Anonymous
Post 02/04/2014 11:34     Subject: Re:Nanny applied to Gds for her kid!
Nanny's child has a hook that OP's doesn't. I think Nanny is classier than OP. Nanny should shoot higher than GDS!
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2014 11:31     Subject: Nanny applied to Gds for her kid!
Anonymous wrote:The real problem is what if they accept the child of the nanny and not the OP! That would not make for a healthy work environment.

If this isn't a troll and GDS does accept the nanny's child and not the OP's then I would laugh my ass off. The stuck up bitch will get just what is coming to her/
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2014 11:23     Subject: Nanny applied to Gds for her kid!
Anonymous wrote:Her kid will get in and yours won't!


And then the nanny will be out of a job.

(If this isn't a fake post.)
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2014 11:18     Subject: Nanny applied to Gds for her kid!
Her kid will get in and yours won't!
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2014 11:02     Subject: Nanny applied to Gds for her kid!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Even if the scenario were fictional, the post wouldn't be ersatz.


Different poster, but . . . ersatz post = fake post.

Hilarious how that one person can't admit they weren't as knowledgeable about language as they thought. Lol.


I don't think that ersatz post = fake post. Ersatz means "inferior substitute", not just "fake" in general.

Although, on the other hand, you could say that this post is is an inferior substitute for a good troll post. If it is a troll post, it's nowhere near the quality I have come to expect from trolls on DCUM.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2014 11:00     Subject: Nanny applied to Gds for her kid!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Even if the scenario were fictional, the post wouldn't be ersatz.


Different poster, but . . . ersatz post = fake post.

Hilarious how that one person can't admit they weren't as knowledgeable about language as they thought. Lol.


+1 (and yes I think the original post was clearly fake)
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2014 10:49     Subject: Nanny applied to Gds for her kid!
Anonymous wrote:Even if the scenario were fictional, the post wouldn't be ersatz.


Different poster, but . . . ersatz post = fake post.

Hilarious how that one person can't admit they weren't as knowledgeable about language as they thought. Lol.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2014 10:49     Subject: Nanny applied to Gds for her kid!
Anonymous wrote:We both applied for our children who are the same age. She is relying on FA since she doesn't have a done to pay. That's what she told me. I don't have the heart to tell her they may accept her child especially since she needs 100 per cent FA.
An I alone in thinking its odd for her to go through the trouble of applying wheb age earns $400 a week with no other income.


I thought the folks who are so mad about being asked to contribute to the financial aid funds at tjeir schools wanted their money to go to the truly needy. So she should apply, correct?
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2014 10:34     Subject: Nanny applied to Gds for her kid!
Anonymous wrote:We both applied for our children who are the same age. She is relying on FA since she doesn't have a done to pay. That's what she told me. I don't have the heart to tell her they may accept her child especially since she needs 100 per cent FA.
An I alone in thinking its odd for her to go through the trouble of applying wheb age earns $400 a week with no other income.


you are a disgusting excuse for a mom and human being! her children deserve MORE of an opportunity than your sniveling snot-nosed spoiled ass kids. I hope your kids don't get in....and that hers do and that she finds a better job.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2014 10:28     Subject: Re:Nanny applied to Gds for her kid!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
I told her I wouldn't mind talking to the public school (great school btw) to allow her child to go there and she refused since she really wants private school for her kid.


Why would you need to talk to her public school so it will allow her child to go there?


Because OP is Lady Patroness, did you not know?
She has to do right by her retinue.

(no amount of talking will get the school to accept out of bounds kids, but shh - don't tell her)


Oooh, I bet it's because nanny does not live in DC, while OP does. So nanny can use OP's address to get her kid into the DC public school (cheating), while OP's upper class kid floats serenely off to GDS.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2014 09:32     Subject: Re:Nanny applied to Gds for her kid!
Anonymous wrote:
I told her I wouldn't mind talking to the public school (great school btw) to allow her child to go there and she refused since she really wants private school for her kid.


Why would you need to talk to her public school so it will allow her child to go there?


Because OP is Lady Patroness, did you not know?
She has to do right by her retinue.

(no amount of talking will get the school to accept out of bounds kids, but shh - don't tell her)
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2014 09:32     Subject: Nanny applied to Gds for her kid!
Even if the scenario were fictional, the post wouldn't be ersatz.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2014 09:29     Subject: Nanny applied to Gds for her kid!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You might want to look up "ersatz" before you use it again.


Heck, I'll bite! (More fun to discuss words than an obviously phony original post that people going for like hungry carp.)

"Ersatz" means an artificial substitute, with a connotation of lower or shoddy quality. It's a German word going back to the 19th century. I take it you think it should be retired from the language because it was also used to describe items in Germany in World War II, so it is associated with Nazis? It seems to still be in use, including in the New York Times crossword, http://www.nytcrossword.com/2013/11/1114-13-new-york-times-crossword.html, so I don't think it's been retired from circulation as a Nazi word.



Who said anything about Nazis? (But, FWIW, crossword puzzle use wouldn't really be a good marker of linguistic currency). It was more a question of diction. Ersatz modifies post. But the post is real. And its quality is about par for the course. Whether the scenario is true is a separate question. But even if it were fictional, it wouldn't be "ersatz."
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2014 09:24     Subject: Re:Nanny applied to Gds for her kid!
I told her I wouldn't mind talking to the public school (great school btw) to allow her child to go there and she refused since she really wants private school for her kid.


Why would you need to talk to her public school so it will allow her child to go there?
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2014 09:21     Subject: Nanny applied to Gds for her kid!
Reminds me of the "daughter is pregnant by a black man" thread - similarly artlessly provoking title.

Well, OP, what kind of comments did you want to read?

Horror that the great unwashed are invading our schools?
Pity for the ignorant nanny because her child is definitely "not the right fit"?

Ha.