Would you date him... the dropout?

[xxxLinda]

that's what I said above, but I'm not a quick one-liner type, I'm more of a paragraph person.


Uni teaches you to say what they think you ought say, to respond to a question in a set-in-stone manner.  They'll give you an A or a B perhaps if you're lucky?




Higher education is total bunk, it'll stunt your growth.


I'd suggest everyone gives it a miss and goes and gets a flipping job.


xL

[Eyeball Chambers]

that's what I said above, but I'm not a quick one-liner type, I'm more of a paragraph person.


Uni teaches you to say what they think you ought say, to respond to a question in a set-in-stone manner.  They'll give you an A or B perpaps?




Higher education is total bunk, it'll stunt your growth.


I'd suggest everyone gives it a miss and goes and gets a flipping job.


xL

xL

I thought you had left Linda?  Welcome back if you did....

[xxxLinda]

I thought you had left Linda?  Welcome back if you did....

I could go to Uni as a mature student, I haven't left, I'm not going anywhere.


I don't want to be a member of any club that would actually accept me (that's either a Woody Allen or Oscar Wilde quote, can't remember


You only need to learn what you need to learn, the rest is dross.
xx

[Eyeball Chambers]

I could go to Uni as a mature student, I haven't left, I'm not going anywhere.


I don't want to be a member of any club that would actually accept me (that's either a Woody Allen or Oscar Wilde quote, can't remember


You only need to learn what you need to learn, the rest is dross.
xx

Sorry to go off topic, but have you ever tried LSD Linda? 

[xxxLinda]

I grew up in Toronto in the 1970s?


We would wear purple satin pants and 8" heels and a feather boa and go to Maple Leaf Gardens when Rod Stewart was playing.  Then we'd get in around the back (the roadies sorted out the female fans for the band), we'd do lotsa drugs, dance on stage, get in the limo and go back to the hotel, then say thanks so much and go home.

Of course I did acid in the 70s.  I was 15 or 16.  I far preferred mushrooms or MDMA when I was 20 in the 80s at the disco though...

That I remember.


Met a bloke I'd known in TO in Vancouver a few years ago.  I'd lived with him for four years.  He told me we went to see the BeeGees 3x.  I didn't remember...



xxxL

[xxxLinda]

I went to a Festi in a field last month.  Latitude.  It was Grace Jones and the Pet Shop boys, both acts from my youth...  Thought it'd be a bit gay.



Grace Jones, who is 60 something and barking mad, did the entire song "Slave to the Rhythm" in the rain, with a hot pink hula hoop.  For the entire song.  It was not a hologram, she actually hula hooped for 3 or 4 minutes, moving only slightly side and forth.  That's a talent, something they don't teach at Uni.

[Eyeball Chambers]

I grew up in Toronto in the 1970s?


We would wear purple satin pants and 8" heels and a feather boa and go to Maple Leaf Gardens when Rod Stewart was playing.  Then we'd get in around the back (the roadies sorted out the female fans for the band), we'd do lotsa drugs, dance on stage, get in the limo and go back to hotel, then say thanks so much and go home.

Of course I did acid in the 70s.  I was 15 or 16.  I far preferred mushrooms or MDMA when I was 20 in the 80s at the disco though...

That I remember.


Met a bloke I'd known in TO in Vancouver a few years ago.  I'd lived with him for four years.  He told me we went to see the BeeGees 3x.  I didn't remember...



xxxL

Right on.... 

she actually hula hooped for 3 or 4 minutes, moving only slightly side and forth.  That's a talent, something they don't teach at Uni.

that made me lol

[xxxLinda]

is BayBGM's dropout mate dating again yet or what?


xL

[garebear]

that's what I said above, but I'm not a quick one-liner type, I'm more of a paragraph person.


Uni teaches you to say what they think you ought say, to respond to a question in a set-in-stone manner.  They'll give you an A or a B perhaps if you're lucky?




Higher education is total bunk, it'll stunt your growth.


I'd suggest everyone gives it a miss and goes and gets a flipping job.


xL

Stop. Have you ever considered that you are just smarter than everyone else?

[xxxLinda]

Stop. Have you ever considered that you are just smarter than everyone else?

Doh !


Not smarter, nor better, everyone is clever, I'm just different !


xxxL

Is your poor sad dropout mate yet able to face the world and date?

Take him out for a beer and point out to him how many fish there are in the sea...

[garebear]

Doh !


Not smarter, nor better, everyone is clever, I'm just different !


xxxL

Is your poor sad dropout mate yet able to face the world and date?

I don't understand the question.

[xxxLinda]

so here's the answer:


Take him out for a beer and point out to him how many fish there are in the sea...

[BayGBM]

is BayBGM's dropout mate dating again yet or what?


xL

At this point, I think he is more interested in improving his lot in life. 

[xxxLinda]

I don't understand the question.

lolol

xxx

[Parker]

Whether or not someone possesses a degree isn't as much of a factor as whether the person is motivated to succeed or not.

I admire self-taught success much more.

It actually almost seems like everyone I know who has an advanced degree almost completely lacks any common sense.  Anyone else notice this phenomenon?   

Hell yes, it seems the more degrees they get, the less common sense they have---it's almost like if they spend 3 yrs getting a Masters, they lose the the same amount in common sense.

[Eyeball Chambers]

Hell yes, it seems the more degrees they get, the less common sense they have---it's almost like if they spend 3 yrs getting a Masters, they lose the the same amount in common sense.

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed... 

[Playboy]

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed... 

X3

I knew a guy who had more degrees than a thermometer and he didn't even know what a dip stick was under the hood of his car  Higher education does not / will not guarantee you a high paying job nor will it get you places in life. Common sense and street smarts will. Its not what you know but who you know in cunjunction with being in the right place at the right time.

[Parker]

X3

I knew a guy who had more degrees than a thermometer and he didn't even know what a dip stick was under the hood of his car  Higher education does not / will not guarantee you a high paying job nor will it get you places in life. Common sense and street smarts will. Its not what you know but who you know in cunjunction with being in the right place at the right time.

When I was a clerk in the courthouse, I would come in contact with tons of attorneys. They of course know the law, but they don't know procedures...I was telling one attorney how to fanagle some procedures to benefit his client, and how to file such and such, he was a lawyer that had been around for a while, he then asked me, was i in Law school, I told him no, but i had taken the LSATS, he told me, that I should be in Law School. Thing is, what I told him, was Common Sense.

many people I find, get advanced degrees, not because they enjoy learning, but to advance their egos....just to have Esquire or PhD behind their names.

[ToxicAvenger]

I'm not talking $$$, I'm talking achievement. There's a big difference. Someone can inherit all the money in the world, but if their mentality is a lazy one, or if they lack personal motivation, or personal vision, they will not be very compatible with those who have those character & personality traits. Bill Gates was a drop out, ...but he is a high achiever, a self-motivated, results oriented, man of vision. He wasn't a reed that blew in the wind. That's the difference. Women often look not only to a man's achievements, ...but also his potential. Can he plan his work, ...then work his plan?

Judes...somehow i doubt the ladies were ever flocking to Stephen hawkings or penrose etcetc

[BayGBM]

I know this thread went off track.  Thank you all for the PM replies.

[Playboy]

I know this thread went off track.  Thank you all for the PM replies.

Only in your opinion it went of track. The replies were spot on.

[Eyeball Chambers]

Only in your opinion it went of track. The replies were spot on.

Agreed

[24KT]

Divorced within 10 yrs...Lawyers suck, they tend to go into justifying their lack of ethics, morals---it happens slowly over time...they become cold especially female attorneys.

I guess that all depends on the area of law one goes into. There's no doubt the personality of a criminal prosecutor may be affected over time, but that's not the case with all lawyers or all areas of law. Some lawyers actually do good work, ensuring their clients activities remain on the up & up, compliant with all legal regulations, ...especially those in business law. It's not all litigation, ...alot of it is tedious compliance

This is what all successful men do--to get into your Vickies...
But character and passion are needed Jag--for shame...you should know that, it is the most overlook qaulity, and for that reason, many relationships fall apart.

Of course character and passion are needed... otherwise a man would be nothing more than a reed which blew whichever way the wind did. I thought that went without saying. How else can a man work his plan without them?

[24KT]

Depends perhaps on what he looks like and whether his sense of self is sufficient (and whether he has developed a sense of humour?

What's this about Rod Stewart (will read the entire thread next, but felt I must comment...

I quit school on my 16th birthday, moved from the 'burbs in Don Mills into a studio apartment in downtown Toronto at Church and Wellesley.  I learned at the university of life, went out and got work.  I learned to type and was a 100wpm secretary, a hotel receptionist, etc.  I worked hard.

I could've gone to university, my parents had a fund for me (they were 1950s and had put away 1 shilling a week for me since my birth.  My dad had me sign the form over to him when I was 18 and was working at a glam mag, running window display competitions to tie in with the Film Festival and going to every party and doing breakfasts for VIPs.  I did very well without University.

In fact, uni would have spoilt me.  I'd have had to learn what they wanted me to learn, to tick off boxes and answer questions correctly as they decree and not be creative.  Higher education actually stunts your growth.  Far better to decide what you want to know and then go and find out for yourself...

We would laugh at the recent college and uni grads we had to hire.  We'd attempt to give them a bit of experience.  

Experience is what matters, not a few daft letters after your name.

and noone ought to do what doesn't suit them.. Most of us are not cut out for higher education, we'd all be better off working and contributing to society. 

Noone ought do what others or parents think is best. 

& We sure as hell didn't have gap years in those days.  Nowadays kids take a year off to travel the world before committing to Uni!!!  Softies.  Who pays for that?

Something going on here in England, in the news today:  20-30 years ago 4percent of the population (the chosen few, with rich parents or a 150 IQ) went to Uni.  Nowadays it's 40percent and none of them can get a job because they don't know how to.

xxx

I said no to Uni and went out and got a job.  I did though apply to the Sorbonne when I was 15 and living in Canada.  My French was 96pc in the advanced class.  I was offered a place.  But I didn't go to Paris, I just went to work.

Whoa! Getting an apartment at Church & Wellesley at 16... Oh Linda, ...what a life you must have led. {giggle}

One thing that confuses as well as frustrates me... for someone who can type 100 wpm...why on earth can you not close your brackets?!?! WHY? WHY? WHY?!!!  It's the same key as the 0,

[Shift] + 0 (simultaneously) = )  It's not that freaking difficult! 

You don't even need a University degree to do it either!  lol

Were you with Chatelaine, Macleans, or Flare? did you know Yanka? I think she was Dusty's ex wife.

[24KT]

Whether or not someone possesses a degree isn't as much of a factor as whether the person is motivated to succeed or not.

I admire self-taught success much more.

It actually almost seems like everyone I know who has an advanced degree almost completely lacks any common sense.  Anyone else notice this phenomenon?   

Totally Agree