Riss
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Post by Riss on Feb 5, 2013 20:53:27 GMT -8
Yeah my google chrome won't block it. >.>
I am possibly deciding to make it add free for a few bucks. I'm more worried about getting a virus on my phone rather than my computer.
Also mythology teacher has me watching Harry Potter and The hobbit for a 5-7 page essay. <.< I'm watching one movie right now instead of sleeping.
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Twopatch
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Post by Twopatch on Feb 6, 2013 0:47:20 GMT -8
It impresses me that you have a mythology teacher
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Post by wrecker15 on Feb 6, 2013 5:05:08 GMT -8
Yeah, I'm impressed. It's an actual subject?
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Post by firebolt153 on Feb 6, 2013 5:58:46 GMT -8
I once did a paper in college on the themes connecting Star Wars and Harry Potter. Easily the best paper I ever wrote in my academic career
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Post by Aethera on Feb 6, 2013 6:08:02 GMT -8
In college I had Film & Politics and Television & Politics count toward my major. Best papers ever in those classes. I also took a senior seminar just called "Evil" which was pretty great.
There were no kids with allergies in my school growing up that I can remember. Once a kid got a peanut stuck up their nose and had to go to the doctor, but that's the most harm I ever saw come from peanuts.
Once I started babysitting when I was about 13, I did run into more kids with allergies...the switch-over seemed to happen around 1990. What the heck happened, I wonder? I should unlazify enough to go find some academic papers to read about it.
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Post by firebolt153 on Feb 6, 2013 6:22:41 GMT -8
I'm gonna throw out there that kids didn't play outside as much because they were inside playing video games and stuff? Thought I read somewhere that playing outside helps kids build up immunities from allergies like peanuts and stuff, along with having pets. I'm sure there's other factors involved too, but that's what comes to my mind first. But I agree with you Aeth. I don't remember any of my classmates growing up having crazy allergies. The only kids who had allergies were the ones with asthma, and there were only a few
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Post by Aethera on Feb 6, 2013 6:26:13 GMT -8
Oh, and can I just add - the main forums have been absolute crap the last 2 days. I think we made the right choice moving here! Bravo to Furare for getting it set up, to Tae for doing so much research, to everyone who tested, and to everyone who agreed to the move!
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Taelac
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Post by Taelac on Feb 6, 2013 6:45:26 GMT -8
Prevalence of food allergies is directly correlated with the amount of a given food allergen in the wider food supply. The theory is that having it show up in nearly everything a population eats causes people's bodies to interpret it as a widespread pathogen rather than a foodstuff. In the US, at least, a really significant portion of our calories over the last forty years has come from corn (maize), wheat, soy, and peanuts. These are also the fastest-rising food allergens for us. There's a ton of research out there, but nobody seems to know what to do about it, or why some people end up allergic to something and others don't.
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Leif
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Post by Leif on Feb 6, 2013 6:54:38 GMT -8
Once I started babysitting when I was about 13, I did run into more kids with allergies...the switch-over seemed to happen around 1990. What the heck happened, I wonder? I should unlazify enough to go find some academic papers to read about it. I got no clue. I knew one guy in high school with a peanut allergy, but somehow they didn't quarantine him or ban PB&J at school. Apparently one cause of an increase in peanut allergies is delaying exposure to nuts.
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Post by Jolyma on Feb 6, 2013 8:55:06 GMT -8
Our nut free school is because this child has such a severe nut allergy that if you were to handle nutty substances, then touch him, he would react. I have to make sure any pizza party in his class comes from a place that uses vegetable oil, not coconut or peanut oil. If it wasn't a severe allergy, nuts wouldn't have been banned, like we have a few with berry allergies, but those kids just get special breakfasts and snacks if we have berry products. Same with our red dye allergy kid.
Soy is evil. I don't know why but it's acts like my MSG intolerance. Not fun.
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Post by Jolyma on Feb 6, 2013 8:57:23 GMT -8
Oh, and after pay day this week, I'll be the first to kick in for ad free, and sponsor February.
Also, mythology classes are the BEST english credits ever, seconded closely by Shakespeare, at least where I went to college.
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Leif
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Post by Leif on Feb 6, 2013 9:14:40 GMT -8
I took a Greek Myth class college, which was OK. Kinda wish it had been Sumerian or something. I took a Primitive Religion of the World class, about which I remember very little. Except I liked the prof, he was good.
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Riss
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Post by Riss on Feb 6, 2013 9:17:27 GMT -8
Taking both English and Mythology. Honestly I really do like the class because what I'm reading about is interesting and the teacher is hilarious. I'm already three weeks ahead on the homework, but I need to start the Harry Potter paper before I decide to just blow it off. Yeah - I'm waiting for my paycheck or paypal (whichever happens first) then I'll put some money towards the ad free.
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Post by DementedDuck on Feb 6, 2013 10:34:28 GMT -8
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Furare
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Post by Furare on Feb 6, 2013 12:15:50 GMT -8
I dunno, you can learn whatever you want in university. I majored in Chemistry and minored in webcomics.
Seriously, though, hang out with people from other courses if you want to learn stuff about something outside your subject area. In my first year, I found out that my neighbour was studying ASNaC (Anglo Saxon, Norse and Celtic - honestly, only at Cambridge >.>) and since that's kind of a amateur interest of mine, he was my best friend for the entire first term. Until my asshole boyfriend pissed him off.
So two lessons can be learned from this: 1. If you want to learn about things that aren't on your course, make friends with the weird guy who lives in the room next door. He might read to you from the Venerable Bede's histories. (That is not a euphemism of any kind.) 2. Don't date assholes who alienate your friends.
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Post by Crazy Mg on Feb 6, 2013 12:46:20 GMT -8
Double majors don't give room for odd subjects, I only get left with two elective papers and it's in my first year that I'm meant to take them (this year and last since I'm only doing part-time) and one of them has to be used as a prerequisite for later papers. So I really only get one random paper and my choices suck at this campus. Most were all Businessy and a few sciencey, but the weirdest choice was only astronomy. The other campus has Magic and witchcraft.
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Post by DementedDuck on Feb 6, 2013 12:55:37 GMT -8
At least you get a lot of freedom when choosing what you major/minor in. Here, the university has to specifically offer joint major or major/minor courses for you to take. I wanted to take maths/philosophy, but very few unis offer that, and most of them are asking for grades I can't achieve after my sub-par first year results.
@f I don't need to date assholes, I'm already in your pants. ;]
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Furare
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Post by Furare on Feb 6, 2013 12:58:57 GMT -8
Okay, if it was you who took my pink thong... actually, I don't really want it back.
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Post by DementedDuck on Feb 6, 2013 13:07:13 GMT -8
It looks better on me, anyway.
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Furare
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Post by Furare on Feb 6, 2013 13:11:04 GMT -8
That's probably because I actually have an ass.
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Leif
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Post by Leif on Feb 6, 2013 13:11:27 GMT -8
There's only one way to judge this...
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Post by yasmi on Feb 6, 2013 13:15:04 GMT -8
Weird we dont do the whole major/minor thingie in portugal, but when I was in uni my degree was 6 years and now with the European convention I actually gained a second masters thanks too that. I m pretty sure if I had that choice I would minor in some random weird subjects. But i.did manage to combine drama and psychology for a year when I co therapeutic psychodrama
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Post by DementedDuck on Feb 6, 2013 13:15:15 GMT -8
Ladies first.
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Furare
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Post by Furare on Feb 6, 2013 13:15:38 GMT -8
Sorry, the swimsuit competition has been postponed until June 'cos it's bloody cold here at the moment.
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Post by yasmi on Feb 6, 2013 13:56:01 GMT -8
Sorry, the swimsuit competition has been postponed until June 'cos it's bloody cold here at the moment. i m sorry rare i just got home and its f*** freezing cold
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Post by Crazy Mg on Feb 6, 2013 13:58:15 GMT -8
I have a cold house. I'm still in bed and freezing, but outside is way too sunny for me to go warm up >.<
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Riss
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Post by Riss on Feb 6, 2013 15:10:39 GMT -8
It's cold here too. ):
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Leif
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Post by Leif on Feb 6, 2013 15:28:26 GMT -8
It's like 70 today. Maybe 72.
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Post by Bunnylaroo on Feb 6, 2013 16:04:47 GMT -8
Yeah...it's 60 here today and I'm cold. LOL California.
I took a lot of film studies classes for fun in college. Which I highly recommend, because it's interesting and you get to watch a lot of movies, so how can you go wrong? One was entirely Alfred Hitchcock films, and I have to say it was one of my favorite classes ever.
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Furare
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Post by Furare on Feb 6, 2013 16:32:11 GMT -8
The game thread, it has been posted. Enjoy!
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