Is this a joke?

[Rob Z]

:D

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9132814/

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[Bri]

Hey Rob! %$#_&&^$#___&&^%%$$$@#&!!!

4 more to go then? :)

[Rob Z]

Keep up with that Squire and it'll be no "praise postcard" for you! (said with a Python accent)

[oma]

As far as I know, no, it's not a joke. What I would like to know is where the parents come down on this issue. Whatever happened to manners?

Sorry to butt into you guys' funny thread. I'm outta here now :)
Oma

[muskymike]

That's pretty bad. If I talked like that in school I woulda been suspended. Also woulda had my :moon: kicked by my Dad.

[oma]

Me too, Mike, but it woulda been my Mom. She had quite a temper when I was a kid, and kept all us girls in line. Heck, to this day, and I'm getting on up there in years, I still won't talk back to my mother, and would never ever consider cursing in her presence. She might still slap me silly :)
Oma

[LadyGodiva]

Utterly ridiculous.

BTW, when I was growing I always heard that the "F" word was a Yankee word. Is that true? Also, just get over the fact that ALL Americans are referred to as Yankees, okay? :D

[Bri]

Actually, if you look up the F word in Wikipedia, it give lot's of details :rolleyes: .

[opiethetileman]

Well let me tell you two things I did in highschool. I took alcohol on a ROTC feild trip and was spikeing the drinks on the bus. people were mooning cars and throwing things out windows and flashing. The Colonel was on our bus.Needless to say I got demoted for a LT back to a sergant. And alot fo other things from the ROTC. When I got home I didnt get my a$$ whopped my dad made me dig a burn pit. About 20 feet wide and 10 foot deep for yard trash. I had to dig it with a pup shovel. And coudlnt come up to the house till it was done. The second bing fk up was this. Took a firearm to school 4 weeks before graduation. shoot a teachers car up and flattened some tires. The guys in the green suits showed up to get me on that one. I got in big sh$t over that. I went to jail. Had to do 5000 hrs community service and restituion on the cars. But in all reality I think that little event kicked me arse in the rite direction. I have all the stuff framed in my office and some days when i think its rough I look at that and say wow it aint that bad.

[Muny]

What I would like to know is where the parents come down on this issue.
Oma
Probably helps if you read the article?
Quote: The school believes the policy will improve behavior, but parents and parliamentary members have condemned the rule and warned it would backfire.

:tongue:

[John Bridge]

So Rob, what's the problem?

:D

I'm just glad it's not just OUR schools that are going whacko.

[jjwq8]

It aint that they are whacko mate. It is that they are a bleedin contagion innit!
Cussing at the teachers is nothing new. Ron Hubbard who took us for "O" Level English at Grammar School simply gave back whatever he got and he insisted upon the last word. His argument was that he was teaching the language and that good or bad every word used was in the OED and thus we had an entitlement to use it. But man did he get angry if we cussed out of context:D

[jjwq8]

And now this.........................


The Associated Press Friday, August 30, 2005; 11:00 AM PARIS, France --

Lance Armstrong's record setting seventh Tour de France victory, along with
his entire Tour de France legacy, may be tarnished by what could turn out to
be one of the greatest sports scandals of all time Armstrong is being
quizzed by French police after three banned substances were found in his South
France hotel room while on vacation after winning the 2005 Tour de France.

The three substances found were toothpaste, deodorant, and soap which have
been banned by French authorities for over 75 years. Armstrong's girlfriend
and American rocker Sheryl Crow is quoted as saying "we use them every
day in America, so we naturally thought they'd be ok throughout Europe."

Along with these three banned substances, French authorities also physically
searched Armstrong himself and found several other interesting items that
they have never seen before, including a backbone and testicles.

[Scooter]

Bob Knight devoted an entire chapter of his book on the "F" Word. He called it the most expressive word in the whole english language. It could be used as a verb--"F" you; a noun, a statement of surprise, "Well, I'll be "Fed!"; a statement of anger "F-You", love, hate and almost every tense and object.

Ain't it great?

[oma]

Muny,
'scuse me, but all I had to read was Bri's first post to know what the story was. I was already familiar with it, but didn't read the linked page. My ancient computer is a little finicky about certain sites, and big news sites are one of the most difficult. Even my local TV station news sites are a b*tch.

Anyway, to me, it's not whether or not any word is a legitimate use of the language, but the lack of common decency and respect that blows my mind.

[flatfloor]

**** em if they can't take a joke. :D