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What the Fark???

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FreshFish said:
Grown Men Play Tag Every Year Throughout February... every year, for the past 23 years.




a key rule: no tag-backs.
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I have no qualms with this whatsoever. In fact, it would be kind of phenomenal to get something like this going with buddies. You have a friend in a neighboring state? Work it out with his wife or family and tag him at a dinner or event, and then BS with him for the night or weekend. It could be a great way to keep close friends in contact.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
TRANSMISSION FIGHT!

/never learned, would like to someday without wrecking someone's transmission doing so
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I highly doubt you'd wreck anything. Everyone that knows how to drive a stick has had to learn, and there aren't very many wrecked transmissions. Clutches, yeah, but even still, I wouldn't worry about it. You'll catch on way before you start wrecking stuff.

I learned how to drive a manual when I was about 8, a couple years after I drove an auto, but that was because I couldn't reach the clutch until I was older.
 
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Foxton said:
Nooooo!
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FreshFish said:
More and more schools are now declining to teach children how to write cursive.
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I was a pretty rote learner in grade school, and I learned cursive pretty much by the book (capital F's look like they do in the Ford logo, capital Q looks like a number 2, etc.) This was in third grade.

In fifth grade my teacher calls me up to his desk and says "What the hell letter is this?" pointing to a capital F I had written. I said "It's an F." He was like "Who taught you to write an F like that?" I said "Uhhh...Mr. REDACTED in third grade?" He finally said "Here's how you write an F from now on" and just wrote a block capital F in its place.

Its days were numbered even when I was in.
 
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FreshFish said:
More and more schools are now declining to teach children how to write cursive.
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This isn't such a bad thing. First of all, it's very much discriminatory in terms of dexterity. Second of all, technology of today, even with pens and pencils, don't cause messy ink leading to reason to have a free-flow word. Third and finally, how many people actually use it in every day life beyond grammar school, minus a name signature?

I'm not so thrilled about the pushing of keyboarding, though.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
This isn't such a bad thing. First of all, it's very much discriminatory in terms of dexterity. Second of all, technology of today, even with pens and pencils, don't cause messy ink leading to reason to have a free-flow word. Third and finally, how many people actually use it in every day life beyond grammar school, minus a name signature?

I'm not so thrilled about the pushing of keyboarding, though.
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I use a hybrid of print and cursive on an everyday basis at work when taking notes in meetings. It all depends on the words, or how the letters flow together. For instance, I never use a cursive z, but a word like "mass" would be entirely cursive. Then again, I also drive a car with a manual transmission, so I'm old or something.
 
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St. Clown said:
I use a hybrid of print and cursive on an everyday basis at work when taking notes in meetings. It all depends on the words, or how the letters flow together. For instance, I never use a cursive z, but a word like "mass" would be entirely cursive. Then again, I also drive a car with a manual transmission, so I'm old or something.
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I don't like seeing the outside of my hand covered in ink or graphite. Therefore, I don't use cursive, where I'm pretty much forced to subject my hand to it.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
I don't like seeing the outside of my hand covered in ink or graphite. Therefore, I don't use cursive, where I'm pretty much forced to subject my hand to it.
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Are you a lefty? I never get ink on my hands unless I'm clumsy when putting the cap back onto my pen.
 
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One part of learning cursive that is too often overlooked is that it helps develop skills beyond being able to dash off a quick note to someone when a keyboard and printer aren't available. It also teaches fine motor skills, eye-hand co-ordination, and gives children the experience of transferring thought to paper. I would be the first to agree that all of these advantages are equally available if one merely were to learn block printing rather than cursive; what would concern me greatly was if children were not being taught to use pen and paper at all.





I remember during my sophomore year in college, the building superintendent obviously would use a ruler whenever he wrote out a notice, because the bottoms of his rounded letters were always squared off. The notes were nice and even across the page though.
 
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Cursive was BS. I couldn't write it, no matter how long I practiced. My cursive handwriting was terrible, and as soon as I was able, I quit using it.
 
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Keyboarding class seems like a waste of time... maybe it was helpful when not everyone had access to computers or typewriters, and it actually made a difference or prepared you for a job. If you already have a typing method that works, use it - whether it's "correct" or not. I have never typed the way they teach in school (although I took the classes), but I can type faster than a lot of people that type "correctly" (basically, I hunt and peck without looking at the keyboard... so I type with two fingers - but fast).


St. Clown said:
I use a hybrid of print and cursive on an everyday basis at work when taking notes in meetings. It all depends on the words, or how the letters flow together. For instance, I never use a cursive z, but a word like "mass" would be entirely cursive.
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I do this too (looking at my notebook, I'd say it's 70% cursive).
I also got horrible grades in penmanship, though. :)
 
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Just saw a TV commercial where Jose Canseco was peddling HT. Yep. Higher Testosterone.

The sponsor sure has a set of balls.
 
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