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Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter  

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.


tommyrot - Nov 14, 2007 5:19:42 am PST #2171 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I always go there when I need a good offending.

Where do you go for a good argument? Or good abuse?


Gudanov - Nov 14, 2007 5:20:33 am PST #2172 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

There probably is a site at www.goodabuse.com, but I'm not going there.


Aims - Nov 14, 2007 5:24:02 am PST #2173 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

There's an interesting case going on at a public school not far from us.

A group of five high school kids had pictures on a MySpace page that depicted them with guns, drugs, and money. The pictures were reported to the school, the school suspended the five students. (I'll bet you can see where this is going...) Now, the parents of the students are suing the school district for various things.

Here's a Google page of articles: [link]

In one of the articles (Ann Arbor News, Jo Collins Mathias), one of the students attorneys is saying, essentially, that the school system is breaking the law blah blah blah legalcakes.

I say, "Well, so are the FUCKING KIDS HAVING GUNS AND DRUGS."

The kids claim it was all fake, the school says, "You can see their school ID's AND some of the pictures were taken on school grounds."

To which I also say, "How did the freaking fake guns and drugs get onto school property???"

Anyway, it's slow in here lately, my boss is gone, I want to fuck around, and thought I'd start a discussion.


tommyrot - Nov 14, 2007 5:27:20 am PST #2174 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Yay! I can has massage! At a chiropractor/massage place two blocks away, in 20 minutes....

You know, I often fail to appreciate how nice it is to be able to turn my head without my neck hurting.


SuziQ - Nov 14, 2007 5:29:43 am PST #2175 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Aimee -

You know if the school ignored the pictures and these kids went Columbine on the school, then someone would have pointed to those MySpace pictures and say "someone should have done something".


Gudanov - Nov 14, 2007 5:29:46 am PST #2176 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Without knowing the background, I'd probably say the school has reason to suspend them if there is evidence they were doing something inappropriate on the school grounds. If was just something the students did outside of school, then I don't think the school would have reason. It's hard to have a real definite opinion on a particular case without knowing all the details though.


tommyrot - Nov 14, 2007 5:30:51 am PST #2177 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

If was just something the students did outside of school, then I don't think the school would have reason.

OTOH, schools have suspended (and I think expelled) students for stuff done off-campus outside of school hours....


Aims - Nov 14, 2007 5:33:23 am PST #2178 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Where do you go for a good argument?

Sillyhead. I stay here!!


Sue - Nov 14, 2007 5:34:34 am PST #2179 of 10001
hip deep in pie

Which ep, Sue?

By which she means "describe any small detail in the episode and I will start reciting dialogue."

The ghost ship episode. I knew the second brother.

So far, on my second day of work. I still cannot login to the computer (I am logged in as one of my co-workers right now.) and I've already lost my keys. (you need keys to travel to the staff only floors on the elevator, and to get into the vaults.


sumi - Nov 14, 2007 5:35:34 am PST #2180 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Sue - that's so cool!

And woo hoo! We got out direct deposit slips today and it includes our increase AND the retro pay. . . oooh, I can SHOP.