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Hobbes

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  1. I usually stop bullying by telling kids to knock that shit off and if they do it again they are in ISS for the day. It seems to work.
  2. Email I got from a parent today. Student (1st grade) is blue, teacher is red. We provide sooo much support for this student. Anytime she is asked to do something she doesn't want to do she cries, rolls around on the floor, throws things, runs from staff, punches and kicks staff (I have been punched and kicked repeatedly and had rocks thrown at me) and students. This happens everyday. This teacher is probably the kindest, most gentle staff member. When we have dad pick her up, she is punching him and he is all, "what's the matter sweetheart--please be nice". I almost lost it on him when he did that when she was repeatedly kicking me while I was explaining what happened.
  3. I think this whole Cody/ Rock is fucking genius. I think they are going to make the Rock into the next Mr. McMahon kinda like how Mr. McMahon was created at the Montreal Screw Job. I can just see it--Cody wasn't ready...Cody screwed Cody! It will be Seth v. Cody. People will be cheering for The Rock over Roman--but that will suck for Roman with all the Cody chants.
  4. I have flow spirit and frontier both multiple times. Never again. Sure, every now and again you have a bad experience with an airline but it usually pretty easy. It is the exact opposite with Spirit and Frontier. Every now and again you have a good experience but it is usually shit. Like, I could tell you about how are bags took six hours to get from the plane to the pick-up because they didn't pay their baggage handlers, or how I was standard at the airport (along with the rest of the flight) for TWO days for them to get a working airplane to us and didn't tell us it would take two days and didn't give us ANY vouchers until minutes before the working plane arrived and then wouldn't accept the vouchers on the plane.
  5. I like those skis! I have noticed since getting my carving skis I get much better grip and control. We even had powder this weekend and I didn't feel a difference from my all-mountains. But with more grip comes more tuning. I see so many people with powder skis when there really isn't powder--mainly rentals. They look like tongue depressors--I don't understand the appeal. I can ski mogels if I have to and I am solid C. But they are negative fun and it kills my knees impacting my fun and ability for the rest of the day. Join me on the dark side of skiing...give into your age...with each passing run you make yourself want to go 100% on piste. To piste, or not to piste: that is the question: Whether ’tis radder in the mind to shred The fluffy powder stashes of secret, Or to arc the pristine groomers of plenty, And to choose between? It’s fun, with smile; Once more, and with smile to say we laugh We laugh with full face grin, our way to the bottom.…. ‑Bill Skispeare
  6. Mostly sci fi and nerdy science channels I watch with my boys: Isaac Arthur Quinn's Ideas Kurzgesagt DestineSpace And channels of video games I like that I watch for strategies: Rimworld (Noobert) and a bunch of super nerdy shit like that.
  7. A few days ago Murray stopped eating except for treats. Last night he walked around a little bit outside more than usual, but once he came in he could barely stand and wouldn't even eat treats. His breathing changed so I figured the time was near. We snuggled in bed up until 1AM when passed peacefully and loved.
  8. I hate any sort of chase. You didn't say helicopters, but I hate anything with a helicopter in it. Mainly because in elementary school I thought people liking Airwolf over A-Team was absurd. The exception was when those people outran the cold in Day After Tomorrow. You never see that--talk about a fresh and original idea!
  9. Get this, last week we had a 5th grade opening and our counselor knew of a very low income family from her previous job who was a severe victim of bullying and our counselor encouraged the family to apply. The girls that were bullying also found out about the spot and all four families applied. It was insane to hear each families take on the events to make their daughter out to be the victim and get the open spot--fortunately our counselor knew the situation. This is why mean girls are, by far, my least favorite thing to deal with. It is the one behavior that is not only learned, but openly encouraged and supported by parents. I cringe every time I hear the phrase, "my daughter tells me everything" or "my daughter doesn't lie to me". Usually these moms (sorry--it is always moms) want be best friends with their daughters. It doesn't surprise me the parents of the girls bullying Q are volunteers. Usually (not always) PTO/ girl scouts/ whatever volunteers are the most toxic parents on campus and the smallest amount of power go to their heads. I once asked the PTO for $100 to buy a classroom set of basic calculators with big buttons for an 8th special ed life skills math class so they could take them on their field trips to the grocery store. It was a TWO hour debate and they eventually voted against it because they thought 8th grade students shouldn't need calculators. I once had to "fire" a PTO president because she was so toxic no one else would volunteer and she threatened to sue me.
  10. I think he will go with Vivek--which has been Vivek's plan all along.
  11. you can't post that without a track listing
  12. The frustrating part is by going with Biden the democrats are playing not to lose instead of going with Newsome and playing for the win...and I am an active Biden supporter that thinks he is doing an overall good job.
  13. I see this a lot in movies that try to only show someone is smart: I have multiple PhDs in physics, computer science, linguistics....blah blah blah No you don't for many reasons. I mean you could, but it's pretty much pointless unless there are very specific reasons (Psyc and MD to be a psychiatrist, JD and MD to practice medical law, etc) and none of those reasons are applicable to anyone that says this trope.
  14. Dana job flipping between two completely different professions that each takes a lifetime to master and in both she is a dream job in at both (NYC symphony and NYC art museum ) like she was a cashier switching between a cashier at the grocery store now stocking shelves at Wal-Mart as a plot device. Ohhh...that's a trope I hate....
  15. Yeah--I tried not to do the "OMG YOU DON'T KNOW" because many Gen Xers have become insufferable with the "drink out of the hose/parents weren't home/ come in when the porch light came on". I wouldn't want some old person saying to me as a kid, "you didn't know what a loom" is???
  16. I had to go digging in the tech closet for a external CD/DVD drive (I have a book with a resource cd). A 4th grader asked what it was and through the conversation I found out he had no idea what a CD was at all and had heard of DVDs but wasn't quite sure what they were. I died just a little bit. Just to be clear, this is a pretty smart kid.
  17. You are out of your god damn mind. OG<Afterlife< HUUUUUUUUGGEEEE DROP OFF 2016<2 I LOVED Afterlife and bawled like a baby at the end.
  18. I only read scifi and non-fiction. I read the Three Body Problem trilogy-(actually called the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy but everyone just calls it TBP). Might be the best sci fi trilogy ever. It is coming to Netflix soon.
  19. You literally just said you couldn't rank all the women you slept with, At a staff meeting the other day I noticed like every young female teacher had some insane Stanley bottle. I immediately had to stop the meeting and talk about a Consumer Reports article that said that Ozark Trail (Wal-Mart brand) did just a good of a job as Yeti/ Stanley or whatever if you are just trying to keep something hot or cold for a day. any of those breakfast foods are a toss up! I only like old school french toast with normal sliced bread. I hate the fancy french toast that is super thick. I only get water or iced tea in a restaurant if I am not drinking Don't know what half those restaurants are.
  20. What are common tropes that you actually enjoy (when done well)? 1. An ancient alien or technology that wakes up. I remember one of the first rumored titles for The Force Awakens was An Ancient Fear and I was geeking out so hard--I thought we were going to get the original Sith or some shit. 2. Any sci-fi/ fantasy/ historical tavern. 3. Morally ambiguous characters (not anti-heros)--I think this is why I loved GoT in the first few seasons... Tyrion, Peter Baelish, The Hound. Also Doc Holliday, Severus Snape... 4. First Contact with an alien species 5. When the character is told "unload all your weapons" and he puts like a hundred guns and knives on the table and then the other guy is all, "no, all your weapons" and he takes out like a dagger or whatever our of his boot. 6. the hero becomes the villian (again, not an anti-hero)--Narrator of Fight Club, Harvey Dent, and my GOAT--Saul Goodman. 7. A good twist that was in front of you the whole time (not subverting expectations/ it was all a dream or whatever). Arrival, Sixth Sense, Bladerunner 2049...
  21. I prefer bands of African warlords with 30-year-old trucks with a guy on a big ass machine gun riding in the bed.
  22. I only put August in C tier because you can see the end at the light of the tunnel in the hell is summer. Plus, although I do kinda work in the summer, I get super bored without staff and kids. I would love to flip the lengths of winter break and summer break.
  23. I would also focus on how the school promised interventions and how they didn't deliver and how they even enabled the bullying (one of the moms supervising lunch as a volunteer---wtf). You basically want to make the case the school was negligent in its handling of the situation. For example, the girls mom supervising at lunch or lack of an investigation (the girls reporting Q harassed them-was there an investigation, can you see witness statements, etc).
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