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I have been away

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 3:02 pm
by kasperl
For a week and a bit. Most of the storys'll come later. The pictures never will if I can help it.

Basicly I've been to a sort of tutoring/extra help with school camp thingy. third time I've been on one, and I've enjoyed this one a lot, more even then the one before this one. Basicly, it's 6 days, 9 secondary school kids, 6 university students, studying 4*90 minutes a day, and the rest is spent having fun, doing the housekeeping, and talking a lot.
I ended up dancing around with my hair in two half-pigtail thingy's (For those with long hair, put a band in it, but on the last time pulling the hair through the band, leave it half way through.) and still laughing my ass of in the flash of the camera. No alcohol involved in that one either.

I learned a lot, and not just school stuff (did you know you could bake in low-fat butter like stuff?) and had a great amount of fun, and met quite a few interesting people. Mind, I've got some stuff to think about now, but that's another discussion.




What happened over here? I saw that Cobra took on another nick, and that there've been some issues with the HLP server clock, but I haven't seen anything as big as the DS issue (which started while I was away.). I just haven't noticed Petrarch posting, where did he go?

Re: I have been away

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 3:23 pm
by Goober5000
kasperl wrote:(did you know you could bake in low-fat butter like stuff?)
Margarine? ;)

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:17 pm
by kasperl
Halvarine, the even lower fat variant.

Didn't know the words in Dutch and English were the same.

Mind, once you get to 40% fat 60% water you need to pre-heat it, tgaking a whole pack of the stuff, melting it in a seperate pan, making sure the pan is cold when you put the halvarine in, and when it's toroughly molten, take a spoon with a long handle, and poor the stuff into the frying pan. If you don't do this, the stuff'll jump up and explode in your face when you put it in the pan.

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:30 pm
by d3jake
Here's some advice
(And don't think me rude,)
Never fry bacon
In the nude

I got that one out of a Readers Digest.

If that stuff is 40% butter and 60% water, I bet it tastes like crap... Right?

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 5:45 pm
by kasperl
Taste isn't the issue, the stuff will explode when you heat it to abruptly.

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:01 pm
by liberator
You realize that margarine and styrofoam have only 1 molecule different in their atomic structures right?

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:16 pm
by Taristin
So does water and peroxide. :doubt:

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:59 pm
by karajorma
liberator wrote:You realize that margarine and styrofoam have only 1 molecule different in their atomic structures right?
Seriously lib. Check your facts before posting scientific stuff. It gets tiresome having to correct you all the time :D

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:25 pm
by Hippo
Er... EVERYTHING has one differnent molecule in it... I think you meant atom ;)


You know, butter is carbohydrate free or something... (or maybe its penut butter, or maybe its not carbohydrates afterall...)...

Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:10 am
by kasperl
Aside from the chemistry, all I know is that when the water in the halvarine starts to boil, it has to escape, and the fat will explode away. Messy, especially when it's your face above the skillet.

Funny fact: A math teacher on that camp (student still, but already teaching parttime due to teacher shortages), told me that he'd like to see more kids like me in his class, while my own math teacher started off the new year in class by saying:"I hope you all will start working for math now.".........

Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:14 am
by Flipside
Should have asked what the wages were ;)

Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 1:01 pm
by kasperl
The sentence doesm't translate well, but together with his tone of voice, it was pretty much the most offensive he could get short of mentioning our mothers in some way or the other.

To clarify: Most of the people in that class are pretty hard workers, and especially the people I hang around with cannot stand to be called lasy fucks by a teacher. I generally keep my cool, but if there is one thing that a teacher can use to get me really angry is telling me I don't work for school.

Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 1:09 pm
by Flipside
Heh, this thing happened with one of our teachers at school, we took the Eddie Murphy approach, every time he started ranting we kept going...

'What have you done for me lately?'

He ended up storming out of the classroom. So we locked the door ;)

To quote Pink Floyd...

'Casting your derision upon everything we did, exposing every weakness, however carefully hid by the kids.'

Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 1:13 pm
by aldo
I remember one of my old teachers had a habit of nipping out of the classroom. So we developed a habit of banging the drumbeat of 'We will rock you' every time he did so.

All 30 of us. Very loudly. :D

Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 1:34 pm
by kasperl
Well, this guy is the most cynical b#stard I ever hope to meet. Up to the point of making people cry in class, and quite some more annoying feats. More story's bout that later, though.

Also, when the class average is a 5.4 (out of 10), he tells us it's all our fault.