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LeMolle

In Denmark the abc song consists of 28 letters because we didnt used to count W for some reason. However, now we obviously do count the W but the song was never updated and many adults thinks me an idiot when i say there are 29 letters in our alphabet. It truly pisses me off.


AnonAlopilis

Is there a reason you guys just left W out of the song?


CaTz__21

It’s only in the song we didn’t count it. The reason is very simple as well, it wouldn’t fit the melody properly if you added w


umphreakinbelievable

In the English alphabet song you have to say L, M, N, O, to get the timing right on the P. In first grade, I used to think it was one letter called "Elimino"


Echterspieler

Lol on that note, I used to think "for which it stands" in the pledge of allegiance was "for witches stand"


Impacatus

Lol, me too. For some reason I also used to think Silent Night included the line, "Holy infidel, tender and mild". No idea how I even knew the word "infidel" back then.


TheRhythmace

According to my daughter it’s Elmo P


slappy_mcslapenstein

I actually had to count on my fingers to verify but in English we only have 26 letters in the alphabet. For a moment I thought I was going senile. Yes, I know Danish is a different language and therefore has a different alphabet.


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"Im not gonna hurt you, tell me the truth"


CrazyCoKids

In general, stop teaching "You will not be in trouble if you tell me the truth" if you are going to punish them. It's teaching them it's more important to not get caught, that your word means nothing, and to lie anyway as you will earn the punishment.


Lukimcsod

Definitely learned to lie my ass off and more importantly, stick to my narrative. My parents wouldn't whip me unless I confessed. No confession, no whipping.


Stargate525

The best thing I ever did was convince my parents I was a bad liar.


2amazing_101

Honestly, I used to do this with my friends too. I'd play dumb and act like I have no pokerface, so one day I could lie without them suspecting a thing


S-058

Teach me your ways oh wise one. I really do have a bad poker face and I've told people this haha. So maybe step one is done.


spartanspud

Yeah it's such a backward way to get the truth from someone. I mean how often do they think that's going to work? Maybe a couple times at most and then anytime they're asked a question they can conceive they may be in trouble for answering truthfully they will lie.


CrazyCoKids

My mom once asked why I always lie even when she says "If you tell the truth you won't be in trouble". I simply said "Because you were punishing me for telling the truth, which as you taught me is the right thing to do. So knowing this i would rather be punished for doing something wrong, so I can feel like I *earned* the punishment." Mom punished me for talking back but she never used that parentism on me.


Keirhan

I got to the point where I was honest completely and she'd still accuse me of lying. Got to the point where I just stopped replying M:"Are you ignoring me?" Me:"no but you tell me I'm lying even when though I don't lie so there's no point answering you because you won't believe me anyway"


thebigbroke

Same situation here. Idk wtf is wrong with my family but they constantly accuse me of lying about the most insignificant shit when I tell them the complete truth all the time.


hiimsubclavian

Same thing here. The most infuriating thing would be she'd use the most insignificant discrepancy to accuse me of lying. Mom: "where are the dishes?" Me: "Oh, I put them in the sink" Mom *checks*: "You're lying. You put the dishes on the counter beside the sink." Me: "Yeah, there's a pot in the sink so I put some of the dishes to the side." Mom: "Then why are you lying about it? Why do you always lie, lie, lie even for the smallest thing?! You're a compulsive liar!"


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That if you are being bullied the two best solutions are: 1. Tell your teacher 2. Sit down with the bully and explain how hurtful their words are


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Growing up when I went to a K-12, if you tried to sit down and talk it out with the bully, you would get laughed right out of town.


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I think the bullies were the ones that made that advice


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9 times outta 10, ignoring them will just make them find new ways to try and get inside your head.


DrIlp

Ignoring it will turn it from verbal to physical


EmuChance4523

The only solution that worked for me was fighting with the guy and winning... And I just did that after bearing different stupid things for almost 10 years, even bites, breaking my clothes and even breaking my arm once... Just because I was told "you are bigger, you shouldn't fight with other kids"...


SilvermistInc

The correct answer is to kick the bullies ass


cowman3456

This is the correct answer. When I finally got the balls to throw my bully against the lockers and give him a firm "fuck OFF!" in the crowded hallway, like magic, the bullying stopped.


Mike_hawk5959

My little one was told: "tell the teacher if there is a problem with another child, but you are allowed to stop someone from hurting you."


Frankie_Kitten

My kid always tells the teacher first but just so we can say we took all the "necessary" actions for when it inevitably doesn't work and my kid has to throw hands 😂 That way when they ask why my kid is fighting with said bully, I can say it was due to their negligence at dealing with it and she simply took matters into her own hands.


Tuvasbien

'It doesnt matter who started it' Such bullshit. It absolutely matters who started it. If you punish a child for arguing/fighting over something they didn't start, the child will be confused and rightly so. It goes against everything we tell children about fairness and rule of law.


sammi_3x3

So true! It truly does matter who started the argument/dispute. Punishing someone over something they didn’t start, but were dragged into, is horrible. No one should be punished for getting dragged into a mess that they had no original involvement in.


blackupsilon

I always felt the reason adults make up a lot of BS is to hide the real fact that they just don't want to deal with it in detail any further.


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RagnarokAM

This statement is used to cover the fact that whoever is making the final decision on the punishment doesn't have all the details, and likely won't investigate further. Not great for the students. Source: Am Teacher.


I_am_a_Dan

Or it's admitting that there is no possible way to know for sure because of lying.


YourCrazyChemTeacher

It’s absolutely bullshit. But sometimes figuring it out is an impossible he-said-she-said, and there’s not enough time for both a fruitless interrogation and today’s learning objective. Never had to enforce this madness when I taught, but I can understand why other teachers do. (This understanding excludes situations where it’s clear who the instigator is.)


snarlyelder

Your school record will follow you your entire life. My record from Mount Lebanon didn't make it to Venetia school. Venetia record didn't make it to McMurray, only a few miles away. Entering college, nobody knew anything about the schools I'd attended.


PhiloPhocion

That being said, when I got to college freshman year, the advice I kept getting was - don’t worry about your grades - take the hard courses, the challenging courses, and you’ll learn more. Which is what matters. And it is true that I learned a lot by doing that. But it also turns out that grad schools really really care about your GPA still.


AlphaBearMode

This is EXACTLY what fucked me in college. It took me 3 years to get into grad school after undergrad because of the stupid fucking advisor who told me “the grad schools will care that you took harder than necessary courses, they don’t look at GPA.” So I challenged myself in relevant courses, disregarded the unrelated, uninteresting ones, and did “okay” overall because who gives a shit about gpa? Fuck that guy for wasting 3 extra fucking years of my life. That was single handedly the shittiest advice I’ve EVER received in my life and I believed him because I’m a first generation college student and had no other direction. I’m 31 now with a good job and my doctorate and all that but I’m still fucking pissed about that whole situation.


Maetryx

I graduated from engineering school in 1994 with a 2.97 gpa. 26 years later I went to grad school. There was a scholarship I could not apply for because it requires a 3.0 gpa. 😂


ThePremiumSaber

Just making sure I understand correctly, that 26 year period involved being a professional engineer, right? They valued GPA more than industry experience?


Maetryx

It was an online application. I couldn't proceed with the application process after I typed in my gpa accurately. Yes, I am a professional civil engineer. It was not the grad school, but the private scholarship that screened me out. I'm fine, though. Just whining. 🙂👍


badluckbrians

There are grad schools that will autoreject under 3.0 too. Had a friend with a 2.9 or some shit with an amazing career after nail the GREs almost perfect score and get into Harvard while being rejected from UMass. Moral of the story is automation sucks.


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Is this an american only thing? No school I’ve ever been to has even implied that your actions in school will go beyond that. The only thing that leaves school with you, are your grades.


sirdabs

I could be, it was for me in the US. I don’t know if it is done any more, but in grade school (grades 1-4) they would threaten us to behave by saying that something “would go on your permanent record and follow you your whole life”. Totally BS as we barely even had computers back then let alone an effective way for them talk to each other(late 80’s). Edit: permit to permanent


gentlybeepingheart

I got suspended for trying to fight back to a bully and was sobbing the entire day because I was convinced that I had just ruined my life.


Nynodon

Now there's 2 layers of school bullshit at play


Caity26

My 5th grade teacher taught us that our blood was blue until exposed to oxygen and that's why our veins looked blue. 10 year old me called bullshit and got detention. I had spent alot of time in the hospital at that point in my life and had seen my blood drawn enough times to know that was crap.


AreaGuy

Oh shit. Mid 40s here and you've just revealed my elementary teachers were *liars*!


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ThePelicanWalksAgain

And the reason that veins often look blue is because of how light interacts with our skin.


Marvos79

I teach 5th grade. The proper response is "I think that's wrong, but I'll look it up." Then come back the next day with the truth. If you can't admit you're wrong to a child you are the worst kind of insecure.


scindix

Where were these kind of teachers when I was young? I remember that we got detention for explaining to our teacher that a light year is not a unit of time. And after I corrected my physics teacher on several occasions he literally told he wants to see me dead in front of the whole class. Now after I studied physics I know a lot of things he told us were wrong. Lol. Edit: I should clarify to avoid confusion. The first story was about our Latin teacher. The second about our physics teacher.


cmchris61

When they don't teach children how to handle death and grief but they instead lie to said child to spare the pain that they should learn to understand so they can handle more in the future, sesame Street did it and big bird was devastated but he learned to cope and move on stronger, essentially what I'm saying is;: parents if your child pet dies and the kid is devastated don't lie, tell them the truth and help them cope, and help them understand and comprehend why, so when you the parent may die, the child is more equipped to handle grief and not fall apart like I did when my mother died at age 12.


HQA-YT

yea my mom did this with my first fish, I was 10 at the time, and i noticed that "my fish" had gotten really small. I thought nothing of it for like 3 months until my mom told me she had acidentally washed my fish down the drain when she was cleaning the tank (i was at school so I couldn't), and she weant and bought a new one instead of just telling me.


Purplociraptor

Carrots help you see in the dark. Saw it on a kids' show.


ink_stained

I read somewhere that this was a misinformation campaign created during WWII in England to help confuse the Germans about what the British could always “see” their planes. (They couldn’t - they had good intelligence and didn’t want the Germans to know.)


SamWhite

Radar rather than intelligence, it was developed during WWII.


tropicalzhu

That cracking their knuckles will destroy their hands. Like, just fucking say it annoys you, Jessica. Ask them to stop, it's not that hard. Stop feeding them bullshit.


Pokabrows

Oh I went to the doctor with chronic pain all over. One of the specialists just told me to stop cracking my fingers. Because you know cracking your fingers causes leg pain. Eventually went to another doctor who diagnosed me with fibromyalgia.


tropicalzhu

That's a disgrace of a doctor. The first one I mean.


Ask_me_4_a_story

There was a doctor that proved this wrong a long time ago, he cracked a knuckle on one hand for like 50 years to show it had no difference, hold on, I'll find it for you fuckers https://www.businessinsider.com/doctor-cracked-own-knuckles-for-60-years-to-quash-links-with-arthritis-2018-8


tropicalzhu

Thanks mate, we appreciate you


AWildLychnus

That adults know what they're doing.


sodium_geeK

Full adulthood hits you after three main events: 1) Holy shit I hit puberty! 2) Holy shit my parent(s) / parental figure(s) don’t know everything and are quite fallible actually! 3) Holy shit no one at *any level* of society has a fucking clue, they’re all just sort of ‘having a go’ and hoping for the best!


RTTypeBeats

the 3. hit me hard. Its actually very very scary if you think about it, im very surprised society got to the point it is in now considering NOONE has any fucking clue what they are doing


Reasonable-Reindeer

The tongue map.


brater8

I remember in middle school science class we had an in-class lab on this one. We were taught about how the tongue map worked, and then our job was to experience it for ourselves. You'd go to different stations with foods of different flavors, and place them on different regions of your tongue and document the results. Of course, as the tongue map is bullshit, I didn't find any results. Naturally, as any academic would, I faked the data. Big mistake. The purpose of the lesson was to show us that you don't always find the results that you're told you will, so I got a zero.


geforce2187

I fell for something similar, we got a sheet of paper with a bunch of instructions on them, the first one was, read all of the instructions first. The rest of them were silly things like "stand one one leg while holding your other leg, count the ceiling tiles, etc". The last instruction was "don't do any of the above." I didn't read all of them first...


2018birdie

We did this in 4th grade! I too did not read all the instructions first.... it was a REALLY long list.


Tight_Contact_9976

That bullies are always dealing with pain of their own and that happy people would never hurt someone else. As someone who was bullied mercilessly by people that I knew, I know this is bullshit.


unforgivablenope

"I'm sure they'll come around and be friends with you. Just remember to be nice to them though if you want things to work out." Total BS. I heard this so much growing up that no matter how nice and understanding I was to everyone around me. People such as my teachers and peers pick on me endlessly because I was an easy target (parents didn't believe me when something bad happens and they all took advantage of that). Don't take sh\*t from anyone. Someone being mean to you? Tell them to back off or make an example of them. I learned real quick that everyone will gang up on you just for the fun out of it. EDIT: Oh wow, thank you so much for the upvotes and awards. I didn't expect this to be a problem everyone experience or know about. For those who are trying to unlearn being nice and having trouble standing up for themselves. You have to be picky on who's worthy of your time. There's no reason to stop being nice. I'm still kind and I do what I can to help those in need but I always speak up when someone is doing something I dislike/disagree on. One rule I gave myself was to set boundaries and you'll be surprise how quick people learn. If you dislike something like someone making fun of another, you tell them to stop and let them know you don't appreciate them bad mouthing. If the individual continues their bad behavior, you end the conversation/hang out and leave. Be constant and strong on your boundaries. Building your self confidence takes time and experience. You need to set rules for all to follow. This includes close family and friends. No one gets special treatment. I've been doing this since I was a kid and it works wonders. Just be sure to be reasonable so things won't backfire.


Vulpix-Rawr

I always teach my daughter "Be kind, but don't take anyone's shit". But the default and first course of action tried should always be kindness.


throneofthornes

I told my girl that she shouldn't hit people, but if someone tried to hurt her she could defend herself and I would have her back. She was behind a little verbally (and also 18 months old) so I wasn't sure if she understood completely. She was never a hitter to begin with. There was this boy in her gym class that kept attacking her and other kids and she never fought back. Then one day the boy went after her best friend, and my kid ran between them and clocked him in the throat, knocked him down and stood over him yelling "No!" and pointing at him. He was in complete shock. I've never been so proud.


LazyTypist

This is what my mom said to me. She also said if peacefully standing up for yourself isn't working and the school isn't helping, punch them in the face.


crayola89

It takes so much to unlearn "just be nice" as an adult and leads to people walking all over you at work/school/life in general.


Tombstone40556

That collective punishment is ok First of all it’s not because that just teaches children that they should worry about what others are doing… which then they punish for later on because they are either bothering others or not paying attention to work. Second of all it’s against the Geneva Convention


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That moment when you realize that your teacher was literally committing a war crime by giving the whole class detention


MiaMega

Children can't have wants, or children's wants are needs. Wants are valid, just sometimes they're not worth the labor or get in the way of needs. I know it's tiny, but it takes strechs. Little Timmy wants ice cream, but needs to eat lunch, so no ice cream. Doesn't want to brush his teeth, but needs to avoid problems, so brush your danm teeth. Doesn't want to hug antie, and doesn't need to, so can choose to not give the hug. Wants vs needs is not that hard to teach, and on it's own doesn't result in entitlement or in being afraid of telling they want something.


Dylsnick

The hugging/physical contact one is so key. Bodily autonomy is important to learn! And anyone who gets offended by a 4 year old child not wanting a hug probably shouldn't be touching children to begin with. A little kid doesn't want a hug? Great! I probably just dodged getting a cold for the next 3 days!


RadiantHC

Memorization. Memorization and intelligence are two separate things. Not everyone is good at memorization either


wecaka

"Ignore bullies and they'll leave you alone." When you do that, one of two things are likely to happen. Either they'll mess with you more, or they'll move to someone else and bully them. If you stand up to bullies, they back down. The earlier in life you put these people in their place, the less likely they'll develop their bad behavior as a lifelong practice.


CaterpillarSmoothie

I got told this shit so many times and if I ever said a peep back I got shamed for "being just like your bully" ie self defence is as bad as aggression. So I got trained to never ever stand up for myself. Y'know how they say "fight or flight"? It's actually "Fight, flight or freeze" as some of us react to stress like a rabbit, shutting down in terror. That's probably from being trained to never react to bullying. Was not a good option when I got sexually assaulted, either time. Damn I wish I had shoved my thumb in his eye socket or cried and screamed or something other than just freezing. As a young adult I let bad bosses and mean coworkers and landlords with no respect for tenant rights all just treat me bad and never did I so much as glare at them let alone tell them off. And just like the childhood bullies, adult bullies actually go after you MORE when they find you will let them get away with it. It spread to other parts of life too, like I couldn't even find the cojones to stand up to people who weren't *trying* to hurt me. Like if a bus closed the door right as I walked up instead of knocking I'd just slink off and wait 40min for the next bus. Now in my 40s I have disabilities and need to request certain accommodations, and damn is it hard to ask for things even though they are my legal right. I tremble with anxiety when I have to call a service provider and ask them to do xyz to allow me to come in. All because I was brainwashed as a little one to think that I MUST avoid conflict above all else, must never let anyone know if they are causing me misery, so I never developed any skills or comfort at conflict. The domino effect of insisting your five year old not do some little thing like yell "shut up stupid!" at some kid who mocked them... it really makes a big difference to who they grow up to be and how well they will function in the world.


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zyygh

This is so true. I always tried to ignore it or laugh it off, but I know that anyone could see I was hurt by it each time. If ignoring them makes it go away, why did they keep going at me for years?


IAmRules

I stood up to my bully. Got my ass kicked and arm broke. Adults really need to get a better hold of children with emotional issues.


WhimsicalCalamari

Yep. "Stand up to bullies" is a good stopgap, but when you get down to it that's just passing responsibility onto the victim. When bullying becomes a "problem", that's a product of irresponsible adults, full stop.


Yrcrazypa

It also depends on you being able to stand up to them. The little nerdy kid who is underweight being picked on by a kid on the football team? Yeah, good fucking luck.


lucidzealot

Dude. I remember in junior high there was this kid named Tom. He was a cool fuckin dude but he was poor and white trash. Kid was JACKED. Just had straight redneck rage. Anyway, one day we got this new kid named Chris who comes to our school. He was taller, also jacked, and just mean. Big dick alpha male kinda guy. Of course, he starts picking on Tom, which was his mistake. I will NEVER forget the sickening crunch of Tom punching Chris in the eye, the blood all over the floor, and how swollen his eye was, and the fury that was in Tom’s eyes as he defended himself. I swear to fuck that broke something in that bully that day, because he had to have reconstructive eye socket surgery and he was never the same. Careful who you fuck with.


the_idea_pig

There were a fair share of bullies in my high school. I usually hung out in groups so I was never targeted but there was one kid I remember who got picked on pretty mercilessly. They would shove him around, dump his backpack out, somebody pulled his pants down in the hallway once. You know, the usual stuff. Anyway, one day I happen to be in the cafeteria when they start really laying into him, I mean a lot worse than usual. Kid took it for a couple of minutes and then hit some kind of breaking point; he squared his shoulders up and hocked a huge wad of spit right into the lead bully's eye. Whole cafeteria went dead silent before the bully group, maybe five or six total, jumped this kid and started beating him. Took about ten seconds for everybody to process what was happening before maybe twenty other kids jumped in and start beating the ever loving shit out of the bully group. Long story short, lead bully ended up with a broken arm (somebody stomped on it while he was pinned down; cracked it right above the wrist) and a broken jaw (he caught a kick in the face while he was on the ground.) Several of the others had various injuries including a couple of cracked ribs, a dislocated shoulder and a lot of bruises. The kid who was getting bullied ended up with a badly torn lip but nothing worse. It was really cathartic to watch but I always wondered why it took so long for anyone to step in. Looking back, I feel pretty bad that I never helped the guy out either. Bystander syndrome, maybe.


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No one ever stepped in when I got picked on, until a trespassing drug dealer teenager kicked me in the face because I caught him on camera (was filming stuff for a communications class project). A bunch of jocks found out about it and chased the guy out of the school just in time to be caught by the arriving police car (which my filming partner recorded for me to see).


the_idea_pig

Props to the jocks for going after the guy; hopefully the dealer had to spend some time cooling off in a cell. Did the kick get caught on camera? I bet proof of assault would've augmented his jail time.


jahboneknee

Moral of the story: Be like Tom, don’t be a Chris!


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Tom reminds me of a dude who was in the same suite as me in college. We’ll call him Jake. Honestly he was a pretty good roommate, just came from a dirt poor upbringing in rural Georgia, and carried a lot of baggage from that. He was a small-average sized dude but let me tell you, he was TOUGH and could throw a punch that would kill a horse. I didn’t witness this incident, but one day Jake was out in the parking lot fixing his car. That thing was a 20 yr old piece of shit, but he absolutely LOVED his ride. Out of nowhere a couple football players, who came from more affluent families, walked up and started taunting him. At first Jake ignored them, but people said you could tell he was getting hot. Then one of the bullies tried to key his hood….. Jake absolutely COLD COCKED the dude. Upper cut straight to the temple. The guy easily had 6 inches and probably a hundred pounds on Jake, but he went down like a sack of potatoes. Apparently his eyes rolled back and he was snoring. The other bully flat out turned and left his TKO’d buddy (some teammate he was). Then Jake just went back to fixing his car lol. When the guy came to a few moments later, Jake told him without even looking up “you have a concussion. The campus infirmary is in the science building over there. Go get yourself looked at.” Moral of the story- don’t mess with someone who literally had to fight growing up to survive.


reflUX_cAtalyst

> Upper cut straight to the temple. Huh?


jahboneknee

Yeah, I was like dude is not a pugilist…lol maybe he was thinking left hook.


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Lol I am indeed not a pugilist. I actually had to look the word up! Keep in mind I wasn’t there to witness it, but I knew the football player he dropped to the ground (who was an absolute shit heel of a human being). I guess I was trying to emphasize the size difference. Jake was probably about 5-8 or 5’9, and the bully was easily 6-3. Those who did witness the smack said it was definitely to the temple. Jake would’ve had to’ve angled his fist upward to make that shot. But maybe “left hook” would’ve been a better way to describe it.


torrasque666

>I swear to fuck that broke something in that bully that day Yeah, his eye socket.


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Kondrias

You dont break their body. You must break their spirit. Bullies are not a problem with a 1 size fits all solution. They can have different motivations and satisfactions they gain from what they do. Different people respond differently to the same stimulus. I personally dealt with one of my bullies by making them afraid of me. But there are other bullies I encountered in my life that trying that wouldnt work or I would not be able to reasonably do it. I knew someone that stood up to a bully non-violently who was MUCH bigger than them, they got rocked by the bully. Then still got bullied after that. It got to a point where finally they wouldnt take it anymore and the next time the bully accosted them, they fought, and they fought hard. They came out WAY more injured than the bully, but the bully knew they no longer had an easy mark.


mizukata

>Bullies are not a problem with a 1 size fits all solution. They can have different motivations and satisfactions they gain from what they do. Different people respond differently to the same stimulus. I have to point this out on how important this is.


TheRavingRaccoon

Prior to college/university levels, there is far too much emphasis on simply believing what the teacher says, and not nearly enough on sourcing of their information or independent research. Students are often expected to trust what they are being told is true without being taught how to make sure it actually is true. This has created a lot of people willing to believe the first thing they hear, so long as the person saying it sounds “more educated.” (Politics and misinformation)


BaconFairy

I'm going to add that this also can go hand in hand with how "smart" someone sounds. If the person seems well put together, has a larger vocabulary, and charm but can be spewing bs all over. Someone with poor verbal skills can be very factual and logical but the thought doesn't get through as well. The person with poor vetting will most of the time pick the charming person.


WhimsicalCalamari

*So* many people online think that smugness == intellectualism. It's constantly taxing.


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Kids are starting social media so early these days, and I think that’s very dangerous because it puts a lot of pressure on the kid to attribute their worth to their social media success. I also think parents are way too open with their social media when it comes to their kids, and it’s totally a violation of the child’s privacy, of which some parents will never admit.


LizardPossum

I post my pets a LOT and dont really post pics of my kids, and somehow this has convinced a couple of people that I love my pets more than my kids so I must be a shitty parent. Like... no. Im just not worried about the ferret's privacy. Its wild.


MANDALORIAN_WHISKEY

Same. I'll post my cat all day, but I *never* post my kids, and people think I'm from another planet.


mouringcat

>Like... no. Im just not worried about the ferret's privacy. Its wild. You horrible person for not respecting your ferret's privacy rights. Did your ferret give you permission to post his/her picture? What if they didn't like their fur on that day because it was matted because they just woke up!! I expected better from a Lizard Possum. /s


LizardPossum

Pretty sure all ferrets are exhibitionists tbh


Devikat

Ferrets give off major degenerate energy for real.


LizardPossum

Its like living with tiny tweakers. They smell a little weird. They bounce around. They steal your shit. Adorable tiny tweakers, but still.


whocares023

I used to have a friend that had a ferret. Cutest thing I've ever seen. He was incredibly friendly, it was like holding a cuddly tube sock. Those teeth though...I'm like if this small creature gets pissed at me for some reason, I'm going to be fucked lol.


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_Arkod_

That’s something a lot of people struggle in general, not only kids. It definitely screws with the perception of reality and often contributes to depression.


Some-Basket-4299

We will probably only find out in a decade what the people’s firsthand opinions really are on their parents posting them on social media


the_gilded_dan_man

What? I’m 24. and my mom was posting all my shit on Facebook when I was like 12 or 13. Fucking terrible. She also retroactively posted all my baby stuff too.


Xolltaur

Before our child was born we told our families not to put pictures of them on social media because we felt that if they want to be all over the internet it should be their choice. No one listens and I fucking hate it. If my wife sends a pic of them to my MIL it's on her facebook within minutes then it gets shared around the family. My wife even started posting pictures. When I explained to my MIL why I don't post pictures of them at all I was accused of being ashamed to be a parent and not loving my child. Privacy is looked down upon and social media success is way too overvalued.


viodox0259

Just ignore the bullies and they will go away.


StillSilentMajority7

That Rosa Parks protest was spontaneous, and that she was just some random person. She was the secretary for the president of the local NAACP, and she was chose because she was believed to be best to elicit sympathy for the cause (partially based on her light skin). It was a carefully scripted event, aided by out of state activists.


thebigbroke

I honestly didn’t even know this until I read your comment


tallbutshy

I'm not sure I'm remembering correctly but one of the actual spontaneous protests was by either by an unwed mother, a criminal or both. She was deemed unsuitable to be held up as an example.


Worth-A-Googol

Ya, there’s actually another story of a girl named Claudette Colvin who did the exact thing Rosa Parks is usually told to have done. She got fed up one day and refused to move from her seat in the bus but since she was very young and pregnant out of wedlock most civil rights campaigners stopped supporting her and those that did made sure her case wasn’t publicized. (She is seriously worth looking up)


tallbutshy

Thanks, I recognise the name now that I see it again, there wasn't any way I was gonna remember.


UnsorryCanadian

Yeah. If it was a random, spontaneous event, how was there pictures of her getting kicked off the bus?


superninjafury

People pulled out there phones, duh


Miro_the_Dragon

"He only hurts you because he likes you." Can we stop already with setting kids up to be in abusive relationships because they were taught it's a normal expression of love?


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That is, a lot of times, how kids grow up to be submissive. Parents teach their kids to accept abuse as either a form of flirting or as a norm.


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That professionals have all their math formulae memorized. They don't; look in a journal involving hard sciences and you'll always find lists of minor errors the magazine or the writers made. Or there will be studies disproving theories because they contained mathematical errors. Having algebra formulae memorized is a good thing, but not everyone, including mathematicians, will remember all those things when they need it. And you know what they do when they forget? They look it up online.


TourSignificant1335

Even Albert Einstein didn't memorize formulas or even his own phone number. He said it was BS to memorize something you could look up in a book in a minute


RedneckNerf

None of the solar system models are even remotely to scale. EDIT: As many people have pointed out, there are scale models, but they are very, very large. The issue I was referring to was classroom models, which are often not clearly marked as not-to-scale, and often screw up the size of the planets.


Clackers2020

I remember reading that if you used a football to represent the sun then you'd have to place one of those small magnetic balls about a kilometre from the ball and that would represent Jupiter. Earth would be the size of a piece of rice and about 300 metres from the ball. There is a reason why space models are rarely to scale. Space is really big. Edit: I'm not American so a football is a round ball played with the feet.


Jallorn

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."


Tczarcasm

everything is a lot further away than you think. regardless of how far away you think things are.


ExcitementKooky418

I think this is a significant contributor to the continuance of the flat earth nonsense. Most people just cannot even begin to conceive just how fucking tiny we are in comparison to the planet. In their head when they hear the earth is round they can only picture themselves standing on top of just the largest beach ball ya ever did see, but like, a BIT bigger


Burdicus

Everything is SOOOO damn far away, this scale (if the moon were a pixel) really put that into perspective for me. ​ https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace\_solarsystem.html


shartnado3

You know what was never preached to me as far as scale size? How big Africa is. It is insane.


RedneckNerf

It's huge, and contains so damn many climate zones.


ExcitementKooky418

To be honest, I (a Brit) find the USA quite fascinating in terms of the range of climate and biomes


Turbobrickx7

Whenever I got stationed in Washington, my wife and I drove cross country from kentucky. We are both west coasters (I'm from Pennsylvania, she is from florida) and we were both blown away at how much the scenery changed both from state to state, and within each state. Edit: pennsylvania and florida are on the west coast not east coast. Edit 2: fucks sake I cant get it right, Pennsylvania is on the EAST COAST. THE FUCKING EAST COAST. So is Florida, and Washington state is on the WEST COAST. THE FUCKING WEST COAST.


_whoreheyyy_

I hate being that person but Pennsylvania and Florida are in the east coast. I might be reading this like an idiot though so I apologize.


Turbobrickx7

Yeah no I'm fucking stupid lol. Thats my Pennsylvania education coming out am I right?


yuri_chan_2017

Omg, your edit did it again lmao


Turbobrickx7

Fucks sake...


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Want_to_do_right

Oddly enough, the mercator protection does a really good job of showing Africa. It's everything else that gets distorted. The curves of the Africa coast are very accurate. But as you leave it, things get wonky


froggrip

Well when the hayden planetarium tried to do it people declared pluto not a planet anymore. No one wants to lose more planets


fifadex

So you're saying Holst was right?


yopro101

I think there should be a demonstration on how big it is but you wouldn’t be able to see anything on a “to scale” model


Moist_Direction_1286

I was taught my blood was blue.


felaniasoul

“Studies are more important, there will be time for friends later” as an adult who cannot speak to people I’ll tell you now, you need to learn how basic communication skills early in life because later on people will be complete assholes and won’t give you the time of day. Edit. Hm I’m starting to think I also should’ve noted that I’m quite skewed since I’m autistic and don’t understand most social cues.


CwazzyNR

I'm being taught the opposite lol. "You need to be likable and have good social skills if you want to get anywhere in life. Just having good grades won't make you successful." I mean, it's true to some extent, but I hate the part where I have to give up stuff like the way I want to dress and sometimes my personality itself just to be "likable."


Scallywagstv2

Your whole future depends on your exam results. Bullshit. You can return to education later on and succeed if you are motivated enough and don't tie yourself down financially.


s_arahaustin

True, and everything from middle school below isn’t even looked at.


notacanuckskibum

Everything below your highest level of certification. If you have a bachelors nobody cares about your high school. If you have a masters nobody cares about your bachelors….


OrangeTree81

My friend and I were just asking about this. 10 years ago we were stressed out in AP classes, miserable when we only got a B on a test. Now, no one gives a shit how many AP classes I took. I think I only have my college and graduation date on my resume. At least in my field employers only care that you have a degree.


Scallywagstv2

Everything changes after school. I left school with no qualifications at all. I wasn't interested in learning and not clever enough to pass anything. I went back into education years later, and now have a degree. School is the not the end if you don't want it to be. Also I have a teenage daughter, and the pressure schools put on kids these days is unbelievable. Far too much on young people.


Halorym

THE FUCKING FOOD PYRAMID


LakejoV

“He’s just picking on you because he likes you”


shebeogden

“Gonna be picking my shoe out of his ass if he keeps it up”


Spookiiwookii

If a boy hits you, that just means he likes you. Heard that a lot as a kid and I’m sure people are still spouting it. Edit: It’s genuinely surprising to hear that so many people have never heard of this before. Maybe it’s a southern thing??


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I’m dealing with this currently. My daughter has a boy who (by his own admission) likes her, but he will bully her and trip her, pull her hair, etc. I told my daughter (as did my husband) that he is in no way shape or form allowed to put his hands on her. Ignore him completely. Tell the teacher each time it happens. That is not an appropriate way to show someone you like them. (And yes, we’ve involved the teacher.) I get so angry when people just brush it off as being flirty. Excuse me, absolutely not. ETA: There’s a great song sung by a woman named Kari Thomas Kovick called “My Body” that’s very helpful in teaching boundaries. She’s on [youtube](https://youtu.be/t6Il6venzbQ)


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I had a guy do that (for years). One day I just hauled off and kicked him in the shins. He cried to his mommy and I politely told her he would be fine if he'd just keep his hands to himself. He never bothered me after that. Sometimes you have to set very *palpable* boundaries.


VoodooDoII

Not quite, but a boy was bullying me quite a bit and i told my mom, to which she said "that means he likes you." Like, no mother hes literally tormenting me.


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A guy would hit me unnecessarily, and all my "friends" would go, "Awww, he likes you!" NO BITCH he threw a fucking brick at me!


THElaytox

"When theories are proven in science, they become laws" That's not how science works, theories and laws serve two different functions. Laws describe WHAT is happening (typically as a mathematical formula), theories describe WHY. This is why grown ass adults to this day still use the dumbass "it's just a theory" line.


ASpaceOstrich

The reason is that the scientific word theory and the everyday English word theory mean two completely different things. Nothing to do with laws.


DonnysCellarDoor

Not so much what is still being taught but the lack of teaching of the following in the 21st century is ridiculous : Lack of financial intelligence and teaching them that social media is not real.


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Guidance counselors don't care about your feelings and aren't actually qualified to be a therapist for you


rncat91

I remember telling my elementary school guidance counselor I didn’t have any friends to play with on the playground and she told me to buy a watch with a TV on it so I could watch tv instead


VladimirPutinMain

"Don't talk to strangers" makes it a lot harder to do my job


Buckaroonie69

“911 what’s your emergency” “Help! My mom has had a heart atta- wait a minute! Do I know you” “No? Please give us the details to your address so we can-“ “that sounds like something a kidnapper would say! Not today, *buddy*!” *beep*


Some-Basket-4299

Statistically the difference between strangers and people you know, in terms of dangerousness/suspiciousness, is not actually nearly as high as you’re told


HugsAllCats

Statistically a child is more likely to be kidnapped by someone known to the family than by a stranger. Stranger Danger causes kids to be afraid of cops and doctors.


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"Boys don't cry"


aFiachra

“Someday you’ll understand”. Nope. Still don’t have a clue.


JmAM203

And how do you know you have reached the "someday" yet?


MackeralSky

Permanent record.


GrilledStuffedDragon

Abstinence only sex education.


Aperture_T

Lol, my mom was bitching to the school district about how we should be doing abstinence only, but nothing came of it. Of course, she also wanted to ban the HPV vaccine because she thought if teens had it, they would be more promiscuous because there's one less STD to be afraid of. So, you know, she's a loon.


I-need-ur-dick-pics

> nothing came


akgreentree

As an Alaskan, where Alaska and Hawaii are actually located on a map. Hint: not down by Mexico.


NekoPlayzzzzzzz

"Self defense will not be tolerated" "Bullying will be tolerated because we don't care if you're getting bullied!" *1k upvotes go brrrr*


B3njiKecske_

Is that an actual thing people say to children?


WhaleMelon

Nah I doubt it, but they might as well say it. A lot of bullying is being swept under the rug with no real intention of ever helping the victims. And quite often, people who perform self defense in school for any reason are viewed as someone who is also at fault.


LotsOfShungite

Wasn't a problem getting punched in the face or my head smashed but I fight back once and all hell broke through


TheLurkingMenace

Yep. I got bullied, did what I was told I was supposed to do (tell the teacher), got told I should stand up for myself. Stood up for myself, got suspended.


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A lot of history. Or at least how they teach it. Most of the time, it's "on this date, this happened" instead of going into straight-up detail. Like, okay I know who invented the phonograph in 1877... but what IMPACT did that have on society at that time? How did that help the United States get to where it is today? I don't get it.


redkat85

Teaching history is a tightrope. On the one hand, a dry list of so-and-so was born, war happened, invention became popular has zero narrative to it and it creates a list of meaningless facts in isolation. On the other hand, as soon as you draw a narrative surrounding these events, you introduce the biases of the narrator - picking which groups of people you show impacts on and even how you phrase it. (Consider the Texas history books that showed the African slave trade in the context of "immigration", and noted that “The Atlantic Slave Trade between the 1500s and 1800s brought millions of **workers** from Africa to the southern United States to **work** on agricultural plantations."... yikes) Narratives of history are always political and controversial. Lists of facts are less so.


CwazzyNR

That adults are always right and the younger people are always wrong. I get in trouble if I don't blindly follow whatever any adult I know tells me, like my uncle getting to decide what I wear, because "he's right since he's older and knows more than me." People act like children don't know anything, and that adults are gods and never make mistakes. And another one is that it is absolutely unacceptable to be different from others. I have gotten into several fights with my parents for not dressing feminine like other girls my age, and I've only recently realized the possibility of my parents being incorrect. I got my little sister to stop listening to that BS and, *surprise*, she agrees with me a lot more willingly than she did with my parents. *I wonder why.* I've also gotten a lot of shit from people for being quiet, and almost every relative I meet questions why I don't talk as much as my cousins and sister. My parents blame me, and I get told everyday to "Be more like the other girls your age, it's not that hard."


CamilaCazzy

That standing in the rain will make you sick.


tussas

Milk makes you grow and is the best source of calcium!


-Four-Foxx-Sake-

My family practitioner growing up use to tell me that I need to drink a gallon of milk per day and hang from a bar to grow taller because that’s what his kids did and they are all over 6’ tall. I remember distinctly thinking how is my dad supposed to pay for all this milk.


DoubleTrouble992

hanging from a bar and other activities to stretch out your spine thus making you *very slightly* taller so not entirely wrong but a gallon of milk a day is just BS


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weldedaway

Opposite of the question but apparently a lot of kids born in the early 2000s don't know how to read an analogue clock. I was floored when I learned this


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On another note, in 5th grade they took the “advanced students” to learn roman numerals and the “less advanced students” to stick with other stuff. It still annoys me that they never taught me how to read roman numerals and since then a teacher has never attempted to teach Roman numerals in a class ive been in


supercoffee1025

We learned it in elementary school in the 90s. You could always learn it online in like an hour or so.