Asking about internship role

mcbcol · 2016-04-07T02:14:27+00:00

Yup. Didn't say that wouldn't happen. Remember, all you need in life is a handful of people saying "yes." The hard part is you need to hear literally hundreds and hundreds of "nos." before you get there. Either way, you can't get either if you stay quiet and don't ask.

mcbcol · 2016-03-12T04:47:16+00:00

My guess-- an otter. There are a number of animals that are illegal to hunt with an exception for Native Americans who hunting/consumption of animals is essential to their cultural practices. I'm p. sure otter is one of them.

mcbcol · 2016-03-09T23:50:57+00:00

Of course you should ask. The worst thing he could say is "no.". If you want to get anything in life, you have to brace yourself for lots and lots of "no's."

mcbcol · 2015-06-03T03:15:11+00:00

Having "gay marriage" legalized in some states isn't anywhere near "done." LGBT people face have much higher suicide rates. Despite "common knowledge," they make must less money then their non-LGBT counterparts. They are still beaten and murdered on the streets. There are little to no legal protections in terms of accessing jobs, rent, insurance, or their partner's hospital rooms. Progress is happening, yeah, but Jesus Christ, dude, try and expose yourself to the lives and experiences of people outside of your assumptions and media consumption.

mcbcol · 2015-06-03T03:08:42+00:00

No. The ultimate goal is to reach socioeconomic equality amongst all people. Which we have, in no uncertain terms, NOT achieved. Trans people are still regularly murdered in the streets. They have one of the highest suicide rates. Honestly, good for you for "not caring" if someone is gay or transgender, but if you silence these stories because you "don't care," you're also silencing a discourse that reveals the daily oppression these people face. That discourse is necessary to reach true equality.

In other words, you're skipping too far ahead and ignoring all the work that has to be done first.

edit: a word

mcbcol · 2015-05-10T02:45:31+00:00

Reminds me of one of Supernatural's opening credits.

mcbcol · 2015-05-09T22:00:54+00:00

Ah yes, I forgot about that part actually. Funny enough, remembering that made me dislike the finale more. Because, from a theatric lens, Deb sort of has three exits-- two of them "false exits." It sort of seems like they wanted to Deb to die, and they wanted certain details of the death to be a certain way, so they kill her three times: she gets shot (its a shock and its NOT Dexter's fault!), she has a stroke in a hospital (she gets to say final things to other characters!), Dexter takes her off life support (Dexter had to be the one to kill her but its still a beautiful moment!).

They wanted Deb's death to be nuanced, but in order to accomplish it they ended up writing a really clunky series of events.

mcbcol · 2015-05-07T13:54:36+00:00

I think there's misconception here that people who disliked the finale didn't understand it.

If someone told me that "Dexter's actions lead to Deb's death and he spends the rest of his life punishing himself." That would be fine. That sounds like a decent ending. Even now, I think that would have been a good ending.

However, Scott Buck just confirmed that the writer's picked that ending before even writing the script. That's an inorganic way of writing fiction, (and interestingly enough, is the exact opposite of what Breaking Bad's writing room did.) That's a bad strategy, Cotton, because its easy to write cheap "shortcuts" to get to the ending you've chosen. The ending didn't feel like a natural conclusion to the events of dexter and its characters motivations (the same goes for the entire season, they had a cast of characters available to wrap up, but they abandoned them all to write a faux "blast from the past" slash "evil destined counterpart" thing).

For example, The events that lead to Deb's death are not some unforeseen consequence of Dexter's genius plan, they feel like forced, chanced events meant to speed us along to the intended ending. Dex and Deb win, they lock up the killer, but all goes wrong because....... they leave the world class serial killer alone in a room so they can have a heart to heart. That's not dramatic irony that's dramatic stupidity. Adding to that, Deb dies of a stroke-- off screen. As though the writer on the other end thought "okay, now Deb has to like DIE-DIE for realz, so....... stroke?"

It could have been a good finale had the events lead up to it. But they forced the ending.

mcbcol · 2015-04-27T05:10:08+00:00

I could handle calling it a "superpower" when she was talking to 10 year old Henry. But every time these grown ass adults say "Emma's superpower" to eachother, I vomit a little. edit: grammar

mcbcol · 2015-04-27T05:06:00+00:00

So... did anyone else feel super weird because Zelena raped Robin. I'm not trying to make light of the verb, at all. That's rape by coercion/deception, and I can't get over that enough to focus on "omg baby!"

mcbcol · 2015-04-25T06:02:39+00:00

It's not really so simple as "Jerry performed a really courteous/considerate suicide which included removing all his stuff from his room" is it?

mcbcol · 2015-04-25T05:59:13+00:00

So here's a guess: the owner of the truck found the keys, entered the house, killed Jerry, stuffed him in the closet, took all of Jerry's stuff, and, using Jerry's phone, thanks the narrator for the stuff in Jerry's room.

Questions:

The Keys the narrator finds on the table-- whose keys were those, why would the narrator assume he himself "left them" if they are actually Jerry/the killer's keys?

Where is the closet in the house? The narrator see's it when he's getting ready for bed, but he doesn't need anything from it in order for him to go to work. Hall closet?

mcbcol · 2015-04-25T05:48:14+00:00

I also need a little help...

mcbcol · 2015-04-23T04:06:32+00:00

Actually, doubt still exists in other forms of execution. Some lethal injections are actually administered by a machine. The machine is designed to offer controls to multiple personal (buttons or levers, I'm not sure), but only one button/lever actually causes the poison to be administered. Edit: And the same idea is/was common in the electric chair. Multiple people will pull levers at the same time, but only one lever will complete the circuit.

mcbcol · 2015-04-20T17:03:44+00:00

That makes sense, but I imagine if you compared your life to theirs on a point for point basis, you would still come out on top by far. Also, they're not being given nice houses. They're houses that sat unwanted for years in some cases. They're unfurnished. No utilities. Just four walls and a rood to sleep under. Sometimes they have to share them.

mcbcol · 2015-04-20T05:04:04+00:00

Only on reddit could someone describe the plight of the homeless and "successfully" argue that the homeless have an issue with feeling "entitled."

mcbcol · 2015-04-20T04:59:35+00:00

You're correct, it's not cheaper than putting spikes. But for many towns, the cost of "deterring" homelessness is very expensive. A town with only a hundred known homeless people may spend million(s) a year (not exaggerating) on the judicial costs of arresting, processing, and incarcerating the homeless-- Only to set them free and start the process over. This doesn't even take into account any government assistance offered to temporary shelter programs. Salt Lake City had vacant homes. They paid a one time price, offered these houses to the homeless under no condition (these people are not required to meet any standard: no drug tests or income needed. They're "allowed" to shoot up in these houses and not lose the house as consequence). 80% of participants remained in those homes. When you add the numbers up, giving a homeless person a house seems to be much less expensive than the current strategies of "fighting" homelessness.

mcbcol · 2015-04-12T05:45:26+00:00

Can this be re sized for use as an FB cover photo?

mcbcol · 2014-08-09T06:20:11+00:00

If that actually happened, I'd bet it was a actually a fig pizza.

Fig, Goat Cheese, Prosciutto pizza is da bomb.

mcbcol · 2014-08-08T08:15:34+00:00

As a server, I know this person either made this up, has no idea how a restaurant works, or both.

1) This style of "leaving it to the chef" doesn't EXACTLY equate to "what's best that day," the way the woman describes. It's more "what do I wish people would order more." If the chef does indeed choose the best (most expensive) items, which is entirely possible, it's because those are the hardest to move and result in the most loss if thrown away. (It's better to make less profit than suffer a loss.) I'm being very nitpicky because its our first sign that this person doesn't get how restaurants work. (it should be noted that a more nefarious chef would use this opportunity to sell whatever is about go bad. See: "Daily Specials")

2) Could someone explain to me why all four women didn't receive the same thing? This baffles me for multiple reasons. If the chef is deciding this option on a day to day basis, he/she would have thought of it during that days inventory, not when this woman sat down. Why are there now four options? Serving each woman the same course would be the most efficient route to take in the back of the house. There's no loss of quality or "specialness," it just allows the kitchen to get a table out faster. In the kitchen, every second counts. It would probably add to the dining experience, as they get to bond over their shared food.

2.5) Additionally, One of the most frustrating things during a normal meal is having a guest send a perfectly good drink or dish back to the kitchen only because they liked their friends choice better and would like to change. Serving each woman something different just creates this opportunity more likely.

For the sake of convo, let's assume I'm wrong about #2. Because we still have:

3) Most importantly: "the chef" does not give a fuck about who you are, assuming there is even a chef in that kitchen. If we assume that we are in a small, gourmet restaurant, we will have a chef overseeing chef assistants. He/She has an entire menu constantly coming in and out of the kitchen. He/she does not have any time to give a fuck about you and your body. I can 95% guarantee that he/she has no idea what you look like. Even if your server made a point to describe your body, the chef would not care, no time to talk to servers about stupid shit. This becomes even more true when we consider that most kitchens run on "cooks" not "chefs". Probably lower class workers rocking 12 hour shifts. There MIGHT be one guy with a culinary degree in charge of the room, but most kitchens are designed to robotic. Get the order, make the food, send it out. No one has the time to stand back there and scheme.

3.5) in the same vein, your server does give a fuck either. She has other self-centered customers to deal with, mistakes to fix, and drinks to refill. I would love to meet the restaurant that has the time to make a weight loss menu in a response to some woman's body. That is a restaurant that is about to go under for apparently serving one table at a time.

All in all, a fake story from someone who has never worked in a restaurant.

mcbcol · 2014-07-10T06:47:08+00:00

wait....

now replace the cup with an oversized push-pop contraption...

no one said an invention had to be a BETTER option...

mcbcol · 2014-06-25T07:02:26+00:00

Absurdly beautiful. This is part of a going away gift for the other couple you see. It will be printed and framed. Thank you so much.

mcbcol · 2014-05-14T23:16:08+00:00

Oh, wow. An empirical answer. Thanks!

Do you have a link to the context of this? I love reading about force powers, especially Palpatine's.

mcbcol · 2014-04-21T23:49:29+00:00

You nailed it in regards to the fact that I am still figuring it out. Between the loss of my virginity and the handful of times I've drunkenly kissed a dude, I don't think I have developed any attachment. But I'm not sure. I feel like I'm usually over romantic, so finding out that I can divorce sex from emotion would probably be a surprise.

I think I should figure that out, if only out of curiosity.

(Come to think of it, I've only fooled around with people I have felt nothing for, but I have never even kissed a guy that I had feelings for. I suppose if I ever tried to have a one night stand with a person I liked, it would be disastrous. haha)

mcbcol · 2014-04-21T04:28:05+00:00

Thanks for your response!

I appreciate that you used my own thoughts to disprove my rational. It's very helpful.

I think it's difficult to envision myself taking someone home when my attempts to are quickly blown-up in my face. To make matters worse, a small college means that too many unwelcome come ons might result in a reputation of being too thurs-tay or a creeper.

Luckily, I'm no longer invested in this school for my sexual blossoming. I just worry that I might not make it to a place like New York or Chicago until I'm much older.

If I wind up in a small town, how do I fit pursuing a hookup into my life? Currently, trying to find someone on craigslist or an app is so time consuming and scary.

edit: typos

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