Could you be the victim of conspiracy theorists?

[CharleyH]

Svenska: either that or the art of bullshitting . . . spinning crap seems to be in high demand

 

[pop_54]

I blame my parents. They encouraged me to develop my intellect, to stand up for my believes, and to grow up to be a mature human being. The result is that I can design a website, read a 700+ - pages - book in 3 days, speak 4 languages, and create animated movies.
I can't, however, drink alcohol, watch documentary soaps, or pretend to give a damned about tabloids.

If only my parents had encouraged me to be an idiot, I would have been rich today.

Dear Svenska, you really are going to have to lower your standards a bit love. Go for the gutter press, join a tabloid, make it up instead of reporting it, only way to go darling, if you can't beat'em, join'em.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Ok they've gone, but no need to get off darling, well they might cum back

Love ya lucky

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I'm going to go undercover next time I apply for a job. I'm going to pretend to be a bimbo, like Ellenor.

 

[shereads]

I'm going to go undercover next time I apply for a job. I'm going to pretend to be a bimbo, like Ellenor.

I'd like to see a reality television show where the producers arrange a job for each contestant in a field for which they have no qualifications. The winner is the one whose co-workers/customers are the last to learn that Jane Doe is not a real interior designer, or electrician, or landscape architect...I know, it would be more fun if they had to impersonate surgeons or pilots, but the liability insurance would be prohibitive.

Journalist has been done already, by that fellow who nearly brought down The New York Times, and marketing executive is a no-brainer, so I wouldn't bother casting those roles.

"Consultant" is a good job to fake, Svenska. Nearly every unemployed person in advertising and marketing is a consultant. It says so on their business cards.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

I'd like to see a reality television show where the producers arrange a job for each contestant in a field for which they have no qualifications. The winner is the one whose co-workers/customers are the last to learn that Jane Doe is not a real interior designer, or electrician, or landscape architect...I know, it would be more fun if they had to impersonate surgeons or pilots, but the liability insurance would be prohibitive.

There is such a show about wedding coordinators. An engaged couple interviews three coordinators. One is a high dollar professional wedding coordinator and the other two are of other occupations. The couple has no idea and chooses whomever they like in the interview. I saw one episode at a friend's house and the couple chose a zoo keeper over the professional and it was hilarious. They fired the zoo keeper half way through and went back to the drawing board, decided on the professional and had a fabulous wedding. It's funny that they couldn't pick out the person who does it for a living over a zoo keeper, but they got it right in the end.

Imagine choosing a dentist this way...

~lucky

 

[RenzaJones]

There is such a show about wedding coordinators. An engaged couple interviews three coordinators. One is a high dollar professional wedding coordinator and the other two are of other occupations. The couple has no idea and chooses whomever they like in the interview. I saw one episode at a friend's house and the couple chose a zoo keeper over the professional and it was hilarious. They fired the zoo keeper half way through and went back to the drawing board, decided on the professional and had a fabulous wedding. It's funny that they couldn't pick out the person who does it for a living over a zoo keeper, but they got it right in the end.

Imagine choosing a dentist this way...

~lucky

or an obgyn lol

 

[minsue]

or an obgyn lol

*shudders*

 

[lucky-E-leven]

or an obgyn lol

Heaven forbid, Renza Ma! Please do not choose this method.



~lucky

 

[RenzaJones]

lol min if you go to my doctor it's hard to figure out if he's the doctor or just some stanger who walked in after you'd been onthe table/bed for thirty minutes trying not to move and crinkle that tissue paper stuff and hopping to god someone doesn't just open the door and to the wrong room. Then he comes in pokes around asks a few questions and he's gone, without so much as a altoid let alone dinner

 

[minsue]

lol min if you go to my doctor it's hard to figure out if he's the doctor or just some stanger who walked in after you'd been onthe table/bed for thirty minutes trying not to move and crinkle that tissue paper stuff and hopping to god someone doesn't just open the door and to the wrong room. Then he comes in pokes around asks a few questions and he's gone, without so much as a altoid let alone dinner

I don't know. I think I'd prefer that to those who try to make small talk while your feet are in the stirrups. No one ever seems to take the non-commital Hmmms as a hint to just shut up, hurry up, and let me out of these damned things!

 

[lucky-E-leven]

I don't know. I think I'd prefer that to those who try to make small talk while your feet are in the stirrups. No one ever seems to take the non-commital Hmmms as a hint to just shut up, hurry up, and let me out of these damned things!

And this doesn't seem conspiratorial to you?

~lucky

This is easier than I ever imagined....

 

[Guest]

 

[RenzaJones]

She's on to me.

or I'm just pretending to be

 

[Raging Whoremoans]

Keeping my mind blank: Reverse mind control.

Give them nothing to go on and I'm in complete control.

That is the end of thoughts for this session. (clearing mind of all thoughts and removing foil hat)

~ R W

 

[Svenskaflicka]

"I know you can read MY mind, boy - meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow..."
Homer Simpson

 

[Svenskaflicka]

"Consultant" is a good job to fake, Svenska. Nearly every unemployed person in advertising and marketing is a consultant. It says so on their business cards.

In Sweden, they're trying to re-school all of us into consultants. The unemployment agency offers a lot of courses on how to write resumes, budget proposals, and book interviews.
For people my dad's age, it seems very ridiculous to write Personal Letters and Resumes in order to apply for a job as a truck driver or a forest cleaner.

 

[SlickTony]

The biggest conspiracy I've noticed so far, is that all the stupid people get nice, well-paid jobs, whereas I have a meeting with the social office next week.

Of course, Svenskaflicka--that's just the way the world wags. The same way execs who can barely read their own e-mail get the top of the line computers while the people who really need them get dinosaurs and the last generation of software.

 

[HomerPindar]

I'm not paraniod. Paranioa is the fear that they are out to get you. I know they can get me anytime they want and don't have to work at it, so what is there for me to fear?

HomerPindar

 

[Boxlicker101]

I'm not paraniod. Paranioa is the fear that they are out to get you. I know they can get me anytime they want and don't have to work at it, so what is there for me to fear?

HomerPindar

I'm glad you're not a paranoid. I'm not either. The paranoids of the world are all plotting against me and are out to get me so us non-paranoids have to stick together.

 

[Raging Whoremoans]

I'm glad you're not a paranoid. I'm not either. The paranoids of the world are all plotting against me and are out to get me so us non-paranoids have to stick together.

What's a paranoid? Is that like an android?

~ R W

 

[CharleyH]

In Sweden, they're trying to re-school all of us into consultants. The unemployment agency offers a lot of courses on how to write resumes, budget proposals, and book interviews.
For people my dad's age, it seems very ridiculous to write Personal Letters and Resumes in order to apply for a job as a truck driver or a forest cleaner.

Its like the Stepford Wives, only its Bergman's version! Scary over there!

Yes, well try living here where these days they dump your CV because the word Master's doesn't appear. Hmmm, maybe P's suggestion for "Mistress Semiotica" can come in handy afterall, since all the dolts who hire would probably think it a rather intriguingly, look it up in the dictionary academic degree

 

[shereads]

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Originally posted by Boxlicker101
Sher! Do yhink Mindy could be one of **THEM**!! TOO? Or! Could you be on3 of **THEM**!! instead!!?
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I dunno, but it looks to me like someone, or something, else had control of your typing right then.

Lou

You're right!! Some mysterious alien influence seized control of my typing fingers just when I was in the process of exposing the whole plot!! Was it Mindy? Was it Sher? Was it both of thenm, maybe acting in cahoots with Doc M., or maybe with the Fanatically Unified Christian Kabal, sometimes known as FUCK? Is that too far fetched to consider? Probably but let's consider it anyhow.

Here's a scary thought: what if you are "them," and you've been taken over by your own thought-control invention? So now, you're controlling everyone's thoughts - and, purely by accident, your own thoughts as well - and you don't know why?

 

[Raging Whoremoans]

Here's a scary thought: what if you are "them," and you've been taken over by your own thought-control invention? So now, you're controlling everyone's thoughts - and, purely by accident, your own thoughts as well - and you don't know why?

That's not scary...

Traveling to Mars and finding out it really is just another big rock, now that's scary. (and costly)


~ R W

 

[shereads]

That's not scary...

Traveling to Mars and finding out it really is just another big rock, now that's scary. (and costly)


~ R W

Not nearly as scary as finding out it's a big eyeball.