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The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

Wu Wei

Wu Wei

ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
Revoltingest said:
Read the book for a high school English class.
But we never discussed it, because we only discussed
books about race relations. It was the 60s, ya know.
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We read Lord of the Flies.... I hated that book...then we got to watch the movie..... I hated the movie too
 
Wu Wei

Wu Wei

ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
Revoltingest said:
I recall reading it.
Meh.....Mad Magazine was better.
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I think, in high school, they assign books they get cheaply....because I never read one I liked and when my oldest was in high school....every book he was assigned...was pretty darn awful too
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
So my first case involves four kids and three foster parents. Arranging a visitation was pretty easy as far as the foster parents are concerned. The mom, however, I was unable to contact and even told that I had the wrong number when I tried one of the numbers listed on the referral. Assuming the visitation happens Friday, I'll be working kind of late but I'll get a tank of gas out of it because the mileage pay is so good.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Wu Wei said:
I think, in high school, they assign books they get cheaply....because I never read one I liked and when my oldest was in high school....every book he was assigned...was pretty darn awful too
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My nephew's girlfriend, her 12th grade English book was actually pretty impressive, featuring not just the stereotypical Shakespeare and Poe and Fitzgerald, but some pretty impressive titles such as Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Wu Wei said:
Making me feel old..... Started with a silk and steel string acoustic in high-school and then moved on to electric.....had a Guild electric, had a custom made electric and still have a Vantage electric (this was my first electric). Use to plug in my amp and play all sorts of stuff from Rush to Judas Priest to Motorhead, and on occasion my own stuff.... the big Amp is in the basement with its little brothers (practice amp) the Guild was traded for a 6 string acoustic (which pretty much collects dust these days, and the music store robbed me with the price they gave me on the trade, but I discovered that a few years later), the custom was sold to a friend and the Vantage is in a case in a closet. These days if I come home and play any guitar at all, and it is rare, it is on my Takamine Classical guitar that is from the late 50s or early 60s (Takamine lost the records for the guitars they made in Japan and that is as close as they can get me to when it was made)....... and I am playing classical pieces...badly.

Oh and I almost forgot, I have a Gibson bass in the gig bag collecting dust too.... once thought I might like being a bassist more than a guitarist.... nope..... so it too now collects dust

Heck, I guess it is time... I am much closer to 60 that 50 these days and those electric guitar days were over 20 years ago.
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We should start a band! Bear & Wolf!
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
savagewind said:
I can't be agreeable with ideas that I do not agree with, nor should I, in my opinion.
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For me, such a thing is playing out interestingly in my career. Such as drug use, with my views of it not being something you want to abuse coming into conflict with societal acceptance of casual abuse on occasion, or how I see no problems with pot, psilocybin, and LSD usage conflicting with "the field's" view that all illegal drugs are bad, nasty, scary and all have similar effects and problems with the potentially heavy problematic drugs like street meth. But gods forbid you inform mom that she's giving little Billy amphetamines, because even the training material tends to use the word "stimulant" when referring to ADHD meds. And then there is religion and superstition, and I may potentially be the only clinician who isn't affirming the religious views of clients, not that I'm trying to be an *** but "that's right" just isn't going to be something that crosses my mind when someone says something about someone being with Jesus. And then of course there is not just the training material but even my education in "the field" that put religion up way high on a pedestal as if it's something you need and should strive to have and that you're incomplete without it. It almost makes me want to claim atheism just so I can record the reactions of others, and see if it may be possible to hear hearts skipping a beat and blood vessels pop.
Makes me want the crazy guy who says like, maybe, four words during the entire visit as a client. Apparently he even scares some clinicians, but he doesn't scare me.
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Wu Wei said:
I think, in high school, they assign books they get cheaply....because I never read one I liked and when my oldest was in high school....every book he was assigned...was pretty darn awful too
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We had to buy the books ourselves.
But we sometimes had to read the same book twice, saving money.
We sure got to know Richard Wright's "Black Boy" & "Native Son" well.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I tried playing DDR, but the damned winter colds have my knee hurting so terribly bad that I can't do the jumps without hurting.
Methinks I need to track the doctor who delivered me, and pretend we're in a WWF hardcore match and bash his brains in with the board I have my DDR pad taped to for not putting me in corrective braces when I was born. And then decide if I want to throw his bloodied body into a bear cave or in an area of the ocean with plenty of great white sharks swimming around. Or perhaps piranhas. Or just skip the the wrestling match and feeding the wild animals and just castrate him.
 
Wu Wei

Wu Wei

ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
Shadow Wolf said:
My nephew's girlfriend, her 12th grade English book was actually pretty impressive, featuring not just the stereotypical Shakespeare and Poe and Fitzgerald, but some pretty impressive titles such as Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost.
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Shakespeare, Poe and Fitzgerald and I would not have even made the statement.... we didn't get those in high school

Revoltingest said:
We had to buy the books ourselves.
But we sometimes had to read the same book twice, saving money.
We sure got to know Richard Wright's "Black Boy" & "Native Son" well.
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We got to read multiple awful books...for free....kinda....of course we got tested on them....so our grades depended on our understanding of god awful books
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I just learned this lovely oolong jasmine tea I had that a larping friend shared with me is $20.00 an ounce! :eek: It was sooo good though. So I guess instead of sipping expensive coffee I'll be sipping expensive tea. I want to say maybe, probably not, but oh my god that tea was exquisite.
 
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