Hello everyone ---- After reading all those posts on linking "emninem" and such ... I personally somehow ... fail to see the appeal ... I guess I am someone who gets scared easily and aggression directed towrwards me or others is bound to either make me cry or go all sarcastic (I met some prototypes of "hard men" in my life ... including one guy who gave me detailed descriptions of all the crimes he had commited ... and as I was standing at the station waiting for a train he told me how he would love to push someone when the train came in. I told him to say it a bit louder and see how many people would step back from the rails then ... He seemed to be on the outlook for a girlfriend .... believe me I was glad when he got off the train and I was alone again ----) Also I am much stronger than I look and very macho (ever since I helped my best friend (the one I made a best-of belle and sebastian compilation nearly two years ago ... he even likes them) to clear out his cellar his dad always tells him to "call the lunatic" when it comes to carrying heavy stuff) I am normally the one walks (or used to as I don't have one right now) round the car to open the door for guys who got a lift with me .. who wants buy people drinks or at least pay for her own --- My point .. hmmmm ... if I ever came accross "eminem" I'd RUN--- very very fast. And hide in the toilett. And climb out of the window. Home education .... I have quite mixed views on this ... Arguments against it have mostly been that kids never learn to interact with others their age .. True enough .. But I guess you'll have to look at your kid as an individual ...and not map out all their future education at a very early point in their lives ... I dont think home education would have been a solution for me .. but "normal" school was a sheer nightmare for me ... I guess what I learned there via interaction was that I would never be liked and only tolerated if I was lucky (except for a few special people) What I also learned was that people don't forget ,,, once the freak always the freak ... And I was lucky cos I never got beaten up ... just hassled by words ... I guess there are ways of home education where parents get together and take turns in teaching .. so you would have a group of say 20 children ... that would also take care of the problem of one person heavily influencing a child / one-sided education ... take care everybody! v/x -- what a waste of time --- http://www.clodia.net -- what a waste of time --- http://www.clodia.net +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+