April Daily Chit Chat Page 290

Started by aragornbird April 1st, 2006 3:40 PM
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Age 30
Ontario, Canada
Seen November 19th, 2012
Posted November 30th, 2011
4,612 posts
17.4 Years
Ohhh You >8( *Dresses Ryan into Clown suit, points and laughs at* :)

John: You're lucky :<
ack! *changes back* hm... *throws emma into a garbage can* have fun in there =D

Broken- i haven't seen you posting in the DCC for awhile =/
Age 30
Ontario, Canada
Seen November 19th, 2012
Posted November 30th, 2011
4,612 posts
17.4 Years
Lol @ emma

Ryan, let me make you another avatar, just so that it can suit your awesome banner
nah, i like my avatar. besides, i'm changing it again neways xD

Broken- =O what!? how could you forget about this place? your heartless... just heartless D=
Seen August 19th, 2012
Posted June 7th, 2009
2,121 posts
17.2 Years
ack! *changes back* hm... *throws emma into a garbage can* have fun in there =D

Broken- i haven't seen you posting in the DCC for awhile =/
*Gets out of garbage can* >8O !!!!! *Slaps, Shoots in heads with a machine gun and blows up with a nuclear bomb, Before it exploded I Got in a helicopter and flew away, landed safely* xP
Age 30
Ontario, Canada
Seen November 19th, 2012
Posted November 30th, 2011
4,612 posts
17.4 Years
*Gets out of garbage can* >8O !!!!! *Slaps, Shoots in heads with a machine gun and blows up with a nuclear bomb, Before it exploded I Got in a helicopter and flew away, landed safely* xP
um.. wow xD *dies* .... *turns to a zombie and eats emma's brain* eww... it tastes like dirt. *eats RL's brain* it tastes like chicken! =D

Karasuma

It's beemo time!

Male
Onett, NJ
Seen June 1st, 2021
Posted May 6th, 2018
6,455 posts
17.7 Years
*Gets out of garbage can* >8O !!!!! *Slaps, Shoots in heads with a machine gun and blows up with a nuclear bomb, Before it exploded I Got in a helicopter and flew away, landed safely* xP
Now why would the great Emma go into a helicopter =/
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Age 35
Stalking you on the Who's Online page >D
Seen February 19th, 2014
Posted August 29th, 2010
5,062 posts
19.3 Years
*Gets out of garbage can* >8O !!!!! *Slaps, Shoots in heads with a machine gun and blows up with a nuclear bomb, Before it exploded I Got in a helicopter and flew away, landed safely* xP
You guys, posts like these aren't allowed in here. We want the DCC to contain actual discussions, not stuff like that, okay? :3

Remember: A chit-chat thread may not have a set topic at any given time, but it doesn't mean you can just make stupid pointless posts.
Spammy RPing such as *Whacks so-and-so with [insert item here]* is also seen as pointless spam and belongs in Funtime.

Ryoutarou

Seen April 2nd, 2023
Posted December 29th, 2020
30,927 posts
19.3 Years
I actually have a feeling that the teachers at my school use the unrealistically-high hopes that they have for everyone to overcompensate for their actual, secret feelings that no one will ever amount to anything higher than menial labor here. Probably our school board advises teachers to try and generate hope because the students hold none for themselves; our reputation as one of the worst and most destitute schools around is common talk. Even if they don't have any hope for us, I still think they should at least show us that we have options; I don't even know what I want to be and I have to choose a college this week. Most of our teachers worked at McDonalds or Wal-Mart before they were hired here so they have no idea how the subjects they're teaching us apply to real life o_O
Reminds me of the school that I went to back in New Orleans. It sucked and was on the verge of being shut down because it had failed two inspection tests. The teachers there were just...okay, I liked the way they were, but most people wouldn't. These teachers were realistic...and they hit students that didn't listen to them. Seriously, on my first day, one of my teachers threw a book at a student and smacked him on the neck. "Oh hell...I'm going to die..." were like the first thoughts that popped into my head that day. These teachers though, most of them actually went to good schools, but I guess they were just worn down working at the school. I'm not sure, but I think it ended up getting shut down. I left a few weeks before their third inspection came back up. The teachers there didn't care about the students all that much, there were a few nice teachers, and I lucked out on having them, but they didn't really talk to us much about jobs and after school. They said it's just something we'll have to work out for ourselves.

Also, today in class, three guys that just got back from tours of duty in Iraq came and talked to us. It was kinda cool getting some of their insight and how much the media really covers things up. Apparently there was maybe at the most only 5% on the news of what really was going on. One of them said it isn't as bad as people make it out to be, a lot of the country is really safe now and he helped work on new schools and stuff. Then they talked to us about joining and stuff, and one of them really...really latched onto me and wants me to join the army. I've been thinking about it more and more lately now that I look back on it. o_o

Dawg 2005

The original Dawg 2005

Age 30
H-Town, Texas
Seen March 17th, 2021
Posted December 30th, 2013
6,094 posts
18.2 Years
Seems that I promised myself a while ago that I would come in here more...

Anyway wanna suggest a new topic? :p
Stay on topic. XD

She has a kazillion internet brains. XD
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これは日本語である。
Seen August 19th, 2012
Posted June 7th, 2009
2,121 posts
17.2 Years
Wow, I have alot of brains xD But why do I need so many ? O.o xD

Tempest: Cool, Whats your next aim ? xD

I was going to go to some secondry school closer where I am because that was where most of my friends would be going, But when I went into that school for the two induction days to see what it's like, It was terrible, The teachers act like they're drunk, although some of them were okay.
Most of the kids in the school were drug dealers, Bullies and smokers (Chavs :o) and the classrooms stank like something I can't say xD Lets say it smelt like Poo, Oh and cigerettes. So I chose to go to a school about 10 more minutes away xP
Age 30
Ontario, Canada
Seen November 19th, 2012
Posted November 30th, 2011
4,612 posts
17.4 Years
Wow, I have alot of brains xD But why do I need so many ? O.o xD

I was going to go to some secondry school closer where I am because that was where most of my friends would be going, But when I went into that school for the two induction days to see what it's like, It was terrible, The teachers act like they're drunk, although some of them were okay.
Most of the kids in the school were drug dealers, Bullies and smokers (Chavs :o) and the classrooms stank like something I can't say xD Lets say it smelt like Poo, Oh and cigerettes. So I chose to go to a school about 10 more minutes away xP
because i keep eating them all, even though they taste bad. (duh xD)

xD drunk teachers. that sounds like a normal school =D
Age 30
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Seen May 27th, 2010
Posted January 23rd, 2009
1,377 posts
17.9 Years
Wow, I have alot of brains xD But why do I need so many ? O.o xD

Tempest: Cool, Whats your next aim ? xD

I was going to go to some secondry school closer where I am because that was where most of my friends would be going, But when I went into that school for the two induction days to see what it's like, It was terrible, The teachers act like they're drunk, although some of them were okay.
Most of the kids in the school were drug dealers, Bullies and smokers (Chavs :o) and the classrooms stank like something I can't say xD Lets say it smelt like Poo, Oh and cigerettes. So I chose to go to a school about 10 more minutes away xP
Meh, maybe 1500 posts, I don't know. XD
And that, boys and girls, is my super elbow drop.

Chairman Kaga

living in the past

Age 35
Male
Kitchen Stadium
Seen March 8th, 2013
Posted January 31st, 2012
12,044 posts
19.2 Years
Reminds me of the school that I went to back in New Orleans. It sucked and was on the verge of being shut down because it had failed two inspection tests. The teachers there were just...okay, I liked the way they were, but most people wouldn't. These teachers were realistic...and they hit students that didn't listen to them. Seriously, on my first day, one of my teachers threw a book at a student and smacked him on the neck. "Oh hell...I'm going to die..." were like the first thoughts that popped into my head that day. These teachers though, most of them actually went to good schools, but I guess they were just worn down working at the school. I'm not sure, but I think it ended up getting shut down. I left a few weeks before their third inspection came back up. The teachers there didn't care about the students all that much, there were a few nice teachers, and I lucked out on having them, but they didn't really talk to us much about jobs and after school. They said it's just something we'll have to work out for ourselves.

Also, today in class, three guys that just got back from tours of duty in Iraq came and talked to us. It was kinda cool getting some of their insight and how much the media really covers things up. Apparently there was maybe at the most only 5% on the news of what really was going on. One of them said it isn't as bad as people make it out to be, a lot of the country is really safe now and he helped work on new schools and stuff. Then they talked to us about joining and stuff, and one of them really...really latched onto me and wants me to join the army. I've been thinking about it more and more lately now that I look back on it. o_o
That school had to be awful...I'm really surprised that ours is even able to stay open as it is; we get little to no government funding and we get hit incredibly hard by the way schools are funded locally...bascially the way it happens in Ohio is that schools get the great majority of their funding from property taxes, so, naturally, rich districts get more money whether or not their students are performing. Compare that to my school where the most senior, tenured teachers may make upwards of $25,000 a year...they pretty much have to sacrifice everything to get our school up to the state standards, which are generally known to be insanely high thanks to our crackpot governor Bob Taft who believes that simply because he raises standards, children will automatically meet them, no matter what their educational circumstances are like, and if they don't, the government automatically comes in, basically fires everyone, and takes over the school. This isn't even counting the testing burdens that No Child Left Behind put on us...the school has to take a full month or two out of their normal teaching schedules for the sophomores just so they can memorize information for proficiency testing...and somehow we end up scraping an acceptable rating from the state every year; how we dp I have no idea but I suppose we're just lucky.

I can understand the way your teachers were though...if they're taking punishment into their own hands like that it sounds like they feel they're so close to having to close down the school that they shouldn't even have to care anymore. Admittedly I've always thought that teachers should have the right to be more aggressive toward students who are wasting class time and the teacher's efforts; kids should have the fear of living in poor conditions all their lives put into them somehow, though what methods could be used I have no idea. Really sucks that you had to go through that though...I think poorly-performing schools are more common than a lot of people realize, because most people who are even slightly concerned with it in the first place are the ones who have to go to them...nobody in the elite circles of society or the government could care less about it because either they're delusional, assume the best, or just couldn't care for being born with the proverbial silver spoon in their mouth.

We had an Iraq War veteran at our school last year; I accidentally made him furious because I was usually sarcastic about everthing in government class. We had some irrationally anti-American German exchange students and I never stopped mocking all the hateful things they'd say about us, so for some reason we were suppoed to write down the answer to "What is an American?" in class, so I, completely forgetting the vet was in the room, decided to lampoon the Germans as usual and wrote "Fat, smelly, retarded arab-killers" and he saw it when he was going around the room...not fun. Yeah, as long as you sign up in peacetime, the army isn't bad o_o; My one friend is joining the Navy after he graduates, and he was showing me statistics on a website about people who enter it...apparently they get a lot of free stuff from the government on top of making about $80,000 a year after five years or so, not to mention free college...and, usually seeing how the Navy is rarely used in combat anymore, it didn't look half bad. But, if you do decide to join, just make sure we aren't going to war with Iran first <_<;

Yeah...the media does cover most good news in Iraq up because the basic principle is that bad news gets more viewers...it's almost getting to the point of being subversive to our efforts now but as long as the people who are actually fighting know all of the good that's happening it really shouldn't affect them. I just hope we don't get to the point of treating them like villains like the last generations did with the Vietnam vets when they got home...admittedly it was far, far worse back then but, as always, it tends to be the governments and generals who are detached from the actual fighting rather than the soldiers who are to blame for anything.