The local bookstopre put Sun-Tzu in the business section. They're lucky he isnt alive today or he's probably kick their arses about the place. I've decided I'm going to hit every business student I see tomorrow, just for that.
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I'm glad you're over there then, 'cause Reset's a business student, and he hits back. :twisted:
Quote from: ScribeThe local bookstopre put Sun-Tzu in the business section. They're lucky he isnt alive today or he's probably kick their arses about the place. I've decided I'm going to hit every business student I see tomorrow, just for that.
dude, putting sun tzu into 'business' could be considered a mis-file....but good strategy is good strategy and can be applied in numerous ways. i would think old sunny boy would admire someone who understood the concept of 'transfer of training'.
'cuz you don't appreciate the value of your basic skills until you're a thousand miles from home.
Quote from: ScribeThe local bookstopre put Sun-Tzu in the business section. They're lucky he isnt alive today or he's probably kick their arses about the place. I've decided I'm going to hit every business student I see tomorrow, just for that.
Oh, hell...looks like a new management fad is on the way.
Genghis Khan is going to feel all blue, again. They used him like a cheap whore in the 80s, and just DUMPED him.
Heartless. Totally heartless. WALL STREET, THOU ART FICKLE!
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dude, putting sun tzu into 'business' could be considered a mis-file....but good strategy is good strategy and can be applied in numerous ways. i would think old sunny boy would admire someone who understood the concept of 'transfer of training'.
'cuz you don't appreciate the value of your basic skills until you're a thousand miles from home.
Yes...you could see it that way. But then you get macho idiots doing Business degrees thinking they are acting like "warriors", and I end up wanting to give them a clip around the ear, or have a heart attack from my blood pressure.
Yeah like that whole "Power Tie" bullshit in the 80s.
"I'm tough! See, my tie is RED! Ooooh, scary!"
:lol:
Quote from: agent compassionYeah like that whole "Power Tie" bullshit in the 80s.
"I'm tough! See, my tie is RED! Ooooh, scary!"
:lol:
I think you just made Donald cry.
He won't be up to firing some reality whore tonight. :evil:
Quote from: ScribeThe local bookstopre put Sun-Tzu in the business section. They're lucky he isnt alive today or he's probably kick their arses about the place. I've decided I'm going to hit every business student I see tomorrow, just for that.
Perhaps a fellow Discordian had already been there and decided to do a bit of recreational re-stocking . . . ?
Quote from: Christ Raw V, KSCQuote from: ScribeThe local bookstopre put Sun-Tzu in the business section. They're lucky he isnt alive today or he's probably kick their arses about the place. I've decided I'm going to hit every business student I see tomorrow, just for that.
Perhaps a fellow Discordian had already been there and decided to do a bit of recreational re-stocking . . . ?
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
Not even close. Now, putting Sun Tzu in the Children's section...
Quote from: LMNONot even close. Now, putting Sun Tzu in the Children's section...
No...THE RELIGION SECTION.
:lol:
Quote from: LMNONot even close. Now, putting Sun Tzu in the Children's section...
:lol: :twisted:
I feel a trip to the bookstore coming on...
Quote from: GitMoI feel a trip to the bookstore coming on...
::cluck cluck cluck cluck::
:shock: Uh oh....
Quote from: agent compassionQuote from: GitMoI feel a trip to the bookstore coming on...
::cluck cluck cluck cluck::
:shock: Uh oh....
What's the use of dreaming up great gags, if you don't go out and DO them?
I think I'll also put L Borgia's biography in the DIY section. :twisted:
Quote from: ScribeThe local bookstopre put Sun-Tzu in the business section.
That's also where one of the chain bookstores (I forget if it's B&N or Borders) has decided Miyamoto Musashi's
The Book of the Five Rings should also go.
This one is *not* a prank or MF - I went looking through the history section, then the biographies section just in case, then finally broke down and asked someone, and they *pointed* me there, which is in fact where I found it.
Sad. :cry:
Just dont go there, Musashi is my personal hero, and when you read what he actually says about businessmen,(hehe) it almost makes up for it....
yeah scribe, i agree - doing A-level economics is a long way from warrior culture...lol..
musashi often gets chucked into business sections as well. in my local waterstones though it's in both 'martial arts' and 'mind/body/spirit'.
oh...did you know there's a new musashi bio out by kenji tokitsu? big think hardback monster :twisted:
Yeah? Im not surprised, Musashi did alot and started early (13 I believe). Kenji Tokistsu is a good writer too, I already have another of his books.
Quote from: ScribeYeah? Im not surprised, Musashi did alot and started early (13 I believe). Kenji Tokistsu is a good writer too, I already have another of his books.
But who would win in a fight? Musashi, or Sun Tzu?
Quote from: ScribeYeah? Im not surprised, Musashi did alot and started early (13 I believe). Kenji Tokistsu is a good writer too, I already have another of his books.
have you read 'ki in the martial arts'? that's the only tokitsu i have, but i did get into it....translation was a little lumpy though - japanese to french to english...lol..
Yeah, I have that, in places it is abit annoying, but I was surpised when I found out it was a 3 way translation...
Quote from: ScribeYeah, I have that, in places it is abit annoying, but I was surpised when I found out it was a 3 way translation...
i've just finished reading 'hara - the divine centre in man'...or something like that. written in the 1950s by a german guy trying to explain the eastern notions of 'hara'....again, good read but lumpy. take an inscrutable oriental notion, put it in german and then into english? poetry it aint....
Sun-Tzu and Musashi in the business section makes perfect sense, regardless of what the suthors might feel about being categorized as such.
hell, the reason I bought Art of War when I was 19 was to become a more effective drug dealer...pure dumb luck that it's even more suited to my current objectives. Also, the Japanese used to make their salarymen read the Book of 5 Rings and apply it's teachings to the business world, so it's only natural that the mouth-breathing americans would follow suit in a vain effort to play catch-up.
anyway, they don't really have a "subversion/revolution" section in Borders.
8)
True, but I'm
still going to kick the shit out of every business degree student I can tomorrow. They deserve it for being rubgy playing deadbeats anyway.
8)
Quoteanyway, they don't really have a "subversion/revolution" section in Borders.
I wondered why they gave me a funny look when I said my copy of the Communist Manifesto had no explosives index....