Actually, the euforia is unwanted side-effect as the problem that these pills are trying to cure is NOT sadness or any kind of other psychic problem. It's effects should be narrowed to only those that is there to cure or ease the pain, nausea etc. The euforia, lack of concentration and easy laughter would really be a unwanted effect that wouldn't be so great when for ex. going to a job interview..

Personally, i would like MORE euforia to be added but that's my personal quest to get high and should remain so. Operating heavy machinery while in pain is dangerous as it takes away a certain amount of concentration but imagine operating a crane while thinking the deeper side of american idol or the real sociological effects of hot pockets at the same time.

I think he says "I'm late for a job interview with this body shop over here!"

*brief *fail

^Doctor, Engineer, Scientist. In what ways does understanding pop culture enhance their job performance? Why do you think a politician or economist should be any different?

Before your doctor prescribes you medicine, do you show him youtube clips of Borat and see if he laughs?

Last time you went to a job interview, do you recall having to field any questions about Borat?

Even if Paul did recognize Borat, what about every other aspect of pop culture? It would take a full time job (i.e. watching TV six hours a day) to even keep up with the latest crap. What kind of leader would he be if he watched TV six hours a day? Look at any famous or successful person in history and undoubtedly they will have been more "out of touch" than the regular person because they don't spend their time using they spend their time producing.

The culture he is in touch with is the culture he lived while he was young. He is 73, do you think you are going to care about pop culture when you are 73? He has authored 19 books, and freqently gives talks and lectures. Ron Paul doesn't watch TV he is ON TV. I don't know how many books he has read but it has to at least be in the thousands.

Try writing 19 books, getting a M.D. , delivering thousands of babies, serving in the military, being a grandfather, a US representative, and running for president and see how much time you have to watch MTV news.

Just because you (volumptuous) don't expect something doesn't mean its unexpected.

^Pretty sure the Princeton degree can get you a job interview for a couple nice positions.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
There is no way a burka-clad fundamentalist Muslim woman would ever become a western school teacher, because the same dogma that forces her to cover her entire body in cloth also requires her to have a male escort when outside of the house. Are you telling me that this teacher had a male family member escort her through college, credentialing, student teaching, job interviews, hiring and ultimately 9 months a year of work? I'm calling BS on this one.
This sounds like the kind of thing you find on fringe political sites, chain emails and talk radio.
Same thing with the cross story. I've done a lot of teaching and seen plenty of people who wear crosses. Do you know how hard it is to fire a teacher? Even if some rogue principal decided to fire someone for wearing a cross, the Unions would file a huge lawsuit - which they would win - and the principal would be let go immediately, while the teacher in question would get a large settlement. Either there is more to this story (i.e. proselytizing on the clock, wearing a T-shirt that said 'Jesus Saves', having sex with students, etc) or this story is bullshit.
Maybe things are completely different where you live, but I doubt it. You are trying to paint the picture of some massively oppressive cultural phenomena, but struggling to even come up with small isolated examples, let alone some kind of powerful systemic force. In my opinion, you are getting worked up over nothing.


I'm certainly worked up now, after you speaking to me like i'm some sort of wack-job when all i tried to do was throw a few "other end of the spectrum" examples in to show how a subject can be counter-productive to that which it is trying to aid.

Fortunately for me, you're completely wrong on this one, they were fully covered by many different news sources across great britain. It's almost common knowledge over here to anyone who follows the news and current events. However, your opinion that i'm trying to paint some oppressive cultural phenomenon is erroneous. I've simply said that "political correctness can often be counter productive to racial harmony", and cited a few examples.

So, i'm sorry dude, but they're 100% true. Despite your defensive stance over this, i think you simply don't realise we're agreeing that people simply need to be nice to each other the world over and racial differences and racial struggles will be a thing of the past. I think you've firmly grasped the wrong end of the stick and you're not WANTING to see or hear anything that might impact on the stubborn ideas you have about political correctness. I think you've got it in your head that i'm a racist, or at least ignorant, and you're dead set on proving it even if it means ignoring half of what i say. I think you're the ignorant one.

Now let me tell you something - my dad is not only a teacher but a head teacher, has been for 20 of 35 teaching years. Yes i know how tough it is to fire a teacher, i'm very very familiar with the ins and outs of the NUT as a result of such and ...... i won't go on.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/6066726.stm
There is the story about the woman wearing the burkha, if you're interested (you're not) in finding out more information (you're not) and getting to the root of the story (you're not) and you'll see that originally she was allowed to continue teaching until students complained again that they couldn't understand her. So please research a little more and deliver your apology post haste (i'll wait for it while i wait for hell to freeze over)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-418819/BA-cross-women-vows-compromise-92-cent-public-her.html
Regardless of the "do you know anything about teaching" (and my father sits here as i write this laughing at me being asked that question) debate, this woman was not a teacher and i never said she was. Go ahead and read it and research it if you like, but i warn you once again that it might encourage you to change your POV and i can see you get frosty when your POV is challenged.

Want another? A christian nurse asked an old lady (who was very ill) if she wanted her (the nurse) to pray for her recovery. The old lady said no, made a complaint, and the nurse has been suspended. That was in either today's or yesterday's newspaper.

Please, please, please do not speak in such an antagonistical manner to me when all i did was try to have a little chat and give you my opinion on political correctness. And at least have the common decency to listen to my opinion before slating it. And then, once you've done that, have a little search for subjects that you're about to summarily dismiss without consideration. And then, finally, get off your "i'm righteous i am" high horse and understand that there are people out there who aren't racist, aren't bigots, aren't xenophobes, but DO find political correctness insulting to their intelligence.

I am neither heavily for nor heavily against political correctness, i have stated my opinion and you have translated it to suit your over zealous righteous attitude. I am, however, heavily against having my polite friendly attitude replied to by haughty supercillious pomp, and that's why i'm more stern with this reply than with my previous.

I'm looking forward to see exactly which parts of this you ignored.

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>> ^gwiz665:
Naw, I was being facetious. My point was more that when a religion actively requires you to recruit and thus "save" people, a follower would be obligated to spread their belief.

Maybe where you are, all Christians recruit, but that hasn't been my experience at all. The only ones who have ever tried to recruit me are the Pious Bastards of Latter-day Saints 18-year-old Men-in-Black "Elders," and I run into a pod of them only once every couple years. Maybe I'm just lucky.

A deeply religious person in power scares me, even if they keep it under wraps.

If you mean a literalist, then yes, that's scary. If you just mean someone who uses a religion for spirituality, I can't agree with you. I would much prefer someone with a strong moral compass (not to be confused with a guy who claims to receive instructions from God) be in power than just some guy.

On a related note, most religions are extremely jealous about people leaving their religion (apostasy).

That's a major sign of weakness on their part. Anything that hints that they might be wrong (which at some level, they must know) must be demonized, just like China not letting Tibet or Taiwan leave the country peacefully.

when people actually believe that something is different just because they pray, it's ones birthday or it's xmas there is an intellectual dissonance, because nothing has changed.

People who believe they can change the world by praying alone are deluding themselves, IMO, but so what. Let them pray.

On the other hand, I've heard Mother Theresa variously quoted as saying, "Prayer without action is no prayer at all," or "Prayer without action is just a wish." A lot of people find the strength to take action from without by praying. It has worked since prayer was invented, and continues to work now. Surely, it's a placebo effect, but even the placebo effect is documented as effective. If people can heal themselves, nail that job interview, ditch that abusive husband, take care of lepers, or even stand up to their parish priest with the strength they perceive they get from prayer, then I'm all for it.

The only way we advance as a species is through science and technology, religion is very similar to what it was a thousand years ago.

Surely, in the big picture, the only measure for progress has to be how we act towards our fellow people, other living creatures, and the planet.

Science, and our acceptance of new paradigms, is arguably a measure of progress as a species, but I don't consider technology a measure of progress at all. If we can't learn to communicate peacefully, we're going to nuke ourselves into oblivion. That's not progress. If we can't learn to use the resources we have in a sustainable way, we're going to undo all the scientific and technological "progress" we've made by making it impossible to use.

New thought: The biggest problem with the atheist backlash is that brings to a halt so much philosophical discussion about what is good and right, because anyone who talks about that stuff comes off as religious, and hence, is instantly dismissed as having an intellectual disconnect.

I dunno, I kind of like them. I suppose I can imagine how people would think they're creepy, but it looks like a pretty standard 'modeling job interview' type situation to me.

That one girl needs to gain some weight, stop shooting that dope or whatever, which has always been a creepy thing about Calvin Klein, but that's hardly unique to them.

"Tell your story walking -- get fucked!" I'm so using that during my next job interview!

>> ^quantumushroom:
I expect no less from the sh-t party busily registering dead people and felons.

Oh shit, who leaked that this was produced by the Democratic party??

That clipper ship guy's monologue - I'm memorizing that for my next job interview.

she sounds like she's in a job interview that's not going well... I guess that's not even an analogy, that's actually what is happening.

i see nothing wrong with there being a "business english" standard, or "bbc english". Of course it's not ebonics or half spanish.

I learned Lithuanian to help me get work in Lithuania. I don't swear in front of new clients. I don't walk around talkin fakkin sarf landan aksent and insistin dat peeples rispek my rights, innit.

almost all jobs involve speaking to people, and therefore the way you speak is part of your job performance. What's wrong with that?

In the UK there was a trend for putting call centres in scotland because the scottish accent was judged to be the most trustworthy. What should I do, cry "discrimination!" and insist on more call centres in liverpool (an accent nobody can understand or trust)?

bear in mind i am not at all anti immigration, i just think that it's normal to have a separate language and etiquette for business, and there's no way that's going to be based on a fringe accent, it's gonna get melted down to "average".

People never used to say "gonna" on TV. Now they do. Things change. It's ok. There's many other ways to oppress minorities if that's what you want to do. Eradicating accent prejudice is never ever going to work.


In reply to this comment by SDGundamX:
One issue that no one has mentioned is the issue of power. When people talk about standard English in America, what they are usually really talking about is the English spoken by white, middle-class Americans. There's this unspoken assumption that if you don't speak like a white, middle-class American then you aren't educated. And that's really the tragedy of this story. Some of these kids might be capable of getting perfect scores on their SAT's but because they pronounce words differently than the minority group that is currently in power (white Americans) they'll be judged as somehow inferior on a job interview.

I just want to point out that there is no such thing as "standard English." There's British English, Australian English, Singaporean English, Indian English and a host of others. There's not even a "standard American English." There are many regional standards that have overlapping facets but still also have a lot of variation--the most important variation being pronunciation. Think about this--why is it in this clip the black children are considered uneducated for pronouncing ask as "ax" yet Boston children are not considered uneducated for pronouncing "car" as "ca-."

i listen to this before i go into job interviews