Well the first one confused a bit cos it was with a mountain bike not a skate board, it also had some awfull rap dude shouting unpleasantly & I kept seeing blood.

The second one is a little better featuring a skateboard Yes there are alot of crashes but not so much blood & me & my 4 year old son find it hilarious to make the skater dude crash on his butt, his head or anything.

I found it rather disturbing that I enjoyed it so much.

shaktiman

Not all skaters suck.

I should've put that the game itself put me off.

I found the game difficult to master, with unpleasant music/lyrics & unnessacary blood/violent overtones.

I don't think I know any skateboarders, but I have an open mind on them even after the culture shock which is Tony Hawks Skateboarding.

I wont however be rushing out to buy the films you quoted.

shaktiman

I'm not much of a 'skateboarder' and am not all for that kind of culture... it's weird to see fromthe outside... just like I'm sure that our computer geek type culture looks weird from outside

yeah... that skateboard music IS weird

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anyway... lol

yeah... I guess the way that the computer geeks back in WA look to the outside world is kind of weird

of course... the computer nerd group didn't have a single unified style of music that they listened to... I could listen to just about anything you know

and I wasn't just a computer nerd too... I was an "Integrated" student, and also one of the smart kids

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of course... the computer nerd group didn't have a single unified style of music that they listened to... I could
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anyway... yeah I'm "myself"

My friends also think of me a 'whacked in the head', 'odd' and some other things....my intense intrest in Russia doesnt help either

yeah... I'm not too big on most games either :-\

maybe it's just the "me-ness"

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Hmm, the compu0ter nerd culture clases me as an outcast . Everyone else that could be lcassed as it is really interasting in games, and since Im only intereasted in OS's and hardware, the class me as odd.

My friends also think of me a 'whacked in the head', 'odd' and some other things....my intense intrest in Russia doesnt help either

Good ideas usually are created by crazy people, go figure...

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Ask any kid who is insane or mental/violent if they spend time with thier parents and I gaurantee 95% say no they don't do anything with thier parents.

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This whole skateboard culture and other culture is actually disturbing, because our kids are turning into mindless zombies that capitulate into crime and dangerous lives because thier parents don't give a ***** about them and don't spend time with them.

Ask any kid who is insane or mental/violent if they spend time with thier parents and I gaurantee 95% say no they don't do anything with thier parents.

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The public school system in the US tries to make every kid into the cookie cutter girl/boy-next-door. They don't care if the kid can do pre-calc at 14... they just send them to pre-algebra and then say stuff like, "He's just not applying himself."

Homeschooling is something to get the kids out of that hell. I don't agree with the people who pull their kids out of school to turn them into wierdos, but I do think that homeschooling is better than what I could afford in a private school, which, BTW... does the same thing as unknown_k accused homeschooling does.

Oh, and if you can't tell already, I'm a fan of full-time gifted programs.

And about ritalin and stuff... the problem isn't that ADD isn't a real disease, it's just that they give it to every freakin kid who ignores his teacher for a day. I have two friends who were on ritalin. One of them just didn't care about class because it didn't teach her anything. The other one has ADHD... she actually needs it. It's horribly overused in today's cookie-cutter society.

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High school is basically used to seperate the kids into the college kids and the vocational kids nothing more and nothing less. If you can lear basic math and some reading writing skills they feel the job has been done. Then you go to college and find its 50% foreigners that took calculus in 3rd grade (this goes back to sheilding kids from reality I spoke about before) and alot of kids flunk out their first year or change majors from pre-med/engineering to english/history. I graduated college in 1991 with a chemical engineering degree and trust me the most important skills I ever learned were working in a team environment (with people of greatly varying skills who dont like each other), thinking things out logically, and common sence is not very common (our book smart valedictorian screwed up every lab he was in).

I also hate this 100% politically correct crap thats going on.You cant say or do anything that will even remotely offend anybody even if its just a joke. Books are being banned because of this, movies are being re edited ( han solo shooting 2nd in star wars 1 re-release). We are slowly being turned into japaneese where authority is never questioned, everything is about saving face, we work crazy hours, and we cant complain about anything. The only difference is in japan companies never fire anybody while here they do it on a weekly basis.

in WA there is no german in HS, but there's japanese and lots of computer courses... and in WA we learn logts about japan....

there ARE good schools in the USA, and I once went to one in Maple Valley, WA

www.tahoma.wednet.edu.

it's a great district, it's got a good technology budget, the bus rides are NOT very long and other than that the schools are clean, they might be a bit bit (1000 just 8th and 9th graders at TJH last year) but they are BY NO MEANS 'overpopulated'

I realize that for most english and social studies 'busy work' isn't condusive to actually learning... but some teachers need to use it becuase they might not have 'planning' period... in addition... 'busy work' and homework for a math class is COMPLETELY acceptable, the teachers need to give the students alot of time to grasp those concepts and junk... that's what I've been told anyway :-\

GeekWurkz, where do you live? My school in WA wansn't cookiecutting us, but in AZ, sadly, it seems as though they're trying to do something like that...

I usually have to buy my own things... and my family is NOT in "upper middle class" anymore... in fact... I got the TiBook because I was supposed to sell my other computers, because we moved, and I woudln't have the TIBook if we didn't move.
I'm going to be paying mostly for my Blue/White G3 and I will be selling things to make money and room for it...
In addition, although the B/W may be partially parentally funded, I will be saving up my own cash for Mac OS X 10.whatever server for the B/W and probably my own Panther Client upgrade for the TiBook.

I'm not in the workplace yet... but here in AZ for my parents there simply isn't any jobs... I really think that there needs to be some jobs where authority simply cannot be questioned, and weird hours will ALWAYS need to be worked... there isn't any way around that unless we can make robo-laborers...

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Thats a load of crap. The problem with kids of the last decade or 2 is that we brainwash them with
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In fact, I do agree with that (if that's even what you meant) I just don't know if society wants to let that be... Most European cultures, as far as I've seen, basically follow a system similar to that, but in America it does seem as though they just want to stick the bulk of us into some blue-collar job that needs virtually no talent at all :-\

either that or I'm just making things up in order not to feel inadequate.

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In fact, I do agree with that (if that's even what you meant) I just don't know if society wants to
let that be... Most European cultures, as far as I've seen, basically follow a system similar to that,
but in America it does seem as though they just want to stick the bulk of us into some blue-collar
job that needs virtually no talent at all :-\

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GeekWurkz, where do you live? My school in WA wansn't cookiecutting us, but in AZ, sadly, it seems as though they're trying to do something like that...

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Central PA... My school in Salt Lake City, UT was much better, however, since I'm not Mormon I didn't really fit in there.

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I also hate this 100% politically correct crap thats going on.You cant say or do anything that will even remotely offend anybody even if its just a joke. Books are being banned because of this, movies are being re edited ( han solo shooting 2nd in star wars 1 re-release).

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Yeah, it gets to the point where it's nuts... For example, the Asst. Principal at my school tried to ban Farenheight 451. Never mind that it's about banned books... She also took a copy of Anthem by Ayn Rand out of the school library because it was "Not conductive to a democratic scociety" No joke.

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Kids today are given a multitude of options & told that each option is the "right" option.

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Hrmmm... I seem to recall a song about that... "No Such Thing" by John Mayer...

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Yeah, it gets to the point where it's nuts... For example, the Asst. Principal at my school tried to ban Farenheight 451. Never mind that it's about banned books... She also took a copy of Anthem by Ayn Rand out of the school library because it was "Not conductive to a democratic scociety" No joke.

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I can imagine a school library not having a book due to budget issues... but other than that... especially things like harry potter...

sickening is that.

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What the hell? That sounds as bad as the bloody christian schools here that want to ban Harry Potter!

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Now if only school actually taught us something. I know... I'm the king of wishful thinking.

Nick

shaktiman

For me Harry Potter is riding along this wave that can surley only teach kids that if your not doing well then you need supernatural powers to survive?

I believe that film is a responsible medium & should provide kids with a sense that a good/strong personality will help you be successful, not some silly magic tricks & a dodgy half uncle.

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No real biggie,

For me Harry Potter is riding along this wave that can surley only teach kids that if your not doing well then you need supernatural powers to survive?

I believe that film is a responsible medium & should provide kids with a sense that a good/strong personality will help you be successful, not some silly magic tricks & a dodgy half uncle.

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Unless you want to know the basics on using drugs.

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I already got that from "health" class.

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Amazingly, I'm one of those people that nobody really hates. (at least out of ones who could beat me)

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Or maybe even a simple lesson on taking nude photography?

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Why do you need to learn that at school? A 3-week summer camp will teach you that. (and how to... well... ya know)

Of course, I also learned the most effective way to duct tape a door shut, open said door, open any door using only a student ID or a paperclip and a shoestring, make the intercom play rock music from any computer on the network, change the bell sound to a randomly selected barnyard animal, create students, assign grades, and burn a CD from their locked down Windoze 2000 boxes. Of course, none of that helped my grades (If I hadn't had as much support from my teachers as I did, I'd probably have been suspended by the idiot Asst. Principal)

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No real biggie,

For me Harry Potter is riding along this wave that can surley only teach kids that if your not doing well then you need supernatural powers to survive?

I believe that film is a responsible medium & should provide kids with a sense that a good/strong personality will help you be successful, not some silly magic tricks & a dodgy half uncle.

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Interesting take on the story. I think part of the story says that no matter how screwed you seem to be, you can still get lucky. I personally just consider it a good book and nothing more.

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if people have a problem with _ANY_ book... they can just not read it... and if they still read it... they're stupid... they don't need to ruin that book for other people...

Polititians used to get away with anything because the newspapers would just cover it up, now they show it on a loop 24/7 on CNN.

Also the news loves to show anything bad/corrupt they find going on, people get used to corruption and assume everyone does it.

The fact that the leaders in the US are lying about alot of things and treat us like idiots doesnt help matters.

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