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QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 28, 2012 -> 05:02 PM) If there is a job you can get based entirely on ability to answer stupid brain teasers, let me know. I'm really good at those. Every job interview I have requires you to be good at stuff like relating to people. IIRC, they weren't even really brain teasers. They were just odd questions to see how you would answer them. One was something like "If you were only 1 inch tall and trapped inside a blender that was about to be turned on. What would you do?"

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 28, 2012 -> 11:42 AM) I think you are giving the White Sox fanbase way too much credit. In order to fill the Cell, you need to be in the playoffs, period. What is the season ticket base this year? somewhere between 10,000 - 15,000 maybe? It's tough to rely on 15,000-20,000 walk-ups every single night to watch a team nobody had high exceptions for at the beginning of the season and have been unable to put more than 3 games between them and the team that's chasing them for most of the second half. I think most of us have spent the season waiting for the other shoe to drop. It finally did.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 06:01 PM) But throughout my childhood my family limited ourselves, we didn't go out to eat much, we only bought clothes at Kohl's and even then it was infrequent (hand me downs where we could), I've never really considered Kohl's to be a cheap place to get clothes. When I was a kid it was Kmart. As well as Salvation Army and garage sales.

QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Sep 28, 2012 -> 11:19 AM) That is very sad. I have family members that came from El Salvador not speaking any english and are now making 6 figures running their own businesses, thanks for handing it to them America! Who needs hard work when you can just kill all the hard workers. Do they pay taxes on their business? I ask because I know somebody that refuses to believe that "7 year tax break" rumor is a complete myth.

I've often heard that the reason doctors charge so much is because they have to pay a lot for malpractice insurance to protect themselves when they mess something up and get sued.

My wife has been looking at the e-cigs for a little while now but has yet to try them. Maybe I need to push them a little more. The cost savings alone would be huge. Not to mention the fact that damn near every single day one of her ashtrays gets knocked over in our house by a dog, cat or kid. Personally, I never got into tobacco products of any kind. My parents didn't smoke but plenty of my friends and family did. I tried it once or twice but just didn't like it.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 01:00 PM) Opie pretty much was done, he admitted to Lyla that he didn't love anything (at least from what I could understand in that convo). He wanted an out, and he saved the one guy that could do something to the guy that ruined his life and family.

I started this here because I can see it turning political but this is scary. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/stophospital...1.html?page=all We have a neighbor that just settled a lawsuit because her husband had brain surgery but they messed him up good because they were looking at another patient's information while they were doing the surgery. They literally cut into his brain in the wrong spot.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Sep 25, 2012 -> 01:16 AM) Wait, what happened? This started as school dance and has turned into PB&J vs. the State. SOLUTION: REPLACE PB&J WITH MARSHMALLOW FLUFF & JELLY. EVERYONE WINS! KIDS GET SWEETS, ADULTS ARE MORE LIKED, DENTISTS GET MORE APPOINTMENTS! PB and marshmallow fluff is really good. Never made it with jelly though.

Saw this story, thought of this thread. Boy with Severe Allergies Uses Robot for School

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 05:44 PM) If we win one and the tigers win two I am completely fine with that. We would emerge from the weekend with a 1 game lead and 7 of 10 at home vs their 4 of 10 at home. Magic number would drop to 10 with 10 left. I like our chances of going at least 6-4. 2 out of those 3 lines came true.

IMHO, I think separating the kid(s) out from everyone else would be the simpler and less problematic way to go. Especially with the bullying/teasing part. In my mind I just see it as: "I can't eat a PB&J for lunch because of you. You suck." compared to: "So you have to eat by yourself because you can't eat peanut butter huh? That sucks. Wanna play kickball?"

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 04:03 PM) Disclosure: I may have a small bias as I find nothing on the planet more disgusting than a kid with food smeared on their face (not a baby but a school-aged child) and the worst is with peanut butter. Gross. Especially when you are wearing clean pants and they want to give you a hug...

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 03:56 PM) Sure, the child is literally different from the norm. That sort of stuff can stick, though, and make you a target for years. Children can be absolutely terrible to each other for the dumbest reasons. I just don't see how trying to fix it and saying no you're really equal to everyone else really does any good. It's kinda like those participation trophies kids get to make it "fair" for everyone. I got a few when I played sports. They didn't make me feel any better. I knew they weren't nearly as good as the first and second place trophies the other kids got.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 03:51 PM) Boo-f***ing-hoo, welcome to life on earth! Will you be just as cool with your proposed "Deal with it" solution if your child is sent to a separate room by themselves for lunch every day for years? Or is this all some misplaced nostalgia for lunchroom snacks?? I wonder if any of these kids get picked on by the other kids because they were the ones that caused them to not be able to bring a PB&J sandwich to lunch anymore. It's a hypothetical situation but I can totally see it happening.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 03:47 PM) I would be concerned about the aforementioned ostracization and othering. "This child is different, he must go eat by himself" can be a pretty powerful message to send about a particular child. If a child has an affliction that only affects 1% of the population it's OK to tell him he's different that most of his classmates because he actually is. He'll learn it eventually sooner or later. Like I said, kids are pretty damn resilient and tend to figure out things on there own pretty well. It's when the adults get involved that things get all messed up. I tell my kids that they are weirdos all the time and they enjoy it because they actually strive to be different. I have 3 girls but you wouldn't know it because they hate all typical "girl" things like Justin Beiber, Hanna Montana, frilly dresses and anything pink. They'd rather watch Japanese anime and play Pokemon on their DS.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 03:38 PM) I don't necessarily have a problem with an individual administrator making that choice. I would not be happy with that solution if it were my child, but I would work with the school to come up with the best solution. Why exactly?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 03:13 PM) Ostracizing and othering a child is a pretty big inconvenience. Asking parents to come up with alternatives to PB&J is not. Yet I know of at least one school that choose the former rather than the latter and no lawsuits were filed and it didn't become a major story. The kid dealt with it just fine. He was even one of the "severe" cases that couldn't be in the same room as others with peanut butter. That's the original point I was trying to make. We are so worried about teaching kids that everyone is equal and nobody should ever be treated differently that we come up with some pretty odd rules. Kids aren't really as fragile as some people think they are.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 02:00 PM) I had to take it a few years ago when I renewed my license as well. Wasn't expecting it. Was worried for a second about passing it until I started going through it to realize it's the easiest test ever. It really is. I didn't even glance at the Rules of the Road book and I got 100% on it. Most of the time the answer is obvious. I remember one that was something like: When you approach an intersection with pedestrians in the crosswalk you should: A) slow down until they are safely across B) speed up C) flash your lights and honk your horn.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 02:30 PM) OMG! A local school administrator slightly overreacted! That's usually the root of these stories. That's why kids are getting suspended for having a plastic key-chain that looks like a gun or bring a plastic knife in their lunch.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 02:20 PM) http://www.areawidenews.com/story/1893038.html Here's where it all started. One ("or more") student had a severe nut allergy. They banned all peanut/nut products from the school. It's been in place for six years, beyond the time the kid was at that school. So it's gone from a specific ban to protect a student (arguably acceptable, but not IMO) to a blanket ban just in case others have allergies. I was wondering if these schools would take the ban away after the student has left the school or if the next school the student went to would implement the ban. In our district they don't stay in any one school longer than 3 years unless they fail a grade.

I had to take the written test last year when I renewed my license.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 01:15 AM) we f*** ourselves in the foot. Never heard that one before.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 10:11 AM) Right, they couldn't have the school make minor accommodations for him. You can for peanut allergies. I think it's actually more common for the school to separate the one kid from everyone else during lunch rather than ban peanut butter completely. I've only heard of a handful of schools with a peanut butter ban.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 09:50 AM) This is just idiotic to the nth degree. My kid can die from touching peanuts? Hmm. I'll quit my job, stop paying rent, and go to the soup kitchen for my meals just so I can home school. I can't think of a simpler solution so I'll just have to do this. I've seen a story on a kid that was allergic to sunlight. I'm pretty sure his parents had to find a way to change their lives to deal with it. They couldn't just send him out and hope that he would be ok.