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[CatrionaGrace]

It was delicious, but I could only eat it in the dark (with the TV on) and without looking at it

Sounds like sex with a visually unappealing partner.

 

[Louanne Learning]

You can always close your eyes

 

[Set2Stun]

LOL what an analogy, dayum.

 

[Louanne Learning]

dayum.

Ah! we're using euphemisms. How about "hot dang?"

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Ah! we're using euphemisms. How about "hot dang?"

That should be "hawt da-yung". *tips hat*

Seeing as we're discussing euphemisms, how about "fiddle faddle"? Or "fooferaw"? Oh, Tuttle's Sunday trousers!

 

[Homer Potvin]

Rough one for the Jays. Raleigh and Suarez hit like 110 homers combined this year.

 

[Set2Stun]

Rough one for the Jays. Raleigh and Suarez hit like 110 homers combined this year.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Long day. Longer days coming up on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. I have never taken three days to make this trip. Never. Two ten or twelve hour days of driving just don't sound appealing anymore.

 

[Louanne Learning]

We used to take two days to drive to Florida, but this past March when we went, we took 3 days, and I did like the slower pace.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

My pre-travel antsiness is in ascendance right now. I decided on my route and made my lodging arrangements last night. Since it's only six hours to my next stop, I'll have time to visit the zoo.

 

[GrahamLewis]

My pre-travel antsiness is in ascendance right now. I decided on my route and made my lodging arrangements last night. Since it's only six hours to my next stop, I'll have time to visit the zoo.

Where will that be?

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Salina.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Do you remember the moment when you realized not everyone was like you? I think it happened when I was around 14.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

I don't ever remember thinking everyone was like me.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I guess I came late to understanding the nature of human diversity.

 

[Set2Stun]

I learned way, way too late that other people do not share the same values as you might. I really believed that most people were honest, like they wouldn't steal even if they knew they could get away with it, or they wouldn't lie and manipulate to hurt others and benefit themselves.

But it's shockingly common, and these amoral/immoral/unethical folks will perform incredible mental gymnastics to justify their actions so that they can live with them. They still believe they are good people. It's weird!

Anyway, it's about time to heat up some leftover pizza and watch some nonsense on TV for a bit. May the Jays find a way to win again tomorrow.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I learned way, way too late that other people do not share the same values as you might.

When I became a teacher, I was surprised by how many didn't do their homework. I thought everyone did their homework!

 

[Maycontainthunder]

When I became a teacher, I was surprised by how many didn't do their homework. I thought everyone did their homework!

Never did any homework nor revision. From my perspective any qualification is just a piece of paper that doesn't prove anything. The actual ability to do something isn't being tested in any way. In my books it's called 'the piece of paper mentality'.

This, real world, mentality towards qualifications allows utterly useless, inept people who can pass an exam to have important jobs and woefully fail at them. Yet walking out that door, rejected because they don't have a piece of paper, is someone with the ability to do the job flawlessly.

Makes you think doesn't it?

 

[Louanne Learning]

Well, in my experience, students who did their homework learned the best.

 

[GrahamLewis]

Well, in my experience, students who did their homework learned the best.

Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never considered not doing assigned homework. Sometimes I struggled with it, procrastinated about it, but always did it. And so did everyone I knew. Seems like kids who didn't do it, didn't stay around. I'm sure some of it could be deemed make-work, but by far the most seemed sincerely intended to enhance learning. And in my experience it worked