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Wear wristwatch? Use e-mail? Not for Class of '14
ap ^ | Aug 17 | DINESH RAMDE

Posted on 08/17/2010 8:57:37 AM PDT by JoeProBono

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- For students entering college this fall, e-mail is too slow, phones have never had cords and the computers they played with as kids are now in museums.

The Class of 2014 thinks of Clint Eastwood more as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry urging punks to "go ahead, make my day." Few incoming freshmen know how to write in cursive or have ever worn a wristwatch....

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: academicbias; adoptsocialismnow; change; classof2014; communismkills; generationy; indoctrination; internetmeme; pravdamedia; revisionisthistory; trends
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1 posted on 08/17/2010 8:57:38 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

Few incoming freshmen know how to write. Period.


2 posted on 08/17/2010 9:00:21 AM PDT by Gapplega
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To: JoeProBono

I haven’t worn a wristwatch for over 10 years.

I might would wear one as a status symbol or fashion accessory.

But I’m a guy. Not into that metrosexual stuff.


3 posted on 08/17/2010 9:02:13 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)
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To: Gapplega

4 posted on 08/17/2010 9:03:39 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: Responsibility2nd

bttt


5 posted on 08/17/2010 9:04:38 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: JoeProBono
When I entered college, I was writing programs on cards.

A useful skill, it taught me to type carefully.

6 posted on 08/17/2010 9:06:21 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Responsibility2nd
I haven’t worn a wristwatch for over 10 years.

It's been 3 years for me.

It's nice to have my left wrist as tan as my right, but that's not the reason.

However, we all will live by e-mail for the foreseeable future.

7 posted on 08/17/2010 9:06:32 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: Responsibility2nd

Metrosexual is checking your cell phone for the time not checking your wrist.


8 posted on 08/17/2010 9:06:52 AM PDT by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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To: Responsibility2nd

A watch is metrosexual? How do you tell what time it is when you’re outside and don’t have n electronic device with you? Do you carry a sundial?


9 posted on 08/17/2010 9:07:14 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different)
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To: Gapplega

Beloit does this every year. Always very interesting. (And it will make you feel old.)

http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2014.php


10 posted on 08/17/2010 9:07:24 AM PDT by newheart (History is an outbreak of madness--Ellul)
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To: JoeProBono

There’s something wrong with my new cell phone....there’s no dial tone.


11 posted on 08/17/2010 9:08:32 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: JoeProBono

Here some stuff the Class of 2014 will experience.

1. Owe $300,000 as their share of National Debt.
2. Experience long term unemployment.
3. See America slip to 2nd place economically to China.
4. Have a lower standard of living compare to their parents.
5. Depend on the Government for livelihood and wellbeing.
6. Never be able to own a house.

Thanks Obama!


12 posted on 08/17/2010 9:09:09 AM PDT by PanzerKardinal (Some things are so idiotic only an intellectual would believe it.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

13 posted on 08/17/2010 9:09:27 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: dirtboy
When I entered college, I was writing programs on cards. A useful skill, it taught me to type carefully

And how to kill time at the pub while waiting for the techs to put your printouts in your bin.

14 posted on 08/17/2010 9:10:55 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Compact Theory)
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To: PanzerKardinal

7. See the establishment of Sharia law in parts of the United States and Europe.


15 posted on 08/17/2010 9:11:19 AM PDT by PanzerKardinal (Some things are so idiotic only an intellectual would believe it.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Not into that metrosexual stuff.”

That has nothing to do with wristwatches!

It’s for keeping time!


16 posted on 08/17/2010 9:11:23 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: newheart
65. They first met Michelangelo when he was just a computer virus.

Wrong. They first met Michelangelo when he was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.

17 posted on 08/17/2010 9:12:34 AM PDT by newheart (History is an outbreak of madness--Ellul)
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To: Gapplega
Few incoming freshmen know how to write. Period.

Sadly, neither do outgoing seniors.

18 posted on 08/17/2010 9:12:54 AM PDT by CitizenM ("Do you miss me yet?" Yes, George, we do.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Metrosexual???

I wear a plain watch WITH HANDS and can tell time with a quick glance ;no need to free one hand ,flip open a phone and all that true metrosexual flashiness.My job actually specifies a watch as one of the necessary,required tools .

19 posted on 08/17/2010 9:12:59 AM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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To: stuartcr; wilco200

Sorry. Didn’t mean to offend.

Keep wearing those Bulova’s and Timex’s. Nothing metrosexual about them.

My original post referred to watches worn as a status symbol or fashion accessory.

And why wear an unnessary watch? 95 percent of your time is spent with a cell phone, a computer monitor, house clock, car clock, TV clock and/or etc....


20 posted on 08/17/2010 9:15:26 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)
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