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ImTheMacheteGuy
11/05/17 5:01:39 PM
#102:


southcoast09 posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
southcoast09 posted...
Phantom_Nook posted...
southcoast09 posted...
If they get a bad grade, the administration will chastise the teacher or even change the grading scale.

This one lie invalidates your post, although I'm sure there were more.

What about my post upset you so much? You don't seem to feel the need to correct anything I said (much less provide proof), but yet it's clear that my post evoked anger in you.

Kids these days can pass with a 50%. If I made a 69.9%, I failed. So..... yeah. There's the grading scale for ya'


When was 70% the minimum passing grade? What year specifically?

And why did you say upset? The user said "_____ invalidates your post," which is the most robotic and emotionless choice of words that could have been chosen.

I can't remember which year I graduated, but I'm 29.


Well I'm 34 and throughout middle school and high school, 90+ was A, 80-89 was B, 70-79 was C, 60-69 was D, below 60% was failing.
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southcoast09
11/05/17 5:04:47 PM
#103:


It may have just been my school, but the harsher grading scale brought out the best in the students. it just irritates me how these kids complain, when My advanced math teacher failed me for having a 69%. Kids aren't ready for life and the real world is not as easy
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Kim Kusanagi
11/05/17 5:07:28 PM
#104:


southcoast09 posted...
It may have just been my school, but the harsher grading scale brought out the best in the students.


Yet here you are
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southcoast09
11/05/17 5:17:55 PM
#105:


Kim Kusanagi posted...
southcoast09 posted...
It may have just been my school, but the harsher grading scale brought out the best in the students.


Yet here you are

, .

Whoa, look! The punctuation from your post migrated into my post!
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ImTheMacheteGuy
11/05/17 5:19:45 PM
#106:


southcoast09 posted...
It may have just been my school, but the harsher grading scale brought out the best in the students. it just irritates me how these kids complain, when My advanced math teacher failed me for having a 69%. Kids aren't ready for life and the real world is not as easy


I mean there was no scaling. It was just those numbers straight up. If the whole class got under 60%, the whole class failed. The numbers don't really add up for 69% to be a failure, unless your teacher was being a c*** for the sake of being a c***. What sort of school was it? What was the district like? Not trying to be accusatory but this "grrr kids these days!" narrative and the numbers not really adding up makes me suspicious.
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CocteauQuadrplt
11/05/17 5:20:57 PM
#107:


southcoast09 posted...
Ignore JamesX and just mark him for circumventing the ban system.


You mean like this?

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ImTheMacheteGuy
11/05/17 5:44:40 PM
#109:


kenio8185 posted...
mehmeh1 posted...

well, not really, islam isn't a race, people of any race can be muslim. Asians or hispanics would be a better example (and even then, people in asia and latin america can have different skin tones, but I'll leave it there to not get super specific)

This is true, and i know it. However, people on the regressive left consider islam a race.


No, that's stupid. They mean Arabs/middle eastern people. Some might extrapolate to "all muslims" but that's dumb.
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Jiek_Fafn
11/05/17 6:08:47 PM
#110:


ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
southcoast09 posted...
It may have just been my school, but the harsher grading scale brought out the best in the students. it just irritates me how these kids complain, when My advanced math teacher failed me for having a 69%. Kids aren't ready for life and the real world is not as easy


I mean there was no scaling. It was just those numbers straight up. If the whole class got under 60%, the whole class failed. The numbers don't really add up for 69% to be a failure, unless your teacher was being a c*** for the sake of being a c***. What sort of school was it? What was the district like? Not trying to be accusatory but this "grrr kids these days!" narrative and the numbers not really adding up makes me suspicious.


Just wanted to chime in that many private schools use 69% as a failing grade and have for decades. Generally, public schools use 59% as a failing grade though and I don't know of any that don't use that scale but wouldn't be surprised if they exist.
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ImTheMacheteGuy
11/05/17 6:24:25 PM
#111:


Jiek_Fafn posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
southcoast09 posted...
It may have just been my school, but the harsher grading scale brought out the best in the students. it just irritates me how these kids complain, when My advanced math teacher failed me for having a 69%. Kids aren't ready for life and the real world is not as easy


I mean there was no scaling. It was just those numbers straight up. If the whole class got under 60%, the whole class failed. The numbers don't really add up for 69% to be a failure, unless your teacher was being a c*** for the sake of being a c***. What sort of school was it? What was the district like? Not trying to be accusatory but this "grrr kids these days!" narrative and the numbers not really adding up makes me suspicious.


Just wanted to chime in that many private schools use 69% as a failing grade and have for decades. Generally, public schools use 59% as a failing grade though and I don't know of any that don't use that scale but wouldn't be surprised if they exist.


Yeah, that's why I asked what type of school. Figured private school was a possibility.
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southcoast09
11/05/17 8:52:21 PM
#112:


ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
southcoast09 posted...
It may have just been my school, but the harsher grading scale brought out the best in the students. it just irritates me how these kids complain, when My advanced math teacher failed me for having a 69%. Kids aren't ready for life and the real world is not as easy


I mean there was no scaling. It was just those numbers straight up. If the whole class got under 60%, the whole class failed. The numbers don't really add up for 69% to be a failure, unless your teacher was being a c*** for the sake of being a c***. What sort of school was it? What was the district like? Not trying to be accusatory but this "grrr kids these days!" narrative and the numbers not really adding up makes me suspicious.


This was in Baton Rouge during the last 90s-early 2000s. Granted, it was a privately owned school, but most of my friends in the public school system had a similar scale.
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ImTheMacheteGuy
11/06/17 10:24:25 AM
#114:


kenio8185 posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
No, that's stupid. They mean Arabs/middle eastern people. Some might extrapolate to "all muslims" but that's dumb.

I agree, go complain to the regressive left about that.


I would, but none of the people on the left that I know are like that (and more than 90% of the people I know are on the left). It's almost as if the internet and real life don't coincide.
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DevsBro
11/06/17 10:29:22 AM
#115:


Everyone shuts down when they don't know the answer.
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Laserion
11/06/17 10:43:14 AM
#116:


What is this "Circumventing the Ban System"? I thought a ban is just a ban of that account. Sure, you can get usermap-axed if you are too much of an annoyance, and even put on KOS, but nothing tells you outright "if you are banned, you're NOT ALLOWED to make a new account".
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UnfairRepresent
11/06/17 10:46:48 AM
#117:


DevsBro posted...
Everyone shuts down when they don't know the answer.

Not so. As a generalization the right deflects.

"Why do you think the mass shooting epidemic is unique to America and generally done by white men."

"Hilary Clinton laughed about getting a rapist off in court!"
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CocteauQuadrplt
11/06/17 11:37:40 AM
#118:


Laserion posted...
What is this "Circumventing the Ban System"? I thought a ban is just a ban of that account. Sure, you can get usermap-axed if you are too much of an annoyance, and even put on KOS, but nothing tells you outright "if you are banned, you're NOT ALLOWED to make a new account".


Southcoast09 should probably PM Allen about it just to be clear on the policy, tbh
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ImTheMacheteGuy
11/06/17 12:03:08 PM
#119:


Laserion posted...
What is this "Circumventing the Ban System"? I thought a ban is just a ban of that account. Sure, you can get usermap-axed if you are too much of an annoyance, and even put on KOS, but nothing tells you outright "if you are banned, you're NOT ALLOWED to make a new account".


It's not a real thing, regardless of what degenerates send to sballen in PMs or whatever that pic was.
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southcoast09
11/06/17 12:25:49 PM
#120:


ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
Laserion posted...
What is this "Circumventing the Ban System"? I thought a ban is just a ban of that account. Sure, you can get usermap-axed if you are too much of an annoyance, and even put on KOS, but nothing tells you outright "if you are banned, you're NOT ALLOWED to make a new account".


It's not a real thing, regardless of what degenerates send to sballen in PMs or whatever that pic was.

Somebody's mad!
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ImTheMacheteGuy
11/06/17 12:31:32 PM
#121:


southcoast09 posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
Laserion posted...
What is this "Circumventing the Ban System"? I thought a ban is just a ban of that account. Sure, you can get usermap-axed if you are too much of an annoyance, and even put on KOS, but nothing tells you outright "if you are banned, you're NOT ALLOWED to make a new account".


It's not a real thing, regardless of what degenerates send to sballen in PMs or whatever that pic was.

Somebody's mad!


You quoted the wrong person.
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Kim Kusanagi
11/07/17 12:58:40 AM
#124:


southcoast09 posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
Laserion posted...
What is this "Circumventing the Ban System"? I thought a ban is just a ban of that account. Sure, you can get usermap-axed if you are too much of an annoyance, and even put on KOS, but nothing tells you outright "if you are banned, you're NOT ALLOWED to make a new account".


It's not a real thing, regardless of what degenerates send to sballen in PMs or whatever that pic was.

Somebody's mad!


Yeah you are what with sending ban requests to Allen and whatnot
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southcoast09
11/07/17 1:06:05 AM
#125:


That sentence doesn't actually make any sense with your lack of punctuation.
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Kim Kusanagi
11/07/17 9:37:53 AM
#126:


southcoast09 posted...
That sentence doesn't actually make any sense with your lack of punctuation.


If you were so bright you wouldn't need that
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ChromaticAngel
11/07/17 10:16:07 AM
#127:


Mal_Fet posted...
NadYobWoc posted...
I'm a regressive, ask me a hard question.

Why is it that no major media outlet ever called Trump a racist until he ran for president in 2012


I'm pretty sure if I searched I could dig up plenty of times Trump was called racist by news outlets before 2012 and then we'd just get into an argument over what counts as a "major outlet"

I will say however that Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc mostly regurgitate stories being reported on from lesser publications. Not much of what they do is original journalism. Additionally a great deal of stuff they broadcast isn't actually news, but opinions.
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Mal_Fet
11/07/17 10:32:45 AM
#128:


ChromaticAngel posted...
I'm pretty sure if I searched I could dig up plenty of times Trump was called racist by news outlets before 2012 and then we'd just get into an argument over what counts as a "major outlet"

Go for it.

One person this entire topic actually did manage to find one: an opinion piece on NPR in April 2011. This was actually after Trump announced he would run for president, so while it sufficiently answer my question, it still confirms my point that the media will call people racist as soon as they run for the Republican candidacy, regardless if they actually are a racist.
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ChromaticAngel
11/07/17 10:37:24 AM
#129:


Mal_Fet posted...
ChromaticAngel posted...
I'm pretty sure if I searched I could dig up plenty of times Trump was called racist by news outlets before 2012 and then we'd just get into an argument over what counts as a "major outlet"

Go for it.

One person this entire topic actually did manage to find one: an opinion piece on NPR in April 2011. This was actually after Trump announced he would run for president, so while it sufficiently answer my question, it still confirms my point that the media will call people racist as soon as they run for the Republican candidacy, regardless if they actually are a racist.


I mean if that's the point you wanted to make "People get called racist when they run for president" why didn't you just start with that instead of making it specifically about Trump?
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Mal_Fet
11/07/17 10:41:22 AM
#130:


ChromaticAngel posted...
Mal_Fet posted...
ChromaticAngel posted...
I'm pretty sure if I searched I could dig up plenty of times Trump was called racist by news outlets before 2012 and then we'd just get into an argument over what counts as a "major outlet"

Go for it.

One person this entire topic actually did manage to find one: an opinion piece on NPR in April 2011. This was actually after Trump announced he would run for president, so while it sufficiently answer my question, it still confirms my point that the media will call people racist as soon as they run for the Republican candidacy, regardless if they actually are a racist.


I mean if that's the point you wanted to make "People get called racist when they run for president" why didn't you just start with that instead of making it specifically about Trump?

Because only the republican candidates get smeared as racist by the media, obviously.

The point I'm making is that the entire narrative that Trump is a racist is an invention by the media.
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Bio1590
11/07/17 10:42:00 AM
#131:


ChromaticAngel posted...
Mal_Fet posted...
ChromaticAngel posted...
I'm pretty sure if I searched I could dig up plenty of times Trump was called racist by news outlets before 2012 and then we'd just get into an argument over what counts as a "major outlet"

Go for it.

One person this entire topic actually did manage to find one: an opinion piece on NPR in April 2011. This was actually after Trump announced he would run for president, so while it sufficiently answer my question, it still confirms my point that the media will call people racist as soon as they run for the Republican candidacy, regardless if they actually are a racist.


I mean if that's the point you wanted to make "People get called racist when they run for president" why didn't you just start with that instead of making it specifically about Trump?

Because that would actually require Mal to make an honest argument.
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ChromaticAngel
11/07/17 10:45:54 AM
#132:


Mal_Fet posted...
Because only the republican candidates get smeared as racist by the media, obviously.

You've got to be fucking kidding me.
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Mal_Fet
11/07/17 10:50:14 AM
#133:


ChromaticAngel posted...
Mal_Fet posted...
Because only the republican candidates get smeared as racist by the media, obviously.

You've got to be fucking kidding me.

Like Trump, Romney, and McCain were? Absolutely not.

Name some Democrat presidential candidates in recent memory that the media relentlessly accused of racism.
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Balrog0
11/07/17 10:51:00 AM
#134:


Mal_Fet posted...
The point I'm making is that the entire narrative that Trump is a racist is an invention by the media.


plenty of people have opined about this since you asked that 'hard question,' though, so I don't get the topic title
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Balrog0
11/07/17 10:52:02 AM
#135:


Mal_Fet posted...
Like Trump, Romney, and McCain were? Absolutely not.

Name some Democrat presidential candidates in recent memory that the media relentlessly accused of racism.


I don't remember McCain or Romney being called racists
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Mal_Fet
11/07/17 10:54:50 AM
#136:


Balrog0 posted...
Mal_Fet posted...
The point I'm making is that the entire narrative that Trump is a racist is an invention by the media.


plenty of people have opined about this since you asked that 'hard question,' though, so I don't get the topic title

The topic title is regarding how leftists shut down when put on the spot. You can't really be put on the spot on a message board.

Balrog0 posted...
I don't remember McCain or Romney being called racists

So you don't remember when Joe Biden said that Romney wanted to put all black people "back in chains"

Or the media railing about how in the 70's Romney's church didn't allow black people, as if Romney is personally responsible for the state of Mormonism 50 years ago
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ChromaticAngel
11/07/17 10:54:52 AM
#137:


Balrog0 posted...
Mal_Fet posted...
Like Trump, Romney, and McCain were? Absolutely not.

Name some Democrat presidential candidates in recent memory that the media relentlessly accused of racism.


I don't remember McCain or Romney being called racists


At one point the Obama campaign directly tied McCain to the Civil Rights oppression during JFK's period but they later apologized.

Romney is literally a Mormon.
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Balrog0
11/07/17 10:58:50 AM
#138:


Mal_Fet posted...
So you don't remember when Joe Biden said that Romney wanted to put all black people "back in chains"


that isn't the media, and yes I do expect democrats to be race-baiters

Mal_Fet posted...
Or the media railing about how in the 70's Romney's church didn't allow black people, as if Romney is personally responsible for the state of Mormonism 50 years ago


I really don't

ChromaticAngel posted...
At one point the Obama campaign directly tied McCain to the Civil Rights oppression during JFK's period but they later apologized.


I thought that was John Lewis
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Mal_Fet
11/07/17 11:01:34 AM
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Eat More Beef
11/07/17 11:51:56 AM
#140:


Mal_Fet posted...
Balrog0 posted...
Mal_Fet posted...
The point I'm making is that the entire narrative that Trump is a racist is an invention by the media.


plenty of people have opined about this since you asked that 'hard question,' though, so I don't get the topic title

The topic title is regarding how leftists shut down when put on the spot. You can't really be put on the spot on a message board.

Balrog0 posted...
I don't remember McCain or Romney being called racists

So you don't remember when Joe Biden said that Romney wanted to put all black people "back in chains"

Or the media railing about how in the 70's Romney's church didn't allow black people, as if Romney is personally responsible for the state of Mormonism 50 years ago


...wait wait wait... the whole point of your argument is that the MSM keeps calling R-candidates racist, you disallow single people, or non-mainstream media from counting, yet you pull the "Joe Biden called him a racist so ot counts" card.

So, which is it then? Media or a singular person?
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ImTheMacheteGuy
11/07/17 12:01:57 PM
#141:


southcoast09 posted...
That sentence doesn't actually make any sense with your lack of punctuation.


Here I'll fix it for you. You send private messages to admin sballen asking for users to be banned. What does that make you?
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ImTheMacheteGuy
11/07/17 12:04:56 PM
#142:


Mal_Fet posted...
ChromaticAngel posted...
Mal_Fet posted...
Because only the republican candidates get smeared as racist by the media, obviously.

You've got to be fucking kidding me.

Like Trump, Romney, and McCain were? Absolutely not.

Name some Democrat presidential candidates in recent memory that the media relentlessly accused of racism.


On the daily show many years ago, before she ran for office herself, hillary Clinton was slammed by Jon Stewart for allegedly referring to a colleague as a "fucking Jew bastard"
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southcoast09
11/07/17 12:27:30 PM
#143:


ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
southcoast09 posted...
That sentence doesn't actually make any sense with your lack of punctuation.


Here I'll fix it for you. You send private messages to admin sballen asking for users to be banned. What does that make you?

Looks like this guy's done.
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Mal_Fet
11/07/17 12:36:23 PM
#144:


@Eat_More_Beef posted...

...wait wait wait... the whole point of your argument is that the MSM keeps calling R-candidates racist, you disallow single people, or non-mainstream media from counting, yet you pull the "Joe Biden called him a racist so ot counts" card.

So, which is it then? Media or a singular person?

Hey bro

Look one post above yours
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Kim Kusanagi
11/07/17 12:38:24 PM
#145:


southcoast09 posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
southcoast09 posted...
That sentence doesn't actually make any sense with your lack of punctuation.


Here I'll fix it for you. You send private messages to admin sballen asking for users to be banned. What does that make you?

Looks like this guy's done.


I don't know. He hasn't wrote to Allen begging for an IP ban yet.
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Eat More Beef
11/07/17 12:39:03 PM
#146:


@Mal_Fet posted...
@Eat_More_Beef posted...

...wait wait wait... the whole point of your argument is that the MSM keeps calling R-candidates racist, you disallow single people, or non-mainstream media from counting, yet you pull the "Joe Biden called him a racist so ot counts" card.

So, which is it then? Media or a singular person?

Hey bro

Look one post above yours


I see you posted articles, but that was your first example. Kinda flies in the face of your point.
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southcoast09
11/07/17 12:39:24 PM
#147:


Still salty over that "do you like Kim kusanagi" thread?

XD
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hockeybub89
11/07/17 12:39:44 PM
#148:


Yes, but why does Mal shut down when asked the hard questions?
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Kim Kusanagi
11/07/17 12:40:04 PM
#149:


southcoast09 posted...
Still salty over that "do you like Kim kusanagi" thread?

XD


Were you about your multiple ones payzmakr?
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southcoast09
11/07/17 12:42:20 PM
#150:


No, I thought they were funny.
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Mal_Fet
11/07/17 12:44:39 PM
#151:


Eat More Beef posted...
@Mal_Fet posted...
@Eat_More_Beef posted...

...wait wait wait... the whole point of your argument is that the MSM keeps calling R-candidates racist, you disallow single people, or non-mainstream media from counting, yet you pull the "Joe Biden called him a racist so ot counts" card.

So, which is it then? Media or a singular person?

Hey bro

Look one post above yours


I see you posted articles, but that was your first example. Kinda flies in the face of your point.

Lol what

Because my first example was Biden all the other shit that proves I'm right doesn't count?
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ImTheMacheteGuy
11/07/17 1:03:44 PM
#152:


southcoast09 posted...
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
southcoast09 posted...
That sentence doesn't actually make any sense with your lack of punctuation.


Here I'll fix it for you. You send private messages to admin sballen asking for users to be banned. What does that make you?

Looks like this guy's done.


Explain.
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