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Arcadefire
draw a world map on a citrus fruit. hm. ever try peeling the fruit so it can be 2d and put together into 3d? (if peeled properly.)
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soul_warrior
Termite!
it could be worse.
it could be raining
which is where the first part comes into play
I wish there were menus posted in bars showing how much it is for each drink. Sure, I can go ask the bartender, but if it's busy, there's no reason to eat up his/her time to listen to me wonder what everything is. Impersonal? Hell yes. But effective, at times.
I suppose it's back to the usual "here's a $20" for whatever it is.
I suppose it's back to the usual "here's a $20" for whatever it is.
GoodEnoughForMe
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One of my English professors is an idiot.
She wanted us to write a newspaper type article on a social group at our university; sports, band, nerds, etc. Newspaper type article. Now, I wrote for an award winning school newspaper in high school, and my teacher was picked as Michigan's best journalism teacher two years ago, so I dare say I know how to write an article.
I got a C- because my article's conclusion did not some up my thesis and all my previous paragraph's points.
First off, the fact that she is assigning a thesis statement in a newspaper article is idiotic. They don't happen in articles. Secondly, a newspaper article does not have a conclusion liek a research paper. There usualy isn't much of one. Typically, because readers never read an entire article, you try to get both the most important and most interesting facts in the first few paragrahs, and then it goes into the more dull information overtime, since a lot of people only read the first paragraph or so. While the article doesn't always end awkwardly, the last paragraph isn't really a summnation. Usually, you might get one sentence or two that gives a finsihing statement. Sometimes you don't even get one if space is hard to come by. It's not a lengthy conclusion.
So I went to talk to her, and she's like "well, I wanted it like a newspaper article in its narrative and format, but I still wanted it like a paper a little."
WTH? Do you know what you're talking about?
Then we watch Gattaca and she says in a decade or so we'll have genetically engineered superbabies like in the movie and we'll aget a caste system. What an idiot.
She wanted us to write a newspaper type article on a social group at our university; sports, band, nerds, etc. Newspaper type article. Now, I wrote for an award winning school newspaper in high school, and my teacher was picked as Michigan's best journalism teacher two years ago, so I dare say I know how to write an article.
I got a C- because my article's conclusion did not some up my thesis and all my previous paragraph's points.
First off, the fact that she is assigning a thesis statement in a newspaper article is idiotic. They don't happen in articles. Secondly, a newspaper article does not have a conclusion liek a research paper. There usualy isn't much of one. Typically, because readers never read an entire article, you try to get both the most important and most interesting facts in the first few paragrahs, and then it goes into the more dull information overtime, since a lot of people only read the first paragraph or so. While the article doesn't always end awkwardly, the last paragraph isn't really a summnation. Usually, you might get one sentence or two that gives a finsihing statement. Sometimes you don't even get one if space is hard to come by. It's not a lengthy conclusion.
So I went to talk to her, and she's like "well, I wanted it like a newspaper article in its narrative and format, but I still wanted it like a paper a little."
WTH? Do you know what you're talking about?
Then we watch Gattaca and she says in a decade or so we'll have genetically engineered superbabies like in the movie and we'll aget a caste system. What an idiot.
A thesis in an article? It's not asserting anything, it's just reporting.
Glad I'm done with insane English teachers.
Glad I'm done with insane English teachers.
azzaman333
meh
Some people have no hope.
GoodEnoughForMe
n.m.s.s.
Yeah, it's too bad cause my otehr English teacher is freakin' awesome.
jeps
Arcadefire
two english teachers? wierd.
anyways, my language differentiating skills are plummeting.
i was conversing in hebrew when instead of saying "mishehu" I said "quelqu'un" (both mean someone or somebody). Then I said "désolé" instead of "sliha" (sorry).
Gah. Multilingualism has its downsides...
anyways, my language differentiating skills are plummeting.
i was conversing in hebrew when instead of saying "mishehu" I said "quelqu'un" (both mean someone or somebody). Then I said "désolé" instead of "sliha" (sorry).
Gah. Multilingualism has its downsides...
GoodEnoughForMe
n.m.s.s.
One of my major's is English: Creative Writing, so I have a Thought and Writing class (crap) and Fiction and Poetry (cool).
soul_warrior
Termite!
did you tell her that it was not understood from her mission statement, take it back and revise?
and yes.
i agree with you.
she be daft.
Mirc
Not mIRC!!!
I can't believe this...
I am talking (via email) with the organizers of a certain guitar festival for 3 months now. It doesn't bother me that much that I have to send them something like 5 emails for them to give me 1 answer, but this is incredible:
I asked them if I can arrive two days later than the beginning of the competition, as I was not going to participate in the second round. My reason is that I will be at the GFA guitar competition in Los Angeles until that time. They said (this happened in August or so) something like yes, sure, you can arrive later, it's no problem, everything is fine, the sky is blue, etc.
Since then, I've been talking to them about this and setting up all the details (everything seemed fine). About 2 and a half weeks ago, they were supposed to answer me an email about the transport, since it's all happening in an obscure town in Spain. They didn't, so 3 days ago I sent them more than one, as usual.
They said: "Of course, you must attend the opening festivity of the competition. No participant to the festival that does not attend the opening can take part in neither the competition nor the festival itself. You do not need any means of transportation since we will pick up all the competitors from the Madrid airport, a day before the opening".
How stupid can you be?? I told you "a day before the opening" I will be 10,000 km away, over the ocean!!![[pissed]](/images/smilies/pissed.gif "Pissed [pissed]")
How can this be true?
I bought plane tickets worth thousands of euro!! It's unbelievable!! They are pretending all the previous emails did not exist!
Do you think that if they actually don't allow me to participate, I will be able to sue them?
Because I'm not just going to sit and watch how I lose the plane tickets and hotel reservation worth about as much as my family earns in 5-6 months!!
I am talking (via email) with the organizers of a certain guitar festival for 3 months now. It doesn't bother me that much that I have to send them something like 5 emails for them to give me 1 answer, but this is incredible:
I asked them if I can arrive two days later than the beginning of the competition, as I was not going to participate in the second round. My reason is that I will be at the GFA guitar competition in Los Angeles until that time. They said (this happened in August or so) something like yes, sure, you can arrive later, it's no problem, everything is fine, the sky is blue, etc.
Since then, I've been talking to them about this and setting up all the details (everything seemed fine). About 2 and a half weeks ago, they were supposed to answer me an email about the transport, since it's all happening in an obscure town in Spain. They didn't, so 3 days ago I sent them more than one, as usual.
They said: "Of course, you must attend the opening festivity of the competition. No participant to the festival that does not attend the opening can take part in neither the competition nor the festival itself. You do not need any means of transportation since we will pick up all the competitors from the Madrid airport, a day before the opening".
How stupid can you be?? I told you "a day before the opening" I will be 10,000 km away, over the ocean!!
How can this be true?I bought plane tickets worth thousands of euro!! It's unbelievable!! They are pretending all the previous emails did not exist!
Do you think that if they actually don't allow me to participate, I will be able to sue them?
Because I'm not just going to sit and watch how I lose the plane tickets and hotel reservation worth about as much as my family earns in 5-6 months!!
GoodEnoughForMe
n.m.s.s.
It's all good, I am going to make a lot of quips at her in my Gattaca review I have to write. "Gattaca, like many science-fiction mediums, tends to pray on the ignorant's inability to see developing technology as a benefit to humanity rather than harm." Something like that, for example.
Swedishguy
Deity
I have a dislike of irritating people that says obvious facts all the time.
carmen510
Deity
Mom is SO annoying, first, she keeps on lecturing about how I wasn't 'paying attention' (AKA, looking somewhere else, while I clearly heard) to the teacher in Social Studies. Then, she kept on rambling on the assignment I handed in, a paper with projection answers, she was like, I saw different stuff on other peoples' papers, and I was like, THEY ARE DIFFERENT ANSWERS ON DIFFERENT TYPES OF PAPER. Then she was like, why didn't you hand in the questions. Ummm... Because firstly, noone else did, secondly, the teacher has them.
Then she also rambles on how my speech is impaired, when she can't even say thinks, she says thinshk or another example, world is pronounced worldth.
Then she also rambles on how my speech is impaired, when she can't even say thinks, she says thinshk or another example, world is pronounced worldth.
GoodEnoughForMe
n.m.s.s.
Moms still rock though.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
Sludge Bomb can't be taught but to a few select Pokemon, none of which are in my party, despite two of them being Poison type.
Trajan12
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I'm so pissed right now! My mom's on that "if you don't believe in god you have to go to church every sunday" BS. And now not only that but she won't let me get a job, and also won't give me any money so I'm pretty much broke. 
what the hell. "if you don't believe in god you have to go to church every sunday?"I'm so pissed right now! My mom's on that "if you don't believe in god you have to go to church every sunday" BS. And now not only that but she won't let me get a job, and also won't give me any money so I'm pretty much broke.
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