Which one are we again?

Wow. The future is here.

Future? Like in "nearly 20 years ago"? (NSFW)

It's not weird news, and to me it's not surprising or earth-shattering news, but I thought it worth posting and couldn't find a "Just News" thread and didn't want to make one.

Graduates of For-profits lag behind their peers in earnings and employment, study finds.

http://chronicle.com/article/Graduat...&utm_medium=en

Nimble critters. :)

I thought it was a good read too. Loved the comments at the bottom.

So they take the leftovers. dregs, or otherwise unacceptable students from the non-profits.
and then ...
If I'm reading this right, (IF), they left out that one glaring statistical difference.

So this is comparing the "colleges" which are represented on TV by girls in pajamas?
Ohhh. never mind.

Ha!

They do a lot of hand-holding. Students have come here (and to my old job) and said "Why won't you do my FAFSA for me....Clown Colleges Of Central Western Ohio did!"

Well, we don't. We do offer workshops 4-5 times a month to assist you, but we think that...as a college student...you could take responsibility for this. I've often wanted to offer to also go to class and do their homework for them. Hence the point about better retention through less mediation...which can be expanded to, ahem, different standards.

And they make grand promises, and appeal to bright-eyed bushy-tailed pajama girls, and take every dime of any grant or loan they might get. There has to be a reason a person would spend 4-5 times the price of a community college, for instance, for credits that will never transfer. If they decide to further their education down the road...have fun taking all your classes over.

Now, there are some who do what they say. Offering my overall opinion of their place in this country would not be fair, really, but I see the waste they leave behind all too often.

And SOMEBUDDY is gettin' rich.

I just don't see them as comparable. I thought those "colleges"
were like payday loan places. YMMV

I have to be careful of libel. ;)

One of the newer clown colleges just called, the guy yelling at my cow orker to release the student's information to him or else.

No, thanks for thinking of us though. You can get that information from the fed websites or you can have the student give us the form consenting to have that information released to you.

"But but but FERPA..."

You can play fast and loose with FERPA if you want, but it's our policy to err (not that we're erring) on the side of caution. (And honestly, I have no trust in these places and wouldn't release my hair color to them if they asked.) And how do we know who is really on the other end of that phone line?

"There is a form available 'here' which you can have the student sign and send it to us."

"But but but I don't have a way to print!"

Effing WHAT?

The FA community is a wonderful group of people, many are long time employees, 25-30 years. We help each other and we understand the difficulties. We understand that offices have processes and while we may not agree with a policy we respect it and do things appropriately. The majority of us are highly ethical. Often we have to confer with others on interpreting the regulations. We network. We do the best we can for the student but all the while walking that line of what we are and are not allowed to do.

Enter Clown Colleges, more corporate greed and hiring people who don't have a clue and there is no one to train them because they don't have a clue either. I can't believe they aren't subject to even more audits and such than they are. I don't think ethics are a huge part of their mission statement.

These students are attending these schools on YOUR TAX DOLLARS.

Clown colleges have been making my life miserable this year...and I've been doing this crap for 10 years. WTF?

Eh, so much for libel. Of course, I don't say which ones are clown colleges and which ones aren't.

But what a freaking asshole. :headshake

I first read this "underserved" as "un-deserved" not "under-served". I thought it should have been "un-deserving". I have met students of both types. :D

Underserved and undeserved: The service is lousy and the portions are small.

A working hot tub is installed on the roof of the University of Michigan. By whom and why is a mystery.

http://www.annarbor.com/news/student...igan-building/

caveat emptor -

In high school, one of the hazing activities of Seniors was selling tickets
to the Freshman to the swimming pool on top of the school's auditorium

So funny! I love the hot tub gag, and how fun was it to mess with freshmen?

One of our tricks was to walk down their hall and talk to each other (acting like they weren't even there/couldn't hear us) that the Air Force Band was surprising us that day so don't bother using study hall to do your 8th and 9th period homework.

Yes, we did get visits from the AF band that the students didn't know about.

We all need a visit from the hot tub fairies!


That doesn't sound right......... Sheldon?

I had a hot tub
But I left it all behind
With the house and the yard
Got soakin' on my mind.

My new song for (oh hell, what's her dumb name?OH...) Shania Twain

Need to soak that man outta my skin
Need a new tub with some bubbles in....

*at this point the cat starts howling along....*

It's like musical day, because you 'minded me of another favorite of mine

I'm gonna wash that man right outta my hair...

If his eyes get dull and fishy,
When you look for glints and gleams,
Waste no time,
Make a switch,
Drop him in the nearest ditch!
Rub him out of the roll call,
And drum him out of your dreams
Oho! Oho!

Don't know if anyone else remembers No More Lonely Nights (Sir Paul McCartney)
I dedicate this song to Infi.
And Dennis Nilsen.

I can wait another day until I flush you
I've only got your heart in my sink and kidneys in my gutter
But another carving night (and another and another)
Might take forever
I only have a single candle flame
It's all the same to you love
Now you know, what it means, to feel fright

No more lonely nights, never be another
No more lonely nights
Got you sealed in tight
Day or night you're always there

and here's one for Bieber:

When I was just twenty three
The hot tub fairy came to me
oooooooooh.

When I first saw the story about the news anchor who was bit in the face by a mastiff I thought "don't put your face in an unknown dog's face" but I know I'd likely do the same thing...he seemed to enjoy being petted, seemed content.

What I like about this story is the woman holds no animosity towards the animal. She calls it an accident, is happy the dog is home with its owners, and just wants to move on.

That right there is one classy lady.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/465118...er-blamed-dog/

Sorry, complete opposite reaction.
Dangerous animal. If it can injure that much, that quickly, it might do so again.
She's like a beaten wife who thinks it's all her fault.

Obviously God saved her this time, but we know God has a shaky track record on consistency.

I'm sure she feels eactly how her publicist tells her she should........ :right:

Yeah, well, naysayers. Here's my take:

1) Dangerous dog? Perhaps. I have made my opinion of some breeds known. The dog didn't chase her down and bite her face off. She made an error. A scared dog, even yappy little snot nosed ones, will bite your face off. I'm more scared of a snappy little chi-hoo-ah-hoo-ah I once knew.

2) Her faith in god? What the fuck do I care? That negates the fact that she is a positive person who chose to let this go? Not prima donna (ring a bell?) her way around shouting about her face (like so many tv personalities would) and demanding dog death.

3) Meh. Bitter is bitter. Batter is better. Butter fucking in the mouth is best.

4) Bite me. See what I did thar?

ok. this story made me say "What?!?! THE Fuck?!?!?!?" not only did this idiot jump once and fail? (from the second story mind you....) he did it again! and failed. then the cops show up and tazed then he died. guess he got what he wanted. a ticket to eternal nap time. sheeze.

moron

Please. Someone help me. I watched this video, and now I can't find my brain.

um Coriolis effect? this guy's just trying to stir the pot. i'm only 5 mins into this but am watching the rest.

ETA: interesting. took me back to my glory days of racing motocross & supercross, my love of aviation (the guy flying the helo was damn good with his stunts), but wow. yeah, V, i think my brain is lost too.

I suppose that telling that guy that the first scientist to demonstrate Earth's rotation was Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, a French scientist, in 1851 is only going to add fuel to the fire...

There is no French in the Bible so SHUT UP!

No WASP either, so...

by god you're right!

I miss my brain.

I was just playing there... watch the video if you dare. I mean helicopters *and* Jesus say the earth isn't spinning. Come on. How can you stand against that kind of evidence?

:lol2:

I can't see germs, so they aren't making me sick. It must be evil spirits.

Cause of the infant's death? "Disseminated herpes simplex virus Type 1, complicating ritual circumcision with oral suction."

What is this I don't even.

Oy Vay. Wrong in so many ways.

Maybe the dingo infected your baby's dingle.

Yeah. I'm against that. ©Brianna 2011

MSNBC
3/6/12

AP reports a 24 year old Sri Lanka man has died while trying
to set a new record for being buried alive the longest.

The Darwin gene must be recessive.

Ok folks, turns out there was a third tablet with five more commandments.

ZenGum, genius.

Here's my wierd, ior...at the very least fucking depressing, news. From a couple of days ago:


Aside from the fact that he's a sponging twat, who adds to the general anti-benefits atmosphere, leading to unnecessary crackdowns on single mums who've made a few quid on the side to be better able to clothe and feed their kids, he did this so his wife and step daughter could have boob jobs??

This blioke has read way too many murder mysteries, I'm thinking.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/benefits-ch...222517966.html

He's going to have time to read a whole lot more, too, I reckon.

What a silly man.

The court should order his wife to reenact Lady Godiva's ride as restitution to the taxpayers.

The tabloids will probably pay them for it.

Which can be taxed to repay the treasury.

Perfect.

:lol2:

Reading this article reminded me of the time I was in an actual for real buggy versus car accident. I was in the buggy, but was unhurt. We were going slow.

Wait, you were Amish? Did you know Flint?

I didn't know Flint back then. And really, does anyone know truly know Flint? Even today?


This was on my honeymoon in Hawaii. We had taken a buggy tour of a valley, and the driver got us into an accident with a van.

The road was narrow, and the van pulled far over to let us by, but it was still a tight squeeze. The mules threaded their way past the van, and as soon as it looked clear to them, they bolted forward. But the buggy was wider than they were, and the buggy scraped all along the side of the van as the mules pulled it forward.

The buggy driver was screaming "Fuck! Fucking mules!"

I didn't laugh at the time, but to this day, I still smile at the memory. And just saying "Fuck! Fucking mules!" will elicit a chuckle from my wife.

I have a picture, because the buggy driver made us get out while he unhooked the mules and led them down the road a bit and then disengaged the buggy from the van's bumper.
Attachment 37887

Great story!

I love those kinds of things: where a phrase that really means something in relation to you and your 'other', and to nobody else, and just saying it cracks you up.

I used to have: The cushions! You're ruining them!

Earless celebrity rabbit squashed to death at media event.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-1...-death/3893558

:eek:

Darwin strikes again.

Eared rabbits can hear such footsteps of doom.

I was driving home last night and 'fuck! fucking mules!' popped into my head and I laughed out loud while rolling on the floor. Well, rolling down the road, anyway.

Diarrhea! (clap, clap)
Diarrhea! (clap, clap)
When you're rolling like a tire and
Your guts are on fire
Diarrhea! (clap, clap)

I told the kids the fucking mules story at dinner last night. And I said that we normally don't use that word, but if they are ever driving a buggy and the mules pull it into a van, it's perfectly ok to break out the F bomb with lots of gusto. That's what it's for.

Awesome! :)

"Fuck! Fucking mules! How you get up there?" ;)