Generation Wuss and related crap
06-29-2018, 05:20 PM
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Eh, that's not always the case. I had an instructor in my masters program that designed his test so that even when he took it he was barely able to finish it in the allotted time period. It was his first year teaching forensic accounting after 30 years in the FBI. He did grade on a curve and his reasoning was that he would rather challenge every student than write a mediocre test. The first exam was pretty bad for everyone but we all learned that he meant it an did substantially better the next few times. It was my favorite course.
I set both with a 99% on the final. I lost a few friends that day.
7 years later and I don't remember anything, just that I liked it and kicked butt.
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07-05-2018, 09:53 AM
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remember kids: you can cast any person of color in any role, but you cannot cast a white person in any role; that's racist and offensive.
https://www.wral.com/protests-shutte...aves/17675852/
https://www.wral.com/protests-shutte...aves/17675852/
MONTREAL — It was, the critics roared, an insulting and insensitive performance: White women playing black slaves picking cotton.
When the show “Slav,” by acclaimed Quebec theater director Robert Lepage, premiered at the Montreal International Jazz Festival last week, it immediately spawned a backlash and criticism that white artists had recklessly appropriated black culture.
The production bills itself as a “theatrical odyssey” inspired by “traditional African-American slave and work songs.” It also features a nearly all-white cast performing the music. Its director, Lepage, is white, as is its star Betty Bonifassi. Two of the seven cast members are black, including Kattia Thony, who plays a young black woman searching for the roots of her identity.
On Wednesday, the storm proved too much, and the jazz festival and Bonifassi canceled the show after only two performances. It had sold more than 8,000 tickets and was scheduled for 16 performances. The festival said it had been “shaken” by the intensity of the response. “We would like to apologize to those who were hurt,” it said in a statement. “It was not our intention at all.”
The anger provoked by the production had been visceral and swift as artists of all stripes asked why Lepage had not bothered to hire more black actors and singers. The production also raised thorny questions about how to differentiate cultural appreciation from cultural appropriation and accusations, fairly or not, that its white creators had engaged in a modern-day form of blackface.
“This kind of black imitation is very reminiscent of blackface minstrel shows,” singer-songwriter Moses Sumney wrote in a letter to the festival, explaining his decision to withdraw from it. “The only thing missing is black paint.”
When the show “Slav,” by acclaimed Quebec theater director Robert Lepage, premiered at the Montreal International Jazz Festival last week, it immediately spawned a backlash and criticism that white artists had recklessly appropriated black culture.
The production bills itself as a “theatrical odyssey” inspired by “traditional African-American slave and work songs.” It also features a nearly all-white cast performing the music. Its director, Lepage, is white, as is its star Betty Bonifassi. Two of the seven cast members are black, including Kattia Thony, who plays a young black woman searching for the roots of her identity.
On Wednesday, the storm proved too much, and the jazz festival and Bonifassi canceled the show after only two performances. It had sold more than 8,000 tickets and was scheduled for 16 performances. The festival said it had been “shaken” by the intensity of the response. “We would like to apologize to those who were hurt,” it said in a statement. “It was not our intention at all.”
The anger provoked by the production had been visceral and swift as artists of all stripes asked why Lepage had not bothered to hire more black actors and singers. The production also raised thorny questions about how to differentiate cultural appreciation from cultural appropriation and accusations, fairly or not, that its white creators had engaged in a modern-day form of blackface.
“This kind of black imitation is very reminiscent of blackface minstrel shows,” singer-songwriter Moses Sumney wrote in a letter to the festival, explaining his decision to withdraw from it. “The only thing missing is black paint.”
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07-05-2018, 11:49 AM
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remember kids: you can cast any person of color in any role, but you cannot cast a white person in any role; that's racist and offensive.
https://www.wral.com/protests-shutte...aves/17675852/
https://www.wral.com/protests-shutte...aves/17675852/
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07-05-2018, 01:38 PM
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Earlier today, in a very busy Cuban restaurant during the rush.
Twenty-something girl orders a cappuccino. A few minutes later, it comes out.
She goes back to the counter, and says "I wanted this iced."
Very busy guy at the counter takes the coffee, gets a large cup of ice, pours the coffee over the ice, gives it back to her.
Girl: "Can I have one that's actually iced? This is just the same drink over ice. "
Twenty-something girl orders a cappuccino. A few minutes later, it comes out.
She goes back to the counter, and says "I wanted this iced."
Very busy guy at the counter takes the coffee, gets a large cup of ice, pours the coffee over the ice, gives it back to her.
Girl: "Can I have one that's actually iced? This is just the same drink over ice. "
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07-05-2018, 01:47 PM
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true story:
i was at Starbucks the other day and ordered iced coffee, then said: wait is that cold brew? what's the difference?
and dude goes: you want cold brew?
and i went: yes????
so apparently I ordered cold brewed coffee.
i was at Starbucks the other day and ordered iced coffee, then said: wait is that cold brew? what's the difference?
and dude goes: you want cold brew?
and i went: yes????
so apparently I ordered cold brewed coffee.
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07-05-2018, 04:08 PM
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Starbucks typically pays just slightly over minimum wage for baristas. The average idiot assembling your coffee makes $9.56 an hour. I made that much in 1996 as a pool lifeguard.
https://www.payscale.com/research/US...on/Hourly_Rate
https://www.payscale.com/research/US...on/Hourly_Rate
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07-05-2018, 05:22 PM
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In 1996 I was paying the waitresses that worked for me $2.53 an hour starting wage. They were expected to make the rest of the way up to minimum wage in tips. Minimum wage was 5 something, I think.
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07-05-2018, 06:11 PM
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Cold brew is made by steeping whole coffee beans overnight like tea.
It's never hot at any stage, and has theost caffeine of any brewing technique.
An iced Americano, is hot espresso mixed with water, with ice added.
The order of lowest to highest caffeine goes like this:
Americano, iced coffee, cold brew.
No, I have never worked at Starbucks.
I simply drink lethal doses of coffee every day.
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07-13-2018, 07:26 AM
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Lol. Lol. Lol. Lol.
Let's not mention cultural differences and personal responsibility.
It's like the leftist media loves to point out that in their view blacks aren't capable of taking care of themselves. Very plantation owner of them. Very condescending to successful black entrepreneurs.
Let's not mention cultural differences and personal responsibility.
It's like the leftist media loves to point out that in their view blacks aren't capable of taking care of themselves. Very plantation owner of them. Very condescending to successful black entrepreneurs.
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07-13-2018, 09:17 AM
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TIL in 2018 it is unacceptable to believe an actor is allow to act in a role.
Earlier this week, Business Insider pulled a column regarding Scarlett Johansson playing a transgender man in the upcoming film Rub and Tug. That column, by Daniella Greenbaum, made the following argument:
This was thoughtcrime, and the brave employees at Business Insider pushed editors to remove the column, which they did.
Greenbaum, in response, resigned from her position. She also released this letter:
She has been cast in a movie in which she will play someone different than herself. For this great crime — which seems to essentially define the career path she has chosen — she is being castigated for being insufficiently sensitive to the transgender community. … "Stealing" narratives — or, more charitably, playing parts — is precisely what actors are hired to do. But that reality seems to have been forgotten. … Johansson's identity off the screen is irrelevant to the identities she plays on the screen. That's what she's paid for. And if she does her job, she'll make everyone forget about the controversy in the first place.
Greenbaum, in response, resigned from her position. She also released this letter:
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