A lot of my essays focused on the West Memphsis 3 - bizarrely, it was a Disturbed song ‘3’ that interested me initially in the subject :P

Yeah - I researched it as part of a paper I wrote on the US’ history of fear, satanic cults, and innocent people being incarcerated as a result...

Exactly. I mean, the opposite happens too, with bullied kids being pressured or ignored until they agree they’re not being bullied :/ It’s common for adults to put words in children’s mouths in order to hear what they want to hear...

I’m assuming sarcasm :/ Obviously “not all teachers”. But teachers DO have a lot of influence over students and in conflicts between students is isn’t uncommon for a teacher to pick a side (especially if it involves a student the teacher considers a ‘problem student’) and inject their own interpretation of events/put…

That was the Satanist thing at the pre-school: a parent, who was an alchoholic or perhaps a drug addict (I don’t remember) decided her son was being abused by his pre-school carers and and accused them of satanism/satanistic rituals and all these kids supported it, creating these bizarre and fantastical stories of…

I wouldn’t go that far - she IS still a child, and there’s plenty of time for her to grow out of that kind of complicity. A student is in a unique position with a teacher potentially having a lot of influence over her - besides, the article says the girl claimed she “felt fearful”, but that could just be how the…

Oh yeah, you only need to think of the McMartin preschool trials to know that.

It sounds like a teacher put words in her mouth - “are you scared of that boy staring at you? Or are you going to get into trouble too?” kind of thing. I’ve seen teachers do it all the time :/ And of course the kid answers “yeah I’m scared!”

My apologies, I meant “should be” a way of life. I’m “pro” affordable universal health care. I’m not “pro” indiviual medical procedures.

I assumed she was mocking herself - like, “oh I’m SO health conscious so I totally ordered grilled cheese and fries lol (because obviously I’m not health conscious at all) BUT NO BREAD - that makes it healthy!”. In the same way I joke that as a vegetarian I should theoretically have a healthy diet...as I eat deep…

I KNOW!!! I don’t understand people. Even when I go to a very busy restaurant and get shown to a still-dirty table (poor form, but it happens, it’s ok) I hover awkwardly until the server cleans the table. Why are people so happy to sit their arses down at a dirty/messy table??

I knew someone was going to do this. It drives my Italian (sor of) in-laws crazy when people whine that pizza MUST have tomato sauce. No. No it doesn’t, it’s a regional thing. Shut up.

I would find this SO confusing. Here, if you ask for a coke, the server may ask what kind you want - because they have diet coke, coke life, coke zero, and regular coke. But that is all they will be referring to. Drinks are all referred to by their actual name, not brand or weird substitute for “some kind of soft…

Thank you. I’ve been told unions are useless only by people who are lucky enough to have positive and advantageous workplace environments - it makes sense that they don’t see the point of disadvantaged workers having unions when they don’t realise that is where their conditions stemmed from.

Ok. That’s totally your prerogative. I simply disagree, having the view that medical procedures are merely a fact of life, as opposed to being “pro” life saving medical operations etc.

Aside from my nasty, bitchy co-workers and pretty much all customers ever, yeah it was a sweet gig! I worked there long enough to be a qausi-manager (title: supervisor - a manager without the pay perks) and have a lot of slack from my boss in calling customers out on their shit (it helped I did an impeccable job so…

I’ve been told that plastic surgeons have a particular “look” they do - so everyone who goes to the same surgeon ends up with a look at least similar, if not the same as everyone else who sees the same surgeon. I don’t know how true that is, but it does seem a shame that people are so keen on acheiving the ‘same’ look…

Well, given the manager sustained second degree burns, it was VERY hot at least.

We do our best :)

I don’t consider myself “pro-heart surgery” even though I think everyone should be able to get an affordable one if necessary. See, there’s the key part - if necessary. In a perfect world where everyone had perfect health and is perfectly fit, no one would have heart problems or need heart surgery. I wouldn’t advocate…