we used to horse around with that stuff too, although it was before your time, or before consumer internet. our shit was so old school you can find scribblings of the schematics on the back of the Constitution. “Phreaking” (and i’m NOT talking about the dance floor), acoustic couplers, 300 baud modems, tape recorders (to literally RECORD code), etc. i got licked once pretty bad for it in 8th grade when a “Miscellaneous Investigations” department from Company XXX called up my folks to ask how a few thousand dollars of phone calls were originating from our home phone using a calling card i grabbed off a well known BBS i was part of. THE GIRLS LOVED IT.

Hey Janeofalltrades, since the English teacher’s reprimand, the grammar did get better in this thread. Also, from my simple-minded phys ed teacher’s perspective, flaunting something offensive does not have to detract from anybody in order to remain what it is – offensive. Let’s say you decided to venture out in the real world without the daily help of a shower and deodorant. And you stank – just hypothetically, of course. But all your friends smelled pretty nice. Your BO will not be taking anything away from your friends’ perfumed efforts, but your BO would still be reprehensible, right?

I am sympathetic when the poor and downtrodden of this country use bad grammar. But a bunch of desis? C’mon, your first-generation, education-centric parents probably paid your way through college in entirety without your ever having to flip a single burger. So what’s the bravado in playing “ghetto” with the language?

That’s still a stretch from stealing money or replacing someone’s photo with your own on their id, but I can identify with part of what Shiv Sharma was doing. The fact is that when you’re in high school, you usually have no concept that your actions have repercussions. I’m not excusing him, just saying that my friends and I back in high school can understand the motivation however misguided it may have been.

I turned the table on one of these guys, He approached me in the supermarket once, pretended to look at the shrimp ramen. I started asking him if he likes shrimp or chicken better. He says he was buying it for his friend, so I return with “wow you’re a really great friend to pick up shrimp ramen” basically every lie he told I pushed it even further. As he was leaving I think we were talking about whether shrimp of the california or baltimore coast was better and its future for the ramen industry overall.

He studied programming at Brooklyn Tech, one of New York’s most selective public high schools, where he met Damaris.

that’s up there with Stuy and Bronx Science…

for dasichist:

shitty SAT scores

(but seriously — i probably over extended myself in my last comment. i might blog about it some day, but for now, have no intention of discussing it. sorry!)

Only if you believe in collective guilt.

Pray tell us how does the bad grammar on this thread take away from Binny or Bittu winning the Spelling Bee? You were just looking for something to whine about weren’t you? Admit it.