Greenbriar gets kneecapped!

[The Village Idiot]

All I can say is to the Gloria Swanson primitive:

You go, sweetheart.  franksolich has your back.

Lordy Lordy Lordy... I do reckon she make a fine slave owner Frank. omg.

If this is true that girl needs some serious un-DUmmie help

[NHSparky]

 

Indeed.  One would think a college graduate would know how to spell and use proper punctuation, or at least know how a spell-checker works.

[Celtic Rose]

Indeed.  One would think a college graduate would know how to spell and use proper punctuation, or at least know how a spell-checker works.

My mom was complaining the other day about how her boss, who is an Elementary School Principal, doesn't have very good spelling or grammar, which is just incomprehensible to me.  Not that schools are doing much to improve the spelling of the nation, what with their use of "Best Guess Spelling".   

[GOBUCKS]

My mom was complaining the other day about how her boss, who is an Elementary School Principal, doesn't have very good spelling or grammar, which is just incomprehensible to me.  Not that schools are doing much to improve the spelling of the nation, what with their use of "Best Guess Spelling". 

My rule is that an intelligent person is always curious, which leads to being well-read.

Anyone who has the intelligence to be well-read will unavoidably acquire some skill in spelling,
punctuation, grammar, vocabulary, and sentence structure by osmosis. That skill can be greatly
enhanced by primary and secondary education, but there's no substitute for years of reading.

Ergo, anyone who demonstrates atrocious spelling, punctuation, grammar, vocabulary, and
sentence structure is not very intelligent.

I've personally never known anyone who is an exception to that rule, though I'm sure they exist.
You probably have to go outside civilized society.

[USA4ME]

I find the comments from both of them revealing in this regard:

greenbriar

I told her well XXX that would have put us on different sides

Tangerine LaBamba

…. she needs to be seeing a counselor and getting some help ….. you should have been making arrangements for someone to talk with that child, since a comment like that sounds far too much like depression talking

Slavery just happens to be the topic on this occasion, but this is a pattern with the primitives and liberals in general.  You have 2 primitives who have assigned themselves a place of superiority in that they wish to be able to tell a black person what is and isn’t in their own best interest.  Another reason their attempts at calling others “racist” always falls short.

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[Ree]

My rule is that an intelligent person is always curious, which leads to being well-read.

Anyone who has the intelligence to be well-read will unavoidably acquire some skill in spelling,
punctuation, grammar, vocabulary, and sentence structure by osmosis. That skill can be greatly
enhanced by primary and secondary education, but there's no substitute for years of reading.

Ergo, anyone who demonstrates atrocious spelling, punctuation, grammar, vocabulary, and
sentence structure is not very intelligent.

I've personally never known anyone who is an exception to that rule, though I'm sure they exist.
You probably have to go outside civilized society.

What a load of crap...Just open your eyes.....There are people who are very intelligent who can't spell for shit....Your "holier than thou" 'tude is very boorish...As the homegirl says "Ya ain't all that"....

[DumbAss Tanker]

TLB sure hates her some Greenbriar!

 

[GOBUCKS]

What a load of crap...Just open your eyes.....There are people who are very intelligent who can't spell for shit....Your "holier than thou" 'tude is very boorish...As the homegirl says "Ya ain't all that"....

Sorry, just drawing on personal experience. I'm sure there are a few exceptions, like dyslexics,
for example, but I've just never met one. Pinheads like DUmmy greenbriar are far more common.

[jtyangel]

Sorry, just drawing on personal experience. I'm sure there are a few exceptions, like dyslexics,
for example, but I've just never met one. Pinheads like DUmmy greenbriar are far more common.

I think what is very telling about greenbriar is that she doesn't even make the effort to use those things correctly. For example, I'm just a housewife(college educated, but still just a mother and housewife). Because of this, I come on here casually and really don't pay attention to if I'm doing everything properly. However, I think if I'd presented myself as a schoolteacher, I would like to think I'd make every effort to put forth a good example of my profession in the things that I do, whether I'm presenting those things casually or professionally. The fact remains, she presented herself as a teacher on a casual forum so she has set the bar for her postings imo. Her profession is KNOWING THESE VERY THINGS SHE DISDAINS(ie "I hate the grammar police") and that's what is a little disconcerting to the rest of us who are essentially her employer.

I think they are less a matter of intelligence and more of a matter of pride, especially when one is representative of their profession. That said, greenbriar has never really been one to show a lot of pride in anything she does.

[Tucker]

The greedy briar primitive is an 8th-grade social studies teacher, in or around Wichita, Kansas.  Circa 40 years old, kind of a chub.

Not to be confused with the Die alte Sau, the dysmenopausal Kansas school teacher, the "Proud2BLibKansan" primitive, who teaches special education, in or around Kansas City, Kansas.  Known to be 56 years old, her insides messed up.

I'm beginning to have doubts about Greenbriars profession. I'm starting to think she works in a school cafeteria or a janitor.

Remember that DUmmy's lie. All the time. They lie. Embellishment is their middle name.

[Ree]

Sorry, just drawing on personal experience. I'm sure there are a few exceptions, like dyslexics,
for example, but I've just never met one. Pinheads like DUmmy greenbriar are far more common.

Then I would say your "personal experiences" are very limited....

[franksolich]

Oh now, don't everybody get out of shape because of this spelling-and-grammar issue.

According to many psychiatric theories, weaknesses in spelling and grammar among the literate and well-educated (those otherwise being excepted) betray a contempt for others.

In this case, it reveals the contempt of a primitive for all the other primitives.

We see it in the correct-but-slapdash writing quality of the Bostonian Drunkard too.

The greedy briar primitive knows perfectly well how to spell, how to use correct grammar, and how to present her thoughts in a well-organized way.  She does know.

However, the greedy briar primitive obviously despises her fellow primitives, and doesn't do her best to present herself in the manner she is capable.  It's sort of like being a slob in front of other people; "Well, I really dislike them [other people], and so I don't have to look good for them."

Every time the greedy briar primitive puts up a sloppy piece of work, she's showing her contempt for her fellow primitives; she doesn't care how it looks, because they're only primitives, after all.

[The Village Idiot]

Then I would say your "personal experiences" are very limited....

Most people who have bad spelling do so because they don't read. I don't blame them. They were probably taught "whole word" and "best guess" spelling in school. This made it a pain to read apparently. I read for enjoyment but for many reading is just arduous. I find it sad that so many people have been so badly mid-educated.

[Ree]

Most people who have bad spelling do so because they don't read. I don't blame them. They were probably taught "whole word" and "best guess" spelling in school. This made it a pain to read apparently. I read for enjoyment but for many reading is just arduous. I find it sad that so many people have been so badly mid-educated.

I read everything I can get my hands on...but I still can't write or spell for shit...If I didn't have spell check my posts would prolly be unreadable..

[The Village Idiot]

I read everything I can get my hands on...but I still can't write or spell for shit...If I didn't have spell check my posts would prolly be unreadable..

Ah you obviously have CSCS. This is a growing affliction, especially for those attending public skools... Can't Spell Crap Syndrome... it's so sad. 

[Ree]

Ah you obviously have CSCS. This is a growing affliction, especially for those attending public skools... Can't Spell Crap Syndrome... it's so sad. 

When I attended public school the teachers could still bust your ass, then they called your parents and ya got it again at home...

[GOBUCKS]

When does a DUmmy use apostrophe's to spell plural's?
Alway's.

[The Village Idiot]

When I attended public school the teachers could still bust your ass, then they called your parents and ya got it again at home...

I remember. I was sent to the principals office once. I KNEW I'd get a spanking. So I just walked home. BOY did I learn some painful lessons that day.

[JakeStyle]

TLB waves the bullshit flag:

Tangerine LaBamba  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Sep-25-09 10:47 PM
Response to Reply #56
58. But, you see,
   
greenbriar would have been, according to her story, a wonderful and benevolent and civilly-disobedient slave owner who would have, of course, taught her slaves to read and to write.

You see, she would have been one of those really, really good slave owners. The ones who don't get much publicity because, well, they just didn't have the right PR firms representing them.

The idea that someone taught this kid that slavery wasn't so bad is deeply disturbing, but I'm now convinced that the story is fiction, so I'm no longer troubled about a poor kid so troubled that she would embrace the life of a slave. ..................................

Tangerine LaBamba  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Sep-25-09 09:52 PM
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51. After watching all the responses here,
   
so many from clear-thinking people who are as appalled as I was to read this OP, I have come to a conclusion, and it's all of my making, so I take complete responsibility for it.

I don't think this ever happened. I do not believe that any kid, no matter how harassed or upset, would tell any teacher that she wished to be a slave, or that she would be certain that the teacher would have been "one of those slave owners that would have risked everything to teach us read and write and better our lives."

I'm not believing any of it. That the idea of getting this kid help didn't come up until I raised it, and the "teacher's" claim, quite belatedly, that she'd talked to a counselor is just too pat, and the timing of its insertion by the OP is hardly believable.

When someone is found to have stolen another's words, and has been publicly proclaimed to be a plagiarist, that person's words are forever after suspect. Maybe this event really happened, but I doubt it very much. I think there was a story somewhere, and the OP just took some parts and made it her own self-serving, self-congratulatory work of fiction...........................

 

[Traveshamockery]

TLB waving the bullshit flag:

 

We should offer a complimentary invitation to the CC to Tangerine LaBamba - she's sounding more sensible everyday.  Most of the DUmmies seem to fall for just about anything but she seems to actually have her BS radar working. 

Way to go TLB!

 

[GOBUCKS]

Good job, DUmmy TLB!

Finally, she brought up DUmmy greenbriar's history of plagiarism, and DUmmy greenbriar
immediately asked DUmp mods to lock her thread.

[BlueStateSaint]

I second Jake's sentiment.  Though I'm sure that our political views would clash, I'm also sure that we could share a beer or two without pouring them over each other's heads (TLB and me).  

[formerlurker]

Ergo, anyone who demonstrates atrocious spelling, punctuation, grammar, vocabulary, and
sentence structure is not very intelligent.

I've personally never known anyone who is an exception to that rule, though I'm sure they exist.
You probably have to go outside civilized society.

Google "copy editor" -- George Will has one, and I don't think the man would be categorized as "not very intelligent."

[franksolich]

Oh my.

I'd be delighted if the Gloria Swanson primitive were to join us here, even if only off-and-on. 

It would give her an opportunity to hang around with high-class people, instead of the primitives.

And maybe she could critique franksolich's first-drafts posted here.

[GOBUCKS]

Google "copy editor" -- George Will has one, and I don't think the man would be categorized as "not very intelligent."

I draw a distinction between typos and DUmbitude.