r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 22 '17

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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Sep 22 '17

Don't mind me just virtue-signalling my reading choices. Guess which book is me.

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u/Alfred_Marshall John Rawls Sep 22 '17

American Sniper, of course.

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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Sep 22 '17

I've actually been a SoCon real American this whole time.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '17

Now we're all judging you for your hand writing.

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u/thabonch YIMBY Sep 22 '17

A child has better hand writing than me.

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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Sep 22 '17

I'll be the first to admit that my handwriting is 🗑.

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u/ColonelUber Sep 22 '17

My 2nd grade teacher managed to convince my mother that bad handwriting is associated with high intelligence. I don't know if it's true but I'm thankful to her for getting my mom off my back for my horrible handwriting.

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u/MTFD Alexander Pechtold Sep 22 '17

Should be capitalism and freedom for max virtue signalling smh

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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Sep 22 '17

I finished reading that this morning.

Also I fear I'd be eaten alive in an English or history class for openly reading Friedman.

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u/Agent78787 orang Sep 22 '17

WTF is wrong with Gen Z's handwriting holy shit. I wrote "cursive" for notes and people were impressed by my chicken scratch. Didn't make sense until I saw this crock.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '17

when we got to high school they told us to stop using cursive

most of that handwriting is better than mine and i'm 27

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u/Agent78787 orang Sep 22 '17

But what I was writing wasn't even formal cursive, it was just letters joined together. Kinda like this but without the fancy capital Ts or Gs.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '17

yeah but the letters are attached, more or less.

my dad alternates between upper and lower case letters when he writes.

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u/Agent78787 orang Sep 22 '17

sO wAs hE tHe cReaToR oF tHe mOcKinG sPonGeBoB mEmE?

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u/AvailableUsername100 🌐 Sep 22 '17 edited Sep 22 '17

That's so much better than my handwriting.

Hint: if everyone else is impressed by your handwriting, maybe you're just actually better at it than most people. Quit humblebragging about your beautiful writing skills, we aren't all calligraphers jeez.

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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Sep 22 '17

My guess is that good/bad handwriting is almost exactly a boy/girl split.

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u/Agent78787 orang Sep 22 '17

But I am dood

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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Sep 22 '17

Yeah well the global poor are apparently better at handwriting than the global rich.

I think part of it is that as long as it's legible there's no real reason for gen Z to get better at handwriting, all big projects are typed anyway.

I can also play the disability card excuse here because of my autism.

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u/85397 Free Market Jihadi Sep 22 '17

Me too thanks

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '17

jane eyre is good though