Random Banter #117

[A Rainy Knight]

I don't think I'd be able to cope if I had to teach myself, although I might have to start (as the A* maths doesn't get taught in school hours, 1hr a week after school on Thursdays)
We get three 1hr 10min lessons and one 1hr lesson.
We start the day at 8.45, 1st lesson starts at 9.20, breaktime is at 11.40, Lunch at 13.05 and ending at 13.45, then we have 10mins for registration and 5mins to get to last lesson (meant to start at 13.55 but most don't get there until 14.00), school ends at 15.00. A pretty short day, although they are thinking of cutting all lessons down to 1hr but having five lessons, so we'll finish at 15.20 instead.

Our day starts at 8:10. First class is from 8:15 to 9:15. Second from 9:20 to 10:50. Third from 11:00 to 13:00, but that's broken up into four half-hour lunch shifts of which you will have one. Fourth from 13:10 to 14:50. School's out at 14:50.

Yeah, our schedules are different.

[TwoBitWriter]

Yokels, all of you!

[Fredthefighter]

Our day starts at 8:10. First class is from 8:15 to 9:15. Second from 9:20 to 10:50. Third from 11:00 to 13:00, but that's broken up into four half-hour lunch shifts of which you will have one. Fourth from 13:10 to 14:50. School's out at 14:50.

Yeah, our schedules are different.

Indeed they are, you start a lot earlier than I do and I get more time for lunch (albeit I only get 10mins extra and a 15min break)

[CurlyKitGirl]

These're good headphones. Making me virtually deaf, but silent to the rest of the world.
I made the mistake of listening to something though with a high falsetto in it though. Pain.

I hate math, but I'm tutoring my brother in it. I kid you not when I say he's learnt more in just over an hour with me than with his teacher (algebra is what we're doing at the moment) has all year.
And I failed math! By my standards at least. Stupid B. And I haven't done any GCSE - wise for two years.
I thank my spongy memory. Prolly.

[Dihan]

My daily schedule is this:

Registration: 9:00
Period 1: 9:10
Period 2: 10:10
Break: 11:10
Period 3: 11:25
Period 4: 12:25
Lunch: 1:25
Registration: 2:15
Period 5: 2:25
Finish: 3:25

On tutorial days periods 1 to 4 are shortened by 10 minutes and we have a 40 minute tutorial session after morning registration.

Sixth form only have one registration per week and we don't do tutorial. This makes it really confusing when we appear for a lesson and there are a bunch of kids in the room. Sixth form can also go home whenever they don't have a lesson - I have eight lessons a week.

[Fredthefighter]

These're good headphones. Making me virtually deaf, but silent to the rest of the world.
I made the mistake of listening to something though with a high falsetto in it though. Pain.

I hate math, but I'm tutoring my brother in it. I kid you not when I say he's learnt more in just over an hour with me than with his teacher (algebra is what we're doing at the moment) has all year.
And I failed math! By my standards at least. Stupid B. And I haven't done any GCSE - wise for two years.
I thank my spongy memory. Prolly.

Am I the only person here who has had a good maths teacher for GCSEs? Seriously, I have nothing bad to say about him.

[Kaelaroth]

Kaelaroth is angry.
Kaelaroth is in love. That isn't necessarily totally why she's angry, but it's partly it.
Kaelaroth would now like to point out that this is yet another huge crush, and though it isn't the only hormone wrangler she's got going one, right now, it's the biggest she's ever had.
Kaelaroth thought that Facebook style of posting might make herself feel innovative, but, no. She still feels creatively dry.

[Rawhide]

I don't drink out of plastic bottles. As they degrade they leach chemicals into the liquid (especially if you wash them in hot water). And I don't know what that does, exactly, but I don't like it.

DeeRee, you are such a hippie!

But I suppose I would rather you be a hippie than a goth or something...

Dragonrider probably doesn't even have a mobile phone.

[TwoBitWriter]

Dragonrider probably doesn't even have a mobile phone.

That's just how Big Brother tracks you, you know?

I know how we can stop them. We can knit the world's smallest pair of hemp pants, and put 'em on a mouse.

Then we hide the mouse in a cupboard, but which cupboard is it in man?

That will BLOW people's minds!

[Fredthefighter]

That's just how Big Brother tracks you, you know?

I know how we can stop them. We can knit the world's smallest pair of hemp pants, and put 'em on a mouse.

Then we hide the mouse in a cupboard, but which cupboard is it in man?

That will BLOW people's minds!

Is it weird that I agree with TwoBit here?
A small mouse in hemp pants just seems like a good idea.

[CurlyKitGirl]

@Fred: Did I say that Math Teacher was a bad one? No. Just that I taught Little Brother a lot, in an easily understood way quickly.
This could mean many things:
1) Little Brother may not be a good student
2) I'm excellent at math
3) I'm a very good teacher when it comes to explaining things
4) The topic may have been easy
5) Thus the teaching methods at the school may be bad
6) A bad teacher

I never said that teacher was bad.

@Dihan: What an annoying schedule. If you went to a college you'd have a one hour tutorial every week and lessons of varying length.
My college has lesson slots, not actual lessons and they go:
First: 9:15 - 10:25
Break
Second: 10:50 - 12:10
Third/AS/ND tutorial: 12:15 - 13:05
Fourth/A2/2nd year ND etc tutorial: 13:10 - 14:10
Fifth: 14:15 - 15:10
Final: 15:15 - 16:10
So I can have a 60 minute lesson second or a one hour twenty lesson fourth. ND students have lessons two hours long each. Same with BTECs and Vocational courses.
Lunch takes place whenever you have a free, you can go home when you have no lessons.

Dragonrider probably doesn't even have a mobile phone.

I've never had a mobile.

[Dihan]

Who needs games, art or fireworks when you have sheep?

[The Rose Dragon]

I've never had a mobile.

I've never had a mobile, either.

I did have four cell phones, though.

[Fredthefighter]

@Fred: Did I say that Math Teacher was a bad one? No. Just that I taught Little Brother a lot, in an easily understood way quickly.
This could mean many things:
1) Little Brother may not be a good student
2) I'm excellent at math
3) I'm a very good teacher when it comes to explaining things
4) The topic may have been easy
5) Thus the teaching methods at the school may be bad
6) A bad teacher

I never said that teacher was bad.

Nevermind then, my mind is jumping to conclusions again. *Smacks brain upside the head*

I've never had a mobile.

Really? That doesn't seem possible. (I've got one, even if it is a hand-me-down mobile from my father.)



School schedule
8.45 School begins with registration (and for my form, PSE work)
9.20 First lesson starts
10.30 Second lesson starts
11.40 Breaktime
11.55 Third lesson starts
13.05 Lunch begins
13.45 Lunch ends, Afternoon registration begins
13.55 Fourth lesson starts
15.00 School ends for the day.
16.00 Library and computer rooms close, leaving only the sports hall, the swimming pool and the gym open.

[DraPrime]

Who needs games, art or fireworks when you have sheep?

Hmmm, those shots of the entire hillside look a bit too improbable to be real. Although I don't get a good look at them as I watched that on the small screen of my phone, so they may be real for all I know.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Really? That doesn't seem possible. (I've got one, even if it is a hand-me-down mobile from my father.)

Never had one. Don't really intend to get one. There's no real point. I know where I am and mum and dad know that if I'll be home late I'll let them know.
I've not been late yet.

School schedule
8.45 School begins with registration (and for my form, PSE work)
9.20 First lesson starts
10.30 Second lesson starts
11.40 Breaktime
11.55 Third lesson starts
13.05 Lunch begins
13.45 Lunch ends, Afternoon registration begins
13.55 Fourth lesson starts
15.00 School ends for the day.
16.00 Library and computer rooms close, leaving only the sports hall, the swimming pool and the gym open.

Yah.
I can read mate.

And do they really close that early? College stuff doesn't close until eight pm or later in the case of a couple of refectories and one library.

ALso:
I'll definitely be deaf tomorrow.
*meh*

[Fredthefighter]

Never had one. Don't really intend to get one. There's no real point. I know where I am and mum and dad know that if I'll be home late I'll let them know.
I've not been late yet.
Yah.
I can read mate.
And do they really close that early? College stuff doesn't close until eight pm or later in the case of a couple of refectories and one library.
ALso:
I'll definitely be deaf tomorrow.
*meh*

Yeah, sorry, still stating the obvious here, I tend to do that.
Also, yes, they close that early. The school closes at 4pm to make way for the community centre. Unless there is a parents' evening on or something. Although there isn't much in the library at school, except for the large collection of classic books there (Les Miserables, The Illiad, Little Women, all arrayed in a shelf near where people put their bags, so people never see them. It's shameful, books like those need to be on display, not hidden behind mountains of bags.)
I just have a mobile for emergencies, I don't use it for anything else (except for playing darts)

[TwoBitWriter]

Getting a mobile phone proved to be quite essential once I moved out.

I keep it cheap by not getting a bunch of extra services. It texts and it calls, that's it.

Beats having a static phone at home, at least.

[Rawhide]

Getting a mobile phone proved to be quite essential once I moved out.

I keep it cheap by not getting a bunch of extra services. It texts and it calls, that's it.

Beats having a static phone at home, at least.

My mobile phone plan costs $0/mo plus call costs. That's a post-pay plan (with itemised billing), not pre-paid. It originally cost me $49.95 to buy the sim card with $50 worth of non-expiring free calls. For over a year they sent me bills saying that I was in credit. Now they won't send a bill unless it is over $10 or three months have passed. I usually get a bill every three months for around $10.

The plan I am on is grandfathered, meaning that it is no longer available and I only have it still by virtue that I've never left the plan.

[Fredthefighter]

Getting a mobile phone proved to be quite essential once I moved out.

I keep it cheap by not getting a bunch of extra services. It texts and it calls, that's it.

Beats having a static phone at home, at least.

Yep, anything else on your phone that you pay for is often a waste of money in my opinion.
Static phones have their advantages though, e.g. not running out of charge when you need them the most.

[Rutskarn]

I have a mobile phone. It's old, battered, doesn't do anything but make phone calls and I don't even know what the number for it is--there's no point leaving it in case someone calls me, because the battery has the life expectancy of a mustard-coated fly at a frog spawning convention.

[TwoBitWriter]

I am easily distracted by gadgetry, so if I could afford it I likely would put some useless junk on my phone.

Except for Bluetooth, I'm not THAT big a jerk.

[DraPrime]

Yep, anything else on your phone that you pay for is often a waste of money in my opinion.
Static phones have their advantages though, e.g. not running out of charge when you need them the most.

Me being able to post using my phone is a waste of money? I think not. It allows for great multi-tasking. For example, as I write this I'm seated on a toilet.

[Fredthefighter]

I am easily distracted by gadgetry, so if I could afford it I likely would put some useless junk on my phone.

Except for Bluetooth, I'm not THAT big a jerk.

Hey! My mom and dad have bluetooth headsets and they aren't jerks. (Actually, that is true, they do have bluetooth headsets, really, they do)

EDIT: Dragonprime, that was way too much information.

[DraPrime]

EDIT: Dragonprime, that was way too much information.

Well if it makes you fell better, I think you should know that I'm at the "wiping" stage.

[Fredthefighter]

Well if it makes you fell better, I think you should know that I'm at the "wiping" stage.

*Throws up*
Seriously, just please, shut up. Too much info mon copain.

[Dihan]

It's not as bad as when I was trying to eat my lunch and my mum started reading an article in the newspaper.

Basically, some kids had gone to a local primary school, used the veranda canopy as a trampoline, broke into the Wendy House and left used condoms and human excrement in it. They then proceeded to uproot about 30 newly planted trees.

I couldn't eat after that.

[Fredthefighter]

It's not as bad as when I was trying to eat my lunch and my mum started reading an article in the newspaper.

Basically, some kids had gone to a local primary school, used the veranda canopy as a trampoline, broke into the Wendy House and left used condoms and human excrement in it. They then proceeded to uproot about 30 newly planted trees.

I couldn't eat after that.

I'd tell you about the worst thing I've heard, but if I do I'll probably throw up. So I'll just stop there. Although that story there is very sick indeed. (not the good sick either)


EDIT: goodnight everybody.

[Dragonrider]

I DO have a cell phone. And a laptop. And an iPod.

Although as to the first...I don't exactly charge it frequently. >.> Mostly because no one ever calls me.

[TwoBitWriter]

As it should be, DeeRee!

>.>
<.<

Hey, I know I'm acting out of character here, being overprotective like that. But really, you don't want her acting like me when I was her age!