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I LOVE G-VEGAS

/and I don't care what the admins say
//Unless its YR B&!!!

It's funny how we encourage kids to sit motionless for hours and read, claiming this is a good activity. As an English major (and freshman-level writing instructor), I can tell you that reading is very unhealthy--sitting motionless for hours, hunched over a book, oblivious to the world. But you'll never hear anyone claim reading is "bad for you" (like some will claim about watching tv, playing video games, or sitting at the computer) because reading has a positive connotation.

DaNightTripper:It's funny how we encourage kids to sit motionless for hours and read, claiming this is a good activity. As an English major (and freshman-level writing instructor), I can tell you that reading is very unhealthy--sitting motionless for hours, hunched over a book, oblivious to the world. But you'll never hear anyone claim reading is "bad for you" (like some will claim about watching tv, playing video games, or sitting at the computer) because reading has a positive connotation.

Yeah. Crazy how we think that developing an understanding of the literary world, expanding vocabulary, and being exposed to new ideas is better for a child's education than Spongebob or Pokemon.

Bob Jones sweats crazy into that town.

Books are evil, children. Observe the glowing box, children...

That's chidlins... Why is our chidlins fat?

Please don't filter this ---> "♥" out

Pickens, damnit, Pickens. I live in Greenville, and we're just a little better than that!!!!

chazbone

worked fer me?!

I got to carry the Olympic torch in Greenville 5 years ago. It's a big meh.

omg thers this teecher at my skool that sez she is a witchen preistess n she does sum crazy witch danses 4 teh spring n fall n she sez her daugter is from inoculate perseption or sumting n she wuz a virgin birth n not from her husbend but we all jus think shes fat n gross

Add "Greenville, SC" to the list of the willingly stupid.

*prepares for the onslaught of everybody assuming that people in greenville are dumbass retards*

I have not run into one crazy redneck in the 4+ years I have been here.

FAT KID THREAD!!!

As someone who grew up in Simpsonville (15 mi outside of Greenville), I can confidetly say that this is the pseudo rednick capital of the world. Sure....they have fewer teeth in Kentucky, and tend to have sex with their sister's more....but Greenville is a serious wanna-be. I'm betting that there are more confetterate flags in SC per capita than any other state in the contiguous US.

/After typing this I feel I need dentures, and I'm strangely feeling horny for my sister....

It is ironic that liberals would fight for the right to do "palmistry" and "astrology" in school, but shudder at the thought of PRAYER in school. WHERE IS YOUR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE NOW, LIEBERALS???

/we truly live in a world where good is called evil, and evil is called good.

I cood nott red teh arctle. Butt me fat.

Oh, we do have crazy rednecks BUT Greenville has changed a lot in the past several years for the better.

You'll see WAY more hispanics than rednecks these days!

It's not Greenville, or Greenville County. It's Pickens County, which is next to Greenville County. It's just reported in metro Greenville, since Pickens County is a hotbed of Bubba-ism.

Pickens County is scary.

DaNightTripper
Thank you so much for informing us that sitting motionless for hours is unhealthy! You've probably saved the lives of everyone in this thread...

English major...lol

My problem is that they have a week devoted to pseudo-scientific astrology claptrap. The religion angle aside, why is this on the program? What's next - a seminar on how not step on a crack, break your mother's back?

Brilliant subby

I LOL'ed

having moved to the greenville area in the last 2 months i gotta say if you don't love jesus first, bush second, and nascar third you are one twisted individual who is destroying the usa and will be sent to hell.
seriously, the front page of the sunday greenville paper had a story about some baptist convention and how we all need to take back america or some crap.

DaNightTripper: It's funny how we encourage kids to sit motionless for hours and read, claiming this is a good activity. As an English major (and freshman-level writing instructor), I can tell you that reading is very unhealthy--sitting motionless for hours, hunched over a book, oblivious to the world. But you'll never hear anyone claim reading is "bad for you" (like some will claim about watching tv, playing video games, or sitting at the computer) because reading has a positive connotation.

You're being sarcastic, right?

Writing from Greenville right now and not in the least bit surprised.

While the parents who complained are complete tards, whose idiotic idea was this session anyway? I have no moral or religious problems with it, but if you only have six sessions why spend one of them on stupid topics like this.

lambelly

It is ironic that liberals would fight for the right to do "palmistry" and "astrology" in school

This has nothing to do with schools, you moran.

Next article will be about the locals residents burning down the library to rid their community of those Devil Worshipers.

Since they don't have the excuse of lead in the groundwater, I am leaning toward "If she ain't gud 'nuf fer HER fam'ly, she ain't gud 'nuf fer ours!"

DaNightTripper
It's funny how we encourage kids to sit motionless for hours and read, claiming this is a good activity.

Reading is a good activity, but like other good activities, it is an important part of this complete breakfast. I think that doing nothing but reading is just as bad for you as not reading at all.

Wow, first Alabama, and now South Carolina brilliantly obscuring anything crazy taking place in Georgia today



Giving this graphic a workout today, all I need is a TN and a FL story and we become the stealth state

just had to remark that i have not read a teacher/student sex scandal yet this whole day.

theorellior 2007-06-11 04:19:14 PM
chazbone: ? Why is my ASCII heart filtered out?

It's a myocardial infarktion.

/You win.
//I bow to your superior pun fu

FrancoFile: My problem is that they have a week devoted to pseudo-scientific astrology claptrap. The religion angle aside, why is this on the program? What's next - a seminar on how not step on a crack, break your mother's back?

It doesn't really say what the overall goal of the program was. Perhaps kids were given a book to read that had astrology as a plot point, and this was the kick-off session to get them interested in the topic. Or maybe they were just trying to get kids to visit the library more and register for a card. Or maybe this was supposed to be a fun session for completing books on the summer reading list. The article doesn't make the educational value clear, but I can think of possibilities off of the top of my head, which is more than I can say for a pizza party.

cant like other parents um... complain back that the program was canceled? so its the number of complains overruns the previous stupid complaints? gawd... how can parents complain about a completely volunteer program that their kids would probably never have attended anyway...