Yeah, but again, that's part of the schtick. You don't invite people to be 'punked'. You don't put up signs warning people that they are on candid camera. Granted, you take a risk, but the payoff can't be replicated without it. Watch the film of people literally maroon in the face screaming in anger at Andy Kaufman wrestling women. That's an integral part of the show.
Your comparison to Andy Kaufman is apt, or the newer incarnation, Sacha Baron Cohen, or others who deliver the absurd with a straight face. Maybe like actors that are so good at playing people we despise that we can't ever really like them thereafter. Not so say you are playing anything despicable, but your stuff is skewed enough to be off-putting and delivered with enough craft to hide the seams. Coming in the volume it came in, people overlooked the care you put into it and thought
I had my locker broken into once every few weeks in school, and the school takes no responsibility for items lost when that happens. I don't think that's a reasonable request. "This is plain rediculous....just as mothers milk leads to heroine." If you don't think institutionalizing young people has an effect on them, go hang out on mysp
He could also have simply been sent over to Kuwait to stand trial for what he did there. I don't think it really matters, frankly. His guilt is obvious. I'm not so sure it will happen in the next couple of days, though. It was my understanding that they needed to complete the current trial beforehand. Maybe they decided not to bother, I wouldn't.
"I dont see how asking children to not use a phone in class is punishment." Yeah... you see there's what doesn't make sense. You aren't asking them not to use them in class, you're asking them not to TAKE them to class. You are saying that no one should be allowed to carry phones to class because the minority will abuse the privilege.
I dunno... he's got a viscous legal eagle in the family, supposedly. It's true for debate as in everything else, if you can't beat them, litigate. We could find ourselves out in the street, holding a tin cup, all because we couldn't resist calling ThatGuyPc an IDIOT.
I guess this one will be abandoned, too. Can you really put these out of your head and not think about how they leave you looking like an idiot, TheGuyPc? You just drop a big steamer and then go about your day, probably dropping steamers elsewhere? ...or will you realize how goofy this one is, too, and beg for it to be removed. Then maybe threaten to sue when people laugh at you and turn it into a party, ensuring that it will steam on for ages? Maybe edit it into some snide remark t
"You'll have a tough time convincing me that the CC hijacked Christmastide from some pagan feast other than the possible timing of Christmas around the pagan festival of the winter solstice when the return of light after the shortest day was celebrated." With all due respect, you've denied or brushed off about every negative reality I've ever pos
You make no sense. You want to have them check them in the office? Maybe hire a 'phone check' girl to give you a ticket so you can get your phone at the end of the day? Maybe someone to hold their hand while they go potty? Why punish anyone that hasn't done anything wrong? If they are distracting people, punish them. I don't understand why people want to take issues like this and tinker with them because of some esoteric ideal when all they have to do is punish the people who do th
"The fact is that the government does in fact have a role indisaplining all of america, and does." LOL... wow. That's quite a statement. Unless you are equating child rearing to the penal system, I dunno really how there's any correlation. If you want kids treated like criminals, by all means, institutionalize them and teach them that the gove
"The Christmas tree is derived, not from the pagan yule tree, but from the Paradise tree adorned with apples on Dec. 24 in honor of Adam and Eve, our first parents." LOL... come on, lula. The Church forbade the decoration of trees for centuries. It wasn't until the middle ages that they allowed this "paradise tree" hijack of the pagan version,
" I assume the teacher is sending these distracting children out to the hall or whatever. Isnt that a disiplinary action?" Nope, that's removing a distraction. When you toss a bum out of a bar are you "disciplining" them? Parental responsibility shouldn't be imposed on the teacher. Teachers don't have the time to both teach kids their curr
"Nice way to dodge the question. And MM is right. You are on a vendetta. Of which not many know." Wow, you guys are agreeing with each other? who would have imagined??? This little circle jerk is getting to be a tighter and tighter circle all the time. Maybe your waning numbers should tell you guys something.
Do you spend any time in schools? I'm there about every day when it is in session. If a child misbehaves they are removed to the hall, or the office, or home. If the child won't go, they call the counselor, principle, etc., to have the child removed. I don't know what the situation you are talking about wherein teachers can't take phones that are being abused, remove kids from class, etc. Maybe if you had examples. <table cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgcolor=#FFF3
People who die in the service of their country during a war should be counted, whether they are shot by the enemy of succumb to other causes. That's why they are on the official list of killed, that's why their names are on the wall , and they should be counted.
Then they fail. If something is so hard to notice that the teacher misses it, I doubt it is bothering the other kids much. If the kids want to waste their time, let them. I don't see being draconian about things like that. The teacher's job is to put the material out there, and make sure the classroom is a good learning environment. I think we've gone way to far trying to mandate success. It isn't possible, and kids won't learn the skills they need that way. If they fek of
I don't really see what the uproar is. Especially about fining parents. If a child is distracting the class, the teacher should be doing something about it. If the child isn't paying attention, the same. IMHO, if a teacher has to tell a child more than once to put a phone away, she didn't do her job the first time.
Kids need them after school, to call their parents to pick them up from after-school activities, from friends houses, etc. Parents would certainly want to be able to reach their children, even track them, when they aren't in school. The problem isn't the phones in school, it is the kids using them. So long as they are turned off, there should be no problem with a kid having a phone in school.
I was going by the current number on the wall. So far as I know it is accurate. When dealing with the sacrifice of human lives, I'm a lot more apt to round up 1200 than round down several thousand.
"baker you have been on a tear not only with me but several others, nit picking this and that, you have been acting like you are the final word on everything. Nothing you say will change my mind about what I see you doing. so lets drop it." You took issue with ME saying almost 60,000. There are over 58,000 names on the wall. I didn't pick this
Telling the truth isn't high and mighty. Misplacing several thousand of your fellow soldiers' bodies for argument's sake isn't humble, either. You don't tolerate your opponents in arguments persisting in lies, so why do you?
Now's the perfect time for a revamp. Make it "newer" and then a new host won't seem so out of place. Granted, you'll lose oldsters, but they are the ones that you'll lose with a new host regardless probably.
"Another major threat to every American's person and property is the criminal carrying a handgun. The way to cut down on the criminal use of guns is not to take guns away from the law-abiding citizen, but to impose mandatory sentences for crimes in which a gun is used, make it harder to obtain cheap guns for criminal purposes, and concentrate gun control enforcement in hig
Heh, yeah, maybe Ford could sue from beyond the grave for TheGuyPC calling him a liberal. How is your anti-Stardock crusade coming, anyway?
"One of the most controversial issues of our time and one in which we share a keen interest is the question of abortion. I have grave concern over the serious moral questions raised by this issue. Each new life is a miracle of creation. To interfere with that creative process is a most serious act. In my view, the Government has a very special role in this regard.
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