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Yael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 05:47 PM Original message |
The Next Generation (this was disturbing) |
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shadowknows69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
1. Ouch |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
2. I'd believe it. |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
3. Having worked shit jobs... |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 09:59 PM Response to Reply #3 |
28. Shit Job Has Nothing to Do With It |
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BeHereNow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 05:53 PM Response to Original message |
4. I can't tell you how many times I have experienced the same thing. |
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Dhalgren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 06:30 PM Response to Reply #4 |
14. As George Carlin said in one of his shows, slaves need to be kept |
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BeHereNow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 06:50 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. And THAT, is the reality... |
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MissB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 05:53 PM Response to Original message |
5. At my kids' grade school figuring out change is part of the math |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 05:58 PM Response to Original message |
6. I taught third and fourth graders how to count out change |
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MissB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 06:02 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. That is horrifying. |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 07:29 PM Response to Reply #6 |
21. That's BS. What happens if they don't have a calculator? |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 08:30 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. To use reason and logic, |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 11:24 PM Response to Reply #21 |
31. That's rote learning. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-29-07 12:04 AM Response to Reply #21 |
38. I know--in the early 1990s, when I was a college professor, one of my |
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quiet.american (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 06:02 PM Response to Original message |
7. Not necessarily just the younger generation -- I rarely run into anyone who can count change. |
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cynatnite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 06:53 PM Response to Reply #7 |
18. I've ran into a lot of people who can't count change n/t |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
9. Hasn't anybody looked at McDonald's registers lately? |
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karlrschneider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 06:09 PM Response to Original message |
10. I encounter variations on that theme with frightening regularity. |
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billbuckhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 08:07 PM Response to Reply #10 |
23. Everybody is an idiot to somebody |
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karlrschneider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 08:23 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. And some are idiots to everyone else. |
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blogslut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
11. Kinda odd |
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Yael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 06:21 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Nope -- at the same time and this restaurant did not have the change shoot |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 06:12 PM Response to Original message |
12. I've had that happen |
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azurnoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 06:31 PM Response to Original message |
15. Had that happen too n/t |
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cynatnite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 06:53 PM Response to Original message |
17. The machine didn't tell her? |
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Luke_R (56 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
19. It's funny when |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 07:27 PM Response to Original message |
20. Of course, this is a burger flipper, she's there for a reason folks. |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
22. My grandpa owned a butcher shop and he did his calculations with a pencil on a paper bag.... |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 10:05 PM Response to Reply #22 |
30. They Still Do That! |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 11:41 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. Isn't that funny?!?! |
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w8liftinglady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
25. I wish High School had a course on Work:101 |
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JesterCS (627 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
27. Working at McD's myself |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 10:02 PM Response to Original message |
29. I stopped adding change to get a single bill back a long time ago |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 11:27 PM Response to Original message |
32. Americans are stupid. A precondition for fixing it is *admitting* it. Which no-one wants to do.... |
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ContraBass Black (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 11:32 PM Response to Original message |
33. I froze up my first time on a register. |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-29-07 12:03 AM Response to Reply #33 |
37. I was fairly good at basic math, but I couldn't give out change for years |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 11:44 PM Response to Original message |
35. Doh! |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-28-07 11:58 PM Response to Original message |
36. Bwaha! I know what you mean. |
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