so I don't think I included as much in my last entry as I would have
hoped. Normally I just store all this shit in my brain and then never
access it till I start typing the entry, and then it all comes back in
crystal clear video, but I spent most of the day wracking my brain thinking
about the class I had just been in (this is Saturday...yes I have a class
on Saturday, it is a decision I regret).
Saturday I have Western Civilization II where we go over stuff from about
the 1500's to modern civilization, and right now we're at the
Congress of Vienna, where most of Europe got together to decide how the
German states would be dealt with after Napoleon was just exiled.
Since I missed the week prior's class though, I was not assigned a
country for this project (it's an actual project where we get to play
the role of the countries) and I ended up getting stuck with Russia. Of the
people in the group 1 is a kid that lives right down the street from me,
and growing up he was homeschooled through graduation I guess, I don't
know I didn't talk to him past 7th grade. Mostly because his parents
are like crazy child-beating, close minded, Christians, who told my mom
shortly after my parents were divorced that my brother and I would probably
end up in jail for not having a father figure. Though I did manage to get
them back one day when Paul, the student in question, was out playing with
us and I picked up a curved stick and hucked it at his face, and then said
I was thought it would work like a boomerang.
Anyways
Paul is one of the students in my group, but the other important student is
a woman about 30-40 years old, who has the face and appearance of one of
the porno actresses who does the really gross stuff.
You'll understand that last comment later.
So Paul is a self proclaimed genius in all things historical, and I'm
sure he actually is pretty smart, but he throws it around like he's
some fucking doctor on the subject, interrupting lectures and asking if
such and such battle was happening at that time as well. So he starts
talking to us about his great great ancestor who was a French soldier under
Napoleon, and after failing in Russia had to ride a single horse alone back
to his country after he was seperated. Paul is going into great detail
about this shit saying the guy kept a personal journal and I'm a
pretty good liar so I can tell when someone is making up stuff because I
have some of the same tells and I can tell when someone is just a little
too confident about something. So he starts telling us that this guy had to
carve off flanks from his horse to eat, but the catch is that he's
still riding the horse back to Europe, so he's eating live animal
meat.
Fucking bogus.
Anyways, the other student, the woman, she says, "that's
terrible, I don't think I would hobble my only means of transportation
when there are plenty of good dead people around to eat."
I fucking kid you not.
I asked if she would ever really eat someone and she replies that carving
off hunks of meat from the butt is a perfectly fine alternative to eating
your transportation.
She then says, and this is all in small group discussion with only 2 other
students present, but they're in as much shock, well probably a little
more, than I am. She says, "heck I'd eat excrement before it came
to that."
WHAAAT??
"it's one of those things where, like coffee, it smells worse
than it tastes."
No, coffee is nothing like eating shit. Sorry, that is definitely not a
factual statement.
The other people in the group did that sort of raise your eyebrows where in
your head you're thinking, "this n!gga is fucked up!"
So I just wanted to post that little addendum to my last journal.
As for my class today, I had Journalism Ethics in the Media, or whatever
the official title is, basically we talk about what is right and wrong to
print.
Today's topic was on first ammendment rights, and she presented us
with the Nuremberg case, where someone hosted a website with the names of
doctors, assistants, clinic owners, politicians, judges, police officers,
and even wives of doctors, who are involved with abortion clinics (i.e.
doctors who perform surgeries, assistants who work in clinics, politicians
who are pro-choice, and police officers who arrest protestors at clinics).
The point is, the person who hosts the site says that these people are as
bad as the Nazi's in the Nuremberg trials.
She asks if it's ethically right, and how it is legally right. I bring
up Hal Turner, and how his website has the name of politicians and judges
who support affirmative action and all that shit, simply because over the
Christmas break I was hanging on 4chan and 7chan all the time keeping up on
the raids on his website. Everyone in the class is looking at me, and I
know they are probably wondering why I know so much about White
Supremacists and why I was on a website like this.
Later in the class she tells us we are the editor of a campus news paper
and a man approaches our paper saying he will pay us 1000$ to print an
advertisement for his website where he has games to play and shit like
that, but the premise behind his site is that the Holocaust never
happened.
Nobody wanted to run the advertisement.
Nobody except me. She upped the price even to 10,000$ for a full page
advertisement and the most anyone else would do would be to run it with a
disclaimer or with a series of articles on how Jewish people felt about
people who believe this stuff. I was the only person who was willing to run
the ad as is, with no disclaimers.
I got stares from people all around the room, and since the room is setup
with a round table in the middle and a ring of chairs around that it was
like everyone thought I was total White Supremacist.
lulz
It didn't help that later I got in a discussion between the phrases
Pro-Life and Anti-Abortion, saying that if those who support a woman's
choice can have the positive connotation of Pro-Choice, then those who
support an unborn fetus' right to life should get the positive
connotation of Pro-Life. Some stupid broad sitting next to me tried to say
that it was just Pro-Choice and Anti-Abortion.
Thinking back on it I should have just said I was a member of the regressiv
e party.
Anyways, I took my car to the shop this morning and he said it just needs a
new thermometer or something. I asked him about the chain rattling sound
that comes from the back right wheel but he said not to worry about it.
posted by kogneto on Monday 26th February 2007, 19:02:27
Thermostat gnoob. Your car needs a thermostat. It's like one of the
easiest fixes on a passenger car.
Ask for the old one back so
you can do a quick science experiment with it.
Put the old
t-stat in a pan of water on top of the stove. Boil the water & watch
the stat as the water gets close to boiling. The thermostat will begin to
open just prior to the water coming to 212 deg-F.
If the t-stat
stays closed & the water boils, for sure it's busted. Even if it
opens there's a possibility that it's still dead.
What is more important is if changing the part fixed the problem. Did
the shop also flush & service the system?
i meant to ask him to but he poured in a shitload of coolant
like the other night i didn't know if it needed more coolant so i
added some and then held a flashlight up to the container and i had
added way more than the Max limit, so then today before i left i
noticed that i had never even put the cap back on where you pour in
the coolant, so i held a flashlight up to it and i couldn't see
any coolant, so i added some more and held the flashlight up and it
was even more coolant than before so i'm thinking i just
didn't have the flashlight on there right. so then i take it to
the place and he asks me to pop the hood and opens the radiator cap
and says it's really low so he poured in a shit load, had me
start up the car, and then poured in even more, so basically if
anything was stuck in there, there's enough coolant to clean that
bitch out
With response to that holocaust ad, I'd hesitate a bit on that because
I'd need to gauge what effect the ad might have on the
newspaper's reputation, how much flak I'd have to deal with,
whether I'd be fired by people trying to maintain good PR, and all
that annoying crap. $1000 really isn't a whole lot for a lot of
irritation.
Then again, publicity is publicity. People who are opposed to the ad can
pay for an even bigger ad in the newspaper.
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