Forced Volenteering!

jimpeel said:
:errrr: Based upon the above run-on sentence, do you feel that time could have been more constructively spent in the classroom? :lol2:
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When I am writing ads, and information paper on my companies products, I watch spelling and grammar. If you couldn't understand that I will make sure to type slower.
 
I seem to remember you getting all butt-hurt when I pointed out some of your errors in a post not that long ago. You accused me of trying to dodge the point by pointing out errors, or something along that line.
 
I don't see the purpose in pointing out grammatical or spelling errors other than to feel superior or insult someone. However, this was in the context of the subject in the first place. Granted, I don't know the history of this poster, but I took it as a joke. And even chuckled.
 
Inkara1 said:
I seem to remember you getting all butt-hurt when I pointed out some of your errors in a post not that long ago. You accused me of trying to dodge the point by pointing out errors, or something along that line.
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It was a joke. I was not trying to dodge an answer or segue around the subject. There was no question being asked of me to avoid through distraction.

IT WAS A JOKE!

The second post was just a lighthearted poke in the ribs kinda post.

You people need to know when someone is being facetious.

As to our exchange, it started HERE when you stated:

By the way, I thought people in school as long ago as you were supposed to have better reading comprehension than those who came out of California public schools in the 1990s. Article 1, section 8, clause 17 (also, it's not 19 as you claim) is concerning the creation of Washington, D.C. and that the federal government will oversee that federal district.
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I had asked anyone who wished to answer a very simple question HERE and repeated it HERE which you then tried top turn into my making a statement of fact HERE.

I then shoved the question in your face and asked still ONE MORE TIME and scolded you for avoiding the answer while giving me shit about miskeying a number.

You did finally give a very thoughtful answer HERE.

So in the case which you speak of you were avoiding the answer to a question placed directly to you while in the case here I was merely trying to inject a bit of humor into a void apparently filled with humorless dolts.

Know the difference.
 
Gonz said:
That's what all the smileys are for...it's hard to distinguish flippant from serious, in print.
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You mean like when you start the post with one of these :errrr: (Errrr...) and end it with one of these :lol2: (Goin' crazy with laughter)?
 
paul_valaru said:
(O)oh(,) joke,(. L) let me point out your error..( ... )jokes are funny.
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:rofl3:

Apparently not if you are the butt of the joke. Then all you get is open hostility. No joking.

The reality is not whether the joke is funny, but who is making it and their politics. The same joke made by Spike, Inkara, BofP, etc would likely have been funny in your eyes. To be corrected, even in a joking way, by a mere conservative, however, is unforgivable. Now that you have revealed that you are a tech writer/illustrator by trade the joke is even funnier.

Some people here really need to grow a sense of humor.
 
greenfreak said:
I don't see the purpose in pointing out grammatical or spelling errors other than to feel superior or insult someone. However, this was in the context of the subject in the first place. Granted, I don't know the history of this poster, but I took it as a joke. And even chuckled.
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The fact is that you "got it" and apparently everyone else didn't. Let this be a lesson to you. Make sure you post an alert that "THIS IS A JOKE" preceding and "THE PRECEDING HAS BEEN A JOKE" following the joke.

Perhaps, and that is merely speculative on my part, they will understand.
 
jimpeel said:
The fact is that you "got it" and apparently everyone else didn't. Let this be a lesson to you. Make sure you post an alert that "THIS IS A JOKE" preceding and "THE PRECEDING HAS BEEN A JOKE" following the joke.

Perhaps, and that is merely speculative on my part, they will understand.
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you're REALLY starting to resemble our dearly departed markjs more and more everyday.

oh jimmy... your literal correctionist kung fu is so charming... why deny it?
 
I don't see anything wrong with mandatory community service in order to get a diploma. School is about learning, and community service offers some very important lessons. Maybe "volunteering" is the wrong word for it...but really, students are FORCED to learn math, english, science, etc. while in school, what is wrong with forcing them to perform community service? If it was one school, or a small group of schools who were like "hmmm we need some painting done, and some repair work around our schools...let's force all the students to help or we won't let them graduate" then I wouldn't agree...but this isn't that.

Things change, requirements for graduation change. When my mom was in highschool in Newfoundland it was only 3 years long (grades 9 to 11)...now it's four (grades 9 to 12). This mandatory community service is the next change for the education system, it will add a new layer of things for students to learn. It's a general improvement in the system and I like it.

I graduated before the community service requirement was introduced in Ontario but I would have been able to complete it no problem...I worked full time during the summer from the time I was 16 so it would have all happened during the school year, and I had a part time job during the school year from the time I was 16 too...that said, I still spent a lot of time being completely doing things that were in no way productive...I definately could have found the time to volunteer for a meer 40 hours (or even 100) over the 4 years of highschool.
 
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