gyrofry posted:

perhaps it is a matter that calls for a nuanced analysis of competing factors and the concrete individual situation rather than a clear case where one option is uniformly preferable to The Other. could it be that the truuuuuuuthhhhhh...isssss innnnnnnn... tehh*seizes up*

what is an Other, is that a Lost reference?

getfiscal posted:

In a 2007 episode of the Charlie Rose show, Rose was interviewing the actor and comedian Steve Martin about his memoir Born Standing Up. They talked about the realities of Martin's rise. In the last five minutes of the interview, Rose asks Martin his advice for aspiring performers.

"Nobody ever takes note of -my advice-, because it's not the answer they wanted to hear," Martin said. "What they want to hear is ‘Here's how you get an agent, here's how you write a script,' . . . but I always say, ‘Be so good they can't ignore you.' "

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

Hey getfiscal you’ll like this: I was reading a book called Stasiland the other day and the author was looking at old videos of a government-mandated 1950s GDR youth dance called “the Lipzi”, named after Leizpig which was apparently the trendy city of east Germany (rofl) back then. Anyway the author is watching it and trying to figure out why it’s so weird: there’s moves from tango, bossa nova, the Charleston, all thrown together in this unnatural and arbitrary way, and then she realizes the key is that it’s been specifically designed so no matter what’s happening with your arms and legs, the hips don’t move at all.

Communist prudishness owns.

that's cool but why wouldn't she name her book Hips Don't Lie

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

Crow: author is a woman, check yo priv

GF: thanks for checking yours

who said a guy is a man? Now whos the phobe?

cleanhands posted:

i choose to believe you a massive dickhead to women, what do you think about that?

he's australian, so duh!

Impper posted:

I Moved to NYC and Tried to Get a Real Job with No Connections: The Thread

uh OH! watch out! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19959565

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

If you go to the mines in western Australia as a 19 year old with a trade qualification straight out of high school you pretty much start on six figures, crazy

I know welders/electricians/hvacs/plumbers that have been out of work for over a year.

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

whereabouts?

Georgia/Tennessee/Alabama. It's not to say the situation is horrible, but it's definitely not as secure a position as it used to be (and if you're a new hire you're going to be paid far less than you would be pre-recession and will be worked like a dog).

wasted posted:

Ironicwarcriminal posted:
whereabouts?

Georgia/Tennessee/Alabama. It's not to say the situation is horrible, but it's definitely not as secure a position as it used to be (and if you're a new hire you're going to be paid far less than you would be pre-recession and will be worked like a dog).

I guess they're pretty reliant on the construction industry and such over there.

I know the government here is trying to make it easier for skilled american workers to come, so if they've got the goods this is uh, pretty good money?

http://www.news.com.au/business/tradies-do-it-tough-to-earn-260000/story-e6frfm1i-1225852543333

Although West Australian resource sector workers are perceived as the best remunerated tradesmen, they are well behind the elite class of offshore sparkies, The Australian reports.

Employed on fly-in-fly-out rosters, they work seven consecutive 12-hour shifts, living on the platforms before they return to the mainland for a week off.

As well as an attractive hourly rate, they employees receive a raft of allowances for shift work, rotating between day and night rosters, and weekend penalties.

And with overtime, their total annual remuneration package can range between $250,000 and $260,000.

babyhueypnewton posted:

Also my job is horrible and makes me want to kill myself.

wasted posted:

babyhueypnewton posted:

This thread is good. I work at a job in which everyone except me is black or an immigrant and every manager and person higher up is white. I like my coworkers cause they're real working class, but dpesite trying to be anti-humanist it personally bothers me that shit is so terrible in this country. Anyway the more things change the more they stay the same. Also my job is horrible and makes me want to kill myself.

What's the job?

retail basically

babyhueypnewton posted:

I like my coworkers cause they're real working class,

thats a strange thing to say

animedad posted:

babyhueypnewton posted:

I like my coworkers cause they're real working class,

thats a strange thing to say

only if you've never worked a real job. these are people who will remain in the working class their whole lives, have no privilege to go to college or have kids at 30 when they're ready, have a natural distaste for management and corporate "have fun at work" culture, and do hard labor for little pay with no benefits while people whine about how bored they are getting paid to surf facebook all day.

working class culture as it existed in the 30s hasn't really disappeared, however it become even more divided across racial lines and white socialist unions no longer exist. thats not to say the OP is whiny or anything, the alienation of modern "immaterial" labor is sickening to the human spirit, but the divide between bourgeois culture and proletarian culture is alive and well.