Comments on: Middle School Farters Get Detention http://www.perfectlypetersen.com/2008/02/04/middle-school-farters-get-detention/ Still standing... Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:27:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Bodily Functions Make Me Laugh | Perfectly Petersen http://www.perfectlypetersen.com/2008/02/04/middle-school-farters-get-detention/#comment-711 Bodily Functions Make Me Laugh | Perfectly Petersen Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:20:42 +0000 http://www.perfectlypetersen.com/2008/02/04/middle-school-farters-get-detention/#comment-711 [...] gas, plus fun fart facts! and had me in stitches. I previously wrote a post referring to the Jr. High school ban on flatulence that he mentions, so I was deeply interested in finishing the [...] [...] gas, plus fun fart facts! and had me in stitches. I previously wrote a post referring to the Jr. High school ban on flatulence that he mentions, so I was deeply interested in finishing the [...]

]]> By: Perfectly Me http://www.perfectlypetersen.com/2008/02/04/middle-school-farters-get-detention/#comment-598 Perfectly Me Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:56:41 +0000 http://www.perfectlypetersen.com/2008/02/04/middle-school-farters-get-detention/#comment-598 Oh. My. Gosh! <em>THAT</em> is the funniest thing I've heard you say in years and years! I almost filled my own britches when I read that. Thanks for the laughs. Oh. My. Gosh! THAT is the funniest thing I’ve heard you say in years and years! I almost filled my own britches when I read that.

Thanks for the laughs.

]]> By: Jerry http://www.perfectlypetersen.com/2008/02/04/middle-school-farters-get-detention/#comment-595 Jerry Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:36:29 +0000 http://www.perfectlypetersen.com/2008/02/04/middle-school-farters-get-detention/#comment-595 ROFLOL!! Way too many school administrators are completely devoid of anything remotely resembling common sense. I agree completely that it's silly to make a special rule for one type of disruptive behavior. That's like saying it's against the law to steal and it's also against the law to steal bicycles (or baseball cards, or whatever theft you want to single out). Besides, it's probably self-regulating. I suspect that before long, one of the little delinquents will accidentally fill his britches and the others will say, "Ya know what? I think I'll stop farting so much and so hard so that doesn't happen to me." - right after they laugh the guy out of the school! ROFLOL!! Way too many school administrators are completely devoid of anything remotely resembling common sense.

I agree completely that it’s silly to make a special rule for one type of disruptive behavior. That’s like saying it’s against the law to steal and it’s also against the law to steal bicycles (or baseball cards, or whatever theft you want to single out).

Besides, it’s probably self-regulating. I suspect that before long, one of the little delinquents will accidentally fill his britches and the others will say, “Ya know what? I think I’ll stop farting so much and so hard so that doesn’t happen to me.” - right after they laugh the guy out of the school!

]]> By: Tyronius Maximus http://www.perfectlypetersen.com/2008/02/04/middle-school-farters-get-detention/#comment-589 Tyronius Maximus Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:34:08 +0000 http://www.perfectlypetersen.com/2008/02/04/middle-school-farters-get-detention/#comment-589 No argument here that the rule is stupid. But, I don't blame the rule makers or even the rule breakers. They are not as much to blame as the society that creates the need for such rules. No argument here that the rule is stupid. But, I don’t blame the rule makers or even the rule breakers. They are not as much to blame as the society that creates the need for such rules.

]]> By: Jesse http://www.perfectlypetersen.com/2008/02/04/middle-school-farters-get-detention/#comment-588 Jesse Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:14:14 +0000 http://www.perfectlypetersen.com/2008/02/04/middle-school-farters-get-detention/#comment-588 I finally found the words I wanted: This rule is stupid because it falls under a rule of common sense that I'd bet 99.999% of schools and organizations have in their policy books - do NOT be disruptive. Why make an entirely new rule for a select group of people that will unintentially affect non-offenders of the original intent of the offending group? I finally found the words I wanted:

This rule is stupid because it falls under a rule of common sense that I’d bet 99.999% of schools and organizations have in their policy books - do NOT be disruptive.

Why make an entirely new rule for a select group of people that will unintentially affect non-offenders of the original intent of the offending group?

]]> By: Tyronius Maximus http://www.perfectlypetersen.com/2008/02/04/middle-school-farters-get-detention/#comment-587 Tyronius Maximus Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:58:54 +0000 http://www.perfectlypetersen.com/2008/02/04/middle-school-farters-get-detention/#comment-587 I hope that's not a true law...Otherwise, Bill Clinton may be going to jail very soon... I hope that’s not a true law…Otherwise, Bill Clinton may be going to jail very soon…

]]> By: Perfectly Me http://www.perfectlypetersen.com/2008/02/04/middle-school-farters-get-detention/#comment-586 Perfectly Me Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:47:11 +0000 http://www.perfectlypetersen.com/2008/02/04/middle-school-farters-get-detention/#comment-586 Hey, Tyronius! Sounds like you pulled that word out of your butt, but, that's sure no typo... nice word choice. I agree that it's a problem that society has come to the point that it feels like it needs to make a rule for such a small population. Looking at the bigger picture, though, it's been happening for a long, long time: blue laws. How many times have you heard about the law in Podunk, AR about a man's second-born son is not allowed to have sex with a crocodile on the left side of Main Street on the third Tuesday of the month? Ok, maybe never, but you know what laws I'm talking about. Hey, Tyronius!

Sounds like you pulled that word out of your butt, but, that’s sure no typo… nice word choice.

I agree that it’s a problem that society has come to the point that it feels like it needs to make a rule for such a small population.

Looking at the bigger picture, though, it’s been happening for a long, long time: blue laws. How many times have you heard about the law in Podunk, AR about a man’s second-born son is not allowed to have sex with a crocodile on the left side of Main Street on the third Tuesday of the month?

Ok, maybe never, but you know what laws I’m talking about.

]]> By: Tyronius Maximus http://www.perfectlypetersen.com/2008/02/04/middle-school-farters-get-detention/#comment-585 Tyronius Maximus Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:39:22 +0000 http://www.perfectlypetersen.com/2008/02/04/middle-school-farters-get-detention/#comment-585 It sounds like the rule was made up to aim at a particular group of offenders. Once being an 8th grade boy myself, I find that I don't have to stretch ny imagination too far to believe that these little "turd busters" are just being punks and probably deserve what they get. Yes, it's a slippery slope, but as long as the rule serves the purpose of the context in which it was created, I don't have too big a problem with it. However, good luck proving that the named "butt buster" is guilty in the court of a mother's opinion. My problem comes in the fact that the administration has to create such a rule in the first place. Is our society really so trivial that the rule has to be written out so that no one gets sued? If a kid "cuts" up in class (pun intended), the teacher should be allowed to discipline as he/she sees fit. Granted, there are some teachers out there with a bit of a god-complex, but if we would dare to discipline in the home in the first place, there would be no need for this inanity (Is that a word? Google says "YES!"). It sounds like the rule was made up to aim at a particular group of offenders. Once being an 8th grade boy myself, I find that I don’t have to stretch ny imagination too far to believe that these little “turd busters” are just being punks and probably deserve what they get. Yes, it’s a slippery slope, but as long as the rule serves the purpose of the context in which it was created, I don’t have too big a problem with it. However, good luck proving that the named “butt buster” is guilty in the court of a mother’s opinion. My problem comes in the fact that the administration has to create such a rule in the first place. Is our society really so trivial that the rule has to be written out so that no one gets sued? If a kid “cuts” up in class (pun intended), the teacher should be allowed to discipline as he/she sees fit. Granted, there are some teachers out there with a bit of a god-complex, but if we would dare to discipline in the home in the first place, there would be no need for this inanity (Is that a word? Google says “YES!”).

]]> By: Jesse http://www.perfectlypetersen.com/2008/02/04/middle-school-farters-get-detention/#comment-584 Jesse Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:42:43 +0000 http://www.perfectlypetersen.com/2008/02/04/middle-school-farters-get-detention/#comment-584 Hey, Charis! What could possibly be construed as gross about this article? This is some clean-living at its finest. Better out than in, Shrek's dad used to say! Hey, Charis!

What could possibly be construed as gross about this article? This is some clean-living at its finest.

Better out than in, Shrek’s dad used to say!

]]> By: Charis http://www.perfectlypetersen.com/2008/02/04/middle-school-farters-get-detention/#comment-583 Charis Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:40:38 +0000 http://www.perfectlypetersen.com/2008/02/04/middle-school-farters-get-detention/#comment-583 This is the Grossest blog I've read in ages!! :) Gotta say this is definitely too much micro-management. Might as well add burping to the list as well. This is the Grossest blog I’ve read in ages!! :) Gotta say this is definitely too much micro-management. Might as well add burping to the list as well.

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