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Things from the 90s were we taught that were all lies.
- Thread starter El Bombastico
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- Columbus discovered America (You can't discover a place that is already inhabited).
- To become a post-racial society we need to "stop seeing color".
- Video games are a terrible ill that have to be curbed.
- Drug Addicts deserve to be blamed because they lack self-control.
I mean sure he started, but he didnt become successful or known until the 2000s. Nobody knew who he was in the 90s because he was just some kid doing club shows. He didn't release his first special until the 2000s and that's when he became popular.
I came in here to post this. I remember it still being taught in 1997 in my school, and even then it seemed like bullshit.Tongue taste map.
They also taught us with that bogus food pyramid, which we all accepted as being "balanced" back then.
Bigger slammers will flip more pogs. Bullshit, I ran junior high with a regular ass slammer and all those big slammer punks went home crying to mommy and daddy for more pogs.
I ALWAYS knew the food pyramid was bullshit. You expect me to believe Im suppose to eat all that shit every day??? Fuck off.
Also my 7th grade teacher insisting that we write in cursive for all our assignments because we would need to do that when we were in college/adults. That shit was bullshit, you fucking dumb bitch.
Also my 7th grade teacher insisting that we write in cursive for all our assignments because we would need to do that when we were in college/adults. That shit was bullshit, you fucking dumb bitch.
Fucking dumb asses!
Every school tier the teachers would threaten us by saying how <next tier> was going to be so much harder and we wouldn't be able to get away with stuff. Like "enjoy middle school because your high school teachers won't be as lenient on homework"
but nah, teachers were pretty easy all the way through.
Food pyramid and vastly overstating how necessary cursive would be were two huge ones tho.
but nah, teachers were pretty easy all the way through.
Food pyramid and vastly overstating how necessary cursive would be were two huge ones tho.
It's the same one Harvard promotes.
NHS's appears to advise an even larger portion of grains.
Who else am I supposed to trust?
Was there ever a time in the later half of the 1900's where cursive was important? Because these teachers born in the 50's fucking swore by that useless shit.
The harvard one seems pretty good, it has less fruits more protein and no dairy and even adds a section for oils.
I remember how much anxiety it gave me because teachers slammed us over and over with how important it would be, they legitimately made it seem like we had one more year of being allowed to write in print before the rest of our lives would be in cursive. Cursive was for adults, print was for children, and once we learned cursive we'd never use print again. I struggled with cursive and expected to be an academic failure going forward.
Needless to say I didn't have to use cursive a single time and can't remember the last time I used it. Even my signature is just the letter of my first name with some vague squiggles.
I'm really curious if schools still do that when teaching it.
ohhh man was that drilled into me during 2nd grade
Middle school- no cursive
High school - everything needed to be typed(unless it was test, in which, I just had to write in print)
The only cursive used is when I'm signing stuff
Yeah, I suppose the similarity is superficial. The U.S. Govt. plate even relabels "water" as "dairy".
Honestly did ANYONE follow or even attempt to follow the food pyramid?
It always just seemed like one of those bullshit things you had to memorize for testing and nothing else.
It always just seemed like one of those bullshit things you had to memorize for testing and nothing else.
Wasn't just a '90s thing.
"We need to treat violent video games the way we treat tobacco, alcohol, and pornography."
—Hillary Clinton in 2005
No tin-foil conspiracy theories, that entire narrative was fucking designed to do that.
My understanding of the situation is that the reason it didn't happen is because of the widespread fear/knowledge of it. This led us to be totally prepared and for it to end up as not a big deal.
That going into the 2000s the Minnesota Vikings would be a dynasty and win multiple Super Bowls in the coming decades.
OOPS. It was actually the fucking Patriots! :(
OOPS. It was actually the fucking Patriots! :(
That gender and racial equality were going to thrive beyond old world borders in a new world redefined by technology that allowed us to communicate unfettered the joy of living, aware and awake, instantaneously, like digital telepathy.
Sigh.
Sigh.
I remember distinctly huddling on the playground with friends, talking about the internet, and discussing how people "were gonna be so fucking free, they can't stop everyone from learning the greatest works of humanity in any language, at any time, at all hours! Imagine how much smarter everyone will be, how much of the old bullshit we'll cast aside as we share the best we have to offer with each other"?
We had the best cartoons, but the rest of it they can keep*. I have zero nostalgia for the 90's
* besides Jurassic Park
* besides Jurassic Park
This. It's like when people say "Hurricanes aren't really a big problem" without realizing that every building in hurricane country is built to code, every road is designed to have water flow quickly off it into reservoirs, and that every major service (electricity, water, road workers) deploy for each storm to handle repairs quickly.
There were years of warning for Y2K, and billions spent modernizing systems. One of these days I'll compile everything and make a thread or something as it's all pretty interesting read...
For anyone doubting it, think of it this way. You almost certainly at your office, home, school, or place of work a computer that runs on Windows XP that's still being used for something at least somewhat important. That means that a 15+ year old system... Now imagine that back in 1999 and realize it was happening then too... So you had things like traffic lights, radar towers at airports and yes even missile control systems being run on systems that were on par with a commodore 64 or even worse!
That's velociraptors, specifically. I have no idea why Jurassic Park called their raptors by that name. Other members of the dromaeosaur family, such as dakotaraptor and utahraptor, are big.
Tongue taste map.
This is something I just found out about and a small part of my childhood died, just then.
I remember taking liquid medicine and being told not to let it touch the back of my tongue. Horseshit!
Who taught you that Dane Cook was funny in the 90s? SHOW ME THE RECEIPTS, NAME NAMES
IT's wild that an NBA basketball team was literally named after the Jurassic Park inspired raptor phenomenon.
A fair bit of that pre-dates the 90s.
Sex Ed in Junior High we were told that condoms don't work in preventing or reducing the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS because the virus can pass through the latex, ignoring now the virus works.
Sex Ed in Junior High we were told that condoms don't work in preventing or reducing the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS because the virus can pass through the latex, ignoring now the virus works.
That's funny to read about you guys relationship with cursive.
When I was a kid in France, we all started by learning cursive for non capital letters since we're 4. Not print. For capital we still start by print and then we learn cursive when we re about 5 or 6
Print is something you learned by yourself by the time you go to middle or high school because you needed to write faster. A lot of people still write in cursive when they're 13-15
Now I'm all messed up and I write in a combination of both, I'd sometimes write the same letter - like s or r - in the two modes within the same sentence because of how I unintentionally priveleges a form above the other based on following or preceding letters.
When I was a kid in France, we all started by learning cursive for non capital letters since we're 4. Not print. For capital we still start by print and then we learn cursive when we re about 5 or 6
Print is something you learned by yourself by the time you go to middle or high school because you needed to write faster. A lot of people still write in cursive when they're 13-15
Now I'm all messed up and I write in a combination of both, I'd sometimes write the same letter - like s or r - in the two modes within the same sentence because of how I unintentionally priveleges a form above the other based on following or preceding letters.