Lounge and the Two Strings

[ComicChick]

Good luck, I hope you get what you want, and like it.
What's wrong with the current one?

management, sometimes lack thereof

 

[ComicChick]

Thanks for using my suggestion CC.

i can't take the credit this time

 

[Enriquespy]

Have you been couped out of The Lounge Naming Militar Junta?

 

[SuperSanchez]

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Reek]

Has anyone had to renew their license since 2012? Having to bring in your birth certificate and all... I'm filling out the application and there's a section for my optometrist to fill out... is that necessary for the renewal or is it just for new license applicants?

I mean it's already a ***** of a process having to get my birth certificate, SS card, etc and now I have to get my optometrists involved????

 

[Spider-Aziz]

How come they asked for your birth certificate?
I know in my country they don't make that request for license renewal.

 

[Reek]

Some new thing they started in 2012... I guess being here for 30 years isn't proof enough I am a legal citizen lol

 

[Reek]

ah the deathmatches have returned... I don't know if I have it in me this year.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Has anyone had to renew their license since 2012? Having to bring in your birth certificate and all... I'm filling out the application and there's a section for my optometrist to fill out... is that necessary for the renewal or is it just for new license applicants?

I mean it's already a ***** of a process having to get my birth certificate, SS card, etc and now I have to get my optometrists involved????

How come they asked for your birth certificate?
I know in my country they don't make that request for license renewal.

Back in the day though you could just give them any address and they would take it. I renewed my license when I was in the navy, even though I physically lived in Pearl Harbor, HI I was still a resident of FL and had to renew with them online. It asked for my address and said (NOTE: This is where it will be sent) so I put my HI address in. Those idiots sent me a FL license with a Hawaii address haha. Got pulled over a few years later and the cop asked me if it was my current address. Then they took it when I got my last DUI which sucked.

But I had plenty of fake addresses over the years too. They would take anything without even looking to see if it was a real address. The stuff with the birth certificate only has to be done once though and then they put a star on your license so they know you're you. Some 1984 s*** right there.

 

[Reek]

What pisses me off about it is you have to do it in person... I can't just send them a copy of all of it. its ******** lol... been renewing online for years and now have to find the time to sit at the DMV for 2 hours just to renew.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

What pisses me off about it is you have to do it in person... I can't just send them a copy of all of it. its ******** lol... been renewing online for years and now have to find the time to sit at the DMV for 2 hours just to renew.

Until they see the birth certificate and know it's actually you on file then yup. I'll be more than happy to sit in the DMV for a whole day when I get my license re-instated. Been damn near a decade haha.

 

[Reek]

I hear ya... the people at the DMV are just *******s though lol.. I guess I can't blame them dealing with the same BS every day

 

[Spider-Aziz]

That kind of bureaucracy is needless pain in the bottom.

 

[Guts]

Today I saw Transmetropolitan in my college bookstore as part of a literature class. Seeing a comic as part of a college class reminded me of that student that complained about having to read Persepolis, Y: The Last Man, Fun Home, and Sandman as part of a class.

 

[Reek]

I wonder how much more difficult it will become if Trump is elected

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I wonder how much more difficult it will become if Trump is elected

I would imagine there will be many more picture books at all levels of education by the end of year one.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Today I saw Transmetropolitan in my college bookstore as part of a literature class. Seeing a comic as part of a college class reminded me of that student that complained about having to read Persepolis, Y: The Last Man, Fun Home, and Sandman as part of a class.

What reason did that one have to complain about? Not fond of images instead of text describing them?

 

[Guts]

What reason did that one have to complain about? Not fond of images instead of text describing them?

Spoiler

A Crafton Hills College student and her parents have complained to college administrators that graphic novels taught in an English course are pornographic and violent.

Tara Shultz, 20, of Yucaipa, her parents and several friends on Thursday protested outside the campus administration building.

Four of the graphic novels discussed in the course depict nudity, sex, violence and torture. They also contain obscenities.

“It was shocking,” Shultz said. “I didn’t expect to open the book and see that graphic material within. I expected Batman and Robin, not pornography.”

The course was listed as a core course for Shultz, who is seeking an associate’s degree in English. She is also seeking an associate’s degree in American Sign Language.

Ryan Bartlett, associate professor of English, taught the English 250 course last semester.

The syllabus for the course describes it as “the study of the graphic novel as a viable medium of literature through readings, in-class discussion and analytical assignments.”

This is the third time Bartlett has taught the course. He said this is the first time a student has complained about the material.

“I chose several highly acclaimed, award-winning graphic novels in my English 250 course not because they are purportedly racy but because each speaks to the struggles of the human condition,” Bartlett said in an email Thursday. “As Faulkner states, ‘The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself.’ The same may be said about reading literature. The characters in the chosen graphic novels are all struggling with issues of morality, self discovery, heart break, etc. The course in question has also been supported by the faculty, administration and approved by the board.”

Ten books are required for the course.

The four Shultz and her parents found offensive were “Fun Home” by Alison Bechdel; “Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1” by Brian Vaughan; “The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll’s House” by Neil Gaiman; and “Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi.

“At least get a warning on the books,” Shultz said. “At most I would like the books eradicated from the system. I don’t want them taught anymore. I don’t want anyone else to have to read this garbage.”

Shultz said if she had known what the materials were she would not have taken the course.

“I had no warning,” she said. “I had nothing. The professor should have stood up the first day of class and warned us.”

Shultz said she approached Bartlett about the curriculum in class and chose to remain in the class to avoid receiving a zero.

Shultz’s parents have also been meeting with college officials.

“If they (had) put a disclaimer on this, we wouldn’t have taken the course,” Greg Shultz, Tara Shultz’s father, said.

College administrators, he continued, “said they will do that, but at the same time we haven’t gotten into the issue of these books being sold in the bookstore and there are under-aged kids here at this campus.”

http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/social-affairs/20150611/crafton-hills-college-student-parents-protest-material-in-graphic-novels-english-course

 

[Spider-Aziz]

http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/social-affairs/20150611/crafton-hills-college-student-parents-protest-material-in-graphic-novels-english-course

I imagine what it's like to see reactions to Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey will be like.

 

[flickchick85]

Thanks for using my suggestion CC.

You're welcome.

Reek, I can't believe they're actually MAKING you come into the DMV in person. Our DMV does everything they can to STOP you from coming in person. You get discounts on all the fees for staying away and doing things online. I actually have to renew my license next month, but the notice I got about it didn't say anything about needing to get anything from my optometrist so...that better not be a thing, lol.

 

[Reek]

i used to do it online... tried not long ago and it locked me out and told me to call... you might have to do the birth certificate thing too if the last time you renewed was before 2012

 

[flickchick85]

i used to do it online... tried not long ago and it locked me out and told me to call... you might have to do the birth certificate thing too if the last time you renewed was before 2012

 

[Black Narcissus]

Tombstone is effin incredible. I never get tire of it.

Val Kilmer got robbed. Not even a nom.

My heart hurts.

 

[Marvolo]

http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/social-affairs/20150611/crafton-hills-college-student-parents-protest-material-in-graphic-novels-english-course

Sex and nudity are a part of the adult world. If she cant handle it she needs to drop the course and move on. Not go on a witch hunt against a Lit course that contains adult themes.

The fact she automatically labels it garbage because it contains adult themse makes me want to roll the graphic novel up and smack her on the head with it. Can't stand that sort of narrow minded puritanical thinking.