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| (...) Keep on truckin', man! You gotta make the best out of school. They like to do it backwards here: instead of teaching you useful stuff and letting you practice it on your own, they have you perform a bunch of essentially meaningless tasks and (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people)
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| (...) I can answer this one... It's vacation week for Massachusetts (and coincidentally many other places). It's vacation week in MA because this is the week which contains Patriot's Day (April 19, nor the closest Monday to April 19). For other (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people)
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| (...) Uh, yeah, I noticed. I have a lot to rant about the US school system, and for that matter the Israeli one too. I do think the Israeli one (in which I spent most of my years) is slightly better, but not by much. The school I went to for the (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Good thing you're saying this in .fun, because it really is pretty funny. But if you're seriously espousing this line of thought instead of just being silly, take it up in .debate where it can be properly skewered. ++Lar (24 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people)
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| (...) Sorry, my public school was so poor they couldn't even afford to teach us how to express irony on a computer keyboard. Heck, we were lucky if we could find a computer and it even had enough working keys to type the word "irony". -Ph l (24 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Oh, I realise you were speaking ironically. My beef is more that you're speaking incorrectly from my viewpoint, and that you're espousing political opinions in an incendiary way in the wrong group. You (and Shiri) clearly have issues with the (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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