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Parents, and the dumb shit they like to say.
Metzger Meister
It Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered User regular
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As they overhear my brother and I complaining of boredom: "WHY DON'T YOU GUYS DO SOME YARDWORK, THAT'D GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO DO, HUUUUURRRR."
"Do as I say, not as I do." Way to set an example.
"Your face'll stick like that if you make that face again!" Really? Interesting.
What are some things your parents said that never made sense to you?
Edit: Racial prejudices are also fair game.
"Do as I say, not as I do." Way to set an example.
"Your face'll stick like that if you make that face again!" Really? Interesting.
What are some things your parents said that never made sense to you?
Edit: Racial prejudices are also fair game.
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edit "clean your room!" she always says but I'm all whatever mom
''No, if I had homeworks I would do them right now. ''
''Are you sure?''
''Yes.''
''Okay.''
1 hour later
''Do you have homeworks?''
''No... I told you one hour ago.''
''Oh, okay.''
ETC ETC ETC
My parents always repeat themselves
Everyone's parents had silly sayings and shit.
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they don't say dumb shit
what
dude fucking what
Yeeeeeeah. My dad's a pretty fucked up dude.
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STEAM!
Well, Neo-Nazi to be precise. And it's only developed within the last 5 or 6 years since my parents divorced.
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Is... is your mom Jewish?
lmao. No, she grew up and remains Christian.
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Also, my dad dropped dead in the kitchen, that's pretty stupid I guess.
was this a shot at me
No. No of course not. I loves the cut of your jib.
Also, my mom likes to say Heavens to Betsy when she's exasperated.
h5, fatty
well played
This is the correct answer.
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I have my moments.
Also, my mom claims to enjoy the music of Eminem, but wonders why he curses so much.
What?
My Mom told me to eat my food, because there are children starving in the world. I told her then pack it up and send it to them, because I don't want to eat it. She told me it would spoil before it got there so clean your plate.
That's what I say about everyone I ever saw in the North Quad at my alma mater.
But that's what I do if I'm bored. I mean there's not much point in doing housework and shit when you want to go out is there?
Satans..... hints.....
heh they are good at math aren't they
They aren't good at engineering. We have fired the last three that have tried to work here.
Satans..... hints.....
and im decendant from greek and norway
thats right, spartans AND vikings
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well I'm a descendant of nazis and vikings
Generally speaking being good at math doesn't mean you're good at engineering.
A lot of the time engineering requires creative thinking, which Chinese-educated Chinese people (as opposed to those who have been educated in the States or elsewhere) generally lack thanks to the academic structure of primary and secondary education in this country.
It is about memorization and direction. There's no such thing as a real research paper, you just answer the question based on what the textbook tells you... you don't go researching a creative answer to a complicated question. Hell, even the workforce here won't solve a problem unless a solution is handed to them by their boss. You can tell them to get to X, but they will hesitate to budge unless you approve the formula first.
It's changing now thanks to the prevalence of foreign companies and the changing academia in the country, but it's changing very slowly.
Creative thinking and being proactive are virtually nonexistent in local companies as the tendency is you know what why am I even typing this I just got out of a meeting and I have work to do it's not like you are reading this anyway.
Creative thinking and being proactive are virtually nonexistent in local companies as the tendency is to simply wait until your boss tells you what to do because he likes to be in control. It is driven by a fear of making mistakes and a fear of being reprimanded in case your ideas do not coincide with those of your boss's.
No, this is not thanks to communism you fucking stupid people. This is simply thanks to how Chinese people, for the past thousands of years, have viewed positions of authority. You do not question them, you simply believe that they know what they are doing. Part of this is driven by the fact that that if something goes wrong, you are not to blame, that person of authority is, and that makes you feel safe and unaccountable.
A big piece of Chinese culture is about being as unaccountable as possible in the event of something going wrong. Historically speaking, risks are bad. (Hell you can even see this in the way people view the stock market here... in the past, they would not invest in high-risk stuff for fear of losing big. They'd rather keep the money under their mattress instead of in a bank, even. It doesn't help that over the past 200 years alone China saw such instability in the government, which translates into economic instability, that they don't even trust the banks.)
This attitude is changing because China in general is realizing that you can't win big if you don't risk big. Of course, that translates into the simple fact that people are taking such big risks without fully understanding what they stand to lose... kinda like a see-saw effect, where everyone looked at one extreme and then suddenly plowed into the other extreme just because they saw it work for someone else.
But I digress.
Case in point, creative thinking is actually down-played in the local workplace owing to a fear of being held personally responsible if something goes sour.
Plus, the people who actually have an affinity for being creative and proactive generally get headhunted into the foreign offices, because that kind of mentality is much more welcome in such a workplace, leaving the local companies with their old-school workers.
To be fair, this is not a bad thing per se, because if you have a good boss who knows what he's doing, the company will inevitably come out ahead, as workers will work diligently to meet their boss's goal and accommodate his or her stipulations. A wishy-washy boss or leader cannot win in the Chinese (or really, any other) workplace.
Of course, having a boss with no fucking clue what he's doing... yeah, well, that's your risk, isn't it... that the guy you put in charge is just a raging idiot with a loud mouth and iron fist.
On the flipside, a boss who can maintain authority while properly delegating responsibility through appropriate channels will win big no matter where he is (China or otherwise), and this is a balance that most Fortune 500 and other multi-national companies have long since learned owing to international experience and long operating histories. Chinese companies are young, but they are slowly realizing that creative thinking and being proactive are things to be encouraged (to an extent), not reprimanded.
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