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gezzam
SFN Regular
Australia
751 Posts |
 Posted - 06/03/2002 : 22:50:35 [Permalink]
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Both....
Vice Captain of the footy team, however was in the Physics, Chemistry and Maths classes.
However I spent all my time down the beach with the other surfing bums...what else are you supposed to do when Mum and Dad live a three minute bike ride from a surf beach.
"Damn you people. Go back to your shanties." --- Shooter McGavin |
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opus
Skeptic Friend
Canada
50 Posts |
Posted - 06/04/2002 : 07:09:45 [Permalink]
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I was in the library club in Jr high, which put me squarely in the nerds for High School as well.
High School sports was and is not big in my end of Canada and I suspect in other areas as well. The major sport is Hockey and that is done out side the school system in most case. So there were few jocks. There were no Goths... it was the 70's. There were many pot heads. I was not in this group either. Actually, High school really sucked and I left it early and joined the army.
I was born a sceptic high school had nothing to do with it.
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jec96
Skeptic Friend
USA
61 Posts |
Posted - 06/04/2002 : 08:52:18 [Permalink]
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Chess club, Science Club....geek..but also a loner, and growing up on a farm put enough size on me I was basically left alone by the jocks, I mostly just sat and read in study hall, did all my homework (well) and was the kid that did good but teachers never noticed because I blended in...and I would not change a bit of it.
-It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 06/07/2002 : 12:51:17 [Permalink]
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I keep reading about all of you with the chess, math, physics and so on. I rebelled and failed my way through high school - OK I was bored silly too, but straight As turned out to not be enough.
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ljbrs
SFN Regular
USA
842 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2002 : 00:36:13 [Permalink]
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I have always been an individual, period! ALWAYS!
I have always permitted others to be themselves (whatever that meant). I always treated others as individuals, even if they acted as if they individually were part of a group. No big deal. I do not recognize groups. Only individuals.
Wanting to be a part of something which does not reflect my own values is against my principles. It does not matter to me what others think of me. I am not a part of their equation(s).
Live and let live has gotten me through life. I can get along with Christians so long as they do not proselytize me about their beliefs. It is foolish to attempt to change something so fundamental to their lives as their religious beliefs.
I do not feel like going through life hating everybody and everything, simply because they were not lucky enough to be able to think clearly enough to think for themselves.
Oh, well, it keeps me out of trouble with silly religious people. It also keeps me from disliking them for their ignorance. It does not keep me out of trouble with anti-individuals. Oh, well, I am used to that.
ljbrs  
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Sven62
New Member
USA
10 Posts |
Posted - 07/07/2002 : 08:19:17 [Permalink]
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Ya know those folks that didn't seem to fit any clique but had friends among the lot of them, my daughter informed me the other day that they are called 'Floaters', of which she is one, and I suppose that I would have fit that description as well, though more of a loner.
Don't really care all that much what the people I went to HS with are doing now. I've run across some of them, mostly people concerned (or not concerned) with things of no interest to me. Suppose I'll miss the 20th reunion up coming.
I was a floater too, Trish. I was in band, drama, I had burn-out friends that I got high with, and girlfriends from every corner of school. Floater is a great name for it.
I would like to throw in my two cents about the 20 year reunion... GO TO IT!! I was astounded at the way people had changed and the way everyone wanted to talk everyone else. No cliques. No hang-ups. It was a friggin' LOVE-FEST!! We could not get enough of each other. I have given this advice to two friends who ended up going to their respective 20 yr reunions and they returned with the same story...
Love-Fest.
Sven
When Ah say whoa... Ah meeeeean... WHOA!!
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Robert
New Member
Korea
21 Posts |
Posted - 07/13/2002 : 05:09:34 [Permalink]
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I was never one to fit in anywhere. I was only in High School for 2 years... after getting myself kicked out of some classes and causing some trouble... I took up homeschool until I was able to complete my equivelency test. I am still that very same loner today, only louder, bolder, and more aggresive... and I wouldn't have my life any other way.! I am alone, and thrive on the isolation. Two best things I ever did was get out of high school, and disown my family!
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The SollyLama
Skeptic Friend
USA
234 Posts |
Posted - 08/30/2002 : 07:48:58 [Permalink]
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I was the criminal element in every school I went to since kindergarten. My parents were offered they money back to take out of kindergarten. I also got dragged to numerous shrinks to assess my behavior. Thankfully my parents didn't believe in drugging their kids into submission.
My punishment was 4 1/2 years of Catholic (New England, french speaking, ruler in hand kinda catholic) school. I got banned from the twice monthly mass we had to attend for a year before that. I brought in the Satanic bible, Koran, new age crap, anything that wasn't catholic and read it in religion class just to piss off the teachers. It worked, they react very badly to any sort of open mindedness. I finally got thrown out in 9th grade for throwing a seat/desk combo thru a second floor window. Hey, I was dared.
I self-medicated thru most of high school. I fell in with the Punks first, then the metalheads and hippies when the punk scene died out in Nashua (NH). Boston was always a hoppin' place for great punk though.
The punks were the coolest group by far. Mostly the people who spent alot of time in art classes. Even the skinheads preferred the more creative (and easy to ace) classes. Metalheads were too wrapped up in labels.
But I never followed much. I was the first to get a tattoo (a real one, not counting cheap juvie jailhouse stuff) the first to dive off cliffs into rivers too. Maybe just more stupid than the rest, although they all followed!
School sucks. Other than math I could ace any class. I only ever took one shop class but learned more in it than all the history classes from k-12. School is just too boring. It's not teaching- it's indoctrinating. I got tossed out of a class for asking specifically why Hitler and a good chunk of an entire country hated jews. That nazis simply were 'bad people' wasn't good enough for me. There had to be some basis that spun out of control. No, they were just bad, and shut up. I pinned several teachers in corners knowing more about a subject than they did.
Since high school, I did my stint in the Army which I mentioned in other posts. Now I work for a Northrop Grumman owned company.
No remorse, No repent. We don't care what it meant. Another day another death. Another sorrow another breath. |
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The SollyLama
Skeptic Friend
USA
234 Posts |
Posted - 08/30/2002 : 07:57:44 [Permalink]
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I did forget my one brush with nerdism:
I was the state champion in DECA (marketing and business) for NH one year, but got suspended from attending the nationals. The next year I was 2nd in NH, 27th in the country when I did go to the nats. I missed a partial scholarship to UNH by being outside the top 25.
This was a crew of kids that wore dad's ties to school. Preppies and nerds. I was the only long haired stoner freak in the bunch. For a product demonstration excersize I brought in a fully automatic paintball gun and peppered the wall. Once I didn't do the homework and had no product to demo, so I whipped out a tattoo and winged it.
I also had the highest grade in the class and well, did damn good in competitions.
I got razzed for it alot by the other burners.
Closet nerd? Does a Dragonlance addiction count?
No remorse, No repent. We don't care what it meant. Another day another death. Another sorrow another breath. |
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
4826 Posts |
Posted - 09/03/2002 : 11:11:13 [Permalink]
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I did forget my one brush with nerdism:
I was the state champion in DECA (marketing and business) for NH one year, but got suspended from attending the nationals. The next year I was 2nd in NH, 27th in the country when I did go to the nats. I missed a partial scholarship to UNH by being outside the top 25.
This was a crew of kids that wore dad's ties to school. Preppies and nerds. I was the only long haired stoner freak in the bunch. For a product demonstration excersize I brought in a fully automatic paintball gun and peppered the wall. Once I didn't do the homework and had no product to demo, so I whipped out a tattoo and winged it.
I also had the highest grade in the class and well, did damn good in competitions.
I got razzed for it alot by the other burners.
Closet nerd? Does a Dragonlance addiction count?
No remorse, No repent. We don't care what it meant. Another day another death. Another sorrow another breath.
Yes, I'm sorry. It does. Especially anything by R. A. Salvatore. Here's your pocket protector. Welcome to the fold.
Nerds forever, nerds unite.
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