i shall purchase this to obtain the classiest rug of all time.
the papers will be alerted and i will be the talk of the town. i will throw an upscale dinner party to commemorate the arrival of this uber chic rug. the dinner guests will all be amazed by its sophistication and pat my buttocks with envious vigor. i will get rave reviews and be invited on martha stewart's show. i will make a joke about the lost elegance of doilies and she will laugh. suddenly the talks with iran will progress and mr president, very hairy jake gyllenhall, and anonymoose will gather together and drink boxed wine carefully by my new rug.
@Anonymoose: We have a future star commenter if you keep that up :D I mean, I have one, and I'm less funny then Jeff Dunham. Plus my insights are akin to that of a drunken hobo who can write moderately well.
Typical LA. Letting all their shitty smoke blow over into the valley. Well, it's not so bad as the last one but it's still coming over here.
Might as well throw out that I hate SF too. They claim to have no polution because the sea breeze blows it ALL over here. We actually have a sickness names after "us", "Valley Fever". Maybe that's why we have one of the highest autism rates in the nation, but I digress. What were we talking about?
@UnderLoK: Talk to a teacher. Identifying a learning disability is not a simple matter, especially in minority communities. A number of busy people have to spend a lot of time and money over a year or so. I suggest you look for other reasons for these apparant epidemics. That's what science is attempting to do. Of course that would require some effort and wouldn't have the appeal of a prejudical snap judgement.
@PaddyDugan: I appreciate your understanding of the process, and how much effort people put in. But I think what "Underlok" is trying to say is (from wikipedia), "The number of people known to have autism has increased dramatically since the 1980s, partly due to changes in diagnostic practice; the question of whether actual prevalence has increased is unresolved." And he thinks the diagnostic is being too easily applied to people. Which, I have to say I also agree with, especially with ADD and ADHD... we use to just call that a curious/energetic kid... now theirs a disorder for it.
@EventHorizon: All I can say is that if you're really interested, go down to the closest school and look at a student folder to see how much paperwork and how long it took to arrive at that conclusion. From an educator's perspective, the fact that children were blamed as lazy or stupid for decades before the concept of differentiation in learning modes was realized is a shameful part of our past. Very few laymen go beyond the labels and the misunderstanding/prejudice that seems to inevitably bond with those labels. The easiest way to deal with needy kids is to dismiss them with popular notions regarding behavior. Brain science is a fascinating and valuable, admittedly developing field. Don't mean to get all preachy, but you seem intelligent and I simply ask that you take the time to become better informed before rushing to judgement on such an important issue. I can recommend text?
It's obvious that you are one of the people that perpetuate this waste of time. Lazy kids and or parents that can't accept the fact that their kid is an idiot results in good kids falling through the cracks and the kids that actually need the help have to deal with less of it.
Some kids are stupid. Some kids are lazy. But more often than not the parents are to blame for not taking responsibility for their children and blaming everyone and everything else for their kids problems.
@madog: Define "They" in SF, or we hate you back for your fabricated pile of bullshit. Btw, you might want to look into the links between autism and pesticides or thimerosal in common vaccines before you start imagining the weather from San Francisco moving South. Either way, you certainly win the douche bag of the day award...congrats.
@Shamoononon: My feet stink.: Oh no no, that was the group of hippies that we managed to ship off to the East Coast! That's how we were able to elect Reagan, you know.
Don't think that Woodstock was for nothing. "Everything has its purpose." ;)
Besides, I like to think that I live in the safe, sane side of the Bay Area, and that would be San Jose. :P
@valkilmerisawful: How about no hurricanes or ice storms. Beautiful oceans and weather and just about anything you want from snow boarding to surfing all within a few hours drive?
I've been through several of these fires and have been evacuated three times. A friend of mine had their house burned down in the last one. It doesn't sway us.
I must say though that the overabundance of hippie liberals get on my nerves sometimes but every place has it's share of pests.
@Shamoononon: My feet stink.: True, I am a MA transplant... left the snow and cold behind - I suppose it keeps me for reasons other than work. I haven't gotten used to the earthquakes, and I think I'd take one of those over a hurricane ANY day.
@sonicsurge: As someone who's lived for quite a while in Las Vegas, I've always kinda 'enjoyed' the California fires myself.
Sometimes the smoke is so thick, that even all the way into southern Nevada, it blocks out the sun over Vegas, like the fires of Mt. Doom blots out the sky over Mordor and Gondor.
There was this one fire a few years back (2003/2004 or something), that made the daytime sky look like just after sunset . . . at high noon. It was dark all day for two or three days.
There was this other year where I was on the outskirts of town, watching the dark cloud of smoke coming in from the distance, I could just imagine the armies of Mordor marching on Las Vegas under the cover of the artificial darkness.
Of course knowing Vegas, they'd just welcome the hordes of Mordor with open arms, and turn the entire thing into a family themed attraction at the Las Vegas Hilton . . . Middle-Earth: The Experience.
@Nathan Cline: I'm in complete agreement with you. What is more amazing? That a supposedly all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful God can create the universe...uh, no shit! ALL POWERFUL...hello?!
OR, that it wasn't created by any one ... I find that FAR more awe inspiring and interesting.
I used to be a born again Bible literalist many years ago...and now I'm agnostic with occasional bouts of atheism. Believing "God" did it is such a cop out to THINKING about stuff. Just have "faith" and accept XXX as the truth. No thanks....
@Dynastius: It also demeans the whole complexity and amazing things that had to fall into line for everything to be the way it is. Just look at the way the human body and organs all work together but are insanely complicated to the point of being beyond our full comprehension. I see it as much more amazing to think that this was a slow process that needed so many things to happen perfectly to prevent us from being another dead branch on the evolution tree.
@Darkest Daze: Damn straight DD. I'm always amazed how believers say not believing in God and an afterlife would make life / existence meaningless...for me it's the exact opposite. (I been on both sides of the fence as a believer and non-believer)
If this is IT..not a prelude to an eternal existence in some spiritual realm...then man...you BETTER make it count and have some meaning. We are responsible for making our life have meaning, it's not something external.
@Dynastius: Total agreement. If there's one thing I absolutely cannot stand, it's religious zealots who think they can run around acting like assholes because they think they get another shot at it in "the hereafter," or that one little moment of prayer/confession absolves them of all the gross asshattery they commit the other 98% of their lives.
And they presume to look down their noses at Atheists and Agnostics because we couldn't possibly have any sense of right or wrong without some sort of higher power to put it there.
09/30/09
09/30/09
I guess you lost that fight.
09/30/09
the papers will be alerted and i will be the talk of the town. i will throw an upscale dinner party to commemorate the arrival of this uber chic rug. the dinner guests will all be amazed by its sophistication and pat my buttocks with envious vigor. i will get rave reviews and be invited on martha stewart's show. i will make a joke about the lost elegance of doilies and she will laugh. suddenly the talks with iran will progress and mr president, very hairy jake gyllenhall, and anonymoose will gather together and drink boxed wine carefully by my new rug.
thank you, he-man battle cat painted rug. thank you.
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Maybe I'll paint my own nostalgia...
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09/04/09
Might as well throw out that I hate SF too. They claim to have no polution because the sea breeze blows it ALL over here. We actually have a sickness names after "us", "Valley Fever". Maybe that's why we have one of the highest autism rates in the nation, but I digress. What were we talking about?
09/05/09
In this day and age if a kid isn't cool he obviously must be autistic. If he sucks at school he must have ADD. The list goes on and on and on.
09/05/09
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It's obvious that you are one of the people that perpetuate this waste of time. Lazy kids and or parents that can't accept the fact that their kid is an idiot results in good kids falling through the cracks and the kids that actually need the help have to deal with less of it.
Some kids are stupid. Some kids are lazy. But more often than not the parents are to blame for not taking responsibility for their children and blaming everyone and everything else for their kids problems.
09/05/09
09/06/09
@madog: Define "They" in SF, or we hate you back for your fabricated pile of bullshit. Btw, you might want to look into the links between autism and pesticides or thimerosal in common vaccines before you start imagining the weather from San Francisco moving South. Either way, you certainly win the douche bag of the day award...congrats.
09/04/09
09/04/09
@(Starman) AnalysisDialysis: You know, I'd rather face fires any day than the shit you have to deal with.
09/04/09
Don't think that Woodstock was for nothing. "Everything has its purpose." ;)
Besides, I like to think that I live in the safe, sane side of the Bay Area, and that would be San Jose. :P
09/04/09
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09/04/09
I've been through several of these fires and have been evacuated three times. A friend of mine had their house burned down in the last one. It doesn't sway us.
I must say though that the overabundance of hippie liberals get on my nerves sometimes but every place has it's share of pests.
BTW, I'm not even a California native.
09/04/09
09/04/09
Sometimes the smoke is so thick, that even all the way into southern Nevada, it blocks out the sun over Vegas, like the fires of Mt. Doom blots out the sky over Mordor and Gondor.
There was this one fire a few years back (2003/2004 or something), that made the daytime sky look like just after sunset . . . at high noon. It was dark all day for two or three days.
There was this other year where I was on the outskirts of town, watching the dark cloud of smoke coming in from the distance, I could just imagine the armies of Mordor marching on Las Vegas under the cover of the artificial darkness.
Of course knowing Vegas, they'd just welcome the hordes of Mordor with open arms, and turn the entire thing into a family themed attraction at the Las Vegas Hilton . . . Middle-Earth: The Experience.
07/06/09
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05/19/09
05/19/09
Everything is BIG down in Tehas, even the view!
05/19/09
"'Cause there's bugger-all down here on Earth." is footnoted by his observation: "An unassailable truth."
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OR, that it wasn't created by any one ... I find that FAR more awe inspiring and interesting.
I used to be a born again Bible literalist many years ago...and now I'm agnostic with occasional bouts of atheism. Believing "God" did it is such a cop out to THINKING about stuff. Just have "faith" and accept XXX as the truth. No thanks....
05/19/09
05/19/09
If this is IT..not a prelude to an eternal existence in some spiritual realm...then man...you BETTER make it count and have some meaning. We are responsible for making our life have meaning, it's not something external.
05/19/09
And they presume to look down their noses at Atheists and Agnostics because we couldn't possibly have any sense of right or wrong without some sort of higher power to put it there.
05/19/09