Showing posts with label college students. Show all posts
Showing posts with label college students. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

The Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2014.

Beloit College has released their 13th annual "College Mindset List" for their current freshmen class, which is due to graduate in 2014. This one is a little personal for me, since it's dealing with folks who were born and have grown up in my era, and I must admit that some of the "Mindset" does on a rare occasion describe me, but not all of it.

Here are some of the better portions of the List, and my reactions.

1. Few in the class know how to write in cursive.

I know how to write in cursive, but not well.

2. Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail.

Email to slow? BS. What's wrong with snail mail? Nothing.

4. Al Gore has always been animated.

Al Gore has always been a liar, such as Jim Carey is.

12. Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry.

He's a badass in Dirty Harry, plus Gran Torino came out just 2 years ago.

23. Leasing has always allowed the folks to upgrade their tastes in cars.

Which has led to a "upgrade" in American debt.

27. Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive.

My first PC only accepted a "floppy disk". Damn, I'm old.

32. Czechoslovakia has never existed.

True, but it thrives within me. I'm Czechoslovakian.

42. Potato has always ended in an “e” in New Jersey per vice presidential edict.

And "JOBS" has always been spelt with 3 letters.

43. Russians and Americans have always been living together in space.

As best demonstrated by the movie "Armageddon".

58. Beethoven has always been a dog.

Except to those who appreciate Classical Music, such as me.

60. Walmart has never sold handguns over the counter in the lower 48.

And...................

64. The U.S, Canada, and Mexico have always agreed to trade freely.

Except for the millions of illegals traded to the United States.

65. They first met Michelangelo when he was just a computer virus.

That's a little sad. History is not what it use to be.

67. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has always sat on the Supreme Court.

Is this something to be proud of? She's horrendous!

68. They have never worried about a Russian missile strike on the U.S.

No..........Just about Islamic nutjobs blowing up thousands of US citizens at the local shopping center.

69. The Post Office has always been going broke.

When hasn't it?

74. They’ve always been able to blast off with the Sci-Fi Channel.

Nothing like watching reruns of The Twilight Zone and Jericho.

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

I Knew It! People Who Watch Jon Stewart are Idiots!

Well, it's something that's been on my mind for years, but I'm so glad to see it actually confirmed in a newspaper. From the New York Times we find out that Jon Stewart fans are a bunch of egotistical self-righteous buffoons... or at least one-fifth of them.

According to 'secret media research' done by the geniuses at Comedy Central, at least twenty percent of all of the viewers of The Daily Show or the Colbert Report believe that people think they're cool for doing so. (We'll leave Stephen Colbert out of this because he's actually funny.)

That's right, they think that other people think they're cool for not actually doing anything but sitting there, mouths agape. There's a clinical term for this: college douchebags.

And you know what else drives up the Daily Show's ratings? The fact that it's seen as cool to watch the show, even though it's not funny. True, many college students and pseudo-hippies don't get the material, but if they laugh hard they can belong to something. Besides, they can be persuaded to vote-- even though they're clueless. You know, the best type of voters.

The problem is that many if not most of these viewers then do not watch any actual news because they've already 'been informed' by twenty seconds of a CNN clip that Stewart followed with a frowny face. They believe that since they're now endowed with almighty suave from watching Comedy Central, they can go up to people and shout at them if they don't choke down the Democratic line.

The study asked... ultimately, how important the shows and hosts are in their lives. Seriously, if a stiff like Jon Stewart is that important in your life, you should join a cult.

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