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26 Jul 2003, 14:25
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Anti-American Rant
Background info:
My sister just spent the last year of High School over in America.
Everyone in her year got photos taken which were then printed in a 'playing card' size.
These 'cards' were then swapped about.
I think that's what happened anyway ... i'm just guessing so from the pile of photos i found.
Anyways my rant is this:
WHY THE **** ARE AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHERS SO ****ING ****E?!
THE PICTURE ALWAYS SEEMS TO BE SLIGHTLY OUT OF FOCUS TO GIVE IT A 'SOFT EDGE' WHICH MAKES IT LOOK ****!
THE 'MODELS' ARE ALWAYS POSITIONED IN REALLY **** WAYS (LIKE WITH THEIR HAND UNDER THEIR CHIN AND ****).
I'd kinda noticed it before with some photos on HotorNot but this is the first time i'd seen it happen to a person i know.
It makes me want to cry.
It really does.
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26 Jul 2003, 15:19
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why did your sister go to school in america??
ps as much as the americans like to go on about the british having bad teeth (in your case this is true my pointy incisored friend) and being genreally ugly, it is infact the americans that were hit with the ugly stick on the way out of the womb. Americans are inherently an ugly people, but a clever one also, they go to the surgeons who have the knowledge of plastic in their early twenties, then they are 'spruced' up, however they are still mainly ugly. The beautiful ones get to work on tv, this makes it appear that all americans are beautiful, but the people who work in tv only account for a small poroportion of americans. In high school - pre plasticisation - soft focus, bright lights, and flatering angles are used to make the american teen more palatable.
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26 Jul 2003, 15:25
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Originally posted by Nusselt
why did your sister go to school in america??
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She got good grades in 5th year so she could.
She also wanted to go.
My parents also had the 3k it cost to send her.
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26 Jul 2003, 16:16
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i blame the hypocristic american society
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26 Jul 2003, 23:03
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why the hell would anyone want to go to school in america? why didn't she stay in england and get a proper education ffs
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26 Jul 2003, 23:09
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Quote:
Originally posted by Demon Dave
why the hell would anyone want to go to school in america? why didn't she stay in england and get a proper education ffs
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Have you seen the state of our education system?
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26 Jul 2003, 23:09
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Re: Anti-American Rant
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Originally posted by Dace
Everyone in her year got photos taken which were then printed in a 'playing card' size.
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Are you sure she hasn't just been hanging out with Saddam Hussein and the gang?
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26 Jul 2003, 23:17
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Insanity Prawn Boy!
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Quote:
Originally posted by Embroglio
Have you seen the state of our education system?
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yes, and it's still better than the yanks
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26 Jul 2003, 23:36
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Quote:
Originally posted by Demon Dave
why the hell would anyone want to go to school in america? why didn't she stay in england and get a proper education ffs
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She didn't stay in England cause she lives in Scotland.
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26 Jul 2003, 23:56
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Quote:
Originally posted by Dace
She didn't stay in England cause she lives in Scotland.
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Originally posted by Embroglio
They should count themselves lucky to be considered English.
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27 Jul 2003, 00:01
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Scotlands education system is better than Englands.
Or maybe we've just got smarter folk up here.
Less of those ****ing immigrants.
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27 Jul 2003, 00:03
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Quote:
Originally posted by Dace
Scotlands education system is better than Englands.
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dont you get an extra year at uni just to 'catch up'?
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27 Jul 2003, 00:07
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a new low in getting high
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Quote:
Originally posted by Dace
Scotlands education system is better than Englands.
Or maybe we've just got smarter folk up here.
Less of those ****ing immigrants.
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Maybe, but we're BIGGER.
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27 Jul 2003, 00:08
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Quote:
Originally posted by Nusselt
dont you get an extra year at uni just to 'catch up'?
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No.
We do our University enterance exams a year earlier than you.
We go to Uni at 17 not 18 like you English fags do.
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27 Jul 2003, 00:47
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Quote:
Originally posted by Dace
No.
We do our University enterance exams a year earlier than you.
We go to Uni at 17 not 18 like you English fags do.
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if you want to do 'proper' degree courses rather than 'media studies' its recommended that you do Sixth Year.
..... its just the jocks are a tad more lax in their entrance requirements to allow the yokel skirt wearing gingers a chance to compete against their owners ...erm I mean the English.
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27 Jul 2003, 00:55
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Quote:
Originally posted by Cryptic
if you want to do 'proper' degree courses rather than 'media studies' its recommended that you do Sixth Year.
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What the ****?
You leave at 17 IF YOU DO SIXTH YEAR!
You can leave at the end of fifth year with enough to get into Uni (2 Highers = The same amount of 'Uni Points' as 1 A level and as my sister got 4 'A's and 1 'C' that means she has like 13 Uni points ... which is more than 3 'B's at A level AND SHE GOT ALL THAT IN ONE ****ING YEAR whereas you dumb ****ing English need two years to learn your ****).
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27 Jul 2003, 00:59
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Quote:
Originally posted by Dace
What the ****?
You leave at 17 IF YOU DO SIXTH YEAR!
You can leave at the end of fifth year with enough to get into Uni (2 Highers = The same amount of 'Uni Points' as 1 A level and as my sister got 4 'A's and 1 'C' that means she has like 13 Uni points ... which is more than 3 'B's at A level AND SHE GOT ALL THAT IN ONE ****ING YEAR whereas you dumb ****ing English need two years to learn your ****).
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At least we didn't fail and drop out
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27 Jul 2003, 01:02
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Quote:
Originally posted by Ragnarak
At least we didn't fail and drop out :p
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I neither failed nor dropped out.
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27 Jul 2003, 01:05
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Quote:
Originally posted by Dace
I neither failed nor dropped out.
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mere technicalities
people think you did for some reason which is good enough for me
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27 Jul 2003, 01:07
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Quote:
Originally posted by Dace
What the ****?
You leave at 17 IF YOU DO SIXTH YEAR!
You can leave at the end of fifth year with enough to get into Uni (2 Highers = The same amount of 'Uni Points' as 1 A level and as my sister got 4 'A's and 1 'C' that means she has like 13 Uni points ... which is more than 3 'B's at A level AND SHE GOT ALL THAT IN ONE ****ING YEAR whereas you dumb ****ing English need two years to learn your ****).
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considered equal only as to accomodate the silly jocks that we feel abit guilty about invading and owning ......
(btw its the England, N.Ireland and Wales that use the A-level system)
...."Many universities suggest Scottish students go on to a sixth year in which 'further Highers' or the Certificate of Sixth Year Studies (CSYS) can be taken. The CSYS can only be taken by students who are in their final year of secondary schooling and also possess a pass in the Higher Grade in the subject area concerned. CSYS is not required to enter University in the UK but tends to offer more specialized study and is therefore recommended.".....
I would assume getting into one of the Primo universities to study the pure sciences for example would be tad difficult agaisnt UK students with 4 or 5 A grade Alevels......
......... but you Jocks like yer independance and welfare benifits ....
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27 Jul 2003, 01:07
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Quote:
Originally posted by Ragnarak
mere technicalities
people think you did for some reason which is good enough for me
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I guess it happened coz i told people that i classed getting a 3rd a personal failure.
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27 Jul 2003, 01:09
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Quote:
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I guess it happened cause i told people that i classed getting a 3rd a personal failure.
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yeah prolly, and all the Nod threads saying "haha dace failed"*, that might have added to it
*this is a lie**
**probably
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27 Jul 2003, 01:16
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As an aside ...
Rag can you put those lyrics on seperate lines please.
Make it nicer to look at plsktnksbye.
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27 Jul 2003, 01:20
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I'd do it, but that would be impolite.
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27 Jul 2003, 01:26
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Quote:
Originally posted by Dace
As an aside ...
Rag can you put those lyrics on seperate lines please.
Make it nicer to look at plsktnksbye.
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just cos you asked so nicely
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27 Jul 2003, 05:17
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Quote:
Originally posted by Dace
As an aside ...
Rag can you put those lyrics on seperate lines please.
Make it nicer to look at plsktnksbye.
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A great song for years gets covered by a piano totting retard with a pedant for slowing everything to the pace of a crippled pensioner and then suddenly wacked into a schizoid film, and EVERYONE is quoting what once was a very nice chorus line indeed :/
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27 Jul 2003, 05:30
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they're 'wallet size' so you can stick them in your wallet fs.
(they're slightly smaller than playing cards)
unless she's got a different size than i'm thinking of.
it's done here too.. so you can trade pics with all your friends. the more you have the more popular you are, etc etc. :P
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27 Jul 2003, 08:12
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Your reference to playing cards makes it sound like the infamous Saddam playing cards that were passed out to the U.S. (and British afik) forces in Iraq. These pictures are nothing of the sort, and have been popular for quite a while in American High Schools with the popular kids attempting to secure as many as possible of their friends.
Aside from that, the anti-American sentiment in this thread is nothing short of astounding. I know everyone hates us for a myriad of reasons, but high school graduation pictures fs? Please, there MUST be better things to waist your time and energy worrying about.
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27 Jul 2003, 08:30
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Quote:
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Your reference to playing cards makes it sound like the infamous Saddam playing cards that were passed out to the U.S. (and British afik) forces in Iraq.
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i found them before they were spammed at me the very next day.
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27 Jul 2003, 14:26
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Quote:
Originally posted by Amonn
there MUST be better things to waist your time and energy worrying about.
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WASTE
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27 Jul 2003, 15:33
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Quote:
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it's done here too.. so you can trade pics with all your friends. the more you have the more popular you are, etc etc. :P
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EH?
So, you get a load of these cards, all of yourself, then hand them out to the 'lucky' people you consider to be 'friends'...?
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27 Jul 2003, 15:39
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Quote:
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it's done here too.. so you can trade pics with all your friends. the more you have the more popular you are, etc etc. :P
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sounds like pokemon to me
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27 Jul 2003, 15:42
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sounds like pokemon to me
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Sounds fking stupid to me.
'HELLO, CAN I GIVE YOU MY CARD?'
'NO, FK OFF PLEB'
Actually, doesn't sound too bad now I look at it that way...
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27 Jul 2003, 15:48
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Quote:
Originally posted by Dead_Meat
Sounds fking stupid to me.
'HELLO, CAN I GIVE YOU MY CARD?'
'NO, FK OFF PLEB'
Actually, doesn't sound too bad now I look at it that way...
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heh
but just think of the poor kid with no friends, let's call him "Dace" for arguements sake. how do u think he'll feel when no one gives him their cards and he's left with a massive stack of his own that no one will accept and ends up walking home on his own, throwing them into the trash can as he passes, a small tear rolling down his cheek as he sees all the 'cool' kids pointing and laughing at him
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27 Jul 2003, 16:02
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Old Man O Deh *****s
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Originally posted by Ragnarak
but just think of the poor kid with no friends, let's call him "Dace" for arguements sake.
....a small tear rolling down his cheek as he sees all the 'cool' kids pointing and laughing at him
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I shall keep this sobering thought for the times when I'm down and I'm low and I will remember it then, so I have something to cheer myself up with, the knowledge that whatever else happens, I'll never be quite as unloved as Dace is.
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27 Jul 2003, 16:07
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so f*cking zen
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Quote:
Originally posted by Dead_Meat
I shall keep this sobering thought for the times when I'm down and I'm low and I will remember it then, so I have something to cheer myself up with, the knowledge that whatever else happens, I'll never be quite as unloved as Dace is.
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I work so i have money so i can pay for sex.
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27 Jul 2003, 16:09
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I work so i have money so i can pay for sex.
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I find it kind of funny
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The dreams in which i'm dying
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