In 1882, fifth graders read these authors in their Appleton School Reader: William Shakespeare, Henry Thoreau, George Washington, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Bunyan, Daniel Webster, Samuel Johnson, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others like them. In 1995, a student teacher of fifth graders in Minneapolis wrote to the local newspaper, "I was told children are not to be expected to spell the following words correctly: back, big, call, came, can, day, did, dog, down, get, good, have, he, home, if, in, is, it, like, little, man, morning, mother, my, night, off, out, over, people, play, ran, said, saw, she, some, soon, their, them, there, time, two, too, up, us, very, water, we, went, where, when, will, would, etc. Is this nuts?"
- http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/3b.htm
I think we can put some blame on the school system too
Having been with/. for a long time and seeing the changes that have occurred over the last few years I felt that I too had to make a change. I threw away my low UID and created a new persona that is best explained by with my username. Strangely, very few seem to notice that before engaging in conversation. Even stranger still is that I have always had good karma. I enjoy reading/. but rarely participate meaningfully bar thoughtful modding.
Don't mind me as my attempts to start my experimental cold fusion reactor with a laser pointer and an egg have left me in a rather grumpy frame of mind that I may have taken out on you.
I am surprised that I didn't read any comments about the possibility of a single celled organism as big as a house (aka the/a blob) being a distinct possibility. After all, what else are the Michigan Militia useful for?
You cannot effectively enforce a law against a transaction where all parties involved consent, and even trying to do so inevitably involved measures corrosive to liberty.
Underage in which country? 16 isn't underage even in Australia. It is in the land of the psychopathic puritan though. I hear you cant bang until your 21 in some states. What a place.
It isn't just the nanny country effect. There are a lot less actual manly men in Australia than just a few decades ago. The number of feminine men around these days is astounding. Apparently it is fashionable to be a wimp.
Having a little bit of experience with the Australian Penal System I can assure you that there are homosexual activities taking place. They are consensual and prison rape is an unusual occurrence and is usually a form of punishment. Remember those Lebanese Brother gang rapists? I can assure you that they got a taste of their own medicine.
There is an ebook available called 24hr AK47. It goes into great detail on how to build an AK type auto pistol with nothing but stuff you can buy at the hardware store. No mills or anything like that involved.
Your nine month old conversation anecdote illustrates just how much respect(that is respect in general) you have for your fellow person.You claim to see 1000 or so unsafe and illegal acts per day. You say it sucks to have near eidetic memory. Maybe next time you could try claiming to have near Asperger's as it's much more fashionable this year than an eidetic memory(maybe you have a Sheldon Cooper crush I don't claim to understand your motivations).
What I said was that I would remove your glasses and crush them under my feet and I would. In another thread you said that for that I would be bloody and unconscious at your feet. I only asked a valid question(not a threat) as if you aren't getting punched regularly it's a shame as you sound like you need it. You claimed you would like to have access to a government license database so as you could send smug little messages to people you describe as douches(more respect) and if you didn't like the response(maybe a punch in the face?) you would report them to the police. Where I come from that sort of interaction with the police would have you labelled as a dog.
So, you are a ridiculously hyperbolic(1000 or so unsafe and illegal acts), try hard(It sucks having near-eidetic memory), privacy invading( you would like to have personal access to a government license database), dog(report them to the police) who obviously doesn't get punched often enough.
I'm a little bored do you want to have an "I'm tougher than you even my mother could take you down" comment thread? Alternatively, if you are done with this you could call me a Nazi and finish it once and for all.
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To be honest, I think perhaps the name comes across as a self-conscious conservative title
You should never begin a sentence with 'To be honest' as it makes it clear that you are about to lie or at least misrepresent the truth.
I'm a little too young to be a life coach, but have you considered buying a really expensive car?
I bought a helicopter. Does that count?
As for cells, the largest single-celled organism I know of off the top of my head
Maybe that should be just under the top of your head? Did you really think that 'pants on fire' was the keynote of my repertoire?
To be honest, I think I like you.
In 1882, fifth graders read these authors in their Appleton School Reader: William Shakespeare, Henry Thoreau, George Washington, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Bunyan, Daniel Webster, Samuel Johnson, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others like them. In 1995, a student teacher of fifth graders in Minneapolis wrote to the local newspaper, "I was told children are not to be expected to spell the following words correctly: back, big, call, came, can, day, did, dog, down, get, good, have, he, home, if, in, is, it, like, little, man, morning, mother, my, night, off, out, over, people, play, ran, said, saw, she, some, soon, their, them, there, time, two, too, up, us, very, water, we, went, where, when, will, would, etc. Is this nuts?" - http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/3b.htm
I think we can put some blame on the school system too
I really really really need to preview/edit/think before hitting post. Sorry.
Having been with /. for a long time and seeing the changes that have occurred over the last few years I felt that I too had to make a change. I threw away my low UID and created a new persona that is best explained by with my username. Strangely, very few seem to notice that before engaging in conversation. Even stranger still is that I have always had good karma. I enjoy reading /. but rarely participate meaningfully bar thoughtful modding.
Don't mind me as my attempts to start my experimental cold fusion reactor with a laser pointer and an egg have left me in a rather grumpy frame of mind that I may have taken out on you.
I am surprised that I didn't read any comments about the possibility of a single celled organism as big as a house (aka the/a blob) being a distinct possibility. After all, what else are the Michigan Militia useful for?
Liar liar pants on fire
I thought I had?
The most horrible things that can happen to humans have been happening to them for hundreds of thousands of years, if not longer.
You have only been posting here for a short while so that is patently untrue.
If humanity is the final card played in the evolutionary race then Samantha is the joker.
You cannot effectively enforce a law against a transaction where all parties involved consent, and even trying to do so inevitably involved measures corrosive to liberty.
So. legalized prostitution, then?
why not?
Three letters - MBA
Underage in which country? 16 isn't underage even in Australia. It is in the land of the psychopathic puritan though. I hear you cant bang until your 21 in some states. What a place.
It isn't just the nanny country effect. There are a lot less actual manly men in Australia than just a few decades ago. The number of feminine men around these days is astounding. Apparently it is fashionable to be a wimp.
Having a little bit of experience with the Australian Penal System I can assure you that there are homosexual activities taking place. They are consensual and prison rape is an unusual occurrence and is usually a form of punishment. Remember those Lebanese Brother gang rapists? I can assure you that they got a taste of their own medicine.
There is an ebook available called 24hr AK47. It goes into great detail on how to build an AK type auto pistol with nothing but stuff you can buy at the hardware store. No mills or anything like that involved.
True but deceptively. Plenty of handguns in Australia. They are just in the hands of criminals as it is too hard for a mundane to get one.
You can get an aerosol can of stuff that makes the plate so reflective(or something) that the flash screws up the picture.
wrong spot sorry
Now if you had said white people you could of got a +5 insightful
Your nine month old conversation anecdote illustrates just how much respect(that is respect in general) you have for your fellow person.You claim to see 1000 or so unsafe and illegal acts per day. You say it sucks to have near eidetic memory. Maybe next time you could try claiming to have near Asperger's as it's much more fashionable this year than an eidetic memory(maybe you have a Sheldon Cooper crush I don't claim to understand your motivations).
What I said was that I would remove your glasses and crush them under my feet and I would. In another thread you said that for that I would be bloody and unconscious at your feet. I only asked a valid question(not a threat) as if you aren't getting punched regularly it's a shame as you sound like you need it. You claimed you would like to have access to a government license database so as you could send smug little messages to people you describe as douches(more respect) and if you didn't like the response(maybe a punch in the face?) you would report them to the police. Where I come from that sort of interaction with the police would have you labelled as a dog.
So, you are a ridiculously hyperbolic(1000 or so unsafe and illegal acts), try hard(It sucks having near-eidetic memory), privacy invading( you would like to have personal access to a government license database), dog(report them to the police) who obviously doesn't get punched often enough.
In case you don't get it. You're funny.
Feel free to correct my grammar
I'm a little bored do you want to have an "I'm tougher than you even my mother could take you down" comment thread? Alternatively, if you are done with this you could call me a Nazi and finish it once and for all.
You honestly see nothing wrong with your position on this?
Do you work in a club?
How would you ever identify me?
What country are you in?
If you wear your obvious recording device to a drug deal you deserve to be shot.