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@Animal Absolutely, report the bugger.

Very much so @EEVILMURRAY And the hilarious thing is here... the shitty, squeaky, does-fuck-all-wheel gets the grease. Then: Head of EAL - farmed out all his classes to his subordinates, basically spent his days watching videos and having meetings where he wasn't prepared. NOW: Vice principal of our newest campus. Then: Head of Bilingual department, never turned up to her classes, never bothered telling anyone. NOW: Head of Admin in our leading Shanghai campus. Then: Other head of Bilingual stream, did fuck all herself, but took credit for everyone else's hard work, even going so far as to put her name only on a jointly-authored article that was later printed throughout Asia. NOW: Principal. Then: Slimy, rat-fuck ex-army guy in charge of our most popular campus, runs it into the ground... NOW: Headof two campuses, including the new most-subscribed. The decent people get absolutely dicked-over sideways and the pricks get promoted.

I'm on holiday for two months, biznitches! WOOOOOOO! But the bad news is, I have to go back and have "The Conversation" with the department coordinator in September. i.e. "This department is a bit of a dead-end for anyone who wants a career, so what are you going to do about it?". Which is a bummer, because it's a relatively simple teaching job (Year 1) and the pay is good, but there's quite literally nowhere to climb up the ladder. There's not even a first rung. Heck, I think they threw away the ladder too.

Excellent, let them be as fucking miserable as I am! with their sexy tight t-shirts, perfect hair and really awesome house parties.

Yeah, definitely giant fish. Command was okay, certainly better than Adventures or Assault, but it just wasn't much of a "Starfox" game. At least to me. *shrug* But that, said, I'm basing most of my opinion on loving Starfox and Lylat Wars - maybe THEY were the aberrations and everything else was normal?

Also, a disclaimer at the beginning CLEARLY STATING that neither Assault nor Adventures happened. Ever. What little story the Starfox series had up to that point was ruined for me by those games. I'm not counting Command because... well, because it was not a terrible game, I just can't remember what happened... something about invading fish?

Haps, yo! Have a good one!

Term is almost ovrr, just need to pack up the office... but the resource room has no boxes. Good job, guys.

Was surprised to hear he had scored a few of my favourite films, sad loss.

She's a wizard as well?!

Let's go and spill some blood in his coffin. He'll be back. Come on, we've all seen the Dracula movies, you can't keep this guy down. He was a phenomenal actor, a very classy individual and a true talent.

@Animal Feel for you, man.

Did I make it in time? Happy Birthday!

They are price gouging like mo-fos here in China. Still, I might invest in a few more - though I am going to Vegas in about a month.

Did you say them back?!

... ... ... ... Ahem. Squee. Very squee.

Why are you trying to cross your balls?

And some of us are FLAAAAAAMING! And also, everyone's a little bit racist!

Y'kinda are a little bit, to be fair.

Big step forward, excellent news!

Not just anuses!

All go around here! We have the "Mini-Talk Show" today - basically the pupils present a ppt made by their parents on the theme of "What do you want to be when you grow up?". Nice enough topic, lots of variety. From 60 pupils in two classes I needed to whittle it down to four from each. Tough task, given that everyone put in a really great effort (bar one who has ADD). So I get the eight finalist sorted: I've differentiated by outcome rather than chosen the out-and-out stars. That is to say, I've chosen the pupils who did a great job who normally struggle rather than the pupils who ALWAYS do amazing. Seriously, if I just picked those guys every time, no-one else would get a chance. It would just be the same five pupils over and over again. Besides, this is what the department head told me to do. So it's all fine... except with one parent, who is also a teacher at the school. She got her son to recite a wall of text and the ppt was not outstanding. He did a good job, but nobody was "wowed". She came into the class without asking permission, without saying a word and filmed him and a few of the others, then walked out without any acknowledgement. He wasn't chosen as a finalist. Can she accept it? Nope. First she gets a look at the marks I gave out (shouldn't happen) then gets the class english teacher to hassle me out of hours as to why her son didn't get selected. Doesn't say a word to me personally at all. Then she gets on at the coordinator "Look at this video! His teacher only gave him a B!". Fortunately the coordinator isn't having any of it. After this, she gets one of the star pupils in my class to ask me "Why didn't people like me and (teacher's son) get chosen?". Sneaky B, but no luck there. So she then goes to the headteacher, who also expresses no interest. Everyone is on my side over this issue, but the teacher/parent has not been made to apologise or had any kind of disciplinary action for the anxiety she caused me, or even the attempt to abuse her power. The headteacher expressed her support for me, but again, no action was taken. It seems that people in this school get ahead by being shit to everyone else. Maybe that's a tack that I should take.

To be honest, I was largely fine with Pardew. Genuinely had very little problem with him. He was passionate, and while not world-class, I can't say that we deserved world-class.

Ah, the circus act that the Magpies have become continues. Back down to the Championship we go, and I welcome it, because it looks like our only chance at silverware for the foreseeable future. SAD SMILEY FACE.

This appears to be English, so I know I should understand it, but...