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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I'm totally using "clomshire" on them until I leave, too. PLEASE DO. Oh man, guys.
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Jun 6, 2017 08:00
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:they're makin' me teach the ol' middle school classes again. That's cool as hell Separetely: Did the kids en masse or the other teachers or the school itself cut it off?
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Jun 6, 2017 08:32
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Powaqoatse posted:Separetely: Did the kids en masse or the other teachers or the school itself cut it off? Cut what off? Sorry, I only got 90 minutes of sleep last night and I'm off my face from coffee and grumpiness. If you mean not doing their final presentation, yeah, the kids have a mock TOEFL next week and have completely stopped doing any other work as a result. Let me say it again: mock TOEFL. I hope their scores mitigate their very real Fs in Biology. 30% of your total grade is talking for three minutes on the biological topic of your choice. Honestly. Not since I had a history class where 40% of your grade was participation and 60% a single paper has anyone had it so easy. /bitching
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Jun 6, 2017 08:38
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Cut what off? Sorry, I only got 90 minutes of sleep last night and I'm off my face from coffee and grumpiness. sorry i meant your job for a bit it sounded like you lost your job but i hope you still have it :ü
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Jun 6, 2017 09:20
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Powaqoatse posted:sorry i meant your job OH! No, no, I'm just leaving. It's been a really poo poo year and I'm sort of burned out on the Chinese day-to-day. And other stuff, but mostly those two reasons.
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Jun 6, 2017 09:22
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Playing a finish-the-sentence game with the first-years: JESSICA: "When I grow up, I want to be....a rich man." ME: "uhhh, man?" EASON: "Ladyboy! Ladyboy!!!" It quickly disintegrated into: In college, I will study ladyboys. I will be a ladyboy CEO. I will open a ladyboy museum. In five years, China will be a ladyboy country. I want to travel to the ladyboy planet. No, I can't get them to stop saying it. I've been trying all year. I got them to stop saying "gay" as a pejorative; I've done what little I can.
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Jun 7, 2017 03:23
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My little nephew is 2.5 and he's had a bit of an issue going to bed lately. He has shortened Auntie Cat to "Achia" for some reason and is obsessed with my car. My dad said I missed a call from my sister, so I called her. Me: "Hey, buddy." Nephew: "Achia... Achia car?" Me: "No friend, Achia car dodo." Nephew: "Achia car dodo? Achia car dodo." Me: "Achia car dodo. Achia dodo. Alec dodo." A second later, my sister came on the line and said. "He just turned around and went to bed." I suspect I'll be getting many more phone calls from her in the future.
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Jun 7, 2017 03:30
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Writer Cath posted:My little nephew is 2.5 and he's had a bit of an issue going to bed lately. He has shortened Auntie Cat to "Achia" for some reason and is obsessed with my car. Dodo?
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Jun 7, 2017 04:09
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I'm guessing, "go to bed" in That Kidspeak.
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Jun 7, 2017 04:37
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It's standard children's colloquial French ("faire dodo" or my favorite "métro/boulot/dodo").
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AlbieQuirky posted:It's standard children's colloquial French ("faire dodo" or my favorite "métro/boulot/dodo"). Google translate gives me nothing. What does it actually mean?
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I made a few silly videos of my daughter Nova "saying" things. https://youtu.be/wdkIPzQSHgM https://youtu.be/brC_RQPkRAE https://youtu.be/xn0Diq7gbqw https://youtu.be/eFYXEzA2_vk https://youtu.be/i2aYswfByWg https://youtu.be/Q7CZflnZREE They are all less than 20 seconds long but they really make me laugh.
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Beer_Suitcase posted:I made a few silly videos of my daughter Nova "saying" things. These are all amazing. I think your baby watches too much Breitbart though 
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Jun 7, 2017 05:20
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She's just asking the tough questions. She will also do this while at the park. "Daddy, lady. See lady?" "Yes, Nova I see her" "She all butt" *all is her stand-in word for big for some reason* "Yes I know" At this point she follows the lady around going "butt butt butt butt" for a while.
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Jun 7, 2017 05:24
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Google translate gives me nothing. What does it actually mean? Basically "night-night".
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Jun 7, 2017 05:40
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Beer_Suitcase posted:She's just asking the tough questions. Youtube autoplay tells me your baby suffered from a bout of spookiness. I'm glad that cleared up
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Jun 7, 2017 05:46
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Beer_Suitcase posted:"She all butt" *all is her stand-in word for big for some reason* This is drunk me. last year's remedial class posted:LEO: "Someday, my English will be so great." I'm posting this because Leo is now, indeed, heading to the Australia. 
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I'm posting this because Leo is now, indeed, heading to the Australia. Sometimes dreams DO come true! hope he likes venomous animals, and racism!
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Jun 7, 2017 10:51
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Sometimes dreams DO come true! Yes, and too rich to care, in that order. He's actually a very talented artist, but he was (at this point) probably the best example of a worthless tuhao ever. However, it's not exactly his fault, as he grew up extremely spoiled. His mother will literally give him anything because she ruined his life. See, the man he thought was his father? Not his father. His real father is dead. He discovered this as a middle school student and apparently just stopped doing anything except buying poo poo online, playing video games, and riding his Kawasaki Ninja. Ever see a very very fat man on a Ninja? It's funny. Last year, he almost died from poor nutrition. Massively overweight, never ate anything except fried chicken and instant ramen. Had to be hospitalized and was put on such a strict regimen that he couldn't come back to school for over a month because it couldn't be accommodated. When he showed back up, he'd lost buckets of weight, and his skin had cleared up. AND HE WAS INTERACTING WITH PEOPLE! It was great. He really fixed a lot of his poo poo. He has a Porsche now. Custom rims, metallic paint job that changes color, the whole deal. Gotta be even better than a girl with golden hair.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Yes, and too rich to care, in that order. He should definitely go to Australia and ride motorcycles. They have Toby Price who is faster than everyone and used to (much like Leo) be a fat little boy. Look at this video, it's not even sped up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6tLFLhEp10 There are certainly worse folks to be inspired by, if you're looking to give him a nudge in that direction.
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From a longform I'm reading in Vanity Fair about a scam artist (can't remember if it's from Longforms or from Creepy/Unnerving), this bit from his childhood:quote:When Strangis was about three years old and living in a raised ranch house in Brockton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, he pulled a pair of dice out of his pocket and uttered, “Baby needs a new pair of shoes.” Link, for the curious: http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/11/how-sarma-melngailis-became-a-runaway-fugitive
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Calling Brockton a suburb of Boston is stretching it. It's 25 miles away and not even in the same county.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Google translate gives me nothing. What does it actually mean? Sleep in French is dormir, so kiddy speak is dodo. It tends to cross over into English in bilingual areas.
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I took French for like ten years and never learned this, and it's super cute. And confusing, because "fais do-do" is Louisiana Cajun for a big-rear end party, so now I know the etymology behind that 'cause I've always wondered.
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My five year old daughter and I were reading a book on the human body and she said that if your skin was gone you'd just be a skeleton. I mentioned that this would kill you. She didn't agree. "Sometimes skeletons can be alive. One time I went to Skeleton Park and a bunch of skeletons attacked me but I defeated all of them because I had 500 HP and they only had 1 HP and then they turned into normal skeletons."
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U-DO Burger posted:My five year old daughter and I were reading a book on the human body and she said that if your skin was gone you'd just be a skeleton. I mentioned that this would kill you. She didn't agree. If you'd asked me in 1989 which bits of my nerd hobbies would enter mainstream culture to the extent that small children referenced them casually, I never would have guessed "the hit point system from D&D."
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I think I posted last year about how I dress as Batman every Free Comic Book Day, and a little girl told me that Batman doesn't smile. Same girl this year, dressed as Supergirl this time, sweet as pie until we take a picture. "Batman doesn't smile." Best part of my day. That's saying something when I got to drink Ecto Cooler with the Detroit Ghostbusters.
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My four year old came in as I was photoshopping real estate photos. The photo of the laundry room looked awful because the front load dryer was full of multicolored underwear. I started the process of editing out the circus of undies. As soon as I was done, he slowly turned to me with a disturbed look on his face. "Did you just take the clothes out of the picture, or did you really just take the clothes out of the dryer?" He honestly wanted to know if I was some sort of wizard who can edit poo poo out of photos and they disappear from reality.
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Nermal. posted:He honestly wanted to know if I was some sort of wizard who can edit poo poo out of photos and they disappear from reality. I didn't understand how instant coffee worked and I guess I never saw her put the mix in the cups so I used to think my mom was magically making the water turn into coffee
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Shoozy posted:I didn't understand how instant coffee worked and I guess I never saw her put the mix in the cups so I used to think my mom was magically making the water turn into coffee When my friend was little, she thought her mom was making her contact lenses when she took them out of the liquid in the case each morning, like pressing the liquid in a way that made it into a contact lens.
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I used to think "dammit" meant something like "to throw down a stick or a hand-tool" because that's what I always saw my dad do when he said the word. One of my earliest memories is standing in the kitchen, repeatedly and happily throwing a plastic toy hammer on the floor and saying "dammit" while my mom laughed and dad wore a sheepish smile.
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Lamprotornis posted:I used to think "dammit" meant something like "to throw down a stick or a hand-tool" because that's what I always saw my dad do when he said the word. This owns Much cuter than the 2 year old kid my mom babysat back in the day whose vocab consisted entirely of "Mommy work" and "Daddy beer". 
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Lamprotornis posted:I used to think "dammit" meant something like "to throw down a stick or a hand-tool" because that's what I always saw my dad do when he said the word. Yeah, I remember being a small kid and misunderstanding words. Like thinking stand-offish meant to be very aggressive and upfront. Oh wait, no, that was in my mid-twenties.
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Samovar posted:Yeah, I remember being a small kid and misunderstanding words. Like thinking stand-offish meant to be very aggressive and upfront. You're thinking of Mexican standoffish
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Samovar posted:Yeah, I remember being a small kid and misunderstanding words. Like thinking stand-offish meant to be very aggressive and upfront. Christ guys stop worrying, the sign says inflammable 
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Shoozy posted:I didn't understand how instant coffee worked and I guess I never saw her put the mix in the cups so I used to think my mom was magically making the water turn into coffee My uncle had seven-year-old me convinced that fiddling with a certain Christmas tree ornament made the phone ring. Looking back, he must've been watching for when I'd do it and then calling from another line or something----but drat if he didn't have me completely fooled.
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Samovar posted:Yeah, I remember being a small kid and misunderstanding words. Like thinking stand-offish meant to be very aggressive and upfront. I still do that sometimes (ASL), mostly with pronunciations tho. I remember being in America for the idk 3rd time, definitely in my 20s, saying "Peet-ro" instead of "Pay-dro"... also i believe this is the origin story of rihanna Fleta Mcgurn posted:Do teenagers count?
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Powaqoatse posted:I still do that sometimes (ASL), mostly with pronunciations tho. I remember being in America for the idk 3rd time, definitely in my 20s, saying "Peet-ro" instead of "Pay-dro"... In freshman year Spanish my name was Pedro, so he one of my friends signed my yearbook to Pedro. Later, my youngest brother stole my yearbook out of my room and read through it. He came up to me and said "Hello PEDRO!" except he pronounced it as Ped-ro. I still call him that.
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Bobby Digital posted:In freshman year Spanish my name was Pedro, so he one of my friends signed my yearbook to Pedro. "Ped-ro" in my head sounds almost correct My brothers called me "Mike OJ Simpson" for a while for some reason. One of my brothers was called "M____ MaTypewriter" by a dude we knew, and he'd type on the shade of his cap like it was the keyboard of a typewriter. We never figured out where that idea came from.... It's like that old joke about how kids can figure out how to poo poo on your name no matter what your name is.
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