[spiral]

Mmm well... what can I add from my experience...

-most programmers never comment the code they write
-all french Army recruiters lie
-most Ivory Coast state officials or employees are corrupt

I think that's about it

[1000 yrd. stare]

The whores who meander on sunset between Fairfax and La Brea are ripping you off.

[IVnugzftwXX]

For the love of god, if you don't want to be called by tele-marketers, ask to be put on their "Do not Call List"

There is an actual button for them to click on. However if you do not ask for that and just voice your disinterest you will just simply be re entered into the system for another person to call you. If you are an asshole on the phone it is very easy to make sure you get called back very soon and very often until being asked to be put on the DNC list.

Worked in plenty of food places, they are all nasty...I've worked in country clubs, mexican places, and fast food, and many friends in the sanwich/pizza places. I still eat it fairly often knowing this. I mean people don't get sick. Although the shit can get nasty, I've spit in peoples ranch, put visine in their drink, my friend would spit on pizzas, it is all pretty bad. But fairly warranted, if you are nice to your food handler, they will be nice to you...but NEVER fuck with the people who handle your food.

Grocery Store -- When you walk in to most places they make you walk through a bunch of bullshit up front they are trying to sell. Some places will make you like a cattle call going through the shit. If you pissed me off in the store, I'm going to make sure your bread is flat when i TOSS that shit in your car and your eggs will be scrambled by the time you get home.

[IVnugzftwXX]

Also for all the friends I've had that worked at SUBWAY's, they always get fucked up at work, i mean always. I've seen it in different towns with different subways, it never fails they are always getting drunk/high at work. Especially the ones that stay open late. So you may have to repeat what you want on your sandwich more than once.

[Triple-s]

Originally Posted by lurch

This one would be of interest to anyone with school aged kids. My mom and girlfriend are both elementary school teachers. I know it's kinda long, but if you have kids in school, you should really read it..

The special ed lobby is very powerful, because what legislator wants to vote against special ed? They bring a few severely handicapped kids to the capitol, and get anything they want passed. The problem is that most kids that are under the "special ed" umbrella are not handicapped at all. They have been diagnosed "SED" (severely emotionally disturbed). Now, you are thinking, "well, ok, so the kids schizophrenic or something, he should get some help" but that's not what I'm talking about, either. Child psychs hand out that SED crap like they hand out ADD. Basically, we are talking about bad kids. Kids who are bullies, or who have anger problems, etc. There are TONS of them. Also, when a lot of us were in school (I'm 30) special ed kids were segregated, they had their own classroom, etc. One of the spec. ed lobby's biggest triumphs was "mainstreaming." This means that these crazy, badass kids are sitting right by YOUR kid. These kids take up half of the teachers time. While the teacher is correcting them, or trying to get them to focus, she's not teaching the OTHER kids.

"But wait"- you say. "That's what principals and discipline are for!" Wrong again. If a kid has been diagnosed SED, they have regulations that prohibit schools from discpilining them too much. There is actually a cap on how many days an SED kid can be suspended. There was a situation where an SED kid had gotten suspended his full allotment for the year, and he bullied another kid and beat him up. They couldn't suspend him anymore, so they just had to make him miss recesses. Parents of the bullied kid were (understandably) pissed- why wasn't this kid being punished? The school couldn't even tell them why- it's a privacy violation to tell them the kid's SED, so they just had to look completely ineffective. They also don't have to do as much work as normal kids, they have "modified work loads."

Parents expect schools to keep their kids safe and away from these type of kids, and the schools hands are completely tied. My mom once said that she believed that if the parents of "normal" kids knew what their kids saw and dealt with every day that they would freak.
The problem is that SED kids have lobbyists fighting for their rights. No one is fighting for the rights of the normal kids that have to deal with this stuff, and most parents don't even know it's a problem..


Couple other examples:

Remember how you always had those crappy plastic scissors, but the teacher had the long pointy, sharp ones? A teacher friend of my mom's had a kid in her class come up to her desk and ask that the teacher put the pointy scissors that were on her desk away. When the teacher asked why, the boy said "because there's a voice telling me to get those scissors and hurt people, so if they were locked in your desk, I couldn't get them."

My GF told me about a fight between 8-9 year olds the other day. The winner was a crazy kid. I don't know about you, but elementary school fights when I was in school were pretty tame. Shove, shove, punch, roll around on the ground, someone end up crying, done. This fight ended with the crazy kid stomping the face of the other kid repeatedly. When a teacher ran up to break it up, this 3rd grader started swinging at the teacher and calling her a motherfucker.

btw- teachers can't defend themselves, either. If a kid is punching you in the face, and you push him away and he is scraped, bruised, or injured- you just abused a child. You will definately get sued, maybe lose your job, possibly have criminal charges filed. If the kid is a "special ed" kid, it's even worse. They teach teachers to cover up, and they have one "approved" move that is basically a bear hug, it's called CAPE, and you just hug the kid to you where he can't do anymore damage to you, and hold him until he calms down, or until the police get there. But even if you do that move and there is no injury to the kid, you'll
probably still get sued. My GF knows a lady who is getting sued for holding a kid that was kicking/biting her. I guess she just should have let the kid beat the shit out of her. After all, it's not his fault... Poor kid is SED....

Thats crazy stuff, but isn't a teacher aloud to hit the kid if the kid attacks you first. Or maybe thats only in Canada

[omgitsrick]

Originally Posted by Triple-s

Thats crazy stuff, but isn't a teacher aloud to hit the kid if the kid attacks you first. Or maybe thats only in Canada

If a kid was attacking me I'd kick him in the face. >.>

[Maximinus Thrax]

Nine out of ten highly paid IT professionals is a hack.

[hysteria]

I know where there is a large, untouched deposit of platinum in the United Kingdom

[bb1022]

It takes exactly 27 minutes to cook a hamburger on the engine of a John Deere 8400.

[Hizoo]

Originally Posted by Triple-s

Thats crazy stuff, but isn't a teacher aloud to hit the kid if the kid attacks you first. Or maybe thats only in Canada

I don't believe it is the case in Canada. My brother's gf is a teacher and she told me you're only allowed to bear-hug them, and if that doesn't work, you basically go get help or curl up into a ball or whatever (she teaches elementary btw).