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Isn't that just the very picture of a decaying empire?Quote from: Old Sting SongThe teachers told us, the Romans built this place
They built a wall and a temple, an edge of the empire
Garrison town,
They lived and they died, they prayed to their gods
But the stone gods did not make a sound
And their empire crumbled, 'til all that was left
Were some stones the workmen found
Well, we have to have that 13th aircraft carrier.
Something has to give, if you'll pardon the expression.
I'm glad your uncle made it over.
http://colorlines.com/archives/2013/05/senate_accepts_bipartisan_deal_to_kick_formerly_incarcerated_off_food_benefits.html...Because starving their kids is a great way to prevent crime.
This is the sort of shit that gives diaper fetishists a bad name...http://www.nowpublic.com/us_senator_has_diaper_fetish
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE I'M FACEBOOKING THAT!
I like drugs but I also enjoy not-drugs. This is why I'm mid-40's and could out-fight, out-fuck, and out-bender Dalek on his best day.
And, by the sounds of it, his best day has come and gone. The downside of treating your body and mind like a toilet is that you, pretty quickly, end up a useless piece of shit
For me I enjoy drugs as a break from sober. That means I need to be sober, the majority of the time, if I am going to enjoy being fucked up.
Get fucked up all the time and that becomes your normal, it's just that normal has this nasty price tag attached in money spent on drugs and physical toll.
When we were 25
all night was eight minutes
Now that we're 55
he really means all night.
Pass the lube, baby
I'm getting chafed.
I love this one. It's not gross the way a lot of the others are, it's not as funny, and because of that it feels more...poetic to me.
She does not mind my
Wheelchair, nor I her iron lung
Her stroke-slack face
and lolling trout-like tongue
My baby is a hottie
The prettiest in the home
But when we get our monkey on
The staff all puke and groan
They don't know what I know
They don't know the truth
Age doesn't stop the FABULOUS
And we are living proof.
I need an adult in government to tell me if this was terrorism or not:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/02/birmingham-murder-racially-motivated-policeQuoteA 75-year-old man stabbed to death yards from his home may have been targeted in a racially motivated attack, according to police.
Mohammed Saleem, who used a walking stick, was stabbed three times in the back as he returned home from prayers at his local mosque in Small Heath, Birmingham, on Monday night.
The blows were struck with such violence they penetrated to the front of his body.
The father of seven also had no defensive wounds in what has been described as a swift, vicious and cowardly attack by the man leading the murder investigation, Detective Superintendent Mark Payne of West Midlands police.
Officers want to trace a white man, aged 25-32, of medium height and build, spotted on CCTV footage running near the scene of the attack around the time it happened, just before 10.30pm.
Police also want to trace a seven-seat people carrier captured on CCTV, driving near the mosque with the two male occupants, both white and in their 30s, who are considered "significant witnesses".
In an emotional family appeal on Thursday, two of Saleem's daughters, Shazia Khan, 45, and Nazia Maqsood, 44, called for the attackers to hand themselves in. They tearfully described their father as a "widely respected member of the community" and "much-loved".
Payne said the possibility it was a racially motivated attack was "a significant line of inquiry" and a large number of detectives were working on the case. "To the attacker I say we will find you and we will bring you to justice," he added.
yep. bombed midterm #2 for calc 2.
I'm sorry!
HEY NIGEL
how is EOC?
I JUST
randomly thought of him.
"Couch" here. "Sofa" is a catalog word, it's not intended for people to actually say.
really? we use sofa in common parliance.
old people use settee
I've never heard "settee". It's one of those I only see in old books, like "divan" and "davenport".
OK, so I have to wonder about something.
Both of the peer reviews I did last night were on papers that were chock full of moronicity. I mean, holy fuck, what-is-wrong-with-these-people levels of random WTF. Paper 1 had random Words capitalized for no apparent Reason. Plurality and tense would change within a sentence. I am not talking "this is a bad writer", I am talking "this person has literacy issues". There were sentences of which I could not make heads or tails of the intended meaning. Like, couldn't even guess. Her work cited page was a trainwreck unto itself. And at one point, in one of her few lucid sentences, she said "It is hard to reprogram the impressionable minds of young children".
WHAT
PICK ONE, LADY. Are they hard to reprogram, or are they impressionable?
But the thing is, by that point I had already written more corrections than she had written paper, so I let it go by. What's mere terrible writing compared to the rest of this shirtwaist-factory literacy catastrophe?
Paper number 2 was totally literate, which was a relief. Unfortunately, she was factually wrong in many areas, showing me that she hadn't really done any research on the topic outside of the four sources she chose for her paper, and also she wrote the entire paper in first person.
The whole thing.
OK, the thing is. The thing that makes me wonder. This is a required writing class, so sure, of course people who suck at writing are going to take it. But it's also the SECOND OF TWO required classes, and in order to take the second one, you have to have passed the first one with a C or better.
It is, at this point, my assumption that a C is "showed up in class and turned in projects, but didn't actually learn a single fucking thing" because I can't figure out how either of these people passed the previous class at all. How do you get through A TERM AND A HALF of writing research papers without catching on to the 3rd person rule?
The mind boggles
For the love of all that is fucking good in this world, I never, ever want to teach.
Nigela, are these literacy issues, or is it a half-covered plagiarism?
Hot shit, I finally got a couch! only a month after I moved into this place!
Now I just need to get some internets so I don't have to keep pirating the wifi signal from the next building over that I only get if I sit at the south end of the breakfast bar. And a wall mount for the TV. Then I will have the ability to watch Netflix FROM MY COUCH, and all will be well with the world on days where the weather doesn't motivate me to go outside.
Thought you amerispags called them "sofas"? Don't tell me you guys have finally started learning english. Next you'll be telling me you've worked out that your pants should go underneath your shorts
