Tidbits of rationality at McCain rally

Jason · Only in cartoons

RE: Tidbits of rationality at McCain rally

Jason · Only in cartoons

I'm eager to leave Virginia.

After they banned gay marriage, they lost me.

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

I'm eager to leave NY.

But I won't.

Jason · Only in cartoons

Hey, if I get extraordinarily lucky and get accepted to Cornell, NYU, or Columbia, then we could maybe trade states!

You can have guns and I can have snow.

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

Cornell would be closer to me.

Do you think you're good enough to get into those schools? I do know a pretty big retard who got into Cornell.

Jason · Only in cartoons

Graduate school in philosophy is outlandishly competitive. Schools have very few spots, and whether or not one gets in depends on many factors besides them being "good enough". I wouldn't take it personally if none of those schools invited me to go there.

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

I can imagine. What else is there to do with philosophy degrees except goto graduate schools?

Jason · Only in cartoons

When you want to be an academic, there is no other option. Except, perhaps, law school.

A philosophy degree is actually a versatile and useful degree. It makes good writers, good thinkers. This can be applied to just about any field that doesn't absolutely require background training (e.g., scientific research or computer programming). A talented and motivated philosophy student will find herself a job wherever she wants. A burned out and lazy philosophy student will find herself a waitress at age 30.

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

1. Don't do that herself ****. Goddamnit.
2. YAY LAW SCHOOL.
3. What do you plan on doing? Teaching?

Jason · Only in cartoons

Researching and teaching, yes.

What's wrong with "that herself ****"? I find it's more useful to just pick one pronoun and stick to it rather than use the annoying he/she terminology. Sometimes I use "him", you know...

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

Him is the common usage in the langage. The "Herself" thing is normally just a statement, and an unnecessary one.

Researching? I didn't know philosophers researched..:)

MATHSEX · MASTER BATOR

DEATHPIGGIE wrote:
I do know a pretty big retard who got into Cornell.

greg graffin

Jason · Only in cartoons

Research means writing philosophy. Analyzing argument, developing your own.

Jason · Only in cartoons

Also, most papers I read use "her".

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

Liberal progressives rabble rabble.

I just find it annoying people made such an effort to use "her", instead. The people that started the trend are one intelligence level above those who didn't understand why it was "HIStory".

Of course language evolves and all that, but this was one step that really didn't need to be made.

john31584 · Zinc Saucier

"he" has fewer letters than "she".

If there's a page limit, I'm sticking with "he" as the generic pronoun.

Jason · Only in cartoons

I think it's only fair that "she" be introduced as another generic pronoun.

If there's a page minimum, I'm picking "she".

john31584 · Zinc Saucier

If there's a page minimum "he or she" is best.