tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post3190566313588765564..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: Coming soon to a college perhaps near you (A CM playlet)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-47133143809139005012013-07-25T23:39:04.028-04:002013-07-25T23:39:04.028-04:00It must have been incredibly satisfying for the cl...It must have been incredibly satisfying for the clerk to hear you call him an asshole. Imagine if someone showed up to call our students assholes when they act like this. Gold medal for valor to Proffie Galore!!Bellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15686242633678466958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-22907423514152291762013-07-25T13:32:19.002-04:002013-07-25T13:32:19.002-04:00Thanks, everybody, for your comments and support. ...Thanks, everybody, for your comments and support. I was choking with frustration and knew that telling my husband would have resulted in his just telling me to mind my own business. Writing this instead was sweet catharsis.<br /><br />I talked to the desk clerk afterwards, apologizing if my engaging the guy had made things worse for her. She in turn apologized to me that the guy had treated me Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906546940408742913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-23072841654202471202013-07-25T13:08:42.966-04:002013-07-25T13:08:42.966-04:00Cassandra and Prof. Poopiehead have it on the nose...Cassandra and Prof. Poopiehead have it on the nose. And I am honored that my attempt at comedy merits a French deconstruction.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906546940408742913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-84478415798047927342013-07-25T08:22:54.414-04:002013-07-25T08:22:54.414-04:00Please, give me a break. This was a comic text. Co...Please, give me a break. This was a comic text. Comedy cannot exist without stereotypes because it is, ultimately, allegory. And the big-fat American is an allegory of unchecked and unvirtuous power, as the college professor is the allegory of clueless wisdom and the general of boisterours stupidity -- Pantalone, il Professore, il Capitano.French Professeurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08062264385792788503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-51093046633058358492013-07-25T01:24:02.502-04:002013-07-25T01:24:02.502-04:00This is a case where the lead-weighted pool cue is...This is a case where the lead-weighted pool cue is your friend.<br /><br />The large red-faced man sound like an American variation of the sort of mafiya sleaze that became the Russian Novii Rizhe; bossy pricks driving German SUVs, wearing badly cut suits of good material, $50k watch on the wrist, vacant-eyed hooker/girlfriend riding shotgun. Like an evil matryoshka doll, bullshit within Strelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660962615198939441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-36475400838861633382013-07-24T23:50:45.037-04:002013-07-24T23:50:45.037-04:00Yup, I was also picturing "large" as in,...Yup, I was also picturing "large" as in, you know, large. As in, tall, broad-shouldered, barrel-chested, etc etc with a physique that usually empowers one to "push their weight around" like a bully, if they're that kind of asshole. With the descriptor "large and red-faced", however, I am more apt to picture a British dude on holiday in Alicante or Benidorm, Prof Poopieheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00997969128824319914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-33734228306103683232013-07-24T21:59:03.270-04:002013-07-24T21:59:03.270-04:00Do you think they'd like to take a road trip t...Do you think they'd like to take a road trip to fiddle with the system in my building? <br /><br />Actually, we've got pretty good (and willing, and often apologetic) HVAC techs, too; we've just got a really old building that was scheduled to be gutted and redone several years ago, except the recession hit, and, besides, they had to build more fancy dorms and dining halls and gyms. Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-76930555426116305802013-07-24T21:57:01.798-04:002013-07-24T21:57:01.798-04:00Maybe it's because I'm a fat person short ...Maybe it's because I'm a fat person short enough that I'm unlikely to be called "big," even as a euphemism for my horizontal dimensions, but that never crossed my mind. I was picturing a male enough larger in one or more dimensions than some of the other key players in the drama for indications that he might lose control at some point (e.g. the red face) to be a bit Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-24879574312941895022013-07-24T17:37:02.798-04:002013-07-24T17:37:02.798-04:00I just love it when some young dipshit thinks he&#...I just love it when some young dipshit thinks he's my "customer". Because then I have all the room and reason in the world to prove to him what he really is: <i>my bitch</i>.<br /><br />StellafromSparksburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17584701718285662953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-70445765852870322092013-07-24T16:08:52.098-04:002013-07-24T16:08:52.098-04:00Here's the problem: The person behind the de...Here's the problem: The person behind the desk should have been empowered by management to just go ahead and make the man and his brat a reservation at another hotel.<br /><br />If they have no rooms available, and they do not intend to fix the a/c, and this guy is unwilling to be civil, then that part-time employee should have the authority to say, "Gee, sir, I am so sorry we cannot The_Mythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10621186404597424842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-67333903120072276482013-07-24T15:41:11.707-04:002013-07-24T15:41:11.707-04:00In case we ever needed to wonder where the student...In case we ever needed to wonder where the studentflakes learn it. Which, you know, we didn't.<br /><br />I work in financial aid, and parents frequently begin (begin!) a phone conversation with me by stating "I pay $60,000 a year for my child to attend your school, and I expect...". These parents' kids are inevitably polite and friendly to the financial aid office staff; ratherAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-1118713904478897832013-07-24T15:39:55.220-04:002013-07-24T15:39:55.220-04:00Really? That's what you take away from this st...Really? That's what you take away from this story? Nothing about the parent's behavior, or the student's? Really?<br /><br />--Jess, who is fat and has a higher-than-average sensitivity to fat-shaming, but...really?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-10656096197975054452013-07-24T14:00:28.407-04:002013-07-24T14:00:28.407-04:00Whatever would we do without the skilled crafts fo...Whatever would we do without the skilled crafts folks?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906546940408742913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-41307973234500072642013-07-24T13:52:31.499-04:002013-07-24T13:52:31.499-04:00He was large but not more overweight than most Ame...He was large but not more overweight than most Americans. He was red-faced, and his insufferable sense of entitlement was making his part of the world miserable. I predict his son will, too. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906546940408742913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-9019174738979640202013-07-24T12:21:20.334-04:002013-07-24T12:21:20.334-04:00Thankfully, my school employs some great guys in t...Thankfully, my school employs some great guys in the facilities department for our HVAC systems. If Junior ends up here, he will not sleep in a room warmer than 76 F. Problem avoided.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-14141833260139625902013-07-24T10:45:47.030-04:002013-07-24T10:45:47.030-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-36913487123924384212013-07-24T08:21:36.661-04:002013-07-24T08:21:36.661-04:00I bet they end up at my school. Fuck. I bet they end up at my school. Fuck. The Contemplative Cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02088570661592922436noreply@blogger.com