food for thought

[Guest tintgod]

Bill Gates turned 50 on , 10/18. I should have been a nerd in

high school.

Love him or h@te him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! To

anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice.

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they

did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good,

politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no

concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the

real world.

Rule 1 : Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will

expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You

won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your

Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it

opportunity.

Rule 6 : If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine

about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they

are

now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes

and

listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you

save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try

delousing (getting rid of lice) the closet in your own room.

Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but

life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and

they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer.

This

doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off

and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do

that on your own time.

Rule 10 : Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually

have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

[oldtinter]

Good stuff.

[blade]

good stuff

[blade]

I posted my reply and went to read it and I was reading OTs

[oldtinter]

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Nice reply by the way blade.

[TintDude]

Words to live by

[Guest tint rookie]

sooo the truth...

to bad mankind does everything in its power to get away from truth.

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[Guest SIR TINTSALOT]

wish I would have been a nerd in high school! was too busy chasing chicks and ditching class

[TINT]

those commments are for those who feel bad for themselves and are losers.