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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/06 20:06:31
Subject: Re:What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Fixture of Dakka
Kamloops, BC
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Steve steveson wrote: Jihadin wrote:LOL I'm not talking about beating one within an inch of ones life. 3 good whacks with the belt, 4-5 hits with the switch across the butt. To get the point across. That was then. I smash the PS3 and the Xbox 360 because I own them nor did I care. Rather get god grades or score high on some video game? What's important in life? Good grades or is that now so old school? Has Jersey Shore talking over mainstream teens?
Nither is the articular. Personally I think it teaches that you get what you want by violence. Especially when done with an implement. Why the hell would a grown man need a stick to smack a kid?
Personally I hate the idea of hitting kids and think it shows a lack of self control, as dose smashing things up (Expensive things as well). I mean, smashing hundreds of dollars worth of computer rather than selling it... Thats lashing out and petite retribution if ever I saw it.
This is the kind of thing I see time and again about "this generation"... "He won't do anything but play on his XBox" . It used to be TV. Before that radio. It's not a generation thing, its a parent thing. Its up to the parents to teach there kids the importance of studding and working hard, and encouragement and support work much better than fear.
Honestly the only time people should be allowed to hit is in self-defense, you punched someone in the face cause you didn't like what they did, what are you five?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/06 20:39:10
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Louis CK has a really good bit about hitting kids. I'm relying on the wordfilter here to fix the swearing, so I apologize if it does't work in quotes or something.
"And stop hitting me, you're huge. How could you hit me?! That's crazy. You're a giant, and I can't defend myself." I really think it's crazy that we hit our kids. It really is--here's the crazy part about it. Kids are the only people in the world that you're allowed to hit. Do you realize that? They're the most vulnerable, and they're the most destroyed by being hit. But it's totally okay to hit them. And they're the only ones! If you hit a dog they fething will put you in jail for that gak. You can't hit a person unless you can prove that they were trying to kill you. But a little tiny person with a head this big who trusts you implicitly, feth 'em. Who gives a gak? Just fething hit--let's all hit them! People want you to hit your kid. If your kid's making noise in public, "Hit him, hit him! Hit him! Grrr, hit him!" We're proud of it! "I hit my kids. You're damn right I hit my kids." Why did you hit them? "'Cause they were doing a thing I didn't like at the moment. And so I hit them, and guess what? They didn't do it after that." Well, that wouldn't be taking the fuckin' easy way out would it? How 'bout talking to them for a second, you fething slow!? What are you an idiot? What are you a fething ape? "Well, I know it's a pain in the ass!" Well you fethed a woman and a fething baby came out of her vagina! Now, you be patient. It's not their fault.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/06 20:51:20
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Fixture of Dakka
Kamloops, BC
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Rented Tritium wrote:Louis CK has a really good bit about hitting kids. I'm relying on the wordfilter here to fix the swearing, so I apologize if it does't work in quotes or something.
"And stop hitting me, you're huge. How could you hit me?! That's crazy. You're a giant, and I can't defend myself." I really think it's crazy that we hit our kids. It really is--here's the crazy part about it. Kids are the only people in the world that you're allowed to hit. Do you realize that? They're the most vulnerable, and they're the most destroyed by being hit. But it's totally okay to hit them. And they're the only ones! If you hit a dog they fething will put you in jail for that gak. You can't hit a person unless you can prove that they were trying to kill you. But a little tiny person with a head this big who trusts you implicitly, feth 'em. Who gives a gak? Just fething hit--let's all hit them! People want you to hit your kid. If your kid's making noise in public, "Hit him, hit him! Hit him! Grrr, hit him!" We're proud of it! "I hit my kids. You're damn right I hit my kids." Why did you hit them? "'Cause they were doing a thing I didn't like at the moment. And so I hit them, and guess what? They didn't do it after that." Well, that wouldn't be taking the fuckin' easy way out would it? How 'bout talking to them for a second, you fething slow!? What are you an idiot? What are you a fething ape? "Well, I know it's a pain in the ass!" Well you fethed a woman and a fething baby came out of her vagina! Now, you be patient. It's not their fault.
You were ninja'd, man.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/07 02:40:42
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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mega_bassist wrote:Kids these days didn't have the dog from Duck Hunt mocking them then they failed. I completely blame it on that.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/07 04:04:28
Subject: Re:What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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We need a age in reference to Gen X to Gen Y
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/07 04:39:11
Subject: Re:What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Ancient Venerable Black Templar Dreadnought
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Cheesecat wrote: Steve steveson wrote:
***snip***
Its up to the parents to teach there kids the importance of studding and working hard, and encouragement and support work much better than fear.
Honestly the only time people should be allowed to hit is in self-defense, you punched someone in the face cause you didn't like what they did, what are you five?
I agree with statements against spanking or "violence" to the child except on ONE condition.
What if he his hurting others?
I have a child that LIKED to hit and felt it was the most effective means of getting what he wanted.
No spanking was done before this, TV and games were monitored for NO physical violence.
He hit his best friend one day and when asked why: "Because I knew he would not hit me back".
6 year old kid at the time.
Got to the point of hitting at LEAST once a day.
We tried EVERYTHING from time outs to lost privileges.
NOTHING worked, he actually found it funny.
I spanked him. Told him every time he hit someone he would get 3 swats to the bum for every instance.
He would get one more for every time he tried to hide hitting someone or lied about it.
Made it clear this was HIS choice to hurt other innocent kids and he has a consequence EVERY time.
Any idea how hard it is to do when you make sure you are not angry when you do it?
I said to him this is better now than being jailed if he gets too old and not cured of this problem.
He tried it out two more times AND IT NEVER HAPPENED SINCE.
He is not fearful of me, can anyone say this punishment is "crazy" while other children are hurt?
We had much analysis done but his viewpoint really was that we were fools for asking for something you could just take and beat them down if they disagree - simple.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/07 05:37:23
Subject: Re:What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Gen Xers are supposedly somewhere between 30 to in their 40s, gen Y is something between 29 to somewhere in their late teens, at least per wikipedia.
I find it bs personally, as I am 29 and don't know what the feth the young 20-somethings i work with are talking about most of the time, but can strike up a conversation any day with the guy at work who is in his 60s.
Of course, I can't really reason with most of the super-duper type A alpha-male wannabes that are in their 30s either, so maybe it's just a non age related aversion to donkey-caves.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/07 05:59:35
Subject: Re:What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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daedalus wrote:
Gen Xers are supposedly somewhere between 30 to in their 40s, gen Y is something between 29 to somewhere in their late teens, at least per wikipedia.
I find it bs personally, as I am 29 and don't know what the feth the young 20-somethings i work with are talking about most of the time, but can strike up a conversation any day with the guy at work who is in his 60s.
Of course, I can't really reason with most of the super-duper type A alpha-male wannabes that are in their 30s either, so maybe it's just a non age related aversion to donkey-caves.
Just master talking about how many girls you feth , how expensive your clothes are, how much alcohol you can drink, and for the ultimate in awkward conversation , how many times they have cheated on their wife ( i love meeting the wife after this conversation - it's a moment of pure unadulterated internal hilarity " Sally did you hear about mike getting together with monica ...for a brilliant presentation at the conference" - yeah that's harsh, but i hate these fethers who wear cheating like it's a badge or something.) and you should be right talking to the 30 alpha male wannabees
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/07 06:03:06
Subject: Re:What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Kid_Kyoto
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But you're assuming I actually WANT to.
I'm hardly a good guy, but I don't want to be those guys, even by pretending.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/07 06:07:24
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Hallowed Canoness
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This is why I want to run my own shop. Then I can fire any one who works for me that's a doucher like that.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/07 07:15:00
Subject: Re:What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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The Dread Evil Lord Varlak
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Louis CK is fething awesome.
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/12 23:37:01
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Ahtman wrote: shrike wrote:Not sure how it is with others, but with me if I get bad grades, it's all on me.
Which is fair enough, it is usually my fault, teachers being responsible for bad grades is far less common.
(Though it is still infuriating when it is a teacher's fault (I'm looking at you, Design and Technology department))
They have a Design and Technology department in High School over there?
Yup, there are D&T departments in most schools AFAIK- Here they have ( IIRC) three wood/metalwork rooms, a graphics/theory work room and a computer room for it.
Some_Call_Me_Tim? wrote: shrike wrote:Not sure how it is with others, but with me if I get bad grades, it's all on me.
Which is fair enough, it is usually my fault, teachers being responsible for bad grades is far less common.
(Though it is still infuriating when it is a teacher's fault (I'm looking at you, Design and Technology department))
My poor sister had the world's worst teacher ever. Not only was she utterly incompetent (she had been moved from teaching position to teaching position more times then I can remember) she was also a complete gakker. She was the kinda teacher that yells at students when they don't understand what she's trying to say, and then mocks/yells at them when they ask her for help understanding a concept.
Ouch. I've not had that bad, but I have had two or three which get angry when they're not understood first time round and often lose work, and mark lazily if they even bother at all. Most times though, it is the student's fault.
Rented Tritium wrote:Louis CK has a really good bit about hitting kids. I'm relying on the wordfilter here to fix the swearing, so I apologize if it does't work in quotes or something.
I'm on the side that hitting kids is bad, unless other means of punishment/disincentives aren't working and it is necessary. In my experience, if the kid isn't hit often, the times where he/she is is jarring, like a bucket of icy water, which makes them go "holy gak, I was out of order."
But if it's more of a regular thing, it loses that quality, and it just becomes routine and doesn't actually do much.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/12 23:42:33
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Renegade Inquisitor with a Bound Daemon
Tied and gagged in the back of your car
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shrike wrote:Ahtman wrote: shrike wrote:Not sure how it is with others, but with me if I get bad grades, it's all on me.
Which is fair enough, it is usually my fault, teachers being responsible for bad grades is far less common.
(Though it is still infuriating when it is a teacher's fault (I'm looking at you, Design and Technology department))
They have a Design and Technology department in High School over there?
Yup, there are D&T departments in most schools AFAIK- Here they have ( IIRC) three wood/metalwork rooms, a graphics/theory work room and a computer room for it.
My highschool had a D&T section. But along with the arts departments, the funding was cut to near nothing to fund their (constantly and consistently losing) sports programs. As someone who skipped almost all of his breaks to work in those labs, it was infuriating. We can afford to give special schooling to people who are good at slapping a puck around (and they were all pompous asses because of it), but those with skill actually applicable to real life use get completely shafted.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/14 00:02:26
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Aspirant Tech-Adept
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Well my generation had Steve McQueen and Tina Turner, these poor sods have Dog the Bounty Hunter and Paris Hilton.
I pity the poor fools.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/14 00:12:02
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Fixture of Dakka
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JWhex wrote:Well my generation had Steve McQueen and Tina Turner, these poor sods have Dog the Bounty Hunter and Paris Hilton.
I pity the poor fools.
I honestly believe that I should've been born around 30 years before I actually was. The only thing that wasn't around then that I currently like is the internet and the lord of the rings films and SBG.
Skittles were made in '74, so I could live the first 8 years of my life without them.
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JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles.
corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day.
greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid. |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/14 00:48:16
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Renegade Inquisitor with a Bound Daemon
Tied and gagged in the back of your car
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shrike wrote:JWhex wrote:Well my generation had Steve McQueen and Tina Turner, these poor sods have Dog the Bounty Hunter and Paris Hilton.
I pity the poor fools.
I honestly believe that I should've been born around 30 years before I actually was. The only thing that wasn't around then that I currently like is the internet and the lord of the rings films and SBG.
Skittles were made in '74, so I could live the first 8 years of my life without them.
Watch Midnight in Paris.
I know, Owen Wilson is in it. Don't worry, he doesn't bite.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/14 00:50:48
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Powerful Orc Big'Un
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Fafnir wrote: shrike wrote:JWhex wrote:Well my generation had Steve McQueen and Tina Turner, these poor sods have Dog the Bounty Hunter and Paris Hilton. I pity the poor fools. I honestly believe that I should've been born around 30 years before I actually was. The only thing that wasn't around then that I currently like is the internet and the lord of the rings films and SBG. Skittles were made in '74, so I could live the first 8 years of my life without them. Watch Midnight in Paris. I know, Owen Wilson is in it. Don't worry, he doesn't bite. I love that movie, largely because I've always wanted to live, at least for a time, in a past time. Heck, that time for me has always been Paris in the '20s. And in the rain. I'm essentially a nerd Gil Pender. ~Tim?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/14 00:58:56
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Zealous Sin-Eater
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''What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?''
The perception that this generation is douchey.
Ta-DAAAA!!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/14 05:39:15
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Kid_Kyoto
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Kovnik Obama wrote:''What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?''
The perception that this generation is douchey.
Ta-DAAAA!!
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But it is, at least as much as every generation prior, albeit in other ways.
I mean, the 24 year old guy I work with has never heard of REM. WTF?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/14 06:42:01
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Ultramarine Librarian with Freaky Familiar
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What's the root cause of this generation's douchiness? Why, the precvious generations douchiness!
I mean, come on, it's not like teenagers were totally respectful before the 1980s.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/14 07:05:00
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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"Call of Duty is making the young people idiots and absoloute douches" -Queen victoria
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/14 08:08:49
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Anti-Armour Swiss Guard
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daedalus wrote:
But it is, at least as much as every generation prior, albeit in other ways.
I mean, the 24 year old guy I work with has never heard of REM. WTF?
You say that like not knowing whom REM are is a bad thing.
Oh, what I would give for that innocence again. To not know of REM.
Not one of my favourites, but up there on the pretentiousness bus alongside U2 and Radiohead.
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I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/14 11:04:18
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Surely only U2 get to go on the second floor of the bus? I doubt they'd share it.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/27 08:14:03
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Anti-Armour Swiss Guard
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REM are DRIVING the bus.
Radiohead and U2 are just passengers.
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I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/27 12:37:45
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Old Sourpuss
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REM are those shiny happy people right?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/27 13:05:20
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Yeah, they also lost their religion. Heretics.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/27 13:08:25
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Executing Exarch
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Its the end of the world as we know it.
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Blacksails wrote:
Its because ordinance is still a word.
However, firing ordinance at someone isn't nearly as threatening as firing ordnance at someone.
Ordinance is a local law, or bill, or other form of legislation.
Ordnance is high caliber explosives.
No 'I' in ordnance.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/27 16:04:31
Subject: Re:What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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My perception of the world is different, mostly because I am in all of the honors classes. I will tell you three of my experiences in 1) classes that didn't have an alternative higher level track and 2) with one student who is in one of my classes getting C's and in no other honors curriculum except HA social studies(which isn't very demanding at all) and 3)another irritating, very vocal, very uninformed(nicely put, as well as a horrible combination)
1) So, its class E. Most students enter class E about 3 minutes before the bell rings. Student A always "cleverly" taps my shoulder on the right while he/ she walks to his/ her seat on the left. I always respond by " hey ______" to which his/ her crush(B) on the right side always giggles at. (his/ her crush is also in a relationship w/ a different person) The teacher, lets call him/her Mr. Smith, tells everyone to be quiet after the bell rings. It takes 30 seconds, after which another student walks in, and takes his/her place in the front row, after french kissing his/ her partner for about 3 or 4 minutes right outside the class door. The typical day consists of Mr. Smith attempting to get everyones attention for his easier than average curriculum. I know that about 4 people sleep a day in Mr Smiths class. The typical spectrum of grades for a test is A A A A A B D D F F F. I don't know how B gets A's, considering student B and student A have conversations across the room each day(they have picked up the skill of reading lips) Mr. Smith is visibly frustrated most days. While practicing for a class next year, he sometimes talks about his frustration with this class, and according to a friend, also brought up the fact that another low level class was doing extremely poorly. He puts alot of thought into his lessons, and its a shame nobody cares enough to play attention( well, about 21/2 of the class, with about 1/4 the class paying attention on and off)
2)In my english class we were assigned a debate on the death penalty. about 5 people(including me) where against it, and everyone else (20 people) were for it. The day of the debate, a sub came in, so our strict teacher wasn't around to keep it civil. When I presented some facts about the cost of the affair, as well as cases of people proven innocent after killed, some classmates started saying that it was their fault for being killed. But anyway, this student started talking with a friend. Things started getting very vulgar. For not taking their side, I got a few rumors started against me that day, all for having a different viewpoint then them. The particularly vulgar student spent the rest of the year attempting to harass me. I have seen the student cheat on 3 of her tests with a nook.
3) Someone at my lunch table started arguing that the government should cut NASA, because "space exploration was pointless" I brought up that NASA was also in charge of aviation research. He also said that we don't need any more aircraft, and that we can just use our existing aircraft and drones. So, I asked him what we would do when the sun went out, or the enviorment changed drastically and we didn't have spacecraft. He said "we could go underground"- a ninth grader who doesn't understand photosynthesis and the food chain. I tried explaining this to him, but he continued his argument, saying that the money would better be put into the NBA?
"Disengage, disengage, danger of mental osmosis!"(humor, not serious)
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and 40k was like McDonalds - you could get it anywhere - it wouldn't necessarily satisfy, but it was probably better than nothing.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/27 16:22:17
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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If the sun goes out we're all dead. NASA's pretty fething irrelevant at that point.
We don't need NASA for aviation research. Its pretty irrelevant for that.
#1 and #2 sound pretty normal. When people spread rumors about you, just punch them in the face repeatedly until they admit the error of their ways.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/06/27 16:54:51
Subject: What's the root cause of this generation's...douchey-ness?
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Incubus
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Frazzled wrote:If the sun goes out we're all dead. NASA's pretty fething irrelevant at that point.
We don't need NASA for aviation research. Its pretty irrelevant for that.
#1 and #2 sound pretty normal. When people spread rumors about you, just punch them in the face repeatedly until they admit the error of their ways.
When the sun goes out, we are going to have a few million years of research into stuff like stasis, multigenerational ships, maybe FTL. There is a problem with 1 & 2 being normal.
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Quote from chromedog
and 40k was like McDonalds - you could get it anywhere - it wouldn't necessarily satisfy, but it was probably better than nothing.
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