Ooooo look, another round of Millennials with an exciting app start-up that nobody will remember in a year's time. 

Susan G

jbowTwo blondes came up with it.

Hi Julien-


You don't think it's a good idea to rate people, but you kinda just did (a whole bunch of people.)
 
I think Peeple is a horrible idea and I hope it dies a swift death, but what on earth does the color of their hair have to do with it? That just perpetuates a tired old stereotype, IMO. I doubt you would have said "Two brunettes came up with it." The fact that they're blonde doesn't really add any relevant info; it's just a not-so-subtle dig at blondes. You didn't even bother to mention their gender either, apparently assuming it was self-evident. You do realize that there are blonde males, too, right?
 
I'm brunette, BTW ;)! I just don't think some stereotypes are OK while others aren't.
 
-Susan

They are probably brunettes with dyed hair, . BTW, I was a blonde when I was 16 but I wasn't a man or a woman... just a boy. A peroxide blonde boy, dorky... with RR tracks on my teeth.
I don't mean anything by it but apologize for the offense.
The only people you can joke about are WASPs... but IDK, I grew up when everything was fair game and no one really had a second thought about it. I was made fun of along with everyone else. I DID stop using the "N" word once I hit about 18yo and realized how offensive it is to some. I try to mind my manners... I guess listening to too much Neal Boortz and Dennis Miller didn't help, I don't know. Stereotypes really don't bother me unless they are said in a mean spirited way. I just don't think that way... am not PC at all and try to not be.
I'll be in the "old guy next door" category.  but I don't tell the kids to "Get off my lawn". I don't know, the Free Candy sing seems to scare them, I don't understand.
 
J

TheMaartian
I suspect we'll see comments like the following, taken from high school English essays:
 
1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
 
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underwear in a dryer without Cling Free.
 
3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
 
4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli and he was room-temperature beef.
 
5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
 
6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
 
7. He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
 
8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a surcharge-free ATM.
 
9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
 
10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
 
11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 instead of 7:30.
 
12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
 
Of course, those two blonds could be sly little foxes. Consider the following:
 
A blonde and lawyer are seated next to each other on a flight from LA to NY. The lawyer asks if she would like to play a fun game. The blonde just wants to take a nap, so she politely declines and turns to catch a few winks. The lawyer persists (as lawyers are wont to do) and explains that the game is easy and a lot of fun. He says, "I ask you a question, and if you don't know the answer, you pay me $5 and vice versa."

Again, she declines and tries to get some sleep. The lawyer, now agitated, says, "Okay, if you don't know the answer you pay me $5, and if I don't know the answer, I'll pay you $500." This catches the blonde's attention and, figuring there will be no end to the torment unless she plays, agrees to the game.

The lawyer asks the first question, "What's the distance from the earth to the moon?" The blonde doesn't say a word, reaches in her purse, pulls out a $5 bill and hands it to the lawyer. "Okay," says the lawyer, "your turn."

She asks the lawyer, "What goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four legs?" The lawyer, puzzled, takes out his laptop computer and searches all his references…no answer. He taps into the air phone with his modem and Google’s the internet…still no answer. Frustrated, he sends e-mail to all his friends and coworkers, all to no avail. After an hour, he wakes the blonde and hands her $500.
 
The blonde says, "Thank you," and turns back to get some sleep. The lawyer, more than a little miffed, wakes the blonde and asks, "Well, what's the answer?" Without a word, the blonde reaches in her purse, hands the lawyer $5 and goes back to sleep.

That's the funniest joke I have heard in a while, thanks.
 
You're right. Smart people will give a 5 star rating and comments like you put. It's like water, finds the easiest course and like everything, what could go wrong?
There are two laws at work here,
1: Murphy's Law, If anything can go wrong it will.
2: The law of unintended consequences. (Politicians constantly run into this law)... it is still OK to stereotype politicians? Right?
Don't ban me bro...
 
J

craigb

TheMaartian
I suspect we'll see comments like the following, taken from high school English essays:
 
1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
 
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underwear in a dryer without Cling Free.
 
3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
 
4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli and he was room-temperature beef.
 
5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
 
6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
 
7. He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
 
8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a surcharge-free ATM.
 
9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
 
10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
 
11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 instead of 7:30.
 
12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
 
Of course, those two blonds could be sly little foxes. Consider the following:
 
A blonde and lawyer are seated next to each other on a flight from LA to NY. The lawyer asks if she would like to play a fun game. The blonde just wants to take a nap, so she politely declines and turns to catch a few winks. The lawyer persists (as lawyers are wont to do) and explains that the game is easy and a lot of fun. He says, "I ask you a question, and if you don't know the answer, you pay me $5 and vice versa."

Again, she declines and tries to get some sleep. The lawyer, now agitated, says, "Okay, if you don't know the answer you pay me $5, and if I don't know the answer, I'll pay you $500." This catches the blonde's attention and, figuring there will be no end to the torment unless she plays, agrees to the game.

The lawyer asks the first question, "What's the distance from the earth to the moon?" The blonde doesn't say a word, reaches in her purse, pulls out a $5 bill and hands it to the lawyer. "Okay," says the lawyer, "your turn."

She asks the lawyer, "What goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four legs?" The lawyer, puzzled, takes out his laptop computer and searches all his references…no answer. He taps into the air phone with his modem and Google’s the internet…still no answer. Frustrated, he sends e-mail to all his friends and coworkers, all to no avail. After an hour, he wakes the blonde and hands her $500.
 
The blonde says, "Thank you," and turns back to get some sleep. The lawyer, more than a little miffed, wakes the blonde and asks, "Well, what's the answer?" Without a word, the blonde reaches in her purse, hands the lawyer $5 and goes back to sleep.

I'm afraid the above is of too high a quality for these forums. 

And I was thinking that even these forums are too high quality for these kinds of bots, trying to steal your personal information. Can't believe that people want to get sucked up into that, and sooner or later lose everything they have!

slartabartfast
 
Either this will have to be a fabulously unsucessful project, or someone is going to have to invent a robot that will be able to discriminate among some possibly pretty sophisticated sarcastic and personal comments, as well as determine that you are who you claim to be. Otherwise it would be way too much work for a couple of ladies who think you can reduce character to a scale of 1 to 5. This forum's robot couldn't even manage suspicious until recently.
 

Didn't the US government try something similar? using of 'social media' to find terrorist activities within the US (about 3-5 years ago)? Also, these intellectuals wanted some sort of software designed so that it could decipher sarcasm, jokes, seriousness etc....or something like that??
 
Maybe it was these 2 blondes?

 
This comic's inappropriateness seemed appropriate. 

jbow
They are probably brunettes with dyed hair, . BTW, I was a blonde when I was 16 but I wasn't a man or a woman... just a boy. A peroxide blonde boy, dorky... with RR tracks on my teeth.
I don't mean anything by it but apologize for the offense.
The only people you can joke about are WASPs... but IDK, I grew up when everything was fair game and no one really had a second thought about it. I was made fun of along with everyone else. I DID stop using the "N" word once I hit about 18yo and realized how offensive it is to some. I try to mind my manners... I guess listening to too much Neal Boortz and Dennis Miller didn't help, I don't know. Stereotypes really don't bother me unless they are said in a mean spirited way. I just don't think that way... am not PC at all and try to not be.
I'll be in the "old guy next door" category.  but I don't tell the kids to "Get off my lawn". I don't know, the Free Candy sing seems to scare them, I don't understand.
 
J

Hi Julien-
 
I missed the joke, probably because IMO there was nothing whatsoever in your OP that sounded remotely like a joke. It seemed to me that the tone of your post was quite serious and as I said, I agree with you re Peeple.
 
I'm older than you are by about 4 months and I don't remember the "N" word ever being okay, but maybe that's because of where I grew up (Northeast US.) Dunno. "Everything" wasn't fair game when I was growing up, but quite a lot less is now, and I think that's a good thing.
 
It seems that being "not PC" is kind of a badge of honor these days and some people fall back on that as an excuse for rude behavior (see a certain presidential candidate;),) but I think that's being misapplied by some as a green light to say whatever, regardless of whether it's truly offensive to a whole group of people or not. Given the alternatives, I'd rather be PC than not.
 
Thanks-
 
-Susan

In my circle 'PC' describes someone that's over the top. 
 
All that is req'd is some common sense and decency for both speakers and listeners. 

BobF
All that is req'd is some common sense and decency for both speakers and listeners. 

Unfortunately, by definition, "common sense" doesn't really exist any more.  When I was growing up you KNEW what was the right thing to do (whether you did it or not was a totally separate issue!  LOL).  Now, there are so few ethics, morals and family values, that most of the younger generations don't have a clue what "common sense" means.  I feel we've definitely lost something important.
 
As for my opinion about so-called "Political Correctness," I consider it a big part of the problem.  Kids are currently being raised in artificial pampered worlds where all they are learning is that they're supposed to be put on a pedestal, they're ALL the best and everything should be given to them without them having to put out much effort.  When everyone is treated as a winner without having to work through challenges and failures, they are completely unprepared for "real" life and you end up with events like the latest school shooting that happened down the road from me (about four hours south).
 
Interestingly, it just occurred to me that what is happening to young people now is very similar to how current music is produced!  Back in the day, making music required a lot of effort to understand theory, learn one or more instruments and suffer through ear training - all before trying to figure out how to save performances for future listening.  Also, music had a dynamic to it that's completely lost now.  You had enough headroom to have peaks and valleys which made the music far more interesting and fulfilling to experience.  Now, just like in the rest of the younger generation's lives, music has become too easy to make (with mediocre results) and the final products are then squashed until there's no life left in them...  Sad.

craigb

BobF
All that is req'd is some common sense and decency for both speakers and listeners. 

Unfortunately, by definition, "common sense" doesn't really exist any more.  When I was growing up you KNEW what was the right thing to do (whether you did it or not was a totally separate issue!  LOL).  Now, there are so few ethics, morals and family values, that most of the younger generations don't have a clue what "common sense" means.  I feel we've definitely lost something important.
 
As for my opinion about so-called "Political Correctness," I consider it a big part of the problem.  Kids are currently being raised in artificial pampered worlds where all they are learning is that they're supposed to be put on a pedestal, they're ALL the best and everything should be given to them without them having to put out much effort.  When everyone is treated as a winner without having to work through challenges and failures, they are completely unprepared for "real" life and you end up with events like the latest school shooting that happened down the road from me (about four hours south).
 
Interestingly, it just occurred to me that what is happening to young people now is very similar to how current music is produced!  Back in the day, making music required a lot of effort to understand theory, learn one or more instruments and suffer through ear training - all before trying to figure out how to save performances for future listening.  Also, music had a dynamic to it that's completely lost now.  You had enough headroom to have peaks and valleys which made the music far more interesting and fulfilling to experience.  Now, just like in the rest of the younger generation's lives, music has become too easy to make (with mediocre results) and the final products are then squashed until there's no life left in them...  Sad.

I've often said that the problem with young people now is that they have everything the wrong way around. Instead of being taught that self esteem is a product of success, they're raised to believe that success is a product of self esteem. So you have all of these insufferably inflated egos with nothing of any substance to back it up. You can see this in the televised auditions of any TV talent show when these horrible brats swagger into the room, inform everyone that they're going to be the next Whitney Houston, and proceed to make a sound resembling a syphilitic hyena choking on a Slinky. And when they're told "no," they launch into a hysterical tirade in which the judges are informed that their ears can't possibly be working right because their parents, teachers, friends and relatives have all told them that they have the voice of an angel and are destined to be famous.