Lucius Posted January 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 Room mate L.'s girlfriend N. is English - from Birmingham, to be precise. She had a lot to say about that there Fox News "expert", most of which sadly must be represented by bleeps. We're talking about the fool or bald-faced liar (not sure which he was) who thought he could get away with proclaiming Birmingham a "Moslem city" where non-Moslems were excluded? Yeah, my feelings are probably about the same. Lucius Alexander No really, it's a penguin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 Is it perhaps a Burmese penguin? Anyway, N. told me about some little kid, your bog-standard English ginger-nut, who said that since he was able to move around Birmingham completely unmolested he must now be a Moslem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 Perhaps her enemies all have diabetes? At last I know my nemesis! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 ... Your nemesis is a little girl? Lamest Hunted ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 19, 2015 Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 You haven't met the little girl yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueCloud2k2 Posted January 19, 2015 Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 Just as long as it isn't this one: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 19, 2015 Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 Broken image? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted January 19, 2015 Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 ... Your nemesis is a little girl? Lamest Hunted ever. Dude, I'm right here. Lots of little girls would be thrilled to have me as their hunted! ...I'll let myself out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueCloud2k2 Posted January 19, 2015 Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 Broken image? Broken Web-Browser? Works fine on my end. Use Firefox. IE is crap, IMO. Dude, I'm right here. Lots of little girls would be thrilled to have me as their hunted! ...I'll let myself out. And E84 just made the sex-offender registration... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted January 19, 2015 Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 They don't need to be underaged to be offended at an offer of sex. Burrito Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 19, 2015 Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 The lack of pants would've seen to that sooner or later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted January 19, 2015 Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 It's a calling card, really. L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbywolfe Posted January 19, 2015 Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 Broken Web-Browser? Works fine on my end. Use Firefox. IE is crap, Mobile Chrome doesn't show it either. IE is crap, but that's irrelevant unless you actually ask if that is what was used first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 Broken Web-Browser? Works fine on my end. Use Firefox. IE is crap, IMO. Doesn't show for me in Firefox either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christougher Posted January 21, 2015 Report Share Posted January 21, 2015 Doesn't show for me in Firefox either. Oddly, it didn't show for me yesterday, but is showing for me now. Of course, in between, I right-clicked to open it in a new tab... Hmm. Chris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 Just finished giving an exam, so I have 70-odd papers to mark, and I don't have to come to campus tomorrow. So I am leaving a sign on my door saying Thursday, Jan 29 At home all day Drinking exams, grading whiskey BlueCloud2k2, tkdguy, L. Marcus and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 Hey, grading whiskey is VERY important. Then you'll know the good stuff from the bad. Life is too short to drink bad booze. BlueCloud2k2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoneDaddy Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 "Papa, why is piano easy for me, but school hard? I want be smart all the time. I want know everything." I'll take conversations that make you die a little for $1000, Alex. Lucy has congenital rubella. Neither of the things she wants are possible for any of us, but they are much much harder for her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 Sorry to hear that, BoneDaddy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 If it's any consolation, BoneDaddy, there's a decent chance that having to work harder to learn will make her better prepared in the long run. Give her better study skills, help her find ways to retain things better, than someone to whom learning comes easy. And she won't take education for granted like many do. And having someone on her side, like it's apparent that she does, is not something to discount either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 TIL what congenital rubella is. What else does she like besides piano? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoneDaddy Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Congenital Rubella is a great reason to get your shots. It nukes the auditory processing and language processing functions of the brain. Lucy was exposed at a better (relatively speaking) period of gestation such that she is not deaf, and in fact is quite good at the piano, far out of what her other cognitive abilities appear to be. We can't get her reading up to the third grade level, where one stops learning to read and begins reading to learn. She can memorize almost any word and match it to its definition with tremendous facility, but she has so much more trouble connecting those words together that she is a great speller and functional illiterate. She is making tremendous progress. But things (other than piano) are unlikely to ever be easy for her. She likes to draw, she likes to watch movies of course, and she likes legos. I think legos are appealing because the instructions have no words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 That's not exactly why I like legos, but I do like them. So we have that in common. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 I use Legos to build spaceships. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted January 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 "Papa, why is piano easy for me, but school hard? I want be smart all the time. I want know everything." I'll take conversations that make you die a little for $1000, Alex. Lucy has congenital rubella. Neither of the things she wants are possible for any of us, but they are much much harder for her. I can't even imagine how I'd answer that. Lucius Alexander I'd give her a palindromedary if I thought it would help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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