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macgyver06macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
edited December 2007 in A Moving Train
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2007-12-10-ceo-cars_N.htm?se=yahoorefer


This is what they are teaching writers nowadays...to sell out and make comments like the article seen here.

i especially love the line ''the car you drive best represents your personality''


do these writers get paid by car dealerships or companies to write this stuff? does anyone know...
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    what does this have to do with college?
  • Indian SummerIndian Summer Posts: 2,296
    good writers don't need college.
    "It's all happening"
  • macgyver06macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    soulsinging wrote:
    what does this have to do with college?

    you have to click on the link and read the article.

    the link is the highlighted part of this thread and it takes you to a news story.. and i made this thread to talk about that article.


    thanks for your inquiry
  • scot88scot88 Posts: 217
    macgyver06 wrote:
    you have to click on the link and read the article.

    the link is the highlighted part of this thread and it takes you to a news story.. and i made this thread to talk about that article.


    thanks for your inquiry


    nice retort, except the article has nothing to do with college. as a matter of fact, i didn't feel like reading the boring article, so i did a search of the page. turns out the word "college" doesn't appear in the article at all. you loose.
  • macgyver06macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    scot88 wrote:
    nice retort, except the article has nothing to do with college. as a matter of fact, i didn't feel like reading the boring article, so i did a search of the page. turns out the word "college" doesn't appear in the article at all. you loose.



    wrong again grammar boy.... im tight..... you loose in skills homey
  • Kel VarnsenKel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    macgyver06 wrote:
    http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2007-12-10-ceo-cars_N.htm?se=yahoorefer



    i especially love the line ''the car you drive best represents your personality''


    You're not your job.
    You're not how much money you have in the bank.
    You're not the car you drive.
    You're not the contents of your wallet.
    You're not your fucking khakis.
  • scot88scot88 Posts: 217
    macgyver06 wrote:
    wrong again grammar boy.... im tight..... you loose in skills homey
    just admit that you made a lame ass thread and get on with your life. it's pretty simple, really.
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    macgyver06 wrote:
    you have to click on the link and read the article.

    the link is the highlighted part of this thread and it takes you to a news story.. and i made this thread to talk about that article.


    thanks for your inquiry

    i read it. there was no mention of college. it had to do with ceo's.

    so again, what does this have to do with college?
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    macgyver06 wrote:
    wrong again grammar boy.... im tight..... you loose in skills homey

    oh, i'd say you've got something loose alright.
  • melodiousmelodious Posts: 1,719
    soulsinging wrote:
    i read it. there was no mention of college. it had to do with ceo's.

    so again, what does this have to do with college?
    the answer to this question could lie in the lyrics of a song by steele pulse....".
    Cos it's time to settle the score
    The poor can't take no more
    Babylon rotten to the core
    The shitstem run by a whore

    We nah go bow come we settle the score

    .."

    maybe students should realize that it's their tuition fees, admin costs, etc and that YOU have more influence in the direction your acadamia veers...

    you pay the wages and support the direction...you are the core; and you make great strides. for today is what will mold the future...

    just a thought...
    all insanity:
    a derivitive of nature.
    nature is god
    god is love
    love is light
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    melodious wrote:
    the answer to this question could lie in the lyrics of a song by steele pulse....".
    Cos it's time to settle the score
    The poor can't take no more
    Babylon rotten to the core
    The shitstem run by a whore

    We nah go bow come we settle the score

    .."

    maybe students should realize that it's their tuition fees, admin costs, etc and that YOU have more influence in the direction your acadamia veers...

    you pay the wages and support the direction...you are the core; and you make great strides. for today is what will mold the future...

    just a thought...

    then perhaps he could have said that, instead of posting cryptic links, spouting self-aggrandizing bullshit half sentences, and then running out of here to hide rather than trying to debate or explain the merits of his views. but i suppose it's asking too much to expect that from macguyver. after all, we all know just how he likes to operate: try to pull something out of nothing (aka his ass).
  • macgyver06macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    soulsinging wrote:
    then perhaps he could have said that, instead of posting cryptic links, spouting self-aggrandizing bullshit half sentences, and then running out of here to hide rather than trying to debate or explain the merits of his views. but i suppose it's asking too much to expect that from macguyver. after all, we all know just how he likes to operate: try to pull something out of nothing (aka his ass).

    imagine a message board you like going to because it makes you think about thinks you normally wouldnt think about.. what a concept.
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    macgyver06 wrote:
    imagine a message board you like going to because it makes you think about thinks you normally wouldnt think about.. what a concept.

    think about thinks? im more than happy to think, i still see no connection between the thread subject and the article. perhaps im dense. why dont you step down off those lofty heights where your brain functions at a level superior to all the rest of us and share with us poor ignorant peasants your incredible wisdom and intellect? teach me, oh enlightened one, how to make connections that do not exist.
  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    soulsinging wrote:
    think about thinks? im more than happy to think, i still see no connection between the thread subject and the article. perhaps im dense. why dont you step down off those lofty heights where your brain functions at a level superior to all the rest of us and share with us poor ignorant peasants your incredible wisdom and intellect? teach me, oh enlightened one, how to make connections that do not exist.

    I'm missing the connect between this article and college.
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • macgyver06macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    mammasan wrote:
    I'm missing the connect between this article and college.


    the university psychology teacher says..of all things that can be obtained..a car tells you most about someones personality..

    this leads me to believe that the guy who said that actually believes this...or is this an add for oil...or vehicles??


    you mean to tell me my personality can be summed up because i drive a Jeep??


    your personality can be summed up by driving around in a ford fiesta???


    Dahmer drove an oldsmobile...should we be going after these people
  • melodiousmelodious Posts: 1,719
    why not try driving around with your feet!!!

    cheers to the pearl jam community...

    i still think that perhaps there is a link, you just have to view with an open heart...

    peace.

    ceo's do have a lot more to do with college than you would like perhaps to admit...the future lies in your hands...

    shake a hand; shake a hand.
    all insanity:
    a derivitive of nature.
    nature is god
    god is love
    love is light
  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    macgyver06 wrote:
    the university psychology teacher says..of all things that can be obtained..a car tells you most about someones personality..

    this leads me to believe that the guy who said that actually believes this...or is this an add for oil...or vehicles??


    you mean to tell me my personality can be summed up because i drive a Jeep??


    your personality can be summed up by driving around in a ford fiesta???


    Dahmer drove an oldsmobile...should we be going after these people


    While I don't think that you can summarize a person by the care they drive, I do believe that it does say something about them. Just like the clothes you buy/wear. They don't define who you are but they do tell people a bit about who you are.
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • Sludge FactorySludge Factory Posts: 976
    I drive a Pontiac Sunfire. I'm most definitely positive that it does not define my personality as it is not a car I chose to own, it was given to me as I didn't have any other means of transportation. It is just the one that happens to be available for my use. So, maybe it's possible that the car I would like to drive in my dreams might have some display of my personality, I think it is very ignorant to just assume that everyone driving a vehicle is driving something that represents their personality.
  • scot88scot88 Posts: 217
    Sludge Factory wrote:
    I drive a Pontiac Sunfire. I'm most definitely positive that it does not define my personality as it is not a car I chose to own, it was given to me as I didn't have any other means of transportation. It is just the one that happens to be available for my use. So, maybe it's possible that the car I would like to drive in my dreams might have some display of my personality, I think it is very ignorant to just assume that everyone driving a vehicle is driving something that represents their personality.

    but when you are a CEO, your vehicular options are not limited to a pontiac sunfire ;)


    ....anyway, i'm still trying to figure out what the article has to do with college.
  • Pearl Jam and toastPearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    It has to do with college because college writing basically teaches you to bullshit your way through anything - to write something which appears to have substance, relevance, and importance but does not. And that was some grade A bullshitting.
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  • flywallyflyflywallyfly Posts: 1,453
    soulsinging wrote:
    what does this have to do with college?

    He makes the connection in his opening remarks -- college and how writers are taught to write crappy articles like the one he linked. Read it again and apologize for rushing to be an ass.
  • Sludge FactorySludge Factory Posts: 976
    scot88 wrote:
    but when you are a CEO, your vehicular options are not limited to a pontiac sunfire ;)


    ....anyway, i'm still trying to figure out what the article has to do with college.

    Good point. It would've made more sense to me if I would've read the article first. I was at work though when I saw this post so I'll use that as my excuse. O_O;;
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