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06-08-2010, 12:06 PM
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Are you feeling out of touch with what's hot in the elementary school scene these days?
It's Silly Bandz. Silly Bandz and their ilk are all the rage at my kids' school right now. Their friends at other schools around town are also nuts about these things. So I just did a quick Google news search, and see that it's a phenomenon that's sweeping the nation. Now you know. What are Silly Bandz? Rubber bands in different shapes. You trade them with friends, and wear them on your wrist. Yesterday, after about two weeks of hearing about these things, I learned that at least one teacher has announced that he will confiscate any that he sees, the trading and bickering over them is too disruptive. That is all. |
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06-08-2010, 12:18 PM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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My nieces have, like, a kajillion of them! I got to meet each and every one of them individually (LOOK Aunt Shaw, it's a dog, it's a dolphin [no, i said, it's a shark] it's a turtle!)
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06-08-2010, 12:33 PM
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I'd make them wear them on their necks. tightly.
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06-08-2010, 12:37 PM
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Come on, cat.
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Some school have banned them. Gimme a friggin break.
 Last time I was at the mall I got the kids some glow in the dark ones, and some fruit scented ones. Cheap happiness.
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06-08-2010, 08:11 PM
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I hear them call the tide
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06-08-2010, 01:48 PM
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dollar stores have packs of them real cheap. Its a lot better than a lot of things.
The kids around here are trading them with each other too. I recently saw some with sports team logos instead of animals.
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06-08-2010, 07:01 PM
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Looking forward to open mic night.
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I remember the convos. we had about the superior Chinese work ethic, and I argued to support the quality of life we expect here in the united states. I am wondering now what our American friend working remotely in China thinks of the blessed over-worked and underpaid work ethic in China in light of the foxxconn suicides.
I was going to post the articles of the corporate fueled suicides in my weird news thread...but really it isn't weird considering their conditions "ethics".
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06-08-2010, 08:19 PM
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I think that the collecting and trading stuff--whether cards, toys, bracelets, or whatever can indeed be disruptive and distracting to kids in school. My BD#2 had to forbid any kind of trading--Pokeman, etc.-- for Grandson #1, because he would get into trouble with other kids over it, not pay attention in class, etc. That's a parental control, which is probably better than school control, but I can see the point.
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06-09-2010, 07:25 AM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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I, for one, am sick of children having fun! It's out of control.
Seriously, I'm trying to remember what would have been comparable in my childhood and I don't remember anything...it was even before Beanie Babies.
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06-09-2010, 10:34 AM
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06-09-2010, 10:44 AM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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06-09-2010, 10:25 AM
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Come on, cat.
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"We are writing to inform you of proposed modifications to your property frontage within the existing legal right-of-way along Main Street as part of the Borough's proposed Streetscape Project".
Bring it, bitches. Streetscape the fuck out the place for all I care.
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06-10-2010, 06:00 PM
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The plan to put in a traffic light - now that pisses me right the crap off. Not gonna allow that to happen without putting up a gigantic stink.
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