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# Someone needed five across the eyes and didn't get it
From Bullied teen awarded income for life
During the case, the judge heard that, while at Woodberry Public School in 1995, Mr Cox was “throttled” by an older boy, and received compensation from the Victims Compensation Tribunal over the attack. By the time he went to high school, his mother said he thought school a “scary proposition”.
For the first three years of primary school I didn’t have any friends at all, I just wandered the school grounds aimlessly at lunch. I do remember getting beat up a couple of times, but I didn’t get any compo.
“He didn’t like crowds, he didn’t like teachers, didn’t like the work,” she said.
Me either!! Unfortunately for me, my parents are unreconstructed normal people and said, in actions more than words, “Suck it up, bitch!”
His mother said he rarely went out, had no friends, and was on a pension. “He just locks himself in his room playing PlayStation games,” she said.
And he’s getting more compo?!? Fuck me, this is a gravy train I need to get on. With a little concentration and effort, I could lock myself in my room and play playstation all day.
In my neighbourhood there was a family that babied their kids and didn’t force them to play by the man’s game. One of them ended up having a breakdown in Sydney, presumably as an after effect of all the speed she was taking. The other one is 28 and lives at home with his parents and works as a Stop/Go man.
In my day, we called them dropouts and blamed their parents for being losers. Apparently now we call them disadvantaged and blame the school system for being what it is – prison for kids.
Our infantilisation of ourselves continues apace. Next step, some kid sues the school system cause the other kids wouldn’t pick him for cricket games, and wins.
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# The Triumph of Laziness over Adversity
In late February my desktop computer started failing – to be precise it started rebooting spontaneously. I am pretty sure it started while I was out of town for a couple of days; I remember getting home, turning on the monitor and thinking “I didn’t log out, did I?”.
The desktop has since become unusable which I believe I have mentioned before. Allow me to then catalog the tasks that result directly from this that I am just too lazy to do.
- Memtest the ram chips. As a friend has already told me, if I can’t even motivate to do this simple task, there is no hope for me at all.
- Install win 2k on a spare box I have (Pentium 333 I think) and use it as a print server. It should be noted that this is already a lazier solution than my original plan to work out how to run the printer in linux.
- Even lazier, move the printer from my computer to Ds
- Extract my mail archives from the old hard drive and copy them to my notebook, so that I can access a variety of important emails.
To date, every time I think of doing one of these things, somehow my brain takes over and starts up World of Warcraft.
I…I am going to have a problem with the second step; don’t even get me started on the ludicrousness of steps 3, 5-7, and 11.
