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Old 01-26-2014, 08:10 AM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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Originally Posted by Retriever View Post
This actually corroborates something that I have observed in online blogs whenever the topic of education comes up. It seems that, more often than not, those who hold themselves out as educational experts are people who give little evidence of actually having received much education.

I would be willing to bet a cup of coffee that this particular woman contributes her words to discussions about education, and that those words are on a level very similar to the quotation that you posted. One of the saddest problems resulting from a lack of literacy is that people are frequently unaware of their limitations in that area, and when these people choose to home-school their children, they are helping to perpetuate their own limitations.



Could agree more, oops, could not agree more.

 
Old 01-26-2014, 01:11 PM
 
Location: The Jar
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Another CD pull:

"When people exercise they lose fat and built mussel,
which is another cause of failure, and a greater disappointment to
the person trying to loose weight."
 
Old 01-26-2014, 01:35 PM
 
Location: SE Michigan
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Originally Posted by picklejuice View Post
Another CD pull:

"When people exercise they lose fat and built mussel,
which is another cause of failure, and a greater disappointment to
the person trying to loose weight."
Sounds like a fishy excuse to me.
 
Old 01-26-2014, 01:38 PM
 
Location: SE Michigan
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And one more:

trying to find bread of my puppy
https://www.city-data.com/forum/dogs/...-my-puppy.html

The only response thus far is pretty good!
 
Old 01-26-2014, 01:56 PM
 
Location: USA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by picklejuice View Post
Another CD pull:

"When people exercise they lose fat and built mussel,
which is another cause of failure, and a greater disappointment to
the person trying to loose weight."

Perhaps it is more difficult to lose loose weight?
 
Old 01-26-2014, 02:39 PM
 
Location: Wonderland
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Quote:
Originally Posted by chiroptera View Post
And one more:

trying to find bread of my puppy
https://www.city-data.com/forum/dogs/...-my-puppy.html

The only response thus far is pretty good!
YOU BEAT ME TO IT!

Here's the whole OP on that, errrr, delicious thread:

Quote:
trying to find bread of my puppy
i rescued my puppy from the animal shelter a few months ago. All they could tell me is that hes a Shepard mix. I just cant tell what hes mixed with some say lab others say border collie and some say chowchow. what does anybody else think ?
 
Old 01-26-2014, 02:41 PM
 
Location: Elsewhere
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And that's another, inexplicably common misspelling: Shepard for Shepherd. It's an animal that herds sheep. Or used to. Wouldn't it just be logical to spell it the correct way?
 
Old 01-26-2014, 02:48 PM
 
Location: SE Michigan
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That is a pet (heh) peeve of mine: HERDing dog. ShepHERD.
So many people don't get that. I don't understand how people can be so ignorant about a sentient being they are caring for, for life?

And the OP in that bread puppy thread doesn't provide a photo or any sort of description of the dog but I guess wants random people from afar to make wild guesses. Crazy.
 
Old 01-26-2014, 02:50 PM
 
Location: Wonderland
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Here's another one - from a news article today:

Quote:
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A brain-dead, pregnant Texas woman's body was removed from life support Sunday, as the hospital keeping her on machines against her family's wishes acceded to a judge's ruling that it was misapplying state law.

Marlise Munoz's body soon will be buried by her husband and parents, after John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth announced it would not fight Judge R.H. Wallace Jr.'s Friday order to pronounce her dead and return her body to her family...

Munoz's husband, Erick Munoz, sued the hospital because it would not remove life support as he said his wife would have wanted in such a situation.
Wait...I thought he and her parents were dead, and that she was about to be buried next to them...
 
Old 01-26-2014, 04:26 PM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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Originally Posted by KathrynAragon View Post
Here's another one - from a news article today:



Wait...I thought he and her parents were dead, and that she was about to be buried next to them...
I would have said "beside" not "by", if I meant the burial would be in the same cemetery plot.

My interpretation of "by" in that sentence would be that the husband and parents would be burying her.
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