Pro-tax Occupation Protests Held Across U.S. (O.W.S. Thread) - Page 22

PhilsFan · 11-17-2011, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by the iron horse

I'm wondering how these "Occupy Protesters" can take off from their
jobs for so long to protest.

A lot of people graduating from college have no job opportunities because your generation fucked over the economy.

**Diemen** · 11-17-2011, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by financeguy

Many of them don't have jobs, you complacent moron.

Let's keep the insults out of this, shall we?

financeguy · 11-17-2011, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Diemen

Let's keep the insults out of this, shall we?

Ok. But some posters need to make better engagement and actually, you know, debate the issues instead of just throwing complacent, meaningless, cookie-cutter one-liners around.

INDY500 · 11-17-2011, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by financeguy

The air is - literally - freer up there, as opposed to more industrialised and consumerist environs which are contaminated by the fumes from hamburger gases and other noxious odors emitted by the fat useless eaters that live in such places.

Hence, the citizens in the Pacific Northwest are comparatively less brainwashed than the average consumerist drones and still have the normal human ability to come up with their own ideas free from the odious influence of corporate capitalist oligarch tyranny, which is clearly fucking the entire global with its noxious trash, propaganda, evil and lies.

Simples!

hamburger gases

lack of commas between coordinate adjectives

2861U2 · 11-17-2011, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by PhilsFan

A lot of people graduating from college have no job opportunities because your generation fucked over the economy.

The unemployment rate among college graduates is around 5.0%, much lower than the national average. I'd very much refute your claim of "no job opportunities." It likely depends on whether you majored in something that's actually practical, or if you went in for something like gender studies or world music.

Also, I would think if someone was truly sympathetic to the occupiers, the last people they would be concerned about are the people who have been blessed to go to college.

financeguy · 11-17-2011, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by INDY500

hamburger gases

Yep. Do you seriously think it's a coincidence that Bilderberger and hamburger sound quite alike?

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Originally Posted by INDY500

lack of commas between coordinate adjectives

Sorry.

PhilsFan · 11-17-2011, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by 2861U2

Also, I would think if someone was truly sympathetic to the occupiers, the last people they would be concerned about are the people who have been blessed to go to college.

Please. I think the Occupiers had the right idea (Wall Street needs to be accountable more than the government) but went about it the wrong way.

College isn't a blessing. Blessings don't come with tens of thousands of dollars of debt.

Caleb8844 · 11-17-2011, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by PhilsFan

College isn't a blessing. Blessings don't come with tens of thousands of dollars of debt.

You act like it was forced on them.

PhilsFan · 11-17-2011, 09:25 PM

Hardly. It's a choice. But it's not a blessing either.

INDY500 · 11-17-2011, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by financeguy

Sorry.

Not to worry.

Grammar is tyranny !! Punctuation is oppression !!

PhilsFan · 11-17-2011, 09:45 PM

I've been reading a lot of academia from the 1980s, and holy shit did those guys overuse the comma. It's not just Oxford commas, either. They just excessively dropped commas at every possible turn.

kramwest1 · 11-17-2011, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by PhilsFan

I've been reading a lot of academia from the 1980s, and holy shit did those guys overuse the comma. It's not just Oxford commas, either. They just excessively dropped commas at every possible turn.

AP Style is the way to go.

How to Use Commas in Associated Press Style | eHow.com

PhilsFan · 11-17-2011, 11:17 PM

I am an editor, so I have been using AP style for years.

Canadiens1131 · 11-17-2011, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by PhilsFan

I've been reading a lot of academia from the 1980s and, holy shit, did those guys overuse the comma. It's not just Oxford commas, either. They just excessively dropped commas at every possible turn.

Fixed that for you, sir.

PhilsFan · 11-18-2011, 12:21 AM

I was waiting for someone to point that out. I'm a hypocrite.

cobl04 · 11-18-2011, 12:29 AM

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Originally Posted by PhilsFan

Oxford Comma

And a Vampire Weekend fan as well apparently.

Canadiens1131 · 11-18-2011, 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by PhilsFan

I was waiting for someone to point that out. I'm a hypocrite.

The weird thing is that I don't even know why 'holy shit' should be set off with commas.

Tiger Edge · 11-18-2011, 08:07 AM

Grammar

Holy shit (a phrase which can be equally used in parentheses, such as this one) is not essential to the sentence and can therefore be offset by commas. You can reread your statement without the "holy shit" and it will still make sense.

kramwest1 · 11-18-2011, 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by PhilsFan

I am an editor, so I have been using AP style for years.

I wish more people would.

Earnie Shavers · 11-18-2011, 11:25 AM

The OWS kids aren't doing a great job of it, but I don't understand how anyone can't understand the anger. Or see that it will boil over. I guess it's still because of the 'jobs' focus in the US. But it's really about shit like this: What price the new democracy? Goldman Sachs conquers Europe - Business Analysis & Features - Business - The Independent

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Earnie Shavers Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: London/Sydney Posts: 6,609 Local Time: 03:39 AM	The OWS kids aren't doing a great job of it, but I don't understand how anyone can't understand the anger. Or see that it will boil over. I guess it's still because of the 'jobs' focus in the US. But it's really about shit like this: What price the new democracy? Goldman Sachs conquers Europe - Business Analysis & Features - Business - The Independent __________________

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11-17-2011, 09:25 PM	#429
PhilsFan Blue Crack Addict Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: South Philadelphia Posts: 19,218 Local Time: 10:39 PM	Hardly. It's a choice. But it's not a blessing either.

11-17-2011, 09:45 PM	#431
PhilsFan Blue Crack Addict Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: South Philadelphia Posts: 19,218 Local Time: 10:39 PM	I've been reading a lot of academia from the 1980s, and holy shit did those guys overuse the comma. It's not just Oxford commas, either. They just excessively dropped commas at every possible turn.

11-17-2011, 11:17 PM	#433
PhilsFan Blue Crack Addict Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: South Philadelphia Posts: 19,218 Local Time: 10:39 PM	I am an editor, so I have been using AP style for years.

11-18-2011, 12:21 AM	#435
PhilsFan Blue Crack Addict Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: South Philadelphia Posts: 19,218 Local Time: 10:39 PM	I was waiting for someone to point that out. I'm a hypocrite.

11-18-2011, 08:07 AM	#438
Tiger Edge Rock n' Roll Doggie Band-aid Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: The Everglades Posts: 4,740 Local Time: 10:39 PM	Grammar Holy shit (a phrase which can be equally used in parentheses, such as this one) is not essential to the sentence and can therefore be offset by commas. You can reread your statement without the "holy shit" and it will still make sense.