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[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I have a cousin who took it as a kid. He's now a teenager and I don't know if he takes it still or not. This kid was SPASTIC pre-ritilin and still SPASTIC when on ritilin. I would never question my Aunt and Uncle's decision to place him on it. They otherwise were probably looking at some sort of special ed class for him.

Now he is a musician type in some sort of thrash metal garage band.

Ps. I have no real point here, so I'm ending this now. CO.

I have a relative who took it. He was a D student without it and he was a D student with it.

Generally, kids are easier to manage while on it but there is no correlation, let alone causation, between Ritalin and academic improvement.

Do you know Ritalin? I know Ritalin.

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I have a cousin who took it as a kid. He's now a teenager and I don't know if he takes it still or not. This kid was SPASTIC pre-ritilin and still SPASTIC when on ritilin. I would never question my Aunt and Uncle's decision to place him on it. They otherwise were probably looking at some sort of special ed class for him.

Now he is a musician type in some sort of thrash metal garage band.

Ps. I have no real point here, so I'm ending this now. CO.

I have a relative who took it. He was a D student without it and he was a D student with it.

Generally, kids are easier to manage while on it but there is no correlation, let alone causation, between Ritalin and academic improvement.

Add a whole host of known side effects (tics, insomnia, cramps, loss of appetite) and some maybe not yet known (cancer?) so no thanks.

Do you know Ritalin? I know Ritalin.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
Do you know Ritalin? I know Ritalin.

You have done the research and know the history? You are not glib?

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
You have done the research and know the history? You are not glib?

Okay, I admit that I did not know what glib meant and I just looked it up using my Microsoft Word Thesaurus. Cruise totally misused this word, correct? Why had there been no talk about this misuse? He comes across as even dumber. Shorter, too.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
No, assshoe. You are the idiot who has to be spoken to like a child. Let me help you. Britney has looked so horrible for so long that this is the best she's looked for quite some time. Is it actually years? I don't fucking know, because I don't give a shit about her the way you do -- you who posts some stupid fucking article about whether or not she is carrying twins based on nothing but the author's opinion that she is fatter than s/he would expect.

Do you really think that I think she looks better there than in the photo you posted? Because if you do, you're dumber than you post. The point of my post was to say that it has been a long time since she looked good. Every recent photo of her has her looking like a fat pig or a piece of trash. In the photo I posted about, she looks like she's in decent shape for a prego and actually has a bit of a glow.

Now shut the fuck up before I send your dumb ass to the Land of Fu.

TM

I liked the preggo pic and the earlier pic equally but for different aesthetic criteria. Is that wrong?

[Replaced_Texan]

Who on earth agreed to this? Do they hate football fans?

It's been a Sunday evening staple for nearly 20 years. After flipping through the channels for six-plus hours, it was time to settle on one channel for an hour of in-depth highlights and analysis from each of the games.

But all of that will change come 2006.

One of the little-known facts regarding the new wave of NFL television contracts is that, per The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, ESPN will not be permitted to show highlights from Sunday games until after midnight.

NBC, which purchased the Sunday night package of games, has a hammerlock on the highlights, at least until the clock strikes twelve in New York. We assume that this will translate into a Primetime-style show on NBC, which will start at 7:30 Eastern time and lead into the kickoff of the Sunday night games at 8:15.

We suspect, though, that ESPN will accept the tradeoff. After all, ESPN gets the Monday night games as of next year.

But given that ESPN is coughing up a cool $1.1 billion per year for the rights to broadcast MNF, it's odd that the network has been necessarily stripped of its ability to host its trademark Sunday night highlight show.

Via ProFootballTalk.com What the fuck am I supposed to do between the 3:00 game and the 7:00 game, watch NBC? NBC has a proven track record of not knowing the first thing about sports broadcasting.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Okay, I admit that I did not know what glib meant and I just looked it up using my Microsoft Word Thesaurus. Cruise totally misused this word, correct? Why had there been no talk about this misuse? He comes across as even dumber. Shorter, too.

I think I recall the interview and wasn't his use of glib as a challenge of Lauer's understanding (or lack thereof) of what he was talking about in relation to drugs prescribed for psychiatric maladies, i.e.:

glib


Showing little thought, preparation, or concern: a glib response to a complex question.

adj 1: marked by lack of intellectual depth; "glib generalizations"; "a glib response to a complex question"


http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=glib

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
I think I recall the interview and wasn't his use of glib as a challenge of Lauer's understanding (or lack thereof) of what he was talking about in relation to drugs prescribed for psychiatric maladies, i.e.:

glib


Showing little thought, preparation, or concern: a glib response to a complex question.

adj 1: marked by lack of intellectual depth; "glib generalizations"; "a glib response to a complex question"


http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=glib

Glib doesn't go to understanding -- someone who fully understands something, e.g. that there's no credible evidence that any WMDs are in Iraq, can give a glib answer to reporters about how there's nothing proving there AREN'T any, or whatever.

So if "glib" was intended to convey that Lauer doesn't understand, it was wrong. If it was intended to convey that Lauer wasn't telling the whole story/was speaking in soundbites then it was OK.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
I have a relative who took it. He was a D student without it and he was a D student with it.

Generally, kids are easier to manage while on it but there is no correlation, let alone causation, between Ritalin and academic improvement.

Add a whole host of known side effects (tics, insomnia, cramps, loss of appetite) and some maybe not yet known (cancer?) so no thanks.

Do you know Ritalin? I know Ritalin.

So you would judge my Aunt and Uncle? Interesting. They didn't put him on it in order for him to get better grades. They put him on it so he could actually function in a classroom setting.

No, I haven't researched it. No, I don't have kids. But knowing my cousin and the sorts of issues he had pre-ritilin, I'm offended if people are out there judging people who are put into the situation that my Aunt and Uncle found themselves in.

Or, more succinctly, Shut. The. Fuck. Up.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Glib doesn't go to understanding -- someone who fully understands something, e.g. that there's no credible evidence that any WMDs are in Iraq, can give a glib answer to reporters about how there's nothing proving there AREN'T any, or whatever.

So if "glib" was intended to convey that Lauer doesn't understand, it was wrong. If it was intended to convey that Lauer wasn't telling the whole story/was speaking in soundbites then it was OK.

I am not sure I get that distinction from the definition I cited but I will defer to your superior knowledge on these things.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
No, I don't have kids.

that you know of.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
I am not sure I get that distinction from the definition I cited but I will defer to your superior knowledge on these [sic] things.

Didn't you mean to say "all things"?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Didn't you mean to say "all things"?

I knew I shouldn't have gone with the argument/logic class. Fuck.

[ltl/fb]

Because someone has some right outside my office and is moving them around to enjoy the sound. Wow, is that every annoying.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Didn't you mean to say "all things"?

No. I believe that we have an honest difference of opinion on seafood.

eta: Oh and also on the righteousness of bi-curiousity in women.

best regards,

Penske