Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?

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I have the bulk of my end of year video done for my students. I've been working on choosing which pictures to use over the past few days. Today I put them all in a video maker and added some music. I still have some more events coming up at the end of the year that I'll have to add pictures in for. The end of the year tends to be when I take the most pictures. We have field trips, park visits, theme days, field day, etc. And the video is already 15 minutes long. It's panning out to be my longest end of year video yet. I can't really shorten the length of each picture. It's already at 3 seconds, and anything less won't be long enough. We may have to watch it in two sittings. 😂
 
Songbird76

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SteveBrickNJ said:
That was funny, but now I am gonna steer it toward something I'd like feedback on from anyone on this forum.
What is displayed in Jennifer's photos is what we do in my household. I'm sure in numerous households in New Jersey people do this.
Yet on May 4th these so called "one time plastic bags" will be banned in New Jersey.
1. Does anyone live where that is the case?
2. I'll still want to line my wastebaskets....so now instead of free bags....I'll have to pay for them. Does this new law really accomplish much?
3. What will happen if I go to a Department Store and purchase jeans and two shirts? I guess all retail stores will have to put items purchased into paper bags?
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So, I'm hopelessly late with this....sorrry. But we have had to pay for plastic bags for decades here. We bring reusable bags to the grocery store. They are nylon fold up bags that you keep in your purse or your car or wherever. If you don't bring your own, you have to buy the plastic bags from the store. And we have to buy plastic trash liners. We also have to separate our trash into biodegradable, recyclable, and other, and we have collection points for glass and paper, which do not go into the recyclable container. For the biodegradable container, we have to buy liners that are made from like potato or something. They look like plastic, but they are biodegradable as well.
 
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PUSH said:
We don't have to worry about bears where we went camping. Raccoons, maybe, but not bears.

Actually, one time my dad and I were walking our garbage to the dumpsters. When opened the lid, a raccoon was inside and started scurrying around. It scared the you know what out of us. I was always afraid to open that dumpster from that point on.
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When I was growing up, we went tent camping every summer. It was so much cheaper than staying in hotels. My mom grew up camping and she and her cousin traveled a lot before they each got married. Mom told us about this one time when they went to yellowstone. My mom was really bossy and controlling, and she considered her cousin really flaky. (I don't think she was as flaky as mom indicated...I think she was just a very bubbly person, and my mom was very serious, so she saw a person who smiled a lot as being a ditz. She felt the same way about me and I was always very responsible and got good grades, etc. My mom just didn't get smiley people.) So they were cleaning out the car, and a bear approached their tent and mom's cousin had her back to it, so she didn't see it. My mom said "Marian, get in the car and close the door." And Marian says "Why are you always bossing me around? You could ask a little bit nicer!" and she's chewing mom out and has no idea there's a bear 10 feet away. Mom just told her not to argue, and that there's a bear, and so then she couldn't jump in the car fast enough. 😂
 
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SteveBrickNJ said:
@Songbird76 ,
Remind me when you will be in Dublin?
I've been having fun planning my 7 days in August "on the ground time" for traveling in Dublin, Belfast, Derry and County Donegal.
I have sooo many plans it would make your head spin if I posted it all 😂
A wdwmagic poster @Tiggerish helped me to become familiar with Aer Lingus's website back when I booked our airfare.
Since then I've not bothered her really. Correct @Tiggerish ?
I've been doing my planning on Tripadvisor
Here's an example...
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Itinerary Aug. 11 & a Dundalk Lunch Location Question - Dundalk Forum - Tripadvisor

Answer 1 of 20: On Thurs. the 11th of August Butlers Tours' driver will pick up my wife and I in Dublin (with us having spent the prior two days seeing Dublin on our own) and he'll take us on a brief drive by to Dublin spots we didn't cover during those...
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I'll be there the weekend of November 11th. My friend's book launch is the 11th, so I'll go over whatever that Friday is I guess? And come back on the 12th or 13th.
 
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Songbird76 said:
So, I'm hopelessly late with this....sorrry. But we have had to pay for plastic bags for decades here. We bring reusable bags to the grocery store. They are nylon fold up bags that you keep in your purse or your car or wherever. If you don't bring your own, you have to buy the plastic bags from the store. And we have to buy plastic trash liners. We also have to separate our trash into biodegradable, recyclable, and other, and we have collection points for glass and paper, which do not go into the recyclable container. For the biodegradable container, we have to buy liners that are made from like potato or something. They look like plastic, but they are biodegradable as well.
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Same in Ireland. Must be an EU thing. 😉

And your post drove me back to an almost month-old conversation, so apologies to all you Sageteers for replying to the following old posts. 😁
SteveBrickNJ said:
What about NON food stores?
When purchasing shoes or clothes.
I guess those stores will exclusively use paper bags?
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Clothing stores will give you paper bags. For instance, specific to Ireland, if you happen to go into a Dunnes Store to shop, and you purchase clothing or home decor items before you go into the grocery section, you’ll have a paper bag to add your Cadbury’s to. Or Tayto, or MiWadi. Whatever rings your bell. 😃
Goofyernmost said:
My solution to that is that I use the same store bought bag over and over. I put a large rubber band holding the top of the bag over the top edge of the liner and just dump the small trash baskets into the large one that goes to recycling or landfill. One box will last a lifetime. I still have to pay for the larger ones that I take out, once or twice a week and that is it. Replace the large one (in my case a tall kitchen trash container) Saves a lot of plastic and I don't have so much to carry out.
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We do the same, except that the small bags are from a box of 3-gallon liners that we bought a few years ago. We just keep reusing them til they’re borderline disgusting, and it takes a really long time for them to get there.

But @SteveBrickNJ is right, the difference is merely “plastic bags that you pay for” vs “free plastic bags”. Maybe the idea is that you’ll be more careful or conservationist with the bags you pay for, as @Goofyernmost and I do, rather than easily and carelessly discarding the free supermarket bags?

I have some reusable bags in my car that I bought in Stop & Shop when the whole reusable bag thing started. The branding includes the year—2009. Those bags are over 10 years old and still look brand new. I think there may be something to the concept. 😄
trr1 said:
tree Pollen in this area
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  • Today: Very High

  • Tomorrow: Very High

  • Saturday: Very High
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Tree pollen is my kryptonite. I start taking Claritin on Presidents Day to get it into my system before the dreaded green stuff appears, and can usually stop it after Memorial Day. There were only three days so far this year that I wanted to scratch my eyeballs.
JenniferS said:
Heading to the Blue Jays game, but I grabbed a few pics before we left. Nothing is framed or staged to my liking, but the pics will do for now.

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Okay, the pillow fibbed. We are totally leaving family behind. That’s why we bought it!
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Holy cow, that kitchen is nicer than mine!! Best wishes for many “happy trails” in that unit! I love that you’re already using it while it’s parked in the driveway.
PUSH said:
That would be an odd duck spelling that we haven't learned yet.

Also, speaking of qu, for any parents or young children, please do not teach your child that qu says "kwuh". It doesn't. Pretend to say "quit", but then stop before the "it". Voila. You have the sound for qu. Similar to w and y. W does not say "wuh". Pretend you are saying "wet", but stop before the "et". Y doesn't say "yuh", pretend you are saying "yellow", but stop before the "ellow". If you put your hand under your chin, your chin shouldn't drop because you aren't adding a vowel sound.

That's very important when teaching kids to read.

Also, I'm not sure if you could tell, but phonics is my favorite thing to teach. I love it. I'm a total nerd with it. I know random rules such as, singular English words do not end in the letters i, u, v, or j. Except for the words you, thou, and I. There are some more exceptions, but they are words most people will never read, so it's not worth teaching. The vast majority of words follow rules. People were just never taught the rules, so they think they are "rule breakers". For example, "have" has the short a sound, when it should have the long a sound if there's an e at the end. However, the only reason the e is there is because English words can't end in the letter v. So they tack a silent e on. Same with the word live. That's why the words live (short i) and live (long i) are spelled the same.

Told ya. Nerd.
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I am madly in love with your love of phonics. I learned phonics in Catholic-school kindergarten in 1969. Huge fan. I even use it now that I’m endeavoring to learn Irish. Phonics is da bomb. I understand that they stopped teaching reading that way for a long time, at least in lower NY state, and I think that was to the detriment of all.

Sorry, that was a gush that turned into a rant. It’s done now.
 
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Tiggerish said:
I am madly in love with your love of phonics. I learned phonics in Catholic-school kindergarten in 1969. Huge fan. I even use it now that I’m endeavoring to learn Irish. Phonics is da bomb. I understand that they stopped teaching reading that way for a long time, at least in lower NY state, and I think that was to the detriment of all.

Sorry, that was a gush that turned into a rant. It’s done now.
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Most places stopped teaching it in favor of the "whole language" approach, whose philosophy was pretty much just putting books in front of kids, and they will naturally learn to read.

Research shows about 40% of kids will be readers no matter what, but the majority need explicit phonics instruction. Reading is a code based process, and kids need to learn that code (sounds and phonemes to match the letters and graphemes). Even adults read by decoding, rather than memorizing. They just decode really fast.

And don't even get me on memorizing sight words... not effective!
 
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Tiggerish said:
I am madly in love with your love of phonics. I learned phonics in Catholic-school kindergarten in 1969. Huge fan. I even use it now that I’m endeavoring to learn Irish. Phonics is da bomb. I understand that they stopped teaching reading that way for a long time, at least in lower NY state, and I think that was to the detriment of all.
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There were a lot of things that were once taught in schools that are no longer and it shows in the overall degree lessened intellectual ability that is currently on display in the U.S.
 
Songbird76

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Goofyernmost said:
There were a lot of things that were once taught in schools that are no longer and it shows in the overall degree lessened intellectual ability that is currently on display in the U.S.
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Cursive. My kids' elementary school is the only one here in town that teaches the kids cursive. They got to high school and had to print because no one could read cursive writing. And A had to learn to print when he switched to special education. His motor skills were poor and we had him in physical therapy for it and the PT suggested that he start printing instead because his handwriting wasn't legible. They never learned to print...the school started off in 1st grade right away with cursive, and they didn't learn reading or writing or anything in Kindergarten, so that was a bit step for him learning to print in 6th grade.
 

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