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« Reply #435 on: March 24, 2011, 07:07:48 PM » |
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If that's the case, he needs to be investigated for statutory rape.
I did date, briefly, a young woman who was a big fan of Hannah Montana, despite being 27 at the time. (Part of why it was only "briefly".) So I wasn't assuming that the owner of those pants would necessarily be under age. (Immature, definitely.) |
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« Reply #436 on: March 25, 2011, 05:37:27 PM » |
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If that's the case, he needs to be investigated for statutory rape.
I did date, briefly, a young woman who was a big fan of Hannah Montana, despite being 27 at the time. (Part of why it was only "briefly".) So I wasn't assuming that the owner of those pants would necessarily be under age. (Immature, definitely.) Hanna is now 18 and by all accounts is behaving like our tights-wearing students. At least, the ones who own bongs. |
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« Reply #437 on: March 25, 2011, 07:33:35 PM » |
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Did anybody else see the report about the new dictionary entries? "Muffin top" (which made me think about this thread) is one of them. (As is LOL, ROFL, and other text terms. How long before your students argue that using them in papers is okay because they appear in the dictionary?)
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« Reply #438 on: March 25, 2011, 10:18:33 PM » |
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Yesterday on campus I saw a female student wearing a button-up jean shirt and thigh-high neon purple leather boots. She *may* have been wearing shorts, but if so, they were not long enough to appear below the bottom of the shirt. Oh, and the high temperature yesterday was 36 degrees Fahrenheit.
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« Reply #439 on: March 25, 2011, 11:07:38 PM » |
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Did anybody else see the report about the new dictionary entries? "Muffin top" (which made me think about this thread) is one of them. (As is LOL, ROFL, and other text terms. How long before your students argue that using them in papers is okay because they appear in the dictionary?)
OMG is another, according to the CNN study. OMG, indeed. |
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« Reply #440 on: March 26, 2011, 07:38:33 AM » |
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Did anybody else see the report about the new dictionary entries? "Muffin top" (which made me think about this thread) is one of them. (As is LOL, ROFL, and other text terms. How long before your students argue that using them in papers is okay because they appear in the dictionary?)
OMG is another, according to the CNN study. OMG, indeed. "Ain't" is also in the dictionary. Anybody allow it in formal writing? Anybody? |
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« Reply #441 on: March 28, 2011, 01:44:46 PM » |
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Did anybody else see the report about the new dictionary entries? "Muffin top" (which made me think about this thread) is one of them. (As is LOL, ROFL, and other text terms. How long before your students argue that using them in papers is okay because they appear in the dictionary?)
OMG is another, according to the CNN study. OMG, indeed. "Ain't" is also in the dictionary. Anybody allow it in formal writing? Anybody? No. Because modern dictionaries are not prescriptivist. But you can be dam*ed sure that I am. |
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« Reply #442 on: March 29, 2011, 01:29:21 PM » |
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Students need to be more aware of the weather.
Yesterday it was 83 and muggy, today it's 20 degrees cooler with a nice breeze. There are lots of girls in short-shorts and tank tops shivering as they walk from class to class.
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« Reply #443 on: March 29, 2011, 02:38:50 PM » |
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Students need to be more aware of the weather.
Yesterday it was 83 and muggy, today it's 20 degrees cooler with a nice breeze. There are lots of girls in short-shorts and tank tops shivering as they walk from class to class.
There's two reasons for this. Either . . . Yesterday on campus I saw a female student wearing a button-up jean shirt and thigh-high neon purple leather boots. She *may* have been wearing shorts, but if so, they were not long enough to appear below the bottom of the shirt. Oh, and the high temperature yesterday was 36 degrees Fahrenheit.
In which case, fashion (ease of sexual access?) statements trump weather. Or . . . Being aware of the weather would require accessing something other than facebook or watching something other than Jersey Shore. |
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« Reply #444 on: March 29, 2011, 08:28:00 PM » |
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Students need to be more aware of the weather.
Yesterday it was 83 and muggy, today it's 20 degrees cooler with a nice breeze. There are lots of girls in short-shorts and tank tops shivering as they walk from class to class.
There's two reasons for this. Either . . . Yesterday on campus I saw a female student wearing a button-up jean shirt and thigh-high neon purple leather boots. She *may* have been wearing shorts, but if so, they were not long enough to appear below the bottom of the shirt. Oh, and the high temperature yesterday was 36 degrees Fahrenheit.
In which case, fashion (ease of sexual access?) statements trump weather. Or . . . Being aware of the weather would require accessing something other than facebook or watching something other than Jersey Shore. I'd guess that it's actually the first. When I was dating in college, I went to an Easter service in which my girlfriend was singing. She was the only woman in the church wearing a wool skirt (mid-calf), fleece-lined boots, blouse with heavy sweater, and an overcoat. Everyone else in this small Pennsylvania church was wearing some light, spring/summer-weight, Easter dress. Yes, I know the calendar said "Easter", but the weather said "cold, snowy, and inappropriate for lightweight clothing without a heavy topcoat." |
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« Reply #445 on: March 30, 2011, 01:30:17 AM » |
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I've gotten used to seeing students walking around our campus on rainy days without umbrellas wearing cotton sweatshirts and jeans, even when it has been raining for four or five days straight. At that point, they can't possibly be surprised by the weather - just incapable or unwilling to prepare for it.
For the most part, they dress casually but respectably here, so no thong content in this post.
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« Reply #446 on: March 30, 2011, 07:52:59 AM » |
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Students need to be more aware of the weather.
Yesterday it was 83 and muggy, today it's 20 degrees cooler with a nice breeze. There are lots of girls in short-shorts and tank tops shivering as they walk from class to class.
There's two reasons for this. Either . . . Yesterday on campus I saw a female student wearing a button-up jean shirt and thigh-high neon purple leather boots. She *may* have been wearing shorts, but if so, they were not long enough to appear below the bottom of the shirt. Oh, and the high temperature yesterday was 36 degrees Fahrenheit.
In which case, fashion (ease of sexual access?) statements trump weather. Or . . . Being aware of the weather would require accessing something other than facebook or watching something other than Jersey Shore. I'd guess that it's actually the first. When I was dating in college, I went to an Easter service in which my girlfriend was singing. She was the only woman in the church wearing a wool skirt (mid-calf), fleece-lined boots, blouse with heavy sweater, and an overcoat. Everyone else in this small Pennsylvania church was wearing some light, spring/summer-weight, Easter dress. Yes, I know the calendar said "Easter", but the weather said "cold, snowy, and inappropriate for lightweight clothing without a heavy topcoat." I'm not so sure about that. My students have no problem dressing like Admiral Peary attempting the North Pole when it's a mere 60 degrees outside--I'm amazed at the parkas and such my students wear when I'm not even wearing socks. I think it's just that they figure the weather won't change once it settles in. I'm not so sure about the rain/no umbrella or coat thing though. It's pouring today, has been since before daybreak, and so far I'm the only one with an umbrella that I've seen. |
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« Reply #447 on: April 13, 2011, 10:17:48 AM » |
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More interesting observations on the attire and presentation of students...
They had an exam this morning in one of my larger lecture classes. One female student has a habit of running her fingers through her long bangs. It takes her about 1 second to run through the hair once and she did 7-8 passes every 10 seconds. Considering that she used the full class period for the exam*, she ran her fingers through her bangs about 350 times.
*No problem with that. Most students are double and triple checking their work in the last 10 minutes.
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« Reply #448 on: April 13, 2011, 10:37:52 AM » |
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Students need to be more aware of the weather.
Yesterday it was 83 and muggy, today it's 20 degrees cooler with a nice breeze. There are lots of girls in short-shorts and tank tops shivering as they walk from class to class.
Oh, but I can relate to this: If you live in an apartment/room somewhere upstairs you judge the weather by what it was like the day before and what it "looks like". Then you get dressed accordingly. By the time you get down the stairs and actually FEEL the weather you are already late for class and it would take a couple of minutes to go back up and change. So you don't. Perfectly logical! |
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« Reply #449 on: April 10, 2012, 07:17:44 PM » |
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Bringing back the Thong Watch for a very important question.
Is anyone else facing a barrage of leggings-as-pants? Leggings worn not under skirts or dresses, but as pants, with a short or regular length shirt, so that the shape of the wearer's butt, hips, and thighs are extremely well outlined? Is this outbreak occurring only here, or is this a widespread (get it?) thing?
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