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  • Lounge, The Re: The "I'm Back" Thread

    Wow, uhm… Long time, no see. I haven't been around here since about 2009, but that's me right there who started the Buddy System. (Is that still a thing?) I'm ...

    Mar 4, 2013
  • Lounge, The Re: The "I'm Back" Thread

    I'm back~ It's, uhm, been awhile…

    Jan 8, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Wikipedia

    As others have said, it depends on what you're using it for. Now, if I cited it in a paper, I'd be dragged out into the street and shot - ...

    Dec 31, 2008
  • Lounge, The Re: The "I'm Back" Thread

    I'm ba~ack. No, seriously. Now that the Semester From Hell™ is over, I actually have time to, you know, write and critique and do something other than read hundreds of ...

    Dec 17, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is the word retard a "bad word"?

    It isn't even about being politically correct for me. It's about not hurting or demeaning people just because you're too insensitive to change your lexicon. Is it that hard? This. ...

    Aug 15, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Does the media give teens a bad name?

    Hey, man. As the geekiest girl in my high school, I know it can not be fun to be called a geek. (I've gotten over it, as you see. I've ...

    Aug 14, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is the word retard a "bad word"?

    The difference is that "bitch" has been widely reclaimed by women (see: Bitch Magazine, Bitch PhD, and I'm sure there are others). Also, "bitch" is not a synonym for "woman." ...

    Aug 14, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is the word retard a "bad word"?

    I think we're all too worried about offending people. In this day and age, people toss around words like "retard" or "fag" or "nigger" when talking amongst their friends, just ...

    Aug 14, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Does the media give teens a bad name?

    You know what else is obnoxious? Girls who aren't popular are considered "normal", while guys who aren't popular are considered "geeks". (*looks up from manga *) You say "geek" like ...

    Aug 14, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is the word retard a "bad word"?

    These days though... I'm more inclined to say that it's just a word. I use it all the time, same as I say gay sometimes in a kind of ironic ...

    Aug 14, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Does the media give teens a bad name?

    The media would like you to think that MySpace is this terrible, terrible thing and everyone who goes on there is either a) a pervert or b) jail bait. Obviously, ...

    Aug 13, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Depression

    @#%^&*(! *ahem!* Depression is not "all in your head." It's a complex emotional/biological issue, not some "cheer up emo kid" thing. Also, just because it's "all in your head" doesn't ...

    Aug 12, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Bob Cat's Death

    Big cats don't kill people, stupidity kills people. This. ^ The bobcat didn't attack someone out of nowhere. It wasn't like they were walking down the street or in the ...

    Aug 7, 2008
  • Lounge, The Re: A change in YWS?

    Things change. I don't think YWS as an institution has changed, just the people in it, and that's how things are. People come and go over time and of course ...

    Aug 5, 2008
  • Lounge, The Re: Male vs. Female Teachers

    I've had good teachers (and bad) of both sexes, so. I don't care either way. Most male teachers are secondary/postsecondary. My elementary school had only one male teacher (but both ...

    Aug 5, 2008


He began to wonder why he had felt uneasy at all. It was like a man wondering in broad daylight why a dream had appeared so terrible to him at night.
— Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart