Would You Go To College

[Terrierman]

36 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

If I screenshot and share the ads attached to this forum do I get additional warnings ?     

There's a particular Camel Toe ad that I've been tempted to inquire about.   

If you demand clean content on here then why don't you CLEAN UP THESE PERVERTED FRIGGIN' ADS ?   

And NO, Sorry, you can't blame it on MY internet activity.  Nice try though. 😡  

OAF gets PAID for them.... That's why!    

How much per month would you like for me to pay, so I can say whatever I want?    I can Venmo Phil or send you a check.  Otherwise how about cleaning up this place on YOUR END.   😉

Whaddya say?

 

 

 

I say you need to abide by the forum rules and don't deliberately misspell words to get around the word censor.

[fishinwrench]

31 minutes ago, Terrierman said:

I say you need to abide by the forum rules and don't deliberately misspell words to get around the word censor.

What words are you referring to?  

I have no control over how you interpret certain words.    Words that we use can have various meanings.  If I didn't spell it in a foul or offensive way....then I didn't mean it in a foul or offensive way.

Clean up those ads, please. 

 If I don't see them on any other forum or website that I visit, then I shouldn't be seeing them here.

[Terrierman]

17 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

What words are you referring to?  

I have no control over how you interpret certain words.    Words that we use can have various meanings.  If I didn't spell it in a foul or offensive way....then I didn't mean it in a foul or offensive way.

Clean up those ads, please. 

 If I don't see them on any other forum or website that I visit, then I shouldn't be seeing them here.

You can't receive private messages, but there's one ready for you when you can.

[fishinwrench]

 

[Phil Lilley]

Glen - you need to delete some messages - your mail box is full (100).

I found a new tool in Google Adsense.  I blocked about 600 ads by going through and picking types that I could block.  We'll see if it changes things.

I don't want these particular ads on this site just as much as you don't.  But this has nothing to do with you personally, I can assure you of that.

[fishinwrench]

I'm not uptight about anything, I'm just giving terrierman a hard time and having fun.   I'll clean out the mailbox and hopefully my walking papers aren't in there.  😁 

[oneshot]

We were going down Interstate. Told my wife we could do this and that and make money.

Like she problem is our age.

oneshot

[fishinwrench]

All clean, nothing there.  I'll check again later.   

[fishinwrench]

4 hours ago, oneshot said:

We were going down Interstate. Told my wife we could do this and that and make money.

Like she problem is our age.

oneshot

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[Al Agnew]

My wife is the kind of person who much prefers to learn stuff in a classroom setting.  I'm just the opposite, maybe because I'm an introvert and don't particularly like to be around people.  I learn by far the best with self-motivation and on my own.  With the internet, you can learn a whole lot without going to school, but a lot of people don't have the skills to separate the good stuff from the bs.

College was great for me when I went as a kid.  I hated high school, even though it was exceedingly easy for me.  Hated just about every moment in a classroom.  Got into a special summer college math program at the local junior college, 6 credit hours of advanced math, the summer after I graduated high school.  Was in WAY over my head, since I hadn't gone past algebra in high school and math was my worst subject--still don't know how I got into that math program.  Worked my tail off, for the first time in my scholastic life, trying to pass those courses.  I did it.  But by that time I was burnt out on classrooms.  I had a scholarship offer from Mizzou, turned it down.  Took two years of junior college, where I spent more time in the cafeteria playing cards and playing pickup basketball in the gym than I did in the classroom...heck, one class I only took because I liked the teacher.  I attended the first two weeks, then he got sick and I found out I didn't like the substitute, so I didn't go to that class the rest of the semester, though I never bothered to drop out officially.  The good teacher came back with 2 weeks left in the semester, and I showed up in class.  He called me into his office and asked why I hadn't been in class the whole semester.  I told him I preferred him over the sub, which sounded like sucking up but was the truth.  

"Well Agnew, how am I supposed to pass you when you haven't been here all semester?"

"Do what you have to, but I know this stuff anyway."

"Okay, take the final.  If you get a B or better, I'll pass you."

I aced it.

So basically, I learned nothing very useful in junior college, and when I got my famous "Associate of Arts" degree, I thought I was done.  Two years later, after working full time in a grocery store bagging groceries and cutting produce, I realized it might be a good idea to get a real degree.  So what degree to get?  My original scholarship was for a major in wildlife conservation (now THAT would have paid well, said no MDC conservation agent ever), but I had changed my mind...why not get a teaching degree?  Teach kids, HAVE THE SUMMERS OFF!  Of course, it helped that a girl I was infatuated with was going to that same school that fall.  The girl dumped me, but wow, did I have fun in Southeast MO State, even though I'd finally gotten serious about making good grades.  College was still easy.

Now did I learn a whole lot of useful stuff?  Nope.  You don't learn much about the actual job of teaching with a teaching degree.  When you get into the classroom yourself, it's sink or swim and learning how to handle kids on the fly.  I majored in art, of course, and had a terrific watercolor painting instructor, Jake Wells.  I learned to love watercolor from him.  But I can't think of another thing I actually learned in class that I use today.

But, college greatly broadened my horizons.  For one thing, it turned me from a bit racist (like practically everybody in my home town in the early 1970s) to realizing the people of different skin color were just like white people, some good and some bad.  Playing pickup basketball with a bunch of black dudes helped do that.  Heck, we had one black girl in our whole high school, and I doubt if I'd spoken two words to her the whole time we were in high school.  In fact, I probably hadn't said two words to ANY black person before I got to SEMO.

And it turned me from a pretty shy kid to one that at least had some confidence in myself, just from interacting with a lot of people from different walks of life.  I took writing and public speaking courses just because they were electives and sounded interesting. 

So what I really learned from college is that you may not learn much that will be useful in later life, but "going away" to college is a pretty good way to grow yourself up.

Now that doesn't apply to an older adult going to college.  Or maybe it does.  Maybe the simple classroom interactions with other students from other situations is broadening even when you've got a lot of years of experience.  And...learning is fun if it's something you might be interested in learning.