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Vester

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #5055 on: May 04, 2010, 02:08:24 am »
Quote from: Grakelin on May 03, 2010, 10:32:47 pm
Quote from: Cthulhu on May 03, 2010, 09:26:29 pm
my teacher says I can't type essays, because some people don't have laptops and it wouldn't be "fair."

Where are you from that the standard of education is this poor?


HAY. MY STANDARD OF EDUCATION IS THAT POOR.

We have typewriters, thank you very much. You can keep your heathen technology to yourself.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #5056 on: May 04, 2010, 02:10:48 am »
Quote from: Vester on May 04, 2010, 02:08:24 am
Quote from: Grakelin on May 03, 2010, 10:32:47 pm
Quote from: Cthulhu on May 03, 2010, 09:26:29 pm
my teacher says I can't type essays, because some people don't have laptops and it wouldn't be "fair."

Where are you from that the standard of education is this poor?


HAY. MY STANDARD OF EDUCATION IS THAT POOR.

We have typewriters, thank you very much. You can keep your heathen technology to yourself.
This reminds me of the time I helped those 2nd graders... Imagine around 20 hungry kids in a small room. one book for every... 3-4 kids. I felt so sad.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #5057 on: May 04, 2010, 02:13:59 am »
Yeah, back in High School I used to teach catechism at a nearby (Public) elementary school. Public schools are government funded. Our government is incredibly poor. Do the math. (The kids can't, because their math is 1-2 years behind).

Educational standards here are abysmal.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #5058 on: May 04, 2010, 02:15:51 am »
Damn, and I thought Hawaii's educational system was shit.
Well, it still is, but that's horrible.
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« Reply #5059 on: May 04, 2010, 02:19:05 am »
There are a lot of Filipinos (Ilocanos, specifically) in Hawaii. I really hope they didn't move there for the education, if what you're saying is true.
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« Reply #5060 on: May 04, 2010, 02:20:48 am »
The horrid thing is, most of those kids come to school hungry as hell. We had this project where we would make huge tubs of food, like soup or a sort of rice porridge (forgot the name :P), and there still would be a long line of little waifs waiting for food. they were all so... small and undernourished. D:
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Quote from: Janet on June 20, 2010, 10:44:26 pm
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #5061 on: May 04, 2010, 02:24:21 am »
Most Filipinos here are the descendants of migrants who came to work on the sugar plantations.
I actually have quite a few Filipino friends, one of whom makes jokes about the fact that one of my dogs is black and has a gimpy leg.

Meanwhile, I just burned myself on accident.
The part that makes this deserve a post is that I liked it.
« Last Edit: May 04, 2010, 02:51:08 am by ein »
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« Reply #5062 on: May 04, 2010, 02:51:15 am »
Yes, yes they are. Our country's biggest export is, and always has been, people.

(what kinds of jokes?)
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #5063 on: May 04, 2010, 02:52:36 am »
Black dog means food.
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« Reply #5064 on: May 04, 2010, 03:59:59 am »
Sad because I finally get around to taking some screenshots of my colour scheme in the game "Dawn of War" and now I cannot find the long-dead thread in which I posted the code for my colour scheme without screenies...

If I don't Necro something soon, I might explode...
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #5065 on: May 04, 2010, 06:17:37 am »
Yeah, our school system is great. Government funded schools are actually pretty good, although lately the standard of students is heading towards where britain is, with most intelligent kids going to private schools.

The healthcare system, though. Well that's different. Our healthcare ranges from Medicare, to 'Take a spoonful of turpentine and harden the fuck up'. The bits in the middle are Medibank, and 'I'm going to kick you until you harden the fuck up'.

My brother said his shoulder hurt. Did he have a cast? Fuck no. Did he get a note excusing him from P.E.? Nope... Did he have a sling? About a month later, when the nurses at the school sick bay realised that he'd ACTUALLY broken his collarbone in three places, and he was just a Hard Arsed Mother.

I'm kinda envious of his pain tolerance. I'm better than average amongst Aussies, but nowhere near his level.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #5066 on: May 04, 2010, 06:22:44 am »
Learn meditation.
That's how I developed pain tolerance.
Managed to stop a bunch of needles into myself without feeling a thing.
I can handle most pain now.
Just not knives.
Cannot break skin with a blade, unless on accident.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #5067 on: May 04, 2010, 06:23:48 am »
Can you play rugby with a broken bone?
I fucking well can't.
I mean, GOSH. What the HELL?


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Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on December 31, 1969, 07:00:01 pm
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Yeah, he's a banned spammer. Normally we'd delete this thread too, but people were having too much fun with it by the time we got here.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #5068 on: May 04, 2010, 06:26:40 am »
My bones don't break.
I've put them through massive amounts of stress and not even a fracture.
I did run a mile in 9 minutes and 24 seconds with a sprained ankle though.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #5069 on: May 04, 2010, 06:46:59 am »
:C  Some idiot posted a rule 34 of pokemon on a forum, I kind of died on the inside. Obliterated my childhood like that...
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