Important notice from the GRAMMAR POLICE. Plz read. This means you.

[rufio]

Who's having trouble with reading comprehension now?

[HomeschooledByTards]

Who's having trouble with reading comprehension now?

Apparently I am having trouble with reading comprehension. I see no mindless rant about Communism/whatever the fad in that post. Non-standard reading comprehension FTL.

[Kyna]

Who's having trouble with reading comprehension now?

You must have linked to the wrong post, because I don't see any "mindless rant about Communism/whatever the fad is now" in that post.  Perhaps the post you thought you read exists only in your head?

EDIT: ninja'd by jesslla.

[rufio]

I'm sorry if you have trouble understanding the purpose of a simile.

[professorbutters]

Guh, more reading failure. No one was MAKING this person take English. They were encouraging her, merely because she had expressed an interest in it, and in spite of a bunch of issues that made it pretty much contra-indicated. If my blind person had insisted on majoring in Art History, do you think that is something she should have been encouraged to do? Or at some point, does someone need to say, "Uh, dude, if you can't see the paintings, it is going to be a bit difficult for you to write essays about them"?

Wouldn't that depend upon what kind of blindness your student had, and how profoundly blind he or she was, and why he or she wanted to take Art History?  There are blind artists.  I even recently heard of an exhibition entirely made up of the work of blind photographers.  Most of these people were "legally blind":  they could still see, but needed a lot of help.  In fact, one said that he used a camera as a sight aide:  he took photographs of things and *then* he could see them.  Blindness and Arts

I'd want to be very careful before I ruled an entire field of knowledge off-limits to everyone with a certain disability. 

[Zazazu]

To clarify my earlier assumptions that it was a high school - I made that assumption because I didn't realize there was any fucking way that something like this could happen in an actual college.  If it's true, I am as appalled as you are.  My best guess (given what you've told me) is that they simply want her tuition money, and they don't get it if they let her fail.  So they sell her a diploma that isn't worth the paper it's printed on.  Capitalism at its best. 

A suitemate of mine my sophomore year was a similar situation. She had some sort of emotional disability, developmental delay I'd guess, and the critical thinking of a 6. She was a freshman and I couldn't believe that she'd been admitted to my college, which was sub-ivy but private, quite expensive, and difficult to get into. Come to find out, she was the daughter of a major donor. She had tutoring, summer sessions, an aide in class...and for what? What would her joke of an education get her that daddy's money wouldn't play a bigger part in?

In high school, my school moved towards inclusion. I wasn't in gifted talented at the time because I was sick of not being with some of my friends and I didn't see the point to AP. Well, except for Bio & Physics. The inclusion students had a wide range of disabilities and really most of them weren't any sort of problem. There were two, though, who I dreaded having in class because they would ask so many questions and we'd waste so much time in class going over the same thing twenty times for them. It was boring and aggravating, and didn't exactly move me to want to interact with them socially.

[rohina]

I'd want to be very careful before I ruled an entire field of knowledge off-limits to everyone with a certain disability. 

To clarify: I was thinking of a student who was very, very blind (not just legally blind), writing those essays where you analyse the composition and details in a given painting.

My point is that I do feel like there is a resistance to telling disabled students that they suck at stuff, which is still something "normal" students will get from time to time. I don't see it as purely negative, either; it's life advice, like I was given when I was kind of caving to parental pressure to do Law, and someone (a mentor) said "you are going to be really bad at it and end up hating it, and these are the reasons why." That was, in some ways, a difficult conversation, but I appreciated it. If we are prevented from having those kinds of conversations with people with disabilities, is that really a good thing?

[professorbutters]

I'd want to be very careful before I ruled an entire field of knowledge off-limits to everyone with a certain disability. 

To clarify: I was thinking of a student who was very, very blind (not just legally blind), writing those essays where you analyse the composition and details in a given painting.

My point is that I do feel like there is a resistance to telling disabled students that they suck at stuff, which is still something "normal" students will get from time to time. I don't see it as purely negative, either; it's life advice, like I was given when I was kind of caving to parental pressure to do Law, and someone (a mentor) said "you are going to be really bad at it and end up hating it, and these are the reasons why." That was, in some ways, a difficult conversation, but I appreciated it. If we are prevented from having those kinds of conversations with people with disabilities, is that really a good thing?

I think there's a subtle difference.  For example:  it's very nice for lots of people to study music.  Very, very few ought to be encouraged to pursue it as a profession.  I didn't enjoy it when a voice teacher opined that I would not ever develop the voice to sing opera.  It may even have been true that my "real" voice wasn't going to come in until much later (she said this when I was twenty, and darker voices do develop late.)  I still think it wasn't bad for her to say that, because it forced me to re-evaluate, and ultimately, I don't have the right temperament for it.  A real future opera singer would have said "So?  I SPIT me of your opinion."  I wasn't disabled.  I just didn't have a truly magnificent voice, and it's really stupid to try to be an opera singer without a truly magnificent voice.  And no one really wants to say to anyone, "um, your voice?  Nice.  Not great." 

Someone who truly wants to do something extraordinary is going to move heaven and earth to do it.  Someone in a wheelchair who wants to do ballet will sneer at obstacles and work without sleep for a decade until she has put together the Wheelchairinas and the media is doing breathless stories about it.  That's not anything like watering a discipline down. 

[J. M. Pescado]

I am having difficulty picturing La Butt as a lawyer.

[rosess]

Wouldn't that depend upon what kind of blindness your student had, and how profoundly blind he or she was, and why he or she wanted to take Art History?  There are blind artists.  I even recently heard of an exhibition entirely made up of the work of blind photographers.  Most of these people were "legally blind":  they could still see, but needed a lot of help.  In fact, one said that he used a camera as a sight aide:  he took photographs of things and *then* he could see them.  Blindness and Arts

I'd want to be very careful before I ruled an entire field of knowledge off-limits to everyone with a certain disability.  

Part of my job was once to make musical performances relevant for deaf students.  It's actually rather fascinating to pull apart all the facets of music other than the actual tonal experience and see that it's still an interesting subject.  We went into visual representations of rhythm, experiencing the effect of sound waves by holding a balloon, demonstrating the mathematical relationships between notes with vibrating rubber bands, etc.  I'm not quite sure the bureaucracy was as helpful... having to hire a sign-language interpreter for a 100% musical performance is just a fancy way to give the translator's arms a rest and create a ton of questions about why that person sitting on the edge of the stage never did anything.  

[Jelenedra]

N00b making an assumption based on what RUFIO wrote. Big surprise there. rufio read that you USED to live in Australia, but only read the "live in Australia" part of the sentence and FAILED to notice the "used to."

I haven't read this entire thread, but rohina has told me in the past that she did live in Australia, and that was what I was going by.  I don't recall her stating where she lived in this discussion so far.  If she did, then yes, I must have missed it.  Right now I don't have the leisure to spend a lot of time reading internet forums.  My apologies.

You are so stupid it hurts sometimes. The fact that you remember rohina telling you at some point that she DID live in Australia means that you were present for a conversation in which she used the past fucking tense.

People don't use the past tense if it is still true. Common sense would dictate that by using past tense to describe where she lived, it means SHE DOESN'T LIVE THERE ANYMORE. So, if you don't know where she lives NOW (and considering that you never read anything anyone says, I'm not surprised you don't know) then don't ever say anything about where she lives.

It makes you look stupid when you base an argument off of where she lives to dismiss her point and you have it WRONG.

Trust me, you don't need anymore help looking retarded.

[J. M. Pescado]

And you know you're stupid when even the Jelly agrees you are stupid. Even the Fs think you are stupid.

[Jelenedra]

Is everyone SURE that rufio isn't an ExtraSpeshulBear sock?

[rohina]

Naw, the Bear wasn't quite as pigheadedly stupid.

[jolrei]

Yes, ExtraSpeshulBear has been disappointingly boring lately, in my view.

[Jelenedra]

Naw, the Bear wasn't quite as pigheadedly stupid.

The faulty logic and inability to listen or comprehend is all too eerily similar though.

Yes, ExtraSpeshulBear has been disappointingly boring lately, in my view.

I am counting this as a win.

[MaximilianPS]

i've made a post on the official forum that probably is full-filled of grammar error.. at the i'm me 

actually i can't find a correct place where post this stuff, so maybe this the correct one 'cause the dancing grammar style 

about this thread that probably EAxis will censor, so before they censor me, i wish to save my post 

i agree.. with LOLInAHat
the sims (v3) are ugly and unpleasant !
they looks like a bad version of the characters that come with poser(tm)
they aren't photorealistic, but they aren't cartoon style .. they looks just bad!

they aren't emotive* (i hope the translation is correct) like sims v2
To have a really emotional sim, take the player to some comic situation, that sims 3 totally miss it.
A Sit-Com is based on the exasperation of some situations, that take the watcher to have some funny moments, but the sims (v3) didn't slap no one, if they pee on his pants didn't cry, gealosly didn't take to any situation or reaction !!!
If a sim loose the job didn't cry, didn't be hungry, nothing !
They haven't any kind of emotion, this game is completely FLAT !

I think that someone loose the way, this game is totally boring, nothing happen, and the fact that thay so ugly is the top of the bottom.

what the hell did you do to my fav. game !!!?!? .. i think i hate you now !

[rohina]

Why are you interrupting our fight with your nonsense?

[timelycorruption]

i've made a post on the official forum that probably is full-filled of grammar error.. at the i'm me 

actually i can't find a correct place where post this stuff, so maybe this the correct one 'cause the dancing grammar style 

about this thread that probably EAxis will censor, so before they censor me, i wish to save my post 

Start > All Programs > Accessories > Notepad.

[rufio]

You are so stupid it hurts sometimes. The fact that you remember rohina telling you at some point that she DID live in Australia means that you were present for a conversation in which she used the past fucking tense.

In fact, she used the present tense, which you would have understood if you knew anything about how tenses work in reported speech.  Since you are clearly having trouble, let me rephrase:

rohina said (in the past), "I live (in the present time of the past utterance) in Australia." = rohina said (in the past) that she lived (in the same past time) in Australia.

Contrast:
rohina said (in the past), "I lived (in the past time before the past utterance) in Australia." = rohina said (in the past) that she had lived (in the more remote past) in Australia.

Is that clear enough for you?

[rohina]

Dude, given that I have been living in Canada the whole time I have been a member of MATY, you are talking out of your ass again. QUOTE THE POST or it didn't happen.

[rufio]

Maybe I'm misremembering, then.  I probably got confused by all your butthurt about me referring to you as Canadian, or something.

[rohina]

So, that would be your third admission in this thread that you don't really pay attention to what you read. Can we just go ahead and conclude that you have some kind of comprehension disability?

[rufio]

A disability where I don't remember everything about everyone I meet online?  Sure.

[rohina]

Well, it's more than that, isn't it? Because you didn't just say "I don't recall". You asserted, several times, something which I said was not the case, accusing me of lying about my circumstances, and when challenged, you then made up evidence, presumably because you couldn't find evidence to support your assertion because there wasn't any.