ABOUT MEI admit I'm a short, balding and mediocre certified public accountant (biggest downfall: if it's close enough it's good enough). I write Quicker Better Wiser and Quicker Better Tech columns/blogs for Forbes.com. I was a former senior manager at KPMG and since 1994 the owner of the Marks Group PC, a 10-member customer relationship management consulting firm based outside Philadelphia. I've written five small-business management books, most recently, “In God We Trust, Everyone Else Pays Cash: Simple Lessons From Smart Business People.” I also write The Dashboard, a weekly online column for The New York Times as well as twice-monthly column for Bloomberg BusinessWeek and American City Business Journals. You can follow me at twitter.com/genemarks.
― amon, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
I would use Skype to study with other students who also want to do well in my school.
lmao I love this part, studies have shown that successful students always skype with other successful students
― tumblr whine-y (dayo), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
his twitter kinda reads like WhiteGuy_ebooks
genemarks Gene Marks Implement these CRM tactics next year and improve your biz in 2012~ ow.ly/7W4oy via @phaseware3 hours ago
― amon, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
lol hes a twitter marketing spammer
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
"fuck, idk, kid. read spark notes or some shit. fuck do i look like? a poor black kid? don't you kids have skype nowadays? skype some of your friends."
― v-shasty, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
lol he really is! following 5000k
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://oi40.tinypic.com/xc6dg8.jpg
― amon, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
if i were a poor black kid, thank god im a rich white man, signed rich white man
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.quickerbetterwiser.com/images/bg_wrapper.jpg
― amon, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
punchabler!
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
Wiser!™
― amon, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
shocked to find out he's middle aged because the obscenely myopic sense of how privelege works is like that of a college freshman
― boof troop (dealwithit.gif), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
If he were a 'poor black kid,' he'd use decades of skills gained via the privilege of being a middle-class white dude to succeed.
― milo z, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
And I would use the technology available to me as a student. I know a few school teachers and they tell me that many inner city parents usually have or can afford cheap computers and internet service nowadays.
This quote is so painfully dumb. I know the whole column is, but still.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
btw, is it me or is this new UK Southern Comfort advert just a tad fucked up?
http://www.tellyads.com/show_movie.php?filename=TA14106
― Angles that bitch (Julie Lagger), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
all the diner characters from Two Broke Girls - I can't believe that shit gets on TV in 2011
― milo z, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
xp It's Driving Miss Daisy, with hipster d-bags.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
the tram driver is, er, enthusiastic
― Angles that bitch (Julie Lagger), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
xxp yeah I caught that one day and was pretty surprised how many racial stereotyping there was, I guess this is the Seth MacFarlane effect
― I'm in the mood to party (J0n Arbuckle), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
you know you're trolling right when even frogbs condemns you
― tumblr whine-y (dayo), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
no kidding, I mean THAT GUY is the real racist
― I'm in the mood to party (J0n Arbuckle), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://elizabethjazz.com/wp-content/uploads/300-avery-smith-fresh-lc-060910.jpg
I believe that everyone in this country has a chance to succeed. Still. In 2011. Even a poor black kid in West Philadelphia.
― Mr. Stevenson #2, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
I watched a couple of minutes of this last night because I was expecting How I Met Your Mother to be on, and it seemed like a sitcom from the seventies (except for the sexual references).
― Nicole, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
i don't see why every episode can't be about Kat Denning's breasts, the one legitimate point of interest on that show
― I'm in the mood to party (J0n Arbuckle), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it really is like they took some 35-year-old 'sassy broads working in a greasy spoon' teleplays and added some references to williamsburg and recessionistas (xpost)
― Mr. Stevenson #2, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
what is a recessionista
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
kiss my organic grits
― Carnitas, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
took some 35-year-old 'sassy broads working in a greasy spoon' teleplays
and didn't even sub garrett morris' name, thank god
― slandblox goole, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
willsmith.jpg destroyed me
― one pug (dealwithit.gif), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://yoisthisracist.com/
― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
that url is slightly.
― elks thunder, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
is that site's overuse of "yo" racist?
― Mr. Stevenson #2, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
*kills self*
― I'm in the mood to party (J0n Arbuckle), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
y0 Arbuckle
― tumblr whine-y (dayo), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
yo dayo nice display name
― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
whats up dayo
― I'm in the mood to party (J0n Arbuckle), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
cuauhtemoc blanco I believe I was first
― tumblr whine-y (dayo), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
goddamnit I wasn't
'fraid not dude
― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
it's OK tho b/c it's hilarious either way
yah it's pretty funny
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
dayo-ld idea
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
booyah
― ...or fold laundry? (J0n Arbuckle), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
loooool xp
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
TNC does his best to rescue this guy
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/a-muscular-empathy/249984/
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Thursday, 15 December 2011 11:54 (twelve years ago) link
Has this been posted yet?
Trolling The Internet With 'If I Were A Poor Black Kid'
― lebateauivre, Thursday, 15 December 2011 12:48 (twelve years ago) link
that sounds familiar, but this is a really long thread, you might have to look really far to see if it was posted already
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Thursday, 15 December 2011 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
No I mean what I posted is a response to the original 'if i were a black kid', also in Forbes
― lebateauivre, Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:01 (twelve years ago) link
TNC killed it.
― one pug (dealwithit.gif), Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:24 (twelve years ago) link
ok sorry lb that forbes response piece was awesome
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Thursday, 15 December 2011 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
she is stereotyping aliens as "mysterious"
― that wiener from Emearlds (step hen faps), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
And "things," even more racist!
― nickn, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
the story behind that photo is that a photographer went around china asking random chinese people to write anything they wanted to on a blank sheet of paper that they would hold up. some of the people chose to write in chinese, some wrote in english, some didn't write anything
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
what a nice story.
― elks thunder, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.419eater.com/images/luthman2.jpg
― elks thunder, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
William And Kate Visit Homeless In London
Paul Harrison, Royal correspondent
William and Kate have paid a two-hour visit to the Centrepoint homeless charity in south London.
And as the Duke mingled with residents of the Camberwell centre, the 29-year-old patron showed off his new 'swag' dance.
As Kate looked on smiling, Prince William began grooving, goaded on by those around him.
"Your swag was on point," resident Vanessa complimented the future king
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 22 December 2011 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
john terry
― twice banned gabbage is death (p much resigned to deems), Thursday, 22 December 2011 08:50 (twelve years ago) link
this is, and they keep playing it on my tv:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv-OnStiYqg
― Mordy, Friday, 23 December 2011 01:17 (twelve years ago) link
even ignoring the racism, what a horribly formed "commercial"
― if you ain't gonna wash it, i ain't gonna eat it, Friday, 23 December 2011 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ELP2P.jpg
Lawyer Alejandro Balbi holds a picture of Liverpool striker Luis Suarez posing with a black child - and confirmed Suarez will appeal his ban after being charged with racially abusing a fellow player
― nakhchivan, Friday, 23 December 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
for fuck's sake
― twice banned gabbage is death (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 23 December 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
ARRRRRGH if I ever hear the phrase "plantation mentality" again I may puke. West Michigan, WHAT IS WRONG WITH U??
― OH GNUS (Pyth), Friday, 23 December 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
nakh posted this on the footy threadhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078170/The-picture-shows-caring-John-Terry-poses-Hamleys-black-baby.html
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Friday, 23 December 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
*poses w/black child*
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 24 December 2011 07:34 (twelve years ago) link
That is fucking hilarious
― OH NOES, Saturday, 24 December 2011 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
That .xxx commercial is not, tho
― OH NOES, Saturday, 24 December 2011 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
"c'mon guys, you're a gang...you're on the side of teh street, you're wearing hoodies, you're..."
― if you ain't gonna wash it, i ain't gonna eat it, Saturday, 24 December 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
also black baby =
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdYVBaUXU8U
― if you ain't gonna wash it, i ain't gonna eat it, Saturday, 24 December 2011 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
man I had forgotten about John Rocker
― macarena of time (step hen faps), Saturday, 24 December 2011 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
That was Gavin McInnes, right?
― Stevie :-D, Sunday, 25 December 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link