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Originally Posted by Junkyard Donner
I just lost my job of four years. This has been the most trying year of my life.
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I'm sorry to hear that. You really seemed to love your job.
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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
I just won two academic medals and a scholarship for being the top student in my entire program!
I think I'll keep one on hand at all times to whip out arbitrarily in arguments. "You think Caesar invented the thumbs down? WELL MY MEDAL OF BRILLIANCE DISAGREES YEAHWHATTHATSWHATITHOUGHT".
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Originally Posted by Mr. Charlie
Gold stars, grades, marks out of 10, awards and medals, that's the stuff they use throughout our life to keep us stupid. If the medals came to you doing the things you wanna do and heading where you wanna go, that's wonderful by itself but, seriously, medals are nowt but an arbitary and meaningless confirmation of 'merit'.
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Congratulations on your arbitary and meaningless confirmation of being the best student in your entire program Pedestrian. If thats even something to be proud of.