Meme, wank and that Falwell guy

[misscam]

An amusing meme going around:

If you had could command me to write anything, regardless of whether I know the fandom or if anybody even writes fic in that fandom and no matter how crack-addled it might be, what would you love to see me write?

Meanwhile, this wank has me boggling like whoa. Apparently not home schooling your children is failing them. I quote:
You're the one who seems to think parents are unable to educate their children and need to send them to the brainwashing "experts" who apparently can't even -for the sake of the child's education- get the child to obey her mother.

People like that exist?! Seriously, I'm sure home schooling has worked for some people, but I'm equally sure it can also be a very, very bad thing. And good grief, I never had serious issues with my mother and I still disobeyed her now and then. Pushing the limits is all part of the training for setting the limits yourself, when adulthood comes a-knocking.

Link shared by boz4pm - The tale of high society, anon websites, faked e-mails and a whole lot of WTF.

Speaking of that level of OMGWHAAAAT - Jerry Falwell died, as most of you seem to have caught on. Now, I'm not particulary sad he's dead, but nor am I pleased. The man was in many ways so many things I loathe (wtf supporting apartheid and seeing the gay in purple blobs on speed?), and yet... Alive he was a symbol of things I would not want, dead he's just a sad old guy most remembered for being contrary.

Not sure that is much of a legacy, really.

In other news:
Schwarzenegger invited to Svalbard
Vigrid leader acquitted (UNCLEAN)
Israelis held over 'hate' murder
Prince Harry not to serve in Iraq after all
Rare giant turtle found in a former stronghold of the Khmer Rouge

Comments

[crackpig.livejournal.com]

FIRST!

oh, and probably command something with that nice Martha girl from Dr Who getting romantically involved with Lord Edmund Blackadder.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

It would be snarky, glorious and bastardly. Hurrah!

You really enjoy being first, I gather.

[crackpig.livejournal.com]

You know me, Miss. Always got a million reasons for doing what I do.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

That would be glorious. I second that request, hee.

[loquacis.livejournal.com]

Seriously, I'm sure home schooling has worked for some people, but I'm equally sure it can also be a very, very bad thing.

Depends. Here in the USA, there are government schools that ban spelling bees, think that children should NOT learn the multiplication tables, think that grammar is evil (yes, they say that), and that second graders should use calculators.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I'm sure some parents would say the same.

*clings to her somewhat-annoying-but-generally-sane Norwegian schools*

[wintergreen126.livejournal.com]

Alive he was a symbol of things I would not want, dead he's just a sad old guy most remembered for being contrary.

Not sure that is much of a legacy, really.

amen. except, well, he was the founder of liberty university, one of the largest, if the not the largest, evangelical universities. oh well. even if i didn't like him, may he rest in peace.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but are people going to remember him for that, or his hateful little triade after 9/11?

Evangelical universities make my eyes twitch slightly.

[doctorwhohp.livejournal.com]

Must. NOT. Rant. About. The. Royal. Bloody. Family. And. Iraq.

*Explodes*

[blackkitten007.livejournal.com]

I just must say, icon love. :3

[misscam.livejournal.com]

*mops you up*

I gather this is a subject restraint is hard on?

[blackkitten007.livejournal.com]

That wank just made my head go splodey, but still I read on. What more stupid, the wank or me reading it. :p

[misscam.livejournal.com]

At least you acknowledge own stupidity ;)

[cedara]

If you had could command me to write anything, regardless of whether I know the fandom or if anybody even writes fic in that fandom and no matter how crack-addled it might be, what would you love to see me write?

Martha meeting Four, who compares her to Romana all the time, while she thinks he's completely mad. They still get along famously and Four offers to make her a sonic screwdriver of her own. Ten is around too, because the two Doctors have joined forces as the Master is around again, intent on destroying the universe. But, as Ten watches Four and Martha and how well they get along, he gets jealous of himself. It all ends with Four succeeding and Ten putting the moves on Martha as they depart in the TARDIS.

[boz4pm.livejournal.com]

I would SO read that. :D

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Me too. Now we just need someone to write it!

[sinneahtes.livejournal.com]

Apparently not home schooling your children is failing them.

WTF. There's way more to going to public school than just learning facts and taking orders, and some of our parents needed to, you know, WORK to support us--and I'm sure it is a good thing for kids to learn how to handle themselves when their parents aren't around.

But yeah, people like that exist. And I have a bunch of cousins who are/were homeschooled for religious reasons--and seemed to believe that public schools were a good place to get the devil's ideas. Funny thing is, they seemed a lot more "brainwashed" than any of their relatives in public schools did--at least one of them really sucked at interacting with people who didn't share her religion or beliefs, and never seemed to question her own beliefs before she used them as "fact" in an argument. But I can't speak out against homeschooling in general--it sounds like it can be good or bad, depending on the reasons for it and the parents who handle the education.

[canadian-kazz.livejournal.com]

I don't think I could add anything to that homeschooling wank. All I will say is that it's a bad thing to think that children are angels all the time.

I think a Doctor Who/Animaniacs cross over would be a hoot. The 10th Doctor getting in an argument with Yakko... oh dear. XD

[siraj.livejournal.com]

that would be made of awesome and win.

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

As far as Falwell is concerned, you did see this, right? And there's plenty of comment on Pharyngula.

As for Tore Tvedt, the old scumbag, I frankly don't think jailing creeps for hate speech is a particularly good idea. There's a real danger of dumber people thinking that if the authorities won't let people hear it, there must be something to it. It conveys the message that you're afraid of it, instead of just regarding it as beneath contempt and evidence of mental illness.

[falena]

Happy May 17th!

[losseniaiel.livejournal.com]

Vigrid leader acquitted (UNCLEAN

I don't like jailing people for their opinions even if they are vile. On the other hand, I don't see how calling someone inhuman and a parasite fails to be sufficiently insulting. *shrugs* Off to read wank. At least it's more amusing. ;)

[siraj.livejournal.com]

The homeschooling wank BURNS. I may have gotten the blitz smacked out of me in public school, but by the time I was in fifth grade, I was taking on kids at least sophomore level in high school in debates and WINNING thoroughly.

Public schooling doesn't always win, but homeschool isn't always the answer either.

Sooooo cute...

[anybodybutsara.livejournal.com]

That was really odd to hear because although I know you aren't American, I always somehow thought of you speaking with an American accent...LOL

ABS;)

[agent-vana.livejournal.com]

Ah, homeschooling. I was homeschooled throughout my schooled life, until college. I liked it, because I'm not a major social person and I consider many of my peers to be utter morons. Being trapped in a building with hundreds of them for most of my days...*shudder* But I interact all right socially, and I started taking college classes at fourteen. Graduated from high school last year with over fifty credits at our local college. That's fun.

But there /are/ lots of people for whom homeschooling doesn't work. I know lots of parents who started it because of religious/ideological reasons and wound up putting their kids in school because the kids were getting what the parents didn't want them to get /anyway/. Each to his own, I guess...