My parents came up with this new rule...
we are only allowed, we have the choice, to watch tv or play video games for a half hour on weekdays, an hour of our choice on saturdays, and none on Sundays. Then, yesterday I got in trouble for laughing. That is really bad, Laughing?

I would call them tyrants, not parents. How old are you?

Thats far too harsh...

17 feb 27

indeed

Adele wrote: 17 feb 27

Exams or such near?

That's just silly. Seriously. Tell them you'll exercise more if you can go on the computer/watch TV more.

I would run away with this rules... Pain...

Post wrote:
Exams or such near?

I'm sorry I don't undertand.

wrote:That's just silly. Seriously. Tell them you'll exercise more if you can go on the computer/watch TV more.

I don't think that they would agree to it. I already exercise a lot, and they'll ask me if someone has been telling me I look bad, or peer pressure is making me exercise, or someother that would say I have issues for exercising 24-7.

And without tv and games, I get more time to read. Plus they said I can use the comp, only to type my book.

Post means, have you got exams or tests coming up, or any reason why they might have suddenly decided to implement this ban.


Alt+tab - switch windows. The most useful key combination for, say, reading Bartiforums while you're supposed to be writing your book. Whenever anyone comes near, hit alt+tab and you're back to your book. Simple.

Oh, no tests or anything, just a new rule.

The thing is, To be on BF I need the internet, which I am not permitted to use at home, and my mom goes through the history all the time cause she already doesn't trust me and thinks I use it when she is gone. We also get random phone calls from her while she is out, "just checking in"

Well clear your history after yourself then... or get a memory stick and do this:
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#oth_usb
Which will leave you untraceable on the computer as soon as you remove the memory stick.
Or just claim that BF is for research purposes for your book.

Yeah, we're a group of people who discuss the literary world in a deep and intelligent fashion... or, something like that.

Well we do.
Occasionally.

haha, I can't, one phone line-dialup at that. So by the time I would actually get the thing running, she would be back, or would call, and when the line is busy she would probably call my cell asking me why, then I would have to make up some random excuse. By the time I actually got something working properly I would have maybe 5 minutes to use it. Then when she gets her bill and sees no phone calls and that I was using the internet, I would probably get other priviledges taken away, I can't take that chance. She would probably call the school and tell them I wasn't allowed to use the computers there either, unless I had someone supervising.

Sentynel wrote: That's just silly. Seriously. Tell them you'll exercise more if you can go on the computer/watch TV more.

Meh, I can put in 6 hours on a bad day. And I'm on a Soccer team.

We wear T shirts with 'Keep Smiling' on their back.

I'll return after graduation with a flame thrower.

That slogan is so rediculous. I would complain. What position do you play. I used to, but I hate team sports now. I would like to play indoor, but we have no where around us.

Goalie.

We have complained.

And wrecked a toilet. Unrelated, though.

Thats awesome, I had to play mid field or something, I don't remember the positions... goalie is the coolest though.

And whats this of a toilet? It is so funny to saran wrap them.

wrote:The thing is, To be on BF I need the internet, which I am not permitted to use at home, and my mom goes through the history all the time cause she already doesn't trust me and thinks I use it when she is gone. We also get random phone calls from her while she is out, "just checking in"

"Broadband or DSL"

Also: Tools -> Internet Options -> History -> Delete -> Delete All Ofline Content There goes all the cookies you got from sites and all the sites you've been on. Then change the option of how long the computer keeps a history of where you've been to 0 days instead of 20. That's how I fooled the teachers.