I think it is interesting how our taste in reading material can change over the years. When I was in 8th grade a teacher made us read Treasure Island. For one, I hated having to read with the class because everyone has different reading speeds. I also read a page or two and decided it was boring, so I pulled the typical Stick-a-Book-inside trick and read something else.
The teacher caught me and informed me that there would be a test that counts as 20% of our grade and I need to read the book. I pretty much told her I didn't really care because I did not want to read it. Fast forward 3 weeks, when the class is FINALLY done reading it... Not only am I the only one that got above an 84, but I am the only one with an A. (I got a 96). Teacher was understandably angry, but honestly, the questions were things like "Describe the island", and "How did X character feel after X event happened?". Common sense can go a long way... Makes me wonder how anyone that read it could possibly fail it.
TL;DR version: I read it as an adult and actually enjoyed it.
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i was lazy, sadly . . and i refused to do stuff i did not think important either . .
especially sports, seeing how i went to and from school by bike and had to do 10 kilometers each tour to and from school respectively . .
and i usually refused to do stuff a teacher did not want to demonstrate how to do to me either.
the only reason for me being, it seems, pretty good at english - despite me being german - is that my english teacher in school way back then decided to say "fuck it" to the teaching plan handed to him and had us read steven king instead . . seeing how i loved reading even back then, it was not much of a surprise that english became my best subject, despite me actually being in the advanced classes . . i faked being dumb enough to stay in the basic classes for stuff like math, physics, chemical and political sciences . . yeah, i was smart for my age, but not smart enough to realize that being lazy is stupid and will hamper me quite a bit later on in life . .
as of today, i have, technically speaking, learned this. sadly, there is a difference between scientifically knowing and actually having understood . . meaning: yes, i am still a stupid lazy idiot x.x
especially sports, seeing how i went to and from school by bike and had to do 10 kilometers each tour to and from school respectively . .
and i usually refused to do stuff a teacher did not want to demonstrate how to do to me either.
the only reason for me being, it seems, pretty good at english - despite me being german - is that my english teacher in school way back then decided to say "fuck it" to the teaching plan handed to him and had us read steven king instead . . seeing how i loved reading even back then, it was not much of a surprise that english became my best subject, despite me actually being in the advanced classes . . i faked being dumb enough to stay in the basic classes for stuff like math, physics, chemical and political sciences . . yeah, i was smart for my age, but not smart enough to realize that being lazy is stupid and will hamper me quite a bit later on in life . .
as of today, i have, technically speaking, learned this. sadly, there is a difference between scientifically knowing and actually having understood . . meaning: yes, i am still a stupid lazy idiot x.x
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That reminds me of a story.
Earlier this year, I got my first right-wing History professor (and he's every bad stereotype of History professors put together, just to add insult to injury) and he was going on about how collectivist philosophies were terrible and only led to EVIL and individualist ones were GOOD and AWESOME, and if there were bad laws you could fight them (for some reason you cannot do this in a collectivist society according to my professor) and he asked if the class could think of any individuals in America who had done that (he was obviously fishing for an answer of civil rights activists from the 50s and 60s, but I had already lost all respect for him and so I answered Osama bin Laden.
The professor was speechless, as was the rest of the class, and I explained that Osama bin Laden was a wealthy, educated individual fighting against what he saw as an evil, godless New World Order that was trying to rewrite morality, with no concern for how bad society saw him for it, because he believed it was the right thing to do.
Now I don't approve any of Osama bin Laden's activities nor do I his philosophy, either in theory or in practice, but I wanted to point out that the collective is not necessarily a bad thing, so I chose an international terrorist who fought against numerous governments, and I said as much to the professor and the class.
Mostly, though, I really wanted to shut that smug fuck up for a moment or two because I knew I could and I can only take so much right-wing verbal diarrhea in the course of a day before throwing up and passing out.
Professor mumbled something about Communist secret police (despite him later mentioning, without me or anyone else asking, that secret police were a long-standing tradition in Russia, predating the USSR) and I realized that this was the first professor I knew I was smarter than.
When I told the story to a friend later he said that I should have used pro-life terrorists as an example, but I think that would have been too subtle for my professor.
Earlier this year, I got my first right-wing History professor (and he's every bad stereotype of History professors put together, just to add insult to injury) and he was going on about how collectivist philosophies were terrible and only led to EVIL and individualist ones were GOOD and AWESOME, and if there were bad laws you could fight them (for some reason you cannot do this in a collectivist society according to my professor) and he asked if the class could think of any individuals in America who had done that (he was obviously fishing for an answer of civil rights activists from the 50s and 60s, but I had already lost all respect for him and so I answered Osama bin Laden.
The professor was speechless, as was the rest of the class, and I explained that Osama bin Laden was a wealthy, educated individual fighting against what he saw as an evil, godless New World Order that was trying to rewrite morality, with no concern for how bad society saw him for it, because he believed it was the right thing to do.
Now I don't approve any of Osama bin Laden's activities nor do I his philosophy, either in theory or in practice, but I wanted to point out that the collective is not necessarily a bad thing, so I chose an international terrorist who fought against numerous governments, and I said as much to the professor and the class.
Mostly, though, I really wanted to shut that smug fuck up for a moment or two because I knew I could and I can only take so much right-wing verbal diarrhea in the course of a day before throwing up and passing out.
Professor mumbled something about Communist secret police (despite him later mentioning, without me or anyone else asking, that secret police were a long-standing tradition in Russia, predating the USSR) and I realized that this was the first professor I knew I was smarter than.
When I told the story to a friend later he said that I should have used pro-life terrorists as an example, but I think that would have been too subtle for my professor.
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The only German that I know is thanks to Rammstein. It's a motivator, but it might be worse than knowing no German at all.Stahlseele wrote:the only reason for me being, it seems, pretty good at english - despite me being german - is that my english teacher in school way back then decided to say "fuck it" to the teaching plan handed to him and had us read steven king instead . . seeing how i loved reading even back then, it was not much of a surprise that english became my best subject, despite me actually being in the advanced classes. . .
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german language, hard language ^^
german language, hard language ^^
Welcome, to IronHell.
Shrapnel wrote:TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Heh. You could have used Hutatree or Timothy McVeigh. Actual Pro-Life people are deeply confused and believe all kinds of contradictory things - so you can't reliably get them to condemn nutjobs like Eric Rudolph. But pretty much everyone can wrap their minds around the fact that the Militia Movement are batshit nuts. At least when they start actually killing Americans.Darth Rabbit wrote:When I told the story to a friend later he said that I should have used pro-life terrorists as an example, but I think that would have been too subtle for my professor.
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
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--The horror of Mario
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Congratulations, man!
At least she'll have a cool birthday.
At least she'll have a cool birthday.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Mine is a lesser feat but Monday I have an interview for a job that pays more than I have ever made in my life.
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You're too late. Get the fuck out of my house.Darth Rabbitt wrote:Hopefully I'm not too late to the party; congrats Cynic and good luck, Ted.
*BOOT*
*takes Darth Rabbit's spot*
Congrats Cynic and Ted!
I'll throw myself in for some hopeful good news. A longtime friend's dad runs a lasik surgery clinic and they have an opening to train an ophthalmology tech to work there, and me being a former medical tech who is grinding away at an unloved call center job, they thought of me and I'm going in next Monday on my day off for a meet and greet interview. I'm not sure what sort of pace the hiring process would proceed at, but the sooner I get out of the call center, the better. I'm awesome at being a call center slave, but being one cog out of 400 interchangeable cogs paid in a manner such that overtime is required for a living wage... not my ideal situation. So I'm excited at the prospect of a lifeline out of there.
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Jumping on the jobs bandwagon.... I had an orientation at Toys R Us today. I'll be working as an after hours stock person for the holiday season. Glad to have gotten a job, even if I'm half afraid it'll kill me with school. (can you develop insomnia through lack of sleep?)
On an interesting note, when I got in, my name tag said "BOH Supervisor." No bump in pay, but possibly more hours, and I'll take the bump in title, since it should help me find a job after the season's done, assuming they don't keep me around.
On an interesting note, when I got in, my name tag said "BOH Supervisor." No bump in pay, but possibly more hours, and I'll take the bump in title, since it should help me find a job after the season's done, assuming they don't keep me around.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
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You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.