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food for thought
#1
Posted 26 October 2007 - 09:10 AM
Some of you have been to a high school reunion, some of you have not. I have as of about 3 years ago.
A girl I went to school with, who I wasnt particularly close to volunteered herself to be the administrator of our high school alumni's class myspace page for the year we graduated in.
although there was a little over 100 students in attendance during my senior year,.not everyone is on the myspace alumni page. some alumni havent been able to be contacted,.and some alumni that know about the myspace page, prefer to be rebels and not join it.
i myself am on the alumni page, along with about 40 others who wish to remain in contact. but even with my dearest intentions of wanting to remain in contact with those i attended school with,.it still doesnt override the inevitable:
it seems that the way things were in high school, is still the way things pretty much are now that high school is over. the people you knew in hung out with in high school are really the only ones that would have any interest in maintaining contact with you.
it seems like that, you would have a slim chance of trying to establish a solid relationship with an alumni that you didnt have any classes with..even if you just wanted to say "hey, i know we didnt have any classes together or anything,..but ive always wanted to get to know you better..even back in the day"
when i attended my 10 yr class reunion, i was met with some surprises..it was interesting to see where certain alumni were in their lives,..some had a few kids,.some had a lot...most were either married or had a significant other.
but one thing remained inevitable..the high school reunion wasnt in place to reunite alumni back together...no...instead,.what it ended up doing was bringing old cliques back together....the jocks,.the stoners, the nerds,.the preps,...blacks,.asians,..latinos..everyone got back together in their little groups...it seemed like you stood little chance of trying to get to know someone now that you wanted to know back then.
a high school reunion has a sort of uncomfortable feel...well,.similiar to that of when high school was in session. when we were in high school it was a total fashion show..who was wearing what designer label, etc....the high school reunion was the same..but worse...now its like,..what are you wearing..what have you done with your life,.you did you marry...if you have no kids=youre a loser..if you have one kid=why didnt you have more?,.if you have too many kids=youre viewed as ghetto or a sex freak.
what kind of car do you drive and who is sporting the best set of wheels?
anyways,.getting back to the myspace page issue and the administrator..well,.she recently sent emails to everyone thats on the myspace alumni page asking for us to send back updated information with our street addresses, email addys, phone numbers, our spouses names, kids names, etc.
...im thinking to myself...if i am already added onto this myspace alumni page..dont you already have a way of getting in touch with me? besides..the alumni that are my friends already know that personal stuff about me anyways..and the ones who dont know it are choosing not to be friends with me for one reason or another.
i felt like the focus should be shifted away from trying to update personal info of alumni that are already added onto the myspace page,..and rather, making attempts to try to locate other alumni that arent yet on the page so they can join. to me thats time better spent.
but why oh why does everyone insist on a "high school reunion"?...i made closer friends when i was in grade school...but no one has a grade school reunion. why not? you went to grade school for 9 years and high school for only 4 years..it seems to make more sense to definitely have a grade school reunion if a high school reunion must transpire.
cliques werent as profound in grade school as they were in high school. it seemed like, and especially in the early years of grade school, if you walked to someone and said you thought they were cool and you wanted to be their friend..that was it...you made a new friend..
in high school,.a nerd cant walk up to a jock and expect the high school quarterback to come and sit down at the nerd table in the cafeteria during lunch..that just doesnt happen....even if the nerd and jock were once good friends in kindergarten.
the american society is one of the worst when it comes to social networking,..because its so based upon stereotypes that are heavily influenced by media saturation that causes us to think the way we do.
when it all boils down,.you can blame television and schools. the combination of the two have taught youths that to be cool, you have to wear these designer jeans, wear these sneakers, have this hairdo,.listen to this band. schools are to blame for proactively creating cliques in the first place via academic categorization. i.e., your scores on grades predetermine your success in life.
now youre thinking, well, thats pretty much the way it is. there is such a heavy influence in american society to strive to be the best..get the best grades you can. do your best performance, althletically, mentally, physically, etc. excell in academics,.etc.
but why?...the core reason is that because america is a capitalist society. we want every child out there to be an einstein, a whiz kid, a genius. because america doesnt fuck around when it comes down to wall street,.we want our companies stocks to be the best to invest in.
our society, this capitalist society that we so proudly tout as being internationally supreme to all others is so ill in its conception. we believe we have the best society,.but we dont. because if we did, we wouldnt have people who are so filthy rich they have no earthly idea as to what to do with all their oodles of millions upon millions of dollars they have...while others are homeless and wonder day to day where their next meal will come from.
america's tout is "we are america...the land of opportunity..come and get it". so everyone believes this, and they all want to go to school, and get college degrees and make as much money as they possibly can. everyone wants to win the lotto, strike gold, claim a fortune...every american wants to be a millionaire.
well,.think about it..what if, every single american citizen was a millionaire? seriously. what if,.everyone strived for the gold,.reached for the stars..and succeeded??..what if that really happened?...the price of everything would go up,..the u.s. mint and dept of treasury would have to issue more currency to monetarily suffice the needs of this millionaire society..because everyone would be equivalent.
but,..since we are now talking and shifting this issue over to equality,.lets scratch the millionaire concept, and stick with something a little more basic. lets assume that america's society wasnt a capitalist one, but rather a militaristic one. , and this is not to be confused with communism or any type of socially/economically oppressed society...it would still be a free country..but it would mirror the armed forces in terms of their pay grade scale.
everyone would make the same pay, no matter what job they did..based on their rank. our health care issue would be solved, as we are basically utiliizing the military's as a blueprint..just on a much wider scale. i think it would be good, and would solve a ton of issues with our society.
A girl I went to school with, who I wasnt particularly close to volunteered herself to be the administrator of our high school alumni's class myspace page for the year we graduated in.
although there was a little over 100 students in attendance during my senior year,.not everyone is on the myspace alumni page. some alumni havent been able to be contacted,.and some alumni that know about the myspace page, prefer to be rebels and not join it.
i myself am on the alumni page, along with about 40 others who wish to remain in contact. but even with my dearest intentions of wanting to remain in contact with those i attended school with,.it still doesnt override the inevitable:
it seems that the way things were in high school, is still the way things pretty much are now that high school is over. the people you knew in hung out with in high school are really the only ones that would have any interest in maintaining contact with you.
it seems like that, you would have a slim chance of trying to establish a solid relationship with an alumni that you didnt have any classes with..even if you just wanted to say "hey, i know we didnt have any classes together or anything,..but ive always wanted to get to know you better..even back in the day"
when i attended my 10 yr class reunion, i was met with some surprises..it was interesting to see where certain alumni were in their lives,..some had a few kids,.some had a lot...most were either married or had a significant other.
but one thing remained inevitable..the high school reunion wasnt in place to reunite alumni back together...no...instead,.what it ended up doing was bringing old cliques back together....the jocks,.the stoners, the nerds,.the preps,...blacks,.asians,..latinos..everyone got back together in their little groups...it seemed like you stood little chance of trying to get to know someone now that you wanted to know back then.
a high school reunion has a sort of uncomfortable feel...well,.similiar to that of when high school was in session. when we were in high school it was a total fashion show..who was wearing what designer label, etc....the high school reunion was the same..but worse...now its like,..what are you wearing..what have you done with your life,.you did you marry...if you have no kids=youre a loser..if you have one kid=why didnt you have more?,.if you have too many kids=youre viewed as ghetto or a sex freak.
what kind of car do you drive and who is sporting the best set of wheels?
anyways,.getting back to the myspace page issue and the administrator..well,.she recently sent emails to everyone thats on the myspace alumni page asking for us to send back updated information with our street addresses, email addys, phone numbers, our spouses names, kids names, etc.
...im thinking to myself...if i am already added onto this myspace alumni page..dont you already have a way of getting in touch with me? besides..the alumni that are my friends already know that personal stuff about me anyways..and the ones who dont know it are choosing not to be friends with me for one reason or another.
i felt like the focus should be shifted away from trying to update personal info of alumni that are already added onto the myspace page,..and rather, making attempts to try to locate other alumni that arent yet on the page so they can join. to me thats time better spent.
but why oh why does everyone insist on a "high school reunion"?...i made closer friends when i was in grade school...but no one has a grade school reunion. why not? you went to grade school for 9 years and high school for only 4 years..it seems to make more sense to definitely have a grade school reunion if a high school reunion must transpire.
cliques werent as profound in grade school as they were in high school. it seemed like, and especially in the early years of grade school, if you walked to someone and said you thought they were cool and you wanted to be their friend..that was it...you made a new friend..
in high school,.a nerd cant walk up to a jock and expect the high school quarterback to come and sit down at the nerd table in the cafeteria during lunch..that just doesnt happen....even if the nerd and jock were once good friends in kindergarten.
the american society is one of the worst when it comes to social networking,..because its so based upon stereotypes that are heavily influenced by media saturation that causes us to think the way we do.
when it all boils down,.you can blame television and schools. the combination of the two have taught youths that to be cool, you have to wear these designer jeans, wear these sneakers, have this hairdo,.listen to this band. schools are to blame for proactively creating cliques in the first place via academic categorization. i.e., your scores on grades predetermine your success in life.
now youre thinking, well, thats pretty much the way it is. there is such a heavy influence in american society to strive to be the best..get the best grades you can. do your best performance, althletically, mentally, physically, etc. excell in academics,.etc.
but why?...the core reason is that because america is a capitalist society. we want every child out there to be an einstein, a whiz kid, a genius. because america doesnt fuck around when it comes down to wall street,.we want our companies stocks to be the best to invest in.
our society, this capitalist society that we so proudly tout as being internationally supreme to all others is so ill in its conception. we believe we have the best society,.but we dont. because if we did, we wouldnt have people who are so filthy rich they have no earthly idea as to what to do with all their oodles of millions upon millions of dollars they have...while others are homeless and wonder day to day where their next meal will come from.
america's tout is "we are america...the land of opportunity..come and get it". so everyone believes this, and they all want to go to school, and get college degrees and make as much money as they possibly can. everyone wants to win the lotto, strike gold, claim a fortune...every american wants to be a millionaire.
well,.think about it..what if, every single american citizen was a millionaire? seriously. what if,.everyone strived for the gold,.reached for the stars..and succeeded??..what if that really happened?...the price of everything would go up,..the u.s. mint and dept of treasury would have to issue more currency to monetarily suffice the needs of this millionaire society..because everyone would be equivalent.
but,..since we are now talking and shifting this issue over to equality,.lets scratch the millionaire concept, and stick with something a little more basic. lets assume that america's society wasnt a capitalist one, but rather a militaristic one. , and this is not to be confused with communism or any type of socially/economically oppressed society...it would still be a free country..but it would mirror the armed forces in terms of their pay grade scale.
everyone would make the same pay, no matter what job they did..based on their rank. our health care issue would be solved, as we are basically utiliizing the military's as a blueprint..just on a much wider scale. i think it would be good, and would solve a ton of issues with our society.
Peter Brady was by far the ugliest Brady kid on the "Brady Bunch". I mean, they were all pretty ugly, and the fact that the Brady dad wanted to always take the boys out on overnight camping trips just a tad bit too often, gave me the creeps.
#3
Posted 27 October 2007 - 12:11 AM
QUOTE (floppydisk @ Oct 27 2007, 12:35 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I just had chili from Steak N Shake.
It was delicious.
It was delicious.
I just got back from doing THINGS. Things that DON'T involve sitting on a message board posting a bloody ten page essay.
This is more suited to a weblog, or your tenth grade English class than a message board. I really can't be the only one who's tired of people using the forum as an outlet for this kind of stuff.
#4
Posted 01 November 2007 - 10:22 PM
QUOTE (floppydisk @ Oct 26 2007, 11:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I just had chili from Steak N Shake.
It was delicious.
It was delicious.
Bastard, floppydisk.
I wanna Steak N Shake here in Minnesota.
I loves me those cheese fries.
And the steakburgers are okay.
We have to drive all the bloody way to Illinois if we want any...so we only get it if we are traveling there anyway, of course.
That and Giordano's Pizza.
Where are you, you lucky man, you, that you get a Steak N Shake? Is it closer to Minnesota than Rockford, Illinois?
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nooooo
-John Carpenter's They Live
"God help us...in the future."
-Plan 9 from Outer Space
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nooooo
#5
Posted 02 November 2007 - 10:25 AM
We have Steak n' Shake here in SC, but I don't see the appeal so much (probably mostly because I don't like cow meat in any way it's made, pretty much). It's not any closer to Minnesota, though, sorry... ![tongue.gif](http://www.chefelf.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
However, we also have Waffle House which is TOTALLY worth traveling even across the world for!
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However, we also have Waffle House which is TOTALLY worth traveling even across the world for!
This post has been edited by Spoon Poetic: 02 November 2007 - 10:25 AM
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#6
Posted 03 November 2007 - 10:11 AM
I agree. Waffle House is WIN and definitely worth travelling for. Sure, the entry exam for waitresses requires thme to be overweight, nosy, and missing at least three teeth, but the food is delicious and inexpensive. I wish we had Cici's here. That's some goooooood pizza.
Princesskadee: The only reason that your reunion is like high school is because everyone collectively lets it be that way. High school is very dumb and segregating and pretty damned awful unless you're an athlete or cheerleader for the mose part, but there's no reason you need to let yourself be pressured into society's idiot molds for you. Fuck 'em I say. I do have to agree with Heccubus that we don't need an entire essay on the subject, though.
Oh, and if everyone was a millionaire, bread would just cost about 500$ a loaf due to supply and demand, inflation, and price gouging. Gas would be over two thousand dollars a gallon, most likely. A flat pay scale is not a wise idea in a capitalist society, or really any society that works around pay scales. People who do more demanding jobs, or jobs that already have ridiculously overpriced salaries (doctors and professional athletes, for example) would be really unhappy when they discovered their reward for their effort was the exact same amount of money that a janitor or factory floor worker made. Even if a flat play scale somehow didn't manage to just scale all prices up to ridiculous levels and everyone could live with the luxury that present millionaires do, I'm sure many people would still feel that way just because they're idiots like that.
Princesskadee: The only reason that your reunion is like high school is because everyone collectively lets it be that way. High school is very dumb and segregating and pretty damned awful unless you're an athlete or cheerleader for the mose part, but there's no reason you need to let yourself be pressured into society's idiot molds for you. Fuck 'em I say. I do have to agree with Heccubus that we don't need an entire essay on the subject, though.
Oh, and if everyone was a millionaire, bread would just cost about 500$ a loaf due to supply and demand, inflation, and price gouging. Gas would be over two thousand dollars a gallon, most likely. A flat pay scale is not a wise idea in a capitalist society, or really any society that works around pay scales. People who do more demanding jobs, or jobs that already have ridiculously overpriced salaries (doctors and professional athletes, for example) would be really unhappy when they discovered their reward for their effort was the exact same amount of money that a janitor or factory floor worker made. Even if a flat play scale somehow didn't manage to just scale all prices up to ridiculous levels and everyone could live with the luxury that present millionaires do, I'm sure many people would still feel that way just because they're idiots like that.
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#8
Posted 03 November 2007 - 11:29 AM
Waffle House...waffles...I really want some blueberry waffles right now, but since I live in a college dormitory where people can't even make a bag of popcorn without setting off the fire alarm, there is no toaster in the whole building. They probably think we'll kill ourselves or burn down the building by sticking cutlery in it, trying to toast things that ought not to be toasted, or someone will knock it into the kitchen sink while washing their hair. (I have never understood this practice - wash it in the shower were you're supposed to take care of these things, dammit! No one wants to deal with bits of hair in the place where they're preparing food! It's digusting!)
No, wait...yeah, I'm pretty sure one of those things would happen if we had a toaster. Smart move, Housing Office.
But I still want blueberry waffles.
No, wait...yeah, I'm pretty sure one of those things would happen if we had a toaster. Smart move, Housing Office.
But I still want blueberry waffles.
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#10
Posted 03 November 2007 - 02:31 PM
We don't have a heater, we have a dusty old vent above the door that blows somewhat cool air.
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Chyld is an ignorant slut.
Chyld is an ignorant slut.
QUOTE
"I don't have to conform to the vagaries of time and space; I'm a loony, for God's sake!"
- Campbell Bean (David Tennant), Takin' Over the Asylum, 1994
XD
- Campbell Bean (David Tennant), Takin' Over the Asylum, 1994
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