OMG IM SO SORRY!

[Faust]

You don't deserve half the shit you are getting here, but god you are a weener.

[Faust]

And what do you need a second account (rfr62409) for?

[Payne]

It was after this post by Dok that he set it up (there weren't any others for about 5 hours after this post was made).

Trix, the question of whether attractive people receive preferential treatment has been explored in numerous studies, articles, and books. The answer is yes, they do.

http://www.economist.com/node/21526782

I am aware that it wasn't exactly a unique curiosity.  I was asking, specifically, of the people here.

Honestly, I was hoping, for once, to spark some creative responses.  When that failed, I decided to play along and poke the bear.  Even THAT failed.  I mean god damn, what's a brotha gotta do to get some action up in here?

Seriously?

You have to be a level 3 user.  Everyone else is just a chew toy.

Contact ECH for an application.

Dok,
Thinks you've been strung along long enough.

Maybe he thought that ECH likes virgins more?

[Cain]

And what do you need a second account (rfr62409) for?

I had wondered the same thing, but decided to activate the account anyway.

I am a curious fellow.

[Placid Dingo]

Trix, the question of whether attractive people receive preferential treatment has been explored in numerous studies, articles, and books. The answer is yes, they do.

http://www.economist.com/node/21526782

I am aware that it wasn't exactly a unique curiosity.  I was asking, specifically, of the people here.

Honestly, I was hoping, for once, to spark some creative responses.  When that failed, I decided to play along and poke the bear.  Even THAT failed.  I mean god damn, what's a brotha gotta do to get some action up in here?

Theres a standard answer to these questions. Its, 'of course I would react differently. I unlike everyone else on this planet am no slave to my psychological subconscious inclinations. At least I think so. Lol.'

[trix]

And what do you need a second account (rfr62409) for?

That isn't me.  Must be my roommate, though she didn't tell me she was registering here.

[Doktor Howl]

Trix, the question of whether attractive people receive preferential treatment has been explored in numerous studies, articles, and books. The answer is yes, they do.

http://www.economist.com/node/21526782

I am aware that it wasn't exactly a unique curiosity.  I was asking, specifically, of the people here.

Honestly, I was hoping, for once, to spark some creative responses.  When that failed, I decided to play along and poke the bear.  Even THAT failed.  I mean god damn, what's a brotha gotta do to get some action up in here?

Perhaps use correct spelling, like "brother" instead of "brotha"? Maybe then we could take you seriously?

But he's a special snowflake!  He's also white, male, and middle class!  Why you gotta put a brotha unda heel, TGG?  Why you gotta?  You sa bad nigga.

White, male, and middle class, eh?  Because you know me so well?

Obviously, my avatar gives you two out of three.  As for middle class, well, BRRRR guess again.

You know what they say about assumptions...

If you are in university, you are by todays standards middle class by definition.

[trix]

Trix, the question of whether attractive people receive preferential treatment has been explored in numerous studies, articles, and books. The answer is yes, they do.

http://www.economist.com/node/21526782

I am aware that it wasn't exactly a unique curiosity.  I was asking, specifically, of the people here.

Honestly, I was hoping, for once, to spark some creative responses.  When that failed, I decided to play along and poke the bear.  Even THAT failed.  I mean god damn, what's a brotha gotta do to get some action up in here?

Perhaps use correct spelling, like "brother" instead of "brotha"? Maybe then we could take you seriously?

But he's a special snowflake!  He's also white, male, and middle class!  Why you gotta put a brotha unda heel, TGG?  Why you gotta?  You sa bad nigga.

White, male, and middle class, eh?  Because you know me so well?

Obviously, my avatar gives you two out of three.  As for middle class, well, BRRRR guess again.

You know what they say about assumptions...

If you are in university, you are by todays standards middle class by definition.

Not that I entirely disagree with you, as nobody from my old neighborhoods ended up in college, but I don't really understand what you mean.

If I still come home after school to my poor run down neighborhood, still have an income that a McD's employee would laugh at, and still wear the same worn hand-me-down clothing I've had for half my life, how does that equate me to the suburbanites I go to school with, "by definition"?

[Cain]

Because you're assuming middle class refers purely to income when it also refers to education, social and cultural factors?

[Doktor Howl]

Not that I entirely disagree with you, as nobody from my old neighborhoods ended up in college, but I don't really understand what you mean.

This further confirms your middle classness. 

If I still come home after school to my poor run down neighborhood, still have an income that a McD's employee would laugh at, and still wear the same worn hand-me-down clothing I've had for half my life, how does that equate me to the suburbanites I go to school with, "by definition"?

Because you got to go to university.  How you got there is irrelevant.  You're there.  That's more than what most people your age have any hope for at all, and far more than your kids' generation will even dream about.

If you can enjoy a university education during the decline of the empire you live in, you are doing better than 50% of your nation, and are thus BY DEFINITION "middle class" at least.

[Triple Zero]

If you are in university, you are by todays standards middle class by definition.

Well if just by that definition, it kinda removes the "entitlement" smell of "middle class". Cause IMHO everybody should feel entitled to have the possibility of going to university. Even when it's not the case somewhere in the world. Otherwise nobody could complain about anything because the poor kids in Africa have it worse.

How much / whether this applies to Trix is another question, of course.

[trix]

Not that I entirely disagree with you, as nobody from my old neighborhoods ended up in college, but I don't really understand what you mean.

This further confirms your middle classness.  

If I still come home after school to my poor run down neighborhood, still have an income that a McD's employee would laugh at, and still wear the same worn hand-me-down clothing I've had for half my life, how does that equate me to the suburbanites I go to school with, "by definition"?

Because you got to go to university.  How you got there is irrelevant.  You're there.  That's more than what most people your age have any hope for at all, and far more than your kids' generation will even dream about.

If you can enjoy a university education during the decline of the empire you live in, you are doing better than 50% of your nation, and are thus BY DEFINITION "middle class" at least.

I see your point.  Anyone who graduated highschool, or can pass the unbelievably fucking easy GED test, can apply and receive Financial Aid and go to my school.  But yes, the fact that most of those I grew up with don't go to college, even though they could, makes your point.

Thanks for the clarification.  I never considered myself middle class before.  Does this mean I have to start hanging out at Starbucks!?

[The Rev]

Not that I entirely disagree with you, as nobody from my old neighborhoods ended up in college, but I don't really understand what you mean.

This further confirms your middle classness.  

If I still come home after school to my poor run down neighborhood, still have an income that a McD's employee would laugh at, and still wear the same worn hand-me-down clothing I've had for half my life, how does that equate me to the suburbanites I go to school with, "by definition"?

Because you got to go to university.  How you got there is irrelevant.  You're there.  That's more than what most people your age have any hope for at all, and far more than your kids' generation will even dream about.

If you can enjoy a university education during the decline of the empire you live in, you are doing better than 50% of your nation, and are thus BY DEFINITION "middle class" at least.

I see your point.  Anyone who graduated highschool, or can pass the unbelievably fucking easy GED test, can apply and receive Financial Aid and go to my school.  But yes, the fact that most of those I grew up with don't go to college, even though they could, makes your point.

Thanks for the clarification.  I never considered myself middle class before.  Does this mean I have to start hanging out at Starbucks!?

Some of us certainly did NOT have those options.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

There are a lot of kids of working-class parents who can't go to university because their parents can't pay for it and they don't qualify for financial aid because of their parents income.

The "anybody has that option" line is usually the first one that makes me assume middle-classness, because it's a pretty strong indicator that they have been sheltered from life experiences that would have showed them people who, for one reason or other, didn't have university as an option.

Community college, maybe.

[Doktor Howl]

If you are in university, you are by todays standards middle class by definition.

Well if just by that definition, it kinda removes the "entitlement" smell of "middle class". Cause IMHO everybody should feel entitled to have the possibility of going to university. Even when it's not the case somewhere in the world. Otherwise nobody could complain about anything because the poor kids in Africa have it worse.

How much / whether this applies to Trix is another question, of course.

I'm not discussing entitlement here, I'm discussing economic reality.  The age of university being an expectation is over, at least here in the states...Also, the education recieved is utter crap, outside of the technical skills needed to turn high school gradutates into smoothly operating cogs in the working world.