Yeah, OK.DiamondGypsy said:Dude, stop begging for a nick-change.
Kinda mixed blessings with the two name changes there.
Never mind.
Yeah, OK.DiamondGypsy said:Dude, stop begging for a nick-change.
Sander said:Goddamnit, Wooz. I must've shown this article a thousand times already:
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/presidents/george-w-bush/
Bush is not dumb.
Sander's article said:Bush made a month-long excursion to China while his father was stationed there, which the New York Times summed up as "trying to date Chinese women (unsuccessfully) during a visit to Beijing in 1975."
Big_T_UK said:Firstly, I'm not Jebus.Kharn said:...What Bush did: sat around for a while, before wandering off and not coordinating much of anything, from what I hearJebus said:And how crucial were those minutes?
...Or sheer hard work (in Branson's case, not Bush's).
Ehh...have you read anything else on rotten.com? Rotten.com's library is one of the most anti-republican parts of the 'net. I do know which articles I seek out as a basis.Geez Sander, I didn't expect you to trust one single article this much. They kind of contradict their own statement about Bush's average to above-average IQ with the quotes at the bottom of the page. This could be Republican propaganda, you should read other things before flashing the article like it was some kind of holy text.
No, sheer hard work is not enough to get somewhere. As I said, you'd need luck, skill charisma or something else as well. You'll never make it "just" by working hard.
But you can't count on luck or charisma. That something else is the will to go far.
I'm basing my thing on the fact that I heard that Richard Branson was supposed to be dyslexic.
Sander said:
What are you people, completely blind?
If the will to go far was all you needed, I'd be seeing a lot more mason-millionaires, you know.
*sigh*Rak The UnDead said:I'm basing my thing on the fact that I heard that Richard Branson was supposed to be dyslexic.
I doubt it. Most people are too lazy to work 18 hour days seven days a week. Maybe you misunderstand just what I meant by "hard work" in this case. Meh, certainly I'm too lazy to work that hard.Sander said:If the will to go far was all you needed, I'd be seeing a lot more mason-millionaires, you know.
Big_T_UK said:*sigh*Rak The UnDead said:I'm basing my thing on the fact that I heard that Richard Branson was supposed to be dyslexic.
Dyslexic does not equal stupid.
Dude, a "B" is good. An "A" grade is supposed to be excellent. Except in the British system, where they seem intent on giving everyone an "A".RAKTHEUNDEAD said:Of course, it seems so easy to get an A, in comparison to Ireland, where Bs are good marks for a lot of people.
Dyslexia doesn't equal stupidity, but it certainly says "disadvantage"
Yep. But I still almost got straight D's in Grade School in English because of Spelling. Not to mention math...Karkow said:Dyslexia doesn't equal stupidity, but it certainly says "disadvantage"
That’s not true. I think it’s even an advantage. It’s kind of hard for me to talk about it, since I’m bias, but I almost never studied, since this “condition” gives me a great ability to visualize, which made me have excellent grades only by attending the classes.
I'm not sure that you can seriously blame your failure in Maths on dyslexia. Unless your exams relied heavily on word problems.ConstipatedCraprunner said:Not to mention math...
Surely you've had the math teacher with the inflated sense of how important her job is? No "math is a language" thing?I'm not sure that you can seriously blame your failure in Maths on dyslexia. Unless your exams relied heavily on word problems.
Yes, it's a diffirent way of looking at the world. Then again, it's nowhere near autism (which actually is'nt a disadvantage, at least not inherintly, save in the whole empathy department). Like Krakow said, it's looking at the world through images. Alot of fascinating people are/where dyslexic. It's not like Autism, where the only way you can deal with something is in meticulous order. and start clawing at you're veins because you did'nt get to K-Mart at 3:30 on Saturday.Seriously, dyslexia is like Autism (although to a much lesser degree). It usually manifests itself as an inability/difficulty to understand the written word, but it's really a different way of looking at the world.
They're already starting to move away from here, actually.Big_T_UK said:And Rosh, Yeah, most of America's "poor" jobs will soon be in Eastern Europe and India.
Okay, that does it, I give up.doubt it. Most people are too lazy to work 18 hour days seven days a week. Maybe you misunderstand just what I meant by "hard work" in this case. Meh, certainly I'm too lazy to work that hard.
And Rosh, Yeah, most of America's "poor" jobs will soon be in Eastern Europe and India.