Sure, why not? That would fully be worth being banned.

bout how they thought I was wrong to say “If he were to do this...” instead of “If he was to do this...”, because they were all unfamiliar with the subjunctive mood and had a reflex to argue with women.

I knew this just from talking to classmates about resume writing/job interviewing senior year of college. The guys laughed about claiming to be “proficient” in skills they had only vague awareness of. If they literally knew nothing about something they’d charactize their skill level as “beginner”. 

If you are aware of the work of the brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi, you might know they described a similar phenomenon of “male answer syndrome”, where even if a man (or men) knew nothing about a question, they will fabricate an answer to it. This led to a comment, “about how it’s possible for two people to know less…

Never studied subjunctive in English, but did when learning a second language. Pairing the term with “scaling” makes no sense.

Your description of CEOing just reminded me of Jamie Dimon being schooled by Katie Porter.

I laughed at “subjunctive scaling” because of course the overconfident wouldn’t be familiar enough with intermediate grammar terms to recognize this was bullshit. I spent too much of my teens and early 20s arguing with overconfident buttfaces about how they thought I was wrong to say “If he were to do this...” instead…

I especially love that the fictional concepts are grammatical terms slapped onto math words. Have you heard about the deontic logarithms and predicative angle research that scientists are using to pinpoint the earliest known superordinate phonemes?

Yeah, I mean, they’re fitting in socially. I’m not really defending it, because I think it has its own shitty qualities. But it’s still better, in my view, than the “pure merit” route, where we don’t care so much about how things operate socially, because objective measures of individual productivity take precedence…

But what it means is that rich guys are just performing CEOship, linguistically the equivalent of fist bumping or giving a secret handshake. The BS is a way of blathering on while saying not much of anything until each dog can get the smell of the other’s butt. Then they make a deal and hire people with actual ability…

Every single day...

I agree to an extent. However, a merit-based economy does have its drawbacks and seems to play a role(albeit, less than materialism)in hampering social growth. Alas, that is typically the results of bureaucracies. They deprive one of their humanity for systematic order, decadence, and material growth.

I’m adding a $20 “Advice from Old Man Staring Over My Shoulder” charge to my service calls.

Obviously rich men don’t know their history or they would keep this quote in their mind; “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.”

“I said I was an expert because I knew they were phony subjects, and that’s the only thing you need to know to rate yourself an expert in those areas.”

Oh my poor dear woman. No no no. I’m sure David Brooks will have many highly paid and very good thoughts in tomorrow’s column about how it is in fact this study which is in the wrong.

This is the language of those that know they will never, ever be held accountable for the things they say or the things they do.  

I mean...I have a whole list of fellas we could start with.

All of my fractions are declarative.

I mean, doesn’t this just highlight the reality that a lot of what goes into material success ultimately comes down to people liking you and thinking you’re “a good fit” for whatever the situation is? It’s not right or good that BS’ers seem to be the winners of this game, on average, but at the same time, I think it’s…