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  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: should homework be allowed

    Urgh... that'd teach a person to take history. Another thing I like about the UK system - after 16, you get to choose exactly and only what you want to ...

    Apr 5, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: should homework be allowed

    Here in the UK, homework doesn't count toward classes. Only exams do that. So I can skip the HW and still ace the course.

    Apr 5, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: should homework be allowed

    but at least you know how to use them thar apostrophe's That's so ironic it's physically painful. Einstein also skipped work and classes because it was moving too slow for ...

    Apr 4, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Should Taliban's Spin Doctor Be Allowed At Yale

    I'm for it. He seems like a nice man.

    Apr 3, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: should homework be allowed

    So far, I've never felt the benefits of homework. I've even experimented with periods of doing and not doing it, and it's never made a difference. If I'm going to ...

    Apr 3, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: Girl Sues School Over Confederate Flag

    Nah, it's pretty on-topic. This is why I've said it's allowable but stupid, effectively. Because we're in a democracy, we should have the right to do things like this, despite ...

    Apr 3, 2006
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: A Prayer to Allah

    Bob thinks that talking about yourself in the third person is a sign of madness. AHHHHHH. *Ahem*, sorry: Senor Stalker has a point, but however true is all is, we ...

    Apr 2, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: Girl Sues School Over Confederate Flag

    Geez, I'm slow. Allowable - no dress code means no dress code: if there's a uniform, she can't wear it, if there's not, she can wear what she flippin' well ...

    Apr 2, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: Girl Sues School Over Confederate Flag

    Well, here in the UK people still use Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish flags to represent their countries, even though they've amalgamated and all lost their soveriegnty as separate nations. ...

    Apr 2, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: should video games be banned

    In very young children, watching adults use aggressive behaviour is pretty well proven to cause them to imitate it. However, the results don't tend to work particularly well with older ...

    Mar 31, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: Shamefully, I know all the words

    Boys of Summer by Don Henly You are my new best friend. On the shameful side... I know all the words (yes, even the verses) to The Final Countdown by ...

    Mar 31, 2006
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: A Prayer to Allah

    Terrorist rhetoric? Heh. Tell him his teaching is white supremisist neo-Colonial socialisation. That one always makes them think for just long enough to beat a hasty exit.

    Mar 31, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: The results are in! Kadima pwns Likud in Israeli elections

    Well, completely apart from severly limiting the gene pool (great argument, that one, always makes me laugh), the only real problem is that it fosters an isolationist and seperatist mindset, ...

    Mar 30, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: The lonesome death of Rachel Corrie

    Basically, all I'm saying is that Jews and Arabs and Westerners all have equal amounts of blood on their hands. You can claim that Jews have tried to take the ...

    Mar 30, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: The results are in! Kadima pwns Likud in Israeli elections

    There is no law in the UK that says it has to have a majority of British people.

    Mar 30, 2006


I wonder if people felt the freedom in our culture to love louder, if they'd be quicker to say "I miss you" when the absence of someone is felt instead of just thinking it.
— soundofmind