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he done did my learnin huh?
yawn. Well, the “not funny” part is right.
people can leave out letters if they write a sign quickly.
whoopity doo…
If you’re going to be making a sign to protest something regarding education, you should make an extra effort to make sure your sign is correct unless you want to completely invalidate your argument.
Or leave it out intentionally for irony sake.
If you’re going for irony in a sign, you’d better make it pretty damn obvious, otherwise people will think you’re as stupid as “Kill All Juice” guy or “Obama is muslin” guy.
Maybe Fianna Fáil vandalised her education.
Yes… because accidents and unintentional ironies are NEVER funny. You should be made a moderator on this site, so that you can prevent future “not funny” pictures from ending up on here and having the rest of us -accidentally- laugh at them. Wouldn’t that be funny… wait, I guess is wouldn’t.
Irish rednecks?
Is being a redneck a function of being from a certain ethno-social-geographic group, or is it more of a state of mind?
It’s being a certain job class.
You, are a self righteous prick.
Are you saying that someone who’s passion and joy in life is fixing engines, who is successful in that career choice, is less of a person than a white collar office-drone who hates his cubicle life?
The number on your paycheck is NOT the only measure of success.
Digg it.
I agree! I know rednecks with white-collar jobs and more money than they could reasonably spend – but I would not hesitate to call them rednecks just the same… It has nothing to do with social class, job choice or money in the bank – being a redneck is a state of mind, and one some of them are quite proud of.
Cheers Steve, Riatha and Indie.
Being a redneck is often misinterpreted as being white trash- they are not in fact synonyms. Redneck: someone who enjoys a rural lifestyle to the extent that they end up with a sunburned neck (i.e. they like farming, etc). White trash: acting like a moron no matter your education or income level (i.e. imo, G.W. Bush). Does that help?
As an escapee from the redneck community, I have to add two requirements:
1) You must never learn about anything that happens outside your local community, nor about anything that requires more math than it takes to balance a checkbook.
2) You must respond with threat of violence to anyone who looks or acts different from you. This rule may sometimes be relaxed if your particular upbringing exposed you to immigrants, gays, or some other normally hated group from your earliest memories.
If those two statements don’t apply to you, you aren’t a redneck. You’re just an American Worker in the Agricultural Field, and thank you for supplying me with my daily cheeseburger!
Well then she’s certainly not a redneck, we don’t get enough sun in Ireland to burn!
lmao soo true! lol
You, add commas to sentences in which no commas are needed.
I’m related to plenty of rednecks who make more money than I do but I am no redneck.
More like a state of a lack of a mind.
And job class has nothing to do with it.
indie, i think you nailed it
Lack of education, I would say.
That’s a joke, right? Please say it is before I haul my redneck a@@ on over to your place and stomp a hog waller in your forehead.
Yes, that will show your level of education succinctly.
Hey now, higher-edumacation never pussified this good ol’ redneck…
I’m happy that you’re happy.
I find that having an advanced degree helps out with funding a good weekend of drinking beer and going muddin’! (A little basic physics knowledge doesn’t hurt with the mud, either….just sayin’.)
You got that right, sister. WAY less time in the man-shed fixing up the broken piece of crap KTM 200 for a weekend of spectacular redneckery now that I can afford decent toys… and a decent rig to haul the crap to the mountains in.
‘40-foot travel trailer+a nice single malt+CRF100F+blasting Toby Keith>getting sloshed on Pabst Blue Ribbon+sleeping on ground+blasting Toby Keith.
However, both = Redneck FUN!
Hehehe, PBR. My Papa used to drink two of those before bed every night. I think he did it to tune out the b!tching from my Mema.
Nothing wrong with a good honest PBR as long as you don’t have terribly high expectations of it! (Reasonable expectations of PBR: 1) wet; 2) contains alcohol; 3) tastes kinda like beer.)
It helps to pre-funk on something spendy that’ll coat your stomach so ya don’t hork.
/voice of experience
Reasonable expectations of PBR: 1) wet; 2) contains alcohol; 3) tastes kinda like horse piss.
Fixed that for ya.
It is my hard and fast rule NEVER to drink beer light enough to look like a healthy urine sample. (Cos you never know when some redneck might have decided the porta-throne’s just too far to walk!)
Newport Storm Amber is pushing the lightness envelope, but good for with food…
It concerns me a little, Slan, that you have basis for comparison…
HST nailed it. If you’re pulling out the PBR while you still have taste buds working, you’re just asking for trouble.
@Slan: It’s not something I can safely say in public here in Portland, but nice, dark and hoppy microbrews are not my favorite any more. A European Pilsner is my first choice now. Not that I’d turn down a good microbrew, mind you.
I enjoy a good microbrew or Belgian, and I brew my own beer (often very hop-tastic and high alcohol content), but my cheap beer of choice (what I get drunk off of) is PBR from tap or bottle. It is amazing how different PBR between can and bottle is.
…but Mama’s gotta squeezebox…
Daddy never sleeps at night!
HST, i gotta ask, which is your single malt of choice?
Partial to The Glenlivet (18), but Glenfiddich (18) and Cragganmore (12) will do me in a pinch or as a gift.
I had the most wonderful single malt Irish this weekend, Tir Connell. Just absolutely impossibly smooth. The Wonderbooze, truly.
Bunnahabhain. Definitely.
Hmmm, PM. Affordable, too. Must try.
Sh!t, SA, I can’t even FIND that brand… way to leave me hangin’…
Scottish whiskey is a little to peaty for my taste (even though I enjoy Glenfiddish). I prefer Irish myself, like Midleton.
I believe you are referring to Glenfiddich.
And, indeed, to Scotch Whisky; Whiskey would be Irish, or possibly American.
I think Mark was closer with Bunnahabhain, but would choose Laphraoig myself.
Disagree to all three of you. Redneck is a state of mind in that it’s what you tend to do in your spare time. White Trash is what you are when the Redneck takes over and bleeds into other things besides hobbies. I’m a total Redneck during deer season.
In one. It’s not education, or intellect, or lack thereof. It’s purely an after-hours state of mind.
Hello. My name is HairySexyTroll, and I am a redneck.
hst,
most rednecks i knew claimed to be it proudly, but it was for them a way of life, not an after-hours sort of mentality and, no offense (well a little) to them, but all of them were uneducated and enthusiastically so, hence the common conception of redneck=less educated (not necessarily intelligent, though that also often goes hand in hand).
however, just because you like fixing cars, mudding, etc., doesn’t mean you’re a redneck either.
moreover… i guess it just comes down to the local usage of the term, huh?
Uh. I tend to be a bit of a redneck at times (sit around in my underwear, pitching empty cans into the falling over garage, house is a catastrophe) and I’m fairly well educated. I have a bachelor’s at least.
That’s not redneck at all. That’s simply stewing in one’s own testosterone (aka reveling in one’s maleness)…
Yes, I think a lot of people use the term “redneck” disparagingly when what they really mean is “white trash”. Two separate things.
Or they simple mean it as an insult like some people use liberal or moderate or neocon.
/neutral statement
All three examples show a marked lack of understanding of what the words actually mean.
Precisely.
Almost a separate species, if you want to get down to brass tacks. They are by no means mutually exclusive, but you can have rednecks from all walks of life, while white trash is pretty much located around tornado fodder.
rofl, beg to differ on the tornado fodder locale – while there might seem to be a higher ratio there, it could be because people expect to find them there whereas out here in one of the blue bastions youdon’t expect to see white trash so it doesn’t register. but they’re here, and if you look at north idaho and montana, you’ll find them, the neo-nazis, the seperatists, several couple religious wacko enclaves, and at least 2 seperate, unrelated inbred cracker family lines.
I say tornado fodder as a general exaggeration
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I just wonder how much white trash blends in to the locale…..In some parts of the eastern part of the state they are so thick that it doesn’t register (as you said) that they are white trash. They are simply residents.
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Would you classify a neo-nazi as white trash as opposed to just nuts?
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And the separate, unrelated inbred cracker family lines made me giggle, hehe.
Subgenus “white power” trash.
LOL, I love it. Perfect! Ok, now I feel the need to create a semi-non-branching species tree to show all of the White Trash geneses and sub-species, LOL.
It would definitely kill time for ya.
i’ll send you a copy of visio so you can make a nifty chart
lets see, how to describe the neo-nazi groups we have out here… in mont and southern idaho there are enclaves out in the far boonies that look sort of normal – houses and the like and not too many busted down vehicles parked where ever they stopped at. then there are the ‘enclaves’ in north idaho & eastern wa that basically could pass for junk yards made from mobile homes, vehicles ‘parked’ where ever they gave up the ghost at or got too stuck to drive out, and the piles of who knows what with the weeds growing over.
so one type is nuts, the other is cracker trash with their own brand of nuttier than a horse chestnut tree in august
Eastern Washington? Where?
Hello? Is this thing on? I want to know where the neo-nazi groups supposedly are in Eastern Washington.
I think it’s pretty unfair to cast aspersions on an entire geographical location with absolutely no basis in fact just because of its proximity to Hayden Lake (the FORMER skinhead compound) Idaho…
Put up or shut up, bad fairie.
No, seriously….
Not disparaging an entire region or state because of someone who gives it a bad name? I can has Texas’ Reputation back nao?
Maybe later and it looks like that was a wasted mis-nested rant I made to you and Charro in the Celebrity Gynocology thread.
Can you think of anyone in the news from Eastern Washington that started the rumor thread above? NOPE!
Besides, you won’t see me perpetuating rumors about Texas for any reason. What’s the point? You’re not all hard drinkin’, violence lovin’, slow-talkin’, boot-scootin’ hicks, now are you?
And I really DO want to know where these supposed enclaves are supposedly located. For reals.
Lol, you plan on startin’ some sh!t, HST? Prank pizza orders?
Like sending a Neo Nazi clubhouse a pizza with nothing but Black Olives and Hamburger?
Nope. 10,000 downloaded Oprah chicken meal coupons.
Without any knowledge or basis (of Eastern Washington or the general locations of neo-nazi types), HST, I’m going to point out that “Eastern Washington” is, what, about half a state? Roughly 35,000 square miles? Could very well be some tucked in there that you don’t know about; and I don’t think she was saying that “everyone in Eastern Washington’s a skinhead.”
I’m tempted to google, but I’m worried it’ll put me on an FBI list…
Hell, everyone in Washington may be a Neo-Nazi skinhead, but everyone in Texas is either a beer-swilling redneck, still rides their horse to school, or was intimately involved in the Waco shootout and has ties to David Koresh personally. We can’t catch a break, what with the former leader of the free world being from here and all. Oh, and the Governmental Hair
This is about the extent of it. No joke.
@HST: Well, I guess they’re….countable, anyway. Hey, you have more than we do in Tennessee!
I know! There is MUCH more skinhead activity in NY/NJ, but also much more and bigger newsworthy stories for the media to gnaw upon, so if we have one teeny tiny leetle cross burning here in EA WA, the whole WORLD has a sh!t hemorrhage and considers us all to be slavering race-haters because that’s the ONLY news to come out of the area…
It makes me glad that IA stays off the radar for the most part.
DWN: You’re a crappy little flyover state that envies all other states.
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According to god, anyway…….
…even Nebraska.
God and I aren’t on speaking terms so I am not surprised that he would denigrate me.
Not God. god. He lives in here and speaks to us on a regular basis, don’tcha know.
I’m heading out for the evening to see how much fun I can fit in for the rest of the day in real life! Yeah…it’s my birthday. How old am I? Fu(kin’ OOLLLLD!!1!eleventy!
Happy Birthday!!!!! Have fun!!!!
Old beats the heck out of dead! Happy day!
*issues Happy Birthday biting to Diss*
Enjoy the rest of your evening, love. You earned it.
@Froo: Oh, that guy. He is a jack@ss too.
sorry about that hst, but had to get out and do some yard work while i had 30 min of sun
try newport (wa), try kettle falls, try walla walla area, clarkston, airway heights….
and if you want idaho – try rathdrum, priest river, sandpoint,
want names? sorry, even as an anonymous fairy, i don’t name names without getting to move far, far away with a whole new identity
Happy Birthday Diss!!!
Happy birthday Dissimilitude.
happy b-day diss!
Happy birthday to you, this is your day.
On this day for you we’re gonna love you in every way.
This is your day, your day, happy birthday to you, to you, to you.
Happy birthday to you, you’re still young.
Age is just a number, don’t you stop having fun.
This is your day, your day, happy birthday to you.
This day only comes once every year,
Because you’re so wonderful with each and everything you do, hey!
Happy birthday to you, this is your day.
On this day for you we’re gonna love you in every way.
This is your day, your day, happy birthday to you, to you.
This day is only for you, ’cause you’re so special in every way, Happy birthday to you!
Happy Birthday, diss!
Are you talking about Eastern Washington? ‘Cuz if you are, you’re wrong there, sister.
Irish Redneck ? The term redneck comes from Irish immigrants to America, put to work in fields they got sunburn easily due to their pale skin.
You know, you don’t have to fit your screen name to the circumstances to sound authoritative…
Dude, I’m in Texas. People here are so dumb, they bitch about socialism when they don’t know what it is because they heard their parents say it was bad. Recently my history teacher was talking about it, and she clearly does not know the difference between socialism and communism. No wonder American kids are so dumb…
You’re localized, and generalizing. Want some paint for that broad brush of yours? I don’t think you’re insulting all of Texas yet.
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*is insulted*
aww froo, don’t be insulted, there was a split in the hairs of her paintbrush and it neatly missed you.
sad thing is, there is a lot of people with the same misconception, and then there are the ‘tards who believe social security is a socialist program because it’s got social in the title….
Yes, it’s bad English grammar. The reference to “Fianna Fail” clearly shows the picture to be from Eire though, and I’m none too sure it’s not the result of an over-literal translation from Gaelic.
Are you serious? You realise Irish hasn’t been spoken (dominantly) in Ireland for a very long time, right? I’m not sure of the figures, but over here, English is our main language. Why should a misspelling be the result of a translation? When someone in America misspells something, should I assume he/she’s native American and is just translating from Cherokee? Jesus, people are acting like nobody has ever misspelled a word before….
It is nevertheless non-trivially present at least in some parts. Kindly recall that Pearse and Connolly published the Proclamation in Irish……
It’s Ireland. Someone realised partway through writing “vandalising”, probably at “vandal”, that it wouldn’t fit on the sign, and rather than redo, took the typical approach here of “ah sure it’s grand” and simply added “ing” to vandal. Anyone who genuinely couldn’t spell or made errors easily would not have spelt education correctly and even included the accent on “Fianna Fáil”.
It’s the kind of lame approach that has this country where it is today.
And yes, with things the way they are, the main party here should be referred to as Fianna FAIL on every occasion. Their election candidates for the upcoming local elections have the party logo in the small print, things are that bad. Canvassers are resorting to posting spam through the letterbox and running off in case people would throw things at them Even other parties canvassers have a rough time – they have to identify themselves quickly as not being Fianna Fáil – sometimes they barely have the chance to before getting an earful.
How embarrassing, yes, Fianna Fail is the top political party in Ireland, and soon on their way out… Kind of cringingly bad, this is, for a country with the highest rated education system in the world (and free third level education)…
It’s worth pointing out to the non-Irish folks that “Fáil” (with that accent over the “a”) is pronouced “Fall”, although given their current state in the polls, they might do as well to drop said accent.
She blamed the fail on Fianna, what a liar.
are you a bit stupid ?
I’ll add, that it was probably one of these “eejits”:
http://republican-news.org/current/news/lisbonresult.jpg
The “NO Vote” campaign really brought all the ignorant f**ks out…. ie. “If you don’t understand this, and you’re thick as sh*t, vote NO”…
Go Google Declan Ganley….
The worst part of it is that she more than likely looked over the sign several times and showed it to her friends and no one saw anything wrong with it.
How is that Engrish?
Is “Engrish” not when asians misspell or incorrectly translate things to/from English? Hence the r instead of l in the word? WTF does this have to do with that?
Speaking of fails…
This is PunditKitchen, not Engrish!
Not sure if you were talking of me “failing” or not with the Engrish… but I do know this isn’t the Engrish site and I’m referring to the image saying it’s an Engrish fail.
Mia culpa. In my defence, it’s actually difficult to read “reverse video” which is why books (and most periodicals) are printed in black type on white!
You are techically correct, but I’ve already argued that it may be over-literal translation from another language, which is where Engrish “syntax” rather than typographic errors usally comes from.
I just wrote this for my own amusement because I had no idea what the sign was talking about- I was incredibly surpised to see it here, considering I’ve done better.
mea culpa not mia culpa! talk about over-literal translation from another language.
I don’t speak Latin (or even Italian).
Vandaling is a perfectly cromulent word.
And education embiggens us all.
Simpsons much?
This one takes the cake. It’s worse than the “No to Foreign Games” sign being held by the knob-end wearing the Celtic jersey from a few years ago
Fianna Fail platform:
Headline commitments;
“Protect the prosperity that the Irish people have worked so hard for;· Cut income taxes; · Ensure that every child has access to a safe, modern playground;· Increase the State Pension to €300 per week; · Hire 2,000 extra Gardaí; and · Open Local Injury Clinics around the country”
Sounds like an ideologically mixed lot to me.
Ah, so they’re in favour of massive deficit spending? Well, nice to know we Yanks aren’t alone in that.
With the UK that makes 3 economies killed by a burst property bubble, with legislatures that think you can spend out of it!
Keynes worked out all right in the 1930s and ’40s. Maybe if we’re lucky we can manage it without a world war this time.
You silly optimist you…
How about actually building that Moonbase then? I’ve seen ecomomists arguing that the 1960s recession was delayed into the 1970s by Apollo.
DOH!!! “…seen economists arguing…”
Makes me ashamed to be Irish!
Also ashamed to be on PK as this clearly is one for Failblog
And the caption is not funny
I just got kicked out of school education today.
Off into the big bad world now….
Tomorrow was supposed to be the last day, hence, prank day but the Rector called us in and basically said “I dinna want the school wrecked tomorrow so away and shove off today a’ yese.”
Displeased.
Still, I did cut my tie into tiny pieces and present it to a hated, pro-uniform, power hungry, rude, controlling teacher in a nice white envelope. He was furious, I’m just glad to be rid of that burgundy noose.
What, no uni for you? Where are you headed next then?
Oh no I forgot about that… No, I have a place at uni but its just that I’m leaving town (very weird) and will have to get a real job to eat etc….
Jings, If I count that as the big bad world, how will I get by in the really really big bad world?????
Pot noodles FT…um…L, actually.
Where are you doing uni?
Dundee. What’s FTL? Also, I’ve never tried a pot noodle… they smell dirsgusting :LOL:
FTL would be the opposite of FTW. So it is For the Lose.
Ah… Another joke ruined by me
Two peoples separated by a common language!
ac, it’s ok, you saved me the effort of googling it
Which would have been funny, as you probably would have gotten more hits for Faster Than Light travel referenced in science fiction. Pot noodles are quick, but not that quick.
what are pot noodles btw? are those what you call those little crinkled noodles that come in cellophane pkgs that you toss in boiling water for a couple minutes and are dirt cheap and taste like it too?
Exactly! Basic food of students!
my youngest lives on those things, but the dogs won’t even touch them. and can’t say as i blame them either, those things aren’t real food, but a chemical paste made to simulate vegetarian road kill. on the other hand, if you use half the water called for and add sliced onions and some cooked veggies, they can pass for edible.
Here on the west coast we’re getting spicy chile and lime flavor ramen noodles. I can afford real food, but I love those so much I always have a few packs around the house.
Pot noodles aren’t that bad. The other options are lots of peanut butter, tuna salad, or macaroni and cheese. But it is good experience to work a bit, even a few months, before university–makes the classes seem a LOT more attractive! Good luck with it!
I think FTL is the opposite of FTW? Maybe?
Thanks. Yeah, as soon as the exams are over I’ll have to get a job to appease my Mother. She’s been on at me all year about how I stayed on at school without her express permission and don’t work to support the family and she’s the breadwinner and I am fortunate enough to be allowed to use her house etc. etc. etc.
This is why somewhere as north as Dundee is very, very attractive…
Heh, sounds a bit like a whinier version of my mom… My sympathies, yes, move far away.
Congrats, AC! I hope you’ll stick around PK.
Oh, do you know that if you go to Cambridge university they’ll kick you out if you have a job during term time instead of focusing on your studies?
And did you know that, in France, when your degree is in danger because of some morons on strike, nobody gives a sh*t?
There. Fixed that for you.
Wow, that could be misinterpreted.
I do care, it seems highly illogi…wait, no, let’s not turn this place into ROFLAZZI…
peanut butter is one of the basic food groups, right next to chocolate. i know when times are hard when i have to get store brand pb instead of the god stuff.
Funny thing, that- I was supposed to be heading to Dundee too. Then things went south (long and personal story involved) and now I’m going to a Chinese uni (Jiao Tong in Shanghai) instead.
Tangent over, sorry.
I can already hear the hounds calling for their fresh meat. Enjoy lass, it is all downhill from here though there is the argument about college being an upside.
“Your schooldays are the best days of your life”
For that precise reason, I did not like it when people said that…
My schooldays were NOT the best days of my life! I think that the only folks who say that, didn’t go to college! College years were pretty good. Actually, my 40’s have some pretty good days, too!
I went to college, I liked high school more but I matured way more in college so I have that to be thankful for. My adult days are rather alright but I do miss the moments of my life where the crush of bill paying was somebody else’s worry and I just had to worry about homework and goofing off. Sure, there was some friend drama but I had Lynn and we were young and horny without worries.
High school for me was like being a dandelion stuck in a field of violets–not to many folks interested in ideas there. Some good teachers, but mostly I survived. College was being surrounded by folks who were interested in ideas. Everyone is a geek there! There was friend drama in both stages, but friend drama is a fact of life.
Adulthood has its negatives–I’m overseeing the care of a parent who is now emotionally 12 (talk about drama, sigh), while trying to be supportive without getting smothered. But it also has good friends (including my bf), comfort in being who I am, a job I enjoy, and my own space.
College was definitely where I did a lot of emotional evolving and losing a lot of preconceptions, especially my more misguided ones. I definitely suggest going to anybody with the means but I have never been one to say it was the best time of my life.
I wouldn’t say it was the best time of my life, but at least we got more breaks than we do in the regular workforce. Summer break, spring break, a couple weeks off in the winter…I miss that.
Well thus far, I would say the first 1/2 of my 40’s have been the best days… Hopefully I’ll revise that estimation a few more times during my life!
I’d have to agree, vg (regarding the early 40’s)…and I hope to keep revising it upwards, too!
True, I also miss the freedom. It was something very unique to that time of my life. Absolute freedom. More freedom than an adult and way more than a kid. I could set my schedule to do just about anything, however reality then stepped in to further limit my options.
Oh well, least I had the freedom.
Freedom comes back with empty nest syndrome, or so I’ve heard…although for some parents, freedom arrives with the youngest kid’s drivers license.
Oh the things I will do to Lynn when that occurs…
I don’t get it, AC (I’m not familiar with your education system). If you are expelled from school, how can you be admitted to university?
*proof reads*
Never mind: I misinterpreted “kicked out”!
In any event, if I understand the North American system correctly, the individual schools award the graduation certificates of attainment yes? In the UK, whilst the school is responsible for some of the assessment, and providing facilities for certified examinations, the actual assessment is done, and certificates awarded to the individual students, by regional qualifications bodies so an expulsion after your exams were completed wouldn’t prevent you obtaining the certificate of education that the further education sector wants to see.
Congratulations on graduating! If it’s any consolation, I still don’t feel like an adult most days, so you can still enjoy yourself why you’re out in the big bad world.
Sidenote: Anybody else get a perverted chuckle mentally referencing vandaling education to kidnapping Jane?
YAY!!! I am booty.
Indeed you are and a ripe booty at that…
*mentally plunders Jane’s booty*
*grins, and has a smoke*
I knew there was a reason I had you in my pirate crew. Now let’s set sail with our plunder.
A pirate’s life for me…
Graduating…. It’s nice to think of it that way although really it was nothing so official… And I’m officially gone but I’ll probably spend most of study leave leading up to exams there anyway…
*Considers making one of those funny square hats*
Do you guys not do the whole big deal up there? It’s kind of nice to do it once, especially at the high school level. By the time I graduated from college though, I felt Indiana University had sucked enough money from me that I was not inclined to by a cap and gown and go sit for several hours. My mom insisted, but I’m putting my foot down when I’m finished with my Master’s degree next year. At a certain time and age it just becomes ridiculous.
That sounds fun but nah, I’ve not heard of it being done. It’s more just “good luck, shove off” but we are having a barbecue and bouncy castle for some sixth year leaving fun, it’s not quite the same tho….
And I now have the image of flinging sixth years from the battlements of some lovely old castle overlooking the moors. And so down the hill, bouncy bouncy…
My cousins say that they ‘throw out’ the kids who graduate from kindergarten–the kid draws a big picture of him/herself, it is taped to the door, and the teachers throw the kid through that picture (and onto a mattress on the other side). Not as dramatic as throwing students off of the battlements, but still fun!
That sounds infinitely more fun that sitting draped in a heavy synthetic robe in the early-summer heat being told that You Are The Future.
Yeah but HS graduation is a great way to rake in the cash.
Didn’t get so much but the family did leave for a week directly from my graduation so Lynn and I drove to my place for five hours of sex all over the house.
Mmmm. Something like that would beat out raking in the cash, I think! –not that I raked in the cash in any of MY graduations! *contemplates trading in her relatives* Nope, too late!
It is one of the reasons I am fond of high school. Lynn and I were sexually active for quite a while during my senior year. Mmm, good times. She still is a little minx.
So you two met in high school… I envy you, I wish I had a relationship that long.
Going on ten years in October 23rd, the anniversary of our first real date.
Got plans for a romantic anniversary?
Nothing quite yet but I have time and I like to get a read on how she is feeling close to the time. She tends to be a girl that likes thought out instead of ostentacious so I have to scheme.
I see… No anti-tentacle monster underwear this time…
I was only born in Japan, I am not a native so I lack the tentacles.
10 yrs? good grief, i have underwear older than that! lol
And?
i feel soooo old
but it’s nice hearing about couples that figure out how to stay together. in spite of my own pessimism, i do wish you both all the best, or maybe it’s because of my pessimism i want others to be happy together
@ DWN: I’m joining Bad Fairie on wishing you the best.
@ Bad Fairie: TMI on the underwear part.
@dayaoifan, then i take it you don’t want to join our conversations when we discuss the merits of various ropes, hand cuffs, and riding crops?
speaking of ropes, there is a big sale at some of the wally-worlds on fabrics, i’m thinking about looking to see if i can find something soft but not too stretchy to braid into ropes – i’m trying to add a bit of new colors into the bedroom, hopefully they’ll still have the cording used in upholstery piping as a foundation to add some bulk.
I will be a bit snide and note the oddity of an username like dayaoifan, which tells us what kind of porn you like and stating underwear info as TMI.
@Badfairie: Ooooh, speaking of ropes, finally found the time to use the rope flogger on Lynn again. She has been rather cranky and a few lashes from it put her in great spirits. Masochists and their odd little needs.
@dwn: Well….not me so much. I had to google just now when I read your post. Aaaaand, I guess there’s something for everyone.
*sigh* That didn’t make as much sense as I thought it did.
I should have included the statement I was commenting on:
“username like dayaoifan, which tells us what kind of porn you like “
@Diss: My son’s fairy godmother is HUGE into yaoi and writes For the Love of Yaoi. I learned way more about bishi man sex than I ever, EVER wanted to know.
Sorry if I gave you something to google that you might have preferred not to see.
@Diss: No worries, love, I knew what you meant. I has some clever today.
@dwn: No problem, it’s just….not anything that had ever crossed my mind, lol! Not really my thing, I guess.
@Diss: Mine either, it still makes my brain bleed a bit when I see the word but I have developed a callous over the years.
I went to college with her and like any artist, I enjoyed looking at sketchbooks from my friends. I learned not to ask what she was drawing, though she does lovely work and does do material that isn’t yaoi related.
I keep telling myself that this person is trying to be ironic…. but I don’t think they are. That’s so sad.
hoked on foniks rely woked four me!
Vandaling is a real word there. It is a slang word meaning steal, unlike our word vandalize, which you all know the meaning of. The current party are stealing funds from the education ministry, thus the children have no new books to learn. So basically her sign is telling the ruling party to stop stealing from the education ministry, but I’m sure you all got that by now and don’t need me to be Capt. Obvious…sorry. Her sign is not incorrect.
Oh. Sort of like “dialoguing” or “gifting”?
It looks as though slaughtering the queen’s English isn’t confined to we American types.
Hey – her opinion not mine…
One little quibble “Stealing”? Meaning that the Education Ministry is somehow entitled to a certain amount of money? Aren’t you forgetting that the government, in point of fact, “steals” money from taxpayers at the point of a gun for redistribution to people they think are more entitled to it? So, as a result, any agency of the government should be infinitely grateful for anything they get, rather than complaining endlessly that they don’t get enough.
It amazes me how well people twist facts to suit their own agenda.
Oh, go peddle the radical libertarian rubbish to people who care. We’ve been over the Legitimate Functions of Government argument and whether public education is one of them enough times already without you coming around to piss in one more well.
In this case the money’s already in government hands, it’s supposed to be in the education budget and someone’s expropriated it for something else. Presumably something even less suitable in your radical “libertarian” sensibilities than public education. So you’re agreeing with Tara whether you know it or not. Sod off.
“Radical” libertarian? I’m merely expressing the facts-I’m very sorry if it disturbs you. Libertarianism means minimal government and maximum personal freedom-if that worries you, you have more problems than I can address here.
And I do feel that government should have a minimal role in education. I like the American decentralized system of education. Individual counties and towns look after their own educational needs. Unfortunately, the imperial federal government intrudes more and more into this system, making our schools absolutely horrific in academic terms.
American children are incredibly ignorant when they graduate from high school-top o’ the line when it comes to such things as self-esteem, multi-cultural propaganda, anti-drug programs, “climate change”…etc. But lamentably lacking in such esoterica as basic reading, math, geography, history, economics, critical thinking and so forth.
Keep the government out. Let the natural laws of competition between both public and private schools take place-this will solve the problem far more quickly than throwing money randomly at bureaucrats.
sorry to hear that you like how our school system is ran — it sounds great in theory, but in practice- sucks. funding is property tax based for a lot of school districts, also states contribute to school districts differently, then add to the mix the range of $$ between the wealthy states and the poor states. and the fed gov’t contributes different amounts to each district/state as well. so quality of the schools varies from one extreme to the other, usually with those needing the most help to provide adequate educations getting the least help.
Ooh! I didn’t know that. I love hearing new words…
Point taken Tara. I’ve just checked my dictionary (Collin’s, being Scottish), and it only admits of “vandal” as a noun, with the verb form being “to vandalize”. Even with Irish friends, I’ve never heard/seen anyone use “vandaling” before today.
Well, I’m Irish and I’ve never heard of “vandaling”. Thought it was a nice irony on an education protest poster though!
IMO Fianna Fail are the best of a bad lot, but only just. . . I can’t think of who I’d actually vote for to govern the country, TBH.
I’m Irish too and I have never heard of vandaling as slang for theft. That’s B.S. Tara.
OK Miss Obvious… how come if you put “Vandaling” into Google the first link leads to this thread? Also, nothing in OED or Dictionary.com about the word…. sorry!
Worst thing is – that was a teacher’s union conference!
When I was an undergrad, we used the term “vandaling it” to refer to the losery ways of our rival college.
“Dude, they’re getting spanked! 45-0! They’re totally Vandaling it!”
Hint: it’s where Sarah Palin went to college…
go cougs!
but shouldn’t you use a better hint than palin having attended moscow u, since she did go to something on the order of 5 or 6 colleges?
A better pic of the silly bints face is here:
http://johnniecraig.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/see-me-for-vandalising-the-language/
what’s going on in this picture is teachers at a conference of the teachers’ union in ireland. fianna fáil, the dominant party in a two-party-dominant-party-multi-party hybrid political system, who have been in power for about 60 of the past 80 years, are shitting all over our country, and especially our civil servants.
so this picture, though erroneous, is pretty damn true…
and oh my god, paws4thot, think before you speak… first of all our country is called ireland – yes its other name is Éire but nobody calls it that – and we speak ENGLISH as a first language, and our second language is IRISH, not gaelic.
this stuff pisses me off so much!
Maybe you should, like, get a life.
Feeling such extravagant compassion for civil “servants” is ample evidence of someone with waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much time on their hands.
giggle
And maybe you should take more interest in what’s going on in YOUR country before you start mocking someone for taking an interest in THEIR country.
And maybe you should LIKE stop talking as if you’re in a bad nineties movie. LIKE, OH MY GAWD!
@Livo. I’ve read that there are more Irish in the USA than there are in Ireland. And a very LARGE number of the Irish-heritage folks in Boston (my neck of the woods) have bumper stickers with a green Eire over-written onto a black lettered Ireland. paws4thot was probably working with the information at hand in her/his community. So take a chill pill–you’ll get more tourists that way, for one!
I can take or leave those bloody tourists. I’ve had an american tourist ask me to take my shoes off for a photo of me with him because it looked more ‘authentically Irish’. Also in Ireland there is 4.3 Million people, 6.5 if you include the north, and in America there is 80 million people of certifiable Irish descent, out of 120 million worldwide. I hope they don’t come back because we really don’t have the space.
There’s no accounting for stupid. But their money spends well, anyway. Nice little boost to the local economy.
Well, a recession is no time to be picking and choosing, hmm?
So, say, I should call Spain Espana just because that’s what the Spanish call it?
Eire is a republic, which comprises the majority of the land area of an island called Ireland (or occasiionally Erin); the rest being called “Northern Ireland”, and part of another nation entirely. I use the word Eire to specify that I mean the republic, and not the island. I suggest you learn more physical geography before hassling people about using a correct word as disambiguation as to their meaning!
Except NO irish people ever call Ireland EIRE its completely different to Spain or any other country that still speaks their own native language. If we want to distinguish between the two parts we always call the north “northern Ireland” and the south just “Ireland” or “the republic”. What your saying sounds like something straight out of Darby O’Gill !!!! Its not the 1950’s anymore !!!
I’m not sure what to start with, but the fact you think no one says Éire is a bit of a fail….. but I agree, no one says gaelic , unless they are a lil stupid
they don’t !!!! Unless it is for something official !!!! Otherwise they just slap it on postcards with lots of little green shamrocks to sell to tourists.
Well, they *do* say Gaelic, when they’re referring to the Scottish language, because that’s what it’s called – i.e. Scots Gaelic. I’ve gotten over the urge to correct anyone who’s not Irish when they say we speak “Gaelic”: life’s too short and it’s way too complicated to explain when the adjective is used for other aspects of Irish culture!
There are probably lots of reasons why people don’t call the country Eire any more – it was suggested to me years ago by someone who knew his history that “Eire” was used by BBC commentators so they didn’t have to acknowledge the fact that we were a republic. Don’t know how true that is. And to be honest, when I lived in England nobody cared very much about where I was from except that they like my accent!
At first, “vandaling” made me think of something similar to “oolinizing.”
First word is real, second is a spelling mistake my sister saw.
its part of the message that its spelled wrong . she’s a teacher at my school .
fianna fail is a political party in Ireland
fianna
Á
say it with me!
á !!
hehehehe.
Schools are so bad in CA, the grads dropouts can’t even spell! woot!
common, stop feeding the damn teachers union…
Written by an actual English teacher. She won’t verify whether the spelling mistake was intentional or not.. Which leads me to believe it wasn’t. Twit.
Isn’t Vandaling something those that work at Vandalay do on their lunch breaks?
Only if they’re architects.
They diversified? I thought they were importer/exporters?
That was after they sold latex.
oh right, the latex conundrum! I totally forgot about that one..
Pretty sure that the misspelling was intentional. To exemplify why we need education funds.
Wow.
I would think that parading a huge sign in front of media would warrant a little extra spell checking and effort.
Just a tiny bit.
Guys, you’ve all failed!!!! Vandling is right, its where kids stand on corners with their hands down their pants!!! Its not in a dictionary cause its a new phenomenon. A very very strange one that unfortunately i had the misfortune of seeing! So very wrong!!!!
She is the teacher at my school in charge of helping international students improve their English. How ironic.
This is in Ireland and it would make perfect sense there. The reference to Fianna Fail is a reference to a major political party there. And “vandaling” is correct verb usage there as well.
No, vandaling is not correct English, I’m afraid. If you are Irish, you should know better. If you are not Irish, let me just plead, stop trying to make us seem so stupid as to accept an incorrect use of English with regard to adopting it into regular usage. Thank you
i think all you faggits should suck a dick!! i cant see why you get so pumped up about a shitty little picture that isnt even remotely funny
you all need to get a life! thankyou for reading this retards:)