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[Félix]

*Heather and me . . . :)

[Phil]

Hear, hear.

[Jammies]

Hwaet, hwaet!

[[deleted user]]

See!

[Jammies]

So, Hearken unto me! Ohio used to believe in funding their public schools, but that was back in the age of the dinosaurs, when I rode my brontosaurus to school. Now, Ohio has one of the worst public school funding messes in the country.

[Phil]

Maybe ONE of the worst, but Utah wins as worst.

Children represent a larger percentage of Utah citizens than the percentage in any other state. Since each one is a tax deduction, the state collects LESS money to fund education for MORE students. That's one reason our per-pupil spending is more than $1,000 LESS than the next-lowest state.

Perhaps the tax deductions for children should be capped at two? Three? And perhaps education should be prioritized a bit higher?

Fuckers.

[[deleted user]]

I have no idea where Oregon ranks on the whole. I do know that Portland Public Schools are crap and that my H.S. in particular nearly closed:

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/in...

[[deleted user]]

Apparently we are 27th out of 50, below both Utah and Ohio. Which is even more sad if the article is accurate and we (as a nation) ranked 25th out of 34 countries.

Lovely, the bottom 46% of the bottom 26-ish %...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07...

[Jim]

Here is a whole slew of numbers that you can look at.

http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/HE/NEA...

[[deleted user]]

Yeah, I pulled up a NEA report for 2011/2012, but it was too much data, Population/Enrollment/Blah/Blah/Blah.

They made us take those stupid standardized tests every year, I just wanna know who won!

[Jammies]

Phil wrote: "Maybe ONE of the worst, but Utah wins as worst.

Children represent a larger percentage of Utah citizens than the percentage in any other state. Since each one is a tax deduction, the state collec..."

Phil, our problem here is not that education overall is underfunded, it's that the funding is so grossly disparate. We have schools with their own indoor arenas in some areas and schools with no indoor bathrooms in others.

[[deleted user]]

Seriously, no indoor bathrooms? You have OUTHOUSES? How very Little House on the Prairie...

[Jim]

Amelia wrote: "Seriously, no indoor bathrooms? You have OUTHOUSES? How very Little House on the Prairie..."

::memo to self, if they have outhouses in the cities in Ohio, stay away from back country Ohio::

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Yeah, what? Does the school date from 1910? Grandfathered in under new construction laws?

[Scout]

I'm bugged by the writing spider that's built a web next to my back door. I'm thinking of relocating it to the vacant neighboring house's yard (using a very long stick).

[Jammies]

No outhouses, just no bathrooms in one school and the kids have to walk across the parking lot to another school.

[[deleted user]]

Um...that's pretty much an "outhouse".

[Jammies]

To me, and outhouse is a non-running water facility, typically with a seat over a hole in the ground.

[[deleted user]]

That is the mental picture, and historically true. I agree. But, in this case and in the broader sense, isn't an outhouse just a toilet-ish facility that is "out"?

[Jammies]

Hmm, according to Wikipedia, it can be any small building not part of a larger building. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outhouse

Anyway, it bugs the heck out of me when my mother says "shaw" instead of "shawl".

[[deleted user]]

But, it's out for the users from building A. I guess that would make it an out/in house...an otherhouse.

[[deleted user]]

I cryed seeing this...

FB friend's post. *grinds teeth*

[Emily]

Amelia wrote: "I cryed seeing this...

FB friend's post. *grinds teeth*"

There's a moderator on another group I'm with who frequently posts really twitch-able versions of words. I've tried explaining this to non-GR people a couple of times...they don't get my frustration.

Is it wrong to expect a higher (i.e. english grammer/spelling) standard from a mod?

[[deleted user]]

No, why don't you all just take the piss every time he/she does it? I don't get away with ANYTHING around here, why should a mod?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

What does twitch-able mean?

Is it wrong to expect a higher (i.e. english grammer/spelling) standard from a mod?

I don't think it's wrong to expect it from anyone over the age of 11.

Yesterday I tore into an assistant editor at a political site. The guy is an EDITOR. He was all "who's" instead of "whose." That is UNACCEPTABLE. I fucking HATE people who publish on the internet and cannot be BOTHERED to proofread their own SHIT. I. HATE. THEM. Don't make me read your typo-ridden SHIT. Go. Back. And Fix. It.

[Scout]

That's how I feel when my neighbor's shooting his BB gun after having broken two of my window panes. UNACCEPTABLE.

[Emily]

Lobstergirl wrote: "What does twitch-able mean?.."

Something which bugs me to the point of making me twitch.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

When you go to the grocery store and all the on sale frozen vegetables, and the sale cans of chickpeas, are sold out.

[Scout]

I bought a year's subscription to a magazine. I've received three copies, and I'm already being asked to renew my subscription. Don't they realize that this makes people resolve not to renew?

[Emily]

Example of a comment by previously mentioned mod:

"The cover's you menchined."

I am not making this up!

[evie]

The first chance I have this week to sleep late, but I'm awake with the sparrows.

[[deleted user]]

I HATE that, Evie!

[Cynthia]

Why does Donald Trump think we give a rat's ass what he thinks?

[[deleted user]]

He just likes to hear himself talk.

[Carol]

I talk through previews at movies and roll through stop signs.
I say awesome and start many sentences with So...

[Chris]

Whoo boy do I have a list of pet peeves! Seriously, I'm only 27 but as much of a grump I am, I should be well into my 70's lol :D

People who walk around with their mouth hanging open
People with bad table manners
People who talk obnoxiously loud
People who mumble
People who are glued permanently to their phone
People who text more than have actual conversations
Bigots of any sort
People who are practically humping in public
People who go into the store still in pajamas
Dog owners who don't clean up after their mutt
Dog owners who try to let their dog shit on my lawn
Dog owners who don't make their dog STFU at night
Snobs and people who act smarter than they really are
Obnoxiously stupid people
People who talk when they don't know what the hell they're talking about.
Potatoes.....just potatoes....hate the damned things
People who keep recommending me The Hunger Games
Obnoxious sports fans
People who act like I'm weird because I don't like sports
People who say reading is a waste of time
Functional illiterates
Religious fanatics
People who don't take no for an answer

.....I know there's more but this is already a pretty big list lol

[CD]

If it has not been mentioned before:

People who will not pronounce the word sword correctly bug me to the point of making me want to move towards them with a blunt object.

[[deleted user]]

Christopher wrote: "Whoo boy do I have a list of pet peeves! Seriously, I'm only 27 but as much of a grump I am, I should be well into my 70's lol :D

People who walk around with their mouth hanging open
People with b..."

Functional illiterates...*snort*

So about "book recommendations"...why? You review books you read. If I'm interested based on that I will add it to my list. The person who most recommends to me is a guy who reads Mystery novels, who done it kinda things. Not my bag, dude. I ignore all of your recommendations. Check the shelves, big guy, under Mystery, what do you see? 12. that's right, 12. And, there are only 12 because I have and do like the collected works of Arthur Conan Doyle.

*sigh*I just don't do assigned reading. Review your books, that is enough for me.

[[deleted user]]

CD wrote: "If it has not been mentioned before:

People who will not pronounce the word sword correctly bug me to the point of making me want to move towards them with a blunt object."



So, "sord" doesn't work for you, we need to emphasize the "w"?

So, do you emphasize the "r" in February? Cause, I got the piss taken out of me for that. What about the "d' in Wednesday?

[[deleted user]]

Further query: Who do you know that is using the word "sword" with any regularity?

Not really a word that I use often in every day speech...Just doesn't come up.

[[deleted user]]

BunWat wrote: "I really need to take some sort of action about the number of things that bug me. Because I'm becoming a crankypants."


Your crankypantsing is usually in a good way (funny)...or way deserved.

[CD]

Amelia wrote: "Further query: Who do you know that is using the word "sword" with any regularity?

Not really a word that I use often in every day speech...Just doesn't come up."

Mhmmm, perhaps I need to change my circle of friends. Between gamers, game developers, professors of history of one certain era or another, and several friends who belong to SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) the word sword comes up more often than you might think.

So instead of whackin' 'em with a board when they mispronounce sword, I'll just refer them to this series of posts. And still grumble that their 5th grade teacher didn't 'fix' the problem.

I'll still be sore that they did it.

[CD]

Amelia wrote: "CD wrote: "If it has not been mentioned before:

People who will not pronounce the word sword correctly bug me to the point of making me want to move towards them with a blunt object."

So, "sord" doesn't work for you, we need to emphasize the "w"?

So, do you emphasize the "r" in February? Cause, I got the piss taken out of me for that. What about the "d' in Wednesday
"

Of course 'sord' works, that is the sound I am desiring to hear so that under my breath I don't swear.

I rue the loss of tooth enamel from grinding my teeth over the lost 'r' in February. Wednesday we will leave alone as usually I am just happy to survive another Hump day.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

It irritates me when people abbreviate parmesan parm.

You know who did that all the time was Carmela Soprano.

[Chris]

Oh yeah....random strangers who will bum a cigarette or ask me for a little spare change, and when I'm nice enough to give it to them, they walk off without so much as a thank you or acknowledgement of the past few moments.

Where did manners go? I'm no saint by any means, but I ALWAYS say please and thank you to people. Its not that difficult.

[Susan]

When you hold a door open for the person behind you and they don't even acknowledge what you have done. Or that you are standing there. Or that you exist.

arrrrrr.

Then you turn into a pirate.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

When you get an erection lasting more than four hours.

[[deleted user]]

As usual, I annoy LG...

Chicken Parm is how I learned to say it in NY. Blame it on the Italians!

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Oh believe me, I will.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Recipes that instruct you to use the egg white and throw out the yolk. WHAT A WASTE. Fuckers.