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silencekit posted:So loving boring. That's why I am inclined to believe it. My school also banned innocuous things due to the pettiness of a teacher, or the wussbaggery of the one kid that complained. I miss playing British Bulldog on the ashphalt.
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quote:Reddit posted: I like how "taken off yard duty" is inferred as a punishment. Yeah, grown adults would prefer to spend their lunch break supervising 600 gradeschoolers.
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They banned Pogs at my old school because kids were being beaten up and having them stolen a lot, same with Pokemon cards.
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If you didn't ruthlessly exploit the younger kids and steal their pogs you're a total chode 
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Pogs were no longer a thing well before I started high school, but my school banned anything that even vaguely resembled gambling, so pogs probably would've fallen under that. I had a pretty baller slammer with a scorpion inside, though.  Let's see what's up at our old favorite, NotAlwaysRight: quote:(A patron grabs a pair of our headphones, puts them in her purse, and starts walking away.) This supposedly happened in a library. "I just took them when you weren't looking. Is that okay?" Nobody would ever say that. It'd be "oh, sorry, I forgot". quote:(After serving a very difficult table, I am happy they are on dessert and leaving soon. As I go up to hand them the check:) Nuts will break your teeth? How loving soft are your teeth and why are you even eating solid foods?
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The first few years of school it was marbles, then pokemon cards came along. I think Yugioh cards were starting to get popular during my last year.
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The real STDH on this is the "I rarely post anything on Facebook, but..." Dollars to donuts anyone who hits share on this hits it on any inflammatory image macro or link they see in their daily feed.
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Kurtofan posted:The first few years of school it was marbles, then pokemon cards came along. I think Yugioh cards were starting to get popular during my last year. First they took the marbles, but I did not say anything because I did not play marbles.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:This supposedly happened in a library. "I just took them when you weren't looking. Is that okay?" Doesn't like, everywhere, have their electronic stuff at least zip tied? I think the only thing I HAVENT seen zip tied are the giant library/school headphones that look like this:  The mental image of her trying to stuff those in her purse is amazing.
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Oct 2, 2014 12:52
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I was the one who got Pokemon cards banned at my school because some kid stole mine and a big fuss was made about it. 
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The only thing I recall being banned from my school was knives, and it took the great intra-school knife fights of 1986, and 3 kids being hospitalised and about 20 arrested, before that happened
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SybilVimes posted:The only thing I recall being banned from my school was knives, and it took the great intra-school knife fights of 1986, and 3 kids being hospitalised and about 20 arrested, before that happened Peak  right here, my old school had rivalries with nearby ones too, usually ended up in a large brawl in the street after school.
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Butt Detective posted:I was the one who got Pokemon cards banned at my school because some kid stole mine and a big fuss was made about it. gently caress you, narc. One of the saddest episodes of my high school career: we had a second-story hallway/balcony running all the way around the huge cafeteria area. A bunch of turbonerds were playing some kind of card game (probably Yugioh, hard to say) at a table in the middle of the cafeteria, as they did every day. From up on the balcony, a dickhead (a guy I knew, but didn't associate with because he was a dickhead) threw a container of yogurt at them - probably a distance of over 50ft. It splattered in the middle of the table, all over several nerds and what I can only assume was hundreds of dollars worth of Japanese children's toys. Dickhead and his friends strolled away laughing, all the nerds jumped up in rage-tears sputtering "WHO DID THAT?!" and everyone else tried to avoid eye contact. It was a sad and stupid display.
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walrusman posted:gently caress you, narc. It was
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why would you even want to tell this story why would you even make up a story about your parents' descent into a kinky sex life
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sweeperbravo posted:why would you even want to tell this story walrusman posted:turbonerds, a dickhead and hundreds of dollars worth of Japanese children's toys.
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sweeperbravo posted:why would you even want to tell this story What kind of kid's first blackmail demand is porn? STDH.txt
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Oct 3, 2014 05:27
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Who the gently caress gets blackmailed by their kid in first place
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beedeebee posted:Who the gently caress gets blackmailed by their kid in first place Well you see, the kid is kind of a genius. He totally could have even gotten straight As in high school, if he had cared enough to try.
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walrusman posted:Well you see, the kid is kind of a genius. He totally could have even gotten straight As in high school, if he had cared enough to try. But then he wouldn't have been Albert Einstein....
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I love that the author couldn't help from describing some animes he knows all about in the closet stuff. Like his confused suburbanite mom wouldn't just buy "japanese schoolgirl" bagged outfits at the local porn store, but instead starts shopping cosplay websites to ensure she's dressing up as Hatsune Miku properly. He literally couldn't help but force his dumb animes into his story. He's like a Sherlock Holmes villain only somehow pastier.
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"Honey i bought one of those sexy japanese school girl outfits for you since you only like 2D Women!" NO YOU DUMB BITCH THAT ISN"T ANYTHING LIKE Hatsune Miku!
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I like how he thinks he ruined his parents' marriage with hentai. No, kid, you ruined it by being born.
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Do any hotels actually have that policy? That seems really stupid. Unless they mean at affiliated hotels, but a hotel across the street is more likely to be a competitor.
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Elysiume posted:Do any hotels actually have that policy? That seems really stupid. Unless they mean at affiliated hotels, but a hotel across the street is more likely to be a competitor. Yes, and less likely than you think. Most common is the upscale and downscale being next to each other.
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Elysiume posted:Do any hotels actually have that policy? That seems really stupid. Unless they mean at affiliated hotels, but a hotel across the street is more likely to be a competitor. If you are overbooked, and someone shows up who you don't have a room for, do you get them a room across the street or throw them out on the street? Given those choices, the hotel that get a room with their competitor is going to have a higher number of people coming back next time. Can you offer a 3rd choice? Maybe put 2 families in the same room?
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RFC2324 posted:Can you offer a 3rd choice? Maybe put 2 families in the same room? Yes, live in 2014 where even the most basic of computer booking systems don't let you get overbooked to begin with.
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Rudager posted:Yes, live in 2014 where even the most basic of computer booking systems don't let you get overbooked to begin with. From what I am told, it is actually standard practice(unless you only take reservations for specific rooms) since it is assumed that a certain percentage of people will end up not showing. By overbooking you can fill the hotel, maximizing profits, and in a worst case scenario you call the hotel across the street and get your extra guests a room their(usually at your hotels expense, since it WAS your mistake) This is how both hotels and airlines do business as a standard practice.
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RFC2324 posted:From what I am told, it is actually standard practice(unless you only take reservations for specific rooms) since it is assumed that a certain percentage of people will end up not showing. By overbooking you can fill the hotel, maximizing profits, and in a worst case scenario you call the hotel across the street and get your extra guests a room their(usually at your hotels expense, since it WAS your mistake) This summer we booked a room in a hotel through Hotels.com. When we got there, the place was being remodeled, which is a no-go for me because of my asthma. Hotels.com got us a better room, in a better location, for less money.
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RFC2324 posted:From what I am told, it is actually standard practice(unless you only take reservations for specific rooms) since it is assumed that a certain percentage of people will end up not showing. By overbooking you can fill the hotel, maximizing profits, and in a worst case scenario you call the hotel across the street and get your extra guests a room their(usually at your hotels expense, since it WAS your mistake) I can understand a restaurant doing this, but every time I book a motel or seat on a plane, they take the money up front right there and then at the time of booking, that seems to pretty well lock both parties into it. And they've already got the money, so who loving cares if they show up or not from that point on?
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Planes are always slightly overbooked. That's why you're sometimes offered hotel vouchers or money to take a later flight.
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RFC2324 posted:If you are overbooked, and someone shows up who you don't have a room for, do you get them a room across the street or throw them out on the street?
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Khazar-khum posted:This summer we booked a room in a hotel through Hotels.com. When we got there, the place was being remodeled, which is a no-go for me because of my asthma. Hotels.com got us a better room, in a better location, for less money. Yeah the only place I won't book hotels through a third party is Vegas, because Vegas works very very hard to make sure that you get amazing deals by booking directly and most places there are taking a loss on the rooms anyway so they bend over to accommodate you (most of the strip has frankly amazing customer service all around for obvious reasons). Other places having used Hotels.com and Expedia has saved my rear end at the last minute a ton of times.
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Rudager posted:I can understand a restaurant doing this, but every time I book a motel or seat on a plane, they take the money up front right there and then at the time of booking, that seems to pretty well lock both parties into it. People with more money than sense/cares often do this thing where they won't know exactly which day they plan to travel, so they book, and pay for, the same trip on several days, and just no-show on the days they don't actually need.
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RFC2324 posted:From what I am told, it is actually standard practice(unless you only take reservations for specific rooms) since it is assumed that a certain percentage of people will end up not showing. By overbooking you can fill the hotel, maximizing profits, and in a worst case scenario you call the hotel across the street and get your extra guests a room their(usually at your hotels expense, since it WAS your mistake) I think it's more common than you'd want to think. At the portrait studio I worked at, this was standard practice also, especially around the holidays. You'd literally have people leaving (rightfully) enraged because they had been waiting for an appointment scheduled for an hour prior and we were *supposed* to take walk-in appointments in addition to the scheduled ones. If we didn't fit everyone in, despite being typically understaffed or not having enough equipment to have that many shoots going at once, well, it was obviously our fault for not going through the shoots fast enough, as opposed to the dumb booking practice. They figured I guess instead of having, like, 30 customers who will have a reasonably okay, timely, dedicated experience, it was better to try cramming 50-60 customers who would all have to wait forever, then feel rushed when it was actually their turn, and be unlikely to recommend the place to anybody else after going home. Because that makes you more money TODAY, right? Who cares about practical quality of service  A little off topic, I guess. It was poo poo, it did happen, there were assholes cranking to 11. But yeah it's one of those dumb practices that makes way more sense to the people at the high-up, far-away offices who only deal with numbers and literally never come face to face with a customer.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Yeah the only place I won't book hotels through a third party is Vegas, because Vegas works very very hard to make sure that you get amazing deals by booking directly and most places there are taking a loss on the rooms anyway so they bend over to accommodate you (most of the strip has frankly amazing customer service all around for obvious reasons). Other places having used Hotels.com and Expedia has saved my rear end at the last minute a ton of times. Third party sites like Expedia and Travelocity are a bad idea, they sometimes just book you to a random room without taking into account any considerations you've made (non-smoking, pet friendly, etc.). And then if you need to make any changes or anything, you can't get a refund through the hotel, you have to go through the website. A better plan is to check the rates on the website, then call the hotel and say "hey Travelocity is offering X room at $XX.XX, can you match that?" 99% of the time they will, just to save everyone the hassle.
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