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Okay, here's what you do for this game: You have to "ban" the person who posted above you for an outrageous, silly, or funny reason. Got it?
Banned because it's an appalling shame that you have to put in that "old school" tag.
J.J. Abrams doesn't seem to hate writing like Bay does, but what he did in that Not Trek movie...gah! It is almost miraculous how much I hate that film given how much I liked parts of the dialog and most of the cast. Chris Pine could eat crackers in my bed any time, but I wish he and the rest of the crew had managed to work a new director into their multi-picture deals.
Banned because the ACT is really a very poorly-designed test.
banned for first movie. didn't see second.
I'll watch it, but I don't really get into it.
I concur
Just took the GRE. Feel the same way. Maybe it's cause I'm calm and get the logic of tests, but for some reason they always seem weak in their design. For example, I just scored well over my requirements for the mathematics section of the GRE, but I'm generally a bad student on the subject. I know which questions I got wrong and in any typical class I wouldn't make it above the 80s in score, but for some reason you can make an appalling performance with the GRE and still come out ahead.
Felt the same way about the SAT.
Banned because I took the GRE while I was finishing my bachelor's at a school that doesn't give grades at all, just narrative evaluations. The irony was striking.
My guess is that both you & Scoutdog simply suffer from both strong test-taking skills and a decent insight into your own limitations. I very much doubt that any test based on multiple-choice answers can be a truly strong assessment of student skills and knowledge. The problem you're complaining about actually makes me drive down my 'hourly rate' because I make my students and myself deal with far more writing than the college bureaucracy requires. I'm never really confident that I've helped someone learn until I can see it in writing.
Banned because I'm going to be singing in a choir on National TV in Britain in memory of those who died on and because of 9/11 tomorrow.
Furthermore hoping that no fucked-up Islamic fundamentalists try to "commemorate" 9/11 their own way.
Banned because it's been 10 years. That's not healthy, and it's doing the political environment no favors.
And ever since they ganked off Bin Laden, Qaeda's been on the move. I know these sorts of things usually have a kind of lag, but the cause and effect is almost too obvious.
JA: Banned for not answering Draak's question about your (non sequitur?) gun reference.
Sareth: Banned for I'm married, you sonoma beach! *Slap*
Swicord: Banned for a joke about brandishing your 9 Mil attached to your crotch to the cops.
banned for talk to the hand.
As for testing, that might be a good summation of it. As an English major with a history minor, I feel I got plenty of writing in. Had maybe one multiple choice final in my whole major. So it's not always lacking. I think the problem with SATs, GREs, et al is that they need to be both objective and strive for accessibility to all post-graduate programs. It inherently doesn't balance out any way you cut it.
As for commemorating 9/11, I don't know if I would say it's unhealthy, but most countries or cultures celebrate major events. Independence Day, Easter, Guy Fawkes Day, etc. It's common and any sociological health associated with it is probably as up for debate as anything else.
banned for I love the Jewish 9/11 theory. It means I both knew about it AND I have Jew gold hidden somewhere.
Where's my Jew gold?!?
Banned for having a heart. Send our thanks for the participation.
Banned because I'm hard-hearted.
Banned because in Britain there is increasingly a drive for terrorism to be viewed as a crime, not an act of war. Anti-terrorism is becoming more associated with the police rather than the military, which is quite right IMO, as they're the ones fighting any acts of terrorism should they potentially occur.
BTW did you know that Britain will be treating the terrorist threat level as "severe" for the 2012 Olympic games?
Banned because I hope you're not referencing the nonsensical color-bar thingamajobber us Yanks have to look at every time we go to the airport....
Banned because we don't get a colour bar, it just gets announced when it changes.
banned for Olympic games are always places for such security. Despite the history of the games, there have been a few people in modern times that have tried to use them as a forum for politics or violence. That and there's a lot of people from abroad that would make for a helluva international incident should they get hurt.
Banned because that's a terribly good point. The Olympics have been politicized since the 30s, if not earlier, and probalby always will be. And where there is politics, there will be political extremists.
banned for recognizing a valid point.
How many posts do you think will pass before we go from meaningful conversation to word association and rhymes?
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