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[TheBiggerFish]

@quinnr:Yay!

[Rose]

I am being far more social despite my complete lack of time to do so, and I'm kind of stopping the whole thing where I convince myself that everybody I'm speaking with doesn't actually want to be speaking with me. That's always fun. Also finally getting my acne stuff under control. Maybe. We'll see about that one. (Any advice would be welcome because it's been meh for years and sucks.)

Honestly, just talking to more people and being cheerful worked for me.

Yeah  that did wonders for my acne too.

[Tack]

Ooh. Mandatory reading of my youth.
8th: Hatchet
9th: Lord of the flies
10th: Rom & Jul
11th: -
12th: Farenheit 451

[Rose]

I was the type of kid who had already read the mandatory reading books before they were given.

[Orange Wizard]

We had to read To Kill a Mockingbird, which is painfully irrelevant for NZ, but apparently muh black oppression is something that's totally your problem, students.

[Flying Dice]

First day at the new job. I was strangely bewildered by supervisors who actually mean "clock out when your shift's over" when they say it instead of "you don't fucking leave until the work's done, but we'll fudge your hours so you don't get overtime".

[Descan]

Just replace Maori and Aborigine (granted the latter is mostly Australia) and it totally fits. Shut up.

[Rolan7]

@Tack
They actually had you read Fahrenheit 451?  Nice!
We read Animal Farm, but not 1984.  Jeez, 1984.

Also, some of my friends really hated Shakespeare, but I loved every bit.  Even Rome and Juliet which was pretty meaningful by modern standards (the war between houses).  Hamlet was more evidently rife with meaning.  We even touched on Macbeth, though I remember it being super rushed and coming away with "Wow, that prince was really indecisive".

It was only later that my father pointed out stuff like "Maybe the apparition calling for strife wasn't actually his father".  Or showing me Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

Though I rewatched that recently and still can't tell you what the fuck it means, much less what happened.  Surreal tennis in hell or something.

We had to read To Kill a Mockingbird, which is painfully irrelevant for NZ, but apparently muh black oppression is something that's totally your problem, students.

Well...  I live in the South US but it wasn't *directly* relevant.  It's not like we directly experienced racism anything like what was pictured.  It's more a reminder of what happened in the recent past, so that we don't repeat it.  And can be easily applied to "others" even ignoring race.  I mean, I don't think the kid who hides in the house is even black.  Just handicapped maybe.

Also I don't know about you personally, but it's not like Oceania doesn't have natives.

Edit:  Descan be nice :|

[Bouchart]

I was strangely bewildered by supervisors who actually mean "clock out when your shift's over" when they say it instead of "you don't fucking leave until the work's done, but we'll fudge your hours so you don't get overtime".

Well it is your first day.  Maybe they're trying to make a good first impression.

[TheBiggerFish]

@FD:Your old employers were proooobably doing something illegal...

@All The EngLit Discussion:We have more than one book per year.  Or per semester.  Yeah.

[Flying Dice]

They were almost certainly doing more than one thing that was illegal. Another excellent quote: "If any of you try to organize, if we hear any talk about unions, you're all fucking fired."

'course that's just supervisors talking crap, not official policy from the top. To boot they paid better than minimum wage for seasonal work, didn't need anything more than a call asking "hey, you hiring right now" once your foot was in the door, and it kept me in better shape than any gym I could have paid for.

[Descan]

The "shut up" was just a joke, sorry Rolan <3 Like "I know it doesn't fit but shush you."

[Orange Wizard]

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Oh yeah, it's indirectly relevant, sure. I'm just complaining because I remember the whole black American racism thing being emphasised for no apparent reason.

[Bauglir]

Just finished Dragon's Dogma. Don't think I'll be playing it again for a very long time, since the only option is a New Game +. I will likely never collect on my rewards for the last Ur-Dragon battle. And that's okay. The biggest happy here is, I can no longer convince myself to do "just one more thing". Any conceivable undertaking will be a multi-hour slog to get past the opening stages up to something I missed on the first go-round, like seducing the Duke's wife.

[flabort]

Ooh. Mandatory reading of my youth.
8th: Hatchet
9th: Lord of the flies
10th: Rom & Jul
11th: -
12th: Farenheit 451

Here's mine:
8th: -
9th: -
10th: The Merchant of Venice
11th: MacBeth
11th Do-over: The Lord of the Flies
12th: Hamlet
12th Do-over: The Stone Angel