I like Dandelions. Favorite flowers thread would be [bleep]in' but probably unneeded. I don't know what mine is though. Probably an orchid. I'd have to think about it though.

My favourite flower is by far the tulip, for the record.

I've always liked Roses (White/red in particular), though tulips/orchids are quite pleasant also.

Wednesdays.

You want #1 on this list of The 9 Most Statistically Terrifying Days On the Calendar. As always with cracked articles, it contains profanity in abundance, so don't have your computer read it out loud to you in front of your parents. And yes, my brain is a rolodex of cracked articles and dilbert comics, so if you ever need either on a particular subject, I can probably hook you up.

 

I like roses, but I want them in blue and green. They might have engineered a blue rose by now, but if I want a green one I still have to stick a white one in coloured water.

 

 

I remembered I have a wireless keyboard and mouse today, but I have apparently lost the wireless connector. I also have another wireless mouse which is really nice (its also a laser mouse rather than led), but it has no batter cover. I still have the usb key for it though since it fits right inside it.

 

Bit annoyed about that.

Question for my school, both students and teachers: What is so difficult about placing books on a shelf so as not to resemble the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?

People who make the effort to come into uni, sit in a designated revision spot and spend the whole time chatting about shit that's not related to their course. I'm trying to do some work, stop distracting me with your stupid laugh and go home.

Liberia's Charles Taylor has been sentenced for his involvement in the civil war in Sierra Leone today (not worth a thread of its own). Though this is all well and good, it does worry me that the principle of international justice really only seems to apply to small and/or impoverished nations.

 

There is no warrant for those who ordered the illegal invasion of Iraq, for example. I can only truly be satisfied with convictions such as these when I know the principle is universally applied to all nations.

As a reply to the one who said I will just spread the seeds, no I won't. I hit them while they are still blooming, so no seeds in that time. And I doubt that vegetatively it grows from just it's head.

 

I hate how I have had trouble with math teachers since the start of my school. Problem is, I can handle all the topics and calculations, I get the right answers, but I get them in my own ways or I don't write the steps between down. Now that has grown that much into me and teachers hate it that much that I have failed all terms this year on mathemathics...

Liberia's Charles Taylor has been sentenced for his involvement in the civil war in Sierra Leone today (not worth a thread of its own). Though this is all well and good, it does worry me that the principle of international justice really only seems to apply to small and/or impoverished nations.

 

There is no warrant for those who ordered the illegal invasion of Iraq, for example. I can only truly be satisfied with convictions such as these when I know the principle is universally applied to all nations.

What makes an invasion illegal?

As a reply to the one who said I will just spread the seeds, no I won't. I hit them while they are still blooming, so no seeds in that time. And I doubt that vegetatively it grows from just it's head.

 

I hate how I have had trouble with math teachers since the start of my school. Problem is, I can handle all the topics and calculations, I get the right answers, but I get them in my own ways or I don't write the steps between down. Now that has grown that much into me and teachers hate it that much that I have failed all terms this year on mathemathics...

I used to have the exact same problem that you did. Pretty much right until calculus my brain seemed to make these logical leaps which would either cause me to skip steps, or to solve problems in totally different ways by thinking it through rather than following a given process (which in practice is a really good way to do it because you make fewer mistakes if you understand what you are doing).

 

Unfortunately, your going to need to accommodate the education system a bit, and how you do that is going to depend on your teacher. One thing you can do is figure out which types of problems are making you prone to skipping steps or solving them the 'wrong' way, and then spend a lunch or two with your math teacher (or maybe some time after school), and walk through those problems with them. Depending on the teacher, you will either be showing them how you solve a particular problem to help them follow your work, or your teacher can point out what it is your not doing to their satisfaction, and help show you what you need to do to get full marks.

 

I did a bit of both with my last highschool math teacher whom I had for a couple years, and she was just fantastic for it. There was some stuff that we needed to prove we could do a certain way, but most of the time all she wanted was the right answer and a logical process that she could follow. A lot of teachers are curious people and more than willing to learn a new way of doing something, and some of them will give you latitude if you can prove that you can do it their way as well.

Liberia's Charles Taylor has been sentenced for his involvement in the civil war in Sierra Leone today (not worth a thread of its own). Though this is all well and good, it does worry me that the principle of international justice really only seems to apply to small and/or impoverished nations.

 

There is no warrant for those who ordered the illegal invasion of Iraq, for example. I can only truly be satisfied with convictions such as these when I know the principle is universally applied to all nations.

What makes an invasion illegal?

The charter of the United Nations, as shown in the first paragraph here.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_the_Iraq_War

Parents trying to force their diet on me. I understand you want me to be healthy, but stopping me from drinking freaking APPLE JUICE because it has sugar in it is just silly.

If I couldn't drink apple juice, life would be totally wasted. But in reality, everything has sugar in it. Sometimes it's just more... hidden.

Parents trying to force their diet on me. I understand you want me to be healthy, but stopping me from drinking freaking APPLE JUICE because it has sugar in it is just silly.

 

What diet are they trying to impose on you precisely?

 

Of some relevance: I can't find these for sale in the UK, so I'm pretty annoyed.

 

I've been getting progressively more annoyed about the generations come behind mine; I mean, I thought we were bad but by the beard of Zeus, they all suck so bad.

 

Also, I really hate shows such as this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHke_ZoFw7Y

People seem to prefer these shows to ones that don't actually kill off every brain cell as you're watching it.

(More examples are Jersey Shore, Geodie Shore, Made in Chelsea, Real housewives...there are many more but my brain has died from that single clip.)

Liberia's Charles Taylor has been sentenced for his involvement in the civil war in Sierra Leone today (not worth a thread of its own). Though this is all well and good, it does worry me that the principle of international justice really only seems to apply to small and/or impoverished nations.

 

There is no warrant for those who ordered the illegal invasion of Iraq, for example. I can only truly be satisfied with convictions such as these when I know the principle is universally applied to all nations.

The New York Times had a very graphic account of some of the crimes committed there. But it's sad to think of what their real motivation is.

When someone takes a snapshot of someone and posts it on Facebook, and says "OMG DIS IS MAI PHOTOGRAPHY exOHexOH"

Randomly underlined text that makes me think it links to something when it doesn't :razz:

 

Also, people that think they're artistic for putting a random picture in a sepia tone or something similar.

If I couldn't drink apple juice, life would be totally wasted. But in reality, everything has sugar in it. Sometimes it's just more... hidden.

 

apple juice has a lot of sugar, might as well grab a soda or something

If you take a freshly made apple juice vs a soda. While they both contain sugar, the apple juice contains vitamins and minerals which make up for it. The soda is just empty calories.

 

Although in the case of the person who posted, he was probably drinking store-bought apple juice which is pasteurized, so doesn't contain much vitamins and minerals at all, and probably additional sugar was added to it. The only apple juice worth drinking is the one you juice yourself. Especially if you have a low-RPM juicer because then no vitamins are lost to oxidation.

Lazy workers

Im in a store and in a line, the cashier shuts down the line when there still a ton of us left, because her shift was done.

Could've at least finished with the people first, but nooo

Anti-smoking ads.

 

Yes, I get it, smoking is bad for you. Every nonsmoker knows that. Every smoker knows it. But saying "Breathe in cigarette smoke just once and you will instantly get cancer and die/be horribly disfigured" insults everyone's intelligence.

They'd better talk about the advantages of stopping at this point; they've already proven you can't scare someone into stopping, so show them how their body can recover if they stop now. I'm guessing all that advertizing showing smoker's lungs and stuff probably discouraged a lot of people from stopping because look, my body's already gone to shit anyway, why should I stop?

If I couldn't drink apple juice, life would be totally wasted. But in reality, everything has sugar in it. Sometimes it's just more... hidden.

 

apple juice has a lot of sugar, might as well grab a soda or something

If you take a freshly made apple juice vs a soda. While they both contain sugar, the apple juice contains vitamins and minerals which make up for it. The soda is just empty calories.

 

Although in the case of the person who posted, he was probably drinking store-bought apple juice which is pasteurized, so doesn't contain much vitamins and minerals at all, and probably additional sugar was added to it. The only apple juice worth drinking is the one you juice yourself. Especially if you have a low-RPM juicer because then no vitamins are lost to oxidation.

 

I think you failed to mention the difference between fructose, and artificial sweeteners. Store bought juice is still a ton healthier than soda for sure.

Being in public and getting an itch in a spot which would not be appropriate to scratch.