<p>ah , it all makes sense now...I finally understand - there are "cool kids" even on CC</p>
<p>hahahahahahaha</p>
<p>I know. twins :)</p>
<p>"At my school, and also the way I've been raised, it's considered low manners "</p>
<p>Firstly, I never said I personally was cool. </p>
<p>And anyway, I wrote much more on how discussing grades was more of an ETTIQUIETTE thing-- it's considered rude and lame to show off, especially something about grades. That's because at the school I'm at, most people get As anyway. So it's not like a big deal. Also, it's rude to make those who don't have as good grades feel insecure and as if they should be incredibly ashamed. </p>
<p>It's rude to feel as if getting A's somehow makes you superior, which is why I noted that it's considered low manners to "show off" how great you believe your grades are. </p>
<p>The smartest kids at my school (which is a private prep school) never showed off their grades and only shared them with others if asked (repeatedly). The dumbest, rudest kids at my school were the ones who crowed over getting As as if that made them somehow superior, where in truth everyone else was getting good grades as well. </p>
<p>Like I said, if you have to around and declare and show off how good you think you are, you probably aren't that good at all.</p>
<p>It's called humility, after all. If you two learn some, you might get quite far in life.</p>
<p>"And for the record,YOU are on this message board and have posted over 400 messages. So even though you may think that we are pathetic, you still spend the most time here"</p>
<p>Most of those 400 messages haven't been all about how great I think am because of so-and-so academic accomplishments. There's a difference. I could spend time putting up and discussing posts in which I attempt to show off (like blumuffin or moni). Or, conversely, I could just simply put up posts about playing games (the movie games) or joking around on fluff threads (the cheerleaders thread).</p>
<p>You certainly act like one.</p>
<p>"And if everyone else is discussing their grades like its no big deal, then it must not be "low manners" to them either."</p>
<p>Right. Because if everyone else is doing it like its no big deal, it simply must be right. You have very brilliant logic. You should be a lawyer.</p>
<p>"I don't go to a school full of smart people, but they all sure love to hear about how smart I am."</p>
<p>Oh, I get it. This is quite funny. You're the prodigial big fish in your little high school. Just wait till you get to college, where mostly everyone will be smart and no one will actually care at all to hear about how smart you think you are.</p>
<p>"You must have been raised in crazytown."</p>
<p>Yes. Because every place in which people share views that are not like yours, must certainly be "crazy." </p>
<p>What are you, like ten years old?</p>
<p>Yes, I'm 10.
And its etiquette. one "t". go die.</p>
<p>The ten year olds I know (as I do childcare as a volunteering activity) do not tell other people to "go die." And I cannot associate 10 years olds with not having as developed logic abilities, because they're so young.</p>
<p>How about I just don't poorly compare you to anyone? How about I just simply say that you have bad logic (that "crazytown" thing), bad manners (that "showing off shamelessly" thing) and that you overreact to a laughable degree (that "go die" thing-- do you tell everyone that doesn't agree with you to go die)?</p>
<p>So I should not have compared you, moni, to a ten year old, because that's not fair to ten year olds. You are only comparable to yourself, and that is a far worse insult than comparing you to a small child.</p>
<p>Ouch....moderators, please close this thread.</p>
<p>It is a message board.....why does everyone overreact to small comments?</p>
<p>I agree that this thread is an easy way to show off. I agree with Peals that showing off your grades is quite low. I also think that ad hominem arguments are the least succesful way of proving your point.</p>
<p>I highly doubt some of you are actually as smart as you let on. Don't let all those A's and A+'s get to your heads. </p>
<p>But congratulations anyways on getting such good grades.:) I'm hoping for one B+(Spanish) and the rest A's and A-'s. <em>knock on wood</em></p>
<p>AP Euro - A
H. USH - A
Music Theory - A
H. Pre-Cal - A
AP Bio - A
Spanish 3 - A
AP Chem - A</p>
<p>Our school doesn't do A-/A+'s, but for the record most of those were A-'s</p>
<p>[Oh, I get it. This is quite funny. You're the prodigial big fish in your little high school. Just wait till you get to college, where mostly everyone will be smart and no one will actually care at all to hear about how smart you think you are.]</p>
<p>"Prodigial" isn't a word. I'm sure you didn't intend to write "prodigal" which means extravagant. You most likely meant "prodigious". </p>
<p>Really now though PEALS05, you need to learn self-control. There's nothing wrong with flaunting one's grades(to an extent of course) if they're truly something to be proud of. Besides, calling someone(esp on the internet) a "ten year old" isn't exactly "proper etiquette" as you so eloquently put it.</p>
<p>APUSH: A
AP English: A
AP Bio: A
German II: A
Math Anal: A
Yearbook (copy e): A</p>
<p>"Really now though PEALS05, you need to learn self-control"</p>
<p>Oh, yes, I do need to learn self-control. You wouldn't tell that to moni, of course, because she only told me to "go die", which is simply a harmless statement that should be overlooked, apparently.</p>
<p>"Besides, calling someone(esp on the internet) a "ten year old" isn't exactly "proper etiquette" as you so eloquently put it."</p>
<p>Right. You're quick at noticing spelling mistakes, I'm surprised you didn't catch the part when I retracted my statement about calling moni a ten year old. If you read closely, I believe I insinuated that that was an insult to ten year olds.</p>
<p>Also, I didn't call her a ten year old. I asked her if she was. And, surprsingly, she said that she was. </p>
<p>"Yes, I'm 10."</p>
<p>Well! If she even declared herself a 10 year old, who am I to disagree, and who are you to warn me against calling her by what she agrees she is?</p>
<p>I thought you would've caught those little details, seth blue.</p>
<p>In a way, Peals is right. In real life, I would never brag about my grades even though they've been mentioned on CC. It makes people feel bad and you sound condescending. For a while, I stepped back from CC because I wanted to get my priorities straight. Grades are important and should be commend for, but there not everything, a hard lesson I learned, especially after becoming dillusional from frequenting the CC boards.</p>
<p>Peals - If I'm supposed to learn etiquette amd whatever else you talked about, maybe you should learn sarcasm. You really suck. If you didn't like the thread, you shouldnt have come in the first place. There was no trouble here until you came. Maybe self-control IS what you need, as seth blue so accurately pointed out. This all could have been avoided if you had just left all the little braggarts alone.
But I am one of a kind. Thank You. :)</p>
<p>"learn etiquette amd whatever else you talked about"</p>
<p>Whenever you communicate with a person who lumps humility, manners and etiquette in the "whatever" category, you can tell what sort of person he or she is and what sort of upbringing he or she comes from. Which in your case, does not seem like a particularily good one.</p>
<p>"maybe you should learn sarcasm"</p>
<p>Sorry, but "Yes, I'm 10." is a really poor attempt at sarcasm. I'd rather be accused of not learning it than being bad at applying it.</p>
<p>Besides, I do know sarcasm. What do you think these sentences are all about?: "yes, I do need to learn self-control. You wouldn't tell that to moni, of course, because she only told me to "go die", which is simply a harmless statement that should be overlooked, apparently." I wrote that just a post ago.</p>
<p>"Maybe self-control IS what you need"</p>
<p>When you tell people to go die because they don't agree with that you've written, self-control is in order, moni. Please don't be also be a hypocrite.</p>
<p>"as seth blue so accurately pointed out"</p>
<p>Well, as private joker and cannedish and I so accurately pointed out, maybe your showing-off is rude and unnecessary.</p>
<p>"This all could have been avoided if you had just left all the little braggarts alone."</p>
<p>Free speech. I can do what I want and write what I want. It is one's personal decision as to how he or she reacts to what other people say or write. You obviously made the personal decision to tell me to die.</p>
<p>You could have avoided making yourself look like even more of an annoying and shameless show-off if you had decided to just ignore what I had written.</p>
<p>"But I am one of a kind."</p>
<p>That's a relief, I think. Which is more of that sarcasm you believe I don't have, of course.</p>
<p>all of you: take a deep breath, turn off the computer; and get a life!</p>
<p>This has gotten out of hand and I would like to apologize to anyone I offended and particularily to moni and blumuffin, for insinuating that they were pathetic nerds/losers and shameless show-offs who feel superior in sharing their grades with strangers (as if people care), and can't read particularily well and so assume incorrect things about me. Sorry about that.</p>
<p>To moni: sorry that I compared you a ten year old, and then more accurately simply to yourself (as that I thought was quite the biggest insult I could think of), and sorry that I inferred that you had few manners and were brought up very poorly, and that you overreact to a laughable degree and that you had zero self-control, were a hypocrite, didn't have any logic skills and that you didn't even know how to properly use sarcasm.</p>
<p>I shouldn't have said those things. </p>
<p>If I had wanted people to understand how shamelessly proud, ridiculous and coarsely-mannered Moni was, I should have just let them read her posts (the "go die" one, in particular) and understand on their own. I underestimate people. It's not hard to see that about her.</p>
<p>So, accept my apology. Thanks! :)</p>
<p>PS: the only insult I'm still annoyed by is that I don't know sarcasm. I think I understand it fairly well.</p>
<p>:::shrugs:::
whatev.</p>