Do you know how many necessary payments do NOT allow paying online?
Car Insurance
Water Bill
Local Hospital
and this is just my personal list.
Not to mention signed contracts...I refinanced my house this past year...
Do I really live in podunk, USA, that I have to use over 40 stamps a year?
No wonder geeks are social pariahs.
Social Skill 101 -- do unto others what you want done unto you.
'nuff said.
Doctor, Timmy is getting in trouble in school.
How does he get in trouble?
The teacher says he is too active and might have ADHD.
Have you seen a counselor about this?
No, we can't afford one!
Well, let's try a round of Adderall...
This might seem oversimplistic, but I teach a high school 'behavior intervention' classroom and deal with parents all the time who have the same concerns/issues. More often than anyone will admit, many of the issues related to behavior have to do with cost/consequences...and parents who will not/can not engage the reality of their children's behavior (It's not their fault! They are just picking on Timmy!).
Often, the teachers are just as guilty making these recommendations as the doctors--it is illegal for a teacher to recommend/suggest that a child has to be medicated to attend school, but it happens. And many 'poor' parents do not have the background/education to question the recommendation. So, they go to the doctor and tell them that Timmy has to have medicine to attend school.
The fun part in all this is watching the merry-go-round of meds that a child will/will not take to modify their behavior. For some kids, it is necessary to function. For most, it is not.
By the time they get to high school, many are dependent on the meds to function.
Yea, well her English teacher father edited a little...but only a little.
I cut out the "y'know" 's and "like" 's.
1.Use an old literary device (time travel)
2.Tweak the canonized story *just enough* to justify plot twists later in the story
3.Hire buff/beautiful new actors (I miss Uhura's ample posterior...)
4.Recolor/streamline the visual pallet
Keep the old viewers happy by giving cameos/plot twists to the old actors (I understand why they couldn't let Shatner in the movie...but he *will* need to make an appearance), keep the younger viewers happy with culturally signifcant drama (notice the similarities in the movie to plot devices in One Tree Hill and Smallville).
I hate to admit it, but I liked it.
My sixteen year-old daughter summed it up:
"That's the best movie I've seen in a long time, and it doesn't hurt that Kirk is easy on the eyes..."
Created a very efficient (and powerful!) ballista that almost shot my brother's eye out at 20 feet (I was aiming for his nose; missed by *that* much) while my father was watching a football game.
But don't tell him that, he still believes it was an accident...he still might not forgive me after 30 years...
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
