"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

[screened porch]

Please don't be ashamed. Both my grandfathers were lawyers.* I must have inherited the ability to make absurd things sound plausible.


*no joke

I'm a licensed attorney myself, but you're better at it than I am.

 

[Prester John]

Please don't be ashamed. Both my grandfathers were lawyers.* I must have inherited the ability to make absurd things sound plausible.


*no joke

Hey!

 

[Cutfinger]

Hey!

Ha ha !

 

[Student762]

I've got a degree in English literature and history, but I think the greatest implausibility I've ever passed off to myself was the idea that this would be a lucrative route of study.

 

[screened porch]

Please don't be ashamed. Both my grandfathers were lawyers.* I must have inherited the ability to make absurd things sound plausible.


*no joke

Sorry, Rachel, I should have used a grinning emoticon with a word as strong as "ashamed".

 

[screened porch]

I've got a degree in English literature and history, but I think the greatest implausibility I've ever passed off to myself was the idea that this would be a lucrative route of study.

I hear ya, man. I was a theater major. They used to say employers valued the breadth and depth implied by a liberal arts background, and expect to train you in the job-specific stuff themselves anyway.

 

[screened porch]

I've found a way to stay sane in my isolation! Sock puppets!

 

[Jolipapa]

I've found a way to stay sane in my isolation! Sock puppets!

Nothing wrong, as long as you don't forget to take those colored candies the good men in white gave you

 

[Student762]

I hear ya, man. I was a theater major. They used to say employers valued the breadth and depth implied by a liberal arts background, and expect to train you in the job-specific stuff themselves anyway.

I appreciate the critical thinking skills and the expanded knowledge on how society works and so forth that I garnered from my undergrad but it is unfortunate that the only real direct career path from my major is teaching.

 

[jc57]

I've found a way to stay sane in my isolation! Sock puppets!

Not to nit pick here, but I'm pretty sure that is a sign you have strayed somewhat far from "sane."

 

[Will Power]

I appreciate the critical thinking skills and the expanded knowledge on how society works and so forth that I garnered from my undergrad but it is unfortunate that the only real direct career path from my major is teaching.

Well 'console' yourself with this: in the near Digi and AI future all subjects and skills will be pretty well redundant anyway Even lawyers (perhaps especially) teachers, admin workers, management layers, PR, HR, advertising, drivers, many doctors will easily be substituted by IT software. As for critical intelligence and pride in skills I suspect they may be unwelcome in Dystopia... Undertaking, that's a secure job with plenty of future job prospects Unless of course we reach the Brave New World level, where people simple evaporate ....

Study is always worthwhile if it improves the mind

 

[Prester John]

Undertaking, that's a secure job with plenty of future job prospects Unless of course we reach the Brave New World level, where people simple evaporate ....

Or Soylent Green!

 

[meako]

No computer will ever replace a good sock puppeteer.

 

[meako]

The theme song of the sock puppet show would naturally have to be Rocky Burnettes Tired of Toein' The Line

 

[Prester John]

No computer will ever replace a good sock puppeteer.

You don't even need a sock:

 

[screened porch]

Not to nit pick here, but I'm pretty sure that is a sign you have strayed somewhat far from "sane."

Socko and Toedee say you're nuts.

 

[meako]

So its true...Peter Falk only had one character.

 

[Just Tom.]

I've found a way to stay sane in my isolation! Sock puppets!

I have a habit of talking to myself as a I work, but don’t worry - I’m sure it’s not annoying at all. I am often juggling multiple complicated tasks at once, and I have found that talking myself through them helps me stay on track. If we ever go back to working in offices, I may try talking to a sock puppet instead. Explaining my work to Socky so he can take over if I get hit by a bus or something will seem a lot less odd than talking to myself, right?

 

[5K Qs]

Not to nit pick here, but I'm pretty sure that is a sign you have strayed somewhat far from "sane."

Only if the sock puppets are on one's hands, I'd say. If you keep your sock puppets on your feet, I'm sure no one would bat an eye.
(I miss baseball.)

- GT

 

[Mr. Chips]

I hear ya, man. I was a theater major. They used to say employers valued the breadth and depth implied by a liberal arts background, and expect to train you in the job-specific stuff themselves anyway.

"They" lie about a LOT of things!