"If you like really want to get something, then you have to work hard for it,"

Why, @studegator?

 

Sounds like a great kid

 

Better hope he hasn't read some of the threads you started.

 

Can't you just put "young people suck" or "down with socialism" or "get off my lawn" in your signature?

Trying to use this anecdote to draw controversy is patently lame.

 

In fact, it's even worse than I mentioned before. You're using a positive anecdote to make an commentary against the negative. That is shameful.

 

Good OP.

I’m shocked that a conservative poster would actually hire a young black man due to the ….wait for it…content of his character. Just truly shocking, I say.

An attorney friend of mine says she steers away from young, male attorneys for her firm because she finds their work ethic appalling. Says, in general, young women are much more motivated.

 

Interesting to equate walking six miles with character. If a man walks six miles to shoot up an elementary school, does he have high character?

I am confident many children would walk the six miles for a gratifying ceremony. Just as confident that many of y'all hard working adults wouldn't.

What a ginormous nothing burger

 

Well, this thread went well ...

 

The kid had a goal and he followed through to achieve it. Small sample size to be sure; but, it provides some insight in that he has motivation.

My biggest takeaway from your post is that I get a reaction for a “ginormous nothing burger”. That’s AWESOME!!! Can’t wait to hear your response when I post something of substance.

 

Figured it would eventually turn into a troll thread on how kids today suck. Entirely not true but people love to believe they had it harder than others and worked harder than others.

 

My apologies. I was implying opening post is the nothing burger. Not the story on the kid being acknowledged but the attempt to make him a prop as proof that other people are lazy and the "world is changing and we're doomed".

Sorry dude.

 

You have to understand, when Studegator was a teenager, he had to walk six miles to school every day, uphill, and his walk home was 7 miles, and that was also uphill. And it was snowing and over 100 degrees outside, at the same time, and doberman pinschers chased them the whole way there and back, so it was an all-out sprint. But they didn't complain, because they were goal oriented. Because they didn't have fancy buses that lazy good for nothing kids enjoy these days -- his town only had one bus, and they only let senior citizens ride it, not because it was a rule or a law, but because people respected their elders back then. Not like today, with their rap music and their baggy Trousers. He wore belts back then to school, and if you forgot your belt, the principal would trash you with a 2x4 with a nail in it for 7 full minutes, and we liked it that way, because if you ever forgot your belt, it would be the last time you did, boy howdy. That's why he can appreciate a story like this when he sees it, even though this kid is only 1/10 of what he was when he was younger...

 

Sadly par for the course. I can’t see the posts that are clearly ridiculous. But can only imagine...

 

Sad…

 

Make you sound so smart when you put it that way.