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| Thread ID: 34859 | 2003-06-26 02:23:00 | OT: Harry Potter | csinclair83 (200) | Press F1 |
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| 155228 | 2003-06-30 19:55:00 | > Get a reality check. Most working people leave home at 7am to get to > work to start at 8am, do 8 hours work (they are at work 8.5hrs)don't get > home till6pm > All this free time you talk about is taken up with cooking, washing, luxing, > gardening, house maintenance..... Schoolkids haven't got the worry of > earning enough money to pay for Food, Power, Telephone, HP, > Rent/Mortgage, Car maintenance, Clothes, Entertainment, Medical/Dental, > SchoolFees etc, etc, etc, etc etc > Need I go on more Doesn't bother me. I'm up at 6am most mornings, and leave the house at 7am to catch the bus. School is 6 hours long, finishes just after 3, and I end up catching a bus to get home, which will see me home anywhere between 4:00pm and 4:30pm. From there we usually scoff down anything we can find in the fridge, then depending on the kid, depends how things go, but most likely, they will have ~2-3 hrs of homework to do in their own time. At the end of the day, once you leave work you can say that you've done your bit for the day. When we leave school we know that there will be a pile of extra work to get done (this ties in with my conspiracy theory that kids aren't getting lazier, they just don't have lives from infront of their desks any more ;):p) Cooking, Washing, Luxing, Gardening and House Maintenance.. Most parents will get their kids to throw in a hand for house maintenance and washing/cooking. While we don't have to worry about earning enough money to pay for food/power/etc, some parents will charge their kids for board, and therefore the kids are also working part time jobs. When/if this becomes the case, the parents will also say that they will pay for school books, school fees, etc, but the kid(s) have to pay for any major clothes they want, money for cellphones, and movie presents. I agree with Caffy's statement that you guys get more leisure time than we do. When you take a holiday off work (I think the average is something like 30 days off per year), you don't have work to complete, on the weekends the time is yours to do whatever you desire - housework if it be, although some will try to get the major housework finished on Friday night/Saturday morning so they atleast have 1-2 days of relaxation to do what they want... CyberChuck |
cyberchuck (173) | ||
| 155229 | 2003-06-30 22:57:00 | > I agree with Caffy's statement that you guys get more > leisure time than we do. When you take a holiday off > work (I think the average is something like 30 days > off per year), you don't have work to complete, on > the weekends the time is yours to do whatever you > desire - housework if it be, although some will try > to get the major housework finished on Friday > night/Saturday morning so they atleast have 1-2 days > of relaxation to do what they want... Sorry, your reality check has bounced :) Unless you are employed in a basic level, such as factory work or assembly line work that is simply not reality today. Take a week off on holiday, and you go back to 2 weeks work in the first week, as there are no "extra people" usually to carry the load. Once upon a time perhaps, but not now. 16 hour days are not uncommon and neither is weekend work. The more responsible the position the more the likelihood of long (unpaid) hours. Annual salaries are not increased for having to work more hours. Enjoy school while you can, its the most relaxing and easiest part of your life. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 155230 | 2003-07-01 04:47:00 | And it wasn't all that many years ago that there were predictions that computers would take over all the monotonous work, people would have to be educated to use leisure, hours of work would be cut to 3 a day, for 4 days ... etc. So we see schools pressured to train kids to use Microsoft, not educate them. Some years ago, there was a public holiday made, called Labour Day. It was to celebrate the 40 hour week legislation, which was to ensure that people could get a living from a reasonable week of work. Progress.? We need some spells to get back our civilisation. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 155231 | 2003-07-01 05:10:00 | >We need some spells to get back our civilisation . Well according to aroc, using "spells" would involve falling under the sway of the forces of darkness . . . . . . |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 155232 | 2003-07-01 06:20:00 | > >We need some spells to get back our civilisation . > > Well according to aroc, using "spells" would involve > falling under the sway of the forces of darkness . . > . . . . ROTFLMFAO :D |
vk_dre (195) | ||
| 155233 | 2003-07-01 06:23:00 | So? The British Royal Commission found that the only "satanic" activity was in the minds of those who were hysterically afraid of it. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 155234 | 2003-07-01 08:21:00 | I'll just add in this comment: I reached a point last year where I would very seriously have been out working in the media or computer industry than at school. Our maths teacher last year set us excercises to do, which took me far longer, I believe, than anyone else to do (this year he sets 45 minutes of work, and that seems to be suiting me more). This resulted in me spending almost every single minute of the fifty minutes we had for lunch and fifteen for interval doing more homework, apart from when I ate (less than five minutes at both lunch and interval) or had to do a duty in the library at interval (only ten minutes, two times a week). This brought me to a very high level of anxiety, and it did not help that a smart but downright idiotic and moronic student, who I shall call an aquintance (ie, I resent him because he does extremely stupid and childish things in my opinion, but I still talk to him) kept on badgering me about not doing my homework, and still does sometimes. He has absolutely no idea what I was really doing, but I put up with him, because generally I am a non reactive person. I wonder if this will be a revelation to anyone? |
agent (30) | ||
| 155235 | 2003-07-03 01:39:00 | A lot of the 'charms' and particularly numerology will also be found in trashy and often not-so-trashy magazines. The "occult" is a staple of fraud and dubious moneymaking, and you'd find it hard to avoid in one form or another. And some of the ideas in Harry P might lead a child to become educated in important threads of civilisation and history. The real Nicholas Flamel, for example (Philosopher's Stone) was a fascinating character. You're not going to get possessed just by diving into "the occult"; it might educate you as to where some plausible modern thought comes from. I don't want to get into an argument on this, but homeoeopathy, for example, contains huge dollops of mediaeval magic, which you wouldn't recognise unless you'd "been there". I speak as one who has been deep into "the occult" and come out the other side, enriched but sceptical - and I've known many more who've travelled exactly the same path. Intelligent and critical/sceptical/well-grounded children will have no problem with Harry Potter. I have a child of the appropriate age, who reads the books for enjoyment. At the same time, she has occasionally expressed interest in my actual experience with magic and why it taught me to be sceptical of many pseudo-magical "alternative therapies" and the like. A more well-adjusted child you couldn't wish to meet. We can't tailor the whole world for the sake of the gullible. Superman's made a few kids try to fly too. A world without imaginative fiction would be DULL As for me and Harry; read the first with interest, the second captivated me rather less, and I lost interest entirely halfway through the third. I will try "Phoenix" though - once I've finished the latest Discworld :-) Argus |
argus (366) | ||
| 155236 | 2003-07-03 05:51:00 | <snip logical and well-reasoned comments> >once I've finished the latest Discworld It's ALL Headology really, isn't it? I include the bark of the Willow under that heading. Cheers, Alan (Cryptic) Carpenter |
Alan Carpenter (540) | ||
| 155237 | 2003-07-03 06:51:00 | hey i love the harry potter books aye, got the first four!! read them atleast 20+ times each!!:) but anywayz, does anyone know where you can buy them, dowm in wellington!? im going down to wellinton in the holidays and was wondering where to buy the book!? has anyone read it yet!? is it any good!? i heard theres a realll good scene where sum1 dies!? CHeers |
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