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ibntumart posted:"Has (Sister) really been yelling at you and calling you names more than once?"
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Paladinus posted:Why do people always need so many words to tell their story? I think there's some kind of scientific law that says the longer and more detailed a story is the more fake it is.
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Feb 8, 2015 22:50
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Can't just freak the kid out, he has to get injured to the point of needing to leave, I mean go big or go home right Boris Galerkin posted:I think there's some kind of scientific law that says the longer and more detailed a story is the more fake it is. Some kind of law of inverse detail/truth proportionality I guess. It is true that a story with a few key details will likely have more credibility than one that is entirely vague- except when it's all this kind of mundane poo poo where the details never actually would have mattered and it just seems like the writer is frantically trying to assemble a mental dollhouse where their story took place.
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Feb 8, 2015 23:44
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Because he's never even heard of the concept of a bloody nose, nor ever seen one in the years he has inhabited our planet. This one is amazing. College student says she's a professional cuddler, and, well, you'll see. http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/02/costly-cuddling-why-my-night-of-snuggling-wasnt-wo.html
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Feb 9, 2015 08:46
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When I worked retail we had a guy come in yelling about something or other. Manager said "sir if you don't stop shouting in going to call the police." I don't understand why these people think that anyone would go on long rants at screaming customers.
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Feb 9, 2015 09:00
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Khazar-khum posted:Because he's never even heard of the concept of a bloody nose, nor ever seen one in the years he has inhabited our planet. To be fair, it would be more the "bleeding on command" part, not the "omg blood" part. Still dumb.
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Feb 9, 2015 09:34
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Avenging_Mikon posted:To be fair, it would be more the "bleeding on command" part, not the "omg blood" part. One of my Uncles would faint at the sight of blood, he still goes pale to this day too when he sees it.
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Feb 9, 2015 12:42
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I TA'd for a class with a kid who fell out of his chair nearly every drat day, sometimes multiple times. They ended up giving him one of those big balls to sit on, but he just fell off that and sent it crashing into desks/bookcases/students, so we ended up just letting him fall out of a regular chair. Never went home for his trouble, though. A delcaration of "Hail, Satan!" mighta at least explained that poo poo. 
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Feb 9, 2015 16:04
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What was wrong with him?
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Feb 9, 2015 16:08
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Possibly an undiagnosed behavioral disorder? It was a school of maybe 35 kids, K-8. Not big enough for a counselor or special education facilities, and there's also the possibility the parents didn't want to risk small town stigma and just... let it go. I remember being frustrated at the time, but I'm aware how miserable and depressing the whole thing is now.
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Feb 9, 2015 16:31
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Boris Galerkin posted:I think there's some kind of scientific law that says the longer and more detailed a story is the more fake it is. Well, when deception experts try to spot a lie, the amount of details is one of the things they look into. The more unnecessary details a person adds the likelier it is that they just want to hide their lie behind how confident they are about every minuscule aspect of the story. Or the person in question is a huge sperg. I call it autism/deception dichotomy.
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Feb 9, 2015 17:16
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From r/personalfinancequote:So I guess im technically homeless becase I have been living in my car for the last month, but I just cant afford a place to stay while Ive been saving up for the deposit on a new apt. I have been very into vintage watches for many years. Never really had enough money for something nice.
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Dear reddit: I'm about to honestly become super rich, what should I do with the money? Thanks! I know this story is dumb as poo poo because when I was little I used to help my parents clean, organize, and pack up belongs of recently dead people's homes. Before we did anything however, other people had gone through and marked each item that was worth money (which means we were to pack them up, not trash them). So any rare or expensive watch (which afaik pretty much any genuine Rolex would be considered) would be noticed. They would not then be sold for 3.5%, 0.25%, and 0.09% of their estimated value (which, again, they'd have a good idea of because they actually look in to this poo poo). And asking reddit for financial advice, ugh. I assume they'd say invest it all in child pornography or buttcoin, or both. KiddieGrinder has a new favorite as of 23:33 on Feb 9, 2015 |
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Feb 9, 2015 23:31
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I took them too a really awesome local vintage watch buyer/seller in my area to see what I could sell them for. He said they were just some old fakes, but he'd give me $1k each since they're good quality ones. Sweet, I got $500 pure profit! Funny story, I saw that guy in the news a few weeks later and he found some real ones that were just like the ones I sold him, only his were worth like half a million! What are the odds? If only I could get that lucky one day...
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Feb 9, 2015 23:46
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reddit posted:In tenth grade our teacher was this raging liberal, crunchy granola hipster guy. That was the year Obama got elected the first time, and the day of the inauguration the teacher decided we should all talk about how "great it was to have a black president". Inevitably, not everyone supported Obama so some kids voiced that opinion. One girl said "I don't even get why people like him". At that point the teacher was very flustered and sputtered: "Why do people like him?! Well they like him because..." And here he obviously lost his train of thought (or perhaps didn't have one since he clearly only voted for Obama based on his skin color), and finished the sentence with: "Obama is very charismatic! People listen to him!" To which this other kid replies "Obama is charismatic?" Teacher emphatically says yes. Kid says "Yeah, well so was Hitler." He was kept after class and switched into a different class two days later, but it was great.
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Feb 10, 2015 08:31
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What I can't get over is the "in tenth grade in 08" part. I was in college then.
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Feb 10, 2015 08:58
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I will dilligently take note that anyone sharing any quality of Hitler's is automatically equivalent to Hitler.
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Feb 10, 2015 13:10
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We should nuke Austria just to be safe.
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Feb 10, 2015 13:59
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Hitler was also, coincidentally, a black man.
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Feb 10, 2015 15:40
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Ah yes, I remember the mood after the 2008 election, when people (particularly young people) almost universally viewed Obama with disdain or perhaps indifference at the absolute best, and only the most radical of lefties had any kind of hope for the presidency, which is why he had about a 70% approval rating at the time this story takes place.
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Feb 10, 2015 15:59
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 Oh you're blind? Yeah, I guess skip all the parts of the curriculum that involve colour and/or sight then.
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Feb 10, 2015 19:05
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Broken Things posted:
This is so stupid and no person would have this reaction
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Feb 10, 2015 19:24
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Amazingly the whole class was whisper quiet and could hear the authors question. What a well disciplined classroom! also not all blind people (even children) are born blind, they may have had sight at some point and may still have a favorite color. Plus she might not have been 100% blind, so....god this poo poo is dumb. 
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Feb 10, 2015 19:27
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Broken Things posted:
And that teacher was Satan!
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Feb 10, 2015 19:36
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It's just an exercise, it doesn't matter what is your favourite colour. You're supposed to say whatever in a grammatically correct way using recently learnt words. I bet this guy had to ask this question during his class and thought, hey, wouldn't it be weird if I asked a blind person about their favourite colour? They'd probably break down and cry. What an interesting story it would make, too.
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Paladinus posted:It's just an exercise, it doesn't matter what is your favourite colour. You're supposed to say whatever in a grammatically correct way using recently learnt words. More like "I bet I could get Reddit karma with this made up story!" No joke, I have some friends who are elbow-deep into Reddit, and they walk around all day looking for things they could post to the website. For internet points from rape apologists and pedophiles. It's mind boggling.
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Feb 10, 2015 19:46
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Rejoice ! One of my favourite stdh made the imgur front page again 
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Feb 10, 2015 19:55
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"I'm so smart I failed everything. It's not my fault, the teachers are jealous!"
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Fathis Munk posted:Rejoice ! One of my favourite stdh made the imgur front page again If it is one thing teachers hate, its students doing well.
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Feb 10, 2015 20:15
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Sometimes that poo poo happens. My Spanish 4 teacher gave me a 0 on an essay because I used vocabulary words (and verb tenses I think; this was in 2002) that we hadn't covered yet and she assumed that I plagiarized it from somewhere. I had to show her my Spanish-English dictionary to prove that it was possible for me to know those words. Also she was actually Shakira and we are married now.
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Bobby Digital posted:Sometimes that poo poo happens. My Spanish 4 teacher gave me a 0 on an essay because I used vocabulary words (and verb tenses I think; this was in 2002) that we hadn't covered yet and she assumed that I plagiarized it from somewhere. Yeah, I got reprimanded a couple of times in elementary school for working ahead too much and for using words my peers didn't know yet. But I didn't fail something every year because I was just so drat ~*~gifted~*~. Edit: yes I did because I am literally Einstein. Also clapping.
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i was allowed to read ahead because that was about the only thing my idiot ADD brain could focus on without disturbing others. My parents didn't want to medicate me because reasons so they convinced the teachers my grades would be fine if they just let me keep my books. I mostly wish i'd stayed on the medication.
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Fathis Munk posted:Rejoice ! One of my favourite stdh made the imgur front page again What's a 7 year old doing in first grade?
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Feb 10, 2015 20:25
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One year my little sister would routinely bring home worksheets with correctly-spelled words erroneously marked wrong, because the teacher actually couldn't spell 2nd grade vocabulary words herself. The remaining 99% of the teachers that I came into contact with throughout my educational career didn't give two shits. A student who already knew the material meant less work for them.
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Feb 10, 2015 20:33
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LoG posted:What's a 7 year old doing in first grade? Not that it isn't STDH, but a lot of districts, if your birthday is after a certain date, you start school a year later than normal. Happened with my brother.
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AngryRobotsInc posted:Not that it isn't STDH, but a lot of districts, if your birthday is after a certain date, you start school a year later than normal. Happened with my brother. Mine too, only his school let my parents decide if they wanted him to be the youngest or the oldest in his class - they picked oldest to try and avoid him getting picked on.
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AngryRobotsInc posted:Not that it isn't STDH, but a lot of districts, if your birthday is after a certain date, you start school a year later than normal. Happened with my brother. Didn't think of that, I'm a dumb rear end.
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Broken Things posted:
Blind people too emotionally fragile to cope with something that reminds them of their own blindness, despite encountering such scenarios every day of their lives
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Fathis Munk posted:Rejoice ! One of my favourite stdh made the imgur front page again "My third grade teacher actually had a conversation with my mom that I was reading to well and told her to stop having me read at home" "READING TO WELL" 
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