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  • IndyTom

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    'You're giving us money, free tuition and healthcare, but we demand more and are going to hold our breath until we ... need to take another breath.'
     

    indiucky

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    "Yale men..Pfffttt..."
     
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    HoughMade

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    Unionized grad students? I don't think they quite understand the concept of a labor union or a trade union as they neither labor, nor have a trade.
     

    OakRiver

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    Hunger strikes were once an effective tool because it was the only way for the truly marginalized to effectively protest, especially as it highlighted their desperation. Now that it is a technique used by those who have plenty of other avenues of recourse so it just looks like a publicity stunt.
     

    2A_Tom

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    • $30,000 stipend
    • Free health care
    • $40,000 free tuition

    These babies are throwing a tantrum because they have always been told how important they are, and they are they are the future professors of the institutions that will be burned down by their students.
     

    indiucky

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    I don't think they quite understand the concept of a labor union or a trade union as they neither labor, nor have a trade.

    Whoa there Barrister Judgmental McJudge.....Their jeans sure look like they're hard working folks...

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    Oh wait...Never mind...

    And Mike Rowe's response...
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    April 24 at 1:22pm ·







    This morning, for your consideration, I offer further proof that our country’s war on work continues to rage in all corners of polite society. Behold the latest assault from Nordstrom’s. The “Barracuda Straight Leg Jeans.” http://bit.ly/2oYpyBn
    Finally - a pair of jeans that look like they have been worn by someone with a dirty job…made for people who don't. And you can have your very own pair for just $425.00.
    Here’s the official description, from their website.
    “These heavily distressed medium-blue denim jeans embody rugged, Americana workwear that's seen some hard-working action with a crackled, caked-on muddy coating that shows you're not afraid to get down and dirty.”
    On the positive side, Nordstrom’s isn’t purging their shelves of work-related imagery, like the owners of Monopoly did when they replaced the wheelbarrow with a rubber ducky. They seem to value icons work. What they don’t value - obviously - is authenticity.
    I understand the appeal of buying broken-in jeans. I mean really, who has time these days to wait for a pair of jeans to naturally fade? I also understand the different cuts. Might as well get something that fits and feels comfortable. But they lost me years ago with their various stages of “distress.” The stone wash and the acid wash the rinsed wash and the bleached wash... And they really lost me when they started tearing holes in them on purpose.
    I saw a pair of jeans at Macy’s the other day that looked like they’d been bathed in boric acid, hung up and shot multiple times with a twelve-gauge, and then pounded on a rock down by the river. They too, were on sale, for $249.00.
    But forget the jeans themselves for a moment, and their price, and look again at the actual description. “Rugged Americana” is now synonymous with a “caked-on, muddy coating.” Not real mud. Fake mud. Something to foster the illusion of work. The illusion of effort. Or perhaps, for those who actually buy them, the illusion of sanity.
    The Barracuda Straight Leg Jeans aren’t pants. They’re not even fashion. They’re a costume for wealthy people who see work as ironic – not iconic. To them, might I suggest the revolutionary new "Borax Wash," which I discovered some years ago while rescuing birds who had the misfortune of falling into Searle’s Lake in the lovely and picturesque town of Trona.
    If Nordstrom’s wants to carry them, the description would read something like this:
    “Finally - a pair of jeans for the hard-working gent who doesn’t want to actually wear them. The Borax Wash is so rugged and so manly, they don’t even need a human to hold them up! So sit back and relax, secure in the knowledge that your work pants can’t be folded or stored like other jeans. Show the world you mean business by owning the only jeans that can’t be worn! The jeans, that can stand on their own!”
    $600 - only at Nordstrom.
    Mike
     
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