WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW?

Remember when demos were free? Me neither.

liberty i think you might need to translate from aussie to northern hemisphere

I didn't want to say dumpster because that's a whole other thing (involving dumpsters, for example). Tip, as in rubbish dump/tip/collection area. Back in my youth they were open for the public to go in or out without money or guards.

Dumpsters are more those big metal bins on wheels, what Liberty is talking about is the tip, where all the garbage trucks dump their daily collections. Think landfill.

Yeah, I was just using Dumpster Diving to explain the activity, since it's very similar. Our town garbage dump is off in the backwoods, away from everybody and everything. There's actually a really nice vista out there to look at of the mountains that stretch behind the town.

author=Liberty
Man, why have times changed so much that you can no longer go tip surfing? Seriously, as a kid that shit was the bomb. Go down the local rubbish tip and find awesome stuff that people just threw out. Nowdays you have to pay to take stuff to the tip as well as pay to take stuff out. What a load of crock!

I don't get it. If it's in the dumpster, then the person who threw it in there clearly didn't want it and saw no value in selling it off, so why are there so many barriers to taking stuff from a junk heap? :P

Looks like it's time for me to bust out my hairdryer.

author=Craze
...also, at work today one kid broke his arm and another kid punched a new hole in our wall! this was while screaming "I'M GONNA FUCK YOU UP YOU FUCKING BITCH" at one of my co-workers. the worst part about my job is that i'm so desensitized to this that it's like... meh *waits for kid to calm down*

o__o

From what you've said about your job it sounds pretty rough, but at least I can kind of expect it from kids. I used to see so many shitty parents at McDonald's scream at their kids for things like looking at the kid's meal toy display and sitting down at a booth before the parent was ready and I had to bite my tongue every time, it sucked.


Also, when I moved into my current place, it was move-out day and people were throwing everything away. I found an absolute treasure trove of good stuff in the dumpster, including:

• A vacuum cleaner
  
• Two lamps
  
• A coffee table with a *slight* nick
  
• A display katana
  
• A nicely-framed PHD
  

All of which are decorating my apartment currently. The sword's kinda chintzy so I keep it in a closet, but I'm debating crossing the guy's name off the PHD, scribbling mine on it and hanging it.

I was imagining what episode 3 of life is Strange will be like.then I thought Quentin Tarantino is a badass director.yup that's pretty much how my train of thought goes.

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From what you've said about your job it sounds pretty rough, but at least I can kind of expect it from kids. I used to see so many shitty parents at McDonald's scream at their kids for things like looking at the kid's meal toy display and sitting down at a booth before the parent was ready and I had to bite my tongue every time, it sucked.

it's not a job for everybody. i don't have a lot of patience for dumbassery on the internet, a place where you have all the time in the world to put your best foot forward in text, but in person and with kids i'm pretty patient. i think a lot of people would be surprised at how chill i am =P

sucky parents are horrible. while not all of my kids have bad parents (some of them have no parents! wait...), some most certainly do. the saddest, i think, is when they refuse to see their kid as anything but a special little angel. or maybe it was early this week when a depressed girl was told to kill herself by her step-mom. sigh.

but! it's not like the job doesn't have upsides and rewards! i'm really bad at doing one thing for a long time -- not adhd, i just like to browse around life -- and in my position i teach and help out in all the subject areas. and the kids themselves, when they finally open up to me, let me work with to improve their lives. i have all three seniors graduating this semester, and one already got accepted into college. another one is a skilled laborer thanks to working a vocational center in the afternoons. we do our best to set these kids up for success, and it tends to pay off! even if they punch the walls sometimes!

also TOTALLY DO THE PHD THING