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Bill Gates has something to say to your children.
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Dec 8, 2017 00:06:13   #
Dr. Evil Loc: In Your Face
 
And he's dead on.



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Dec 8, 2017 00:16:54   #
grace scott
 
2wheeljunkie wrote:
And he's dead on.




I love this: especially 11.

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Dec 8, 2017 00:45:19   #
Dr. Evil Loc: In Your Face
 
Definitely words some don't want to hear.

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Dec 8, 2017 04:38:23   #
PeterS
 
2wheeljunkie wrote:
And he's dead on.


Interesting but according to the internet this list is the work of Charles J. Sykes, author of the 1996 book Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can’t Read, Write, Or Add. (Sykes’ list was published in numerous newspapers, although it did not appear in his 1996 book. It did, however, form the meat of Sykes’ 2007 book, 50 Rules Kids Won’t Learn in School: Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education.) Many versions omit the last three rules:

Rule No. 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you’re out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That’s what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for “expressing yourself” with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.

Rule No. 13: You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven’t seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.

Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school’s a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you’ll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You’re welcome.

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Dec 8, 2017 05:35:58   #
Frank202
 
Those are all good rules to follow now if we can just get the kids to listen

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Dec 8, 2017 06:07:09   #
archie bunker Loc: Texas
 
Frank202 wrote:
Those are all good rules to follow now if we can just get the kids to listen


And a lot of adults too.

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Dec 8, 2017 06:20:23   #
Frank202
 
archie bunker wrote:
And a lot of adults too.


Yes you are quite right about that

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Dec 8, 2017 08:24:08   #
no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun
 
PeterS wrote:
Interesting but according to the internet this list is the work of Charles J. Sykes, author of the 1996 book Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can’t Read, Write, Or Add. (Sykes’ list was published in numerous newspapers, although it did not appear in his 1996 book. It did, however, form the meat of Sykes’ 2007 book, 50 Rules Kids Won’t Learn in School: Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education.) Many versions omit the last three rules:

Rule No. 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you’re out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That’s what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for “expressing yourself” with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.

Rule No. 13: You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven’t seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.

Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school’s a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you’ll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You’re welcome.
Interesting but according to the internet this lis... (show quote)


So what if Bill Gates was quoting someone else, does that make it less valid?

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Dec 8, 2017 08:53:47   #
Kevyn
 
no propaganda please wrote:
So what if Bill Gates was quoting someone else, does that make it less valid?

Bill Gates had nothing to do with any of it, it is another mans statement falsely attributed to Gates. Why some jackass would put this together is beyond me. Anyone could attribute it to Obama, Trump, or Hitler for that matter and post and email it and clueless dolts would pass it on to their clueless pals as if it was the gospel.

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Dec 8, 2017 09:42:13   #
out of the woods Loc: to hell and gone New York State
 
Guess Kevyn does not like it. Personally think I'll have a poster made up for my kitchen to remind the millenials I spawed that there is no free lunch, and the free dinner card expires soon.

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Dec 8, 2017 09:51:54   #
Dr. Evil Loc: In Your Face
 
out of the woods wrote:
Guess Kevyn does not like it. Personally think I'll have a poster made up for my kitchen to remind the millenials I spawed that there is no free lunch, and the free dinner card expires soon.

Kevy is just an antagonistic jerk, I bet his own mother doesn't like him.

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Dec 8, 2017 10:09:08   #
no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun
 
2wheeljunkie wrote:
Kevy is just an antagonistic jerk, I bet his own mother doesn't like him.


I remember a rather crude saying from more than a half a century ago that might well pertain to people like Kevyn "the best part of him ran down his mothers leg" If I have to explain that insult to you, you don't belong here on OPP

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Dec 8, 2017 10:10:02   #
archie bunker Loc: Texas
 
2wheeljunkie wrote:
Kevy is just an antagonistic jerk, I bet his own mother doesn't like him.


I'm sure she probably wants him out of her house, but realizes that she made her own bed by not beating his backside.

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Dec 8, 2017 10:22:06   #
Dr. Evil Loc: In Your Face
 
no propaganda please wrote:
I remember a rather crude saying from more than a half a century ago that might well pertain to people like Kevyn "the best part of him ran down his mothers leg" If I have to explain that insult to you, you don't belong here on OPP


Yup, used that one here on OPP before, probably referring to him also.

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Dec 8, 2017 15:46:01   #
pafret Loc: Northeast
 
2wheeljunkie wrote:
And he's dead on.


This wasn't Bill Gates writing and I doubt he issued these at any time. He would have to be the world's biggest hypocrite if he could spout these with a straight face.

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