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Nice Planet, Part 2: A-holes on parade

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Deputies say the thermometer was discovered as the substances were checked before going through the school.
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The pubbies check student's thermometers for mercury now? I'm sure that's very important. It took my Catholic high school ages to figure out that a few students were spiking their morning Starbucks with vodka. :rolleyes: :p

We were never told to bring our own chem lab materials - Dr. Heinbuck (Seig Heil!) supplied all the 'heavy equipment', including the modern, alcohol-based thermometers.

My mom can remember playing with spilled mercury as a child. She's turned out just fine.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
The pubbies check student's thermometers for mercury now? I'm sure that's very important. It took my Catholic high school ages to figure out that a few students were spiking their morning Starbucks with vodka. :rolleyes: :p

We were never told to bring our own chem lab materials - Dr. Heinbuck (Seig Heil!) supplied all the 'heavy equipment', including the modern, alcohol-based thermometers.


My mom can remember playing with spilled mercury as a child. She's turned out just fine.
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Herr Doktor Heinbuck always spoke highly of you. It's the grotesque overreaction that's the problem here. Confiscate the thermometer? Okay. Because the kids rehersing "Trial by Jury" in the auditorium could theoretically be harmed if the thing broke. But locking down the school? Calling hazmat? Are they cereal?
 
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Herr Doktor Heinbuck always spoke highly of you. It's the grotesque overreaction that's the problem here. Confiscate the thermometer? Okay. Because the kids rehersing "Trial by Jury" in the auditorium could theoretically be harmed if the thing broke. But locking down the school? Calling hazmat? Are they cereal?
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Actually, she hated me for being too much of a smartass, but otherwise you're right. Overreaction is a major problem in today's society, not just in schools. However, there are now public schools that have metal detectors at the front door, and apparently they also have full-time Barney Fifes on the "security" team, thanks to Columbine and gang violence. Who cares if Joe Putz drops his momma's mercury thermometer? Decades have proven it's hardly a situation for the cops and a Hazmat team, considering my parents farking played with the stuff. Let the instructor or some other authority clear the immediate area and deal with cleanup? Yes. Otherwise, stop the excessive fearmongering. When fishing, my dad and I have separated our lead weights with our teeth for years; when hunting, we've handled cartridges that have lead bullets protruding from the top. Both of us have yet to be diagnosed with lead poisoning. While I realize that mercury is a liquid at common temps and is more easily absorbed through the skin, the absorbed amount to cause detrimental health affects would typically take years of constant exposure to turn a person into a "Mad Hatter".
 
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Meanwhile, the ladies of Chi Omega at Penn State are in trouble up to their lips and facing multiple "investigations" because of a photo taken at a Mexican themed party which showed them wearing serapes and moustaches. The bad taste police are in high dudgeon. Several paragraphs in to the accompanying CNN piece a PSU official reluctantly (you can just hear her teeth grinding) admits the ladies speech (even silly undergraduate speech) is protected by the First Amendment. The customary professional Mexican is trotted out to proclaim this episode an outrage, or something. He's demanding a personal apology. Oh, Chi O.

http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012...ith-sorority-photo-mocking-latinos/?hpt=hp_t3
 
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Actually, she hated me for being too much of a smartass, but otherwise you're right. Overreaction is a major problem in today's society, not just in schools. However, there are now public schools that have metal detectors at the front door, and apparently they also have full-time Barney Fifes on the "security" team, thanks to Columbine and gang violence. Who cares if Joe Putz drops his momma's mercury thermometer? Decades have proven it's hardly a situation for the cops and a Hazmat team, considering my parents farking played with the stuff. Let the instructor or some other authority clear the immediate area and deal with cleanup? Yes. Otherwise, stop the excessive fearmongering. When fishing, my dad and I have separated our lead weights with our teeth for years; when hunting, we've handled cartridges that have lead bullets protruding from the top. Both of us have yet to be diagnosed with lead poisoning. While I realize that mercury is a liquid at common temps and is more easily absorbed through the skin, the absorbed amount to cause detrimental health affects would typically take years of constant exposure to turn a person into a "Mad Hatter".
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A very merry unbirthday to you.

It's like those studies that produced tumors in Canadian rats, that lead to the banning of the artificial sweetner cyclamates. Turns out the rodents were fed an amount equivalent to a couple of cases of pop a day. I wasn't much worried.
 
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Meanwhile, the ladies of Chi Omega at Penn State are in trouble up to their lips and facing multiple "investigations" because of a photo taken at a Mexican themed party which showed them wearing serapes and moustaches. The bad taste police are in high dudgeon. Several paragraphs in to the accompanying CNN piece a PSU official reluctantly (you can just hear her teeth grinding) admits the ladies speech (even silly undergraduate speech) is protected by the First Amendment. The customary professional Mexican is trotted out to proclaim this episode an outrage, or something. He's demanding a personal apology. Oh, Chi O.

http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012...ith-sorority-photo-mocking-latinos/?hpt=hp_t3
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I personally don't mind un-PC parties.....BUT, these people are morons for posting pics and such. What do you think is gonna happen? That stuff (which is obviously just a fun joke) does not fly in public.
 
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I personally don't mind un-PC parties.....BUT, these people are morons for posting pics and such. What do you think is gonna happen? That stuff (which is obviously just a fun joke) does not fly in public.
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Back in your day at UMD, if you'd thrown back some drinks at an un-PC party, would you have thought twice about someone taking photos of you? :p

The world is just a few years into this idea of near real-time photography/video, and is still adjusting to it.
 
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Back in your day at UMD, if you'd thrown back some drinks at an un-PC party, would you have thought twice about someone taking photos of you? :p

The world is just a few years into this idea of near real-time photography/video, and is still adjusting to it.
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There are some pics. ;) But they will never make the internet (yes there was internet back then :p). Hence my point. Don't post that stuff!
 
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I personally don't mind un-PC parties.....BUT, these people are morons for posting pics and such. What do you think is gonna happen? That stuff (which is obviously just a fun joke) does not fly in public.
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Sure. On the other hand wouldn't it have been nice if the designated Mexican had said: "Who gives a sh*t?"

I've mentioned before about the chapter of my fraternity at one of the California schools that got itself in deep doo doo a couple of years ago for having a Mexican-themed party. They put out a flyer with artwork of a guy wearing a serape taking a siesta (oh, the humanity!). Anyway, it was fun seeing the Latino chapter president, and the many Latino brothers denying anti-Latino bias. Every little thing, it seems, is a BFD. And it's at its worst on college campuses, which once upon a time were places that valued or at least tolerated different opinions.
 
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Sure. On the other hand wouldn't it have been nice if the designated Mexican had said: "Who gives a sh*t?"

I've mentioned before about the chapter of my fraternity at one of the California schools that got itself in deep doo doo a couple of years ago for having a Mexican-themed party. They put out a flyer with artwork of a guy wearing a serape taking a siesta (oh, the humanity!). Anyway, it was fun seeing the Latino chapter president, and the many Latino brothers denying anti-Latino bias. Every little thing, it seems, is a BFD. And it's at its worst on college campuses, which once upon a time were places that valued or at least tolerated different opinions.
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At tUMD, we had a "Straight Pride" gathering. We were chastised to no end. So be it.
 
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At tUMD, we had a "Straight Pride" gathering. We were chastised to no end. So be it.
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If undergraduates can't act like dumb sh*ts every once in a while, what's the point of college anyway?

My Protestant, blond haired blue eyed nephew pledged Sammy at Miami of Ohio (for those who don't know, Sigma Alpha Mu is a historically Jewish fraternity). The kid pledged for the best possible reason he "liked the guys." And he used to tell me about their annual "Goyfest." Shocking.
 
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If undergraduates can't act like dumb sh*ts every once in a while, what's the point of college anyway?
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"There's a time and place for everything, and that's called 'college.'" --South Park
 
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And from the home of the late and unlamented Idi (VD) Amin....

The speaker of the Ugandan parliament has promised she will pass the so-called "Kill the Gays" bill in the next two weeks -- she called it a "Christmas gift" for the Ugandan people. The bill would legalize the death penalty for LGBT people and people with HIV or AIDS.
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Well, they're not supposed to kill them, just toss them in jail for the rest of their lives.... http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/12/ugandas-kill-the-gays-bill-spreads-fear/
 
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