HappyAndHomeless

If you think you'll be happier making more money, think again. The only difference from struggling is better Scotch.

Member Since 10/10/2013

  • HappyAndHomeless 11 years ago on Pantene Commercial Brilliantly Addresses Sexism In The Workplace

    Sure, and men and women are different physically and mentally… Why do you think women gravitate towards different professions than men and work less hours? They could choose not to but most don’t because the sexes are inately different. Don’t confuse equal opportunity with equal choice. Pay difference is most significantly due to choice, not discrimination.

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  • HappyAndHomeless 11 years ago on Pantene Commercial Brilliantly Addresses Sexism In The Workplace

    We are equal? If you are not 6’3″, we are not equal, and you’d ask me to get the flour down from the top shelf. Before reading your comment, I’d have gladly retrieved it for you. After reading your comment, I’d have told you to build a step stool so we’d be of equal height. I’ll be drinking beer sitting on the couch, have fun. And if you couldn’t build an effective step stool because your mastery of the cordless screwdriver and craftsmanship isn’t equal to mine, well, I guess there’s “equalism” to blame for your concussion.

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  • HappyAndHomeless 11 years ago on Pantene Commercial Brilliantly Addresses Sexism In The Workplace

    “Young American women are increasingly likely to receive pay nearly equal to their male counterparts, with earnings at 93 percent of men, a new study finds. Still, those women remain as pessimistic as their mothers and grandmothers regarding gender equality.
    A report for release Wednesday by the Pew Research Center paints a mixed picture. While women under 32 now have higher rates of college completion than men that age, the analysis of census and labor data shows their hourly earnings will slip further behind by the women’s mid-30s.
    That widening gap is due [mainly-my note] in part to the many women who take time off or reduce their hours to start families. Other factors cited in the report are gender stereotyping, discrimination, weaker professional networks and women’s hesitancy to aggressively push for raises and promotions, which together may account for 20 to 40 percent of the pay gap.”

    OOOOOKKKKKKKAAAAYYYYYY Also, other studies have cited in the 97% and higher percentile when looking at same profession, same company, same years experience, etc. For example, a much, much, higher percentage of women are likely to be on a reduced schedule, but otherwise when adjusting for hours, etc., make exactly the same. However, their contribution by default is notably less and suggesting that shouldn’t be a factor when considering promotions is, in fact, reverse discrimination.

    Non issue.

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  • HappyAndHomeless 11 years ago on A Bachelor's Guide To Planning Your Wedding

    Did you not read the title? The whole point was it’s YOUR wedding and you’re telling everyone how great it is to be in love (until you get divorced) with a presumably hot girl, and that’s exactly why every bachelor/bachelorette in attendance not guaranteed a night of epic sex doesn’t give a shit, because deep down they hate you in this moment.

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  • HappyAndHomeless 11 years ago on How I Found Out Santa Wasn't Real

    If you watched little buddha, you know, the one with keanu reeves, you’d know that it pays to be enlightened. The worst was having to pretend I believed in Jesus until I could get a job that had hours Sunday mornings.

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  • HappyAndHomeless 11 years ago on An Ode To Great American Beer

    That’s the glorious thing about cheep beer, you can drink a lot without getting all that drunk. Plus, it all takes you to the same place and I’d rather drink 8 ice cold bud heavys than labor through two triple hop IPAs that close in on 98.6* before you finish, any day. PS: let’s use its rightful name, Drunk Driver (also, Mario Kart 64 is the only way to go), and I WILL ace that jump on Koopa Troopa with no items every lap and crush the whole beer — namely because I’m seriously good at double fisting the controller and a beer.

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  • HappyAndHomeless 11 years ago on How I Found Out Santa Wasn't Real

    Hell, I started raiding my parents’ closet at age 7 to determine what I was getting so I could craft the perfect Christmas lists for my other relatives. Not to mention I created a pressure alarm that I hid under a rug and caught my dad red handed at 8 or 9. Some real home alone shit, thanks to those stupid science camps.

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  • HappyAndHomeless 11 years ago on An Ode To Great American Beer

    Still do, for the moment, I go every month or so to the store and buy them out (usually have 4-5 cases across the two close to work/home). I’m moving again though, may be at a loss in my new local. As I suspected, per the beer finder (http://www.shiner.com/find) I’m screwed, 77mi away. Sad times.

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  • HappyAndHomeless 11 years ago on An Ode To Great American Beer

    100% Agreed. Beer snobs are the worst, except when you bring nice beer (read: a case of Bud Heavy) to their beer tasting party and sit there smashing them one-by-one laughing internally at the idiotic wine-tasting-esque babble knowing you’ll still have half a case left for tomorrow’s football game.

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