Posted: 5/25/2014 1:35:44 PM EDT
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First of all. Take your damn hat off and put down your phone for the national anthem. Second, when they call out your relatives name, don't yell out his/her "street name" or blow an air horn. As much as you think it's funny, everyone else thinks you're a fucking asshole. |
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First of all. Take your damn hat off and put down your phone for the national anthem. Second, when they call out your relatives name, don't yell out his/her "street name" or blow an air horn. As much as you think it's funny, everyone else thinks you're a fucking asshole. yup - had to stand there for the whole thing the other day and listen to that bullshit right after they said to hold your applause 
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Quoted: Why you be such a hater? Why? Because I am sick and tired of watching mankind circling the drain and watching respect for others go out the window. One of those airhorn blasters was sitting behind an elderly woman who did not appreciate it but you have to realize, that many of them won't go any further, and the graduation was a gift anyway. |
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Why you be such a hater? Why? Because I am sick and tired of watching mankind circling the drain and watching respect for others go out the window. One of those airhorn blasters was sitting behind an elderly woman who did not appreciate it but you have to realize, that many of them won't go any further, and the graduation was a gift anyway. I agree. Sick and tired of it too... especially sick and tired of the excuses made for such behavior. Other then building a rocket ship and leaving the earth, I'm not sure what to do. I hope and pray daily for a plague 'tho. |
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Why you be such a hater? Why? Because I am sick and tired of watching mankind circling the drain and watching respect for others go out the window. One of those airhorn blasters was sitting behind an elderly woman who did not appreciate it but you have to realize, that many of them won't go any further, and the graduation was a gift anyway. You do realize that I was being sarcastic...........don't you? |
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We had an air horn go off during my daughter's graduation. Trashy. I hope to God this doesn't become a trend. They were doing it when I graduated high school in 1995. They were still doing it when I graduated college in 2000. I've been to quite a few high school and college graduations since, and they still do it. In my experience the main offenders are blacks. YMMV. |
| I just graduated with my Master's last week at Purdue. There were no air horns, but some families did step out of line and clap for their family member who was walking the stage. It was fairly quiet for the most part though and respectful all things considering. |
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Been to about 8 home school graduations that were held in church with about 25 graduates per class. The crowds were about 500-600 people each time. The ceremony always includes the local high school orchestra who are paid for the music (the high school music teacher told me over a beer that the homeschool graduation is the orchestra's easiest fund raiser). The graduation is always a very solemn event with a reception immediately following that has beer, soda, bratwurst, potato salad, cole slaw, hot dogs and cake. The last two times there was 21 year Glen fiddich for those who knew who to ask. ETA: Most go on to collage, some to trade schools and quite a few going into the military. I saw one of my son's classmates after 7 years of Army and it freaked my out how the kid looked just like my 1st Sargent when I was in the Army in the 80's. |
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First of all. Take your damn hat off and put down your phone for the national anthem. Second, when they call out your relatives name, don't yell out his/her "street name" or blow an air horn. As much as you think it's funny, everyone else thinks you're a fucking asshole. My son just got his master's degree. There were about 12 instances where families acted like idiots when their kid walked across the stage Coincidentally there were about 12 black kids that graduated. |
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First of all. Take your damn hat off and put down your phone for the national anthem. Second, when they call out your relatives name, don't yell out his/her "street name" or blow an air horn. As much as you think it's funny, everyone else thinks you're a fucking asshole. My son just got his master's degree. There were about 12 instances where families acted like idiots when their kid walked across the stage Coincidentally there were about 12 black kids that graduated. are you trying to imply something? come on let it out, you'll feel better for it. |
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HEY, here in Kansas gradu'atin' from school is the biggest honor most us folks got. To have your girl grat'u'ate without having a child, well hell, that there is like a normal kid getting accepted to some college. Not no Vo-tech community college, no sir. One of them fancy colleges, with State in their name |
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First of all. Take your damn hat off and put down your phone for the national anthem. Second, when they call out your relatives name, don't yell out his/her "street name" or blow an air horn. As much as you think it's funny, everyone else thinks you're a fucking asshole. My son just got his master's degree. There were about 12 instances where families acted like idiots when their kid walked across the stage Coincidentally there were about 12 black kids that graduated. are you trying to imply something? come on let it out, you'll feel better for it. OK. Every black kid that walked across the stage got whoops and hollers from their "families". Every single one. The Dean asked several times to hold the applause till all the kids had received their degree but he couldn't speak ebonics so they ignored him. One woman walked in wearing a pair of high heels with flashing led lights on them. Another fat ass was wearing white nearly see through pants and blouse. A third, well endowed, woman decided that a bra was unnecessary. It was embarrassing to say the least. |
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I find that kind of thing to be annoying and disrespectful as well, but I don't fret over it. Courtesy and manners in the US are dead, the average American has no idea how to behave in a formal environment, and considers guzzling beer from a tool bought at an auto parts counter to be the most sacred of academic traditions. Decorum, restraint and taste are foreign concepts to most Americans. A middle class man who is respectful or practices table manners is seen as suspicious, and often consider effeminate over it. Myself, I am about as manly as they come, and don't give a rats ass what others think, when I eat in public I practice table manners, and expect my family too as well. I have seen wait staff absolutely flustered trying to figure out what was going on with us, that is how rare proper manners are in this country. I remember an awful lot of grumbling at my college graduation ceremony, a lot of friends and relatives of the graduates didn't understand why those graduating with honors went first, just because they were wearing some fancy cloth around their neck. It didn't matter to them that those of us graduating with honors had spent hundreds of extra hours over four years studying to earn those honors, that their friend or relative didn't. They don't respect the tradition, they don't respect the effort of those being recognized and they don't respect the institution. Of course many of them don't mean to be disrespectful, they are just ignorant and don't realize they are insulting those who have earned their day in the sun. |
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First of all. Take your damn hat off and put down your phone for the national anthem. Second, when they call out your relatives name, don't yell out his/her "street name" or blow an air horn. As much as you think it's funny, everyone else thinks you're a fucking asshole. My son just got his master's degree. There were about 12 instances where families acted like idiots when their kid walked across the stage Coincidentally there were about 12 black kids that graduated. are you trying to imply something? come on let it out, you'll feel better for it. Some Asian families are at least as loud as the black families, and often more. While it might seem unprofessional, on the other hand I kinda like a family SO proud of someone getting a university degree that they have trouble maintains their composure. My wife, who grew up in a trailer park, was the first person in her ENTIRE extended family to ever graduate college, much less the advanced degrees she later got. While I did not bring an airhorn to the graduation where she received her doctorate, I did yell and holler quite loudly. 
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Quoted: You do realize that I was being sarcastic...........don't you? Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Why you be such a hater? Why? Because I am sick and tired of watching mankind circling the drain and watching respect for others go out the window. One of those airhorn blasters was sitting behind an elderly woman who did not appreciate it but you have to realize, that many of them won't go any further, and the graduation was a gift anyway. You do realize that I was being sarcastic...........don't you? That being said... By the looks of the "airhorn families" the graduate was OBVIOUSLY the first to go to college. So yes, I agree with your "gift" statement |