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# It burns!!
I am stunned. My mind is spinning.
My child, hereafter referred to as The Wild Monkey, or tWM:
tWM had an assignment due in late August/early September.
We wrote her a note to get an extension because it was due on the day that we got back from a weekend in Bundaberg.
We then made sure the assignment was finished. We were on her back constantly to ensure the assignment was finished. I read the assignment with her after it was done to make sure it was written in English, and then read it again after she did re-write it in English.
She then emailed it to the teacher as per the agreement with said teacher.
Couple of weeks later, she prints off the assignment. Tells D “The teacher lost it and wants it handed in again.” D tells her “I want to see the report back from the teacher as soon as you get it and there better not be lost marks for lateness.”...”No no no, there won’t be” says tWM
D just got a call from the teacher…assignment was never handed in. Also, a note was forged to explain that the assignment was late because the printer was broken.
How can the kid be so dumb as to do 99% of it, all the hard stuff, and then not do the easiest 1% of the whole job, the giving to teacher part? How? I would have said it was unpossible, and yet…
I am waiting the terrifying confirmation that the note – the one explaining that the printer was broken – was printed.
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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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# South Park creators try to pre-empt media hysteria
Satan investigates reports of one of his guests dressing up as the Crocodile Hunter. He finds this person (complete with a stingray sticking out of his chest) and complains that the costume is “not cool” and that it’s “just too soon” to be doing this.
Hmmm. That sounds eerily familiar.
“To lampoon somebody’s death like that is unacceptable and so soon after the event is grossly insensitive.”
Mmm. That’ll do me for irony.
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# I no get the geekery
Paranoia is: After connecting to an unsecured wireless network, and logging into gmail specifically to send yourself a file off the notebook computer, disconnecting and then using the desktop connected to the office network to change your gmail password.
Stupidity is: Realising a few minutes later that you have a USB drive in your pocket.
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# Links for 2006-08-13
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# Links for 2006-02-23
- World of Warcraft Teaches the Wrong Things
Gamasutra editorials teaches a valuable lesson – Fucking get lives ✴
- World of Warcraft Teaches the Wrong Things
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# Links for 2006-01-05
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# Links for 2006-01-02
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# Links for 2005-12-14
- The Website Development Process
How to explain it to a non-developer. And most developers. ✴ - Strange new object found at edge of Solar System
UL is also something a theory breaker (just ask the Tolnedrans) and god damn it (no pun intended), UL is a creation god. Stick with your damn traditions, astronomers, cause they are funny! ✴ - Fuck Christmas
right on! ✴ - Torture for Dummies – Exploding the “ticking bomb” argument. By Michael Kinsley ✴
- The Website Development Process
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# Links for 2005-11-10
