Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I think that, in generations past, the people who believed themselves entitled to do things like defy the laws of physics were the ones who didn't survive to adulthood. They drowned, and fell off cliffs, and stuck their arms in wood-chippers, and so forth.
Don't forget to factor in that in times past there was far less in the way of forensic investigation should such a person annoy people sufficiently to have a dramatic effect on their lifespan.
Well, some of the students are saying there aren't any fines for people who throw up elsewhere ...
But it really is less of a hassle when people puke on the street (etc.)! Puking on the bus is exceptionally nasty.
Yes, a decrease in child mortality is to blame for adult entitlement issues!!
There may be more truth to that than is comfortable to think. When idiots survive, idiots thrive.
It's almost noon, and I get to leave at 3:00, and I'm thinking, "Only two more hours before I can leave." See, 'cuz I don't count the hour when I'm at lunch....
Obvioiusly the Darwin Awards need more competitors!
My worst "entitled student" story is the girl who insisted she didn't deserve a D on her calculus test, because she "studied really hard" and she's "a good student." She was furious, and was practically screaming at the TA. She didn't have any argument about any of her answers that were marked wrong being actually correct, or anything like that -- it wasn't her answers that deserved a higher grade, it was her.
This happened often in my last couple of years teaching. If the student was particularly obnoxious, my response was usually "If I came home with a 90, my dad would ask why I didn't know 10% of the material. Do you really think I'm going to have sympathy for you?"
The students at - Georgetown, I think it is - are all up in arms because of new rules to cut back on the amount of drinking. The latest "outrage" is that they've instituted a $200 fine for anyone who throws up on the bus.
Of course, if the drinking age was still at 18 like it was when I was there, they could just drink on campus with the Jesuits like we did and avoid the buses all together.
Well, they've cracked down on drinking on and off campus. The group house wild drunken party situation has the neighbors up in arms, so the college is trying to placate them ... and keep the police from breaking up the parties. I mean, restricting a party to just ONE keg of beer? limiting the number of people at the party? The students are just outraged!
A review of Texas State Fair food items.
Those turkey legs are awesome. Mr. Jane was at the fair last night, and we're both going this weekend.
I have a migraine, a meeting at 1pm, and a desire to commit aggravated assault.