The Daily Chit-Chat

[Ho-Oh]

No touching who, Don? Liiike, PDA's?

 

[donavannj]

No touching who, Don? Liiike, PDA's?

Just touching in general. (b'-')b

 

[Eldrei]

I'm fine being touched by someone..just except for gays.

 

[Ho-Oh]

Eldrei, are you a homophobe? :(

Aaand oh right Don, since... the touching rule seems weird. XD

 

[donavannj]

My english teacher is weird. I don't know. .____. He's really strict but at the same time really fun and he talks about British culture and stuff he used to do in England and stuff of that nature. He was pretty strict though towards the end of the year(after the AP Exam, yeah, it was AP English), he grew more lenient and started to make the class more fun.

I only had that one for one trimester in my sophomore year. I actually found all but one or two of the English teachers I had in high school had to be interesting (and the uninteresting one was kinda bi-polar and favored her non-AP students, though she wouldn't admit it). I only had a few boring teachers that couldn't be sidetracked, and most of my teachers weren't boring.

 

[Luck]

You seem like the kind of person that likes touching people.

Omg I don't know why but you seem like this huge troll to me. xDD

I don't care about being touched ftmp, but I am bothered by how one of my friends are. He always comes in and touches me on the shoulder and I find it a bit creepy ):

I don't mind touching people, but I usually don't go farther than a fist bump or handshake.

 

[donavannj]

And usually the AP kids here get favored over the honors/regular kids. I don't know, something with the teachers(especially my American History teacher) makes them prefer their AP students over others. More maturity, maybe?

Eh, some of the teachers are just highly judgmental and haven't been teaching long enough to know that the only difference between an AP student and a student who makes the A honor roll without AP classes is their work ethic. You can easily have intelligent discussions with non-AP students, you just gotta know what to talk about.

 

[Ho-Oh]

That's the problem with America, students not taking certain classes are suddenly less mature and the teachers don't like talking to them?

In Australia, the ones not taking the tertiary bound classes are still given attention - often encouraged to improve their grades, and if they don't, the teachers still like them for who they are, even if they're disruptive.

 

[donavannj]

Well, there was not much difference at my school until you got down to the low C or D average GPA students, other than the work ethic.

I also consider my 3.3 GPA in high school as me underachieving and procrastinating too much. But I did go to a school where overachieving is a part of the overall culture in the area.

 

[Luck]

That's the problem with America, students not taking certain classes are suddenly less mature and the teachers don't like talking to them?

In Australia, the ones not taking the tertiary bound classes are still given attention - often encouraged to improve their grades, and if they don't, the teachers still like them for who they are, even if they're disruptive.

I rarely experienced that. Every country has their share of terrible teachers, America moreso because they do little to help the situation. I can think of plenty of reasons to disrespect America and think of it as a crappy country, but only because I love being a cynic.

 

[donavannj]

Well your own personal standards are definitely more important. It's all very subjective unless you're trying to get into super highly rated schools.

Well, the thing is, I knew I could do better. I just didn't try enough until my senior year, and, even then, I skimped on some things.

I also never actually took the ACT or the SAT, and I may never have to take either.

 

[donavannj]

I rarely experienced that. Every country has their share of terrible teachers, America moreso because they do little to help the situation. I can think of plenty of reasons to disrespect America and think of it as a crappy country, but only because I love being a cynic.

Oh, Luck, you naive cynic, you. Forgetting what revolutions the United States has brought to this world. ^_^;

 

[Silver]

Well, there was not much difference at my school until you got down to the low C or D average GPA students, other than the work ethic.

I also consider my 3.3 GPA in high school as me underachieving and procrastinating too much. But I did go to a school where overachieving is a part of the overall culture in the area.

I completely agree. I just graduated with roughly a 3.35 GPA. And I was 105th out of a class of 310. And this was me basically not doing work, as you said procrastinating and underachieving.

 

[Ho-Oh]

Audy, those currently active user boxes aren't coming back like username changes...right?

 

[Luck]

There are much better countries out there, I just choose to hate it because it's not as amazing as everyone thinks. Seriously, it's annoying having to convert everything just because America didn't like the metric system for some godforsaken reason.

 

[donavannj]

Luck, last I checked, the UK also doesn't really like the metric system, either. The US didn't swap because it would presumably have been a hassle to get used to and waste a ton of public money on something most people didn't want at the time (1970s).

I completely agree. I just graduated with roughly a 3.35 GPA. And I was 105th out of a class of 310. And this was me basically not doing work, as you said procrastinating and underachieving.

I was 140th in a class of 230 with my GPA, if my memory serves. ^_^;

 

[Silver]

I was 140th in a class of 230 with my GPA, if my memory serves. ^_^;

Ah so roughly the same boat I was. Sad thing is, if I went to a school in milwaukee, I'd be top 10. Seriously, my highschool put such an emphasis on grades and such, that I actually felt bad for only graduating *** laude.

 

[Ho-Oh]

tbh I don't think the server will ever be free of that. :(

 

[Luck]

Luck, last I checked, the UK also doesn't really like the metric system, either. The US didn't swap because it would presumably have been a hassle to get used to and waste a ton of public money on something most people didn't want at the time (1970s).

Whenever America exports, they have to convert it to the metric scale or else other countries refuse to take it. It isn't really that helpful now.

Feel free to correct me, but I heard that Americans use Fahrenheit because it doesn't deal with decimals and negatives as much.

Not as amazing as everyone thinks?? Yes it kind of is. :| Try living in Iran, or Honduras, and then come and live in the USA and try to tell me it isn't a higher quality of life.

Is it "better" than places like England? Subjective, but I think the majority would agree that it's an equal quality of living. The United States is a better place to live than the vast majority of the rest of the world, though.

And we can't just convert to metric over night, the logistics of our entire country switching is nightmareish. I'm sure it'll happen eventually but for now, we're taught both imperial and metric in school, so... :P

It depends on where you live. I'd much rather live in Denmark or Sweden, since they have a higher standard of living. The only huge advantage that I think America has is the Constitution. Germany screws up by jailing everyone who denies the Holocaust.

 

[donavannj]

tbh I don't think the server will ever be free of that. :(

Well barring a new game release, it should calm down a couple months after B & W get released. (b'-')b Just guessing, though.

EDIT:

Whenever America exports, they have to convert it to the metric scale or else other countries refuse to take it. It isn't really that helpful now.

Feel free to correct me, but I heard that Americans use Fahrenheit because it doesn't deal with decimals and negatives as much.

Thing is, companies already print that on the labels, so that point is moot. It's the expense of changing all those highway signs and such that is the big issue nowadays.

Nah. It's just what we've been using for a while now. Though I think its better for telling the temperature in the livable range.