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That reminds me of that XBox 360 commercial that got banned.


For anyone that does not know what I am talking about…

That's no gun. o_O Without the smiley faces, it just looks like a series of lines and squares inside a parallelogram. Maybe the kid just likes geometry.

Honestly, a seven-year-old would have to be pretty obviously messed up already before bringing a gun to school, and no doubt when he makes a bomb in the garage at age 12, his mouth-breathing parents will be all frantic in front of the cameras, saying things like "we had no idea!" and "how could this have happened!" This is called bad parenting. It takes a special kind of ignorant to not notice something like that.

EDIT: Aha, I love that XBox commercial. That's a genius ad campaign.

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I seriously doubt it was actually "banned".

Most of the "banned" vids on YouTube are "the people that made it decided not to run it, for fear of "the offended" throwing a hissy fit.

I thought the fake grenade was the funniest part, then I saw the taxi driver.

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Yeah, it was just yesterday or the night before that I was ranting to one of my friends about this. Stuff like that doesn't get banned in the U.S. unless it's illegal, and pretty much nothing on TV is illegal unless they're showing snuff films or how to make a bomb or something.

- Kef

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Hah, me and my friends used to play cops and robbers with sporks and small rocks when I was in Kindergarten.

I hate that kind of stereotyping too.

Something strange about my school:
My class had just gotten to 9th grade(High school finally), we discovered that the school was trying something new that year and banning the Freshmen from being near the upper classes because (And I quote the principal EXACTLY) "They are not yet mature or civilised enough to be assimilated into the Academic Community. They might try to imitate some stunt that a higher grade person was doing. Or a freshman girl might get too involved with an upperclassman and get pregnant". Now, I have some questions:
1.How will separating us from the other classes help us get better at fitting in?
2.Why in the world are we being punished for something stupid the people in the other grades might do?
3.Why is he using all those big complicated words other than to lord his superiority over the kids who don't know what hes talking about?

Hur hur, most of the upperclassmen that I've had the displeasure of coming into contact with are worse decision makers than most fourth graders I've had the displeasure of coming into contact with. The only difference is that they hit the ganja instead of acting like fourth graders.

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Yep. Sideways Ls are the basis for drawing guns. But come on. They're just drawings. I've drawn my share of guns (and a flamethrower), but I am probably the least likely person ever to go on a shooting rampage. I don't even like hurting people emotionally, so why physically? Unless, you know, they were being jerks and I'm friends with them, but even then it would only be a shoulder punch.

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My high school had an entire wing built for the freshmen. Mine was the first class that got to use it. That aside, though, they did it for space reasons rather than to segregate the freshmen, which is among the worst possible things you can do for a high school. I'm sorry, freshies. You're in high school, now, and it's time to take off the training wheels and get serious. If you barely stumbled through middle school, well...may God have mercy on your soul.

Or maybe I feel this way because I'm an IB kid, so I didn't have a lot of classes up in the cozy little freshman wing and had to haul it all over campus. Our campus is about a quarter mile diagonally from corner to corner, and I had a math class in the southwestern corner, followed by a Spanish class in the northeastern corner of portables, freshman year, with seven minutes to get from one to the other. Couple that with having to fight my way through halls populated by upperclassmen and couples, and I don't know how I wasn't late more often.

Ah, well. At least my junior year is made easier by the fact that I can get to my locker between every class.



Who doesn't make doodles of fantastic weapons and stuff when they should be taking history notes or something? Honestly. My doodles tend to be eyes, lips, and vague female torsoes (because I can't draw very much else). Does that mean I'm going to bring Barbie dolls to school?

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In the Wikipedia article for my school, they call this the Quarter Mile.

My feet hurt after I get to lunch.

I go to the farther one from my previous class through this hallway, instead of the farther one from my next class.

They should really expand it in the other direction.

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Well, to me, only "assimilate" looks particularly "big and complicated", and it should be easy to figure out from context.

I agree that segregating freshmen in such a fashion is a really dumb idea, though.

Also, WTF @ the gun-related suspensions. Dunno how I missed those posts before. Where do principals get this crap?!?

- Kef

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The uppity "someone think of the children!!!11!!1!" soccer mom types.

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Poor you.

My longest walk is from first to second period, because my first period is tucked down deep into the southeastern corner of the campus and I have to go through a hall of lockers and an area referred to as Grand Central because it gets so full of people within seconds of the bell ringing. Also, the lockers around me are being rented by extraordinarily slow people with extraordinarily obnoxious friends who have to stand around and wait for them to get stuff out of their lockers, and for some reason everyone picks MY locker to lean on while they wait.

And then I have to use the furthest possible entrance to the auditorium to get to my second period film class because the teacher is a jerk.

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I hate the people who crowd around my locker area every morning and in between periods. It's not the fact that they're obliviously standing there, it's that everything they talk about is some imbecilic "OMG RU GONIG OUT WITH HIM? I MEN HE BROK UP WIT SOMEONE I NO, UR STOOPID" or "OMG DID U GIVE HIM A (insert sex act of choice here)," "NO I DI'INT," "UH HUH, U TOTALLY DID, HE SED SO," "OMG UR LIEK PARIS HILTON" tripe.

Speaking of tripe. There was a school trip to Williamsburg from Wednesday through Friday. We were able to bring in our own movies for them to show on the bus's DVD player, as long as they weren't rated R. I brought the obvious choice: Monty Python and the Holy Grail. So on the ride there, most of the people on the bus that were worth their brain capacity were eagerly campaigning for it. They wouldn't play it. The chaperones didn't give a reason; they just refused to play the movie. So we tried again. They refused it again. On the ride back, they finally told us that the reason didn't have anything to do with the film's rating, which was a bit refreshing. No, but the reason was that they didn't want to watch it. To make things worse, they somehow left out every decent movie that could have been put into consideration. I suppose this means that the chaperones actually wanted to watch Night at the Museum.

Night at the freaking Museum.

Oh, not to mention A Walk to Remember.

A
WALK
TO
FREAKING
REMEMBER

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In fifth grade, on a day when we got to watch a movie of our vote, I suggested Monty Python and the Holy Grail as one of the poll options.

Everyone made fun of me. ;_;

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Ironically, almost all of the people who think that Monty Python's comedy is stupid happen to be stupid themselves.

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Uh, I stand around lockers and talk with my friends but I'm not retarded like that.

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I'm just talking about that specific group.

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Usually my group is just people standing around making fun of other people and complaining about classes we don't like.

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I know. I would do the same thing, but my friend's lockers are scattered throughout the school and I'm usually on the verge of being late for class anyway.

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My locker is down in the 6th grade hallway and my homeroom is the farthest back homeroom for the whole grade. I still get there in time though because nobody cares if you run.

In an average day, I go from homeroom down a hallway for first period, then race back to my locker and into the MS hallway. After second period I either go back down to the 6th grade hallway or back down to the other side of the school. 4th perioid is usually right by my locker. 5th period, I have to race outside the school into the shop. 6th period, over to my homeroom which is really far away from the shop. 7th period, I stop at my locker and go down to the right wing (all of my classes are on the left wing) and then 8th period is down at the start of the left wing.

Yay for running.

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Children are going to learn about everything soon enough, soccer moms. That's why there's South Park to help speed up the process.

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This girl whose locker is directly to the right of mine, she and her boyfriend hang out by her locker and just generally get in my way every single freaking day. I want to stab them.

This is how school violence starts: stupid people.

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NO, GAMEZ LIKE CARMAGEDDONY AND "SCHOOL BULLY" MAKE PEOPLOE WANT TO STAP THEIR MOTH-ERS.

This is how ANY violence starts! Stupid People!

Also about that movie thing, Consider yourself lucky that you could even bring in anything below R. I'm in 7th grade and we are only allowed to bring in G. I hate that! I mean, yeah I can understand why some parents wouldn't want their kids seeing Reservoir Dogs (which is still a classic film) but I tried to bring in the move "An Inconvenient Truth" which is rated PG and they wouldn't let me. I even explained to them that the guy who made it, Al Gore, his wife was on the head of the Decency Committee or something like that. I think the reason for that is because it is a political movie and they don't want kids to see the truth. Now, that is rated PG and has absolutely zero foul language, actions or even faint references. It is also very interesting to most of my class. Even though, they still let the movie "Cars" which is also rated PG, pass through. This movie is animated, has no educational value whatsoever, and has like 3 or 4 references. Here is one,

Character #1: I've got to go to Florida to win the Piston Cup!

Character #2: He did what in his cup?

Unbelievable. It's very retarded. I tried to tell them about it and they said, "No it doesn't. Those are just lies invented by you because you don't want to see the movie."

I also brought a R-rated movie to school to see if they find it and to see what they do. They couldn't find it. I also constantly bring Video Games and iPods to see what they do. Nothing so far. Also, about that guy getting suspended for drawing a very obscure and unclear drawing of a gun, that's exactly what happens at my school! Plus, if you are like doodling or twidling a pencil while you work 'cause it helps you think or concentrate, they take away your work and grade it a 0%. And, to make matters worse, if there is an issue between you and someone at school, and you attempt to explain what you where trying to accomplish, even if you had a very good argument you would still get detention. This happened to me. Reenactment:

(Me and my group working on a poster to represent our group)
(Me twidling pencil and shaking hand a very small amount)
(Group notices it)
Group member #1: Hey, your taking a little bit to long. May I have a go?

Me: (Grabs my own head) Yeah, my brain's just not working correctly. (Laughs)

Teacher: (Points at me) You! Out of the class! You are disrupting the learning system by arguing.

Me: (Attempts to explain situation)

Teacher: (Cuts me off 3 seconds into story) No. You weren't. I saw you. (Really she was looking over her shoulder to another student, but whatever.)

Me: Okay. I want us to talk with one of the group members that I was with.

Teacher: What makes you think that you have that right?

Me: In the Bible, it says that you have the right to face your accuser and/or witness. Even in the student manual, it states that you can do this.

Teacher: No! Now go to another class!

Me: Fine. (Goes to other classroom)

15 minutes later

Me: I'm back.

Teacher: Okay, I have taken what you said into consideration and here is one of the group members to explain.

Group member: (Explains that I was not doing anything disruptive, crude, mean or harmful)

Teacher: I don't care. You are both getting detention for lying.

(We are both sent to seperate rooms)

15 minutes later, again.

Teacher: Fine. Here is the 3rd and final one I'm calling up.

Group member: (Explains the same as previous)

Teacher: YOU ARE ALL BEING SUSPENDED INDEFINATELY FOR DISORDERLY CONDUCT, DISRUPTION AND LYING TO STAFF MEMBERS!

I try to explain it to my father, who goes to school and gets me and my friends suspensions lifted. My school is RETARDED RETARDED DEE DEE FRICKIN' DEE! But then again, the teacher that did that is pregnant with 2wins...............

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Yeah, WonderMike, heaven forbid people actuualy watch a good movie instead of 2 hours of Al Gore...

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Well, thats your belief. Mine is that movies like that are nosensical and create distraction. Yours is, well, what you just posted!

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So a wholesome family movie coming from some of the greatest filmmakers we have is a distraction? I can see nonsensical, but not all movies are supposed to make sense.

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I'd rather watch Al Gore rant about nothing than watch a Disney movie where the characters talk about their feelings and come to sudden narrated realizations and attempt to fix a problem that could have been fixed within the first ten minutes of the film.

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No kid wants to watch an old man talk about global warming when they could watch anything else. Except maybe you.

Also, heaven forbid anybody want watch a movie for recreation purposes.