Youth Unemployment

[jitahs]

No, I just think you enjoy being an ass and hiding behind your anonymity.fighting ageism is being an ass? i think you have that wrong. You don't know any of us.well i do, actually. who are "us"? You make accusations based on assumptions. You're arguing with characters you've invented.are you an invention? You have a fixation on me in particular. Hell, you've quoted me in your sig line. because you are the only one here who is allowed to get away with a persistent hatred towards a particular group of people.

So, who are you? just a guy What are you about? What's your fucking deal? if you have to ask that you haven't been paying attention

Introduce yourself. Because the persona we've all built for you based on what you offer up is shit.i know guys here on the forum. they are real, they know me as real. you can make huge generalizations about "we've all built up for you" but it's a kind of cluelessness you're operating from. being from the east coast you can't see what happens out here and conflate the cool kids table = the membership of the salon away from it. anyway just because you sit at that table doesn't give you the right to spew ageist speech. i'm sure the mods and founders, who are of the generation you despise, would agree.

[defspace]

So what's the deal with barrel adjusters?

[jitahs]

Agreed. There's a lot of great discussion going on further back in this thread. I've no gripe against either of you two - but someone, please, be the bigger person and stop replying, or at least replying to their respective antagonist. Lets get this sucker back on track.

There has to be an acknowledged winner, one way or the other, or this will continue. That's the way conflicts are settled.

[chasea]

We're all in the same boat. We all lose. It's not a competition, it's just a ride.

I'm no longer having any fun on this ride.

[jitahs]

We're all in the same boat. We all lose. It's not a competition, it's just a ride.

I'm no longer having any fun on this ride.

Wah. You can challenge me to a fist fight and now you're not having any fun. What a baby.

[chasea]

I can't challenge an anonymous person to anything.

If you think you've won something, then that's all that really matters.

I'm beyond done.

Have a nice rest of your day.

[jitahs]

I can't challenge an anonymous person to anything.

If you think you've won something, then that's all that really matters.

I'm beyond done.

Have a nice rest of your day.

All that really matters is for you not to hate on older folks. Really.

[Ben]

All that really matters is for you not to hate on older folks. Really.

Leaving aside all the antagonistic bullshit you and I have thrown at each other in this thread, surely you can see that there's a difference between saying "I hate old people" and "I hate what this generation of people -- which, granted, is older than me -- has done." Nobody hates the boomer generation because they're old. We object to what they've done. To refuse to acknowledge this distinction is to argue with a straw man.

[robin3mj]

I move that we raid Pucci's slush fund and fly our two combatants to the Baller's Ride where they can settle their difference on the roads.

[jitahs]

Leaving aside all the antagonistic bullshit you and I have thrown at each other in this thread, surely you can see that there's a difference between saying "I hate old people" and "I hate what this generation of people -- which, granted, is older than me -- has done." Nobody hates the boomer generation because they're old. We object to what they've done. To refuse to acknowledge this distinction is to argue with a straw man.

No you missed my point on language. No straw man, man. You still got your man's back, but he can speak for himself.



Meanwhile prof caleb is wisely waiting it out on the wings to see when it's safe to start again. I hate him.

[Nierman]

BACK ON TRACK

Did anyone catch the fast-food strike interviews on Chris Hayes' new All In program the other night? story and vid here

I feel their chosen strikers were a poor representation of why the industry "deserves" a pay increase. The young gentleman striker is very well-spoken but claims to have been in the fast food industry for SEVEN FREAKING YEARS, and is only making $0.10 more per hour than when he started?!? Twenty years ago during college I got a job busting suds in the kitchen of my friendly neighborhood Applebee's for a similar ($7) hourly rate, and within a year I went on to cook, bus tables, wait tables, train new area managers then finally tend bar so I could stand and drink all night and make the big bucks. I still went back and washed dishes when they needed a shift filled, but rarely did I make less than $10/hr since the managers knew I'd have that station so spotless throughout the night that I'd be out of there within an hour of close - instead of 3am like some other workers that got behind on the stacks of riblet bones, ramekins and brutus glassware. While I take every opportunity to brag about my dishwashing prowess like some 4 TDs in a single game Al Bundy, I'm trying to say is that I can't help but think these kids need to be educated a little more that they have the power to be proactive -- start envisioning a 5 year plan beyond their current entry level careers.

And the kid had to be a plant. Too smart to make $7 hour.

[Ben]

Now you're being a disingenuous prick.

Dude, you win. You stand triumphant over this steaming wreck.

[jitahs]

I move that we raid Pucci's slush fund and fly our two combatants to the Baller's Ride where they can settle their difference on the roads.

I'm old and have no legs. Not exactly a fair fight.

[jitahs]

Now you're being a disingenuous prick.

Dude, you win. You stand triumphant over this steaming wreck.

Are you talking to me? If so I truly don't know what you're talking about.

But thanks for pissing on a smoldering fire with lighter fuel urine. Tremendously helpful.

[maunahaole]

I'm old and have no legs. Not exactly a fair fight.

You have plenty of legs. It is just that your torso is too fat for them.

[Ben]

Are you talking to me? If so I truly don't know what you're talking about.

But thanks for pissing on a smoldering fire with lighter fuel urine. Tremendously helpful.

I was talking to you. And before you deleted the offending portion of your last post, you had denied that you said Chase "hated on old folks." Wall-to-wall class, son. That's the same degree of integrity you've brought to this entire conversation.

I don't know Chase, and the fact that we were born in the same state has nothing to do with this. We ended up on the same side of this one because we both disagreed with you.

In any event, I'm out. Hugz to you all.

[jitahs]

I was talking to you. And before you deleted the offending portion of your last post, you had denied that you said Chase "hated on old folks." Wall-to-wall class, son. That's the same degree of integrity you've brought to this entire conversation.

I don't know Chase, and the fact that we were born in the same state has nothing to do with this. We ended up on the same side of this one because we both disagreed with you.

Well if you don't use the quote function I can't explain that what I wrote didn't reflect what I meant, which of course you can understand as a lawyer/politician. Unless you lack the class to acknowledge this, of course.

Integrity? Language, intellectual, ethical, what? Big generalization there.

The TN thing is just a little dig, quite inoffensive really.

This is the problem with what you're now doing: you're trying to suss out where I stand, yet I already said so numerous times. Now you want to engage in some kind of debate over...nothing. There's nothing left to say about that.

[jitahs]

You have plenty of legs. It is just that your torso is too fat for them.

Next time you're around, I'll show you how to get really fat at El Toro.

[maunahaole]

Next time you're around, I'll show you how to get really fat at El Toro.

I wrote the instruction manual on that.

[jitahs]

I wrote the instruction manual on that.

If you blow this up it says, "copyright mh":

http://www.eltoromexicanrestaurant.c.../lunchMenu.pdf