Please tell me not to go next door and appropriate some cookies. They'll just make me feel sick. I have no idea why I want them.
Aren't they something. They're like butterflies, or little pieces of wrapping paper blowing around.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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.
sarameg - Nov 14, 2007 5:59:57 am PST #2188 of 10001
Jesse - Nov 14, 2007 6:00:06 am PST #2189 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I am really not into being at work today.
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".
I don't know anything about this particular situation, but I will say that suspending kids doesn't actually do anything to stop them from coming to the school to do bad things, if that's what they want.
Jesse - Nov 14, 2007 6:00:47 am PST #2190 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, and apparently I missed two different sets of cupcakes yesterday! WTF.
Gudanov - Nov 14, 2007 6:02:24 am PST #2191 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Oh, and apparently I missed two different sets of cupcakes yesterday! WTF.
Maybe you have some sort of mental block that prevents you from seeing cupcakes. Have you had bad experiences with cupcakes in the past?
Jesse - Nov 14, 2007 6:03:52 am PST #2192 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Heh. No, I was out of the office, and the cupcakes were in the office.
Glamcookie - Nov 14, 2007 6:04:25 am PST #2193 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Happy b-day, ChiKat!
amych - Nov 14, 2007 6:06:21 am PST #2194 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Heh. No, I was out of the office, and the cupcakes were in the office.
I have this all the time. My department is in the next building or a bus ride away, depending on which location I'm in today. They're very good about sending out an email that says, hey, everyone, there are cupcakes, but are there ever any left...?
Nutty - Nov 14, 2007 6:08:14 am PST #2195 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
The real question is, what makes these parents think that a lawsuit against the school is the best way to educate their children? "Junior, nobody can stop you from acting out Scarface if you really want to! Go ahead and call your little sister a bitch, too!"
Thanks a lot, mom and dad.
And I admit, there's a part of me that thinks, "You're under 18. You have no free speech yet."
Right. There are a jillion court cases to the effect that while the under-18 do have some rights, most of those rights are adulterated by a school's interest in being safe and orderly.
(There's also the "you're a dumbass" angle, by which I mean I could only laugh at you harder if you joked about being a terrorist in an airport security line.)
Sue - Nov 14, 2007 6:10:45 am PST #2196 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Happy birthday ChiKat!
Aims - Nov 14, 2007 6:11:30 am PST #2197 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
The real question is, what makes these parents think that a lawsuit against the school is the best way to educate their children?
And that's huge part of it for me, too. I don't know what went on in the homes of these kids. Maybe they got the Red Foreman Foot Up The Ass, but even so, the school district is NOT TO BLAME for your child being an idiot. These parents are asking for monetary compensation for having raised idiot children.