it's true, and people wonder where i get my amazing dancing skills and i can't even explain it b/c it's some 'lost highway' shit
― omar little, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
this is america
xp
― goole, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
(frantic search for that 80s snl sketch)
― iatee, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
yr highland dancing is A+, Omar/Laurel
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/10/my-strange-addiction-cars_n_1268798.html
― some dude, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
why do you need a car to lose your virginity?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, March 2, 2012 2:51 PM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark
nsfw http://dallaspenn.com/pics/albums/album01/tailpipelover.jpg
― flagp∞st (dayo), Friday, 2 March 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd1GwV5G5Vo
― some dude, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
just the Soup clip of that Strange Addiction car guy was hella weird. Dude fully making out with the bumper of his car while lying underneath it o_O
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
and it's not like had a hot Buick Grand National or an old Charger or something...it was like a freaking Taurus or a LeSabre or something super lame
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
"She may not be the girl some/ men think of as prettyBut to my heart, she carries the key."
― goole, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
Andrew WK enthuses abt that dude in the most recent issue of the stranger: "That's an amazing passion to have."
― Totes le Héros (contenderizer), Friday, 2 March 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
full context:
Have you seen the show about people with fetishes? One is about a guy who's in love with his car. He's fully amorous.People are capable of having romantic and erotic feelings for automobiles. There's J. G. Ballard's book Crash, and the movie, which explores that to some degree. Although it's not quite as literal as people wanting to have intercourse with the car. That's an amazing passion to have.There's another episode about a guy who's sexually into balloons. He blows them up and has mini orgasms when they pop. Do you think these people are real or is the show staged? You should see the guy into cars kiss his front bumper like it's a mouth. It was like a Civic hatchback.I think they're real. Human beings are pretty limitless.
People are capable of having romantic and erotic feelings for automobiles. There's J. G. Ballard's book Crash, and the movie, which explores that to some degree. Although it's not quite as literal as people wanting to have intercourse with the car. That's an amazing passion to have.
There's another episode about a guy who's sexually into balloons. He blows them up and has mini orgasms when they pop. Do you think these people are real or is the show staged? You should see the guy into cars kiss his front bumper like it's a mouth. It was like a Civic hatchback.
I think they're real. Human beings are pretty limitless.
― Totes le Héros (contenderizer), Friday, 2 March 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
do yourself a favor and never search for balloon fetishists on youtube
― flagp∞st (dayo), Friday, 2 March 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
lol, thanks for the tip. love awk, but have to admit that his crowleyist embrace of "human potential" in all its manifestations sometimes seems a bit unnerving. suppose that's the point...
― Totes le Héros (contenderizer), Friday, 2 March 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
andrew wk is such a positivity zombie that i wouldn't be surprised if he's super duper proud of james hooker for following his bliss
― some dude, Friday, 2 March 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
Are you me??
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Friday, March 2, 2012 1:10 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
was your town kind of terribly conservative and ass backwards?
― omar little, Friday, March 2, 2012 1:13 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Twins!
http://oi40.tinypic.com/fypsa1.jpg
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Friday, 2 March 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
(OK, starting to regret that...)
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Friday, 2 March 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 2 March 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
eye in the sky
― the late great, Friday, 2 March 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
had an interesting reverse situation at my junior high. A very attractive female teacher, who was young and dressed young, teaching 7th graders. It was kind of a chaos of hormones. I heard she eventually quit because of constant harassment. (she simply couldn't keep control of her classes and her authority was never taken seriously.) a very crummy situation for her.
― ryan, Friday, 2 March 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
my 12th grade english teacher eventually got fired for having a relationship with a student. i think she was 24ish at the time? they ended up continuing the relationship after he graduated and she was fired.
i always was completely creped out by the whole thing, but the weirdest part was seeing her at parties with the dude and having to call her t1ffany or t1ff (shudder) instead of mrs. R
― ಠ﹏ಠ (diamonddave85), Friday, 2 March 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
gross
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
I've had former teachers and one principal attempt to friend me on Facebook. I turn them down because (A) I wasn't really interested in striking up any connection with them then, so why would I want to now? and (B) even though I'm now in my late 30s and they're in their late 40s/early 50s, it's still a little skeevy.
To me, at least.
― pplains, Friday, 2 March 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
Though my mom posts pictures of her granddaughter (my daughter) and there suddenly appears all of these 14-year-olds coming out of the woodwork to say, "Oh she's so cute Mrs. R!"
Maybe it's a thing now.
― pplains, Friday, 2 March 2012 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
My best friend is a teacher and she goes under an assumed name on FB so that her students can't find her. She's already had to change it once.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
I had 14 year old girls on my bus ask me if I was on Facebook. I told them no. That was the truth, but even if I were on Facebook, I still would have told them no.
― Aimless, Friday, 2 March 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
I couldn't think of anything more horrifying than being FB friends with students
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
being linkedin friends with them...
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 2 March 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
i know at least one teacher and one principal who got fired after students found photos of them partying on facebook and showed their parents
― the late great, Friday, 2 March 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
that is some bullshit.
otoh FB is evil so you get what you deserve I guess
― be scientific, douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 March 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
partying is a fireable offense, though?
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 2 March 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
if parents get upset enough, you will be fired, doesn't matter what it's about.
― be scientific, douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 March 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
^^
― bron paul (k3vin k.), Friday, 2 March 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
amen
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
well, otm, I mean
teacher's unions power must be waning if they can't even fight for your right to party.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 2 March 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
I'm FB friends with a few of my H.S. teachers.
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Friday, 2 March 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
the argument from the school's point of view is that it can lead to changes in how the students view you as an individual, to the point where it becomes a substantial distraction to learning, undermines your authority (pedagogical and ethical) in the classroom, undermines other people's trust in you, etc
to get around the work/non-work distinction and teacher's unions what they usually do is transfer you to a different school and give you an administrative job. the principal i know was eventually rehired as a teacher at a different site.
― the late great, Friday, 2 March 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
speaking of strong teacher's unions, i've heard that in NYC the union is so strong, and the wheels of justice turn so slowly that there's a room full of suspended teachers at each district office who are basically sitting around reading newspapers - while collecting full pay - for months and months while the district looks into whatever allegations caused the suspension. the person who told me the story told me that some of those people have been there for years.
― the late great, Friday, 2 March 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
I read an article about that, but I have no idea where it was.
― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 2 March 2012 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
man, la dolce vita
― omar little, Friday, 2 March 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, there was a story about it in the New Yorker a few years ago. xp
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Friday, 2 March 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i had a friend in the rubber room. she was eventually vindicated (her boss hated her & filed a report out of spite) but yeah you have to report to the rubber room every day (there's many sites over the city) like a regular job and just sit there.
― rayuela, Friday, 2 March 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
It's like teacher detention!
― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 2 March 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
i read mention of that in an article abt a teacher who had done ... something. what was it?
oh, wait, he punched snooki
― Totes le Héros (contenderizer), Friday, 2 March 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
I guess they're gone in nyc: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/education/29rubber.html
― rob, Friday, 2 March 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
so... standard british class system nonsense
Ha, we had a head boy and head girl too. It was just the equivalent of the US student council presidency.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 2 March 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
she was embarassed about being in the rubber room and anytime we talked about it in public, if i even started to say "ru-" she would go SHHHHHHHHHH and look around to make sure no one heard.
― rayuela, Friday, 2 March 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
rubber room --- we're not still talking about fucking the students, are we?
― pplains, Friday, 2 March 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
There were plenty of rumours/stories about violent teachers at my school (which I think were probably mostly true since I got "assaulted" (physically not sexually) by 2 teachers while I was there, and tbh this wasn't that long after corporal punishment was supposed to have been banned) but none whatsoever about sexual assault. Lots of stories about sexual abuse between older and younger students tho, all in the past though, never witnessed anything like that, I guess that's a lol public school?
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Friday, 2 March 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link