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  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,734 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Those of you with school age kids, do they teach cursive anymore? And if they don't, how do kids learn to sign their name?

  • Rdp77Rdp77 Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob_Luken said:
    Those of you with school age kids, do they teach cursive anymore? And if they don't, how do kids learn to sign their name?

    Cursive isn’t taught here anymore. Something I’ve also noticed is that a lot of things have moved away from a traditional signature and ask you to either print or simply write your name.
    But Bob, the don’t even teach kids to read anymore. They teach them word recognition. Actually teaching phonics is gone.

  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 9,553 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No. And they don't.

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  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,734 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well, I was never any good at cursive. Lost the ability after a while. I print if necessary. The only thing cursive I do is my signature.

  • TRayBTRayB Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob_Luken said:
    Well, I was never any good at cursive. Lost the ability after a while. I print if necessary. The only thing cursive I do is my signature.

    Me too with losing the ability. I even stopped making my signature in cursive. I do my three initials, but in a stylized manner.

  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 9,553 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Have you ever wondered what would happen if we bought nothing for a day?

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  • TRayBTRayB Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    Have you ever wondered what would happen if we bought nothing for a day?

    That used to be called Sunday.

  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,734 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    Have you ever wondered what would happen if we bought nothing for a day?

    The next day, wouldn't an offsetting rebound in sales occur? I mean, I'm not supposed go without ever buying what I was intending to buy on the day of buying nothing am I?

  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,835 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Many people I've known spoiled their children rotten. Now, those "children" are mid 30's to mid 40's and, surprise surprise, they're still spoiled rotten children.

    The parents can't figure out why. "I gave them everything they ever wanted", they say.

    Hmm, yeah, I know.

    Just had to let that out. Now I can get on with my day.

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  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 9,553 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Maybe it's just me but lately I've been thinking that america would be better off if we closed all of the colleges for ten years.

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  • HawksHawks Posts: 1,315 ✭✭✭✭✭

    More trades.

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  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,835 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 3

    @ShawnOL said:
    Maybe it's just me but lately I've been thinking that america would be better off if we closed all of the colleges for ten years.

    lol. Not necessary to close them, just require an above average record of academic achievement based on standards set in the 1950's, and stop pretending that college is merely an extension of High School, a la Bernie Sanders et al.

    I'm told that Korea has become an excellent example of what's wrong with the belief that "everyone needs college". Basically, all of the janitors must now be Sanitation Engineers with at least 2 years post H.S. education in order to be qualified to push a mop.

    What a bunch of baloney!

    Also, The University should require well rounded education for all majors. No more "I'm going into Elementary Education because you don't even have to take any Algebra", something I heard one young co-ed tell her friends while I was in College myself. How can we succeed if only the stupid are teaching the young?

    Rant over.

    mumble, grumble, hhmmph.

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  • YaksterYakster Posts: 27,596 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 3

    If you could make a package float, would the Post Office owe you money? Would it be delivered safely or just float away?

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  • RhamlinRhamlin Posts: 9,033 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Wylaff said:

    @Bob_Luken said:
    I wonder if it pairs well with Mexican San Andreas

    Kratom is terrifying considering how easy it is to get. Small doses act like marijuana, mid doses act like alcohol, and large doses act like heroin. The problem is those thresholds vary from person to person. One person could drink this and feel a slight buzz, for somebody else they are now addicted to opiates...

    So this is a real thing?

  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,835 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Rhamlin said:

    @Wylaff said:

    @Bob_Luken said:
    I wonder if it pairs well with Mexican San Andreas

    Kratom is terrifying considering how easy it is to get. Small doses act like marijuana, mid doses act like alcohol, and large doses act like heroin. The problem is those thresholds vary from person to person. One person could drink this and feel a slight buzz, for somebody else they are now addicted to opiates...

    So this is a real thing?

    yes

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  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 9,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 4

    You think that's interesting, Google krokodil.

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  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 9,553 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If you went to Antarctica, would you feel like you were upside-down?

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  • YaksterYakster Posts: 27,596 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't know, but apparently you'd still drive on the right side of the road. I found this on why some drive left and others right.

    Horse riders in the UK would ride on the left-hand side of the road. This meant that their right hand was unobstructed. That way, they could easily access their swords and always had a free hand to greet passersby.

    In America, on the other hand, a wagon led by two horses was a very popular setup. Riders would sit on the horse on the left-hand side, leaving their right hand free to whip the other horse when necessary. As the wagon was usually pulled by two horses, riding on the right-hand side of the road provided better visibility.

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  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,734 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Yakster said:
    I don't know, but apparently you'd still drive on the right side of the road. I found this on why some drive left and others right.

    Horse riders in the UK would ride on the left-hand side of the road. This meant that their right hand was unobstructed. That way, they could easily access their swords and always had a free hand to greet passersby.

    In America, on the other hand, a wagon led by two horses was a very popular setup. Riders would sit on the horse on the left-hand side, leaving their right hand free to whip the other horse when necessary. As the wagon was usually pulled by two horses, riding on the right-hand side of the road provided better visibility.

    As I read your post, I wondered why in a team of two horses, the leader is always the left side horse. It seems like I knew this fact already, but I can't recall if I ever knew why it was so. Meriam Webster's definition of a lead horse is, "the horse on the left in a team of two". Well, ****. I spent some more time googling for the answer but never got to it, so I gave up.

  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 9,553 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Because we drive on the right side of the road. Driver closer to the center of the road. Same reason why brits have right side drive.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • peter4jcpeter4jc Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I dont think there's enough election ads going on. I wish my friends would post more about voting and share more political memes. And I need more political flyers in my mail box. TYVM.

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  • Rdp77Rdp77 Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I wonder if anyone has ever made this correlation….

    Maybe the Zodiac killer was never caught….

    Because he turned into D. B. Cooper….

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