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[MajGenl.Meade]

Proof once again that warped minds think alike!
(but I have suspicions that someone other than you wrote the above comment, based on the way 'weird' is spelled - or is that the British spelling? ... )

AI fake quote! Joe Guy and Deeps Tate are one and the same!

[Burning Petard]

Where do collective nouns come from? Who declares them to be official? Everybody knows about a Murder of crows. But why a conspiracy of Lemurs? I got into a discussion of this with a group of people at the local Senior Center this morning. We had a good time sharing our ignorance. I suggested 'a foolishness of pedants.

Anybody know how I might suggest this to what ever English language authority how does this sort of thing?

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[MajGenl.Meade]

I came up with "a futility of Irish"

[Burning Petard]

Monday I read in the online NY Times an interview with a teacher in Baltimore who has been teaching Sex Ed there since 1986. She started with 11th & 12th graders. Now she has a curriculum going for the entire K thru 12. But there was a little comparison tossed in as a side remark that grabbed my attention. When she started the average classroom teacher in Baltimore had 15 years experience. Now it is THREE years.

That scares me.

snailgate

[Crackpot]

Is it bad the I almost want JD Vance to remain relevant just so I can see more of his character on South Park?

[Joe Guy]

Is it bad the I almost want JD Vance to remain relevant just so I can see more of his character on South Park?

It's okay because you only almost want Vance to remain relevant. (me too)

[Big RR]

Monday I read in the online NY Times an interview with a teacher in Baltimore who has been teaching Sex Ed there since 1986. She started with 11th & 12th graders. Now she has a curriculum going for the entire K thru 12. But there was a little comparison tossed in as a side remark that grabbed my attention. When she started the average classroom teacher in Baltimore had 15 years experience. Now it is THREE years.

That scares me.

snailgate

Scary indeed, but one of the "benefits" covid delivered; like other professionals, a lot of senior teachers left during or after the pandemic.

[MajGenl.Meade]

The attack on the Mormon church was despicable and extremely sad. OTOH, the good news for evangelicals is that no Christians were hurt.

(cynicism)

[Burning Petard]

God bless the Christian Nationalists. Jesus knows they need it.

snailgate.

[BoSoxGal]

Authoritarianism, fascism, tyranny - whatever you want to label it, it’s 0/5, WOULD NOT RECOMMEND!

[BoSoxGal]

I cried off and on all day today, even before I heard Jane Goodall died.

Where is this all heading? Is our country going to survive it?