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GEE

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:28 PM

*hobbles into the bar*

Astroturf is bad for you, I hurt!

I blacked a kids eye with a frying pan age four, got wierdly into a fight with someone I didn't want to because someone else pushed me into him during second year of secondary school so about 13 and I lost a day somewhere the next year when I got bumped by someone in the fith year, told him to watch out, he followed me to my next lesson, tried to intimidate me, apparently I told him to eff off (don't remember) he turned as if to leave and then spun and smacked me with the momentum. Came to my senses in the middle of a German vocab test and asked my best mate what was going on, why I hadn't written anything and why were peope talking in German.

I am so sore, going to bed, must drop in and be more sociable, hope everything is set MsA, and can't remember much else other than Kel & HK being mysterious and ninja like, perhaps I should have bought little ninjas for the wii so I could learn the way.

MSA

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:39 PM

HUGs Gee... rest and get better ok. Nothing going on here yet.. no baby , no change..sigh

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

NAVYSEILS

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:52 PM

I always loved school, but there was definitly still plenty of fighting and bullying that went on there. Builds character and gives you stories to tell and all that stuff. School aint school unless you've almost been stabbed once or twice.

BRIGLAD

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:49 PM

I was always the quiet, chunky, geek kid in school. For some reason I was on the edge of several different 'cliques'. I got along okay with some of the Jocks, eggheads and rednecks. Most of my friends fell into the geek side of things. Band,Drama club etc.

The only 'fight' I can remember being in was one sided.

My high school was a mixed jr./sr. school. Had 7th through 12th grade students mixed together.

One day while waiting in the lunch line, a senior approached me (A wide eyed 7th grader, barely 13) and told me to give him money. Being kinda poor and obstinate, I said no. The afore mentioned senor then punched me (very) hard in the face. Expecting me to cry or something.

I surprised him by not even changing my expression and just staring back at him.

Disappointed by my lack of reaction he pulled back his fist for another shot. He didn't realize the the metal shop teacher was standing behind him. Now this was about 1980 so a teacher physically grabbing a student and tossing him halfway across the cafeteria wasn't as frowned on as it is today. The Shop teacher was 6'3" and built like a stevedore. the Senior flew a respectable distance before being hauled bodily to the office and a one week suspension.

By that night the side of my face swelled up but I didn't cow to the idiot. Never bugged me again either.

Bri

STINKINGROSE

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:58 PM

.. I never got stabbed...

Man, tough neighborhood..

Boychild hit the same kid "lightly" in the eye today when the kid took some tape he was about to use. I am not sure if it was a "snatched out of his hand" took or a "was planning on using the communal tape dispenser in half an hour" took. It sounded like son pulled his punch at the last minute but not quite fast enough. I couldn't really say.

Again, continuation of no priveledges, he had to go to his room while I calmed down and figured out what to do, and then he had to get his social studies assignment finished before bedtime or there would be no dinner (which was a step back from BED! NOW! NO FOOD! and a good swift crack in the ass). We're at "any more of this crap mister and I'm locking you in your room during the party this weekend". This is why I send him to his room, it gives me time to think so I don't follow my other grandfather's example and beat the boy with a refrigerator belt until welts rise. My mother, thankfully, raised me with a different set of rules and consequences (possibly as a result of his example). So no, I really don't want to hear that I should be beating his ass to make my point, thanks, even if I probably should be.

Besides, (MsA rules!)cruel forced book reading is so much more enjoyable and does not leave visible marks!

Got any good suggestions for truly irritating reads? He still reads beginning reader books if it's all that's physically available, or has good artwork, but I think he has never been exposed to DICK AND JANE (Dum Dum Daaaa..! Nah, he'd probably like Spot or something.

There was some really crappy stuff in kindergarten which actually didn't have continuity from page to page or even necessarily relate to the page before it, but it was the curriculum handed down by NCLBthankyouverymuch"W". Perhaps he was traumatized then and can read on secure in the knowledge that nothing could ever possibly be as bad as that?

Of course I physically hurled "Frankenstein" across the room when I finished it for wasting my time. There have been a few I've given up on out of boredom but I usually refuse to give up until the bitter end.

OOH!! Worst Book You Ever Read! (Even if you never finished it) I'll start!

Unreadably bad: "Santa Steps Out" I do not remember the author. By the end of the first very short chapter the Tooth Fairy had commited necrophilia with a drowned man's corpse. I stopped there. (A good writer could have made that work, this one couldn't)

TOP THAT!!!

MSA

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:14 AM

I'd drag out every kids book and pious story with a moral you can find and have him write an essay on 4 ways I can stand up for myself without using force. Oh and then , for good measure have him do another essay on 20 ways I can deal with frustration and 20 ways I will show patience with others.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

FREELANCERTEX

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 1:13 AM

Oooooooooooh, reading a book and doing an essay on it--or just doing an essay--good one, MsA. I can personallly vouch for feeling like essays are punishment ><;;

Worst book I ever read...there are a few. The Great Gatsby (I'm sorry, it's just so gorram boring), Women in Love (five hundred pages long, and NOTHING happens. except one couple get's married, and one of the main characters dies in a lame way. but that's not till like..the last two chapters), The Good Soldier. All I got right now.

AVERYFINECOMPANION

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 1:30 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by stinkingrose:

Of course I physically hurled "Frankenstein" across the room when I finished it for wasting my time.

I HATED this book too! It was SO boring!!

Quote:
OOH!! Worst Book You Ever Read! (Even if you never finished it) I'll start!

Pope Joan. I had to read it for AP English and I hated it. It was the must depressing book ever.

STINKINGROSE

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 1:38 AM

This could very easily turn into "Rosie's great adventure with slap-happy boy", but I don't want to bore the thread to death.

So: Castle, Halloween ep. Brilliant! More Whedonverse references than you can shake a stake at, nod to vampire and comic book genres, plus some really obscure literary stuff. (One line is pure Mal, though.) There's a thread on it somewhere around here. People are finding easter eggs everywhere. I haven't caught any Dollhouse ones yet.. WAIT!! Someone check me! Opening creds for Dollhouse last season and this, at any point does Echo wear a black trench coat (with or without much else)?

Must go watch again...

DANCINGNEKO

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 2:01 AM

SR: Might need to talk to sensei for "in class lessons" on behavior (and it sounds like you've got a good sensei there...because martial arts should be a part of the whole person, not just at the dojo).

(I like MsA's ideas btw.) How does boychild feel about writing? Maybe have boychild do research (and no internet for the research) and write an essay on why self-control is important and/or things he can do other than hitting or hurting another person when he's angry/frustrated. Or an essay on the philosophy of the karate school he's a part of (including a proper bibliography). (I'm really not above using sensei/coach/etc. to help discipline -- simply because the ones I know treat such behavior as a reflection of not only the child, but also as a representative of the dojo/team/etc.)

Worst book I've ever read...I need to get back to you on the title, but it's a "Christian" book that has claims that make me go "WTH?!" (I don't have it with me, so I need to look it up tonight at home.)