I was joking, and I paid for undergrand and graduate school myself without ever whining about money, or mommy and daddy not giving me enough, or that the government won't help me enough....boo hoo. I wrote checks, I paid cash, I never took a loan and I didn't even apply for scholarships, stipends, grants, or any other available government money because I was quite able to do it myslef. I am not from the "whine about everything and everybody owes me" generation. :laugh:
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Good lord... I have so much less respect for hicks...
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I was joking, and I paid for undergrand and graduate school myself without ever whining about money, or mommy and daddy not giving me enough, or that the government won't help me enough....boo hoo. I wrote checks, I paid cash, I never took a loan and I didn't even apply for scholarships, stipends, grants, or any other available government money because I was quite able to do it myslef. I am not from the "whine about everything and everybody owes me" generation. :laugh:
Zenmervolt
Elite member
And the 65% of people who "administered" the full "450 Volt, Deadly" shock levels to the "learner" in Milgram's experiment would have told you before the experiment that there was no way they would send 450 volts coursing through a screaming human being.
I don't mean at all to exonerate the manager, but the simple truth is that we as humans are highly suggestible and pretty easily cowed. It's sad and scary.
ZV
Connoisseur
Platinum Member
Good lord. I can't even have a derogatory opinion anymore. Pretty soon, the goverment will require us to all shave our heads and wear white scrubs. You know what, as a brown guy who grew up in an all-white town, I learned to have a sense of humor about my race and actually laugh at some jokes. Grow a funny bone for God's sake and stop taking things so seriously. OOOH! I called some random stupid southern people hicks. That MUST mean I hate all southerners and think they're ALL stupid!
Yep, from the manager on down it looks like Milgram. What get's me is that the manager accepted a person claiming to be a cop over the phone as an authority. IIRC the Milgram experiments were intended to test the "just following orders" defense from Nuremburg and other WWII war crimes trials - how far would an otherwise decent person go when ordered by a recognized authority.
Connoisseur
Platinum Member
True, but also keep in mind that, in Milgram, the shocker didn't get to see the victim. They only heard the victim. Also, there was usually a tester there that kept assuring the shocker that the victim was fine. Thin line, I know, but even if (by some ungodly reason) I went so far as to make her strip and saw her crying... that would be just about it.
Connoisseur
Platinum Member
And if I were her fiancee I would literally punch that manager... female or not. I'd probably get a kick or two in while she was on the ground.
Someday the whole tragic story of the mid 20th century hick trade will be told. Sold into hickdom for a little as a case of Dr. Pepper, lashed together into human rafts and floated to this country to be cruelly used as door stops and fence posts and local color; repeatedly tricked into undressing each other by strangers on the phone . . .
Connoisseur
Platinum Member
HA HA HA 😀
Zenmervolt
Elite member
There were variants of the Milgram experiments that had the "teacher" forcefully hold the "learner's" hand to the "electrode" while administering the shocks. IIRC all went to at least "150 volts" and a full 32% went the full "450 volts" even when they where in close physical proximity with the "learner".
I like to think I would never do anything like this myself, but I am not very keen on having my claim tested.
ZV
natto fire
Diamond Member
LOL, beat me to it. I was going to ask the people who were saying 'hick' was racist where hicks come from, or what religion they follow.
racist
adj 1: based on racial intolerance; "racist remarks" 2: discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion [syn: antiblack, anti-Semitic, anti-Semite(a)] n : a person with a prejudiced belief that one race is superior to others [syn: racialist]
Gunslinger08
Lifer
Didn't you get the memo? It's okay to be prejudice against white people.
When you have a post titled "Good lord... I have so much less respect for hicks...", you are implying just that. Have all the derogatory opinions you want, but a public forum is not the place for things like this. post the story, make fun of those hicks, whatever... I can deal with that. Saying that because of this you have less respect for all hicks is like me saying I have less respect for black people because they looked in New Orleans. White people looted too... non-hicks do stupid sh1t. They have nothing to do with each other. I have all the sense of humor I need, you just don't know where to draw the line.
Ricemarine
Lifer
QFT X2!
This is a very serious matter IMO.
Gunslinger08
Lifer
This is a repost, by the way. I remember threads about it back when it originally happened... 19 months ago.
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