Americans invented pigs in a blanket over 150 years ago.

A friend once referred to undercover traffic cops as pigs in a blanket and it's still the funniest thing he's ever said.

No.

Did we do it more recently than that or what?

Not sure if this is serious.

100%

I think it was in the 17th century. The sausage is supposed to represent the American colonists and the blanket is the Native Americans.

not

So it's still an American thing.

Been in England since the 1600s m8.

Then it was still an American thing, because every inventor is an American.

Just how old are you?

16.

hundred

Mitch McConnell to delay the AHCA vote until after recess - CNNPolitics.com

Well they're taking steps to avoid making the same mistake as Obamacare where they just push it out as fast as they can without reading it. Well, that or they're postponing it for a week.

But muh Russia.



inb4 somebody says they can totally believe this story.

I can totally believe that American Pravda published this story. Same guys who made those ultra compelling abortion videos.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/201...d-decides.html

EDIT: Should add that I can believe this news story. Sadly.

I like how the news article refused to even list any of the objectionable language. Isn't that the crux of the issue?

That book is for old ladies anyway.

I don't know why they don't teach any Stephen King in school. Yeah, he may not have the best prose, but he's an important modern author, is a household name who isn't trash, and might actually be of interest to someone who doesn't wear pocket protectors. I'd say it's also a crime that Lovecraft gets no love, but he's too early to make sense in this context.

Kids who don't care about their pockets love Stephen King.

I just can't believe we've come to the point where we bury our heads in the sand whenever something offends or scares us. We should read books that make us feel uncomfortable.

Well it makes sense if you want to pretend that our rich, cultural diversity has no history of racism. Which is also not at all ironic.

Kids don't read books assigned to them anyway.

King may go down in history as more important that Poe. I loved him in high school. I'm glad they didn't assign his books. Teachers can ruin anything.

Public school teachers are often passionless ****s who are as much a victim of public school education policies as the students. Supposedly they paid the teachers at my military school even less than public school teachers (no idea if that's true) but they gave way more of a **** since they had far smaller class sizes and weren't hamstrung by all these dumb rules about how they can't discipline kids cause it'll make their ****head parents sue the school. When you can't even yell at some **** kid who's constantly disrupting class I imagine it makes you feel like your job is utterly pointless.

I actually got into an argument with my AP English teacher my senior year of high school because I wanted to read At the Mountains of Madness for our quarter reading assignment but she said it wasn't acceptable AP material because, and I quote, "I have never heard of H.P. Lovecraft". Fortunately that was early on in the first semester and I had time to quit that class and do mythology instead which was a lot more fun.

Still, if part of the reason why these students don't have to read To Kill a Mockingbird anymore is because of offensive language and making them feel uncomfortable then I'm not sure if Lovecraft is a good replacement. I mean a man sets himself on fire because he learns his family hails from Africa in one story, and the moral of The Shadow Over Innsmouth is that if you marry someone outside your race you will produce a half human half fish hybrid. Oh and lets not forget the cat from "The Rats in the Walls" called "Niggerman"

Holy moly. I hope that ignorant quack got fired.

I see your public schools are **** too.

These last couple of pages are depressing. King, Poe, and Lovecraft all need to be devoured before you die.

Start here:

King - Salem's Lot
Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart
Lovecraft - The Colour out of Space

Nope, she still has a job there.

Actually all things considered my high school was pretty decent, just that one class. AP English my junior year was awesome.

as long as they still read the outsiders idgaf

I'm so glad I read that on my own and not through school. I read almost (maybe everything) she published.

I literally don't think we read anything longer than a short story during my entire time at school. American public schools + the South = retard factory

We read Kafka in school.
Win.

i had to in university. i know that doesn't count but still a win on its own.

I read Hamlet, Turn of the Screw, Things Fall Apart (I was literally the only person in my class who saw the greatness), Catch-22, and A Clockwork Orange in high school, some of my favourite books.

we read Things Fall Apart too. i guess it was alright.

Read Hamlet on my own when I was 11ish, just because there was a copy lying around. :D Catch-22 and A Clockwork Orange are faves too. I'm (pleasantly) surprised a school would assign the latter.