VHMPrincess

blkgirlblogging:

str8nochaser:

the-terrific-kid:

onehoney:

stephieluv:

Introducing our new game called:
“Don’t Be A Di*k During Meals With Friends.”
The first person to crack and look at their phone picks up the check.
Our (initial) purpose of the game was to get everyone off the phones free from twitter/fb/texting and to encourage conversations.
Rules:
1) The game starts after everyone has ordered.
2) Everybody places their phone on the table face down.
3) The first person to flip over their phone loses the game.
4) Loser of the game pays for the bill.
5) If the bill comes before anyone has flipped over their phone everybody is declared a winner and pays for their own meal.
Variations/house rules:
-Starting the game after everyone is seated.
-In the rare event that multiple people flip their phones simultaneously, the bill is split between said players.
- Feel free to invoke penalties/strikes systems.
Notes:
- No touching or messing with anybody else’s phones.
- You don’t have to stack the phones. This was done for picture taking purposes.
- I realize I should perhaps think of a different name for this awesome game. Because I don’t mean to imply that everyone who checks their phone during meals is a di*k.
- I recommend not being such a stickler or hardass on people about the rules and even initiation of the game. Basic premise is to just get people open to the idea of staying active and attentive to one another. But if someone has to take a call; they have to take a call =).
- Have fun! It’s really more of a fun concept in this new age high tech life of ours. Conversation is the spice of life.
They all have iPhone’s then a nokia.

Sweet idea

YES!!!!

Hell. Let’s start with just me and my husband, shall we?

awesome game

str8nochaser:

the-terrific-kid:

onehoney:

stephieluv:

Introducing our new game called:

“Don’t Be A Di*k During Meals With Friends.”

The first person to crack and look at their phone picks up the check.

Our (initial) purpose of the game was to get everyone off the phones free from twitter/fb/texting and to encourage conversations.

Rules:

1) The game starts after everyone has ordered.

2) Everybody places their phone on the table face down.

3) The first person to flip over their phone loses the game.

4) Loser of the game pays for the bill.

5) If the bill comes before anyone has flipped over their phone everybody is declared a winner and pays for their own meal.

Variations/house rules:

-Starting the game after everyone is seated.

-In the rare event that multiple people flip their phones simultaneously, the bill is split between said players.

- Feel free to invoke penalties/strikes systems.

Notes:

- No touching or messing with anybody else’s phones.

- You don’t have to stack the phones. This was done for picture taking purposes.

- I realize I should perhaps think of a different name for this awesome game. Because I don’t mean to imply that everyone who checks their phone during meals is a di*k.

- I recommend not being such a stickler or hardass on people about the rules and even initiation of the game. Basic premise is to just get people open to the idea of staying active and attentive to one another. But if someone has to take a call; they have to take a call =).

- Have fun! It’s really more of a fun concept in this new age high tech life of ours. Conversation is the spice of life.

They all have iPhone’s then a nokia.

Sweet idea

YES!!!!

Hell. Let’s start with just me and my husband, shall we?

awesome game

paying bills sucks.

inthefade:

ninety9:

placesweusedtogo:

faganchelsea:

youngmanhattanite:

faganchelsea:

sofaloveseat:

Amen.

THIS IS THE BEST EVER

Oh go fuck yourself. THIS ISN’T ABOUT COLLEGE LOANS.

No, I will not go fuck myself. I agree that there are real problems to be addressed, but I’ve seen too many people holding up signs about how they are drowning/forcing their parents to drown in debt for their liberal arts degree from a microscopic college and somehow equate that to real injustice. Anyone who piggybacks on the actual problems in America to justify their astronomical loans to get useless degrees should be ashamed of themselves.

This sign is a response to those, and a very smart one. One that should be heard and appreciated.

Says a white girl who studies in Paris and “writes” for Thought Catalog.

“This sign is a very smart one, because it happened to me”

Who the fuck are you to determine what degrees are useless? Is there some master list out there that tells us which degrees allow you to bitch about astronomical student loans and which don’t? Do film majors get to bitch? Journalism? Literature? Or is your education only “useful” if you become a doctor or an engineer? Do any of the signs out there actually say “I am drowning in debt and I majored in 18th Century Poetry Depicting Ocean Life at Teeny Tiny University” or are you just assuming that because they’re involved in a protest they must all be majoring in something useless?

If you don’t think you are part of the 99% then you don’t really understand what OWS is all about. I’m not sure if I fully support the movement and even I understand that it’s not about just about student loans and living beneath your means.

However, if you were looking for an opportunity to be smug about your ability to make it on your own and brag about how fucking awesome you are, congratulations. You found it. Now shut up.

BUT There ARE notes that say (There are lots that say what their major is, or that they got multiple degrees):

I got a $75,000 degree in Global Studies and I can’t find a job!
I got FOUR degrees in SomeSortOfHistory and I can’t afford rent because no one will hire me.

SOME of those people DID make bad decisions - paying TENS of THOUSANDS of dollars for a degree that does not equate to a job (meaning people in THIS field are qualified to do THIS JOB right out of school) are kind of digging themselves in a hole. ALL of the sociology and psychology students I knew out of school worked RETAIL. And that was in 1995!

In 1991 I walked into my counselor’s office at Va. Tech and said - what is the highest paying major in the business school? THAT is the major I want. My father gave me these instructions when I left for school:

You get 4 years to get in and get out. NOT 5. NOT 6.
You WILL pick a degree that DIRECTLY equates to a job.
You WILL come home and work every school break and summers.
In high school I was not allowed to take fluff classes - while my friends took woodworking, etc., my dad enrolled me in PASCAL and keyboarding.

Now - TONS of the people on that blog have stories that aren’t about wasted money on a degree that doesn’t translate to a job. People where someone got sick. Someone had bad luck with a job. THOSE people I feel for and I want change for.

People that make dumb decisions, not so much.

And it’s not up to me to decide which degrees are useless as far as jobs. The market does that. If you don’t research THAT before you declare a major, it’s not MY problem.

Waiting for allergy shots is SO BORING

in the fade: This is the thing with every movement. You have people on the extreme... »

inthefade:

This is the thing with every movement. You have people on the extreme on one side who make their whole protest look silly and then you have people like this (you have to click the pic if you are reading from the dashboard), who make people opposing the movement look silly.

I’m somewhere…

WTF? Someone, somewhere is a GIANT MORON. The demands they want, will NOT lead to the outcome that have listed as the outcome - how can they NOT SEE THIS? Cutting military spending by 50% will NOT cause all the other nations to fall in line and magically become better places to live. SERIOUSLY? Do they think that is all that is standing in their way of having a good county.