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water rat

Joined: 30 Aug 2014 Posts: 1098 Location: North Antarctica
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esl_prof

Joined: 30 Nov 2013 Posts: 2006 Location: peyi kote solèy frèt
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Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 2:04 am Post subject: |
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He added: “Your income levels will match the middle class college graduates that work 50 hours a week and do overtime until they die.” And Chaisiri wrote: “So go forth and teach English, you lazy guy!” |
Perhaps in some parts of the world this is true but certainly not in the States. |
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santi84
Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 1317 Location: under da sea
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Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 2:07 am Post subject: |
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I wish. |
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AGoodStory
Joined: 26 Feb 2010 Posts: 738
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Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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Ha, ha! Great thread title, Water Rat! I thought it was going to be a request for job leads for the "smart, but lazy," which might have been very entertaining! (Article is total junk, as you obviously know.)
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esl_prof

Joined: 30 Nov 2013 Posts: 2006 Location: peyi kote solèy frèt
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Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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Of course teaching is for the lazy! College instructors here in the U.S. are in the classroom only 12-15 hours per week, 30 weeks/year, yet they earn a full-time salary. Yep! Smart and lazy they are. |
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johnslat

Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 13859 Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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Um, isn't everyone who's really smart lazy, too?
"As Kierkegaard once said, ‘Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good’ "
"I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy."
"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
And let's not forget, laziness is a great motivator:
"I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble."
"All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness."
Lazily,
John |
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Sashadroogie

Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 11061 Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise
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Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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Wasn't Descartes supposed to be so lazy that he invented his co-ordinate geometry to avoid having to slog through Euclidean theorems and proofs etc?... |
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water rat

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Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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Didn't the truly intelligent computers in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy have to be persuaded to calculate anything? Because being genuinely smart they didn't want to do anything? |
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MuscatGary
Joined: 03 Jun 2013 Posts: 1364 Location: Flying around the ME...
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Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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An ex - boss of mine used to give me strange assignments. Eventually he told me that his father had taught him that the best way to find the easiest solution to a problem was to give the problem to the laziest man available! |
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