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2 hours ago, TaleSpinner said:

October 10: What was your best/favorite subject in school?

Arts and history. I’ve always been able to become reasonably proficient at any art or craft I set myself to, especially if I had good instruction. And I’ve always considered history fun. As long as you don’t stick to the textbooks they give you in school :devil:

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On 10/2/2019 at 2:29 PM, TaleSpinner said:

October 2: What is your favorite gemstone (precious, semi-precious, or otherwise) and why?

(Multiple choices are welcome, mostly because I won't be able to keep it to just one.)

 

I have none although diamonds are always welcome.

 

On 10/3/2019 at 4:19 PM, TaleSpinner said:

October 3: What do your favorite dice look like? 

 

I do not game, so I don't mind.

 

On 10/4/2019 at 2:02 PM, TaleSpinner said:

October 4: How is Fall progressing in your corner of the world?

 

October 5-6 (Weekend Quest): Get out and enjoy Fall, take a picture of Fall prettiness and show us.

 

Fall is wet and gray, there are a few sunnier days coming though.

 

Since we were on vacation at Gran Canaria is wouldn't be a Fall pic, it was still like summer there!

 

On 10/7/2019 at 2:03 PM, TaleSpinner said:

October 7: What sorts of pests invade your home, and how do you deal with them?

 

(For the record, teenagers and other human larval forms do not count as pests.)

 

Shrews, I have blocked most possible entrances and set traps.

 

On 10/8/2019 at 1:35 PM, TaleSpinner said:

October 8: What not-so-fun project is keeping you from painting your minis or that you are blithely ignoring while painting minis.

 

Making a living.

On 10/9/2019 at 1:56 PM, TaleSpinner said:

October 9: Other than the one we are currently inhabiting, what's your favorite planet and why?

 

Risa :ph34r:

 

3 hours ago, TaleSpinner said:

October 10: What was your best/favorite subject in school?

 

Both Dutch and History were my best subjects.

History my favorite.

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28 minutes ago, redambrosia said:

Arts and history. I’ve always been able to become reasonably proficient at any art or craft I set myself to, especially if I had good instruction. And I’ve always considered history fun. As long as you don’t stick to the textbooks they give you in school :devil:

 

Bizarre history is everywhere, especially the kind that will keep the attention of teenagers*. You have to work to make history boring. But a set of perverse incentives has made history textbook writers work very hard to do exactly that. Textbook history is written to appease as many school boards as possible. So American History books (for example) will have at least two pages on every president (even John Tyler ::P:), so that they can sell to the state from which the president came (Virginia buys a lot of books).

 

* E.g.: Friedrich August I, Elector of Saxony, was a champion fox flinger and fathered perhaps as many as 400 children, one of which was even legitimate. He bribed his way into becoming the King of Poland (as Augustus II, the Strong), twice. And his court alchemist was responsible for the first European creation of true porcelain.

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October 10: best/favorite subject 
 

Urban Planning in Graduate school.  pretty much all of it.  even Law (although I didn't get an A)

the supreme court can be very subtly sarcastic & biting in their decisions.  

 

before that?  English.   reading and analysis of literature or poetry. 

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2 hours ago, aku-chan said:

 

Down with homework!

 

Urgh... The sheer number of hours I spent in detention and isolation because I never did mine.

 

I don't know what moron decided kids had to be at school at 7am to start classes half asleep, but by my junior year of  high school I had given up trying.  It helped that my first period history teacher was an arrogant jerk who liked to belittle students.  So I would wander in just before 2nd period, report myself Tardy to the front office and go to class.  I racked up more detentions than the dope smokers and trouble makers, then used the time to read or do homework. 

 

 

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2 hours ago, Crowley said:

Weirdly I can't ever remember getting detention or anything like that for it. I just got a zero grade. I was a hard kid to punish. Take away my video games? Okay, I'll read. I was very go with the flow, and it made life at least a little difficult for my parents and teachers. 

 

Yep, that sounds like teenage me.

 

My parents didn't particularly care (neither of them even finished high school, so they thought getting an education was a complete waste of time), but my school was determined to get me to do my homework no matter what. Unfortunately for them, I'd figured out, fairly early on, that I could be grade C student with no effort whatsoever, so I wasn't going to budge.

 

Of course it all blew up in my face, but it seemed like a good plan at the time.

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