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Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own

This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]


megan walker - Sep 15, 2008 4:52:09 pm PDT #6739 of 23273
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

That's what I meant. I thought that the cutoff for starting school was still December for most people in their 30s. I don't quite know when they changed that.


Jesse - Sep 15, 2008 4:57:59 pm PDT #6740 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It's always varied by place, as far as I know. I have a friend who started young in her class with a February birthday, but got kept back when she switched to private school, because they thought she was too young.

And I have another friend who was my year in college, but almost exactly a year older than me, because where she was, the cutoff was September.


Amy - Sep 15, 2008 5:06:57 pm PDT #6741 of 23273
Because books.

The cutoff here is still Dec. 1. So Sara is still four until her birthday on Nov. 29, but she's in kindergarten. Which seems weird to me.


megan walker - Sep 15, 2008 5:12:53 pm PDT #6742 of 23273
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I started kindergarten at 4.


quester - Sep 15, 2008 5:24:11 pm PDT #6743 of 23273
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

Me, and my next younger sister (11 months younger, Irish twin) were both 4 as well.


Morgana - Sep 15, 2008 6:27:35 pm PDT #6744 of 23273
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber

I started kindergarten at 4.

Me too. And then started college at 17. My birthday's in October. I think when I started, my school's cutoff was the end of December.


kat perez - Sep 15, 2008 6:38:16 pm PDT #6745 of 23273
"We have trust issues." Mylar

I started kindergarten at 4 and college at 17. I went to Catholic school and they didn't have a cutoff. Go, Pope!

I loved Christian on Bravo's PR marathon today. They had a commercial reminding folks that we were going to be able to vote for the fan favorite this season and I realized that I totally didn't have a fan favorite this season. Stella in a pinch, but that's totally by default. That makes me sad.


ChiKat - Sep 15, 2008 6:46:32 pm PDT #6746 of 23273
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

I thought that the cutoff for starting school was still December for most people in their 30s.

For us, the cutoff was Sept. 1.

Chikat! Mine is the 15th - I hadn't realized that our birthdays were so close.

We are twinkies!

(I'm the oldest in the family and the only one to major in art.)

Okay, only kinda. I'm the middle in my family. Major was in the fine arts, though.


Jessica - Sep 16, 2008 3:42:49 am PDT #6747 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

When I was growing up, the cutoff was December, but my school district allowed redshirting* so I wound up the youngest in my class but my sister (also a Nov birthday) was the oldest in hers.

*NOT the same as redshirting in genre TV. In this context it means holding your kid back a year if you feel they're not ready for kindergarten.


sumi - Sep 16, 2008 5:18:07 am PDT #6748 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

I was ususally one of the older kids in my class. I know that I started kindgergarten when my next door neighbor did and she was five or six months younger than I was.