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You mean legitimacy, right? :twisted: If you weren't editorial staff, I might have made some sarcastic comment back at you. :(

Exactly. No child left behind, but hundreds of thousands restricted and held down. To be honest, I wish America wasn't so kind and sensitive on areas they should be tough on. What's worse is that they think they can compete on the global scale with those restrictions, which is a total joke.

To be honest, I wish American schools weren't focused on trying to level things for all students to make those struggling to catch up feel better. To be honest, I hate how American schools are designed to almost screw people over by slowing them down with bull crap and idiotic standards. How things would've been fun if it wasn't that way.

Just as people believe that earthquakes/tsunamis can be caused by global warming, or that any unusual (But not unlikely) weather can be attributed to it. It's starting to be the boogeyman of the 20th century, and all the 'green' trends and scare tactics just aren't helping. It's just giving people an excuse to feel smug without having done anything significant. You mean 21st, right? :P Also, I am starting to think people throw "global warming" on anything unusual or out of the blue with weather in areas. Honestly, I am starting to doubt the legibility of global warming altogether.

Nice discovery, but I don't think it's worth even trying to focus on it at all since there is no way we'd be able to visit it at all. The last things humans need is another planet to put our problems on. @God_Himself: I loved that quote. :lol:

For reasons I don't feel like mentioning, I really hate myself for my flaws even more than normal now.

There were no IB options in my school. All I know is that I didn't see the point in trying to up the difficulty for me since I knew my family didn't care if I wanted something more than a measly High School Diploma. Honestly, all the talk about the cominations of my screw ups and the faults of my situation growing up is making me more irritated towards everyone in real life. In fact, I actually hate myself even more now.

It's likely the thermal shock you experienced. I got that numbness and breathing when I try a cold shower. Worse when the cold water traveled down my spine on my back. You should try it on coldest, even for under a minute.

Even if I could only stand 45 seconds of it at coldest, I found it more enjoyable and awakening than a 10 minute lukewarm shower which sometimes encouraged me to be more sleepy because I was already used to the warmth of the bed sheets waking up. I have to admit, it will be worth seeing me bear longer cold showers.

You can figure out who you're really are on the internet because nobody can easily judge you by what you have in real life. In a way, I think I'm more intelligent on the internet than in real life since I can actually speak my opinion without some moron trying to silence me out with their loud voice. Also more amusing to see how vicious humans can really be. If only I was less lazy and far less cynical, my statistics of what I got in school might have been more worth smiling at. Oh well, I can blame it on the other bullshit factors that I brought up already. I kinda see why I wanted to be a runaway at one time.

All my teachers hated the fact I chose to not take honors/AP classes as the year ended. Every one of them. To be honest, I want to be an artist more than anything (second choice something to languages or whatever), so I didn't really care. Also count that my school (and my parents for that matter) didn't seem to take my desire to go to college seriously. Still confused since I am nowhere good with money or planning yet they thing "lol art college?" and ignore me. They can all screw off for all I care. EDIT: People were also annoyed at the fact I chose to not get involved in any sports since I saw it pointless. Really, they got their asses handed to them half the time and scraped by on the rest.

Double the hours from two to four and switch C.O.D with Fansites/Runescape, and you get what my life was in High School. Yet I still got As/Bs somehow.

I should restate that the "one parent or no parents alive/appearing" observation can apply to more than just shounen anime.

amiriteoramirite? The difference between shounen anime and 90% of American action cartoons is that 1) The protagonist is somehow an orphan or lost a parent, 2) a little watchable and 3) shows the sign of a possible plot. So yeah, you're right. Better an anime post than a pony one.

I got a 21-22 on ACT, which is average on state but above in county. Of course, my school sucked on standards because they were concerned with status quo instead of actually taking college seriously unlike other schools. Rural counties really are terrible when it comes to schooling due to their absurd approach tbh.

Do you eat it differently in public compared to in home?

Yu-Gi-Oh!adsklgajdslgkafhsdfjds;l346342 That's the new one. Aka the one where the play on motorcycles now. You're talking about the 3rd generation. That picture above is of a character in a random story involving the first generation. I heard there was a fourth generation, but I won't bother confirming since I know anything after 3rd is terrible. Abc, apparently, "yu-gi-oh" is a play on a Japanese word for something. Also, I forgot what I was going to post. Fml.

UK's testing standards sound like hell, but actually beneficial compared to the US. Also, never heard of that book.

I used to watch it. I love 95% of the stuff in First Gen. Second was alrightish, but the other two after just fail.

You know, I think I'll stick to observing this thread on the sidelines for awhile. You know, lurking. While I go spam the harpy blog.

And nobody is complaining or noting how I used a character from the YGO anime (first gen) to express my current mood, compared to my Doctor Who memes.

Watching The Nightmare Before Christmas. Is it weird this is the *first* time I've actually watched this movie?

Shirtless dancing video. Didn't someone in this thread do that and soon regretted it? >Implying it's only been done once and by one person And you're implying you know many of those who posted here have done that.

You and your lack of scatalogic. [/terribleplayonwords]

Nobody wins the game. Ever.