Can I just say, and I'm just being honest...

[Jackalope]

Well, I think the first thing that needs to be done is to have a decent minimum wage.

That's the second thing to be done, it ain't happening until we elect people who don't think the status quo is hunky dory, and that ain't happening until the electorate stops being stupid.

So I guess it's actually the third thing.

[pocaracas]

Well, I think the first thing that needs to be done is to have a decent minimum wage.

That's the second thing to be done, it ain't happening until we elect people who don't think the status quo is hunky dory, and that ain't happening until the electorate stops being stupid.

So I guess it's actually the third thing.

Keep going, man!
The electorate stops being stupid when they get a decent education.

You need to elect people who prioritize education...

And... ?

[Jackalope]

That's the second thing to be done, it ain't happening until we elect people who don't think the status quo is hunky dory, and that ain't happening until the electorate stops being stupid.

So I guess it's actually the third thing.

Keep going, man!
The electorate stops being stupid when they get a decent education.

You need to elect people who prioritize education...

And... ?

You just created an infinite regression. I hope you're happy, young man.

[pocaracas]

Keep going, man!
The electorate stops being stupid when they get a decent education.

You need to elect people who prioritize education...

And... ?

You just created an infinite regression. I hope you're happy, young man.

I have time to sort through it... Old man.

[Regina]

CIJS

Some Westerners - "Ugh I hate when immigrants don't integrate!"

Also some Westerners - *to immigrants, and their children* "You're not really British/American/[insert Western nationality], fuck off home"



...Which is it? You can't think both. If I see an immigrant really trying to fit in and integrate here, valuing secular liberal principles modern Western society is built on, fuck I'll take that any day of the week over some regressive as fuck white people.

[Mystical]

CIJS - you all made me smile with the last couple pages of this thread.  That is an accomplishment, because...

CJIS - Listen, you are creating a hostile working environment here.  I know you're overworked, I know you're stressed, I know that you're not the least prickly of people anyhow...but, I'm keeping a log starting today.  That email you sent me is extremely unprofessional, rude, and several friends in both the public and private sectors, when I read them a paraphrased version of what you sent called it things ranging from "wildly inappropriate" and also said things like "Go to HR over that bitch, you should not accept that from anyone, especially a subordinate".  Now, I know you've been here for longer than I have, you've been here for the last SIX faculty in this department who left because it's such a hostile working environment, so I feel like going to HR now would be a waste.    But I am keeping a log now.  So the next time you commit a Federal crime by opening my mail (by accident you say), it's getting recorded.  Every nasty email you send is being attached to this log.  Every time you've not shown up for your Summer Office hours on time (3 times this week alone) and I'm here after you should be and you're not here? That's going in here too.  I will build a case against you so airtight that if I do have to go to HR eventually, you will be terminated.

Can u .. just.. update us when/if u get that giant B tossed out of the office pleaSe?!?!!! 
Now that, that stuff makes me smile. ^*^

[Thumpalumpacus]

CIJS -- the look on your face was priceless. Maybe you'll think twice before assuming that a white guy doesn't understand Spanish ... and hold off on calling him a "pinche huero" just because he's doing his job.

[J a c k]

Can I just fucking say?

You weren't supposed to see that! You weren't supposed to see that! You weren't supposed to see that!!!

[Ben Davis]

Can I just fucking say?

You weren't supposed to see that! You weren't supposed to see that! You weren't supposed to see that!!!

Is it something I should see?

[Thumpalumpacus]

Lol, get caught in the laundry room again?

I'm beginning to think you're not in it for the clean clothes!