haha in kindergarten we had to isng yankee dodle.... and in 1st we sung osme of my country tis of vee (spelling..its me ya nkow?) and my teacher gave a girl a detention for not standing for the pledge we dotn ave to say it, jsut as long as we stand. and of course my firned rants and raves abotu her opinions which were very good ... so the teacher told us she was being "difiant" and so gave her a detention
we all make typos, im one of the worst, but please, if you want people to read what you post, be courteous enough to correct the errors you DO see. there were 12 spelling errors there. thats not a typo is a fricken cryptogram.
It is the "Pledge of Alligence" fault that the man is so brain dead...... Sorry riku_124, I am not trying to insult you, I just enjoy making witty remarks, no matter how lame they are. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I am slightly pissed off. Because I work in the US I had to sign an oath of alliance to the US constitution and the state I am currently working in. I had to cross out in the oath the words 'citizen of the US', because obviously I am not. I had to point out that I am not a citizen of the US to the bureacrats. Only then they came up with the brilliant conclusion I had to cross the words united states out, and write down 'netherlands'. I then pointed out that it is probably unconstitutional for me to pledge alliance to the US constitution because I am bound by my own constitution. The said it just means you have to abide the laws of this country and state. I told them that I am happy to abide the laws, but laws are not the same pledging an oath of alligance to a foreign constitution. They had the last word: They just said we will not pay you if you don't sign. I said ok, but if the US goes to War you can see this statement as not valid anymore. They said they would probably send me home if it came to that (apparently it isn't unheard of that the US goes to war with foreign countries to them). I pointed out that I have been in the Dutch Army and the US will more likely put me in some kind of illegal prison. That kind of ended the conversation. I'm sure the FBI has been notified after this exchange.
Holy moly! OK-- when I was 14 years old, I didn't make THAT many spelling errors LOL. I think the worst problem I had at that age was when I'd say something, and it would be wrong. I would make some sort of comment that was obviously not 'seasoned by experience', or the result of not having a very firm grasp/understanding of the subject.......but not wacky spelling. You should be ashmed! You young whipper-snappers got it lucky! Back in my day,we didn't have the gald-durn IN-TER-NET and fancy spell-check thingamajiggers. We just had the dictionary, and darnit, we liked it! ---------------------------- Back to the topic: Personally, the pledge never really did much to actually indoctrinate me into any American ideology. It was just this robotic chore (along with whatever short prayers they had us doing) that was easy to memorize, and we chanted every morning before class. As a child, I don't think I had anything that gave it any relevant meaning or context. Did the original creators think it would have some sort of hypnopaedic effect?
It makes me sick to see schools who treat their alma mata with such respect, but let the students laugh and play through the pledge.
This approximates my take on it. I went to grammar school in the late 1960s - mid 1970s, at a Catholic school, no less. We rattled the pledge off every morning - after mass, of course - and tried not to giggle while saying the word "indivisible" (at least for the first few years) because we thought it meant the same thing as invisible, and how the heck could it be when we could all plainly see the damn thing right there in front of us... Thinking about it now, I must admit I like the sound of it better without the "under God" business, but I still think the bonehead who is making a federal case out of it should get a smack in the head for having nothing better to do. .
