Minimum Wage

[Ser Clegane]

A word of advice to everybody:

Tune down a little bit - about half of the posters here use a very broad brush to make statements that could be considered quite offensive (and reek of almost unbelievable arrogance):

Gay. The milatary is not just a 2 million dollar loan. I doubt its even that much the milatary is a decsion that takes away years of your life and within itslef dosent pay that great. So stop making wild accusations and go back to the sandbox

And as for the community college- bull****

And you can't freakin spell you hick,

Or something for very little. So every person who works a turd job should be given a "living wage" just because they breathe and trudge to their worthless job every day? Those who are unskilled are replaceable.

Some people are stupid. Sad but true. Join the police (you have to be VERY stupid for them not to take you), or perhaps the Army - there are options out there.

The next post of this "quality" will lead to and a "present" for the poster

[rory_20_uk]

In the UK there was a recent outcry that to be accepted by the police required LESS than the attainment required for 5Cs at GCSE. Considering that applicants are several years older and still unable to perform at this low level IMO makes them "stupid". Therefore the police is a suitable career.

The Army "In general, there are no specific requirements for GCSE or A Level passes" Again, I submit to you that someone who is "stupid" can still find employment in the Army.

If the demographics of the population's IQ is plotted, there will be some who are extremely low. Stupidity is a term for people of low IQ. People will low IQ have always been present, and I find that this is a fact, as well as an unfortunate one. Hence "sad but true".

My strokes with the brush were broad, but so was the topic. I hope that the evidence above can show that my comments were applicable to the situation.

[Ser Clegane]

Considering that applicants are several years older and still unable to perform at this low level IMO makes them "stupid". Therefore the police is a suitable career.

So people who do not meet certain intellectual standards are are now called "stupid"? What's next? "village idiot"?
I guess some people here will again bemoan a perceived excess of political correctness - I doubt however, that those who you chose to call "stupid" will share this sentiment.

The use of the trem "stupid" in this context indeed reeks of arrogance and is - IMHO - not acceptable.

[_Martyr_]

In fairness to Rory, I dont think he meant Stupid in a bad sense, if you check the dictionary the first definition for Stupid is " Slow to learn or understand; obtuse." To be honest, if someone cannot achieve C's in an accademic test set for children a few years younger than the minimum age recuirement for the armed forces, then they ARE infact slow to learn... No? Thats not meant in a derogatory manner.

[rory_20_uk]

Fair enough, I can accept your view. Personally I feel the need to find ever more cringingly worded terms to point out something is as you state PC gone mad.

Village Idiot is a specific person in a village. Therefore it can not rightly be used to refer to a group of people.

The term "does not meet certain intellectual standards" is vague to the point it is meaningless, as well as being very longwinded.

Is "intellectually below average" allowed, or is that arrogant as well? Come to think of it, what context would you allow the term "stupid" to be allowed?

IMO, terms are sanitised until finally all meaning has been sucked out of them.

No person likes to have a negative term placed upon themselves. All of us have failings and faults. I fail to see why we should studiously avoid some and yet at the same time be allowed to imply others are arrogant - surely people being referred to as arrogant don't like that either.