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Post by Siryn on Mar 24, 2006 23:51:19 GMT 11
The 7 year old I work with is VERY good at manipulating teachers. It's a remarkable gift but it doesn't seem to work on me. Maybe this is because i'm not a teacher (YET!!) but she might just be warming me up........ we'll see.
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Post by Arctic Firefox on Mar 25, 2006 2:45:12 GMT 11
OMG - this only made it to 12th on the Fabulous Fifty?  Why didn't everyone here vote for it? We could have won, not that silly ^ game! What's a ^ anyway?  |
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Post by Squirt on Mar 25, 2006 11:54:49 GMT 11
Both threads are pretty good! I like this one more because I get to complain ;D but they're both really good, you just have to give the ^ Game a shot AF!  |
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Post by catwhisperer on Mar 29, 2006 16:47:22 GMT 11
The 7 year old I work with is VERY good at manipulating teachers. It's a remarkable gift but it doesn't seem to work on me. Maybe this is because i'm not a teacher (YET!!) but she might just be warming me up........ we'll see. He he he, Siryn, you are in for it!  You should hear the things I do to my history teacher. If he knew about this board, he'd come on and rant about me laughing at him every single time he comes near me  BTW I have nothing to rant about cos I am in a happy mood |
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Post by Kangaruth on Mar 29, 2006 23:17:00 GMT 11
I have a French oral this afternoon. Except my spoken French is pathetic (not good when you live in a french speaking country) because my teacher never gets us to say anything that isn't written in front of us. I have to have a ten minute conversation with a classmate - what are the chances I'll get someone even worse than me to talk with?
(I'm not sure if this is an actual rant, or more a panic, but this seemed like the right place to put it.)
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Post by Squirt on Mar 29, 2006 23:26:15 GMT 11
Sounds like a bit of both, rant about your teachers silly teaching methods and a panic about your ability to do the oral, don't worry, it never goes as bad as you imagine, just look confident and you'll manage it, maybe. I always sucked at learning languages, I'm really not much help.
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Post by Siryn on Mar 29, 2006 23:42:33 GMT 11
i LOVE learning languages! the only one i picked up though was sign language. i unfortunately couldnt do that for year 12.
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Post by Kangaruth on Mar 29, 2006 23:53:49 GMT 11
I'm not very good at languages, and I learned German at school anyhow, but I figured I should put some effort into learning French while I was in Geneva. However, in six months I've been spending most of my time with fellow Brits, and shop assistants will switch to English the second they hear my rubbish french, so I'm not getting much chance to practise.
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Post by Fuil Dearg on Mar 30, 2006 4:18:59 GMT 11
i like languages, but i can't speak many and i dont even know what quite a few of them sound like. sometimes languages sound really nice when spoke by native/fully fluent people. one time i was in the south west of ireland in a Gaelteacht area (an area where Irish is still spoken as an everyday and first language, most speak english too) i went into a shop and i heard a girl speaking irish to another local. it sounded really nice. i had a friend who used to say that dutch sounds really nice, i have yet to hear dutch. i can speak irish and german, and a few words of french. i was interested in learning sign language once, but now any more. I'm not very good at languages, and I learned German at school anyhow, but I figured I should put some effort into learning French while I was in Geneva. However, in six months I've been spending most of my time with fellow Brits, and shop assistants will switch to English the second they hear my rubbish french, so I'm not getting much chance to practise. high five song lyric #3Nobody's Home by Avril Lavigne I couldn't tell you why she felt that way, She felt it everyday. And I couldn't help her, I just watched her make the same mistakes again. What's wrong, what's wrong now? Too many, too many problems. Don't know where she belongs, where she belongs. She wants to go home, but nobody's home. It's where she lies, broken inside. With no place to go, no place to go to dry her eyes. Broken inside. Open your eyes and look outside, find the reasons why. You've been rejected, and now you can't find what you left behind. Be strong, be strong now. Too many, too many problems. Don't know where she belongs, where she belongs. She wants to go home, but nobody's home. It's where she lies, broken inside. With no place to go, no place to go to dry her eyes. Broken inside. Her feelings she hides. Her dreams she can't find. She's losing her mind. She's fallen behind. She can't find her place. She's losing her faith. She's fallen from grace. She's all over the place. Yeah,oh She wants to go home, but nobody's home. It's where she lies, broken inside. With no place to go, no place to go to dry her eyes. Broken inside. She's lost inside, lost inside...oh oh She's lost inside, lost inside...oh oh yeah |
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Post by Arctic Firefox on Apr 1, 2006 12:42:40 GMT 11
i LOVE learning languages! the only one i picked up though was sign language. i unfortunately couldnt do that for year 12. I have a funny story about that. My bank manager has a deaf brother and thus learnt sign language at a young age. When he sat his VCE exams in year 12, you had to fill out a form; one of the questions asked how many languages you knew. He put down sign language because it was a registered language, but the board, or whoever it was, made him cross it out (i.e. they didn't recognise it, the idiots). Anyway, he got his revenge during one of the exams, when he asked one of his friends the answer to a question using sign language (the friend knew it as well). He was caught and they threatened to rip up his exam, despite his protest: "But you said it wasn't a recognised language, so how could I have been communicating with him?" In the end, they didn't rip up the exam, but he still had those correct answers from this friend. |
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Post by Squirt on Apr 1, 2006 14:11:24 GMT 11
Argh! What's with crap Sat TV! Car racing on two channels! Two! I know the grand prix is on la di da da but well, TWO channels! It's rediculous, I am a bit bitter about the GP because of the SA loon selling it to Victoria, but still, I T ' S C A R R A C I N G ! ! ! ! ! ! One channel is enough! ENOUGH!
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Post by Siryn on Apr 1, 2006 18:24:19 GMT 11
i LOVE learning languages! the only one i picked up though was sign language. i unfortunately couldnt do that for year 12. I have a funny story about that. My bank manager has a deaf brother and thus learnt sign language at a young age. When he sat his VCE exams in year 12, you had to fill out a form; one of the questions asked how many languages you knew. He put down sign language because it was a registered language, but the board, or whoever it was, made him cross it out (i.e. they didn't recognise it, the idiots). Anyway, he got his revenge during one of the exams, when he asked one of his friends the answer to a question using sign language (the friend knew it as well). He was caught and they threatened to rip up his exam, despite his protest: "But you said it wasn't a recognised language, so how could I have been communicating with him?" In the end, they didn't rip up the exam, but he still had those correct answers from this friend. I CANT BELIEVE THEY DIDNT RECOGNISE IT AS A LANGUAGE well, their own stupidity bit them in the ass didnt it!!! thats pretty clever though, i wish i had thought of something like that for school tests etc, i dont think i could do it in exams though, id be WAY TOO SCARED! and SQ, im sorry to hear about your boring tv day.... I WENT SHOPPING! next time you'll know better. go out and hire some DVD's OR you could come shoping with ME! |
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Post by Squirt on Apr 1, 2006 20:07:39 GMT 11
Depends who's paying for the shopping...  |
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Post by Arctic Firefox on Apr 2, 2006 1:29:14 GMT 11
Yes, car racing sucks. Adelaide is more than welcome to take the Grand Prix back - I certainly won't be crying! |
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Post by catwhisperer on Apr 3, 2006 13:58:00 GMT 11
You try living on the Gold Coast- we have INDY! *groans at the thought*
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Post by Siryn on Apr 5, 2006 2:18:51 GMT 11
We cant have it as it advertises cigarette smoking
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Post by catwhisperer on Apr 5, 2006 12:00:06 GMT 11
It does??? Oh yeah, so it does. Think the whole thing's a waste of time, rsources and energy anyway, but the male members of my household sure get into it
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Post by danni on Apr 5, 2006 19:25:40 GMT 11
Why do males like cars so much? Ok, that was way too much of a generalisation, but why? I only like cars if they're small, enviro.fri. and work. How fast they go, what colour they are, and how loud I can get much music pumping is completely unimportant to me, but it's like all that my brothers care about.
And a friend of mine and I used to talk to eachother in sign language when we were bored in school and the teacher had inflicted silence on us...but then she got caught and thrown in the dungeo... I mean, in detention.
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Post by Arctic Firefox on Apr 5, 2006 20:32:45 GMT 11
I don't have my driver's license and I never intend to either. I've worked out that, in both the long-term and short-term, public transport is cheaper (if a little frustrating at times). Plus, I have no confidence in my driving skills. |
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Post by Squirt on Apr 5, 2006 23:42:30 GMT 11
Todays rant! My computer went blah last night! GRRRRRR! And now, I'm at work and (i work in a house with adults with disabilities) one of them is screaming! Really loudly! and I'm getting a head ache and she won't stop  And my computer broke and I lost everything (i know I should have backed it all up but I didn't) and She's still screaming! Every time I think she's got to the loudest she could possibly get to she gets EVEN LOUDER!!!!!  And I'm bored! And my computer broke AND SHE'S STILL SCREAMING my poor head The End. |
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Post by Domick on Apr 6, 2006 8:59:22 GMT 11
*Grugs Squirt* hope you're feeling better! Car racing... brings to mind the evil Clipsal 500. It's just finished in Adelaide, and whoever invented it sould be shot! They close off half the roads into the CBD for TWO WEEKS for the INFERNAL CAR RACE so no one can get anywhere without sitting in a traffic jam for half an hour. On top of that they decide to RESURFACE THE FREEWAY at the same time, so trying to get anywhere was hell! And all for a bunch of noisy, pointless, screaming cars! And if that was't enough, you get the lovely flyovers screaming over your head. Just fantastic when you're at a horse show... But I won't get started on that You may have gathered I'm not exactly a fan of the car racing! |
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Post by catwhisperer on Apr 6, 2006 10:33:01 GMT 11
I wish to rant about the insane way teachers expect you to suddenly remember some stupid term you spent ten minutes on four weeks ago IN AN EXAM!! Arrrgh! (and I still managed an A on the exam actually). I also wish to complain about the fact that I don't even have a computer at home. Hey, Squirt! At least you HAVE one!
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Post by HeartoftheDarkness on Apr 6, 2006 18:00:52 GMT 11
Gah! I'm soooo annoyed with my music teacher! She forced two of my friends and I to join her senior choir thing, and we tried to get out of it because none of us can sing,(we're musicians, not singers) we just make everyone else sound bad, but she got angry with us and spoke to the co-ordinators, who rang our parents. So not happy about that in the first place, but now she wants us to pay $100 so we can sing for her in the choir! Its not like she teaches us how to actually sing, and she doesnt let you keep the music sheets! Plus, she wants us to give up lunchtimes and weekends so we can "perform" at different venues. This is going to be so embarressing.... I was thinking of singing extra badly so she would kick me off the choir. I need to learn how to yodel |
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Post by Rilla on Apr 6, 2006 18:21:37 GMT 11
That sucks Frankie! Espescially if you have to pay her! |
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Post by Miska on Apr 6, 2006 18:49:11 GMT 11
frankie darling just squeel its more annoying then yoddeling. cos i think ud be able to yoddle very well
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And my computer broke and I lost everything (i know I should have backed it all up 
And I'm bored! And my computer broke AND SHE'S STILL SCREAMING 
