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Chan Island
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Postby Chan Island » Sun Oct 28, 2018 12:49 pm

I love it. I simply love it. :lol:


Baggieland wrote:In option 1, what was hard about the test? There's the possibility of some good humour here, thinking of a ridiculously difficult question about parenting.

I have an example here, unfortunately it's not about parenting, it's from the driving test in Thailand:

"If an elephant and a tank are both coming your way, which do you yield to?"

Something ridiculous like that.

If anyone is interested, the answer to the Thai driving test question is the tank. Don't ask me why.


Well, that was probably the most obvious part of it. Tanks are typically driven around by the military, and if the army is driving one around on the road, they likely have a good reason to do so. Same logic as to why you yield to police cars.
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Postby Baggieland » Sun Oct 28, 2018 6:52 pm

Chan Island wrote:Well, that was probably the most obvious part of it. Tanks are typically driven around by the military, and if the army is driving one around on the road, they likely have a good reason to do so. Same logic as to why you yield to police cars.


Personally, I'd yield to the elephant.

If you don't yield to the tank, you would assume the driver of the tank would see you and not wish to crush you.

Whereas an elephant is a wild animal and therefore less predictable.
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Postby Jutsa » Sun Oct 28, 2018 6:53 pm

At first I thought "tank" but then I remembered that elephants are awesome and maybe lead us to Caracasus.
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Postby Sacara » Sun Oct 28, 2018 7:02 pm

Although I feel like I just posted this, I don't particularly plan on keeping this one up for a long time. Probably a few more days until I submit -- I just need to settle on a title!
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Postby Trotterdam » Sun Oct 28, 2018 7:22 pm

Baggieland wrote:Whereas an elephant is a wild animal and therefore less predictable.
The ones you find walking down the street probably aren't.
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Oh, and I just found there's this...

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Postby Chan Island » Mon Oct 29, 2018 8:45 am

Trotterdam wrote:
Baggieland wrote:Whereas an elephant is a wild animal and therefore less predictable.
The ones you find walking down the street probably aren't.
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Oh, and I just found there's this...


Beat me to it.
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Conserative Morality wrote:"It's not time yet" is a tactic used by reactionaries in every era. "It's not time for democracy, it's not time for capitalism, it's not time for emancipation." Of course it's not time. It's never time, not on its own. You make it time. If you're under fire in the no-man's land of WW1, you start digging a foxhole even if the ideal time would be when you *aren't* being bombarded, because once you wait for it to be 'time', other situations will need your attention, assuming you survive that long. If the fields aren't furrowed, plow them. If the iron is not hot, make it so. If society is not ready, change it.

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Postby Sacara » Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:03 am

Probably keep this up until November rolls around, then I will submit it.
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Postby Sacara » Thu Nov 01, 2018 8:14 pm

Thanks to everyone who helped draft this -- just submitted it.

I kept the title as "Poor Parental Performances". Hopefully that's not a dealbreaker, and if an editor picks it up, I would not be opposed to a name change. :)
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Postby Hediacrana » Thu Nov 01, 2018 8:19 pm

Sacara wrote:Thanks to everyone who helped draft this -- just submitted it.

I kept the title as "Poor Parental Performances". Hopefully that's not a dealbreaker, and if an editor picks it up, I would not be opposed to a name change. :)


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Postby Australian rePublic » Fri Nov 02, 2018 2:47 am

Good Luck!
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