The Whining and Bitching Thread

:lol: @ Ragnarutabagas

I am so pissed about how certain people cannot have an intelligent discussion with me without using it as a springboard to condescend me and try and make me feel like an uneducated oaf. Yes, I know I only have a high school diploma and you have a B.A., fuck off, I know what I'm talking about. I don't need some burnt-out hippy with a PHD and a tenure at a state university to verify my knowledge. Still, the only responses I get the points I am making is "Are you sure about that?" and "What study/book/paper/information are you basing your opinion on?", or - and I love this shit - "We'll, actually you're not quite correct. I learned through my studies that..." and then they paraphrase back to me what I just fucking said!
For example, I was having a discussion tonight about how socioeconomic status is a more important factor in divorce rates and teenage pregnancies rather than the ideological beliefs of families with these issues. And what do I get? "What do you base that on?". C'mon, really?

Teen_pregnancy_and_family_income_chart_sm.jpg


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/weekinreview/14pamb.html

http://www.genderandhealth.ca/en/modules/poverty/poverty-teen-pregnancy-01.jsp

Anyway, I think you get the point.
 
Saparmurat_Niyazov said:
:lol: @ Ragnarutabagas

I am so pissed about how certain people cannot have an intelligent discussion with me without using it as a springboard to condescend me and try and make me feel like an uneducated oaf. Yes, I know I only have a high school diploma and you have a B.A., fuck off, I know what I'm talking about. I don't need some burnt-out hippy with a PHD and a tenure at a state university to verify my knowledge. Still, the only responses I get the points I am making is "Are you sure about that?" and "What study/book/paper/information are you basing your opinion on?", or - and I love this shit - "We'll, actually you're not quite correct. I learned through my studies that..." and then they paraphrase back to me what I just fucking said!
For example, I was having a discussion tonight about how socioeconomic status is a more important factor in divorce rates and teenage pregnancies rather than the ideological beliefs of families with these issues. And what do I get? "What do you base that on?". C'mon, really?...Anyway, I think you get the point.
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Oh my god, people actually do that? It doesn't take a degree to read a library book or online news article database. I guess some people cash in for school and check their common sense at the door. That is incredibly annoying.
 
krampus said:
Oh my god, people actually do that? It doesn't take a degree to read a library book or online news article database. I guess some people cash in for school and check their common sense at the door. That is incredibly annoying.
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This. The problem is they learned something in school 10-20 years ago and just sit on that knowledge the rest of their lives.
 
Dakryn said:
This. The problem is they learned something in school 10-20 years ago and just sit on that knowledge the rest of their lives.
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That's stupid, the whole point of school (aside from becoming more employable with your shiny degree) is to learn effective ways of critical thinking/writing so that you can get the most out of CONTINUING TO LEARN STUFF
 
krampus said:
That's stupid, the whole point of school (aside from becoming more employable with your shiny degree) is to learn effective ways of critical thinking/writing so that you can get the most out of CONTINUING TO LEARN STUFF
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While that might be the idealogical goal, it is not reality.
 
Yeah, I've heard some unbelievable stories from people who went to big universities and state schools - like they didn't go to lectures all year and bought their papers from paper mills. Makes me pretty sad considering I actually applied myself to some degree in school and couldn't/wouldn't get away with that crap.
 
That is the silliest webcomic ever!

What the heck is a "communications" major? It has a rep along with business and psychology as being a bullshit major yet I don't even know what it is
 
krampus said:
That is the silliest webcomic ever!

What the heck is a "communications" major? It has a rep along with business and psychology as being a bullshit major yet I don't even know what it is
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at least at my college, it's now Communications Studies. They look at things like rhetoric and how information is conveyed through different media. It blends a lot of areas of gender, social, and media studies

also :rolleyes: at dak's comic :lol:
 
Psych is not a bullshit major. Clinical psychology is bullshit wishy-washy stuff. Social psych is as legitimate as any other social science.
 
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