I saw that pyramid in my Dutch textbooks as well, never trusted it though. It always seemed like some form of scheme to me.
I saw that pyramid in my Dutch textbooks as well, never trusted it though. It always seemed like some form of scheme to me.
When I was at Catholic school in the pre MM days, the semen thing was Marc Almond from Soft Cell, and it was Prince who had his ribs removed.Marilyn Manson had to be get his stomach pumped at the hospital because he swallowed a quart of semen
why was everyone at my Catholic School so obsessed with Marilyn Manson
You and the rest of us
I never understood how anyone could believe this because it's so evidently wrong. You can demonstrate this to yourself every time you eat.
"You'll need cursive when you're a grownup!"
And a lot of bullshit about college, such as:
"You won't get accepted into college without good grades!" My classmates with straight Cs had a fun time in high school, and they still went to college. And graduated.
"You better study hard now, because college only gets harder!" Getting my bachelors was ten times easier than high school.
I will never not do this. Deal with it, grammar kids, I learned to type on actual typewriters in school.Two spaces after every period. Now I'm being called a dinosaur when I do this out of habit.
It's like everything, you force kids to write in a style that is outdated and needlessly difficult for like two years of their early childhood education, and then drop it and never touch it again negating the entire point of cramming it down their throats
That thing is so easy and fast to learn. Like stuff you do in the second class and be done with it.
I can't imagine to write more than two sentences in anything than cursive.
I worked my ass off patching everything under the sun to prevent a problem just so people 20 years later could claim it was all a hoax. Such a good feeling.The millennium bug wasn't a hoax, it was something that people spent years and years preparing and mitigating for so things wouldn't go to shit.
We're talking about 2nd and 3rd grade kids who are taught cursive, when they are still being taught how to write in print.
If they actually kept it going through all of a persons education it wouldn't be difficult, but when you just drop it like a rock why would you expect people to remember it? At that point it just becomes an annoyance considering almost nobody under the age of 65 even writes in cursive anymore.
Even better, it's now used as an example of overblown fearmongering to dismiss warnings about everything from climate change to Brexit.I worked my ass off patching everything under the sun to prevent a problem just so people 20 years later could claim it was all a hoax. Such a good feeling.
I worked my ass off patching everything under the sun to prevent a problem just so people 20 years later could claim it was all a hoax. Such a good feeling.
Guys Y2K was an issue that was mainly mitigated due to knowing the issue would prop up on the year roll over.
It wasn't a hoax, companies and governments spent ~100 billion to fix it before it happened. (150 billion if you factor in inflation)
I imagine most people are thinking of the crazies like Alex Jones and co. who said Y2K would cause countries to collapse and martial law would be enacted, SO BUY MY Y2K SURVIVAL KIT!I worked my ass off patching everything under the sun to prevent a problem just so people 20 years later could claim it was all a hoax. Such a good feeling.
That's what I was looking for, because so much of it is either wrong or put in the wrong context. It also leaves out so much that's incredibly important, because it doesn't reflect well on America.
I imagine most people are thinking of the crazies like Alex Jones and co. who said Y2K would cause countries to collapse and martial law would be enacted, SO BUY MY Y2K SURVIVAL KIT!
I can't really say though, I was like 5 at the time.
That you should drink 8 glasses of water a day. This still pervades to this day, my colleagues at work insist on drinking about 3 litres a day and won't be persuaded otherwise
It's like everything, you force kids to write in a style that is outdated and needlessly difficult for like two years of their early childhood education, and then drop it and never touch it again negating the entire point of cramming it down their throats
I use a scrawly mix of it and standard today. I suppose the advent of computers negated the need to be able to write quickly.
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.
Marilyn Manson had to be get his stomach pumped at the hospital because he swallowed a quart of semen
why was everyone at my Catholic School so obsessed with Marilyn Manson
Nothing better than the episode where they go to Ireland and take on the Troubles.
For any IrishERA out there, I'm sorry...
This is accurate to my high school experience (but that was in the mid-late 2000's).I was in school all throughout the 90's (born in 86) and my schools taught
Trail of Tears
US Japanese internment camps
The cruelty of early settlers including Christopher Columbus
Actually used the term "slavery" instead of "workers brought from Africa" which apparently some text books use today?
Maybe it's just I spent most of my school life in California? It wasn't nearly as sanitized and "AMERICA DOES NO WRONG" as so many others seem to have had.
This one makes me super sad because I grew up thinking we "won" over racism with the Civil Rights Movement. I grew up watching multi-cultural, diverse teams of heroes in Captain Planet, Power Rangers, and X-men all working together in harmony for the greater good, while bigotry and intolerance were obvious, cartoony villains out of time.that big push for diversity in the media made it seem like racism was dead.
The Y2K bug was a real and credible threat. The reason it didn't seem to amount to much was because people behind the scenes busted ass and fixed it.That all the computers and electricity would shut off at midnight on Jan. 1st, 2000 and chaos would ensue.