Nilly, your unconditional 17 love always makes me smile.
Mal: How drunk was I last night? Jayne: Well I dunno. I passed out.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 28, 2008 11:08:03 am PDT #9985 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Sophia Brooks - Jul 28, 2008 11:08:19 am PDT #9986 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
One of the things that I have seen with both myself and my friends who are college educated (in the liberal arts, not in specific trades/professions) but were on the lower end of the class scale, is we had no idea what kind of jobs to get just out of college, since we weren't "teachers" or "nurses" or "accountants". And we didn't have parents who understood what a liberal arts education was or what an "entry-level" position which would lead to promotion was or who knew how to help us get one. So we (I) just basically applied for clerical jobs, which is what I still am, even though I have risen quite high in the staff category at a university. Almost everyone else I know who was in the same situation as I went back to school to become a teacher, nurse, or speech therapist. Also, I thought I was going to work full-time in theatre and was just taking jobs until I could fulfill that dream, but for 5 years in my mid twenties I was a college educated sales-clerk at JC Penney because I didn't know how to get another kind of job.
Jesse - Jul 28, 2008 11:08:58 am PDT #9987 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
[Edit: Jesse, maybe you should put that college kid under the care of those annoying people from work, and let them annoy each other?]
Ooh, now that's a plan.
§ ita § - Jul 28, 2008 11:11:50 am PDT #9988 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm going to stick my neck out and say the British have more of a rigid class system in place than the US.
I don't think you're taking much of a risk here. But the chances of breaking through from upper middle class into the US to the upper class--not that big. Mobility only gets you so far.
if your daughter is marrying an investment banker who grew up poor but makes bank and has the right manners it probably isn't that much of an issue with anyone but Bunny McDougal.
I can do no more than shrug at that. I honestly have no idea.
DavidS - Jul 28, 2008 11:11:59 am PDT #9989 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
More useful to whom?
As a sociological class that identifies common traits. "Middle class" is too broad and ill-defined to mean anything in particular.
Jesse - Jul 28, 2008 11:12:23 am PDT #9990 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Is this the end?
Are you...my friend?
t /New Edition
Toddson - Jul 28, 2008 11:12:28 am PDT #9991 of 10003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Question for Nilly (possibly stupid, but I'm curious) - when you use a computer in Hebrew, is it in Hebrew characters or in transliterated English/Roman characters?
Scrappy - Jul 28, 2008 11:12:37 am PDT #9992 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Firefly, ice cream,
humor, seventeen love, joy--
Nilly is awesome.
DavidS - Jul 28, 2008 11:13:24 am PDT #9993 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oooh, Jesse's slutting for 10,000.
lisah - Jul 28, 2008 11:13:54 am PDT #9994 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
To her credit, the person who ran the ad for the family nanny does spell out just how little time off the person they hire would have and says that the person would be the nanny (or, really, assistant) to the whole family. It's not like somebody answering that ad could claim to be surprised by the work.