The Off Topic Topic

[Admiral Yi]

Okay, so still different than going to have them poke at your teeth and say all is good.

Something in your eye?

[garbon]

Okay, so still different than going to have them poke at your teeth and say all is good.

Something in your eye?

Beauty.

[Syt]

http://en.meow-share.com/test/newtest/4469/10153243827281272/20170525/en-img243.meow-share.com/index_new/?eva=meowshare-4469

I'm a 34 year old Texan.

[Valmy]

http://en.meow-share.com/test/newtest/4469/10153243827281272/20170525/en-img243.meow-share.com/index_new/?eva=meowshare-4469

I'm a 34 year old Texan.

Man I had no idea your vocabulary was so limited Syt

[11B4V]

Stupid cats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frh-y118akA

[Barrister]

Okay, so tonight's U8 soccer game saw the two teams from the same neighborhood play each other.  Which was fun, as I knew at least half of the kids on the other team.

Neither team is all that good.  My kid is pretty good, but he has a goalie obsession and begged the head coach (I'm an assistant) to be the goalie for the first half.  Into the second half and there's still no score.  In about the final minute or two Tim shows some determination and kicks one in the goal.  He then runs out to celebrate, and does "the dab".

The other coaches think it's hilarious.

Me, I had to google what the hell that even was.

[jimmy olsen]

Hell, I got wore out years ago taking the wife to a Feist concert.

Raymond E.?

Thought the exact same thing.

[jimmy olsen]

Okay, so tonight's U8 soccer game saw the two teams from the same neighborhood play each other.  Which was fun, as I knew at least half of the kids on the other team.

Neither team is all that good.  My kid is pretty good, but he has a goalie obsession and begged the head coach (I'm an assistant) to be the goalie for the first half.  Into the second half and there's still no score.  In about the final minute or two Tim shows some determination and kicks one in the goal.  He then runs out to celebrate, and does "the dab".

The other coaches think it's hilarious.

Me, I had to google what the hell that even was.

It's been pretty big for a couple of years now, an unusually long lived fad.

[Valmy]

Hey Tim any chance you could start getting excited about 3d Printing of animal products? I have this dream of becoming a vegan meat eater and leather wearer (shoes only, I don't wear leather pants) and showing militant vegans on the internet my juicy 3d printed steaks and would appreciate being kept abreast of developments

[Ed Anger]

My girls celebrate getting yellow carded.

[CountDeMoney]

Stupid cats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frh-y118akA

Focus is focus, man.  You walk up on your sniper team like that?

[CountDeMoney]

Ah, Texas.

Texas teachers give 'most likely to become a terrorist' award to 13-year-old
The Failing Washington Post
May 26, 2017

Seventh-grader Lizeth Villanueva has been in her school's academic honors program for two years. She gets good grades and has never been a discipline problem. Yet on Tuesday, her teacher gave her a "most likely to become a terrorist" award.

It was supposed to be a joke, part of a mock end-of-the-year awards ceremony at Anthony Aguirre Junior High in Channelview, Tex., near Houston, where a group of teachers hand certificates to students. Lizeth, 13, said her teacher "just laughed" when she signed and handed her the certificate, just one day after the Manchester arena terrorist attack in Britain.

But Lizeth's mother Ena Hernandez didn't find the award funny at all.

"I was upset and very mad when I saw the award," Hernandez told The Washington Post. "I was surprised because my daughter has been doing well in the honors program."

Lizeth, who is Salvadoran American, wasn't laughing either. Her emotion was one of shock, she said.

She said two honors classes were brought together for the fake ceremony. Other awards included "most likely to cry for every little thing" that was given to a girl and "most likely to become homeless" that was presented to a boy.

The three other teachers in the room laughed when the awards were handed out, according to Lizeth.

Channelview Independent School District spokesman Mark Kramer told KPRC the awards were a "poor attempt to poke fun" and it "wasn't well thought out."

Hernandez said the principal Eric Lathan personally apologized during a meeting at the school.

In a statement the school district said:

"The Channelview ISD Administration would like to apologize for the insensitive and offensive fake mock awards that were given to students in a classroom. Channelview ISD would like to assure all students, parents and community members that these award statements and ideals are not representative of the district's vision, mission and educational goals for our students.

"The teachers involved in this matter have been disciplined according to district policy and the incident is still under investigation."

Hernandez says she wants them fired or else "they will continue doing the same thing."

Lizeth hasn't been back to school because she "feels uncomfortable."

[Valmy]

Giving lame joke awards is not really a Texas thing. I blame outside agitators 

[The Minsky Moment]

Lizeth hasn't been back to school because she "feels uncomfortable."

I guess she was supposed to get the cry about every little thing one and there was a mixup?

[FunkMonk]

My girls celebrate getting yellow carded.