Lauren

you're telling me. they always want the dishes done. fuck that shit, i do what i want.

why does pikachu (sp?) look weird...

i will send you money sometime soon. after dec 1 when my life clears up a bit.

haha thats for putting that on me. i feel like this thread could have made a nice post in the random things thread. this is a waste of anton's money.

i like parts of your post, but i don't quite see where this is going...

not in my circle! (probs because my circle is partly german)

i like it.

i'll never use that shit. gotta be honest.

because drugs are a big deal down there so they see our liberalism even more. and americans are stupid.

other than ratm doesn't have canadian lesbian sisters.

haha that reminds me of the time that i was in detroit to see the smashing pumpkins and some guys were walking around gathering signatures for a petition to legalize weed. when they came up to us, we told them we were from canada and they were like, you alread have legalized weed! but we don't ;)

copyright that shit

mine is a facebook search of my name.

i didn't get past the screening. i got my finger pricked and didn't have enough whatever it is. my blood floated at the top of the liquid stuff. p.s. i'm o+

see, this is good. its just random and misplaced.

debate is good for everyone.

the way classes run, at least at carleton are like this. they end on 25s and 55s of every hour, depending on the length of class, and start on 05s or 35s. say a disabled student finishes a class at 1125 and needs to get to his/her next class, say in a different building, by 1135. they have to wait until the rush out of class is over so they can get out of the door, then they have to get to the elevators, they have to wait who knows how long for that elevator to arrive, they have to use the elevator with who knows how many stops in between where they are and their destination, then they have to move between buildings, using the random wheelchair ramps IF the place has them, then they need to use the elevator and go through all that trouble in a new building. 10 min is not enough. their option is to be late for the second class or leave the first one early... neither of which is much of an option. and while university class scheduling and help with this, some courses, especially in upper years, run infrequently and may only have one section... they have no choice in college, where schedules are made for them by admin. of course i'm not suggesting that capable people should be forbidden from using elevators, nor am i suggesting that doing so would fix the aforementioned problems... but it would certainly make a difference. and most people could use the exercise (not to mention the practice of taking other peoples' needs into consideration).

but when you have an alternative and someone else doesn't.. it does make you an asshole. i can take the stairs, they can't. i will still make it to class [on time], they wont. and maintenance once a week vs. once a month means a lot when tuition fees are skyrocketing.

the problem about ignoring his posts, aside from what mrs. j illustrated, is that after his stupid posts are criticized, like all other posts, things get off topic. and i want to be there for that. if i ignored his posts there would be no point in me even coming here... i'd be paranoid about running into him somewhere on here. and not all of his posts are bad. he does have good things to add sometimes (going back to my first comment). also, just because a topic is tough to talk about doesn't mean it should be ignored. if chris wants to be happy here (that is, if our complaining bothers him) then it is in his best interest to take some of our criticisms. he'd be more popular, more people would read and discuss in his threads and his opinion would be taken more seriously (i, like beth, do not know how to take that comment on public schooling... i think my thousands of dollars spent in post-publicly funded school makes me on par... not that that intelligence hinges on paying for your own education, which i have a fundamental issues with - as does much of europe).

i would like to extend this discussion to elevator use. in a few of the buildings on my university's campus, the elevators are either broken or busy as fuck when a wheelchair person needs them because stair-capable people are using them. i guess the debate comes from the fact that i pay (to some degree) to have those elevators operating, and if i want to use them, i should be able to use them. as well, just because i can walk up 5 floors doesn't mean i should have to. on the other hand, using them so much means more maintenance work will be necessary (aka more of my money goes to 'waste') which makes it difficult for some to make it to class on time, if they can even attend.

mrs j: ;) chris: i'm hard on you not because you are annoying, but because you're annoying when i know you are capable of not being annoying because for a time, you weren't. please fix that.

now there's something i don't care to read.

i found out from my older sister and my older female neighbours. my parents never censored anything from me, so i'm sure i picked it up from the media as well. i can't remember ever not knowing. my mom gave me the official talk before i moved off to university. she was drunk and i hadn't been a virgin for 3 months.

i can't believe my eyes

we'd have a pretty lame war. i would set up my shit, he would tell me i was going about it wrong and/or inefficiently, i would make slight changes that would make me indifferent about my stance on the issue and the war would be over. and we'd go back to our regular lives like nothing happened.