Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: wrag on December 13, 2007, 05:08:29 PM
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Yep thats the claim.............
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316734,00.html
forbidden?
:lol
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I really worry about wrag.
Mac
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Originally posted by AWMac
I really worry about wrag.
Mac
you oughtta hear his singing.
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Originally posted by DieAz
you oughtta hear his singing.
No way! Singing?
You should have tried deciphering a BGB Mission in the MAWs...
Was like Helen Keller doing the "W A T E R" hand chit.
:D
Mac
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""But in Britain, the constantly hysterical press added the book onto its ever-growing pile of Things That Threaten Society.""
Britain is doomed, doomed i say.
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Oh you said "singing"... dammm I thought you said "signing".....
Nevermind....
Mac
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Originally posted by wrag
Yep thats the claim.............
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316734,00.html
forbidden?
:lol
those guys have more time on their hands than me (thats sad)
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Originally posted by AWMac
Oh you said "singing"... dammm I thought you said "signing".....
Nevermind....
Mac
Mac
you do know what legos are right? I mean I could see you not, I dont think they had them back in the 40s when you were a kid. :D
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"But in Britain, the constantly hysterical press added the book onto its ever-growing pile of Things That Threaten Society."
Not all the British press. Only two newspapers I know of covered it, the Telegraph who said how popular the book was, and the Daily Mail who ran under the headline "Controversial new book teaches children how to make guns out of Lego".
The same Daily Mail that's the source of all the articles about nurses turning patients beds to face Mecca, Muslims taking over cemeteries, schools stopping teaching the holocaust, etc. The Daily Mail is a scaremongering rag, which perhaps should be remembered every time one of their "stories" gets posted in the O Club.
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"Lego is set to turn slightly more sinister with the launch of an unofficial book that teaches children how to make weapons out of the iconic plastic bricks," warned London's Evening Standard.
The Daily Telegraph dubbed the tome "the Anarchist Cookbook of the nursery" and stated with some authority that it was "topping the Santa Claus wish list for naughty children and their parents all over the world."
:noid :noid :noid :noid :rolleyes:
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We had three people do that with their own designs in class in the last month. Somebody sue!
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"Lego is set to turn slightly more sinister with the launch of an unofficial book that teaches children how to make weapons out of the iconic plastic bricks," warned London's Evening Standard.
Which funnily enough is exactly what the Daily Mail warns. Not surprising as the Standard is part of the Mail group. The editor of the Standard used to work for the Mail, the papers have the same editor-in-chief.
The Daily Telegraph dubbed the tome "the Anarchist Cookbook of the nursery" and stated with some authority that it was "topping the Santa Claus wish list for naughty children and their parents all over the world."
The Telegraph is actually praising it, comparing it to "The Dangerous Book for Boys", which they have praised in the past. In today's issue they review some toys and say:
"Canny advertisers and manufacturers have clearly plugged into the prevailing zeitgeist and the back-to-the-1970s, sick-of-health-and-safety backlash that began 18 months ago with the publication of The Dangerous Book for Boys."
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Dang, that looks awesome. I'm getting it !!!!!!!:)
One of my kids was in a lego-robotics club after school. It was awesome. He was the computer programmer for the group.
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I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT!
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Originally posted by texasmom
One of my kids was in a lego-robotics club after school. It was awesome. He was the computer programmer for the group.
Our class has both RCX and NXT kits now. The advanced students use the NXTs. All of us learn to build a robot to serve a function (a battlebot and a robotic arm) and how to program it. The arm is our final, so we also have to write a research report and an owner's manual.
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Originally posted by OOZ662
Our class has both RCX and NXT kits now. The advanced students use the NXTs. All of us learn to build a robot to serve a function (a battlebot and a robotic arm) and how to program it. The arm is our final, so we also have to write a research report and an owner's manual.
That's such a great thing. Around here, only a handful of the schools have the program (it's volunteer work for the teachers, who stay after school for the kids to participate). So a few of the elem. schools, one of the middle schools & just one of the HS have the program.
When we moved last year, kids were in a different school zone. I'm actually considering asking for a school transfer for that one son so he can participate & I'll just drive him there each day.
OOZ, I've got no idea what you just said with the RCX & NXT, but I'll probably google it. If it's something I could get for him to do on his own, I'll probably do that. :) He just got his own computer recently, and I'm sure it's got plenty of space for a lego thing on there. :)