. She's not the Kathy Griffin I remember from five years ago. But the woman is 56 Years Old.

Relatively speaking ... most women at 56 look like Tony Curtis. She's much more on the Jamie Lee Curtis end of that spectrum ... relatively speaking.

You people must all be screwing SuperModels.

Posted by: ScoggDog at May 30, 2017 07:55 PM (fiGNd)

193 Posted by: Hate Has No Home Here But He Knows the Wi-Fi Key and Helps With The Weedeating at May 30, 2017 07:52 PM (fD1ST)

One of our local parochial high schools has mandatory volunteer work to graduate. It's stupid.

Posted by: CaliGirl at May 30, 2017 07:55 PM (Ri/rl)

194 176 My son wanted to go to Brown when he saw in their literature that the lowest grade they would give was a "B".

---

Yeah, it's hard tell everyone you're the cream of the crop when your elite kids perform exactly like the JCPenney's workers' brood at the state school two counties over.

Posted by: Hate Has No Home Here But He Knows the Wi-Fi Key and Helps With The Weedeating at May 30, 2017 07:56 PM (fD1ST)

195 /and you people wonder why I look at potential mates and think "will you be the man who buys at million dollar insurance policy on my life, murders me in cold blood and then blames it on a botched robbery?"
Posted by: shibumi at May 30, 2017 07:50 PM (aT+Bx)

So not long after my wife and I were married, we visited friends at their sketchy apartment. Stayed on the fold out bed in the living room.

There was a fight outside the living room window that night, which woke my wife up. I put my arm around her, so she figured I was being comforting, what with the yelling right outside the window.

Thing is I was sound asleep, and in my sleep I was fighting someone, and thrashing them soundly.

Anyway in my sleep, I apparently began choking her with that one arm, with sort of a headlock around her neck. All those thoughts went through her head--I just married this guy, I guess I didn't really know him after all, now he's going to kill me.

I woke up quickly and stopped, and we managed to clear the situation up fairly quickly, but all day she was still feeling freaked out.

Hasn't happened since but it was weird to have that happen at all.

Posted by: Texas Dan at May 30, 2017 07:56 PM (yL25O)

196 "Somebody should hack the big screen at the next Ariana concert and show the donut licking I hate people video."

'Twasn't "I hate people," which Burrito Grande had opined.

It was "I hate America. I hate Americans."

She of course promptly fled the UK for the comparative safety of America after the nail bombs started detonating.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 30, 2017 07:56 PM (ujwCG)

197 O'er the land of the freeeeeeeeeeee, and the home of the donut.

Posted by: Britney Grande at May 30, 2017 07:56 PM (Tyii7)

198 If she wanted to benefit Manchester, stay the hell away. Let them recover, and contribute from your later concert dates.

This is nothing but grandstanding.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 30, 2017 07:56 PM (oVJmc)

199 What part of a PROFESSIONAL humorists does the SS not understand?

Posted by: Bruce
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Are you kidding? The Justice Department strong-armed me into taking 'sensitivity' training, for wearing a Halloween mask.

Posted by: Rodeo Clown at May 30, 2017 07:59 PM (OdK9v)

200 One of our local parochial high schools has mandatory volunteer work to graduate. It's stupid.
Posted by: CaliGirl

Send the headmaster a copy of the dictionary with mandatory and volunteer highlighted.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2017 07:59 PM (U2rG9)

201 I guess a severed head likeness counts as a death threat? I can buy it. Not like dressing up as a rodeo clown

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 30, 2017 07:59 PM (vRcUp)

202 Woah. The Atlanta Fed is forecasting 3.8% GDP growth for the second quarter.

http://tinyurl.com/y88s32ht

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at May 30, 2017 07:59 PM (RuyTK)

203 >>
You people must all be screwing SuperModels.

Well, now that you mention it....

Posted by: PDT at May 30, 2017 08:00 PM (/Nite)

204 I'm still waiting for my check from Zuckerberg

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 30, 2017 08:00 PM (SjImc)

205 There was the time that doing something as stupid as Griffin did would ruin your career.

I'm betting this puts her on the short list for Dem nominee in 2020.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 30, 2017 08:00 PM (oVJmc)

206
This is nothing but grandstanding.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles
-------

She's trying to buy an indulgence, for having provided the guy with an opportunity.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 30, 2017 08:00 PM (OdK9v)

207 You people must all be screwing SuperModels.

Well, now that you mention it....
Posted by: PDT

Screw you Donald.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2017 08:02 PM (U2rG9)

208 >>I'm still waiting for my check from Zuckerberg

So am I.

Posted by: The Guy Who Came Up With The idea of Facebook at May 30, 2017 08:02 PM (/Nite)

209 Woah. The Atlanta Fed is forecasting 3.8% GDP growth for the second quarter.
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Can't be. I predicted economic collapse if Trump was elected.

Posted by: Paul Krugman at May 30, 2017 08:02 PM (OdK9v)

210 America's Got Talent just featured a chicken playing American the Beautiful on a piano.

Only in America.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 30, 2017 08:04 PM (LTHVh)

211 Send the headmaster a copy of the dictionary with mandatory and volunteer highlighted.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2017 07:59 PM (U2rG9)

The parents like the idea. I told them that is not volunteer work. The parents think it'll look great on the college applications.

Posted by: CaliGirl at May 30, 2017 08:04 PM (Ri/rl)

212 The Atlanta Fed is forecasting 3.8% GDP growth for the second quarter

Turn those machines back on!!!

Posted by: Hillary Duke at May 30, 2017 08:04 PM (Tyii7)

213 By the By: My Windows Laptop- a pretty new one- updated with the last Windows 10 Update today and that fuck Gates crashed my computer. AND AND AND Microsoft was useless. Dell was much better but of course it cost me $230 to get it back up and running. Lost a whole days work...FUCK Microsoft!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 30, 2017 08:05 PM (SjImc)

214 You people must all be screwing SuperModels.

I actually don't want Wozniak's sloppy seconds....

Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at May 30, 2017 08:05 PM (tVWQB)

215 g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 30, 2017 08:06 PM (KCxzN)

216 The parents think it'll look great on the college applications.

Posted by: CaliGirl at May 30, 2017 08:04 PM (Ri/rl)

---

It would if every other kid didn't have it on their resume, too.

Posted by: Hate Has No Home Here But He Knows the Wi-Fi Key and Helps With The Weedeating at May 30, 2017 08:06 PM (fD1ST)

217 >>Screw you Donald.

I'm not really a supermodel, the hair probably threw you off.

Posted by: PDT at May 30, 2017 08:06 PM (/Nite)

218 Wozniak needed string and some popsicle sticks to nail that fucking tramp.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 30, 2017 08:07 PM (89T5c)

219 NGU, that kind of garbage is why I ditched Microsoft. My work computer is a MacBook Pro, my IT department set me up with a virtual machine running Windows 10 for two applications that I use infrequently, but everything is now MacOS for me. No crashes, no nothing.

Windows 10 messed up my Alienware 17 but good. Still bitter about that one.

Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at May 30, 2017 08:07 PM (tVWQB)

220
One of our local parochial high schools has mandatory volunteer work to graduate. It's stupid.
Posted by: CaliGirl at May 30, 2017 07:55 PM

Colin Powell is one of those who advocate for "mandatory volunteer" work.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 30, 2017 08:07 PM (IqV8l)

221 America's Got Talent just featured a chicken playing American the Beautiful on a piano.

WHERE IS MY FLYING CAR?

Priorities, please.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 30, 2017 08:08 PM (F0ZHr)

222 Let me tell ya, the piano gig is a yuuuuge improvement.

Posted by: The Chicken at May 30, 2017 08:10 PM (Tyii7)

223 Colin Powell is one of those who advocate for "mandatory volunteer" work.

Arbet Macht Frie!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2017 08:10 PM (U2rG9)

224
Woah. The Atlanta Fed is forecasting 3.8% GDP growth for the second quarter.
-----------

Wasn't the first quarter 0.7% ?
We'll see.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 30, 2017 08:12 PM (IqV8l)

225 Colin Powell is one of those who advocate for "mandatory volunteer" work.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 30, 2017 08:07 PM (IqV8l)

How about picking cotton?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 30, 2017 08:12 PM (SRKgf)

226 Only a fool or a Leftist would not cherish you and protect you. You is good people.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 30, 2017 07:53 PM

Oh, you are so sweet NaCLy Dog.

I live in Michigan, so I'm surrounded by the left. Which makes me nervous at times.

Posted by: shibumi at May 30, 2017 08:13 PM (aT+Bx)

227 nood up

Posted by: josephistan at May 30, 2017 08:13 PM (ANIFC)

228 188 Isn't Davidson the Oberlin of the South?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 30, 2017 07:53 PM (LTHVh)
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No.
It's not nearly that crazy.
But then, Oberlin sets a high bar in the cuckooland sweepstakes.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 30, 2017 08:16 PM (0jtPF)

229 "The Atlanta Fed is forecasting 3.8% GDP growth for the second quarter."

Well, you see, this is merely Trump inheriting the wise economic stewardship of Barack Obama. The economy wouldn't have been able to perform like this without years of careful investment in advance by Democrats, to bolster infrastructure and education.

-- the business media spinning faster than a rocket pinwheel

Posted by: torquewrench at May 30, 2017 08:16 PM (ujwCG)

230 "America's Got Talent just featured a chicken playing American the Beautiful on a piano."

I was going to play "Campanella" but I hurt my left toe.

Posted by: The chicken at May 30, 2017 08:18 PM (BO/km)

231 "If ISIS took out only her I'd send them a fruit basket."

Mighty Christian of you.

I believe in forgiveness.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 30, 2017 08:19 PM (+7/1f)

232 "will you be the man who buys at million dollar insurance policy on my life, murders me in cold blood and then blames it on a botched robbery?"

I need to put that on my okCupid profile.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 30, 2017 08:26 PM (6FqZa)

233 Posted by: ScoggDog at May 30, 2017 07:55 PM (fiGNd)

Heh. My comment had nothing to do with her looks.

Posted by: Meremortal, at May 30, 2017 08:44 PM (3myMJ)

234 shibumi

If I might share what I know about people. Everybody is unhappy inside sometimes and has had some rotten stuff done to them. Some people internalize This pain into self punishment some externalize this pain and punish all the people round them.

Posted by: Shiggz at May 30, 2017 10:34 PM (X8Fea)

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