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Drinking sounds like a good idea. Glad our paths crossed Flaanj

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Quote from: Canadouche on September 21, 2018, 03:04:56 PM
He needs to go away, now.

He's been optioned to Iowa, and I'd be shocked if you ever see him in a Cubs uniform again.

I'm cool with that.

Carl C.J. the Stringbean Slinger Edwards.

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Quote from: Wheezer on December 09, 2018, 01:28:12 AM
Well, the graph of the grades hasn't been presented yet.

I teach the 7th and 8th grades (I did mention they ranged from ages 12 to 14).

QuotePhilosophy? Morality? I swear to G-d, I thought I had seen the dumbest fucking comment possible (elsewhere), but now this. "Well done"? The whole point is that it backfired. Twice. And then there's the "Fuck those parents, Kurt. They are doing their daughter no favors. That's genuinely fucking horrible." and "borders on child abuse" crap.

It backfired twice and I'll be doing the same activity next year, if I'm teaching the same grade. (Which I probably will be.) Next week I'm going to be talking about the Decemberists' tune 12-17-12 which is about the Sandy Hook massacre. I'll remind my students that nobody is promised a long life and that we can lose loved ones at any time. In my class is a student whose father was murdered two Augusts ago, and another student whose mother was murdered last May. A third student in my class is losing her mother to breast cancer. I know these kids pretty well, and they know they can take a break/go for a walk if the subject matter hits too close to home, but there's always the risk that the conversation might make someone in the class upset. So, should I not talk about something important because it might "backfire" for one of my students?

In a room of 30 kids, there's always going to be someone who doesn't want to hear it/participate. There's always the risk, as unlikely as it may be, that a 12 year old still believes in Santa. I don't think it's child abuse to perpetuate that, but I don't think the parents are doing their kids any favors by ensuring that they are the very last ones to learn the truth. Kids can be pretty cruel and excluding even without an excuse to do so.

It may not be child abuse to encourage a 12 year old to believe in fairy tales, but these parents don't want their children to become rational adults.  That is bad parenting.  A parent's function is to help the child to become a self sustaining adult.

Our ten-year-old still fervently believes in Father Christmas.  I guess this is the last year, but if it's not, then I'm certainly not going to spoil it for her next year, or indeed the year after.  She's well on the way to becoming a self-sustaining adult regardless of whether she continues to believe in fairy tales for an arbitrary number of days more.

That said, should somebody choose to disabuse her tomorrow, then at this point I'm certainly not going to get bent out of shape about it.  We had a good run.

Pretty sure I believed until I was around 10. I might have even made it to 11, for what it's worth.

Wait a minute, are you guys saying that Santa isn't real?

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Quote from: World's #1 Astros Fan on October 17, 2018, 08:13:48 AM
Nevada brothel-owner, and Trump-enabled State Legislature candidate Dennis Hof, 72.

I can finally check "Dead Republican pimp gets his body discovered by Ron Jeremy and Heidi Fleiss after a party with Sheriff Joe" off my 2018 bingo card.

Manhatten Madame'd

I'm pretty sure that those seats now come with entry into the 1914 club 'standard' (I have on good authority that Mr. Pinkhat is in the club regually).  The price of the tickets basically doubled from last year to this, however, and run in the neighborhood of $65,000 per ticket per year.

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Quote from: Tonker on August 24, 2018, 02:49:36 PM
I have no wish to try to shelter my kids from any of that shit - largely because, try as I might, I am guaranteed to fail.  Indeed, there is more or less nothing from which STonk and I shelter the Tonklets - we are honest and open with them about pretty much everything, and actively encourage them to ask questions about even the most difficult or embarrassing topics.  The funny thing is, those topics then become not difficult or embarrassing any more, and they're informed enough to deal with them when they do inevitably come up outside the home.  I am also quite happy for my kids to come into contact with any kind of bigot, because I've discussed with them at length why that shit is wrong and trust them implicitly not to pay the slightest bit of attention to any of it.

My kids also know ALL the swear words and although they are not allowed to use them in polite company, I would much rather they learned them from me than from some other cunt.

I think it's high time HTonklet gets an account on here.

It's really not.  He'd just spam the board with the endless stream of Youtube videos that he thinks are high-larious and which never, EVER cause me even the slightest amusement.  His favourite at the moment is a clip of Penn Gillette yelling at a Chihuahua.  Kids these days, eh?

Me nodding and wondering what on earth HawkJr finds funny about the you tube videos on my feed (as we share an account).

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Quote from: Quality Start Machine on August 20, 2018, 09:11:35 AM
Considering Darvish shut down after an inning in South Bend yesterday, this deal is even larger now. Especially if Yu has the Tommy John Disease, this makes Hamels' option a no-brainer.

I'm shocked - SHOCKED, I tell ya - to hear that Johnny Samplesize is FORKGM's new favourite player.  I don't wish to piss on your bonfire, old fruit, but Hamels has been not good for a couple of years now, and three or four decent starts against lineups that haven't seen him since half way through 2015 don't mean much.  I hope he continues to pitch like this right through to the beginning of November and that the Cubs have no choice but to sign him up next year for more of the same, but I ain't getting my hopes up.

Cole “Completely Fixed Now and Everything is Fine” Hamels will drink the blood of the nonbelievers.

In 2019'd

Quote from: Saul Goodman on August 12, 2018, 10:06:01 PM
DAVID FUCKING BOTE

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EL MAGO

An All-Star.

Baseball's only superstar.

Another day, more magic on the field and on the bases

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Quote from: Saul Goodman on July 04, 2018, 02:54:15 PM
EL MAGO

An All-Star.

Baseball's only superstar.

Quote from: SKO on June 28, 2018, 10:28:04 AM
I'm definitely concerned but he said he's not hurt and again the velocity and stuff would indicate he's not hurt. His mechanics are definitely fucked right now, but I feel like if there's anyone I trust to sort that out it's him. But they need him to get it right quickly.

His former pitching coach is available

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It started ok, but got better, lots better