0010 -- how many times do you have to explain infer versus imply to people for them to really understand?
0011 -- man, now I really want a backyard BBQ steak extravaganza (because I like steak, not because I hate Hindus). Food smell related, who are these utter twats who constantly use the microwaves at work to heat up fish. IT SMELLS SO AWFUL. Our break room is huge -- seats up to 75 people -- and when people do this the entire room smells like a hot fart shot through a tuna sandwich. Ugh.
My angry is mostly geared towards my sister's science teacher right now. Are we so desperate for teachers that we'll hire total incompetent morons to teach "our" children? I don't usually rag on teachers because I know the job is totally thankless and kids suck, but this woman is absolutely terrible. I can't get involved because I'm not the "parent" and my sister doesn't want my mom to know. Frustrating!
it's not even about infer vs imply -- even if you use "imply" correctly, claiming that another person has (in actual fact) implied something requires you to be able to read the speaker's mind. The implications of words are never directly observable; they can be inferred (ha!) or suspected, but they cannot be known by anyone except the speaker, unless the speaker chooses to say "I am, indeed, implying that [insert thing]".
I don't find the smell of fish awful, unless it's rotting fish, in which case ew. If your break room is so huge and yet microwave smells linger long enough to be bothersome, maybe the ventilation is inadequate.
Well, this is South Carolina, so I wouldn't be surprised if she were. (This is a school district where the only history class offered in 8th grade is South Carolina history.) No, I believe it's called "physical science," which is basically pre-physics, so it hasn't come up yet. Her incompetence is mostly in re: her lessons and her grading policies (e.g. Sam worked on a moving plate tectonics project for over a week, the woman lost it, then gave her an 80. The grading scale is adjusted here, so an 80 is a C. I am, at this point, totally used to her asinine and incorrectly titled "rubric" she uses for grading; it wasn't C work, and she didn't let Sam do the project over.) Sam's current project is two parts, filling out a multiple choice worksheet that "details" your project and doing a 2-4 minute experiment/presentation relating to motion/force. The multiple choice worksheet is worth just as many points as the actual presentation (50/100)!
OMG I COULD GO ON FOREVER. Thank goodness the school year is almost over.
I want to print your point 0101 out on a giant piece of paper, in thick, black font, and hang it under the '40 Days of Life' sign/advertisement whenever someone hangs that (the 40 days) up on the pillars of one of the building entrances here on my campus.
It still makes me sad to think that this one guy, who was in my previous Design classes, can sound like a great guy- up until one finds out that he's an organizer in this city's '40 Days of Life' group, and has actually said, out-loud, in front of several classmates- that he thinks that LGBT people are just as bad, or worse (if I'm remembering correctly) than murderers and people who lie. /sad-angry ramble (sorry, got carried away there. ^^;)
Is 40 Days of Life another one of those right-wing Christian anti-choice youth snorefests where they do nothing except congratulate each other on being better than everyone else?
a great guy It's always a great guy leading these groups. Someone needs to remind him that a) the act of ejaculation does not a father make and b) lying to yourself is worse than lying to others. He should just find a nice boy to cuddle and get over himself already. :D
40 Days is one of the ones that goes and protests at Planned Parenthood centers. According to him, he and his group pray for the mothers and so on and so forth, and talks about how he can only imagine what kind of a hard time the woman is going through. 9_9
FFFFFF. I wish. He is, for all intents and purposes, quite happily married to a nice Christian female.
And as much as I'd like to have a go at debating with him- he's got a definite good skill in terms of speaking/debating, whereas I've got a short fuse in these topics in terms of how fast it takes me to be unable to not come off as sounding completely sarcastic. Too bad there's no way to respond with images/gifs IRL.
oh my god, what a blithering idiot. Apparently he missed the memo that abortions are barely 10% of what Planned Parenthood clinics do. If he's got the energy to pray for 10% of the women seeking clinic services, you'd think he'd have the energy to get at least a rudimentary education about women's health before organising rallies. I hope his marriage fails and he and his cronies all die in a fire. :D (I am apparently quite bloodthirsty when it comes to idiots who interfere with the right to choose -- must be all that violent and chaotic agnosticism talking.)
I think sarcasm is a totally acceptable tool of debate. People who don't think so are just not clever enough to use it. >.>
Too bad there's no way to respond with images/gifs IRL. OH MY GOD THIS. I WISH THIS AT LEAST ONCE A DAY.
0011 made me remember this girl who keeps complaining about "the immigrants" (literally) she shares a building with, and blaming them for anything that goes wrong at her place. Referring to somebody as "the immigrants" is bad enough, but this assclown is a British person living in France, what the fuck does she think she is?
a British person living in France I guess she has never actually looked up "immigrant" and thinks that "immigrant" means "person of colour". That's my best guess. What an ass!
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0011 -- man, now I really want a backyard BBQ steak extravaganza (because I like steak, not because I hate Hindus). Food smell related, who are these utter twats who constantly use the microwaves at work to heat up fish. IT SMELLS SO AWFUL. Our break room is huge -- seats up to 75 people -- and when people do this the entire room smells like a hot fart shot through a tuna sandwich. Ugh.
My angry is mostly geared towards my sister's science teacher right now. Are we so desperate for teachers that we'll hire total incompetent morons to teach "our" children? I don't usually rag on teachers because I know the job is totally thankless and kids suck, but this woman is absolutely terrible. I can't get involved because I'm not the "parent" and my sister doesn't want my mom to know. Frustrating!
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I don't find the smell of fish awful, unless it's rotting fish, in which case ew. If your break room is so huge and yet microwave smells linger long enough to be bothersome, maybe the ventilation is inadequate.
Don't tell me it's a creationist.
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OMG I COULD GO ON FOREVER. Thank goodness the school year is almost over.
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Anteater. :DD
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It still makes me sad to think that this one guy, who was in my previous Design classes, can sound like a great guy- up until one finds out that he's an organizer in this city's '40 Days of Life' group, and has actually said, out-loud, in front of several classmates- that he thinks that LGBT people are just as bad, or worse (if I'm remembering correctly) than murderers and people who lie. /sad-angry ramble (sorry, got carried away there. ^^;)
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It's always a great guy leading these groups. Someone needs to remind him that a) the act of ejaculation does not a father make and b) lying to yourself is worse than lying to others. He should just find a nice boy to cuddle and get over himself already. :D
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FFFFFF. I wish. He is, for all intents and purposes, quite happily married to a nice Christian female.
And as much as I'd like to have a go at debating with him- he's got a definite good skill in terms of speaking/debating, whereas I've got a short fuse in these topics in terms of how fast it takes me to be unable to not come off as sounding completely sarcastic. Too bad there's no way to respond with images/gifs IRL.
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I think sarcasm is a totally acceptable tool of debate. People who don't think so are just not clever enough to use it. >.>
Too bad there's no way to respond with images/gifs IRL.
OH MY GOD THIS. I WISH THIS AT LEAST ONCE A DAY.
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I guess she has never actually looked up "immigrant" and thinks that "immigrant" means "person of colour". That's my best guess. What an ass!
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