The Random Talk About Nothing Thread

[Alison]

HAHA! Battle-ready-armor! Oh those days!

[Loken]

Is it just me or are kids in kidergarten to 4th grade way mean to eachother? I have always heard of social divisions in highschool, but I remember kids being ruthless in the early grades.
Just saying hi to someone that you don't hangout with usually ended up in mean words, and hurtfulness. I can hang out and talk to anybody in highschool, but back in the day those kids would have ripped my head off.

[Dashe]

My compulsory education experience was actually the opposite of yours. All the way up until fourth grade, I could pretty much just walk up and talk to and hang out with whomever I wanted without anything bad happening. Then in fourth grade everyone just decided to all gang up on me (I still don't know why to this day), and I was stuck with that same group of kids picking on me all the way up until I graduated from high school, with a group of about four genuinely consistent friends that I wouldn't have traded for anything (and still wouldn't today). I actually used to beg my mom to let me transfer out of the district because aside from my friends, everyone else was pretty awful. :24: And they all kind of looked the same, too. Especially the girls. I actually came back to the town where I grew up and found that pretty much all the girls there still looked like carbon clones of each other, only with different graduation numbers on their modified (read: skankified) class T-shirts.

It was very weird going back there after being gone for so long. The teachers were all the same, and I kept seeing former classmates pop up on the streets, but not one of them recognized me at all. I stood in line to get into Target on Black Friday behind my former art teacher of three years and he even turned around at one point to lecture his kid for begging to come along with him and then whining about being tired of standing in line. It was like I half expected to see the Ghost of Christmas Present standing behind me in line going "Sorry, they can't actually see you. "

I think the coup de grace, though, was when my sister and I were shopping about a week ago and found one of my old classmates--a guy who'd been in most of my actual classes for roughly five years--working at another big store, and I bet her a soda that he wouldn't recognize me. They talked for about ten minutes and he never noticed it was me. Easiest soda I ever won.

[Loken]

Did you go to a big school? I live in a town of 3,000, and have maybe 500 kids in our school. Maybe being forced to be around eachother constantly has made us friendlier.
If there ever was a place to see every bit of the human nature it would be at school.

[Dashe]

Our class had about 390 in it. I ranked 13th academically, with a pool of about 50 straight-up all-honors-class students. Many of them were very snobby and cliquey and we all wound up constantly in the same classes from grade 8 onward. It was especially competitive when it came to who would make the top ten--I didn't want any part of the race, believe it or not. I was just focused on getting out of town to begin with. There was actually a load of cheating and foul play involved behind the race for salutatorian, which wound up with a greasy sleaze making the grade after allegedly sweet-talking an AP calc teacher into boosting his grades enough to put him in the #2 spot so he could get into Harvard. His speech at graduation was abysmal, and the girl who would have been #2 if he hadn't cheated was just as bad.

All of my good friends were in the general classes, where the bullies were much, much less subtle. If I'd been in there with them I doubt I'd have made it out of high school in one piece at all. The school had to have had around 1500 students total, but I couldn't say how many there are now.

[Loken]

That sounds pretty rough, I guess my school is alot more laid back, no really fights except over GF/BF stuff(and those are just the sleezballs). A good half of the school just shoots for the middle. I thought my school would be so much better if everyone tried hard but I suppose not.
I have never wanted to move from where I lived because I fear bigger cities and stuff like that, the idea of a suburb or a fancy colledge scares me. In all honesty your school sounds scary.
But your done there.

[Dashe]

Yep, I'm done there and only ever going back for a good laugh. It feels great to reject all their friend requests on Facebook, too. You know, back when they actually let you reject them instead of go, "Ehh, maybe later..."

[Mikéy]

That certainly was a random explanation of Dashe's tale of high school. I can't wait till the present days of high school actually mean something someday. :24:

MY TURN AGAIN!


He shot the robber!




Edit: Direct Link to the Backin' Up Song.

[Loken]

Yep good stuff, (although I have never had a facebook)

Anyway, you guys do any christmas shopping yet? I got my mom a paper shredder, my dad a AC/DC CD, my friend Dee two starwars action figures, and my girlfriend a Harry Potter DS game.

[VolnuttChan]

I did Christmas shopping today!

~Got stuff for the siblings' gifts and have made them. (A pin-backed fabric rose-thing for my oldest brother and a slightly-better version of the T. Bonne pin I made for my sister. (Sorry Dashe. I made another one. Only this time it's bigger. And stuffed with a clean Kleenex tissue.)) I've yet to make/get anything for my mom, dad, second brother, bffs, and my non-existent boyfriend.
~Got stuff for two cosplays to finish. (Default Tron and Lan Hikari)
~And I got Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, so that over the summer my brain will still hurt from being overworked.

I just wish that season two of Kaleido Star was out now so that after Christmas, I could go buy both seasons and enjoy the sparkly circus-ness that is said anime. Which, I will say now, is like CRACK. Plus SUGAR. To make CRAGAR! OR SUACK! caffeine. Yeah... :24:

[Dashe]

I bought stuff for everyone but my least favorite aunt. She got a potholder from my mom's 'stuff I bought from the dollar store but still don't know what to do with' box. She was always the Gifts Instead of Money sort of person to start with, and she can never just buy something and give it away with no explanation, so I'd always wind up not only getting crap, but getting crap and having to listen to her talk about it and effectively waste a good half hour out of my day.

My favorite aunt got earrings. She gets earrings from me every year in a tradition I unwittingly started in kindergarten, when I got her earrings and she thought they were the greatest things in the world, thus perpetuating a cycle of earring-buying that has yet to run out, except the one year I decided to get her a box to put them in. My mom also got earrings, but I split that with my sister because they were really expensive earrings.

[Loken]

I forgot to get my brother something, so I'm gonna go buy him the Other Guys tomorrow.

[VolnuttChan]

Don't tell me the thread went ka-put before Christmas!! Darn it!!! :01:

This is what happens when I start being active on other sites, I swear.

[Loken]

Yup, all your fault. Nah I would have kept the thread running but no double posting ya know. Anyway here's a video of every anime opening ever

[VolnuttChan]

:20: :33:

How dare they not put any Utena bits in there! How dare they!! (Granted, Utena's a bit..... hardcore in subtext/underlying meaning..... but that doesn't mean it's not worthy of something as awesome as that!

I am disappointed now.