Save the Dump. [Archive]

RICHARD

03-13-2010, 10:57 AM

I was reading about the high school prom that was cancelled because a young woman wanted to wear a tux and take her girlfriend along as a date.

The local school board cancelled the prom, gave some politically correct answer in a press release and now the other kids are ticked at her. THere is a plan to have an "unsanctioned" event in place of the dance for the seniors.

The gal went to the ACLU and it is turning into a media circus.

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I laugh at stupid people (this gal and the ACLU) because of their bland stupidity, inabilty to adapt and overcome and general spinelessness.

She has every right to take her date and dress in a tuxedo for her prom.
The school has every right to cancel the prom and the ACLU has the right to
make a big deal about it.

When I was in school, there was an effort to close the dump that sat across the street from the school. It was a putrid smelling lot that seemed to really stink in the morning-I had to run the baseball diamonds in P.E. for wrestling class and it was a motivation to run quickly past that part of the field!

When the Student Council and all the other goody two shoes put up a table to get signatures to have them close the dump, for some reason they thought that a bunch of kids that had school next to the dump would make a difference.

A few friends and I grabbed a table from my Journalism class, made up some signs and taped a white piece of paper on the table top. With the "close the dump'' faction on the quad stage to our left, we began to chant, "save the dump" and pounding on the table.

It was a fun lunch hour. We had people come to the table laughing, signing the paper with real and imagined signatures, chanting along and just being stupid.

Even the people trying to close the dump laughed and gave us the thumb's up for our efforts. For a while? Wwe were the Save the Dump guys.....;)

We had a lot of fun times running up to the lines that the school administrators drew in the sand.

IF WE WERE TOLD NOT TO DO SOMETHING? We sat and thought of another way to get around the rules.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL,
We used to play frisbee on the quad and when it was deemed too dangerous?

We changed it up and played with a tennis ball. Remind me to tell you about the Rugby shirt, hot chocolate and my best pal.

Some 30+ years later? The dump is still there-while not a working landfill, It makes me laugh about what a bunch of morons did to ruffle the feathers of the 'establishment' and what they thought was RIGHT for everyone.

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Anyway?

I am laughing at this story. Kids/teens these days are a bunch of wussies.

They have no creativity, no drive, no imagination and no testicular fortitude. The cannot even think for themselves, they have to run to their parent-who, by the way, encourage thy kids to take a stand -----by going to a fracking lawyer/ACLU.

This idiot gets the whole prom cancelled because she's 'fighting for her right to take her GF to the prom'. Like WTF? Instead of being creative? she ruins the whole event for everyone because she ain't got a brain.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT HER BEING GAY. IT IS ABOUT HER BEING SO
UNIMAGINATIVE THAT SHE DESERVES the derision she gets! Instead of being slick about the whole thing? She ruins it for the whole graduating class then complains about the comments directed at her while she attends classes.

How's about sneaking the tux into the dance and changing in the bathroom?

Or

Not tipping your hand and showing up at the prom in the tux?

How's about wearing a skirt with a tux shirt and jacket, then putting on the pants after you got in?

Nope, gotta make your intentions known beforehand and start a ruckus that wrecks the whole deal.

Here's a little clue about making a statement?

Be secretive.
It would have been more of a statement had she kept the school administration in the dark....By tipping her hand she gave them just the right amount of time to foil her plans.

She could have gone to event and had a huge laugh on getting one over on the school.

Nope, now everyone has to suffer because the squeaky wheel needed a lube job. I wonder if anyone had saved up, planned for the last year or dreamed about going to this event?

I wonder when someone will have THEIR parents get a lawyer to sue her for pain and suffering or the money that may have been put out already?

There are plans to have alternate proms-some people are trying to arrange an event and not invite the girl and her date. I heard this morning that there will be a prom and she will get to attend it.

I am sure that parents will lean one way or another because of the controversy! Either way,no one will get the full experience and memories about THEIR prom.....nope, It will always be about this gal, her date and her tuxedo...

What a great lesson to every kid in that grad class. Instead of being innovative, clever and smart when dealing with "the man"? Run to a lawyer, make it a huge deal. It just shows how unoriginal kids are these days.

Later on I am going to trip by the dump/landfill and chuckle at how I thought pulling a harmless stunt, years ago, saved it.....:rolleyes::eek::p

Husky_mom

03-13-2010, 12:24 PM

that´s why villains always fail.. they tell the superhero their intentions beforehand.. lol

have they heard about.. the element of surprise??..

RICHARD

03-13-2010, 01:04 PM

that´s why villains always fail.. they tell the superhero their intentions beforehand.. lol

have they heard about.. the element of surprise??..

Batman Forever!:):D

Laura's Babies

03-13-2010, 01:06 PM

Right on Richard... I was wondering why she didn't find a couple of gay guys to be their dates and then switch dates once inside.. Nobody thinks anything of seeing girls dance together, they do it all the time.. Or even girlfriends taking pictures together at the prom.. NO imagination at ALL these days... I think she just wanted her 15 minutes of fame but it IS going to cost her dearly being remembered for this 15 minutes of fame.

RICHARD

03-13-2010, 01:15 PM

Right on Richard... I was wondering why she didn't find a couple of gay guys to be their dates and then switch dates once inside.

That would have been too easy.;)

IRescue452

03-13-2010, 02:02 PM

This is a school of bible thumpers. They said they'd throw out people who they thought were being inappropriate during the dance.

wombat2u2004

03-13-2010, 05:22 PM

A tux ??? Whats' wrong with a tux ???
I'd love to go to a prom with a girl dressed in a tux, and me in my new pink tutu.:D:D

Moesha

03-13-2010, 06:07 PM

When I was a freshman in high school, one of the seniors wanted to take her boyfriend to the prom. The problem was that he was married to someone else and the wife didn't like the idea and threatened to do cause problems. After quite a bit of news coverage, the school board passed a rule that only local high school students could attend the prom. It was that way for years. Every class tried to get the prom location changed to somewhere else, so that other people could attend. I think after about 10 years it finally happened. Now they have prom off campus. Most of the kids there now, probably have no idea why that is. They weren't even born when the trouble started. Laura Cooper, where are you now?

Catherinedana

03-13-2010, 06:18 PM

I didn't even WANT to go to my HS prom. We went to a friends house instead and drank too much beer. . . :p

RICHARD

03-13-2010, 06:20 PM

A tux ??? Whats' wrong with a tux ???
I'd love to go to a prom with a girl dressed in a tux, and me in my new pink tutu.:D:D

Do us a favor and shave oyour legs first, not while you drive?;)

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Years ago I went to a store up the street from my house to get some brekkie stuff.

Since it was early on Saturday morning there was only one check out line open.

An elderly woman in front of me began to WAIL about the wait.

She was loud..."Oh my GOD, Why Do I HAVE TO Wait!!!!" She went on about her time in a concentration camp and how unfair it was for her to wait to be waited on...

I was pi$$ed and piped up......"Lady, we are all waiting...."

The cashier called the manager who opened up another line and took this woman as the first customer.

Here is a woman who probably spent time in hell during her life, survived it, then had to make a huge deal about waiting in line to buy groceries, years later?

Instead of thinking about how lucky she was to have made it that far-while millions of people around her died, she pulled the victim card out of the deck and played it.

How sad and pathetic it is to ride the coattails of the people who really did suffer during WWII...She survived and probably used that excuse how many times in the 40 years since????

I look at the Prom Idiot the same way.

Instead of being true to her 'cause', she has to shout about it and loses the respect that she may have earned had she kept her mouth shut and toed the line, like the rest of her classmates.

She put herself at the head of the queue...like any good groundbreaker she should accept the slings and arrows of the people who choose to wait or conform to the rules.

It reminds me of hanging out in the neighborhood, playing with the rest of the kids. Then, one of the little morons has to run to their mom, crying because of some stupid reason, which ruins if for everyone.

Ah, the Human Condition!

wombat2u2004

03-13-2010, 06:21 PM

Laura Cooper, where are you now?

Hang on. I'll go wake her up now :D

wombat2u2004

03-13-2010, 06:25 PM

Do us a favor and shave oyour legs first, not while you drive?;)

I only shave my groin while I drive :D:D
But I gotta agree with you.......there are always the queue jumpers that stuff it up for the rest of us.

Bonny

03-14-2010, 09:03 AM

I never went to the prom but was asked once. A lot of the girls ended up with big bellies from going to the prom & it was not gas. :rolleyes:

RICHARD

03-14-2010, 10:32 AM

I never went to the prom but was asked once. A lot of the girls ended up with big bellies from going to the prom & it was not gas. :rolleyes:

And the guys stayed skinny running away from the 'memories' of that night.:rolleyes::mad:

wombat2u2004

03-14-2010, 05:07 PM

I never went to the prom but was asked once. A lot of the girls ended up with big bellies from going to the prom & it was not gas. :rolleyes:

That's the trouble with Proms. All that free food available, and the girls just eat and eat until they're ready to burst. Not good !!!! :cool:

Twisterdog

03-14-2010, 08:56 PM

Suki Wingy

03-15-2010, 02:18 AM

I wore a pair of holey Chuck Taylors to my prom. :D It was horrible and I left early. She should have just stayed home with her girlfriend, it probably would have been more fun.

phesina

03-15-2010, 04:07 PM

Alysser

03-15-2010, 09:51 PM

RICHARD

03-18-2010, 12:29 AM

I laughed this morning because of one educator at a secondary school.....

A dad heard about a really cruel teacher that was posting lists of kids who had failed to keep up in their classes.

The lists were there to remind them that theyt were excluded from any field trips, dances and other extracurricular activities because of their grades.

The father heard about the list, went on campus and took a picture of the paper and began to complain that it was damaging to his daughter and her 'pride'.

The father had NO PROBLEM crying about his daughter's ego-but said nothing about his lazy spawn being a fracking failure in her studies. Gotta tell you...

I would have been PUMMELED and I would have been told that IF I DID NOT GET MY GRADES OUT OF THE "EPIC FAIL" zone?

MY mom would have..

Yelled at me.
Yelled at me for making her HAVE TO GO TO THE SCHOOL FOR MY FAILURE.
Yelled at me some more.

(I know I am not supposed to use this letter, but it gets the point across...)

She would have EFFED my world up to the point where I would have seriously thought about AutoEuthanasia-that or moving to the moon....

LOL,
I hope the world does end in 2012.:D

Growing up, I always felt very privileged about the world that I grew up in and wondered about the kids that followed. I didn't want to leave the planet in a wasted way or messed up for them.

Now?

Frack them and Frack the idiotic parents who refuse to put boundaries on THEIR kid's behavior. The funniest part is the mothers and fathers who want to be friends, as opposed to parents to their nasty, rude, crude and ill mannered offspring.

NOT ALL KIDS AND PARENTS are that way. Let's just say that if you are curious about the shoe fitting? Put them on and start walking.

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Both my parents are gone.

But, I still fear the prospect of screwing up royally and them finding out about it.

LOL,

I fear dead people. :eek:;):eek:

wombat2u2004

03-18-2010, 01:58 AM

Arrrrrrrrrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t7/wombat2u2004/real-ghost.jpg

RICHARD

03-18-2010, 06:04 AM

Mom never wore white.......:confused::eek:;)

wombat2u2004

03-18-2010, 06:06 AM

Mom never wore white.......:confused::eek:;)

You know why women wear white when they get married ????
Because all kitchen appliances come in white !!!! :D:D

RICHARD

03-19-2010, 04:14 PM

LOLOLOLOL

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=489055&gt1=28103

And the rest of the kids at the school got the finger.

What a travesty.:rolleyes:

wombat2u2004

03-20-2010, 06:02 AM

And the rest of the kids at the school got the finger.

Ellens ???? :p

RICHARD

03-22-2010, 02:12 PM

Ellens ???? :p

You betcha!

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IT's all fun and games, until your spawn gets cut out of the school dance/graduation/prom because of some other dillweed's rights.

Then it's war.:rolleyes:

LOLOLOLOLOLOL,

My parents taught me that the first rule of life is T.S.

The second?

More T.S.

The third?

Find a way to overcome the problem, work around it and find a happy medium.

Step on toes? You may have to pass that way again, later on.:rolleyes::eek:;)

Nomilynn

03-23-2010, 07:47 PM

I absolutely applaud this girl's desire to attend her prom as herself and nothing more. I certainly hope that her appearance on Ellen will make the school's administration stand up and take notice that, as Twisterdog said, in 2010 an incident like this is pathetic.

Congratulations Constance, I totally stand behind you!

RICHARD

03-23-2010, 11:47 PM

There was a court case today and the powers-that-be put it on the calendar. THat means the prom date will have come and gone before the case goes to court.

Looks like no one is going to prom.:(

wombat2u2004

03-24-2010, 08:03 AM

There was a court case today and the powers-that-be put it on the calendar. THat means the prom date will have come and gone before the case goes to court.

Looks like no one is going to prom.:(

Really ???? What a shame for all of those good folk who are now to miss out on that.
Never mind mate.....I'm waiting for the day I can get to wear that monkey suit I have in the closet, to the next formal function I'll be invited to.
Not that I like wearing monkey suits. But I need to assert myself to the community at large, and make a statement, that I have the RIGHT to wear a monkey suit.
You never know....hey ??? I might get a check off of Ellen Degenrate to !!!:D

kokopup

03-24-2010, 09:00 AM

Rather than make an issue over her date , SHE COULD HAVE DONE LIKE STAGS HAVE DONE FOR YEARS, Just go with your friend and enjoy the prom. In the past if a boy or girl did not have a date they just showed up with a friend, and in most cases it was a friend of the same sex. In this case she wanted the
attention that she got.

wombat2u2004

03-24-2010, 09:14 AM

Exactly !!!!
What's a stag ????

kokopup

03-24-2010, 09:48 AM

In my day, a Stag was one who came to the Prom without a date. Often two
Stags came together.

shais_mom

03-24-2010, 10:46 AM

Both my Junior year and Senior year I went with friends.
My Junior year I made my friend go that had just lost her mom a few months earlier. We went with another friend and the guy she was seeing - he drove us.

My Senior year 8 girls went together b/c no one wanted to take dates.
We had a blast both years and I would do it again in a heartbeat.

I moved to this county and one year around prom time I was talking with a co-worker and she said they were at a fancy restaurant and there were a bunch of girls in prom dresses eating and they must have been going to prom. "Can you believe that - they didn't have dates!" I said "uhhh - I went both years with friends" she replied. "pffft - that would NOT happen here - if you don't have a date you don't go!" I was like wth?!

I'm certainly not saying the girl that wanted to take her girlfriend should have lied about it - but I agree with Richard - there are other ways around it.
We had girls wear tuxes to prom and I graduated 16 years ago!

Cataholic

03-24-2010, 12:48 PM

I believe one should be able to attend a dance with the date of one's choice, regardless of gender. I think one should be able to wear tasteful clothing to said, regardless whether it is a dress or slacks. I think the fact that this is even occurring in 2010 is pathetic.

I always agree with you, too. :)

Why should anyone 'skirt the issue' (pun intended)? She shouldn't have to lie, heck, she shouldn't even have to discuss the issue with school officials.

It should be a non-issue.

wombat2u2004

03-24-2010, 05:47 PM

In my day, a Stag was one who came to the Prom without a date. Often two
Stags came together.

Deer me !!!! :D

RICHARD

03-24-2010, 07:10 PM

Deer me !!!! :D

:D

Why does the graduating class have to suffer because of one person?

Those were the rules. That kid is no more special than the rest of the grad class. and you'd figure someone with a 3.8 GPA would be a little smarter that she is.

What a maroon!;)

wombat2u2004

03-24-2010, 08:24 PM

What a maroon!;)

We have other names for them downunder :D

RICHARD

04-04-2010, 09:46 AM

http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/alabama-teen-erica-deramus-suspended-over-too-revealing-prom-dress/19425583?icid=main|main|dl1|link5|http%3A%2F%2Fwww .aolnews.com%2Fnation%2Farticle%2Falabama-teen-erica-deramus-suspended-over-too-revealing-prom-dress%2F19425583

More stupidity and proof that the rules do not apply to YOUR kid.

And what about the people who chose the swat/paddle?

Hats off to them for 'man-ing up'!

wombat2u2004

04-04-2010, 05:26 PM

RICHARD

04-04-2010, 08:03 PM

How come junk like this actually makes the news ???? :eek:

I dunno.....

To me?

Ticks me off, people complain about the high prices of things, but have no concept of where the money comes from.
:rolleyes:

RICHARD

04-15-2010, 09:03 AM

http://www.stylelist.com/2010/04/13/gum-wrappers-prom-dress/?icid=main|main|dl3|link5|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.styleli st.com%2F2010%2F04%2F13%2Fgum-wrappers-prom-dress%2F

While NOT a tux, it shows the creativity and style some people have.

I can see the school not letting her go because she's a fire hazard?:eek::rolleyes::(

wombat2u2004

04-26-2010, 03:57 AM