Portugues:
Foi lindo ;)
Continuem o Bom trabalho ;)
~Sideral
Portugues:
Foi lindo ;)
Continuem o Bom trabalho ;)
~Sideral
<sparkington> hmm
<Joutei> Enough with the hmms
<sparkington> ok
<ZekeySLizard> hmmz0rs
<sparkington> yesssssssss
<sparkington> what wrong with hmm
<ZekeySLizard> hmm eats children.
<ZekeySLizard> hmm causes aids.
<sparkington> like you
<Joutei> It's pointless and doesn't contribute to the conversation
<ZekeySLizard> hmm hates black people
<Joutei> Remember, don't do hmm.
<sparkington> but it get people to talk
<ZekeySLizard> Just say NOES to hmm
<BatDan> This has been a PSA from the NG Chat.
I Like it
It's music for my eyes
February 2003
When we were in junior high school, my friend Rich and I made a map of the school lunch tables according to popularity. This was easy to do, because kids only ate lunch with others of about the same popularity. We graded them from A to E. A tables were full of football players and cheerleaders and so on. E tables contained the kids with mild cases of Down's Syndrome, what in the language of the time we called "retards."
We sat at a D table, as low as you could get without looking physically different. We were not being especially candid to grade ourselves as D. It would have taken a deliberate lie to say otherwise. Everyone in the school knew exactly how popular everyone else was, including us.
My stock gradually rose during high school. Puberty finally arrived; I became a decent soccer player; I started a scandalous underground newspaper. So I've seen a good part of the popularity landscape.
I know a lot of people who were nerds in school, and they all tell the same story: there is a strong correlation between being smart and being a nerd, and an even stronger inverse correlation between being a nerd and being popular. Being smart seems to make you unpopular.
Why? To someone in school now, that may seem an odd question to ask. The mere fact is so overwhelming that it may seem strange to imagine that it could be any other way. But it could. Being smart doesn't make you an outcast in elementary school. Nor does it harm you in the real world. Nor, as far as I can tell, is the problem so bad in most other countries. But in a typical American secondary school, being smart is likely to make your life difficult. Why?
The key to this mystery is to rephrase the question slightly. Why don't smart kids make themselves popular? If they're so smart, why don't they figure out how popularity works and beat the system, just as they do for standardized tests?
One argument says that this would be impossible, that the smart kids are unpopular because the other kids envy them for being smart, and nothing they could do could make them popular. I wish. If the other kids in junior high school envied me, they did a great job of concealing it. And in any case, if being smart were really an enviable quality, the girls would have broken ranks. The guys that guys envy, girls like.
In the schools I went to, being smart just didn't matter much. Kids didn't admire it or despise it. All other things being equal, they would have preferred to be on the smart side of average rather than the dumb side, but intelligence counted far less than, say, physical appearance, charisma, or athletic ability.
So if intelligence in itself is not a factor in popularity, why are smart kids so consistently unpopular? The answer, I think, is that they don't really want to be popular.
If someone had told me that at the time, I would have laughed at him. Being unpopular in school makes kids miserable, some of them so miserable that they commit suicide. Telling me that I didn't want to be popular would have seemed like telling someone dying of thirst in a desert that he didn't want a glass of water. Of course I wanted to be popular.
But in fact I didn't, not enough. There was something else I wanted more: to be smart. Not simply to do well in school, though that counted for something, but to design beautiful rockets, or to write well, or to understand how to program computers. In general, to make great things.
At the time I never tried to separate my wants and weigh them against one another. If I had, I would have seen that being smart was more important. If someone had offered me the chance to be the most popular kid in school, but only at the price of being of average intelligence (humor me here), I wouldn't have taken it.
Much as they suffer from their unpopularity, I don't think many nerds would. To them the thought of average intelligence is unbearable. But most kids would take that deal. For half of them, it would be a step up. Even for someone in the eightieth percentile
wTF?
Ur Crw r teh Suxs
Ahahahahah, I nearly thought this was serious until I saw the name and score.
{{{Sideral}}}
<3
Awesome guys
Awesome I promiss my next part will be xtra-good
Yay :D
....
you are the man
but not just any man
you are
BBQBEEFBURGERMAN
much <3
~Sideral
And thats a fact!
Beutifull
I think it was a great movie, the graphics, the sounds everything combined perfectly, although it needs to be longer...
Yes, but you'll never even imagine how long things like these takes.
I liked it
Well I really liked it, Specially the randomness
I really liked the graphics, they we're really good
the Sound was a bit crappy but fitting
no violence nor interactivity
Style and humor A+ ;)
Righty, thanks.
Well
Graphics : I liked the graphics, not perfect but good
Sound : Overabused song... I heared it already about 100 times... and I'm sick of it... but it fits the theme
Violence and Interactivity do not apply
Style: None, Overused style... If it was more original it would be better...
Humor: not really much...
Overall : 5 not a masterpiece but viewable
Cheers
PH33R SALTYJELLO
Hehehe
Great ;) Loved all the parts, specialy mine :P
~HUman
Lawl :P Thanks, Human! :)
-Drunken
Hi guys
Hello
I'm a noble watcher of your "show" and I like... Not my favorites, But Not the worst... I just have one problem with it now... Why america has more episodes than any other contry? It's Discrimination I say!!!11!!
I was just saying this, because if america does have more episodes, other large contrys should also have this right... Like Russia, And China...
Well Continue The Good Work
Cheers, Grapes
Well, America has a larger number of landmarks than any other country. It was hard to pick just the one.
Canada has two episodes, because there were two places there I wanted to do.
I was going to have two for China as well, but there wasn't enough space.
Thanks for the review =)
Z
Age 32, Male
Filipa
Lisbon, Portugal
Joined on 9/2/05