That's a real show? i thought MTV was joking at itself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Punky Skunk
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That's a real show? i thought MTV was joking at itself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Punky Skunk
That sounds awesome to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Punky Skunk
It's certainly more entertaining than The Hills (this I could see as being fake) or a crappy making of the R&B group show.
They're all fake. You're smarter than this. Sweet 16, Date My Mom, Parental Control, Why Can't I Be You, Room Raiders... every single one of them is faker than pro wrestling. I hate everyone that tries to talk to me about My Sweet 16 as if it was real like "Can you believe she made her parents do that?" It's like saying "Can you believe Papa Shango put a curse on the Ultimate Warrior and made him throw up and lose the match?"Quote:
Originally Posted by Punky Skunk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDFjybKr1U0
Come on, now.
Fuck fine arts. Football teaches all that and gets kids in shape at the same time. School should 75% math, 15% grammar, and 10% history. When you boil it all down, that's really all that matters.Quote:
Originally Posted by Six
No arts at all? Thank god your not a school superintendent.
There was a "hard hitting" investigative report done up here on a Canadian news station (even a respectable one, too) which was claiming that young students nowadays were less likely to do activities that involved patience and discipline because of all the devices that give them instant gratification. Like cell phones, the internet, video games and so forth.
If you wanted to play a game of baseball in the 80's you had to organize your friends, get the equipment and find a good area (or good escape routes in case of ball to window action, and yes I'm sure that'll be turned in to a momma joke by someone). Nowadays all you need do is turn on your Playstation 2 and plop in MLB 2006.
Now I find this a bit fishy, because the way the report was reported it seemed to me like they already had the conclusion long before the investigation took place and they were trying to simply make the links so the viewers would buy it (which is bullshit journalism). But at the same time it does make some sort of sense.
What it all boils down to, as already stated, is bad parenting. If you're giving your 8 year old daughter a cell phone you're turning her in to an impatient person. Kids under 10 need a lot of stimulation, especially to help see what they're interested in (art, sports, building, music, etc).
I'm not entirely sold on the fact that kids today are any lazier than our generation or the one before it. We're just making a big deal out of nothing IMO.
No. One of the founding principals of America is capitalism. Capitalism breeds advertising and advertising breeds design. Design is simply art used for business (commercial art). I doubt math has much to do with any of this minus payroll, budget and taxes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
I agree math, history are important to learn to an extent. But advanced calculus isn't going to help anybody who's decided to become a layout artist or copywriter. Grammar is good to know no matter what, which is why students are usually forced in to more mandatory English credits than math or history.
It depends on the school, honestly. I have nothing against arts being taught, as long as math and grammar are already well done, which seems to be rare.Quote:
Originally Posted by avatar
How do you think marketing studies are done?Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew
I'm not talking about higher math for everyone, but alegbra and basic statistics are necessary to make good decisions every day.Quote:
I agree math, history are important to learn to an extent. But advanced calculus isn't going to help anybody who's decided to become a layout artist or copywriter. Grammar is good to know no matter what, which is why students are usually forced in to more mandatory English credits than math or history.
lol @ Andrew trying to make his field relevant.
Math is today's Latin. One hundred years ago everyone learned Latin in college because it is rigorous and was the framework around which almost all of the world's canon was built on. It was a language that served as the backdrop of the rise and fall of the Romans, the rise and fall of the Catholic Church and the Renaissance. It was believed that you could not be a functioning member of a literate society without knowing the language literate society was built on.
Well times have changed and we view the canon differently and history differently. Now we live in a world of science and statistics, of rigorous thought and analysis. Of money and the transfer of it, and how policy is money put into action. Mathematics is the backdrop to it all. If everyone knew basic statistics then politicians and pundits couldn't get away with 90% of their bullshit. We wouldn't have crap like the majority of people in the US believing Genesis was literal. You cannot be a functioning, literal member of society without knowing what a scientific, rational worldview is built on.
That is why math is so important. We have unfortunately moved away from a world in which we learn for learning's sake to a world where everything needs to be transferred into "getting a good job" or whatever. It's tragic... but thankfully math can get you a good job. ;)
So STFU Andrew.
Helps with English, too! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan