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[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 4:54pm

Speaking of perfume in the theatre, I remember going to see a production of In the Jungle of the Cities with my mother and the woman seated in front of us decided to actually spray perfume on herself while sitting in her seat just moments before the show started. That was the worst.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 5:18pm

That's really obnoxious.

[jasonf]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 5:45pm

I have to send a big SHUT UP to the people who create the sanctions for schools failing to meet NCLB. We had staff meeting today to tell us our school didn't make it by ONE standard: economically disadvantaged students. Get this -- our school has 1200 students. We passed successfully (by a LOT in many areas) 40/41 standards. We missed on ONE. It seems 40/67 students who are classified as economically disadvantaged passed the test. 10 of those missed by less than 10 points. If just EIGHT of those had passed, the ENTIRE school would have passed. So, because of EIGHT kids the whole school is facing early warning measures. Here's the best part: it's illegal for the teachers to know who the economically disadvantaged kids are, so we can't even target those kids for help if we want to! So, to anyone who supports NCLB, anyone who pushes for it, and mostly anyone who designed it, SHUT UP!!!!

[StockardFan]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 6:14pm

I hate standardized testing, jason!

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 7:18pm

NCLB sanctions that lower functioning special needs kids be given tests that are specifically designed to their abilities. Each teacher has to create a test for each individual child. Then they have to give the tests. So... the teacher gives the kid a test over the things that she knows that he or she knows. It's a complete and total waste of time.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 8:19pm

Children....

I was flying back to Ft. Lauderdale from Philly today. In the airport, a kid (probably around 4) was running wild. His mother told him that if he didn't sit down, she was going to call the police. He didn't sit and he didn't calm down and the mother gave up. On the plane, they were seated 3 rows behind me. The child SCREAMED the whole entire flight and was annoying the people in the rows in back of him and in front of him. And, I don't only mean verbally annoying; he was standing on the chair and tapping the people on their heads and asking if they had guns. The mother didn't do a thing. When the seat belt buckle sign came on, she told him that he needed to sit and put the belt on. When he didn't listen, the flight attendant told him that he needed to immediately be seated and buckle up. When he still didn't listen, his mother slapped him, pulled him down and buckled him and said, "If you don't stay buckled, we are going to crash and burn."

WoW. Discipline. Consistency. Parenting skills.


On the other hand, there were twins sitting in the row in front of me (about 4 years old) and they couldn't have been better behaved. They were so mature the whole flight.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 9:16pm

Wow... I am not a fan of children at all, but even I wouldn't say anything as horrible to any as that mother did. No wonder the kid doesn't respect her.

And I would like to yell at ABC's genius attempt to air the Grinch tonight. They cut so many parts out, and transitions that belonged, it was ridiculous. And I know it happened because of time and to put as many commercials as possible. This is a huge fail for ABC again.

[Weez]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 4:23pm

OH MY GOD MY CO-WORKERS. *dies* I should never have taken the job with only three co-workers. They all suck donkey balls.

Co-worker 1 is mostly quite genial, for a bitchy old lady, and I think I'll miss her when she's gone, because she's only the second most annoying co-worker, but I do not expect or want to hear an elderly person mimicking me in that high-pitched mocking way after I say something to a customer! I'm also astounded at how rude and unpleasant she gets when I try to help her; listen, buttercup, this job is about serving the CUSTOMERS, not your EGO.

Co-worker 2 is mostly okay, but she pulled something today that is very petty but I'm still fuming over. I have to translate her words from Computer Illiterate Speak into coherent English for brevity's sake, but she came up to me and told me off for opening multiple Internet Explorer windows on our enquiry computer (it's a slow computer, multiple windows make it sad). Srsly! I'm a major proponent of tabbed browsing; I would no more open up more than one IE window than I would use IE voluntarily! If she'd politely mentioned it to both of us who were in today, that would've been fine, but she assumed it HAD to be me and was very stern and decided I was lying when I explained I had never and would never do such a thing. ¬_¬

And co-worker 3 drives me so mad I can't even go into detail. I'll give you a sample dialogue though:

Me: "Hey, here's a question; is the answer A or B?"
CW3: "Ummm... ummm... Ooh, well. I think you'll find um... sortof uhhh... sortof uhhh... the ummm practicality of B is that uhhhh..... sortof uhhh... sortof uhhh... that it does ummm... this, that, and uhhh.... sortof uhhh... the other."
Me: "..... so A then."
CW3: "Yes, uhhh..... yes, that's right."

I wish I were exaggerating for dramatic effect. I'm really really not. ;_;

Updated On: 12/2/08 at 04:23 PM

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 4:32pm

My bosses play with fart soundboards on their computers all day.

All. Day.

Every. Day.

You would think they would get bored with it after about nine months.

Nope.

[jasonf]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 4:35pm

My assistant principal has never, to my knowledge, actually disciplined a kid, and when we try to, we get admonished. A kid plagiarized on SEVEN different papers (that we've caught now) and we're STILL being easy on the kid because of the asst principal. Give me a break! It's only middle school, so nothing happens though -- can't WAIT to see what happens when the kid pulls this in college!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 4:38pm

Farts CAN be funny...

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 4:57pm

Finger-pointers and blamers.

S.T.FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. UP!

[Marianne2]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 5:46pm

I'm also going to say shut up to the idiots who think they are helping a worthy cause, but instead donate useless items that end up being thrown out anyway. We don't want your stinky underwear, or your child's old training pants or whatever. We don't want your stupid china that you broke and glued back together. We also don't take donations of pet food that you put in a trash bag loose.

The trash bag thing happened today. My sister is collecting items from her 4-H club to donate to an animal shelter. Food is good, but it's useless if it's not in an unopened, original bag. It might be okay, but we still don't know if it was contaminated or how old it is. I certainly would not even feed that to my own pets, let alone the animals at my shelter.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 6:30pm

I'm sorry Marianne, but your post made me LOL! I can just picture someone donating their old nasty panties.

[Radiana]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 6:52pm

I just wanted to add my two cents to the perfume discussion. I, like many of you have a sensitivity to perfumes. I have become ill from them to the point where I've had to leave work.
Headaches, nasuea and dizziness. I used to work in retail and if it wasn't a co worker it was a customer who walked up to the counter and it was over for me for the day.

There is a lawsuit in Detroit about perfume sensitivities in the work place. Just like smoke, breathing perfume is annoying and to some of us a health issue. To the women who know how to apply it properly, I say fine. To the gals who wear it thinking that some guy is going to smell the stuff from 50 feet away and run over and start sniffing her and maybe fall in love because the scent is going to drive him crazy........SHUT UP!!

If you are someone who needs to put more and more of the stuff on because you like the smell of it and it seems to be fading, why don't you take a Q-tip and just apply the perfume inside your nostrils and then we'll all be happy.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 8:27pm

Billy Mays (the Oxyclean guy) - must you always yell in your commercials?? Shut up already!

[Q]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 8:45pm

Dottie - Billy Mays is why our remote has a mute button, which gets used!

Perfume/cologne - I lived in a multi-story apartment building once where a lot of gay men lived. On Friday and Saturday nights, I simply couldn't use the elevator because of all of them coming and going to the nightlife of their choice. The mixture and amount of scents was STAGGERING. And I unfortunately lived on the 8th floor - but the stairs really were the only option under the circumstances.

[nexttoelectric]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 8:47pm

yeah, god damn those homosexuals and their many smells.

[Q]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 8:49pm

Well, we DO have a tendency to wear a LOT!

Not my particular crowd - most of them prefer a more 'natural' aroma . . .

[nexttoelectric]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 8:51pm

most of them prefer a more 'natural' aroma . . .

so thats what they mean by the great unwashed masses?

[Q]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 8:57pm

Oh, they like'em washed - just not perfumed.

And nextto, in the spirit of this thread, shut up

[insertclevernamehere]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 9:17pm

Preface: I know this sounds stupid and angsty
I'm a second year college student. I have no idea what I want to major, what I want to be when I "grow up". I used to have decent (but not very high) self esteem, but now I just think that I'm not good at anything and I'm worried that I've already trained myself to expect a mediocre life.
end rant

[Q]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 9:18pm

In today's society, 'mediocre' would be a step up.

[nygrl232]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 9:31pm

Heaven forBID anyone say anything negative about homosexuals, but it's perfectly okay to say that "vaginas are icky."

Shut up, nexttoelectric. Updated On: 12/2/08 at 09:31 PM

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 9:33pm

Well, I have one, and I have to say, I think they're icky, too.