<p>There is validity in the original poster's rant.</p>
<p>Yeah, I don't quite understand using just S or D. Especially S. I mean son is just three letters, and you have to hit two keys to get the s and the shift to capitalize it. </p>
<p>Then again, I'm pretty lazy in ways other people don't understand...</p>
<p>I hate everyone who brags so much about there kids. Oh, D got mail from WUSTL, she's so great.</p>
<p>Everyone gets friggin mail from them!</p>
<p>WUSTL? Is that Washington U in St. Louis?</p>
<p>Yeah, that's the school.</p>
<p>Hey, if KIDS on CC tend to brag about their stats (or are in need of an ego boost when they post up their stats asking if they have a chance), why shouldn't parents have the chance to brag about their kids, too?</p>
<p>That's actually a good point, but I still get annoyed when parents and students alike do it.</p>
<p>Eh. I figure it's for the privacy of the kids, but yeah, it bugs me too.</p>
<p>Is it better if "bragging" is done online (with relative anonymity) or in person?</p>
<p>I'm not sure, but I really don't like when people do either.</p>
<p>In a way, the Net is objective when it comes to forming and dispensing of opinions.</p>
<p>But OP, does it bug you when people use "BF" and "BFF" instead of "boyfriend" and "best friend forever" and all those lingo things?</p>
<p>I think that the students on here have the right to brag. They earned their stats through hard work.</p>
<p>The parents that brag about their kids, they might not have done anything to cause it. Besides if they did, that is their duty anyway.</p>
<p>^Good Point. I agree they do have the right to brag, but I don't like it when they do so to belittle others.</p>
<p>well i don't really believe in bragging rights. It's the modesty that counts i believe, not ur stats.</p>
<p>I believe in the rights, not exercising them.</p>
<p>The whole point of the thread is to reveal just how absurd the parents are. Many of them do long-winded posts, and the only reason they would be at CC is if they've got too much time on their hands. Therefore, what difference does it make to spell out son and daughter? It's ridiculous to have to type S and D. I never use acronyms online, so perhaps my passionate opinion is based on my own sensibilities that if you know a language, you use it properly and that shortening a three-letter word to a capitalized letter undermines the threshold of humanity, or just those people who care to notice (ie, me).</p>
<p>The parents are not absurd. Their posts are "long-winded" because they usually give evidence or facts or links when advising or defending/stating their opinions in threads. They also do a fine job of quoting past posters so the people who follow the thread do not get lost when a sudden argument at a post in the third page of a fifteen page thread pops up.</p>
<p>Besides being a forum to gather college information, CC is also a place where people can socialize and make new friends. Why do you think the College Confidential Cafe or the Parent Cafe was made?</p>
<p>"undermines the threshold of humanity"? Okay...</p>