[quote]christine wrote:
I was thinking the same thing. This guy has awful grammar for someone with a 16 year old kid. Do people in their 30’s or 40’s really use u instead of you?[/quote]
Of course they don’t. But then again, there may be a few functional illiterates in that age group.
This is just another case of how your vernacular mirrors your age and/or maturity.
Hey…I think he just went back to edit that “u” into a “you”!!!
Amateur!
since i will be late for work one last. u, make the a conculsion.
here is a link to a article on msn. i guess someone should have listened.
hasta!
[quote]58buggs wrote:
since i will be late for work one last. u, make the a conculsion.
here is a link to a article on msn. i guess someone should have listened.
hasta![/quote]
Maybe, u, should, ‘listen’, to, your, own, child.
Does anyone else find ‘hasta’ to be annoying?
[quote]58buggs wrote:
glorification of shooting is not what he is doing. what he is doing is trying to make sense of the senseless. the question si why does a teenager shoot up a school for just being suspended?
as for grammer, clean it up if u, don’t like it. or, simply just pass it. either or!
now, excuse me illuminated ones. i have to go to work and pay the bill that kill.
hasta[/quote]
He is not glorifying the shooting, I don’t think I said that and if I did I mis-spoke. He is sympathizing with the shooter and wrote a poem from the shooters viewpoint.
He is screaming for attention. If you cannot see this I hope someone else does and helps your kid or he works himself though whatever problems he is experiencing. Being a teenager is hard. Pay attention to your sons plea.
58Buggs, I think you, need to get help, for, your William, Shatner, Syndrome, problem. You’re abusing commas almost as much as Capt. Kirk.
[quote]Aragorn wrote:
58Buggs, I think you, need to get help, for, your William, Shatner, Syndrome, problem. You’re abusing commas almost as much as Capt. Kirk.[/quote]
that, is , fucking, hilarious.
[quote]58buggs wrote:
My kid is an hell of an artist, as, well as, a boxer and baseball player. As for being confused. Do tell me how enlighten, and grounded you were as a teenager. Or do you two clowns just get off being assholes
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I, as a teenager, am apparently grounded enough to see your son’s poem as at the very least a cry for some attention. He wrote a poem from the viewpoint of the shooter and made the shooter into the victim in this scenario. Glorifying the act? Of course it didn’t. It does however wreak of the sense that your son could be considering a similar action. Artistic expression is fine, it’s enviable, encourage it. But do so with some knowledge of how he truly feels about the events he writes about.
[hijack]
I can’t believe there’s never been a shooting blamed on poor spelling, grammar, and use of punctuation on “teh interwebs[sic]”. I know I’ve come close before. Do people really not realize that something as simple as a misplaced comma or colon can drastically change the message one’s trying to get across? I’ve always liked this demonstration:
People were asked to punctuate the sentence, “Woman without her man is nothing”
Men invariably came up with the following:
Woman, without her man, is nothing.
Women, on the other hand, almost all ended up with this:
Woman: Without her, man is nothing.
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Regarding the subject of the thread, I have to agree with those who found the 16 year old’s poem rather disturbing.
Jay
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/10/11/cleveland.shooting/index.html
Surprised it took this long for the media to try and link goth music to the school shooting.
Who had 1 day in their office pool?
Article also says that school faculty were warned about threats of violence previously regarding this student.
um, seriously. do you really care about grammar. somewhere down the line. what should have been about children and a horrible event turned completely upside down.
if you, feel the need too, correct my grammar.
As for attn from my son and a view point of the troubled kid. I personally think all teenagers are looking for attn. from extreme to another. all children. so, when i get home from my job i’ll give my kid a hug. i would suggest you, do the same.
i feel the poem is a unique expression,of a tragic event that unfolded. i feel if someone, would have stepped in years before. there wouldn’t be what happened on tues. to be as blunt as i can w/u. it is i who moved that if my son need to write what he felt of the situation then write. i used this poem here, instead of the other poem. maybe, i should have posted the other one. i guess now it would be counter productive to post the other poem.
if you, don’t like what you, read don’t read it. if you, feel the need to answer by all means. as it was posted, i may be amateur or fuctional illiterate. but, in my world though i care and look for other who also, care.
take care friends. it has been at the very least unique to hear your take on the subject.
[quote]Magnate wrote:
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/10/11/cleveland.shooting/index.html
Surprised it took this long for the media to try and link goth music to the school shooting.
Who had 1 day in their office pool?
Article also says that school faculty were warned about threats of violence previously regarding this student. [/quote]
Apparently, they found a copy of “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” in his locker.
DB
[quote]58buggs wrote:
um, seriously. do you really care about grammar. somewhere down the line. what should have been about children and a horrible event turned completely upside down.
if you, feel the need too, correct my grammar.
As for attn from my son and a view point of the troubled kid. I personally think all teenagers are looking for attn. from extreme to another. all children. so, when i get home from my job i’ll give my kid a hug. i would suggest you, do the same.
i feel the poem is a unique expression,of a tragic event that unfolded. i feel if someone, would have stepped in years before. there wouldn’t be what happened on tues. to be as blunt as i can w/u. it is i who moved that if my son need to write what he felt of the situation then write. i used this poem here, instead of the other poem. maybe, i should have posted the other one. i guess now it would be counter productive to post the other poem.
if you, don’t like what you, read don’t read it. if you, feel the need to answer by all means. as it was posted, i may be amateur or fuctional illiterate. but, in my world though i care and look for other who also, care.
take care friends. it has been at the very least unique to hear your take on the subject. [/quote]
What did you say?
[quote]Chewie wrote:
58buggs wrote:
um, seriously. do you really care about grammar. somewhere down the line. what should have been about children and a horrible event turned completely upside down.
if you, feel the need too, correct my grammar.
As for attn from my son and a view point of the troubled kid. I personally think all teenagers are looking for attn. from extreme to another. all children. so, when i get home from my job i’ll give my kid a hug. i would suggest you, do the same.
i feel the poem is a unique expression,of a tragic event that unfolded. i feel if someone, would have stepped in years before. there wouldn’t be what happened on tues. to be as blunt as i can w/u. it is i who moved that if my son need to write what he felt of the situation then write. i used this poem here, instead of the other poem. maybe, i should have posted the other one. i guess now it would be counter productive to post the other poem.
if you, don’t like what you, read don’t read it. if you, feel the need to answer by all means. as it was posted, i may be amateur or fuctional illiterate. but, in my world though i care and look for other who also, care.
take care friends. it has been at the very least unique to hear your take on the subject.
What did you say?[/quote]
I agree. Someone needs to go back to high school and take English class again (or would it even matter?).
It’s a good thing that you care, 58buggs, but you need to care a little more, enough to take some pride in your communication and make sure that people can understand what you’re trying to get across. Your posts make my head hurt.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
My, only other, response, to this, so far, is, “Dammit, Jim, I’m a doctor not a bricklayer”![/quote]
“It’s english, Jim, but not as we know it.”
As for the shooter, I’m just glad he was a crappy shot. The fact that he felt he needed to take someone with him when he died indicates (to me at least) complete and utter selfishness: [quote]“My problems are more important than your life.”[/quote] Kids who have problems in school can be referred to a counselor, but the entire facility can’t shut down to cater to the needs of one troubled kid, and apparently that’s what he wanted.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
Aragorn wrote:
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/William_Shatner_Syndrome
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/William_Shatner
Honest Injun, I really am LOL.
My, only other, response, to this, so far, is, “Dammit, Jim, I’m a doctor not a bricklayer”![/quote]
hah. btw, you would not believe how much time you can waste on that site. It’s like they made an entire site solely for the people who like to screw up wikipedia. And it’s genius. Check out the articles on Oprah, or Tom Cruise. Just don’t go there when you have serious stuff to get done sometime that day.
[quote]58buggs wrote:
so, when i get home from my job i’ll give my kid a hug. i would suggest you, do the same.
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As a teenager who has been without a father for a few years, I’ll say its not a hug that I miss from my dad when he got home from work that I miss all that much. Its everything else he did as a father for my brothers and I.
Quite frankly, if you think thats getting you by for giving your kid enough attention- I’m going to have to agree with zap and chewie (I think) who are saying you need to give your kid more attention. A lot more.