Containment Random Thoughts & Questions

[Dr. Tremolo]

Just taken a look at the CWCki's Lego article for the first time since it was last updated. $5000 spent on Lego since the housefire... There is no GodBear.

His Lego spending habits annoy me so much. They really unleash the A-Log in me. As I said on the previous page, he's not very wise in them and only just now found out that you can purchase parts individually (and he does it on eBay, where they're much overpriced).
I only have a fraction of his tugboat and I can do so much more. Like if I want create a more complex building, I first create the plan digitally and then either buy the wanted pieces on Bricklink or get used bags for cheap second hand. Chris on the other hand buys a dozen or so Friends high school sets to build his mediocre Manchester Highschool replica. Which is still the most impressive thing he's ever built, but rather poor when you take all that into consideration.

 

[normankrasner]

You hand a bum on the street a buck, they'll spend it on booze, you give Chris a buck, he'll spend it on Lego

 

[IwegalBadnik]

This is something teachers sometimes do. They say everyone starts with an A and loses points by making errors. I think it's a feel-good strategy; if it has some other pedagogical reason, I'm not aware of it. Anyhow, this is what I assumed Chris was referring to.

I can't think of a difference in the long run. The math doesn't change either way; if you fuck up, it'll be shown--regardless of the system's setup.

I'd love to see someone tell the mother of a severely autistic child that her son is a genius in the making
"Well don't worry too much ma'am. I know it is hard for your son now, but many believe the greats of history, such as Einstein, JFK, Darwin, and Bill Gates had autism too. What do you think of that young man?"
(Austistic kid screams and flails his arms around, causing mother to burst into tears)

George Carlin: We have no more stupid people in this country. Everybody has a "learning disorder". Or he's "minimally exceptional".

Goddamn, I love using Carlin quotes.

His Lego spending habits annoy me so much. They really unleash the A-Log in me. As I said on the previous page, he's not very wise in them and only just now found out that you can purchase parts individually (and he does it on eBay, where they're much overpriced).
I only have a fraction of his tugboat and I can do so much more. Like if I want create a more complex building, I first create the plan digitally and then either buy the wanted pieces on Bricklink or get used bags for cheap second hand. Chris on the other hand buys a dozen or so Friends high school sets to build his mediocre Manchester Highschool replica. Which is still the most impressive thing he's ever built, but rather poor when you take all that into consideration.

That would require strategizing and working, so you can bet that the new White Black House will be built atop the ruins of 14 BLC long before your plan is proceeded with or even considered by Chris.

 

[milkshark]

Would young Chrissy have beneffited from a school like this?

Kind of hard to believe there are so many schools that specialize in teaching autistic children to hold jobs in menial labor. I thought most autistics were smart enough to become prodigies, to become people like Einstein, Thomas Edison, Charles Darwin, or every other famous successful person in history. What gives ?

It's not wise to generalize all Autistic people, the severity of the social impairments tend to vary greatly from person to person. Chris is not a stupid person. He taught himself HTML in the early days of the internet, that alone is a pretty good indicator that he has the ability to think critically. Labor jobs are good fits for Autistic people because there's a level of stability to their routine, they're not expected to deal with changing situations day to day. It's not that they're too dumb for other kinds of work.

 

[DrChristianTroy]

You hand a bum on the street a buck, they'll spend it on booze, you give Chris a buck, he'll spend it on Lego

Now lets be fair. If you hand a homeless person money there is a chance it will go to their family like that episode of Saved By The Bell with the homeless chick and her father saving money for a suit jacket. There is a chance of not knowing how things will turn out.

We know it'll go to Lego with Chris.

 

[Anonimo]

It's not wise to generalize all Autistic people, the severity of the social impairments tend to vary greatly from person to person. Chris is not a stupid person. He taught himself HTML in the early days of the internet, that alone is a pretty good indicator that he has the ability to think critically. Labor jobs are good fits for Autistic people because there's a level of stability to their routine, they're not expected to deal with changing situations day to day. It's not that they're too dumb for other kinds of work.

Thank you! I feel like Chris has motivated some of us to generalize all autistics as stupid or belittle then when they bring up that Einstein, Darwin, JFK, etc. had autism. I will concede that the last part is up for debate, but still, redirecting them to Chris whenever they say that? That's the kind of mentality that I would expect from the people on Encyclopedia Dramatica...

It's true that there are kids with severe autism and I knew at least one or two personally. But that doesn't mean that without help they can't succeed. I'm autistic and currently involved in a month long program to gain job experience working at my local Big Lots. I'm not doing it because I can't do anything else, but rather because it is something that can help me and is readily available and it would be foolish if I didn't take that opportunity. Ideally speaking, I don't plan on working in a labor job my whole life. And It's not just me, but how many other users here are also autistic? Most of the ones I've seen seem to have their acts together, and I'm sure they don't like being lumped with Chris.

I'm not trying to sound like some autism pride advocate, SJW, white knight, or whatever, but I think that it's best that autistic children should be given a fair chance before any of us write them off as "exceptional individuals" or "the next CWC". Trust me, I have been on the receiving end of this kind of mentality, and I'm sure others have, too. This is another one of those things that some us need to put into perspective. It's not autism that we suffer from, but what some of us do suffer from is ignorance.

 

[timtommy]

This is something teachers sometimes do. They say everyone starts with an A and loses points by making errors. I think it's a feel-good strategy; if it has some other pedagogical reason, I'm not aware of it. Anyhow, this is what I assumed Chris was referring to.

That way of marking has its advantages. It can be easier to understand. If a kid is looking over his assignment asking himself how he can do better, he pretty easily finds a very finite list of mistakes to avoid.

As an educator, I have to assume that most students will spend a minute or two glancing over their work after it has been graded, and won't retain a lot of the information they learned. A more complex grading scheme and feedback would not be absorbed very well by students, so it would waste a lot of my time. I try to highlight a few basic problems which lost them marks and avoid writing much else. They will get good return on the 2 minute perusal. An eager student can come talk to me for a more in-depth discussion.

The other advantage (although it applies more at the college than high-school level) is that it reduces complaints. There is a sizable minority of students who will ask for more marks whenever they can. Arguing with them is tremendously irritating and time consuming. If I am very clear about "you made this mistake therefore you lost 2 marks" I deal with a lot less BS than if I say "this point was ok, but not great, so I gave you 8 out of 10 points".

I should say that my teaching experience has been in more mathematical fields. I don't think it applies as well to more creative/writing based fields. I think that most people who complain about this style of marking cite problems they have with it in creative/writing courses. They may have a point.

 

[Dr. Tremolo]

Of course the severity varies.
Even if those kids need help preparing for menial labor, they're already doing much more than Chris ever will.
Chris, as we all know, is a very special case. His unique properties are his autism, stupidity and bad upbringing working in a tandem. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts - if Chris just had only one of out of those three traits, he'd be nowhere near being what he is.

 

[Drawets Rednaxela]

He taught himself HTML in the early days of the internet, that alone is a pretty good indicator that he has the ability to think critically.

It's a shame he's only willing to teach himself things if they'll allow him to create a mediocre Pokemon fansite, or whatever HTML does, instead of helping him into work.

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

Fatty's effort into learning inversely relates to how fuckin useless the knowledge is to improve the hell hole that is his life.

 

[just some jerk]

Whats the deal with q-sands again? Yes I know they are 1/4 of a sandwich, but am I to believe that Chris and Borb actually eat that small of a portion size per sitting?

 

[Varis]

Whats the deal with q-sands again? Yes I know they are 1/4 of a sandwich, but am I to believe that Chris and Borb actually eat that small of a portion size per sitting?

I understood that Barb ate 3/4 of the sandwich and took the last quarter with her. I need to dig up that email...

EDIT - From Jackie E-mails 31:

Beforehand, she had a bought with the bitchy server/owner of Riley's, Riley herself. Mom had a quarter of a chicken sandwich from McD; she brought it in with her. She had also got her tea at Riley's before this bout. Mom pulls out the quarter sandwich; Riley is all, "you can't eat food from another place here". There's no sign stating that anywhere there. So, mom ignored her and ate the q-sand in front of her.

 

[Marvin]

I understood that Barb ate 3/4 of the sandwich and took the last quarter with her. I need to dig up that email...

EDIT - From Jackie E-mails 31:

Beforehand, she had a bought with the bitchy server/owner of Riley's, Riley herself. Mom had a quarter of a chicken sandwich from McD; she brought it in with her. She had also got her tea at Riley's before this bout. Mom pulls out the quarter sandwich; Riley is all, "you can't eat food from another place here". There's no sign stating that anywhere there. So, mom ignored her and ate the q-sand in front of her.

"Here lies Barb, combative redneck 'til the day she died."

 

[Anonimo]

"Here lies Barb, combative redneck 'til the day she died."

She was cremated on a funeral pile built of her hoard earthly possessions so that she could bring them with her to the afterlife...*cue "Amazing Grace" on the bagpipes*

 

[Count groudon]

I asked a similar question a while back, and I'm fairly certain that the answer was no. At the very least I know Ahuviya isn't Jack and Fatman isn't Alec. What I want to know is how Chris managed to get that information for the "Calling Out" saga. My guess is that someone deliberately sent him misinformation and Chris, being Chris, just rolled with it.

Thorg fed him all the info he got about all the other trolls. He thought it'd be funny to see Chris go up against all the other lolcows screaming that they were trolls and slandering his good name etc.

 

[FifthColumn]

She was cremated on a funeral pile built of her hoard earthly possessions so that she could bring them with her to the afterlife...*cue "Amazing Grace" on the bagpipes*

I can just imagine Chris lighting the pyre of garbage with a torch, and gazing solemnly as the flames slowly take his dead mother and her treasures to the afterlife

 

[just some jerk]

I understood that Barb ate 3/4 of the sandwich and took the last quarter with her. I need to dig up that email...

EDIT - From Jackie E-mails 31:

Ok so, its not like Barb is regularly segmenting sandwiches for neatness and diet planning? She just happened to have scarfed down a good part of her McDs and THEN went to Rileys after.

 

[Coldgrip]

I can just imagine Chris lighting the pyre of garbage with a torch, and gazing solemnly as the flames slowly take his dead mother and her treasures to the afterlife

He'd be too bust playing with his legos to care.

 

[FifthColumn]

He'd be too bust playing with his legos to care.

Oh he'd care allright. He'd care more than he's cared about anything else before. True, there may not be the "Luke Skywalker cremating Darth Vader" scene from Return of the Jedi, but hed be pretty stressed about it. The moment Barb joins Bob in heaven is the moment Chris last safety net snaps and disintegrates for good.

 

[Drawets Rednaxela]

The moment Barb joins Bob in heaven is the moment Chris last safety net snaps and disintegrates for good.

The morning I log-on to the CWCki and see the news that has permanantly fainted is the only reason I'm still following Chris. Regardless of what happens it's gonna be a huge inconvenience for him, and I egerly await the resulting tard-rage.