How many people get their advice on advanced education by some young woman in her PJs?

Stinky The Clown

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Thu May-12-11 09:28 AM
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How many people get their advice on advanced education by some young woman in her PJs?

The Education Connection ads have passed "ubiquitous" and entered the "fucking annoying" zone.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GwCi99N-6tY/TNvzr1s_dgI/AAAAAAAAETU/ZYPNkTzKZg4/s1600/Education+Connection.jpg

Who listens to this shit? What's their purpose? How do they take money from their marks?

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hobbit709

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Thu May-12-11 09:33 AM
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1. It makes sense considering that "Idiocracy" is a documentary.

Edited on Thu May-12-11 09:33 AM by hobbit709

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muriel_volestrangler

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Thu May-12-11 09:34 AM
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2. Shouldn't threads about your taste in clothes be in the Lounge?

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Stinky The Clown

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Thu May-12-11 10:29 AM
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7. We could also talk about dating. Maybe she's seeing one of the Free Credit Report Dot Com guys

She and this douchnozzle seem to have a lot in common.

No, I don't think this belongs in the lounge. It isn't about her clothes, no matter what you aver. The thread is posted seriously, the tone notwithstanding.

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muriel_volestrangler

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Thu May-12-11 10:40 AM
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8. So the thread title was a red herring?

OK, but, since the body of your OP was just questions indicating you didn't understand anything, and "it's fucking annoying", it would have been better to get serious in the OP, rather than wait for some replies to explain what you meant.

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Rex

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Thu May-12-11 10:45 AM
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9. No the title is not a red herring...why do people just throw that term

out there? Please learn what it means first.

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muriel_volestrangler

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Thu May-12-11 11:48 AM
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15. The thread title mentioned her clothes - but the author now says it's not about her clothes

And "in her PJs" seems the main message of the title - that because the model in the advert is wearing clothes that look, to the author, like PJs, then the product offered cannot be serious.

That's why I say the thread title is a red herring - it draws attention to the clothes, but the author later says the thread isn't about her clothes.

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Stinky The Clown

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Thu May-12-11 07:32 PM
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16. muriel, aren't there real issues that you can find and use to express your outrage?

If you have been seeing the ads, you'll find the young lady says that she's in her PJs. I didn't assume it. Her scripted words say she is. The latest ad is one of a series, not unlike the Free Credit Report Dot Com series.

The ad clearly targets a specific audience with a specific level of susceptibility to such advertizing. I'm thinking its the Maury Povich audience demographic.

No matter what demographic, the ad is intended to separate people from their money in a more or less underhanded way.

Why am I explaining all this to you?

I have no idea. You seem to frequently find what I post offensive and inanely post as much. That's a cross I shall have to bear. Have a swell day. :hi:

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Stinky The Clown

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Thu May-12-11 07:35 PM
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17. That's my posting style.

If you don't like it, then perhaps you might exercise the barest modicum of self discipline and avoid my posts. Were you to do that, please know I shall not fall apart from loneliness.

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jberryhill

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Thu May-12-11 09:35 AM
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3. Here's the way it works....

It used to be that the only decent education scam was running a diploma mill.

Now, however, what you can do is set up a "college", provide online "courses" with garbage content, and enroll students.

Those students can qualify for student loans which allow you to charge tuition well over the operating costs of your operation.

http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2010/07/for-profit-diploma-mills-draining.html

Some of the for-profit bottom feeders who prey on the poor and even the homeless to recruit bodies for their worthless degrees have been outed. We must wonder what it will take to cut these money sinks off from the federal student loans that are making for profit college CEOs deliriously wealthy.

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Stinky The Clown

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Thu May-12-11 09:45 AM
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4. I thought that, too, but shee seems to not be shilling for any college . . . . .

. . . . like Univ of Pheonix or Tesst College, or any of those.

Unless, she's shilling for all of them.

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Atman

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Thu May-12-11 10:07 AM
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6. I love how their stack of brochures is "A $100 Value!"

They'll match you to a college. That's where they're making their money...referral fees and kickbacks from the colleges they "select" for you. I guarantee that, like an employment agency, if you sign on with any of the people they connect you with, they get a check from the so-called school.

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blondeatlast

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Thu May-12-11 11:05 AM
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12. University of Phoenix is part of the Apollo Group, which also runs a

bucketload of these taxpayer-ripoff "colleges." I don't know if they are ALL AG, but I bet a bunch of them are.

See my post above for a little info about Apollo Group.

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blondeatlast

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Thu May-12-11 11:03 AM
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11. And there it is. My ex- used to work for Apollo Group, who is one of the

largest shill operations in the country.

They promised my son a free college education (at an Apollo school of course. My son (14yo) didn't like that idea; I swore to him it would never happen, he'll go to a real university. AG got into major trouble with the Feds, ex no longer works there, and I couldn't be happier about it.

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MedicalAdmin

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Thu May-12-11 11:22 AM
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13. Here's a listing of diploma mills and other BS schools.

Oregon maintains this list as they have some of the strictest laws about crap school credentials. http://www.osac.state.or.us/oda/unaccredited.aspx

The Michigan list is also helpful. http://www.michigan.gov/documents/Non-accreditedSchools_78090_7.pdf

And more info can be found here. http://www.diplomamillnews.blogspot.com/

I HATE diploma mills. THey are right up there with scams on the elderly and health insurance for scum sucking douchebaggery.

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Freddie Stubbs

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Thu May-12-11 09:53 AM
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5. The government will give and/or loan you money to go to college

If people actually had to shell out their own money, most of these scams would not exist.

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MedicalAdmin

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Thu May-12-11 11:27 AM
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14. These colleges also exist because there are loopholes in the accreditation laws.

That you could drive a truck through.

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Adsos Letter

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Thu May-12-11 10:59 AM
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10. Party all night, dance all day, attend college from yer bed!

:banghead:

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