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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 6 2006, 02:03 PM (945 Views) | |
| Jolly | Sep 7 2006, 09:42 AM Post #26 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Tell ya what, sapphire....why don't you take that legal beagle license down here and right the wrongs? Since the NAACP doesn't seem to want to take this any further - after all, the Superintendent investigated, determined it was not racially motivated, but also put enough pressure on the employee to retire - you might very well have found a windmill at which to charge. Blow the trumpet, and dig your spurs in! Ride, boldly ride! |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| ny1911 | Sep 7 2006, 09:44 AM Post #27 |
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Senior Carp
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[edit: responding to Phlebas, 2 posts back] allegedly, as QE indicated in the first post. There really aren't a lot of details in the story. It doesn't smell right, but there's always another side to the story. |
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So live your life and live it well. There's not much left of me to tell. I just got back up each time I fell. | |
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| Phlebas | Sep 7 2006, 09:45 AM Post #28 |
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Bull-Carp
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I think they want to put behind them the fact that one of their employees did something pretty stupid. Can't really blame them. Game over. |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| QuirtEvans | Sep 7 2006, 09:52 AM Post #29 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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Nah, I think I'll just continue to believe that there are an awful lot of bigots, and an awful lot of stupid people, in Louisiana. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| Phlebas | Sep 7 2006, 09:56 AM Post #30 |
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Bull-Carp
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Actually Quirt, Having been to La a few time, and having lived in Mass. for 6 years, I would say there are more in Mass. - with all due respect, and present company excluded. |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| AlbertaCrude | Sep 7 2006, 10:10 AM Post #31 |
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Bull-Carp
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Don't be obtuse and F.U. 2 dipsh1t. The driver of any vehicle, and particularly one that transports the general public is in full charge when the vehicle is on the road. |
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| Kincaid | Sep 7 2006, 10:12 AM Post #32 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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AC, Apple's got a bar of soap fer ya! |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| QuirtEvans | Sep 7 2006, 10:15 AM Post #33 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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Look who's talking about being obtuse and lame-brained. You compare a captain of a ship to a bus driver, as if there's any comparability. Of course the school bus driver is in charge. So's the manager at McDonald's, but he's no captain of a ship. You chose a dumbass example, and now you look like even more of a dumbass for trying to defend it. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| LWpianistin | Sep 7 2006, 10:15 AM Post #34 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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If the kids were her LAST stop of the route, wouldn't it make sense to put them in the front of the bus? Less hassle, and all. But, then, that's just too simple. |
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| Jane D'Oh | Sep 7 2006, 10:16 AM Post #35 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Is it legal for kids to ride on one anothers laps on a school bus? (This is an honest question and not inneundo. )
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| QuirtEvans | Sep 7 2006, 10:18 AM Post #36 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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It probably depends on the state, but I don't think so, in most places. Who the hell knows in Louisiana, though. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| AlbertaCrude | Sep 7 2006, 10:19 AM Post #37 |
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Bull-Carp
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Listen you godamned Yankee sh1t for brains liberal, it's a colloquial expression for "who's the boss" not a comparison. So f*ck off and go wait in the truck with Rick and that other odious one.. |
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| kenny | Sep 7 2006, 10:20 AM Post #38 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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What is the reasoning that when you get out of a bus has anything to do with where you sit? |
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| Aqua Letifer | Sep 7 2006, 10:23 AM Post #39 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Kenny, did you walk to school or get dropped off or something? The kids in front always get off first. Unless you pull the back door fire alarm, and that can get you into some serious sh!t (though it is fun). When you will get out has everything to do with where you were sitting, but probably not the other way around, if that's what you meant. |
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| kenny | Sep 7 2006, 10:29 AM Post #40 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I did ride a bus in elementary school. That was a zillion years ago and I don't recall exit order vs. seat position protocol. So, you say the front always gets out first. Why? What’s the diff? What's the benefit? I'm not arguing. Just curious. |
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| Phlebas | Sep 7 2006, 10:30 AM Post #41 |
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Bull-Carp
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It's more orderly that way. If you've every been on a bus full of adults with anything resembling manners, that's how they do it too. Orderliness is a very imprtant thing on school buses. |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| DivaDeb | Sep 7 2006, 10:31 AM Post #42 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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If you empty the bus from the front, it keeps kids from tripping over each other (or being tripped) on their way out. |
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| Aqua Letifer | Sep 7 2006, 10:31 AM Post #43 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Well it's not really a rule, so much as it is just the natural order of things. The bus stops, and all the kids stand up. All walk towards the door. The door is at the front of the bus, the kids at the front are closest to it, and so they get out before the kids in the back. Most things work this way. Who gets out of elevators first? Why, the folks closest to the door, a course. |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| kenny | Sep 7 2006, 10:32 AM Post #44 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Hmm I seem to recall sitting on the seat. Maybe things are different today.
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| ny1911 | Sep 7 2006, 10:33 AM Post #45 |
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I can't believe this needs to be explained. |
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So live your life and live it well. There's not much left of me to tell. I just got back up each time I fell. | |
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| kenny | Sep 7 2006, 10:33 AM Post #46 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I was thinking about driving the kids home and letting them out one or two at a time. |
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| LWpianistin | Sep 7 2006, 10:36 AM Post #47 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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It depends which floor they're all getting off at. People in the back of the elevator often need to get off earlier than those in the front. |
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| Aqua Letifer | Sep 7 2006, 10:36 AM Post #48 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Ahh. Well I was just referring to when they got to school and they all got out at the same time. In that case, no rhyme or reason to their departure, I don't think. Unless there's assigned seating according to when you're picked up and dropped off. That makes for quite the crappy busride, if you're a kid, but that's what some people choose to do. |
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| Aqua Letifer | Sep 7 2006, 10:37 AM Post #49 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Well yes, there could be a billion outliers to the example, but I wanted to make it simple, so I worked with an "all things being equal" assumption when I posted my example. In the example I assumed all got out at the same stop. |
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| DivaDeb | Sep 7 2006, 10:38 AM Post #50 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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School busses are pretty crowded these days, Kenny...when we were little, we didn't have backpacks the size of carry on luggage. Good drivers are a real special breed...kids can be a colossal mess. Discipline has to be tight...you have to be able to concentrate to drive and when you stop, it can't be any different. You are responsible for them getting out safely as well. All it takes is one bully's leg thrust into the aisle and you've got a kid with fewer front teeth. |
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