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Candace (Amare Infinitum) wrote: "Hi all. Here is a thread for you to rant about whatever you want."People who pronounce "frustrated" as "fLustrated". Politicians who make up words like "refudiate".
Haha. Yes, I can't stand it when people purposely mispronounce words either. I live in the south, so people do that a lot here.
I hate, hate, HATE the word "fag"... it's so stupid and kids today think it's funny to call each other it! It's absolutely horrible! It's teaching children that being homosexual is something bad and to be ashamed of!
Rowan wrote: "I hate, hate, HATE the word "fag"... it's so stupid and kids today think it's funny to call each other it! It's absolutely horrible! It's teaching children that being homosexual is something bad an..."the word fag is a shortened form of faggot. during the burning times (witch hunts) homosexuals would be tied up and thrown on the wood pile to serve as kindling for burning the witch. So every time I hear the word fag I think of burning human flesh...and get ill.
Is computereze ruining the english (or any other)language? Are acronyms a language? The English language spellings varied for many centuries until Samuel Johnson's dictionary. Now there is the Oxford Dictionary and in the U.S. Webster's where spellings were regularized and everyone learned to spell it the same way? Is computereze with it's newly shortened spelling ruining the language? Is there a dictionary of computerese? Is this a return to word anarchy and is that necessarily a bad thing?
Michele wrote: "Rowan wrote: "I hate, hate, HATE the word "fag"... it's so stupid and kids today think it's funny to call each other it! It's absolutely horrible! It's teaching children that being homosexual is so..."Oh my god, that is one of the worst things I have ever heard. I never knew that.
Another thing about kids calling each other that or talking bad about homosexuals, how do they not know that their friend sitting next to them isn't gay? They could be really hurting someone without even thinking about it, just because it's so "cool" to say it.
Rowan wrote: "I hate, hate, HATE the word "fag"... it's so stupid and kids today think it's funny to call each other it! It's absolutely horrible! It's teaching children that being homosexual is something bad an..."I completely agree! Using "gay" and "retarded" as generally negative terms also bothers me to an insane degree.
Random fact! Apparently, "fag" can also mean "cigarette" in British slang. I don't hear it too often, but the few time I have heard it, it was quite jarring.
I completely agree! Using "gay" and "retarded" as generally negative terms also bothers me to an insane degree. - I agree. I'd rather that people say "Screw you you fucking bastard" than "You homosexual retard". At leats with the first, they're just throwing random, somehow meaningless insults, that are more or less ignorable (if that is a word). With "homowsexual" and "retard" it becomes something else. It becomes a bad thing to be either. And though retards might be, well, reatarded, they're still very sweet people. They just don't function in the same way as most other people. Still dosen't meen they aren't people. As for homosexuals... They're exactly like us, 'cept they like their own gender. An really, so what?
I know, it just makes me so sad that for kids today, it has become alright for them to say that. I heard my little brother call one of his friends that on the bus and I chewed him out and embarrassed him so bad in front of his friends. But I haven't heard him say it again.
I know. My brother did the same thing to one of his friends and I git so pissed. I gave him the whole screaming lecture of how homosexuals are people like us, no difference yaayadayada. I haven't heard him say it again either :) The power of being a big-sister with a big mouth! Mwuahahaha!
Oh yeah I know! I love being the older sister... so much power, haha :)
Rowan wrote: "Oh yeah I know! I love being the older sister... so much power, haha :)"I hated being a big sister: I was the one who had to be good all the time so I could set the right example for my sister. she had a lot more fun than I did. My folks didn't expect her to be perfect.
I agree with that Michele. I have five younger siblings, and I always have to be the responsible one, the good one. Everything I get, they get. But I don't get everything they get. Wait, that didn't make sense, let me give an example.I got my first computer when I was 14, at my konfirmation. I'd wanted that computer for two years. I still have that computer.
My little brother got his first computer when he was 11 (he's 12 now). He only uses it to play games on.
My sister is 13. She's had a computer since she was 11, and now her dad is giving her a macbook Pro, no reason. No konfirmation, birthday or christmas. Just because "she needs one".
If I got, say, a TV now, all my siblings would have the "right" to get a TV when they turned 17.
If one of them got a TV now, I wouldn't have the same right.
Get what I'm saying? It's annoying.
when I was 4 and my sister 2 we were playing one day and my sister took my doll. I went to my mother and said, "susie took my doll". My mom said "you have to learn to share with your sister." So, since Susie wasn't playing with her doll, I did. She went to my mom and said "Michele took my doll" and my mom said to me"don't take your sister's toys" and that is the way it was for the rest of my life at home. If I had to wait to wear nylons and then finally got the right to wear them, then my sister complained and they gave them to her at the same time. I was always told that I was the older and had to understand why she never had the same rules I did and was praised for being such a good, understanding daughter. My sister and I are such totally different people. We see each other several times a year and call or e-mail each other once a week. After all, we are the only ones who remember our childhood now. We love each other but will never be best friends. I think if parents set age limits for certain privileges then those age limits should apply to all the children not just the oldest.
I think my parents aren't that strict. I mean, I can't actually remember getting anything that my sis got in a younger age. But I do have to set a good example. And if my sibs do anything particularly wrong then the blame goes to me for 'not being a gud example' lol
I'm the middle child and I don't fight with my siblings, but they do. I like to read, I'm pretty quiet and stuck in my own head a lot, I get really good grades, I do stuff outside of school, I'm a nerd, and I have plans for the future. Because of this, I'm my dad's favorite since he is fairly similar to me. He tends to spoil me sometimes and play favorites but that's just how it is. But then my older sister gets spoiled by my mom and my brother gets spoiled by both because he is the youngest. So I like to think it evens out :)
Well, I'm my dads only girl and his first-born. He dosen't exactly play favourites, but I know how to twist him around my pinky-finger :) But the same goes for my bro and my mom.
Omg same Emma! LOL. I'm the eldest and I was named after his mother since I was born just as she died. So he has a soft sot for me. But urghh, that just means he annoys me :P sumtyms it's cool but sumtyms it's reallllyyyy annoying.
one thing about dads of daughters: they never approve of the guys you date/marry at least not at first. They are never "good enough" for THEIR daughters.
I get the 'its because your a girl' thing. That reeeeally annoys me, my mum says she is stricter with me because iam a girl, like my brother has never been grounded in his life and when he was my age he would do the same stuff as me, worse even, and he never got grounded, yet i get grounded for not tidying my room! its so unfair. And i'm not alot to go certian places because i'm 'the girl' like the new years street party, i'm not aloud to go there this year WITH my brother, its so annoying i cant wait till i'm 18 lol.
Michele wrote: "one thing about dads of daughters: they never approve of the guys you date/marry at least not at first. They are never "good enough" for THEIR daughters."Soooo true!! Until ur bf/ husband does something great to please them lol :P
I've never been grounded... my parents just take away privileges like cell phones or my laptop or stuff like that. But they aren't strict about it at all.
my mum and stuff arent strict either i have only been grounded a few times so its not too bad lol. My mum has threatend to take stuff away from me but she never does... haha.
We don't really have 'grounded' in our culture. I just get told off... not evn that anymore. I'm pretty much allowed to do whatever I want... I don't go out so I rly dnt care if i'm allowed or not. Doesn't make a difference.@Michele: so true. Our prince charming's nvr enuff for daddy :P
Both the things u can assume. I dont go out as in bf/gf thingy. and also wid frends.
How come? I figured it might be the dating thing, but why not with friends?
Ha-ha! I only have virtual frends and the real frends i have live too far away.
Awww thats kinda sad... I love hanging out with friends :(
I have never been grounded. My parents don't believe in groudning kids. I haven't been hit (or swatted) either. Or gotten things taken away. I've lot previliges a couple of times, but I'm generelly a pretty decent child, so they rarely have reasons to do any of those thingies there :)
Pah. My family forgets about me. I have so many other siblings that are much worse than me that I pretty go under the radar. If I am grounded, my doesn't even enforce it. Preeeetty sweet.
I have five younger siblings, so there's a lot to look after there too. Explanations of being the oldest can be found on this very topic. However, I do get praise for getting good grades, doing good things, helping out etc.
Michele wrote: "Rowan wrote: "Oh yeah I know! I love being the older sister... so much power, haha :)"I hated being a big sister: I was the one who had to be good all the time so I could set the right example ..."
I know what you mean !! Thank god am the smallest in my family!!!
I hav never bin grounded in my life... Well except in 7th grade when I got bad grades but lol it was me who forced my parents to ground me so there will be less distraction and I can study more!! Lol!!!
thats such bad luck lol. Did you not just explain the situation? lol.
Aww, well even though you got grounded, it is quite an ironic and funny situation lol, but sorry that u got in trouble for it :P
ha, thats good, its lucky i have a laptop coz my house comp has a parent block thingy on it lol (i'm not good with comps, can you tell? haha) but unlucky for my brother, he has nothing lol.
lol am lucky i guess my parents never care about what we do on net.. =D
Fariha wrote: "lol am lucky i guess my parents never care about what we do on net.. =D"Yeah me too :) When I first started chatting they gave me a lecture. Like never give you adress, full name etc. But I was ten back then, so I think that's fair enough ;)
Emma (Consumed by Life) wrote: "Fariha wrote: "lol am lucky i guess my parents never care about what we do on net.. =D"Yeah me too :) When I first started chatting they gave me a lecture. Like never give you adress, full name e..."
haha same here.. after that they are like your responsible now do whatever you like.. =D
My parents sometimes check... they have reasons too :P But they trust me, I can say.
Wait... what? They check what you're doing on the net! :o I'd kill my parents if they ever violated my privacy like that.
i dont think its a big deal if parents check what you're doing on net.. not that my parents do but if they want to then ther welcome to it lol!
Yeah see I don't get that. I would think it's a very big deal if my parents checked what I'm doing on the net. They can check things like my facebook, 'cause that's not exactly private anyway. But if they went on my facebook and checked my mailbox too, then I'd come after them with pitchfork and burning wood. But, they'd never do that, so I don't have to worry there :)
@ G4B: I asked back in the evolution thread what was the craziest experience you've had with a creationist/fundie?