Get it off your chest!

[Heathcliff]

Of course that's a sixteen year old saying that.

And a thirteen year old.

And another sixteen year old friend of mine today.

Quite often, talent isn't taken seriously.
When people are capable of the most amazing things, they should not only be recognised, they should be supported.
So we have to work hard.

[BienvenuJDC]

And a thirteen year old.

And another sixteen year old friend of mine today.

Quite often, talent isn't taken seriously.
When people are capable of the most amazing things, they should not only be recognised, they should be supported.
So we have to work hard.

Which still only means as much as Virgil meant it to mean...

[Niamh]

I really really really hate Heathrow airport. Only thing i'm hating more than Heathrow airport right now is BMI for changing my flights so bloody often and now making me sit in this god forsaking place for seven hours! gah! Five more to go. Wish i was back in Canada!

[Heathcliff]

Which still only means as much as Virgil meant it to mean...

Of course.
Urgh.
I've changed my mind. I've joined this thing at school and everyone in it is in VCE. Great, seeing as I'm in year nine.

Only thing that bothers me now is this mobile phone thing.
I HAD TWO AND A HALF HOURS OF FREE CALLS AND 70 FREE TEXTS AND IT DISAPPEARED FOR SOME UNFORESEEN REASON!!
Argh...

[Maryd.]

That's because you are a chatter-box.

[papayahed]

Age is not synonimous to superiority.

If it helps you'll grow out of that. (I know - I'll never win an award for my "cheering up" abilities)



OATMEAL!!!!! That's what bugs me. No matter how careful I am I always overflow the bowl. Any secrets when microwaving???

[Lokasenna]

If there is one thing that bothers me, being a consumer whore in the modern world that so many of us are, its companies pricing products with no distinguishable reason or logic. Take for instance shoes. I am not an overly large man, size 9 shoes. I will never be a size 13 shoe wearer. I may stretch to a 10 in some cases, but I absolutely swim in anything above that, convenient though it is for others who are of a larger stature to have such a diverse selection.

But why does a pair of shoes cost, say a size 7, 120 dollars, and yet a size 12 or 13, pays that same 120 dollars. Put next to one another it is extremely evident that the former is using almost half the materials of the latter. Am I absorbing the costs of the materials for people with bigger shoes then me? You would think price is determined by the cost of the goods and the time to make the shoes, the equipment needed to do so etc. add on a tidy profit margin for myself and again for the retailer, and you would have your final sum. So it would make sense that a bigger shoe should be substantially more expensive (or my shoes cheaper preferably) seeing as they use inches more of leather, rubber, cotton, etc and as such would take longer to construct. If I am not absorbing the prices for my larger brethren, it means that the larger foot wearers are getting more at a discounted price.

Pants are the same way, if I am using a foot less material per leg, you would think I would be afforded some sort of financial compensation. I’m not asking to thrash into profit margins; I am not asking for special treatment, I am just asking that the price be reflective of the product actually received.

We buy groceries by weight, liquids by volume, external hard drives and USB’s by storage capacity, why is it that something like clothing, which absolutely everyone uses and has used for eons, is charged by some magical mean price decided without any thought for the “little guy”, this is Australia isn’t it? Land of the wee battler? Home to the most prized underdogs, lovers of the Cinderella story, the little guy fighting for his fair share? Well I say to you, I am a little guy, and I deserve to pay my fair share and nothing more.

Speaking as someone with size 13 shoes and a 44 inch inside leg, I'm damn glad I'm paying the same as someone smaller. That would be heightist descrimination, that would!

[papayahed]

Actually though I noticed in safety supplies there is a bit of a price increase when you hit 3X and above.

[Niamh]

Papaya, put in in the microwave at one minute to 30 secon intervels for the time length directed. each time it beeps stir it and then put it back on. that works for me.

[papayahed]

That's what I usually do. I thought I was all good and put it on for an additional 25 sec. and that's when it blew. Maybe I could invent a bowl that stirs the whole time the oatmeal is microwaving...

[Niamh]

try add a small amount of cold milk to it before the additional 25.

[Heathcliff]

Why must it all be so difficult. Can't the school decide on who are genuine good people and just give them a VCE pass? Why must they do this to people?
Get this, someone has a job, runs their own business and is amazingly talented in their own field, whilst actively participating in the school community, and they can't have a few extra weeks up their sleeve for a VCE exam. I know it sounds like if they do something for one person they would have to do it for eveyone, but when someone is exceptional at something then they deserve to know how special they are.
Some people have very shallow futures, but this amount of effort deserves to be rewarded. That is what my school usually does.
Anyway, I don't know what is going to happen.

[The Comedian]

Okay. Yes. I am an English teacher. Me, English teacher. Alright.

I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate it that whenever I make a litle typo or misspell or leave out word, someone's always there to say something like this:

"Wow! That's pretty bad grammar for an English teacher"

You know what I want to say to that person?

"Crawl back into your little dictionary, nerd-boy/nerd-girl. Most of life is a rough-draft. Typos can be fixed. And, no, I did not major in dictionary memorization. Oh, and one more thing: May I please follow you around and point our your little foibles and missteps? Now, that would be fun!"

End discussion. english techer uot!

[Katy North]

Here here Comedian!

I was an English major in college.

Whenever I make a spelling or grammar mistake my husband does not hesitate to point it out to me:

"And this is from the girl who majored in English!!! Har de har har!!!"

Grrr....

[Lulim]

^^ Like cobblers go always around in the most worn shoes (as goes a saying hereabouts)

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I wish more LitNetters would participate in the Short Story Competition. -- And no, I didn't send in any story of my own