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Re: Kevinism

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Post by msla » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 5:43 PM UTC

Lio wrote: post #40

benj111 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a Brit, this is the Kevin that springs to mind https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_the_Teenager Or perhaps an example is better https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dLuEY6jN6gY

Even that meaning of "Kevin" has changed. Harry Enfield's Kevin the Teenager has very middle class parents (for those not from the UK we regard "middle class" as describing a much wider social group than say in the USA where it might be based on income. It's basically not working class and not a member of the aristocracy. Could be a QC, a CEO or school teacher.) The earlier meaning was more pejorative and something c…

The American middle class is pretty broad, too. MDs are middle class, as are contractors and most, if not all, office workers; there's a divide between upper middle class and lower middle class, however.

> for those not from the UK we regard "middle class" as describing a much wider social group than say in the USA where it might be based on income. It's basically not working class and not a member of the aristocracy. Could be a QC, a CEO or school teacher.

I don't know what a QC is, but a CEO of a non-Fortune 500 company would probably be upper middle class, and a school teacher would be lower middle class unless they're in a very expensive private school. I don't know that it's strictly based on income, necessarily, as much as how much independence the job provides; whether it's a job or a career, in other words.

Re: Kevinism

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Post by Lio » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 7:43 PM UTC

msla wrote: post #81

Lio wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even that meaning of "Kevin" has changed. Harry Enfield's Kevin the Teenager has very middle class parents (for those not from the UK we regard "middle class" as describing a much wider social group than say in the USA where it might be based on income. It's basically not working class and not a member of the aristocracy. Could be a QC, a CEO or school teacher.) The earlier meaning was more pejorative and something c…

The American middle class is pretty broad, too. MDs are middle class, as are contractors and most, if not all, office workers; there's a divide between upper middle class and lower middle class, however. > for those not from the UK we regard "middle class" as describing a much wider social group than say in the USA where it might be based on income. It's basically not working class and not a member of the aristocracy…

A QC is Queen’s Council[1]

Actually your definition is not that dissimilar to what we’d understand too. I think it’s not too different to white collar vs blue collar. Attitude to education fits in there somewhere too.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen's_Counsel

Re: Kevinism

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Post by ummwhat » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 10:14 PM UTC

Freak_NL wrote: post #50

ummwhat wrote: post #42

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The US is much more liberal about this. You have to pay a fee and put in some paperwork and make an announcement in a news paper with a certain amount of readers and a judge will deny requests that violate a very limited set of common sense criteria. Sometimes the judges can get a bit lazy about actually filtering requests. Jesus Christ literally lives in New York.

Why would a judge in a nation that separates state and religion care about someone calling himself Jesus Christ? Jesus is a common given name, and Christ a common enough surname. (Or Kris Kringle for that matter.)

It's not about "calling himself" Jesus Christ so much as convincing others that he is literally Jesus Christ. Basically it's a form of fraud (or maybe insanity, who knows)

One of the common sense criteria is you're not allowed to assume the identity of well known public figures or entities.

Re: Kevinism

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Post by iKevinShah » Thu, Aug 15, 2019, 3:53 AM UTC

nyolfen wrote: post #75

dejawu wrote: post #68

Fellow Kevin here. While I was doing a fellowship [0] at the US Census Bureau last summer, I noticed a peculiar abundance of other Kevins working there. As a joke, I created this presentation [1] about this phenomenon, which I ended up accidentally showing the chief marketing officer. He loved it. [0] https://www.codingitforward.com/fellowship [1] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/117Q3zuyWulkDGcGXp4Bd...

you guys should unionize

where do I sign up?