TBS about human miseries is charity.
Wait, what?
I think that means it's charity not to bitch to everyone about your own problems, not that you shouldn't speak up for others in misery.
Jesus fuck. I recently met a few fellow recent PhDs here who talk this way, like, oh I am the sort of person who struggles against my desire to speak up for myself, and sometimes I just have to tamp down that part of myself that thinks I should be happier. Freaked me right out. They seem to think that if they give even an internal voice to desire, they'll end up dead or in hell or something. Freaky.
2: Oh, okay, that makes a lot more sense.
The last one seems like a get out of jail free card if you want to talk a lot.
I had the exact same reactions as 1 and 5.
1/2: It's really weird to use "human miseries" to refer to your personal miseries, especially when they use "your own hurts" and "yourself" in other lines. They probably did mean personal miseries, but it's going to be misread more often than not.
5: Heh
I can't get that worked up about it, because the poor woman has to deal with the public all damn day. Customer Service sucks. I think it's just her way of saying f-off.
I thought the last line was sort of the point. Like, sure, okay, there are lots of times where shutting up is valorized but when we must speak up, we must? I don't really get the "always shut up" reading.
9: Always shut up about anything about yourself. I mean: "To be silent when they insult you is love" is a whole lot of WTF.
10: that's not just a rephrasing of "turn the other cheek"?
But anyhow I still maintain that the final one is the point.
Of course, those comments were based on not actually looking at the link. That thing is pretty weird I guess, yeah.
I do wonder why it is allowed to be where the public can see it.
I think of "turn the other cheek" as meaning "don't lash back and insult them in response". Being silent altogether is a really loaded idea.
I get that the last one is tossed in there, but I don't see it as the punchline, given that there is an entire column dedicated to when you should be speaking.
I do wonder why it is allowed to be where the public can see it.
I assume because it was clearly her personal opinions and belongings. Tons of religious stuff all over her desk. Also probably because her managers are also religious and no one sees any problem.
Er, to 14.2. 14.1 is I think ignoring the relatively straightforward textual interpretation of the bible passage (that is, ask 'em to hit you again).
Oh, sure. I just think it's terrible advice. And weird for this to be the most important thing you think people should see.
Important to keep the context of the job in mind here. "To be silent when you are insulted is love" is terrible relationship advice but may be decent pragmatic advice if you're sitting at the customer desk at the assessor's office.
I mean I'm not saying its not weird and stupid.
Ah, so she's preemptively warning the public that she is rude?
I was thinking it was a self-reminder going the other way (ie "if I shut up while they're raging at me about taxes, it's out of love") but you could read it the other way too.
I too assume she's more often on the receiving end of the insult.
I want to put "Calm down, tweaker" on my office door, but I'm sure it would be a bad idea.
I bet if you found a Far Side cartoon with some related picture, you could get away with "Calm down, tweaker" on your office door.
Important to keep the context of the job in mind here.
Damn straight. Customer service at the tax assessor? Silence in the face of constant sputtering constituent rage and insults is a MAJOR job requirement. Whatever you have to put on your computer to do that seems fine.
3: I assume you clued them in as to the true nature of their superego?
19-22 and 28-30 are just about the best things ever.
31: "Calm down, tweaker" could be the new "Christ, what an asshole."
If you liked it then you shoulda put a hook in it.
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It's feeling kind of weird to me that marriage equality and a ban on employment discrimination against LGBT people are part of the Democrats' platform. I'm sure the wording of the economic parts are more meaningful changes, but this is just something.
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Heebie, what do you think of the minivan?
My only real response to this list of most profound wisdom is:
To love is to suffer.
To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore,
To love is to suffer,
Not to love is to suffer,
To suffer is to suffer.
To be happy is to love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness.
I hope you're getting this down.
Geez people. I don't try to screw with your income. Marry. Early and often.
The woman who helped me had this taped to her computer, facing the public. (Along with a dozen other little quotes and such.)
What the fuck.
I suppose the woman's list is a little weird and potentially offensive, but it would be worse if she had "What the fuck" taped to her computer.
Heebie, what do you think of the minivan?
It's totally pimped out, so I love it. Aside from that I haven't really driven it much, since we just got the plates this morning. When I test-drove it, it seemed fine...for a minivan. I'm not very thrilled to be driving a minivan, but the bells and whistles take the sting out of that.
Does it have electric sliding doors?
The rich parents have those doors so school drop off is easier, so their kids have a better start to their school day, so they'll learn more, so they'll form a new master class.
so they'll form a new master class
race
It seems to be a mix of races here. White, South Asian, regular Asian.
At our poor school, the principals and whatnot open the doors to let the kids out without the parents having to get out, but I ruin their plans by putting Nia on the side away from their sidewalk and in a booster seat.
38: The complement to that is that aside from Huckabee, there was very little marriage red meat at the RNC. Definitely feels like a sea change. I have no doubt that they'll all find reasons to slow walk ENDA because it hurts the feelings of heroic Christian Job Creators, but at some point the wind from the marriage sails is going to be too much.
Being driven to school must be weird.
Most six year olds can't drive themselves.
I don't think I walked at six, come to think of it.
I was at a meeting with the superintendent tonight and he shared that he'd authorized a 3-block bus ride for one of the second graders at Nia's school because when her family called to complain about her commute he realized he wouldn't want his own second grader to cross that street. I wouldn't be comfortable with Nia walking the 12 or so blocks to her school on her own, so I drop her off on my way to work every day.
59: You probably were still sleeping.
8 gets it right.
I read it as a passive-aggressive message to the public: I will be patient with your annoyingness because it is my Christian duty; you should consider not being the lion to my martyrdom.
59: Where you see only one set of footprints, I was carrying you. Because you were six fucking years old and couldn't walk. You're welcome.
Four to seven were the jetpack years.
63 was me.
Yeah second grade I definitely started walking by myself. I assume Jesus got fed up with the laser space battle noises.
Four to seven were the jetpack years.
There's a certain sweet spot when kids are dexterous enough to handle the controls without killing themselves but still light enough that the rockets can lift them.
regular Asian
From the Bosporus to the Bering Strait, from the Nicobar Islands to Wrangel Island, the cry goes up, "WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK!?"
I walked with my Mom (the school was really close and we walked everywhere on Beacon Hill) until the second grade. In third grade I walked on my own.
8/62: I don't think I'm shitting all over the public servant to boggle at the fact that someone else wrote and distributed that.
South Asian, regular Asian
WHAT ARE WE, CHOPPED LIVER?
I walked a few blocks to kindergarten when I was five years old, but I had a lot of brothers and sisters, so I was expendable.
but I had a lot of brothers and sisters, so I was expendable.
Mrs Basil E Frankweiler is outside and would like a word.
I don't remember how I got to half-day preschool or full-day kindergarten - probably walked with my mother. Walked to school grades 1-8, with older kids at the beginning, with siblings (as a seasoned pro!) the next year. In high school, I often half-ran to school, five blocks away, due to a mixture of sleeping late and infinite capacity for puttering around. Fun fact: Fifty years ago today was my first day of first grade!