This being said, that's why my scheme of taking a qualifying test to see if you know how to do a certain percentage of the stuff that the class teaches, and then getting a 'get out of this course free' card if you pass, could be useful.

It may be the parents' responsibility to teach this stuff, but there's no guarantee that parents, particularly ones with horrendous financial management or other challenges, are going to do so. Those kids could benefit from that sort of course.

But that label is so useful!

Couldn't you, like, add a 'bloody' or 'dumbass' or other word in the mix there to get it past the idiom police?

Just quoting this bit. Sure, there's 'privileges' that high-traffic members deserve. I don't believe helping with routine maintenance stuff that helps the site's overall quality without creating any real risk should be in that category.

I also don't believe the ability to downvote a comment or a video should be a privilege that requires a tremendous amount of membership time to earn either. I can understand getting past probation (which in itself is a bit of work) before opening that option up. But it's likely that anyone getting past that barrier is not your 11-year-old foul-mouthed teabagging anarchist-wannabe Call of Duty player who has apparently slept with your mother.

When it comes to voting, shouldn't everyone have the same voice?

Well I have heard he carries a big stick around this place. But I'd hate to ball it up if I did that. Might make him go nuts and then I'd get the sack.

Four more seconds and it turns into a snuff film.

Or a Darwin Award.

Your choice of label.

Nonsense.

Fish tanks would be DOOMED.

Okay.

HEY DAG, WHAT DO YOU THINK?

HEY EVERYONE WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Well then.

"Hi Retroboy! Here's all these powerpoints that you can't spend! Muahaha!"

It's like telling pacman he's on a diet or something.

Off to sifttalk we go.

http://videosift.com/talk/How-about-a-little-love-for-long-time-but-low-star-members

Well, yeah, he has a GREAT point.

At least where I come from, there's practically none. If I could retool the educational system I'd include one mandatory course on the basic stuff like doing taxes, knowing civil rights, and so on, and you could elect to skip that course and take something else if you could pass a prequalifying test with a high enough grade. This needs more public debate.

I'm hoping that Videosift will let me do at least this.

*promote

It is *nsfw though.

And yes, I'm an unprivileged meatbag too.

There was a speck of straw in it.

If not dead. Check the neck on impact. And then watch as they tug him out of there.

When I was in Grade 6 at the very end of spring semester, I'm damned sure one of these fuckers was in the classroom clock.

Insightful. The musicians walking us through his style provided some perspective that I just wouldn't have thought about otherwise. Loved the "sloppy falling down the stairs" metaphor.

NOM