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A Message To The Class of 2009

Postby Chuckmak » Fri 15 May 2009, 11:03:47

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t's graduation time again. Last year, I penned a message to the outgoing class of 2008, a message you almost certainly forgot because there was a picture of Cassandra Lynn sitting at the top of the page. And seeing a photo of Cassandra Lynn is like getting a defibrillator to your penis. So we'd best make this a yearly ritual for you new seniors out there, just to keep things fresh in your little ADD-addled brains.


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') bet you grads had one hell of a spring, didn't you? Oh, I bet you spent your whole spring taking a miniscule courseload, lounging on blankets outside on the quad, fucking each other, drinking your gay little Twisted Teas... I bet you even smoked pot on Wednesday morning, just for the hell of it. I bet you just had the time of your fucking lives the past four years, didn't you?

YOU MAKE ME SICK.

Guess what, fuckos? Party's over. You're out of college now, and your parents are now too poor to nurse you through grad school. No more fantasy life for you. No more ice luges. No more intellectual discourse. No more ripe teenage pussy. That's all over now. YOU ARE FUCKED. Your days will now consist of searching for a job in a marketplace where no available job of any sort fucking exists. Your commencement speaker will probably tell you your class "faces enormous challenges," or some bullshit euphemism like that. This is a lie. A challenge is something you can overcome. You, on the other hand, are completely, unavoidably fucked. You're not going to cure cancer. You're not going to stop wars. You're not going to save the planet. If you're lucky, you may stumble upon a $2 coupon for Honey Nut Cheerios one day. That will be about it.

Otherwise, you are entering a world that is running out of money, a world that will slowly choke itself to death unless it somehow stumbles upon a miraculously clean, cheap energy source that has yet to be invented and almost certainly never will be. Ten years from now, your degree will be 1/100th as useful as a fucking life vest. So wipe that nauseating smile off your faces and heed now this glimpse into your very near future…


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ou will begin caring about stupid shit in the front section of the newspaper. I used to read USA Today in college. I would read only two sections: Red and Purple. The green section was for boring assholes, and the front section was about a bunch of stupid political bullshit. I never cared about politics or world affairs when I was younger. College kids who care about politics are fucking douches. But suddenly, annoyingly serious shit like health care actually started to matter to me. And I don't like it one bit. I read an article in The Atlantic a while back. Voluntarily. I can't begin to tell you how annoyed I was at myself for this.


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')Rent. If you rent, you can call someone to fix shit if it breaks. FOR FREE. Is that worth not ending your life owning some old house your kid is just going to sell for pot money anyway? Fuck and yes.

You will get dumber every day from now on. You're done learning. Time to start forgetting shit! The other weekend I was sitting in the parking lot shuttle bus at the Baltimore airport, on my way to get my car after a flight, only to realize I had left my car keys at my parents' house, which was now 300 miles away. I then bit down on my own finger until I had broken the skin. I am retarded, and I am only getting worse. IT'LL HAPPEN TO YOU.

Going out will stop being appealing to you. What? I have to put on pants? And pay $5 for a drink when I have 30 beers in the fridge? And talk to people? FUCK. THAT.

There is no point in raising your kids well, because other people's retard kids will end up ruining them anyway. You can teach your kid good manners. You can feed them nothing but organic dairy products milked from an angel's tit. You can read your kid 500 Sandra Boynton books every night. I promise you, none of it will matter. Because once your kid goes to school, some spoiled sack of shit kid with horrible parents will teach your kid the word "pussyfart," get them hooked on straight Whoppers, and immediately undo every good thing you did. Trust me. Other people can't parent for JACK SHIT.

If you have more than three kids, you are an asshole. What the fuck are you trying to prove with more than three kids? Kids siphon up precious food and water, produce oceans of shit-ridden waste, and give American parents large tax breaks most of them really don't deserve. If you have more than three kids, and really even two, you deserve to have your have your uterus filled with sand.

You will find yourself, at times, tired of drinking. But you will continue drinking anyway. Beats the alternative, which is NOT drinking.


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')ot all that, graduates? Feel ready to go out and change the world now? No? Good. Because the world changes on its own terms, without your fucking input, thank you very much. The only thing you can do is adjust. Remember: the world has been around a whole lot longer than you have, and it has a limitless arsenal of ways to DESTROY YOUR FUCKING SHIT. So don't go out there thinking your going to impact it in any kind of meaningful way. You'll be here a little longer, then you'll die, then shit'll move on without you. Don't like it, Pollyanna? Tough fucking shit.
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Re: A Message To The Class of 2009

Postby Caffeine » Fri 15 May 2009, 11:14:46

I can hardly imagine a worse time for someone to be graduating from college with massive student loan debt. :cry:
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Re: A Message To The Class of 2009

Postby AAA » Fri 15 May 2009, 12:29:10

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Caffeine', 'I') can hardly imagine a worse time for someone to be graduating from college with massive student loan debt. :cry:


That is why you work during highschool and college and save your money rather than buying blondes $12 martinis on Thurs, Friday, & Saturdays.
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Re: A Message To The Class of 2009

Postby Caffeine » Fri 15 May 2009, 12:32:10

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AAA', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Caffeine', 'I') can hardly imagine a worse time for someone to be graduating from college with massive student loan debt. :cry:


That is why you work during highschool and college and save your money rather than buying blondes $12 martinis on Thurs, Friday, & Saturdays.


Most of those jobs are likely to be minimum wage or near it. US minimum wage is very much disconnected from the real cost of living (especially in the more expensive parts of the US). You can manage a little bit of savings, sure... but really not very much.
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Re: A Message To The Class of 2009

Postby Sixstrings » Fri 15 May 2009, 12:47:05

Most of this diatribe is pretty darn bitter stuff.

What on earth is wrong with young people enjoying their twisted teas on the quad? For God's sake, if you can't be carefree when you're young, when can you??
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Re: A Message To The Class of 2009

Postby ForlornHope » Fri 15 May 2009, 13:15:59

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AAA', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Caffeine', 'I') can hardly imagine a worse time for someone to be graduating from college with massive student loan debt. :cry:


That is why you work during highschool and college and save your money rather than buying blondes $12 martinis on Thurs, Friday, & Saturdays.

Oh how true! Lol, unless she's Cassandra Lynn :roll:
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Re: A Message To The Class of 2009

Postby ForlornHope » Fri 15 May 2009, 13:22:21

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'M')ost of this diatribe is pretty darn bitter stuff.

What on earth is wrong with young people enjoying their twisted teas on the quad? For God's sake, if you can't be carefree when you're young, when can you??

Cogent assessment. Mind you 'carefree' is a state of mind and many of those alluded to youth appear to have divested themselves of that idea, and have jumped headfirst into 'The Machine'
It's taken me until my early 50's to regain that ideal of 'carefree'...or is that senility, aw I can't remember, back to my nap... :wink:
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Re: A Message To The Class of 2009

Postby Chuckmak » Fri 15 May 2009, 14:07:09

You're supposed to laugh at this stuff, not overanalyze it LOL :lol:
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Re: A Message To The Class of 2009

Postby Roy » Fri 15 May 2009, 14:15:10

I thought it was funny.

Some of the comments were rich. And there were some nuggets of truth in there...

LOL

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ETA And I can't remember who spoke at my graduation either.. Best graduation speaker I ever saw was James Carville at my wifes law school commencement. That guy is a riot in person.
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Re: A Message To The Class of 2009

Postby Caffeine » Fri 15 May 2009, 14:26:08

I actually found it accurate, and not funny. This generation of recent college graduates IS mostly f****ed, unless the US economy suddenly takes a miraculous turn for the better.

I imagine many of them will either move back in their parents (and be criticized often because they won't be able to afford the lifestyle of the 50s and 60s, even with their college degree), or end up (IF they can find jobs) with several graduates crammed into a one-bedroom apartment (with no hope of eventually being able to afford the big house they're 'supposed' to afford like their parents did). They might be able to rent a room from a Boomer. At least they won't be expected to purchase a house at grotesquely inflated prices.

Alternately, they might be able to afford rents in particularly inhospitable climates like Arizona, which may be very problematic if there are ever any problems related to water supply or the electrical power grid.
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Re: A Message To The Class of 2009

Postby dinopello » Fri 15 May 2009, 14:31:11

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'M')ost of this diatribe is pretty darn bitter stuff.

What on earth is wrong with young people enjoying their twisted teas on the quad? For God's sake, if you can't be carefree when you're young, when can you??


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Re: A Message To The Class of 2009

Postby highlander » Fri 15 May 2009, 15:55:24

It seems the writer had little content, so he decided to go heavy on profanity. True brilliance.
This is where everybody puts profound words written by another...or not so profound words written by themselves
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Re: A Message To The Class of 2009

Postby Grautr » Fri 15 May 2009, 16:07:25

I just spoke to my cousin in the US last night on facebook chat. It was weird because the last time we spoke was 27 years ago! He got laid off from a manufacturing job in October last year but said he just got a 3 month contract office work. I asked what he was doing and he said signing in applicants for college courses. He said he was sitting around all day doing nothing and didnt expect his contract to be renewed.
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Re: A Message To The Class of 2009

Postby vision-master » Fri 15 May 2009, 16:57:29

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Re: A Message To The Class of 2009

Postby cipi604 » Fri 15 May 2009, 23:20:41

A+ for that blog.
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Re: A Message To The Class of 2009

Postby Thralen » Sat 16 May 2009, 02:51:45

ROFLMAO!
As Heinlein postulated in Stranger in a Strange Land: Humor is based on pain.
That was one of the most humorous articles I've read in some time!

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Re: A Message To The Class of 2009

Postby 3aidlillahi » Sat 16 May 2009, 07:59:14

As a member of the Class of '09, I'm kind of glad that I graduated this year. At least in comparison to kids graduating after me. I certainly wish I'd graduated last year as then I would've saved a few thousand dollars, maybe had a plot of land as well as a decently stable job. But it certainly beats what many people will be going through in the coming years.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')est graduation speaker I ever saw was James Carville at my wifes law school commencement. That guy is a riot in person.


Wait until you have a Nobel Peace Prize-winning Archbishop making sex jokes at your commencement. :lol:
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Re: A Message To The Class of 2009

Postby JJ » Sat 16 May 2009, 08:16:37

got a high school graduation invitation yesterday from my sisters daughter. Enclosed was a picture. Her hair is nine different colors. I'm thinking who would hire her? A tattoo parlor? Her parents are millionaires (and think I'm nuts, of course we're going to pull out of this recession). They live in Pagosa Springs Colorado and are sending her to Austin to the University of Texas for an art major. Then I'm thinking, "well, they had painters in the middle ages". (and the cavemen painted stuff also). I suppose she'll be OK.
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Re: A Message To The Class of 2009

Postby Ludi » Sat 16 May 2009, 09:33:15

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JJ', 's')ending her to Austin to the University of Texas for an art major.



Back in ye olden days when I was an art major there, the program was pretty tough. Very long hours. So in any case she might learn the discipline to work for long hours. I think a couple of my old profs might still be there. :)
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Re: A Message To The Class of 2009

Postby vision-master » Sat 16 May 2009, 09:48:00

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JJ', 'g')ot a high school graduation invitation yesterday from my sisters daughter. Enclosed was a picture. Her hair is nine different colors. I'm thinking who would hire her? A tattoo parlor? Her parents are millionaires (and think I'm nuts, of course we're going to pull out of this recession). They live in Pagosa Springs Colorado and are sending her to Austin to the University of Texas for an art major. Then I'm thinking, "well, they had painters in the middle ages". (and the cavemen painted stuff also). I suppose she'll be OK.


Art is what pulled us out of the middle (dark) ages. :)
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