>> ^Velocity5:

@Trancecoach @Asmo @Gallowflak
"Not every pursuit needs to have some great utility."

We're really just talking about Disney's The Grasshopper and the Ants, based on Aesop's ancient parable.
She doesn't realize that in merely 10 years at her highschool reunion, as their youthful charm will have started to fade, the people who strove to build awesome, challenging careers will be the ones who have grown the most personally and intellectually.
Encouraging people to do "whatever they want" lays waste to what could have been great lives. Encourage them instead to build lives that are useful to humankind, in which they grow more and more every year.


I think what we're dealing with here is hand spring envy...

Right.

Clearly she should be more like you--surfing the Internet and making judgmental pronouncements about people's lives based on what you've seen of them in a three-minute news clip. That'll be immensely "useful to humankind."

>> ^Velocity5:

@Trancecoach @Asmo @Gallowflak
"Not every pursuit needs to have some great utility."

We're really just talking about Disney's The Grasshopper and the Ants, based on Aesop's ancient parable.
She doesn't realize that in merely 10 years at her highschool reunion, as their youthful charm will have started to fade, the people who strove to build awesome, challenging careers will be the ones who have grown the most personally and intellectually.
Encouraging people to do "whatever they want" lays waste to what could have been great lives. Encourage them instead to build lives that are useful to humankind, in which they grow more and more every year.

@Trancecoach @Asmo @Gallowflak

"Not every pursuit needs to have some great utility."


We're really just talking about Disney's The Grasshopper and the Ants, based on Aesop's ancient parable.

She doesn't realize that in merely 10 years at her highschool reunion, as their youthful charm will have started to fade, the people who strove to build awesome, challenging careers will be the ones who have grown the most personally and intellectually.

Encouraging people to do "whatever they want" lays waste to what could have been great lives. Encourage them instead to build lives that are useful to humankind, in which they grow more and more every year.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

I've eaten fried grasshoppers and chocolate covered ants--both were very good.


HEY! NO EATING ANTS.

At least PlayhousePals won't nom me.

Yeh, I had grasshoppers in melted cheese once. Was actually very tasty. Texture wasn't at all offputting. Wasn't chewey, just had a bit of a crunch like brown rice or something. Tasted good too, like seafood. Frankly I find it a lot less repulsive than say, oysters or mussels. Its more like eating whitebait. I think if I had the option I'd give up meat in favour of insects.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

I've eaten fried grasshoppers and chocolate covered ants--both were very good.


For me, it's a texture thing =o/

I've eaten fried grasshoppers and chocolate covered ants--both were very good.

That's what I thought, but do you really want to argue biology with David Attenborough?>> ^zombieater:

Isn't that a grasshopper, not a cricket?

Isn't that a grasshopper, not a cricket?

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I've become an alcoholic because I'm incapable of dealing with a universe whose wonders I'm able to observe while knowing I'm shortly destined for oblivion. Thanks for the grasshopper.

Hmmm, perhaps I misinterpreted you when you used the word "still" in that sentence. I thought you were suggesting something else; that was my mistake. Regardless, this ingenuity was made possible by state institutions and not surprisingly didn't come from the University of Phoenix or similar for-profit schools.

I never said that the state university fully funded his research (you must read, grasshopper), I said it was discovered at a state university. Surely the university loaned him a hand here and there.

There are 34 different pharmaceutical companies in the United States currently. Not one of them pulls down less than 1.6 billion dollars a year. The average revenue of the bottom ten pharmaceutical companies is 2.4 billion. The top ten make at least 10 billion a year in revenue with Johnson and Johnson pulling down a whopping 70 billion in revenue.

Assuming your figure is correct, even the smallest of the pharmaceutical companies in the US would have access to producing something like the polio vaccine if the current cost to bring drug to market is in fact $802 million. ESPECIALLY when you factor in that all of the research and development costs will be privately funded by charitable donations like the March of Dimes, as in your polio example, the costs would be minimal. I still don't understand why you think a smaller pharmaceutical company would shy away from production/distribution of a drug if it was all already paid for through a nonprofit like the March of Dimes.

Oh shit did I just blow up your whole argument? Boom motherfucker.

Too easy to put the "sexist" stamp on anything you don't understand. Looks like you're too simple minded, poor fella.

>> ^bareboards2:

Grasshopper can be a mental age.
It is my business when men are clueless about their sexist crap.

>> ^looris:
>> ^bareboards2:
Um, no, it isn't an awkward way to ask, it is rude inappropriate and as rychan says creepy and douchey.
Listen and learn from your elders, grasshopper.

>> ^looris:
>> ^rychan:
Upvote for Felicia day, but that's a real creepy, douchey thing to ask.

Well, no: tecnically, that's just asking if she's a natural red. In an awkward way, fine.


Bullshit. Mind your own business, and try to use your brain before "grasshopper"ing someone and "elder"ing yourself.

Grasshopper can be a mental age.

It is my business when men are clueless about their sexist crap.


>> ^looris:

>> ^bareboards2:
Um, no, it isn't an awkward way to ask, it is rude inappropriate and as rychan says creepy and douchey.
Listen and learn from your elders, grasshopper.

>> ^looris:
>> ^rychan:
Upvote for Felicia day, but that's a real creepy, douchey thing to ask.

Well, no: tecnically, that's just asking if she's a natural red. In an awkward way, fine.


Bullshit. Mind your own business, and try to use your brain before "grasshopper"ing someone and "elder"ing yourself.