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I can't imagine why it would be. Having no idea what they cost would suggest that you don't exactly have your fingers on the pulse of the tech world, though.

Is it wrong that I have never in my life paid for a cell phone?

Probably not? I'm sure most people could have just gotten by with corporate phones and hard tack biscuits, but they might have a sense of privacy or work in a different industry. Is it weird that I've never paid for handguns?

It's "I'm a bit of an expert." My son loves that show.

I assumed that was the point. I also didn't say I don't have a cell phone.

The secret is to get your first handgun for free and, after that, you should be able to get the rest of them for free as well.

Well, you can't try to take them down with a shovel. If you risk touching them, you might catch leprosy.

BBC trolled by Godfrey Elfwick.

Huh. At first I assumed that had to be a hoax or joke. But apparently, it's not. What's stunning to me, beyond the basic ridiculousness of anyone being offended by this in the first place, is the letter written by Dr. Carolyn Golz. Not sure what she's a doctor of, but common sense, sanity, and anything related to writing obviously ain't it. Just a few obvious bits of low hanging fruit:



No. It didn't demonstrate anything insensitive at all. Her letter demonstrates that she has no freaking spine though.



Wait? What? Does she actually understand what "undocumented" means? It's not a synonym for "latino" or "hispanic". It means "someone who is in the country without any documentation". How can she be an "ally" for undocumented students? Can there even be undocumented students attending a college? I'm honestly curious how that happens. What do they put on their applications? I suspect an extreme level of dumb on her part here. Oh. And does that mean that undocumented students who aren't "of color" don't earn this special ally status?

While I get that "closing" is certainly a typo and/or spellchecker error, maybe if you're writing a letter on behalf of an institution of higher learning (haha, yeah), you should edit the letter before sending it out?

Oh. And the "Q" in IQ stands for "quotient", not "intelligence". Using "CQ" as an abbreviation for "Cultural Intelligence" leads one to suspect this woman got her PhD out of a cracker jack box or something. Again, it's unclear if the college itself came up with such a silly abbreviation, or if she just wrote the meaning incorrectly. Given that this is UCSC, either possibility could be true.




Except, of course, all the students/staff who aren't complete idiots. Them, we send to sensitivity training until they adopt the same level of stupidity shown by Dr. Golz.

Edited, Apr 23rd 2015 2:23pm by gbaji

Yea. I do actually get that (I live in California, after all). I was making a bad funny about how someone who is "undocumented" could have sufficient documentation to fill out a college application. It makes me think that everyone should just claim to be undocumented and fly through the application process given the ridiculous loopholes they have to make in order to basically ignore the fact that these students are here illegally in the first place.


It's also a nutty "left hand just ignores what the right hand is doing" kind of situation. If we were writing a novel and wanted to include a bit about absurd government, the whole illegal immigration chapter would be freaking hilarious.

Sounds like a burm deal to me.

Then it should be pretty self-evident what "ally to undocumented students" means.

I agree that the whole "Oh noes! Mexican buffet at an outer-space themed event!" complaint is stupid but you went off on a pretty random tear there.

So, as I'm walking back from the store a few minutes ago I walk past a couple of kids ( 5/6 years old? ) playing in their yard.

Girl: Hi, Mr Man!!
Me: Hello
Boy: Hi, Mr Man!!
Me: Hi
*short pause*
Boy: Are you in a band?




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Speaking of kids, I had some kids a couple weeks back try to explain to me that Minecraft was a game.