grindy

Five.

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The Batlord

You dumb bastard. The answer is clearly 42.

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grindy

I don't do Douglas Adams references. Too mainstream and all that.

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Black Francis

Today i went to pick up my daughter at school and apparently the mother of one of the kids in the classroom scolded another kid that wasn't her own and because of that, parents now gotta wait for their kids in the front of the school.

i don't understand this overly PC world we live in today, in my days my parents gave other parents permission to whup my ass if i was acting up and this mom just scolded the kid, she didn't even hit the little bastard and now that kid is gonna grow up thinking he's untouchable.

We're breeding criminals i tell ya..

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grindy

I know you're part of the US in a way, but I thought not giving a **** about that stuff would be the logical and fitting thing for your culture.

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Black Francis

Nope, not anymore, we are almost fully americanized by this point.

We do still have a "look the other way" policy though which is what the school is asking us to do.

If your kid is being bullied in front of you, you'll either have to look the other way or make a pansy formal complain to the teacher that won't fix anything cause most times the parents of these little delinquents don't care enough to set them straight but care enough to get all defensive if you have a complain about them.

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John Wilkes Booth

indeed... criminals and professional victims

what i dislike is the "zero tolerance" mentality they espouse. in my schools, which were plagued with gang violence, you basically would get suspended for being in a fight, regardless of who started it/threw the first punch/etc

the result was that basically you got punished if you defended yourself. the
only acceptable courses of action were to a) flee and tell a teacher b) flee and keep it to yourself c) take the beating and tell a teacher d) take the beating and keep it to yourself

if fleeing wasn't an option? too bad. take the beating. the rationale behind this nonsense is basically that the school's lawyers can't come up with a pragmatic way to condone any sort of violence, even self-defense.

tbh you learned pretty quick that being completely non-violent isn't a real option if you want to maintain any sort of reasonable amount of dignity and self-respect. my ideology is that you shouldn't go out of your way to start a fight, but if someone makes it clear they are going to fight you whether you want to fight or not, then you shouldn't even wait for them to throw the first punch. your chances of winning the fight decrease dramatically by doing so, especially if you are not as strong or well-versed in fighting as the aggressor, which is typically the more likely scenario.

The Batlord

^^^

Yup. There's no shame in going for the nuts and then kneeing them in the face when they're doubled over.

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Frownland

I think that oversensitive parents are to blame for zero tolerance policies. Lawsuits and **** from those types of people are making the schools put forward those policies as protective measures.

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