When you need to rant...

[D'Snowth]

Listen, consider yourself lucky as far as the partner projects are concerned, whenever I had partner projects in school, nine out of ten times, they were pretty bad, because I would either be partnered with someone I didn't get along with, or in a similar case with your boyfriend, my best friend and I could kind of tell that the teachers wanted to make sure that we DIDN'T end up in partner projects.

Just about the one good partner project that I can remember was from Grade 10 Biology, when we were "making babies" based on characteristics we were given: my partner and I were putting the characteristics together while I designed our baby, and we were turning out a pretty ugly baby to say the least, and at one point he just looks at me and was like, "You've been cheating on me, haven't you?!"

 

[Hubert]

Listen, consider yourself lucky as far as the partner projects are concerned, whenever I had partner projects in school, nine out of ten times, they were pretty bad, because I would either be partnered with someone I didn't get along with, or in a similar case with your boyfriend, my best friend and I could kind of tell that the teachers wanted to make sure that we DIDN'T end up in partner projects.

Tell me about it. My partner projects, and even small group projects, have always been terrible. One thing after another. Being that I was never the most popular, times when we were allowed to pick groups/partners, I always ended up in a weird misfit group of people who you either don't like, or people who you'd never want to go to their house to work on it for the fact that they and their family is kinda odd. And then sometimes my group couldn't quit arguing, everyone wanting to be in control, scheduling issues. Projects done in school aren't that bad...but out of school, forget it. I learned that if you ever get the chance to do a group project alone...take it.

 

[D'Snowth]

Tell me about it. My partner projects, and even small group projects, have always been terrible.

Oy! Group projects are even worse than partner projects... anytime there were group projects, I was always the one person in the group who wasn't allowed to add any input to the project because nobody cared about any of my ideas, so therefore, I was of no importance.

 

[Misskermie]

Yeah, well I gotta do GROUP everyday. Pain in the ash.

 

[newsmanfan]

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Group projects suck. I'll take solo every single time.

Best partner, though, was when we were allowed to choose our lab partners in 9th grade Bio. The guy I picked was one I had a huge crush on, and as his sense of humor was as twisted as mine, we had a blast. Best of all, HE was willing to do the actual dissections...all I had to do was draw and diagram what we found!


RANT: WHY do so few Americans bother to read up on what's going through Congress any given week? The info is easily obtainable; even the local rag here, which is SO bad it actually had a headline a few weeks ago about a literacy project for kids that went something like "Local Literacy A Growing Concern, To", covers every bill before both House and Senate every week, both upcoming issues and votes from the previous week. And week after week, the House majority shoots down bills which would actually HELP consumers, the environment, teachers, the poor and needy, etc, while approving bills which ONLY aid major corporations looking to cut their taxes while they keep their factories overseas. If more people, even Tea Partiers, kept UP with what's going on, surely they'd vote these idiots in Big Money's Back Pocket OUT of office? Surely?

Completely disgusted with the voting populace, which seems determined to remain ignorant...and allow itself, as HL Mencken said, to be diddled continually.
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[Sgt Floyd]

Oy! Group projects are even worse than partner projects... anytime there were group projects, I was always the one person in the group who wasn't allowed to add any input to the project because nobody cared about any of my ideas, so therefore, I was of no importance.

I always seem to be that person. I always seem to be put in that one group where everyone except myself are friends. So my input is wrong and does not matter. Ugh

 

[Misskermie]

I always seem to be that person. I always seem to be put in that one group where everyone except myself are friends. So my input is wrong and does not matter. Ugh

I feel you. I feel you. I get slapped, and teachers watch.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

You get physically slapped and the teachers do not do anything? Thats not right

 

[D'Snowth]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!!

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!!

WHY DID GLEE HAVE TO TARNISH AND BRING SHAME TO IRENE CARA?!! WHY DID THEY HAVE TO RUIN "WHAT A FEELING"?!!

GOOD GOD, SOMEBODY SHOOT ME AND PUT ME OUTTA MY MISERY!!!

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[CensoredAlso]

RANT: WHY do so few Americans bother to read up on what's going through Congress any given week?

Two reasons that I can think of:

1. Our society keeps the general populace struggling through life and too busy to worry about bigger pictures.

2. I think most Americans know by now that Congress is good at passing bills, but not so good at making them stick.