The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread

[Phylactery]

on a semi-related note, idk if any of you heard this story but it made national news here and even some international news sites i think. this happened at my high school (sry if i mentioned it already): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/educatio...ents-complain-about-Muslim-prayer-lesson.html

I have worked at this school! But this was before my time.

 

[tagradh]

That might actually be a problem because it's a "liberal" state. Can't have the kids have their feelings hurt or something. I don't agree that teachers should be fired for things like that, at all. She basically slammed the little cunt with a zinger and no doubt the no nonsense emotions based policy backfired on her, when it's actually supposed to make sure kids don't bully each other. Sounds like the exact kind of mess that would come out of a school in a "liberal" state.

Eh. Fuck knows what America is like but it was virtually always the more reactionary, conservative parents moaning and meddling when I was at school and going by what my mum, who works in a school, says, that's pretty much still the case.

Again, and I presume America is somewhat different (and it obviously varies greatly throughout the country), the whole 'all university students are snowflake libertards' thing that elements of the media go on and fucking on about has never been my experience of universities in the UK. The vast majority of students don't go to things like talks and debates so it's impossible for them to 'no platform' people speakers. Most just want to have fun and do well enough to get a job that isn't total fucking balls when they leave.

A single person on my course said something or other about some of the 'inappropriate' comments one of the lecturers had made and the reaction of virtually everyone else was to mock them.

The 'outrage' of so much of the media directed towards this small minority of 'outraged snowflakes' is just as fucking bad.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I'd recommend you read The Minds of Boys by Michael Gurian or at least look up the sources and studies he cites in it. I'd love to have a giant autistic debate with you (not really) but I'm on a worksite right now.

I just skimmed it and couldn't find a single chart or table that demonstrated that male student outcomes have worsened over the last few decades. All I've learned is that you get your talking points from self-help books written for middle-aged mothers with unruly children.

 

[CiG]

Eh. Fuck knows what America is like but it was virtually always the more reactionary, conservative parents moaning and meddling when I was at school and going by what my mum, who works in a school, says, that's pretty much still the case.

Probably true but I was implying that the "liberal" faculty probably came down hard on her due to a "liberal" environment at the school as well as more "liberal" pro-fee feez policies.

 

[no country for old wainds]

I have worked at this school! But this was before my time.

lmao for real? that's my hometown. when were you there?

 

[Vilden]

It is now revealed that Phylactery is Old Wainds old homeroom teacher and in reality the guy who've conditioned him to like FAFTS and TRITSIO instead of left wing activism and islam.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i briefly considered that but the event in the article is after my time haha

 

[Vegard Pompey]

It would be an awesome twist if Phylactery turned out to have taught no country, but I don't think the ages line up. Unless no country had to repeat a grade... many, many times.

 

[Phylactery]

Then I could be blamed for his failings in A Level maths . But no it doesn’t line up and we’re too similar in age.

 

[no country for old wainds]

depending on when it was you might still have seen me if you ever went in the nearby sainsbury's convenience lol. although i think i'd remember a polite nerd in a sacramentum shirt

 

[Vegard Pompey]

depending on when it was you might still have seen me if you ever went in the nearby sainsbury's convenience lol. although i think i'd remember a polite nerd in a sacramentum shirt

Maybe you did see him, but dismissed it as your own reflection in the vegetable aisle mirror.

 

[no country for old wainds]

lmao

 

[Doomguy]

40 degrees celsius here. Listening to Bathory while eating smoked oysters and scratching myself.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Over here it's only 30 celsius... In the other direction.

 

[no country for old wainds]

it's like 10 degrees here, owned. fuck i hate getting up this early, but a chess tournament awaits.

 

[CiG]

but a chess tournament awaits.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

it's like 10 degrees here, owned. fuck i hate getting up this early, but a chess tournament awaits.

Remember; if the king doesn't move, then his subjects won't follow.

 

[Onder]

I'm enjoying some nice Sunday, I don't have a hangover so I'm listening to Baltimore's Revelation, having a blackas fuck coffee and reading EU regulations on fertilizers. Later my gf will make chicken paprikash and there's some oude gueuze waiting for me in the fridge.

Oh yeah and the election went the wrong way as expected. 51.3% of our nation don't think with their brains. I don't even feel disappointed anymore.

 

[viewerfromnihil]

Oh yeah and the election went the wrong way as expected. 51.3% of our nation don't think with their brains. I don't even feel disappointed anymore.

Yeah, I heard the news on the radio yesterday.

Trump will be re-elected before the economy tanks after being super-charged. Then we'll elect another centrist, quasi-Republican Democrat who won't actually change anything, and the cycle repeats. The next 14 years, my friends.

 

[Dak]