Also, I’m beginning to think county has NO IDEA how the justice system works.
county, do you know what the phrase binding precedent means? I’m not attacking you, I’m curious. I can see no other reason why you would continue to attempt to maintain your argument if you did.
Having looked at the article, I’ve got to ask…
Does giggling because a butch lesbian has the last name “Manley” make me a bad person?
-Joe, no Nick Depalo
Not to my knowledge. There was a guy a while ago named Luke Sissyfag, but I think it was his own idea.
When I was eight, I would use the dictionary to look up the correct spellings of the words I wanted to use.
I’ll do it – your son is stupid and uneducated. 
Just for god’s sake don’t do it to her face. This is a fundamental rule about humor: a person has already heard every joke you can possibly make about their name ten million times already, and it WILL NOT be funny when you tell them the joke the ten million and first time.
Just laugh about her behind her back.
Daniel
I don’t believe you. I have NEVER known a chil who regularly did this, even kids with good spelling.
Any teachers out there, you ever seen a kid do this?
Somebody has an overinflated sense of how good a little boy he was.
And is.
Daniel
You never had a teacher simply tell you “look it up” whever you wanted a correct spelling? Becomes second nature after a while. I’m not saying I always checked with the dictionary; one has to start with at least an idea how to spell the word they want to look up.
I remember learning how to write primarily from my dad, he taught me never to get in the habit of making mistakes with spelling, because it would be harder to relearn the correct spelling. So yeah, I could write normally at 8 years old, I don’t think its all that special either.
Yup, but then he changed it back to Luke Montgomery:
Sissyfag
Realllllllll nice.
I’m more concerned with him enjoying the reading and writing process right now, without saddling him with being a perfectionist. He is at the “sound it out” and “spell it like it sounds” and “try your best” stage of learning. If I made him look up every word he wasn’t sure of, he would develop a hatred of the whole process. That would be a pretty fucked up thing.
Maybe you weren’t that way, but you’re a serious asshole to say that my son is stupid because he isn’t the same child that you were at his age.
A lot of the time he does ask how to spell a word. And he is learning spelling in school, and we do study for his spelling tests and so on. And as he gets more confidence, things like spelling and punctuation will be more important. For right now what matters is that he is writing.
Math on the other hand… he can add in his head faster than I can. Computers? He’s been installing his own software on his own computer since he was five. Before he knew how to read he used a text-to-speech program on his computer to read the instructions to online games he would find, or read emails from my mom and so on. He’s a very bright child. In any case, I’d far rather him be stupid an uneducated than be an asshole–so maybe I should rejoice that he isn’t on the same path that you were.
Funny story about that. I was at a party this past weekend and was introduced to a gay couple named Adam and Steve. After a bit of giggling on my part and concerned looks from those around me and my SO, I had to tactfully explain the whole “It’s Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve” thing that homophobes put on signs. Apparently, they’d never heard that before. Needless to say I was happy they had beer at the party.
But… but… how can that be when everyone in the South is an inbred, racist homophobe*?
Clearly, they must have moved to the south from Milwaukee.
They had heard it before. They were just too polite to say.
I lived in Lafayette, 25 years ago. It is Cajun country, not redneck country. I was a clearly Jewish Yankee from New York, with very long hair, and I never got hassled once. So I am kind of surprised. I was in school, but my wife worked with real Cajuns, and they are pretty cool people.
But this particular issue never came up, so my opinion might have been different if I was gay.
We had no kids when we lived there, but my wife interviewed for a job at a private school. Private schools in Lafayette would be no more tolerant, and probably less, than the public schools.
BTW, we owned a $40K house, and I paid $50 a year in real estate taxes. You can extrapolate the quality of the public schools easily from this.
Normally I’d agree, but they were missing a couple feet off of their clue stick as well…
Dammit Otto, that was not only one of the most impressive and on-target displays of sarcasm I’ve seen in four and a half years in this zoo; it was one of the funniest, too.
Yes, he really IS that stupid. And (for a day or two at least) you’re my new hero.
My wife is a real Cajun and she’s a pretty cool person. Her entire family, too. Most Cajuns I’ve met have been laid-back, very polite, fun-loving, and seldom pushy with their religious beliefs. In conversation, I’ve told several people about my agnosticism, but only one urged me to find God, and she was so polite, friendly, and non-confrontational about it that I was smiling when she walked away.
Lafayette really doesn’t seem like a particularly gay-unfriendly town. I know there’s at least one gay club or bar, possibly two. I’m not sure, as I don’t even go to the straight drinking holes. I’ve seen plenty of rainbow stickers and a few other assorted gay pride stickers on cars around town. I went to technical school here with a very open, rather-butch-looking, lesbian. I never heard anyone say an unkind word to, or about, her.
While conservative overall, Lafayette is also a college town, with 16,000 students enrolled at ULL. The city promotes cultural diversity with the annual Festival International de Louisiane, featuring musicians, performers, artists, and vendors from around the world. We also have the second-largest Mardi Gras celebration, next to New Orleans. It’s alcohol-fueled, but still very family-friendly. Gay Mardi Gras Balls in Lafayette are popular, too.
who said the teacher was a woman?