Happy Easter (for thursday-friday)

Once upon a time, there were rabbits and eggs...

...and a hot goddess called Eostre/Ishtar/Ostara. She is the goddess of fertility. Since rabbits reproduce like mad, and take my word for it, for I own a particularly horny male rabbit, the rabbit is one of her symbols. (ref needed)
Eggs, for obvious reasons. But also—the moon, and a basket for the womb.

Anyways, originally a pagan holiday, Christians adopted it in order to, of course, convert more people, why else.
Companies added their 20th of a cent, so now its a christian and very chocolaty holiday. After Halloween, Easter is the holiday where we consume the most candy/chocolate.

Oh, and get shocked by this familiar piece of work. Bootsch bootsch bootsch bootsch

WTF does a bunny have to do with electrons? It looks like a pink panther gone wrong.

Ah, but wait, there's more! Energizer Bunny is in America. In Europe and Australia, there is—no shit included—the Duracell Bunny!


How traumatizing. Look closely, that rabbit is creepy. It's saying: Oh, look at where I'm gonna shove this...I'm gonna power you up real good.

Easy-going EasterBunny Rap:

On another note, English class—nah, the whole day—was a breeze. Movies, or what students call "filler tasks" were the order of the day. For Spanish class, we actually got a TIT (teacher-in-training) who was formerly from College Saint-Anne. (Our competition)
The initial reaction was Hi-larious. It was like, huh? you from CSA? Oh you gonna getta hurt real bad. But no, she was nice, and smart. She started imeadiately with some ass kissing; she knew she needed to say something to get our attention, and calm our excitement. She told us how nice we are compared to other students, and that CSA and CSL are pretty similar, with HUMOR no less. For a substitute teacher, substituting for the last period, of the last day before a long weekend, she did admirably.

Teachers are pretty much all CSL has left that excels, glad to see we still have that, mostly intact.

A letter...

Note: This article is addressed to our English teacher, in hopes that she will read this and we will come to an understanding. We encourage our followers to read this part of the article too because hopefully they will also learn to respect our teacher’s opinion too.

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Dear English teacher,

We, the ensemble of writers for this blog, are sorry to say that we will not acquiesce to any further of your requests to modify the article we write simply because you demand it. We have made certain reasonable concessions. We understand why you would want to have those things removed (image, name, derogatory terms, etc.), but we did it out of respect for your person and not because we are obligated under any federal law to do so. By asking us to remove any references to you, we consider you have crossed the boundary of what is reasonable.

We are entitled to our opinion as long as we respect yours. We have proven we do respect your opinion and your person by accepting to delete some more personal things we have posted and apologize for any inconvenience the usage of these things has caused. However, it is imperative that the respect must be mutual. We are allowed to critique your teaching methods freely. If anything, a teacher should be able to recognize and try and improve on any weaker aspects of their teaching methods (as should a student for the way he/she learns).

We also consider it was uncalled for to threaten to go to the school board when we have been compliant. We hope you realize that it is inappropriate, nor rightful, nor is it your place or in your power to threaten another Citizen of Canada with the removal of his or her rights as given to him/her by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. We understand that you might have felt frustrated at what was being said, but we did not menace you of anything and so we do not expect to be menaced in turn.

The only condition under which we will accept any more requests to modify our articles is if you can find any legal antecedent for us to do so. As mentioned before, we respect that you wouldn’t want to be blatantly insulted, which is why we will also accept to delete terms on which both our factions can agree might be offensive. In return, we expect the threat to be taken back and to recognize that we are able to have an opinion and post it on this blog providing that it does not seek to simply emotionally damage the subject of the article.

Hopefully, this will conclude any further debate into the matter and we will have reached an understanding by now. Again, we are sorry for any direct offense that may have been felt by what was written.

!@*&^%! What is with ALL THAT *&^% SWEARING?!

Certainly, at one point or another, your parents, your teachers, other adults, your peers, or even yourself, have asked that question, and in some cases, you've asked that very question with the *&^%$#@! included.

It is one of THE MOST paradoxical things in this universe, present in ALL cultures. Everybody says it's taboo, sort of like KKKursing, (sorry, stammered) and yet, even the most educated will at times vociferate one of these. (Variations of 'fuck' and 'shit' are pretty popular) Every language, every culture has these. Don't believe me? Head over here (*Attention linked page unfortunately contains sexually explicit advertisements.) Hell, even fictitious universes have them. Good examples are "gorram[it]" from Firefly, and "mudblood" from Harry Potter.
(There are categories and nuances depending on racial religious or visceral reference, but hey, this ain't a gorram classroom. Enough to get you laughing is sufficient.)

Punching a guy in the face: (my way of saying get to the point)

Why do we swear like drunken pirates?


-Instinctive response to something painful and/or surprising and/or emotional. According to researchers, it's an outlet for our emotions; in the same category as crying. (Some people do both at the same time to blow off steam twice as fast.)

-Social Interaction (establishes group identity, express solidarity, express trust/intimacy, adds humor/emphasis, and camouflages fear/gives courage)

Of course, censors exist in an attempt to spare young and innocent ears from the ravage. Regardless, as someone I know has said before, what doesn't kill you only delays the inevitable. Dictionaries usually don't include these words of questionable decency. The government can censor certain things in the media. (The freedom of speech right has that convenient loophole.) Unfortunately (or fortunately) fuck, shit, crap, damn, etc. etc. do filter down and to everybody who can hear. Believe it or not, even deaf people do swear in sign language for the same reasons, and deaf people with Tourette's syndrome, or more specifically Coprolalia, have be known to swear EXCESSIVELY using sign language, just as if they could speak. On average, you are 4 times as likely to remember a swear word than any other word. Perhaps that's the reason why when you start learning a language, you tend to start with swears and I quote [in indian accent]:

"You fucking blowjob!" -Russell Peters

So we've established that swearing is wrong, but a fact of life. What annoys me to the point that "ça me fais chier" is the french people at our school. Allow me to elaborate. By 'french people', I mean the people who speak french as their birth tongue.

I quote:

Ay! Parle donc en francais 'stie d'Anglais. [I ignore him]
Les fucken Anglais...[walks away]

Hey, who's the one using an English swear word? Why don't cha invent yer own bloody swears mate? How about otaritoi?

All in all, swearing doesn't bother me too much. [Take that as you like.] I find it adds color to one's message. Swearing, when appropriate, is a great to get your audience's attention or to motivate them. However, I don't really like people swearing to insult, but, if that's as creative as they can get , so be it. Some people are lower on the creativity scale, whaddya want. If you gotta say S.O.B. or "fag" instead of something like "baboon's asscrack" or, "You are the cause of trauma to my lower posterior abdomen" or "get the hell outta the gene pool now!", go right ahead; you'll just be a lot duller to listen to.

EXCESSIVE swearing does (ahem) piss me off. It is not normal that apart from the subject ex: I, every other word is a swear. French people at CSL do seem to do it more often. The overuse of "fucking" for emphasis is crazy. Worse is the accent which makes "fucking" become "fucken". Used as in "c'est fucken bon".
There is a time and place to use swear words for emphasis or anger/stress relief. Choose wisely and they'll be an asset. Overuse 'n abuse, and you cause entire societies to use these words everyday, every hour, every minute, in every fucking sentence!

Your criteria of the proper time and place to insert a fuck, or a shit or a sonuvabitch does, thankfully, shrink as you age.


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facts on swearing gathered from

Wilson, Tracy V. "How Swearing Works." 30 November 2005. HowStuffWorks.com. 08 April 2009.

Snow, snow, go away…

Canada, as most know, has some pretty long, cold winters (surprisingly not even getting warmer with global warming). I had heard there would be snow this week, but I did not expect it to be true (I don’t trust the weather people, so sue me). I was proven wrong by Mother Nature, obviously. We got some moderately light flurries, which, under winter circumstances is expected...The problem? Winter’s been officially over for about three weeks. It hasn’t snowed in about a month! We’ve had temperatures near 10 to 15 degrees Celsius and yet it starts snowing again? Okay, so there isn’t any trace of snow on the ground, but it was depressing to see our familiar nemesis this far into the year.

Interesting tidbit: Our fellow cellma- , I mean, schoolmates are currently in Italy. Making a reference to my previous article on the potential case of cannibalism going on at school, this could be a perfect opportunity for the sick tyrants to branch out and have an Italian branch of our cannibalistic cafeteria. God knows they have enough students to get them started.

I’m going to keep this article rather short since we have to keep a reserve of subjects to prattle on about.

Lime

Reasonable accommodation

First off, it is an old subject, already squeezed dry by the media and thrown aside. Now they're tearing the economic recession to pieces like hungry tigers. But, here at WMBOC, we tend to salvage sunken topics; for example, our school.
Here is the Wikipedia article to refresh your memory.


Apart from well publicized stuff like the wearing of the kirpan, the veil, the covering of YMCA windows, etc, and turning every little thing into a full-fledged elections debate, I would like to point out the debate regarding the Cross being hung on walls of public spaces. People were whining about taking it off, or putting the star of David, and other religious icons up there with the christian cross. Our sardine can, aka our cafeteria, has exactly one such cross.

As with many reasonable accommodation issues, not many people have a problem with this one, nor do we notice it anymore anyways. However, it's placement does seem peculiar.

It's hung at what can be considered as the front of the cafeteria. From the same wall, there are the flags of Canada, USA, Quebec, CSL, Great Britain. From the rest of the cafeteria's ceiling hangs two dozen flags of other nations. It seems like the message is: Christianity, USA, Canada, Quebec, CSL and Great Britain owns the rest of the world. You place those flags at the head and forefront, and the rest just hang behind and beneath. What a peculiar message...a coincidence? Or done on purpose, or even subconsciously? And why is it still there? Didn't CSMB have a few cases of reasonable accommodation problems? I know our equipment is outdated, but it doesn't mean everything else has to be. How hard can it be to remove it?
I don't mind it staying there, but its placement, and the placement of other flags representing other nations is...unfortunate, when you think about it. Shooting oneself in oneself's foot, we think.

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Weekly Double, provided by Double, but Skweeky also deserves great credit for this week's.

-Did you take a shower?
-Why? Did you lose one?

-(After a night out) Dad, can you come pick me up?
-Why? Did you fall down?