"brain damage" my ass.

[victim]

Today my school had a presentation given by CRASH (I don't know what the acronym stands for and I don't care enough about them to look it up) that was supposed to focus on drunk driving, but naturally some "the drinking age is gooood, no, really" bullshit had to be thrown in. The main speaker said during her speech, "When people ask why the drinking age was changed to 21, I answer [complete horse shit about supposed "brain damage" that millions of European kids don't seem to have]. THAT'S why the drinking age was changed - to save the brains and lives of young people!"

When blind pro-21 Americans are spewing all their "brain damage" crapola, I wonder, do they ever realize how stupid we must look to other countries when it comes to this subject? Or even THINK about the fact that no teens in countries where it's legal for them to drink have incurred brain damage from it? Some people are so fucking stupid that it just boggles the mind.

[brokenbells]

When people try to spread that kind of propaganda at school we should speak up and openly rebut them.

[XavierAKadafi]

If they tried that at my school...

I'd argue with them..


Then, I'd get suspended or expelled.

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[victim]

I'd argue with them..


Then, I'd get suspended or expelled.

Exactly.

What pisses me off more than anything is how we're supposed to respond to this shit with gratitude, like, "oh, thank you for saving my brain, nice lady!" I'd have way more respect for these people if they just came right out and said "We're neo-prohibitionists with control issues and we assume that none of you are any smarter than a four year old, ok?"

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[Bongermann]

At my school you have three suspensions and then any incursion after your expelled. So in other words, since my parents dont expect me to stay anyways, Im going to do whatever I can to change as much as I can. Hopefully I will get lucky and not get suspended, but for most of the 'activist' things I have planned, I wont be so lucky.

Maybe I should be saving for a lawer...

[Crazed123]

SO what kinds of things are you doing?

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[XavierAKadafi]

My favorite is teacher appreciation and when they want us to thank these people who come...

BITCH, THESE MOTHER FUCKERS GET PAID.. FUCK APPRECIATING THEM..

THEY GET PAID TO MAKE MY LIFE HELL! FUCK YOU.

ahem...

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[Bongermann]

What kinds of things am I doing? Im basically just stretching the limits and working inside the law. I havent anything planned though. Ill just "wing it" within my rights.

[Euripus]

'Winging it' is sometimes all that can be done.

I myself attempted to "wing it" as such in my campaign for high-school president.

My logo was the Rooster. Not the eagle. "The eagle has disbanded" my posters said.

My posters were part propaganda, part campaign ad. Very effective stuff, such as one that made it specifically tempting to read it aloud (or consciously, at least) only to say near the bottom "Did you repeat that?" -- "Don't be a parrot -- vote for change -- vote Jeff for highschool president!"

My printed material recieved high marks on my official polls.

I lost my presidential campaign by ONE VOTE to a girl who was the pet of the staff and the most subservient and compliant of the lot... and who the definition/meaning of the word DEBATE was literally lost on (ie. "What's that?")

Anyhow -- try to slip in things whereever you can. I'm serious too. Be phony, if you have to. Be a pest. Be loud at opportune times.

People will derride you for your incongruity, but you'll find if you stick with it, they'll come around.

Or kill you. But usually, they'll just come around.

That said, everyone has a different style, and based on your prefered approach, margins of comfortability, and other considerations, you may find putting lemon juice in your teacher's coffee and graffiting the school on the "down low" so to speak are more effective.

I simply couldn't take that appraoch. I made myself too visible, so I had no choice but to act in a manner befitting such a role.

I wonder how Carlin started...?

Was he too a classroom clown?

(are his politics so good because of this, too?)

Yadda, yadda, and etcetera, Brain damage my ass, I concur.

[victim]

BITCH, THESE MOTHER FUCKERS GET PAID.. FUCK APPRECIATING THEM..

Yeah, don't we appreciate them enough with our tax dollars? That alone is way more than they deserve considering that most of them have taught me NOTHING and wasted YEARS of my time; now I'm supposed to give them balloons and make little cards with drawings of apples on the front? No.

[JimmySand9]

Why do these people say all that brain damage shit? Because they're anti-american. They think while the Japanese and the British can overcome such things, Americans are weaklings who need to be protected from themselves. Bullshit! I'm an American and I'm no weakling. Why? Cause I can kick MADD's big, ugly 60-something ass.