Kansai Canadian: 2007

Lastly, I suggest a lesson in television from the geniusly perverted minds of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 gang. The main reason MST3K is such useful cultural commentary, is because it lays bare the mountainous icebergs of propaganda present in popular culture, exposing the withered fingers of control that television stabs into our unwashed masses. It is always easier to see the propaganda of a previous generation, because we live within its consequences. Wading the eight seasons of MST3K has learned me the true tales of the crushing white patriarchy, the endless anti-communist fear mongering drivel, and the pervasively stifling influence of despicable Christianity and its consumerist armies.

from Brain Box

ah, too true. Read the article - it's good.

stolen from http://www.livinginmyownworld.com/

Read things that don’t matter, then write papers saying they do matter, for points that don’t matter, in order to get a job doing something totally unrelated: Student
Take numbers on pieces of paper, rearrange them and put them on different pieces of paper: Tax Accountant
Explain big words to sales people and then cower before customers while trying to convince them that the sales people really didn’t say what the customers understood: Customer Solutions Engineer
Learn laws created ages ago so that I can tell engineers why I’m smarter than they are while complaining how it’s a travesty that they get paid more: Physics major
Show you innovative ways to burn money in the spirit of patriotism: Fireworks Stand Manager
Help people lie consistently to their bosses: Business Intelligence Consultant
Teach your kids enough to complain but not enough to make a difference: College Teacher
Stand on a field and get yelled at for hours: Baseball Umpire
Make people who are already filthy rich somewhat richer by duping poor people into buying stuff they don’t need: Corporate Software Engineer
Find as many synonyms for “explosion” as possible: Novelist for Teenage Boys
Supervise the guys and gals who try to protect the good people from the bad, only to be hated by the good people AND the bad: Police Sergeant
Watch the lunatics take over the asylum: Teacher
Manage waste recycling, promotion & sales: Antiques Dealer
Arrive after the battle and bayonet all the wounded: Auditor
Sell gas: Energy and Telecom Business Analyst
Tell forty year-old men it’s okay to behave like fourteen year-old school girls: Printing Press Production Coordinator
Make corporate propaganda feel like folksy truthisms: Tv Ad Director
Shepherd clients through the process of setting their products on fire: Consumer Products Tester
Manage urban renewal and pest control: B-52 Bomber pilot
Persuade kids that it’s really fun being wet, cold and scared out of their minds: Sailing Instructor
Draw up plans for something that will not be built according to those plans: Civil Engineer, Transportation Design
Teach kids to be evil…or so they say: Video Game Creator
Ensure that stupid people stay in the gene pool: Lifeguard
Do all the tasks nobody else wants to do: Admin Assistant
Wear a tuxedo and smash metal plates into each other: Musician
Go to strange people’s houses and take their money: Pizza Delivery Boy
Sell gluttony: Cinema Concession Stand Attendant
Tell people that they can’t spend money they thought they had: Government Analyst
Take pictures of the unlucky and the stupid: X-ray Technician
Profit from the misfortunes of others: Cops and Courts Reporter
Take a simple two-way promise and turn it into several complicated one-way promises which neither side can understand or hope to fulfill: Lawyer
Bring a little rain into the lives of flood victims: Government Debt Collector
Have people spend far more than they estimated: Building Inspector
Make sure nothing ever happens: IT Security
Move things from one tube to another: Microbiologist
Clean up an animal that makes more money then me in a year: Assistant Horse Trainer
Make people feel bad about their work: Quality Assurance Tester
Be a human napkin: Stay-at-home mom of three
Make food that is as healthy before it goes in your body as when it comes back out: Fast Food Employee
Repeatedly fix what you repeatedly break: IT Director