oh lol, growing up in the 80s and 90s nobody ever gave pushback on the pledge of allegiance.i remember my first extensive period being bullied in seventh grade at morning public assembly (where they threw all the kids into the gym on bleachers while we waited for an hour for all the buses to arrive from the farflung route they had to take to bring us all to this trash heap) and i figured out how to skip that hellhole and read in the band room instead... until the vice-principal found me and asked what i was doing there and, when i told him honestly that the other kids were throwing things at me and making fun of me for reading and occasionally hitting me, that fucking asshole ordered me to go back and stand up for myself against a posse of 7th graders and checked to make sure I was on those bleachers for months afterward. I had to start taking antacids in the morning on the bus so I wouldn't puke from nervousness. eventually i snapped and jumped one of the kids and banged his head against the wall for awhile so they mostly left me alone after that.
i think it speaks well to us that we're not all gibbering suicidal idiots after surviving US public schools
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 17:13 (three years ago) link
The only thing I learned in public school...was how to survive. (cue ominous beating of kettle drums as I tie filthy bandana around my forehead)
― Stefan Twerkelle (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 17:16 (three years ago) link
xp Jesus, what an awful thing to do to a kid.
Yeah, I definitely grew up pledging allegiance in elementary and middle school too, but my high school never bothered with it before 9/11, so it was a very sudden shift from "yeah, we don't do this" to "you can't enter the classroom unless you do this," and it was coming from a teacher rather than the school so it ended up being a big deal.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 17:19 (three years ago) link
heh well tbh it was probably good that i toughened up just a little around then but fuck that vice principal forever
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 17:19 (three years ago) link
The year after I graduated, I heard that he had gotten into a fistfight in the hall with another teacher who used to be a pro wrestler
wait hold up
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 17:33 (three years ago) link
I mean, I am not going to be picking a fistfight anywhere, let alone my place of employment, but just say for the sake of argument I did; I would not be challenging the former pro wrestler
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 17:34 (three years ago) link
Also these stories are reminding me of the time in middle school when I was spat upon for 40 minutes straight by some assholes before I snapped and spat back at them and I got punished along with them.
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 17:35 (three years ago) link
(This was on a bus back from a trip to see My Fair Lady and there were teachers chaperoning the event whom I complained to while this was happening but somehow no discipline was enacted until I fought back, how peculiar)
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 17:36 (three years ago) link
Jesus christ.
Is there a 'traumatizing shit that happened to you when you were a kid' thread? If not...maybe we don't actually need one. I could see that turning into a nightmarish trigger-fest.
― Stefan Twerkelle (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link
I threw applesauce at my PE teacher once
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link
My Tianenman Square
weird. I was just telling a friend about how my high school physics teacher set aside a day to lecture us on how homosexuality was a disease (this was circa 1995)
― rob, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 17:56 (three years ago) link
was spat upon for 40 minutes straight by some assholes before I snapped and spat back at them and I got punished along with them.
The origin story of 'BOTH SIDES!!!'
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 17:58 (three years ago) link
TIL Vir from Babylon 5 is the guy who played Flounder in Animal House.
Idk why it took me this long to recognize him
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 18:00 (three years ago) link
My school was good, some kids were assholes, but deficiencies in outcome were my own.
― pence's eye juice (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 18:16 (three years ago) link
my junior year HS history? current events? civics? I don't even remember? teacher was the baskeball coach would give you a quiz on his mimeographed handout of the rules at the beginning of the year, wore the same pants every day (we kept a tally), and took 15 minutes to take roll every day, during which time we would often try to make each each other pass out.
Every week we had to turn in a report on a current event and my friends started doing them on things like BJ and the Bear article from the "TV Stars 1982" book in the library or the trading cards of En Vogue and Linear from the side of a Pop Tarts box. A guy named Wilhelm found an article in the weekly world news about a car called the wilhelm that ran on urine and turned it in as if it had been from popular mechanics. The teacher came in the next week with a stack of Popular Mechanics from the past year to prove Wilhelm was lying but didn't do anything because he was too lazy.
― joygoat, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 20:05 (three years ago) link
that Mike Muir and Infectious Grooves have beef with Rage Against the Machinehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8l2UtJ83I4
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 March 2021 00:02 (three years ago) link
I went to public school up until 8th grade, so survived the hell of public middle school. My private high school had its own deficiencies– I remain terrified of math, fwiw— but we read and wrote like nobody's business. My freshman year, I wrote a 35 page research paper on the EZLN and land struggle in Mexico, and my sophomore year English teacher just had a poem published in the Editorial section of the NYTimes this past weekend.
(It was a very progressive Quaker school, and yes, I had a partial scholarship)
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 18:29 (three years ago) link
All that said, while I can do a lot of mental math of the four basic functions pretty easily, anything beyond that is off the table. I don't remember how to do most algebra, or geomentry, and I got a C- in trig and never took a math class again.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 18:30 (three years ago) link
I once wrote a poem about President Bush (H.W.) getting lost in a mall
― "Salvation Army FUCK!" (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 18:31 (three years ago) link
anything beyond that is off the table
Tee hee.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 18:31 (three years ago) link
I once went on an epic rant about neoliberalism in my senior Philosophy seminar, stormed out of the class, then returned after smoking cigarette at "the corner," which was within sight of the school, but was technically off school grounds.
Good thing that teacher loved me.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:19 (three years ago) link
pvmicc
― Canon in Deez (silby), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
-c
yep, some things haven't changed
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 21:22 (three years ago) link
I use geometry all the time (graphic design, technical drawing, even just practical interior stuff like how do we arrange our furniture). Geometry is lovely.
Algebra I can still kinda manage, but trigonometry, calculus, etc. simply never happened for me and never will
― imagine flagons (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 21:47 (three years ago) link
― Canon in Deez (silby), Tuesday, March 16, 2021 4:28 PM bookmarkflaglink
this is the way Crips post to ILX
― "Salvation Army FUCK!" (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 22:08 (three years ago) link
I have quite fine spatial reasoning and use geometry in some form quite a bit, as I think many people do. But if you asked me to write out a proof, I'd be baffled
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 02:16 (three years ago) link
I only just realised that the (derogatory?) name for an Irishman, paddy, is from Saint Paddy. I must be a total idiot.
― assert (MatthewK), Thursday, 18 March 2021 13:08 (three years ago) link
I assumed it had something to do with potatoes but yup that seems more accurate
― Nhex, Thursday, 18 March 2021 13:11 (three years ago) link
I don't think it has anything to do with St. Patrick directly, it's more about Patrick being a common first name for Irishman, or perceived to be, they're also called Micks and Scotsman are called Jocks for the same reason.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 March 2021 13:20 (three years ago) link
The English are good at coming up with nicknames for people who aren't English.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 March 2021 13:21 (three years ago) link
"I can't remember that Irish guy's name". "Oh they're all called Paddy anyway".
https://www.independent.ie/business/brexit/why-isnt-he-called-murphy-like-the-rest-of-them-johnsons-alleged-remark-on-varadkar-38329476.html
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 March 2021 13:24 (three years ago) link
Pat is short for Patrick
Paddy is short for Padraic
Thank you for coming to my pat talk
― vaya con carne (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 18 March 2021 17:21 (three years ago) link
Patty is short for Patricia
(Sorry, forgot to add that)
patty is short for a burgerGets a bit taller if you add a bun
― Stevolende, Thursday, 18 March 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
Paddy is short for Patrick too. Then of course there's...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packie_Bonner
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 March 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link
What's green and stays out in the rain?
Paddy O'Furniture.
― nickn, Thursday, 18 March 2021 18:21 (three years ago) link
thank you for refining my ignorance
― assert (MatthewK), Thursday, 18 March 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
puerto rico is further east than maine
― map ca. 1890 (map), Friday, 19 March 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
i miss my business trips to San Juan so much :(
― "Salvation Army FUCK!" (Neanderthal), Friday, 19 March 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link
the website Pitchfork is probably named for the idea of critics coming at things with pitchforks, rather than it just being some random arbitrary word to name a music publication.
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Friday, 19 March 2021 22:41 (three years ago) link
Pitchfork's pointed digs are no accident. The name, Schreiber says, came from the gangster epic "Scarface," in which Tony Montana's pitchfork tattoo is said to be code for an assassin."When I started out, it was about really laying into people who really deserved it,"
"When I started out, it was about really laying into people who really deserved it,"
― visiting, Friday, 19 March 2021 22:51 (three years ago) link
glad that's no longer what people think is cool
― Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 19 March 2021 22:57 (three years ago) link
maybe being like self-consciously and self-aggrandizingly kind is a bit cringe sometimes but god
― Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 19 March 2021 22:58 (three years ago) link
Blues Boy KingAlso: 'Unchained Melody' is a cover, the original of which was released a decade before the Righteous Brothers' version.
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Friday, 19 March 2021 23:00 (three years ago) link
Because I read so many old kids' books and rarely injured myself, I got to the age of 31 still thinking that if I ever had to get stitches for a cut it would be done without anesthetic. When I slammed my finger in a door and had to get it stitched, I went in prepared to grit my teeth through the pain of the stitches, and was pleasantly surprised when they just numbed my finger up.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 19 March 2021 23:26 (three years ago) link
"Ok, now listen. I know you're pretty happy with your spoons, right? Just scoop everything up and there you go. And of course, can't say enough about knives. They slice, they dice, yadda yadda yadda. But let me ask you this: What if you had a utensil somewhere in between, something you could use to gently pick, poke and prod your food -- without making a mess?"
― pplains, Saturday, 20 March 2021 00:15 (three years ago) link
Whatever else threw me to greenspun ilx in 01-02, it came across gen’l shit it involved with pitchfork, and i quickly learned ryan was not worth attn. how that fits the great chain of being...🤷🏻♂️
― pence's eye juice (Hunt3r), Saturday, 20 March 2021 01:08 (three years ago) link
Just heard the Patti Page song 'Mama From the Train' for the first time, featuring the lyric:
Throw mama from the train.........a kiss, a kiss
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 13:02 (three years ago) link