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FearlessF · « **Reply #532 on:** March 12, 2019, 11:57:19 AM »

Quote from: ELA on March 12, 2019, 11:53:30 AM

So this academic bribery thing, now pulling in Hollywood actresses? Problem is they went cheap in their bribes. You offer the school a couple million, they'll let your kid in. Hell, I know kids who get into Michigan from my HS for less. But these people just paid a few thousand dollars to the right people, and now are facing real charges.

don't know anything about this, but would assume, you pay some $$$ to be accepted, then need to keep paying to actually gain the desired degree. Cause if yer kid wasn't smart enough or didn't work hard enough to get accepted, they probably would struggle to gain the degree?

betarhoalphadelta · « **Reply #533 on:** March 12, 2019, 12:23:28 PM »

As I've said in another thread, I came up with a saying:

Offense can never be given, it can only be taken.

Essentially, no matter what someone says to you, it is YOUR CHOICE whether to be offended. There are people in my life who have the power to offend me. I for years had a very thin skin with my father, and he knew how to get under it. If my wife said something really mean and hurtful to me, I would be truly and deeply hurt, because I am emotionally open to her.

For just about everyone else in the world, I think it would be ludicrous to allow anything they say to affect my mental state. If someone says something "offensive" to me, that's their choice. I don't have to let them offend me, though. I don't have to let their negativity make me negative. I don't give them the power to determine how I feel.

I don't understand people who wield themselves being offended as a weapon, given they have entirely the power within their own mind to control it.

ELA · « **Reply #534 on:** March 12, 2019, 01:10:26 PM »

Quote from: FearlessF on March 12, 2019, 11:57:19 AM

don't know anything about this, but would assume, you pay some $$$ to be accepted, then need to keep paying to actually gain the desired degree. Cause if yer kid wasn't smart enough or didn't work hard enough to get accepted, they probably would struggle to gain the degree?

Eh, you have to work to do well in college, but I think you have to actively try to fail out. The kids I know who actually failed out partied too hard, got into drugs, or had other emotional issues with being on their own for the first time.

MarqHusker · « **Reply #535 on:** March 12, 2019, 01:25:27 PM »

I'm reading the FBIs complaint in this case. Incredibly sophisticated and reckless scheme at the same time. Flying kids around, faking academic and athletic profiles , bribing college coaches, rigging tests. The wiretap excerpts are great reading.

FearlessF · « **Reply #536 on:** March 12, 2019, 02:02:43 PM »

my google phone says that the world wide web is celebrating it's 30th birthday!

God bless Tim Berners-Lee

ELA · « **Reply #537 on:** March 12, 2019, 02:07:59 PM »

I was happier when I thought everyone agreed with me

betarhoalphadelta · « **Reply #538 on:** March 12, 2019, 02:14:47 PM »

Quote from: ELA on March 12, 2019, 02:07:59 PM

I was happier when I thought everyone agreed with me

Yeah, there are stages.

Happy because you think everyone agrees with you.
Unhappy because you realized that not everyone agrees with you.
Happy again because you're too old to give a sh!t what anyone else thinks anyway.

#3 is what you're aspiring towards ;-)

FearlessF · « **Reply #539 on:** March 12, 2019, 02:23:19 PM »

I'm THERE!!!

Riffraft · « **Reply #540 on:** March 12, 2019, 02:30:21 PM »

Quote from: bwarbiany on March 12, 2019, 12:23:28 PM

As I've said in another thread, I came up with a saying:

Offense can never be given, it can only be taken.

Essentially, no matter what someone says to you, it is YOUR CHOICE whether to be offended. There are people in my life who have the power to offend me. I for years had a very thin skin with my father, and he knew how to get under it. If my wife said something really mean and hurtful to me, I would be truly and deeply hurt, because I am emotionally open to her.

For just about everyone else in the world, I think it would be ludicrous to allow anything they say to affect my mental state. If someone says something "offensive" to me, that's their choice. I don't have to let them offend me, though. I don't have to let their negativity make me negative. I don't give them the power to determine how I feel.

I don't understand people who wield themselves being offended as a weapon, given they have entirely the power within their own mind to control it.

My dad always said if someone rubs you the wrong way it was because you had something to rub. God is just using them to smooth out your rough spots.

Cincydawg · « **Reply #541 on:** March 13, 2019, 11:30:50 AM »

Kitchen update: The counter tops are in. The back splash apparently was measured before the electrician put in an outlet strip below the cabinets.

They may have to recut the back splash (which is quartz).

The wife and I went to a sushi place we had not tried before last night and sat outside, it was a beautiful evening. The food was decent. It gets a bit pricey over time.

FearlessF · « **Reply #542 on:** March 13, 2019, 11:41:37 AM »

most decent sushi places are overpriced - even here in the low cost of living zone

ELA · « **Reply #543 on:** March 13, 2019, 11:52:12 AM »

Quote from: MarqHusker on March 12, 2019, 01:25:27 PM

I'm reading the FBIs complaint in this case. Incredibly sophisticated and reckless scheme at the same time. Flying kids around, faking academic and athletic profiles , bribing college coaches, rigging tests. The wiretap excerpts are great reading.

The big time college sports tie in here is that one of those arrested was the guy in charge of college entry exams at IMG. Wouldn't think any of the schools who recruited these kids would be in trouble here, but could put those kids eligibility in jeopardy. The out could be, once again, the kid having no idea, except here it seems easier, since it appears the director was changing answers himself. The parents obviously knew in the cases where it was due to bribery, but I'm guessing an investigation is forthcoming to see if he was doing it for other kids, to keep them eligible for IMG, or to prevent them from having their recruiting harmed by being an academic risk. In those cases, it's quite possible he was doing it for the benefit of IMG, or himself (probably tough to keep your job if IMG's elite athletes are bombing their SATs), and it's quite possible nobody but him ever knew.

Cincydawg · « **Reply #544 on:** March 13, 2019, 11:52:59 AM »

This place had "happy hour" pricing before 7 PM so it wasn't too bad. Their hot sake was only $3 for a small carafe, which is way less than normal.

We also tried tempura shrimp and fried rice. There is a place we'd have to drive to called "Eight Sushi" which apparently we're told is really something.

847badgerfan · « **Reply #545 on:** March 13, 2019, 11:59:01 AM »

Pretty funny read from Rex Huppke in the Chicago Trib today.

Hello wealthy person or celebrity whose name I will not say on an unsecured phone line. Welcome to Rex Huppke’s Highly Ethical and Totally Legal College Admission Consulting Service.

I’m sure you are feeling spooked by the recent federal charges against wealthy parents who were involved in a wide-ranging bribery scheme that helped their children get admitted to prestigious universities. That entire investigation is obviously a gross miscarriage of justice. I’m sure you’ll agree, the world is filled with mundane “regular” people, but elites like yourself are rare and your children must be given every opportunity to succeed or at least pretend to succeed.

That’s probably why you’ve come to me. I want to assure you my services are entirely above board and will not result in you being arrested like actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin and other people caught up in the Justice Department’s wrongheaded “Operation Varsity Blues.”

At Rex Huppke’s Highly Ethical and Totally Legal College Admission Consulting Service, there will be no bribing college officials or rigging entrance exams. No, I would never use such words. I prefer to describe my work as a simple exchange of ideas, with my idea being a guarantee that your not-particularly-bright offspring will attend one of the nation’s finest universities and your idea being $1 million that you will wire to my bank, which happens to have just moved to the Cayman Islands.

It’s all very legal and very cool.

So let’s get started!

First off, I don’t want you to answer any of my questions out loud, just in case federal investigators are recording this conversation. There’s certainly no reason they would be, since everything we’re about to discuss is extremely legal, but in this day and age, one can’t be too careful about rogue investigations.

Let’s begin by focusing on some of the things your highly qualified and academically gifted son has accomplished. Let’s say your son is on the varsity soccer team and has been scouted by a coach from Yale University. Don’t respond to that, please, we’re just going to say it because I feel quite confident it’s true. Your son is now on the varsity soccer team and has been scouted by Yale. What’s funny is that while we were talking just now, I remembered I’m close personal friends with the men’s soccer coach at Yale and forgot his most recent birthday, so I wired him $100,000 because I’m a generous friend. Isn’t that a weird and legal coincidence?

Anyhoo, back to your kiddo.

Has he ever traveled to Puerto Rico to help build homes for hurricane victims? No need to answer that! I have a photo right here that shows him hanging drywall next to other humanitarian workers in one of the more impoverished parts of Puerto Rico. What’s really funny is that your son’s face in this Puerto Rico photo looks almost exactly like it did in that photo you emailed me for no reason, the one where he’s standing outside a boutique on Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles laughing at a homeless person. It’s almost as if it’s the same photo!

Another weird and completely not illegal or unethical coincidence!

Has your fine prodigy ever traveled to space? Because that’s something people in the college admissions biz call “a talker.” Sure would be nice to add, don’t you think?

I’ll take your silence to mean that your child did travel to space to perform zero-gravity cancer research on a private craft owned by one of your uber-wealthy friends who will definitely confirm said research if contacted by a university official. Great. We’re making real progress.

Just one more thing. Your child needs to take the SAT at his high school on April 3. Upon arrival, he should give his high school identification card to Nelson Farthington, an extremely bright classmate who has twice gotten a perfect score on the standardized test. He will be there for no particular reason. After giving Nelson the ID, your child should leave and go shopping for about three hours to celebrate how well he is going to do on the SAT that he definitely took himself.

That’s about it for the moment. I know these are scary times for wealthy people who want nothing more than to make sure their children are recognized for doing amazing things they claim to have done.

It’s sad that some in this country want to get in the way of the success your child is owed. Once I very legally ensure that your child has been placed in a prestigious university, I hope he will use that education to make the world a better and more fair place for the wealthy. Because, at the end of the day, isn’t that what really matters most?

Thanks for your time. I will email a new phone number when we need to speak again, as this phone will be ethically destroyed immediately after we hang up, which is a totally normal and legal business thing for me to do.

Stay strong!

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