r/FacePalm - "BAN THE BUTTS"

[@MF99K]

The "white people shouldn't speak spanish that's cultural appropriation" argument is SO weird given the fact that those cultures speaking spanish is because of Spanish colonization

[@Hexagons7]

Whenever the word Spanish comes up everybody forgets Spain is a thing

[@s0nnasauras630]

That statement also reeks of colorism also which is even more layers of awful

[@osheridan]

​@@Hexagons7 Spain only exists when someone is there without the 'S'

[@TheGoldenDunsparce]

Also, it makes no sense for speaking Spanish as a white person to be cultural appropriation when people in Spain are white lol

[@tami7992]

I feel like americans tend to forget spain exists...

[@bumblebeeyellowdragon]

"This person should be fired/banned because I'm sexualizing them." Yeah that makes perfect sense. No flawed logic here.

[@osheridan]

I watched an interview in Japan in which a woman spoke about how society expects us to accommodate the perverts and it really stuck with me. You see it everywhere, especially in schools, which is the last place it should be

[@Fr0zenEagle]

Unfortunately, this was the opinion of the majority of people, including women, even 60 years ago. It was always "Boys will be boys." and the girls and women were at fault for wearing clothes that were 'provocative'. A ridiculously large amount of sexual harassment, assaults, and even rapes were 'solved' by blaming the victim because "the innocent young man was provoked and helpless against that scarlet woman.". Unless, of course, the accused was disliked by the police, didn't have family backing, or had a different nationality. It's gotten better since then, but not nearly enough for it not to be prevalent still.

[@MidoriLeaf-sr5fy]

At this point, how about we just hide the pervs eyes with ducktape. Problemo solvto.

[@bumblebeeyellowdragon]

@@Fr0zenEagle To my knowledge this was never really a thing in Canada. There was abuse and horrible mistreatment of women but it was generally behind closed doors cause nobody in Canada really wanted to be seen as that impolite guy around town who harasses women.

[@gentlemanvaultboy8671]

The parents actual argument is "this person should be reprimanded because she keeps putting pictures of our kids on her personal Instagram after we have repeatedly asked her to stop."

[@tdsollog]

I was told when I was 13 to “cover up more” because friends of my parents and grandparents had “impure thoughts” about me. I was wearing a tshirt and jeans. I had the “nerve” to tell them I was a CHILD, and they were ADULTS, and they had to control THEMSELVES.

[@phaeste]

An (un)surprisingly large amount of weird conservatives are very open about how many pedophiles they have close relationships with

[@insideAdirtyMind]

It is a shame little girls have to deal with this. We have to shut this bs down the moment we hear about this in our adult friends groups. Too many people excuse this type of behavior. If I was your mom I would have taken the broom and slapped their "impulsive thoughts" out of these "friends". There is nothing better than a good broom to get creeps out of your life.

[@feuerling]

​@@insideAdirtyMind what about a wet mop?

[@angelikaskoroszyn8495]

It's stupid on many levels. I've seen attractive people in my life. I didn't assault them. Just because someone look sexy to you it doesn't mean it's OK to touch them. And it doesn't matter that they found children "distracting". If I can live my life peacefully without assaulting random strangers then they can do it for the sake of their own family

[@w3aponex870]

Bro that is so gross 🤮

[@acheronbutler]

Fun fact: Marry Shelly originally had to publish Frankenstein under her husband's name because the publishing house refused to publish a woman's works.

[@fleabaggins]

Not-So-Fun Fact: Good Ol’ Mary also lost her virginity on her mother’s grave 🙃

[@beanids]

@@fleabaggins Relateable

[@kvasskinggsezbooyah69]

​@@fleabaggins at least it wasn't in the coffin

[@MeganKugs]

She didn’t publish it under Percy’s name but she did publish the first edition in 1818 anonymously (because sadly, she was but rightfully concerned about the reaction people would have seeing a woman’s name attached to violent subject matter). The second edition, printed in 1823 was published under her name. Then in 1831 she republished it, changing some passages and adding a preface that contained a tribute to Percy Bysshe Shelley’s 1822 drowning death. Fun (?) fact : He was on a boat and it capsized, the victims did wash ashore some 10 days later and he was able to be identified and ultimately buried (after a bunch of weirdness with attempted cremation) but Mary kept his heart (after fighting with a friend of his who wouldn’t give it to her until Lord Byron stepped in). And so, she lost her virginity on her mother’s grave (as the first commenter has already pointed out), wrote Frankenstein in under a year on a bet and fought for, won and kept her husband’s heart. These are only a few of the mannnnny nutty, wonderful and badass things she did and she is one of my literary goth heroes. 💜

[@hmnhntr]

​@@fleabagginsThat's a very fun fact 😀

[@malloryknox1637]

At my Sr. Prom I went with another girl. We both were wearing dresses but got kicked out for attending as two girls and not as a male and female couple. Some twenty odd number of our friends left with us in solidarity upon seeing us get kicked out. We all decided to go out to dinner and one of our group of friends called their parents and explained to them what happened......said friends mom and dad told us we could all go out to their family camp on a near-by Lake and throw our own party...... We all danced around a huge campfire told ghost stories and played music till like 1am and then went swimming in the Lake.....best "prom" ever!

[@Rhaenarys]

I find that really odd. I, too, went with a girl, and we both wore dresses (am girl), but we had no issues. We werent going as a cpl, we went as friends, it was the only way she could even go to prom as she ended up at an alternative program that i ended up going to the next year (best decision ever). Lots of people at my school did this too, as cpl tickets were cheaper than single, so those without a date? Take a friend! Even if they are the same sex or gender. This was also in florida, i imagine thatll also change, soon. 😔

[@StormTheSquid]

​​@@Rhaenarys well I should hope you weren't going as a cpl, if you were I'd be seriously concerned with how a highschool senior managed to become a military officer. I'll show myself out lmao

[@FowlsNest]

​@@StormTheSquid that took me a second, well done 💀

[@davidchapman7350]

@@StormTheSquid lol for a second I thought that was gonna be a homophobic comment instead of a bad pun😆

[@lavender3609]

That's awesome. I mean, it should never have had to happen in the first place, since those school prom rules are beyond stupid, but that sounds like a better experience than any prom to ever exist.

[@Swarthyimp2366]

Fun animal fact when red pandas feel threatened they stand up to seem more intimidating and it is adorable.

[@strxbrrydino]

Awwhhhh! :D wait. That’s super smart look cuter so we won’t hurt it (thx to whoever corrected me 😅)

[@bumblebeeyellowdragon]

Don't a lot of creatures do this?

[@osheridan]

I'm so intimidated I'm being hypnotised with cute

[@VoidAcrid]

Yeah a lot of creatures do it to seem bigger and therefore more threatening. Usually that size works for warding off predators at times, or at least helping. But for humans who are much bigger and not threatened by something like a red ones trying to puff itself up? It’s more just goofy looking-

[@yourguard4]

paralized by -fear- awwness

[@kilian-one-l]

OF COURSE those kids who got married at age 12 are still married, I'm fairly sure they can't legally get divorced until they're 18

[@kawaibakaneko]

Shit seriously?? I never thought of how a child could get divorced!

[@osheridan]

Jesus christ

[@Rhaenarys]

Theres a video out of a christian couple trying to give marital sex advice who said they thought she didnt have clitoris until a friend told her she does...and showed her where it was by pointing it out on their infant daughter. This is the problem: lack of education. More than likely they are over the age of 18 now...i hope...but the fact is they dont know any better. They think what they went through is normal and what they feel is happy. Reminds me of another video called Medieval Life (part 1). Its a reenactment documentary where a film crew is documenting the lives of medieval peasants and nobility, both parties being interviewed about their lives and beliefs. While obviously film crews werent around, it gives a realistic picture in the minds of the people living. Its sad. The peasants are working so hard, look so miserable, but when asked if they are happy, or if they would wish for it to be different, they looked shocked, and claim yes...they are happy, and why would they want to change what God ordained? Sadly, this same mentality has managed to make its way into todays world with these kids sold at a young age into marriage who dont know any better, and truly think thats what God wants, and what happiness is. I suggest watching that video, seeing it does way more justice than me trying to explain it.

[@michaelgum97]

Why were they allowed to be married at age **12**?

[@knnl1850]

​@@michaelgum97 it's legal in some states and countries

[@WatsonAndDaughter]

"Kids can't be trans, they are just babies!!!!!" "Kids should be married off at 12"

[@audreyw9784]

"but marriage has nothing to do with how they feel or what they want!" - them, probably

[@RavenWrenSophia]

I know someone who transitioned at six happiest person alive 😌

[@MarbledMoonstone]

​@@RavenWrenSophiaif that's true, i hope you and they both have a very happy life

[@RavenWrenSophia]

@@MarbledMoonstone yup but sadly at first a lot of kids made fun of her when she started wearing skirts 🥲 .

[@ferretqueen2908]

​@@audreyw9784neither does pregnancy so it wouldn't surprise me.

[@phoenixthings]

About the trans woman in the marathon- she was running as a _general participant,_ so even if she was first, she wouldn’t have won anything. She got a participation medal. And she was raising money for kids in wheelchairs. And bigots are mad about it🙃

[@lick3227]

Several fish know where you live

[@osheridan]

Y'know that scene in some cartoons where the superhero saves the world and reveals their identity, and someone is all "eW, yOu?" I swear that could happen in real life with trans people

[@alphaomega7191]

Wait she was raising money to put kids in wheelchairs .... that monster!!!! 😉

[@nonamebxtch]

@@osheridan Bro I’ve never seen that😭 What cartoons are you watching where this happens? (genuine question)

[@404_Toonz]

​@@nonamebxtch spiderman sometimes? It's mostly when the hero saved the day but because civilians are dumb they just remember how the superhero caused a building yo collapse while fighting the villain - if the villain wasn't defeated they've levelled the whole city

[@kyleoates6367]

The disgusting thing is... that senator WAS NOT citing a statistic. He was citing an anecdote to defend child marriage in his state.

[@Ramsey276one]

0_o oh GOD

[@Echo81Rumple83]

poor guy prolly never took a statistics course in higher education. might be too liberal for them :/

[@KyrenaH]

Gross

[@maranathaschraag5757]

and saying that children who've been abused their entire lives after being forced into marriage at 12 are still married is bs anyway. abusees that young are going to be so brainwashed they can't even think about leaving their abuser, so of course they'll stay married. they can't fathom any other life for themselves. independence isn't a concept they understand. "staying married" doesn't make pedophilic marriages right or good. it just makes it that much grosser.

[@gillipop1]

​@@Ramsey276one youtube was like "translate this" so I clicked it and it said "0_o oh GOOD" Google translate XD

[@fgzhtsp]

The child marriage thing is like "Murder is fine. Murdered people are still dead. They would become alive again if they did not like it."

[@musicandbooklover-p2o]

I don't know how it went as I lost the channel commenting on it but there is a woman in Florida who was taking the state to court to try and stop child marriages. It was perfectly legal to force 8 year olds to marry their abusers because IF they were married they were no longer a child abuser/paedophile. This woman was forcibly married to her abuser at 8, she had 6 kids under the age of 10 before she was 16 [basically she was forced into being permanently pregnant] before she managed to escape with the help of a social worker who took pity on her - apparently this was the ONLY social worker who actually cared enough to help her. She and some other child bride victims joined together to try and change the law in Florida, other groups managed to get the laws changed in some other states but often only to a minimum age of 16 and even then with exceptions for religious cults who could [do] force their kids into marriage at earlier ages.

[@akitokutikabanae7010]

​@@musicandbooklover-p2o wtf i thought mariage wasnt possible before the majority...

[@Fox_961]

@@akitokutikabanae7010 It's legal in the majority of countries if I'm not mistaken.

[@chrislanglois8275]

@@musicandbooklover-p2o thats absolutely abhorrently irredeemable. i thought in all of america north south and canada the youngest legal age has been 13 or 14. i mean i remember hearing some yrs ago about 1 state having the earliest age some1 is allowed to french kiss or otherwise romantically kiss another person is 14. but even that was the most that could b done. but nope florida always has to b the most self described place in all of america that ik of "only in florida". 🤢💩🤡🤦‍♂

[@DrTimeSCPPsych]

"Marriages in the past were better becuase there were fewer divorces " There were fewer divorces because women werent being allowed to divorce...or work independently ..or own property... theres more divorces now because people can GET divorces when they have a shit marriage

[@veralysona]

"I like the idea of a cellar for storing food but it's not exactly groundbreaking" Digging a food cellar is literally ground-breaking

[@aidennevada243]

That's a good one!

[@patbracken]

Even if AI detectors were genuinely 98% accurate, that means 1 out of 50 accused would be completely innocent and still get punished.

[@Tekdruid]

Still probably better than the current system.

[@vibaj16]

@@Tekdruid what current system?

[@xugro]

I thinks its broken because when you type it into chatgpt and ask "is this ai generated?" it responds with "Yes, the text you provided appears to be a reproduction of Article I, Section 1 and Section 2 of the United States Constitution, which outlines the structure and composition of the Congress and the House of Representatives. It is not AI-generated but rather a direct excerpt from the Constitution itself."

[@eragonshurtugal4239]

Its even way worse. Lets asume that only 1% of students will cheat that way, that means of 10.000 examed papers on 100 an AI was used, but the AI detector will find 98 of the real AI-papers + 9900*0,02= 198 false positives. So more than 2/3 of all "findings" would be untrue. This percentage gets smaller if the share of AI-paper increases and vise versa.

[@CloverField83]

I almost failed a research paper because the AI detection software they used in my class detected that one sentence in my introduction was AI generated. It wasn't. But one sentence? Come the F on.

[@cattheace17]

The funny thing is P!nk isn’t even a lesbian, she has a husband and two kids 💀

[@snekysneks]

But is she Lebanese? 🤔

[@osheridan]

​@@snekysneks or perhaps from Lesbos?

[@ritabylsma4244]

Not according to wikipedia. She is American with mixed ancestry, of which only ˋlithuanian´ could possibly be confused with ˋlesbian´ and that could be confused with ˋlebanese´. So their thought process seems to have gone from an ethnicity to a sexual orientation and then to another ethnicity, while changing the meaning along with the spelling only at the first swap. 🤔

[@susannadanner906]

​@@ritabylsma4244 Lithuanian and Lebanese aren't ethnicities, but tru 😁

[@HudaefCares]

​@@ritabylsma4244Nationality, not ethnicity. Lithuania and Lebanon are countries. That's like saying "Canadian" is an ethnicity.

[@SnowLily06]

That transgender runner story makes me so annoyed everytime not only was she not even in the top 6000 of 20000 but the medal she recieved was a participation medal that all 20k people got and it wasnt even an all female race literally anyone was allowed to run!?!? There is not a single thing you could possibly find to even slightly incriminate this woman who ran the whole marathon for charity and yet there have been more news articles about her than the actual winner!!!

[@alex_blue5802]

Just know that it proves how silly this hysteria about women's sports is.

[@azarinevil]

@@alex_blue5802 when you look into why women's sports exist.. you realize the hysteria isn't new. Most of the arguments we are seeing against trans people were used in racial segregation in sports. It's history and bigots repeating themselves. Funniest part of the origin of women's sports is that the reason it was originally "unfair for women to compete" was because they were beating men... left and right in their own leagues.

[@RunawayTrain2502]

But it's the transgender people who are the snowflakes of course.

[@alex_blue5802]

@@GachaGirlieYT Okay that wasn't the right way to phrase it. What I meant is that people are manufacturing outrage about trans women participating in sports by stretching the truth and creating something out of nothing.

[@seigeengine]

The moral of the story is that nazis are shit.

[@jonathant8575]

People going straight to a lawsuit for something as minor as forgetting a condiment completely boggles my mind. Got lunch from my local store on monday, and when I got home I found out that because they'd left the burgers on the bottom of the warming cabinet, the plastic had melted and stuck to the burger. Just returned it, politely explained the problem and got a refund. And they gave me extra chips and tenders as an apology in the replacement lunch I bought. No drama, just an honest mistake quickly and easily resolved.

[@ansrfururactions]

Oh, you'd be lucky if a lawsuit was ALL you got, nowadays, peeps are ICING the employees for screwing up.

[@alexspillowfort888]

16:35 The worst part about the guy threatening to shoot the kid for ringing his doorbell is that she was looking for her lost kitten. He continued to defend himself and say that the kid was in the wrong and he’d call the cops if she did it again after threatening her to her face and making her cry.

[@derekstein6193]

Anybody else think he shot the kitten to alleviate his gun-boner, and now wants people to stay away so they don't find out he did it?

[@BisexualCatWithPizza]

@@derekstein6193 NO PLEASE YOU JUST PUT THAT IMAGE IN MY MIND AND NOW I'M CRYING PLEASE NOOOOO

[@echognomecal6742]

@@derekstein6193 BISEXUAL CAT, DO NOT READ MY COMMENT It wasn't done simmering yet.

[@tummytub1161]

He definitely has that kitten and doesn't want to give it up! It's the only sane reason for it

[@echognomecal6742]

@@tummytub1161 ...but this is not a sane situation :/

[@saddesklunch2544]

Small note: the “tipping culture” in America is due to the fact that our politicians refuse to let tip workers have the same minimum wage as everyone else, meaning they typically have to make a living based purely on tips. Yes, I also agree it is stupid

[@chimericpaladin35813]

which is also funny cause from what i remember tipping started from rich people wanting to be served before other people, and then restaurants pushing the servers to start taking tips (even if they wanted to refuse) instead of paychecks

[@Star-vf8vz]

@@chimericpaladin35813 I heard that it came about during the Great Depression, which makes sense but it's still a nasty one.

[@gars0the03]

Fun Fact! It unacceptable to receive tips in America before the great depression. The concept of paying to have faster/better service was considered "un-American" on account of the whole: land of the free, everyone is equal thing the nation was build on. When alcohol was banned, almost everyone stopped using restaurants, so the owners of said restaurants had to either cut costs or go out of business. They reduced the cost of their items to lure costumers, and took the reduction in price out of the staffs pay, telling them to ask for tips is they wanted to eat. But as usual, when the problem was over, the prices were increased back to normal, but wages were never turned back up, because of greed.

[@Echo81Rumple83]

thaaaaat's capitalism for you. hypercaptialism, that is.

[@independenthistory1621]

Yeah seriously the minimum wage here in Virginia for tipped staff is about $2.80!!! how can you pay people less than three dollars here this is in 1940 that is not that is insane😊

[@Tooth_Brusher]

As an American I can agree that the metric system is better than whatever America has going on

[@oceanbanana4341]

Yeah I honestly like it more. Especially since I enjoy strongman which takes place all over the world

[@Snow_Sailor]

Exactly its so easy to remember a 10s based system than a six? I think customary is either 6 or 12 based idk? System

[@illegallynamed]

@@Snow_Sailor a 6 based system would work better than the imperial system. It's based off of 2s, 6s, 5280 for some reason...

[@briannelson27]

have you ever looked up some of the imperial measurements? we don't even use a bunch of them! barleycorn, hand, rood, frop, thou! and I only made one of those up!

[@mousesteam7882]

Metric is better for everything except whether and hight

[@TheOfficialPSI]

Ah, the big booty teacher. So some very much needed context there: They weren't calling for her to be fired because 'she thicc', they were calling for her to be fired because she was having pictures taken of her watching her *preschool* students, during work hours, on the preschool grounds, with the students in shot. She was then posting those pictures *with the kids still in them* in some cases, with no attempt to crop or blur them out, onto her public thirst trap Twitter and Instagram pages. She was purposely sexualizing herself during work hours in front of children too young to know what was happening, and posting pictures of those kids online without the parents' knowledge or anyone's consent. Having a big butt is not a fireable offense. But there were several bad decisions in the way she was going about posting it online. Honestly, if people weren't so quick to jump to her rescue about this because news outlets spread the story as "Protect this woman, they're shaming her big butt!", most people would be at risk of not just losing their job/career, but potentially facing charges, worst case maybe even getting put in The Registry.

[@justingovas415]

Yet the situation of "firing the thick woman" happens all too often for this to not have been taken as that at first.

[@Pooky1991]

I always wondered if there was more to that story due to how strange it sounded. Though knowing how crazy some parents are I wouldn't be surprised if there were teachers being hated on for simply being thicc or too attractive

[@TheOfficialPSI]

@@Pooky1991 Oh don't get me wrong, there are definitely chronically online people who seem to think people have a "going to work ass" in the dresser at home. This just had more of a story to it

[@polocatfan]

ooh yeah. gotta dislike the video over this.

[@maryamshaaban74]

Some people might disagree with me, but.. hear me out. She should take her "curves" into consideration when getting dressed in a school setting to not wear something that would highlight them. So it's not really her curves that are the issue, it's the way she dresses them. For example, I personally have boobs that don't really fit my skinny upper body, so I usually wear something that's M to L if not XL although my actual size is xs to s, so I don't highlight my boobs or to even be able to wear the piece. So a girl of my size wearing a size s would highlight a certain curve, a girl with smaller boobs, however, could wear a size s and it wouldn't be too tight. Imo, just like we preach taking all bodily features into consideration when making clothes for women, we should do the same when it comes to defining what's appropriate and not overly sexualizing

[@trashy8343]

if butts were banned in jobs, I'd be getting a raise 💀

[@Tha-mountain]

oof

[@osheridan]

Ayy, butts aside, a raise is a raise

[@samsingh0]

The teacher actually got in trouble because she kept including kids' faces in the photos after repeatedly being asked to stop.

[@Tha-mountain]

@@samsingh0 oh ez fix not

[@SorowFame]

@@samsingh0 so why wasn’t that the headline?

[@void-stare]

we hate the tipping system, too. It's just an excuse for restaurants to pay less than minimum wage

[@meh2510]

Yeah, I'm never sure what to tip. And nowadays they have a tipping option at the cash register for places that don't have a wait staff. Am I supposed to tip for them typing my order into the computer? Seriously! Its an uncomfortable feeling seeing them watch me press the "no tip" button at these places, especially since they give you the food AFTER you pay.

[@hymol_1316]

Yea, I would tip people if it wasnt a reason for underpayment.

[@thelostmessenger]

@@meh2510 usually I think you pay 10% of your check for tips. Maybe 5 dollars to 10 all up to you really.

[@randomusername429]

​​@@meh2510I have heard many people say 15% - 20% of the bill. Others might do less, I'm not sure, but that's what I was taught. So like if your bill is $60 at a sit-down restaurant your tip would be around like $10. Edit: I just googled it. It said that yes, you should normally leave between 15% and 20%, but if service was bad, anything greater than 10% is okay

[@Mark_Agamotto1313_Smith]

@@randomusername429 I start with a base 20%, and go as high as 25 for exceptionally good service, and as low as 10 for bad service. BUT, I don't take food quality into account, that is the COOK'S fault, not the waitstaffs'.

[@KowaiZuzu]

Child marriage in America is unfortunately 100% a thing. As long as one parent gives permission. My aunt got married when she was 15 to a man who was in his twenties. They are not married anymore because he did bad touchy things to another child. I wonder if there were any red flags that they missed? 🤔

[@Chaos_incarnate19]

American here just to say it's absolutely sickening!! At 12, I was worrying about making friends and obsessing over a Disney show. I couldn't imagine being 12 and having to worry about a pedo husband, let alone children already.

[@Rainkit]

Until 2013 it was legal in my state to get married at 15 if the child was pregnant and had parental consent. Unsurprisingly that turned our state into a sex trafficking hotspot for pedos across the country. Its Missouri btw.

[@crappyaccount]

what the fuck. how did no one see a problem with a grown man trying to date a child??????

[@derekstein6193]

​@@crappyaccount A lot of people care, but it is a case of "out of sight, out of mind." The general populace are constantly shifting their focus from one issue to the next, with the 24-hour news media loop and politician-induced outrage keeping people from putting enough of their attention and collective will from making any lasting change. Not only that, but the U.S. has a serious problem with legislation. Not only does it move excruciatingly slow, but it is focused on making laws, not amending, updating, or repealing them. There is a massive number of outdated, pointless, grotesque, or simply unconstitutional laws still on the books. It flabbergasts me that no legislature (state or federal) or it's members ever figure out that, instead of trying to pass laws on highly controversial topics (abortion, gun control) that go nowhere, they could get an easy political and PR win by just giving the laws of the land a much needed spring cleaning. These child marriage laws should be some of the first to be swept up and dumped in the trash.

[@BisexualCatWithPizza]

What a happy, healthy marriage! I would've NEVER seen any possible issue with an underage child marrying and probably giving birth to a grown man's children! Unfortunate that they had to split... probably your aunt's fault, that poor man! this is satire

[@DouglasWalrath]

for the doorbell guy it's not that he doesn't want people ringing his doorbell, it's that he's so hungry to use his gun he's looking for any excuse to do so, and that attitude is becoming very common in the US

[@TheBrokeCyberWanderer]

For context, the woman divorcing the football player was quite accomplished in her own right. She had a successful career and it's not super unusual to ask for a 50/50 split. She lived this lifestyle where her and her husband had daily access to things that she assumed were in her husband's name. We don't know if or how much money she put towards those purchases. Poor woman is being made out to be a golddigger when her husband was the one who purposely lied to her about finances.

[@vibaj16]

"things that she assumed were in her husband's name" "her husband was the one who purposely lied to her about finances" sounds like he didn't lie, just that she assumed incorrectly...

[@shadowpadinc.2058]

You don't have to be not wealthy to be a gold digger and he likely never told her because it never came up, he has no reason to just open up about something like that so was not lying to her.

[@BiancaRadtke]

AND he allegedlly raped a minor

[@Sebastian-gb3hs]

Not to mention that she is leaving him, because of allegations of sexual abuse

[@BRAINGUTZZ]

​@Shadowpad Inc. yes he does???? they were married, buddy???

[@Tattybirch96]

I wouldn't doubt it if the ladies who accidentally swapped babies are friends who chose to dress their babies the same. When the one comes over to take the baby out of the others arm, neither seem too particularly concerned.

[@keit99]

Yeah that looked way to peaceful as for the individuals to be strangers

[@phoenixfire8978]

I disagree with Click about the cellar being groundbreaking. You LITERALLY have to break ground to make one. It’s called digging

[@thegreenmanofnorwich]

Touché

[@Tvianne]

Me makes pun without noticing, he's this great at his job! 🤣

[@feuerling]

Not if you build it into a natural cave, dig sideways into a cliff or pile up the dirt around it.

[@matthewprier4340]

This right here, exact reply I was looking for lol

[@bumblebeeyellowdragon]

@@feuerling That defeats the purpose. A cellar is underground because of the way air flows and sun rays come down when you have a sealed off underground area it will remain cold mainly due to only lower air getting in and the sun not being able to heat it very much. If you dig it into a cave or mountain or make it hill it won't provide the same coolness.

[@tjstarblood624]

I love when wild animals remind people they're wild (without the animal getting killed for defending itself)

[@chatboulon743]

The soap lady killed me when she had that moment of realization. That conversation turned unexpectedly wholesome with her trying to process that new information. 💜

[@Kartoffelkamm]

Agreed. Always nice seeing people realize they did something in a very unusual fashion all their lives, and trying to come to terms with that. Also the guy didn't really make fun of her, but just told her how to do it properly. That conversation could've gone so much worse, from both ends.

[@chatboulon743]

@@Kartoffelkamm And, honestly, I've done both ways. It's really depends how much time I have to shower. Lol

[@Fledhyris]

And I'm over here going... 'you use a flannel?!'

[@vibeci]

What happened to using washcloths with soap, have they never heard of this invention!!

[@tummytub1161]

​@@vibeci surprisingly to me a big part of the world doesn't know about this. I had someone ask me what the tiny towel was for

[@viocrence4506]

i really hate that there are laws and school rules in the USA about "cross dressing" now like bro let guys wear dresses and girls wear suits and vice versa plus it's super transphobic of them to do so. thank god there hasn't been any school rules like that near me (i hope at least)

[@feuerling]

The guys should all wear men's kilts. It's a traditional male garment, so there is no reason to complain. Or wear roman tunics :) Also, trans people and enbies aside, cis women have been wearing pantsuits for several decades by now, how is that crossdressing? The clothes are tailored and marketed towards them. They're in the women's section at the store. They are, for all intents and purposes, clothes a woman can wear without crossdressing. _What do the schools want_

[@deathofallthingspotato9919]

My school was pretty good, but there were minor distinctions, mostly surrounding acceptable sock colours. We forced the school to remove the gendering on that, mostly to be annoying. Note that this was the same school where one year group elected a table to the student council meetings, for fun.

[@chatboulon743]

The prom girl in a suit looked so good!! So much better than some of the half-dresses her classmates probably wore. (Not of a fan of prom dresses, since a vast majority of them are super revealing.)

[@ma_cherri]

​@@feuerling omw to find a roman tunic that looks like a femboy pink miniskirt

[@jacthing1]

​@@ma_cherri or a Greek chiton

[@jbelavor9124]

Building a cellar is literally a ground breaking concept

[@adelinaarmstrong9423]

that's so punny, wish i would have thought of that sooner. in fact, you could write a *best-cellar!*

[@kidd32888]

​@@adelinaarmstrong9423 stop running this joke to the ground

[@Feral_cockroach121]

@@kidd32888 C’mon man, they were just fooling around. Wish you were more *down to Earth*

[@screaming_cat2007]

Damn this joke really hit rock bottom

[@-_Nifi_-]

I Wanna add to this joke but I am not funny

[@mirrellewalker-thompson3964]

I'm in HS, and the idea that schools pad grades to pass all the kids makes SO MUCH SENSE!!!! SOME IF THE KIDS IN MY CLASS CAN BARELY WRITE A SENTENCE!!!

[@seigeengine]

It always concerned me in HS how many people could barely read. They can't all be dyslexic.

[@sarahr8311]

I recently took some grad level classes, and at first I was like "The teacher is way too enthused about my writing. All I did was use a topic sentence, then a few supporting paragraphs." Then I saw some of my classmate's posts and... well now I know why I could half ass my way through a lot of college essays. Hurray for reading too much as a kid!

[@vellathewench]

This has been going on for so long. I wanna say where I am in started in the late 80's early 90's. Had a co-worker who actually went to the school to make them fail her child because he was not ready and she knew it would be a detriment to him to be in a class that was way ahead of him. Thankfully here, at least at the time I don't know about now, parents had this option. School's will not fail kids. But the reason isn't the same. It's basically to keep kids with other kids their age and not to embarrass them.

[@tromkehra]

For splitting the bill with a potential date is more of me protecting myself from creeps. If they don't buy me anything, then I don't owe them anything. I want to get to know you, not feel gaslit into saying yes to activities that I don't want.

[@jadecoolness101]

I'll have them pay for dinner if they're the one to ask for a date. Let him reveal his red flags fast. If he thinks paying $20 for dinner ENTITLES him to something, then bye bye.

[@Echo81Rumple83]

i did it mainly because money's tight from his angle when i was in a relationship. he likes to be a gentleman about footing the bill, but i'm not that old fashioned about it, and he's rather... "thrifty" to say the least, though i can admit i have expensive taste, but having gone to an actual high-end bistro in the past once or twice (and hating the quality of its 'high-end food' compared to some not-so-expensive places that has quality over quantity), it's subjective in the end on what constitute expensive and cheap (especially with inflating screwing things up :/)

[@Scrinwaipwr]

I want the woman paying her share of the dinner because I'm a cheap male feminist. Only if I asked her out etc am I OK paying for her because then I'm why she's there. Even then I prefer to keep my money if I can because it's not like I forced her to go out with me. I might offer to pay but I won't insist. If she sticks around and levels up from date to partner then I'm happy to spend on her because I know she's worth it by then.

[@seigeengine]

If someone expects you to give them things on a first date, then you're not on a date, you're paying for an escort.

[@hmnhntr]

Also, it's not like in the past where a woman is expected to not be working. If you have a job and we mutually agreed to go out, why am I any more obligated to pay?

[@nadinekurz6117]

Just yesterday a teacher said she was "disappointed" in me because her software said my essay was "10% written by AI". Luckily enough, I could convince her it was actually me who had written my own essay because the number is so low, but I am scared of the next few years. What if this happens with my Bachelor's thesis? How do I prove I didn't use sth? My uni doesn't even have regulations on AI yet, so nobody knows what teachers are even allowed to do based on their suspicions. It is the wild west out there, man. Thanks for talking about this, made me feel a lot better to see your support in this, Click.

[@mjwildy2359]

If you use Google docs, and I think maybe Microsoft Word does the same thing, you can pull up the document history to show you've done the work yourself.

[@RandomFandomDragon]

@@mjwildy2359 Yeah, but if you are copy/pasting into the doc, it wouldn't necessarily show that, would it?

[@profwaldone]

Mandatory usage of version controle in software. Regular edits over weeks will show your work. While ai generated information will show up more sporadicly in huge chunks at the time.

[@Llortnerof]

@@profwaldone You do realise we're talking about students here, yes?

[@valerielevasseur8674]

Catching cheaters has never been about fancier tech. It's about if the student can answer basic questions in person and discuss the ideas. I had a dude once who didn't know where the country was he'd allegedly been researching all semester...in an International Studies seminar. You beat the machine not by becoming more machine dependent, but by using the human element the tech cannot.

[@hexonyou]

That post from the guy warning people not to ring his doorbell and threatening that he was loading his gun is especially eerie (and familiar) because recently in America a man did shoot a child who came to his house by mistake when trying to pick his little brother up from a friend's house. People like that having weapons is truly terrifying- more so than any boogeyman scenario they can make up to justify having a gun in the first place.

[@WolvesRAwsome1]

that's literally exactly what i was thinking of. shit like this happens in america. its scary. cant fuckin go outside anymore. stupid ass country

[@inotnatalie5048]

OH YEA I REMEMBER THAT!

[@Scrinwaipwr]

And lots of people like that having guns, many of them just about smart enough to know that they'd not pass the criteria for even the slightest regulation, having the vote or just being politicians themselves is one reason why guns in the US are almost completely deregulated like it's Mad Max times.

[@w.reidripley1968]

(Long pause)... I perceive none of you have ever viewed Donut Operator's YT. And you might like to; he's even handsomer than Cliccy here.

[@Scrinwaipwr]

@@w.reidripley1968 what's that got to do with gun control?

[@mollywantshugs5944]

The trans runner thing broke my heart a little, even before the truthful headline was shown. The whole thing is so pointlessly cruel and these kinds of lies get people killed.

[@grilledpook]

and now it's happening in the paris olympics, except it's all based on speculation by the "we can always tell" crowd. like you said, it could literally get them killed.

[@FJYoko-nl7yq]

For real, there's too many holes in their "arguments" about trans people. Trans people, trans women in particular, or more at risk of being assaulted and even killed in places like bathrooms. The same areas that cis women are trying to say they're at risk of being attacked, not stopping to think that trans men (who are a lot easier to pass) will have to go into those bathrooms too; who's to stop a assailant, who no longer has to wear a dress and wear makeup, to walk in there and start swinging? Their arguments are always stupid, especially stuff like this. They'd rather twist a story so much to fit their narrative that it's practically a whole new tale. Imagine being that hateful 24/7

[@Dragonbleps]

I feel so bad for people who go out with manipulative people like the "split the bill" girl. Don't ask questions you don't want the answer to! Don't offer a solution you don't want to go through with! If I offer to split the bill it's because I want to help. If my date says no to splitting, then that's very kind of them. If my date says "yes" then I go through with splitting the bill, zero hard feelings because I was literally the one who offered to split it! Don't trick people. How tf are you supposed to have a healthy relationship if the smallest interactions are based on manipulation and testing to see how much you can get away with?? This sort of "pass/fail" testing" of others over ultimately trivial things is toxic. Man I don't even wanna date and I have more sense.

[@deathofallthingspotato9919]

I'm the camp of insisting on splitting bills - particularly for first dates (not that I actually go on dates). I hate the kind of weird monetary thing not doing so brings in, and the whole idea of someone basically trying to pay their way onto my good side. The whole idea of money getting involved gives massive manipulation vibes in both directions - both the idea that someone needs paying for their consideration, and that the other person has paid their way. Even ignoring the weird pass/fail stuff (which is valid in its way, but only on like red flag stuff), its such a weird vibe.

[@darkblossum4379]

@@deathofallthingspotato9919 Generally never pay fully on your first date with a person. So many girls know they can get free and maybe even expensive food for free if they agree to go on a date with a guy they think is desperate enough, only to then block them or ignore them, as they got the use they wanted out of him. I have too many straight male friends where this kind of stuff is common and it is sick, they go on like 5 dates a month and only maybe 1 will go on a second date and the others will just block or ignore them, calling them creepy when they want to find out what the hell went wrong. It was so bad, that me and some friends actually went to the same restaurant where the date for a friend happened, to find out if he really behaved wrongly or maybe acted creepy. Nope nothing, he acted normal and they actually seemed to have chemistry, though he was then still ignored after the date, only for the said girl to match with another guy in our friend group and try to get him into a date in a rather expensive restaurant, declining once he says they would split the bill. It is not worth it to pay fully for the first date, and never as a guy, as the chances are you are only getting used.

[@deathofallthingspotato9919]

@@darkblossum4379 I'm a girl lol. My point was that I wouldn't feel comfortable if someone tried to pay me as part of a date, like I know it's meant as a nice gesture, but if feels so... Weird.

[@carniethedat7071]

There's one thing I hate about the vast majority of "dating advice" influencers, and it's that they value drama over actually helpful advice. While drama gets you clicks, it just feeds into this idea that love is manipulative and that everyone is out to take advantage of you. This leaves people feeling as though they have to be super defensive at all times when in the dating scene. You have to be playing 8D chess with the brain of someone like her and constantly paranoid to guess what they really want, and after all that you still get it wrong half the time. It's total bullshit. I wish people would stop trying to play everyone around them and just be genuine for once.

[@akitokutikabanae7010]

Thank you 💜

[@PhoenixHinds]

As a Canadian, I have a true respect for all moose.

[@randomcdude4430]

You misspelled health fear.

[@PhoenixHinds]

@@randomcdude4430 that doesnt even make sense. Who is "afraid of health"? Go back to school, your lack of education is showing.

[@osheridan]

*meese

[@PhoenixHinds]

@@osheridan 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ObtuseMori]

As a person who has never seen a real life moose, I have true respect for all moose. I also know better than to ever mess with them because they can get hecking angry!

[@samsingh0]

As for the teacher's butt, she got in trouble because she was including children in her photos and refused to stop, not because of her butt.

[@chatboulon743]

I can see how that's a problem.

[@MaidMirawyn]

Yes, the main complaint was her intentionally s*xualized photos in taken her classroom, sometimes with kids in the photo.

[@BisexualCatWithPizza]

oh that makes sense. i was wondering how she could've been fired just because of her butt.

[@cateyez86]

"She's CURED"...while having ham on her face. I cracked up

[@DamiesEvilTwin]

16:35 I heard about this one. The context is that it was a little girl, she was looking for her kitty, she was apparently black, he threatened to rip her "nasty hair" out if she rang his bell again, and he actually had the cat because he stole it. He kept doubling down hard core about what he said and that's how all the details got spilled, because for some reason he thought it made him look better.

[@shiratojin]

wtf…

[@annelixa9]

The child was only 6. The man started responding to all messages with "Please accept my apology".

[@DamiesEvilTwin]

@@annelixa9 Bit too late for it now though, lol

[@annelixa9]

@@DamiesEvilTwin oh I totally agree with you. What he said and did was horrendous and shouldn't be forgiven with just that.

[@ObtuseMori]

Genuinely, what is happening to the world? People are insane.

[@dulce.sirena]

Once I was in a food line at a mall with my kids, absent-mindedly petting the hair of the one standing with me while I debated. The lady in front of me was giving me the weirdest look. I glance at "my" kid who's hair I was playing with. It was her kid. Mine were both standing behind me watching me lovingly touch a stranger's kid and saying nothing, and the kid said nothing either. Worst thing was how the woman kept giving me stank eye afterwards when I acknowledged and apologized for the mix-up. Like, lady, you see I have kids the same height and hairstyle with me, your kid was standing with me not you, and I freaking apologized. Do you not touch your kids or something, for a motherly action to be that weird to you???

[@ladykoiwolfe]

Why not just say something? Why glare? People are weird and often dumb. I don't blame you at all, or the kid. Kid must have been enjoying it.

[@janemiettinen5176]

I petted a nice little doggie who was up on older ladys arms, we talked and it was all pleasant and cool.. it got weird when I realized I was actually petting the ladys fur coat instead and had done so for quite a while.. This happened like 30 years ago, but Im still feeling just as stupid. But at least I can laugh about it today, you will too, hun :)

[@irina-ty1336]

Just, why didn't she say anything ? A random stranger start to touch her child, and it's okay ?? She is lucky nothing happened. Or, I don"t know the age of the child, but was it a child that was here alone, and the lady just saw him/her coming alone and making strange face, and was curious ?

[@Thenoobestgirl]

​@@janemiettinen5176 that's hilarious! 😂

[@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor]

A few days ago, my mom and stepdad found out that I'm agnostic, and we got into a huge fight over this. I will say that this isn't because she wants to control me. It is because they are legitimately worried for me, and are afraid that if I'm not Christian, I won't go to Heaven, and does legitimately come from their love towards me. I went to bed crying because of how frustrated I was about them not listening to me. There is a good thing to this story though. My brother talked to me about it afterwards and was taking the time to ensure that i know it's okay to be who I am (I already felt okay with who I am but it is still touching) and we had a great conversation regarding how it's hard to have progressive opinions and views since the area where we live is so completely conservative (by which I mean the weord American versions that are loterally flipped from what they originally were) and how he's one of the only liberals here, and most importantly, he made the point to be clear that even if I annoy him, he'll always be there to support me. My point to this is that even when it's hard and pretty much everybody seems to be against you, you can still find people who will support you wholeheartedly and that this can help make things if not okay, better than they are.

[@ladykoiwolfe]

I am so glad that you're brother is there for you and that you're parents made it clear that they still love you and are just worried for you. I'm on my own spiritual path and had to have a similar discussion with my aunt when I was living with her, fortunately she more liberal and accepting. My worst experience was with an ex who became abusive when he discovered I wasn't at the very least monotheistic. Having a great support system helped me survive him. That's why I'm glad you're family made sure to make it clear they love you. Agnostic isn't illogical when it comes to religion. It's open and questioning, honestly something we should all do when it comes to religion and faith.

[@meh2510]

Ah, good ol Pascal's Wager, better to believe than to risk hell. Whenever someone used this line on me for my own Agnosticism, I told them that a god that sent you to eternal torture for the crime of doubting his existence is not a god that any good person should be worshiping. Let your parents know that if they truly have faith in their god's loving and forgiving nature, then they should have no fear of him not accepting a good person into heaven simply based on not being sure.

[@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor]

@@meh2510 I actually did try to make that argument but it couldn't convince them. Also, I want to clarify that my dad is also fine with me being agnostic and i've even had tons of conversations with him about not only religion but tons of political stuff too.

[@noodlepoodlegirl]

I loved your comment Your brother is awesome, that's a friend for life. Thanks for sharing!

[@CentYT]

Funny thing with Christians, as one myself, that they tend to get blinded by what they want the faith to be. For instance, in the book of John it is written that the disciple Thomas didn't believe that Jesus had risen from the dead. One of the dudes who had witnessed first hand literal miracles happening in front of him still didn't believe Jesus had revived until after Jesus showed him his wounds. I doubt God would expect us randos who have seen no such thing to believe something even Jesus's own disciples needed physical proof of. I don't see anyone going to hell because they don't put complete faith in what could literally be a fairy tale. That goes against Jesus's own teachings of treating everyone equally.

[@DelaVillaSofia]

I actually had something similar happen to me. I was in high school and came up with a cool story in a post-apocalyptic future, where man had eliminated all plants, and everyone had to wear an oxygen mask. The plot was that there was a company with the monopoly for artificial oxygen, and a bunch of kids found dandelions. A couple of years later, I found out a writer called Dr Seuss had already written a story like that. True, mine didn't have magic, and it had lots more trauma, drug abuse and the like, but it still discouraged me from writing the only original piece I had come up with. There's a guionist book that starts with "everything that could be written already has been, so write on!" But it's still disheartening when this happens

[@ceeshnia]

That plagiarism detector can be a real issue; some people in my college facebook group were talking about how their papers were flagged for plagiarism, but what was flagged were properly cited parts of the paper, or very generic statements, especially when it came to labs where you should be getting specific results. If a teacher doesn't review it and goes based on the color, it can cause someone to fail a class. I've had turnitin flag cited sources, the sources themselves in the bibliography, and statements such as "x war was in x year" or someone in a group saying "I am a white woman married to a Hispanic man", because she is a white woman married to a Hispanic man and we were supposed to say a little about ourselves and why the topic we were covering was relevant to us; imagine your life being copyrighted because someone else has a similar coupling and mentioned it in their paper. I understand plagiarism is a problem, but man, teachers really need to consider the tools they are using and actually go over them to make sure they aren't falsely flagging things. And seriously, get rid of the issues with labs that hundreds are doing a year that are supposed to all have the same results, FFS; that is a no-win situation.

[@dio6586]

Yeah, our school tried scaring us in the beginning of the year by saying that they can check the papers with a plagiarism checker. They don't really check and just read through it like you're supposed to lol.

[@Lisa5hamer]

Yeah I agree with this handed in an essay got 35% plagiarism on turnitin it was my references, citations and since it’s a year wide essay with the same topic general statements that fit what the essay was to be about. Is really annoying when using research papers that I need to put the data in for.

[@tummytub1161]

My teacher would just say if you didn't do it yourself you didn't learn anything and it will come back to haunt you later on.

[@yenne954]

I once had a teacher tell me I was getting an F for plagiarism. I showed her how the "10%" that was matching was all in my citations... my in text citations that were used in the proper format turned up flagged but the rest of the sentence didn't. Me entire works cited page was also cited in the proper format. So I correctly cited every source... in the correct format... and only used scholar sources that others have also used in other academic papers.... Outside of that I had one quotation, with quotation marks, that was flagged. It was also. cited. Got my A after showing her that. They are ok as long as you actually review where the flags are instead of just seeing a % and going "plagiarism!"

[@16poetisa]

Fifteen years ago my English teacher went over with us in class how turnitin works. For essays where you're citing sources, you actually *do* want a certain minimal percentage of non-original text, because otherwise you're not actually quoting source materials. So the program had an optimal range, and flagged assignments for both too small and too large percentages. Idk what the software is like now, but you'd think people would read the instructions before failing students just because the algorithm spits out a certain percentage and you can't even be bothered to read their work.

[@evam6566]

You can prove you did write your work yourself by filming the entire process of writing. Let them watch 20 hours or however long it takes you to write shit. Better than failing for no reason.

[@yourburningworld8719]

The A.I's are getting better and better at generating fake videos. Soon, not even video evidence could prove your innocence.

[@azarinevil]

I just left in a spelling mistake.. one single misplaced letter. Let them explain how and why I plagurized something and yet know exactly what line and word the error is on.

[@perr0263]

I had a teacher that accepted the "I forgot my homework at home" if you could provide evidence that the homework was actually donne

[@elizabethbertucci9313]

Filming the process isn’t feasible, but requiring all the stages, brainstorming, outline, all the drafts is what most teachers ask for. If you can show the process, you’re good. And of course the constitution will show plagiarism! It’s a document on record!

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

I'm a science fantasy writer, and I write in a stream of consciousness style that has multiple layers of meaning. I cite James Joyce as my inspiration, but I've been told my stories read more like Faulkner. I'd like to see someone try to imitate that.

[@aemidaniels]

as someone who lives around twitchy cops, if they tell you the radio is a breathalizer, then it's a breathalizer. better to have them laugh at you than beat you half to death because you resisted a drug test.

[@Fledhyris]

I'm sure, but by their accents, that video was clearly taken in Britain. Our cops are not like your cops.

[@Lisa5hamer]

I’m pretty sure they aren’t cops but security that are outside clubs, and denying the guy access to the club due to already being too drunk.

[@Echo81Rumple83]

i'll take a breathalyzer if need be, but not when they're faking it with a walkie-talkie; who knows whether their germs of bigotry is on them O_o

[@dudewhatthewhat8983]

The fact people are scared of those that are supposed to keep them safe is so sad. Worst part being I totally understand why you’re scared. I might not be American, but from what I have seen online I wouldn’t fully trust an American cop either.

[@seigeengine]

@@dudewhatthewhat8983 I just like to whip out the stat that American police kill 35x as many people per capita as cops in comparable nations.

[@Jammythewerewolf]

Man, that thing about the marathon reminds me of the woman who WON the race she was in, then complained that a trans woman was also competing.

[@FJYoko-nl7yq]

She WON but STILL complained? Wow. Just goes to show how hateful people really are. She literally proved that she was "better" than the trans woman she complained about, but still had to say it wasn't fair. The logic ain't logicing.

[@jongkittae]

it's still hilarious to me that native english speakers (mostly americans lbh) are so privileged that other countries teach English as a second language so we don't have to learn another one and instead of being like wow that's great I'm so lucky they're like actually no it's racist to learn other languages 💀

[@jongkittae]

I'm adding this as a reply bc I learned last time that edits removed clicks like lmao anyway MOOSE ARE HUGE DONT FUCK WITH THEM OH MY GOD edit: I moved to Tennessee (where Nashville is) 2.5 years ago and it is absolutely WILD here. like I grew up in rural Illinois (think cows and cornfields) and i thought people there were pretty conservative...oh boy. the number of casual confederate flags I see in my daily life here...insane. I am 0% surprised that a school here didn't allow a girl in a suit into their prom.

[@bumblebeeyellowdragon]

To be fair that isn't on the US but the UK as they massively colonized the world and implemented English in so many places that it's just easier for a country to learn English now then try to teach the entire world your native language.

[@Bildgesmythe]

Americans get nervous about words with bi. Bilingual might make them gay😂 joking and sarcasm.

[@jongkittae]

​@@SerreVid-dt8sm on behalf of all native english speakers who aren't assholes; never let anyone make you feel bad about not having perfect grammar. english is not an easy language even for native speakers. besides, the point of learning a language is communication, which is still very possible without being "perfect" ❤

[@Rhaenarys]

That post is worse than harrassing people for learning a second language lol. Theyre basically claiming people from spain are culturally appropriating the spanish language lol. Theyre basically forgetting spain is in fact a spanish speaking country...in europe lol.

[@rayceeya8659]

LOL Click has no idea how messed up the American school system is. We live in a country where many children only show up to school because that's the only place they can get a steady meal. And some people want to take that away. LOL We're so screwed.

[@VitaNewbo]

As my grandma often says, "We're all going to hell in a Handbag."

[@randomcdude4430]

​@@VitaNewbonah they ditched the handbag a while back for a bushel basket and then ditched that for freight cars.

[@forgerofsouls9126]

To many people have lost their lives this year due to "stand your ground" people thinking it means they can shoot anyone that enters their property, regardless of their age or reasons for going on their property. A 14 year old girl that was playing hide and seek with her friends got shot by one of these psychopaths, thankfully, she survived, despite being hit in the head. This behavior is insane.

[@The_Rat_Qu3n3]

Ikr

[@Tiperia]

imagine if that's what stand your ground meant

[@forgerofsouls9126]

@@Tiperia Sadly, it feels like many people believe that is what it means. That they can lawfully kill anyone just for stepping onto their property regardless of why they stepped on it in the first place. Be it children, post office, cops, etc. Matters not to these people it seems.

[@Tiperia]

@@forgerofsouls9126 agreed.

[@megandunnett7900]

@@forgerofsouls9126and then they complain about not getting their packages.

[@elusivegamergirl]

The girl that was shocked over how to properly use a bar of soap killed me. I may have replayed that a few times just for her reaction. Like, I usually take the bar of soap, wrap my washcloth around it and get the washcloth all soapy and then wash myself like that. Like with the loofah ball, I put some liquid bodywash on it and use that poofball on my body. You don't need to take the bar of soap on a journey like that lol

[@OverEverything438]

Can't believe she's the second person I've heard who does this. 😂. That's what made me laugh harder

[@charadreamuur7229]

@@OverEverything438 The sad thing is I didn’t start doing this until 13 but it’s for a really sad reason When I was a child I had to start taking baths all on my own and we were poor so all we had was Offbrand Irish Spring, I was just given a bar of soap and put in the bathroom and told wash yourself at like five or six, I was developmentally disabled, and undiagnosed autistic, so just managing to figure it out on my part,did not happen. They had started leaving me in the bathroom alone and in bathtub definitely higher than the 1 inch mark typical of the 90s early 2000s water younger than that, every day I think to myself how did I survive my childhood? Anyway, not trying to swing your opinion in anyway, I just think sometimes we as a people need more kindness. Have a fantastic time zone, take care.

[@somethinunameit637]

My favorite reddit story I have found about the whole "speak english" Karen's, was OP's aunt expecting a Gaelic town in Ireland to speak English. Claiming it was "like being in a foreign country."

[@SmokeyChipOatley]

Ow… that hurt my head to read. What a dunce.

[@VirgoLunaKnight]

Woah

[@brokenprincessofhell4743]

Ouch, that hurt my brain to read. How can people be this stupid 😭

[@Werevampiwolf]

I remember having to get a doctor's note to wear flats to high school graduation because girls were required to wear heels (A, I'm nonbinary, and B, I have joint deformities that, among other things, means my legs can't support my weight when in certain positions. So I can't even stand up in heels, hence the doctor's note)

[@clockside]

It's so dumb you had to do that, for a bajillion reasons!!! I'm so glad you were able to get that doctor's note at least!!! (❤ from a fellow bad-jointy nonbiney)

[@jamester3484]

Even if you weren't non-binary, you shouldn't be forced to wear heels. There's way too much risk for an injury or some really fucked up legs and ankles.

[@JootjeJ]

Fun anecdote: when I was small my mum saw me from behind walking towards my school way too late and more than an hour after school started. She knew it was me, because I was wearing that dress that day and was clearly me from behind. She got out of the car, grabbed my arm and nearly smacked my backside when "I" said: "Auntie xxx, what are you doing?" Turned out that my best friend was wearing the same dress and had just come from the dentist. How's that for mistaking your child? 😂

[@mirazenker1203]

I actually once got into a plane's cockpit (kind of) . But that was only because I was an unaccompanied minor, so I had to board the plane first together with a flight attendant. The cockpit was not locked yet since boarding hadn't officially started for everyone else yet. The captain was really nice and asked me if I wanted to come in and look around for a while. Sadly I was really shy so I said no.

[@sarahr8311]

When I was a kid, they'd sometimes offer to let you come look in the cockpit. I don't remember going in, but I do remember the little plastic "pilot's wings" they have you afterwards.

[@Mai57]

8:10 Speaking on 12 years of experience as a local public pool lifeguard... The people I've had to jump in after *most* have been full-grown men in our diving well. Kids who are obviously poor swimmers will avoid the deeper ends of the pool. Kids who are on the fence usually either play it safe themselves, have one "close call" prompting us to warn them off entering deeper waters, or have a guardian there to keep them cautious. Grown adults, who can stand in all other areas of the pool, will find themselves pushed to jump into the deep end by their kids or their friends, and since they *USUALLY* stay in water they can either comfortably stand in, or push off the floor from after jumping in to "jump start" their swim, the moment they suddenly realize they *can't* reach the floor, the panic sets in and even those who know the basics of how to float and swim may instead panic and flail. The man in this video is, from what I see, a "kick-start-glide" type. He's likely used to pushing off from the floor in order to angle himself into a partially effective float while likely NOT utilizing his legs well and focusing on use of his arms to direct and "swim" about for a few feet, before dipping down and kicking off again. A LOT of people with larger upper body muscle mass do this, especially men. It's really common for this type to fool themselves into thinking they can swim well enough to handle deeper water. Also, I *DO NOT* recommend water wings (arm puffs) unless they are specifically the type that attach to a vest or body-piece. People often wear the basic water wings incorrectly, causing them to slide down the arms as they move through water. You'd be surprised how many toddlers and small children I've had to grab because parents who thought they were safe let their kid jump in water and the wings just came right off, leaving the kid submerged... And all those instances were while on VACATION, not at my job, as my local pool straight up bans water wings. If you need flotation aids, choose a vest.

[@Ami_E_Bowen]

Yeah I can't swim well but I can at least dog paddle. Everyone should learn to dog paddle. I will do the push off thing too but I'm careful about deep water but I can at least paddle, glide, kick my way around the pool. (49/woman). Dog paddling is a life saving skill. :)

[@Mai57]

@@Ami_E_Bowen exactly! It's like my mom would say. "I don't need to master swimming. I just need to master 'not drowning' 😂"

[@feuerling]

@@Ami_E_Bowen everyone should also learn how to float. Just lay in the water with your limbs out and you'll float up like a dead fish. Gotta love physics.

[@seigeengine]

Meanwhile, my kid ass: I can't swim for shit, but I will attempt to touch the bottom way too deep and then hack up a lung every time I go to the pool.

[@naamahdarling]

Thank you for the water wings info, I didn't know that.

[@frequentlyoffline3917]

The Hakimi thing is blatant misogyny disguised as misinformation. Hakimi is getting divorced, but the reason why is because Hakimi is facing a r*pe charge.

[@snekysneks]

Not to mention the blatant deception going on. That's enough for divorce, in my opinion.

[@MaidMirawyn]

That is a very important bit of context. I had assumed he put it in his mom’s name so his wife wouldn’t have access, and now we know why!

[@tummytub1161]

Not like the charges can be made up out of spite or any other reason. I hate the fact that man circumvented a ton of taxes and other things with his scam . Let's just wait till things are proven until dragging someone through the dirt

[@platinum_noelle]

I also heard that legally, she will be able to have alimony because of some jargon and legal stuff that prevents people from using the "not under my name" "loophole". I can't remember the specifics. Also, she's very wealthy herself from her own accomplishments, so she's not even in "gild-digger" territory that many of these articles about it are trying to claim she is.

[@marchleo9801]

She’s an established person in media and not only was he having a charge for forced naughties but also having done that in their shared home. 32:29

[@jewdy8915]

I have had the same female moose coming around for 20 years. She is cool and doesn’t fuck with me or my dogs, but if she is outside we go inside. She has a baby every 2 years. A few years ago her male yearling (she had already sent him packing) was just chowing down on my garden and was acting super aggressive. When he saw me he put his ears down and started grunting. I was trapped in my house. The males are way scarier than females, and the females are already scary as hell. She is well over 6 feet tall at the head. I would never approach a moose on purpose.

[@raseri8497]

I had to learn how to act in moose territory when the moose population where I camp finally got big enough to move that far south. The man in the video is lucky to get out of there. However, if he gets down on the ground and gets hit, he should stop moving and the moose will leave, probably. What are you tips for moose human interaction other than leaving on sight if you dont mind my asking?

[@Struudeli]

We had a female "yard moose" few years ago. It was amazing to see such a manificent animal so closeby, but I've never felt as uncomfortable with a glass wall and I hate glass walls in any case. Beautiful animals but should not be fucked around. My country doesn't have an urban legend of a murderer moose for nothing lol.

[@ahuman5868]

@@Struudeli I would love to heard the murderer moose story (If you wanna share, that is! ^^

[@Mark_Agamotto1313_Smith]

I wouldn't approach a live Moose for any reason, unless I HAD to, and was armed with a tranq. gun loaded for Blue Whale. (please note, that this is an illustrative exaggeration, so please don't take it literally.)

[@randomcdude4430]

Never mess with Bullwinkle. He is the most dangerous thing the woods.

[@yasminni485]

The dumbest thing I got "in trouble for" was throwing a water balloon on a kid while we were having a water balloon fight after school (on school property) during a heatwave on one of the hottest days of the year. Note, it wasn't actually a balloon cuz we couldn't afford them, so we used small sandwich bags to fill water. No one was hurt, lol. My mom read the note my teacher sent home, rolled her eyes and called my teacher some words I can't repeat here.

[@MrOblivionoverlord86]

21:41 I once got failed in a Theology class because my Professor had a policy of using a plagiarism detection bot, which he refused to even check the logs of what they claimed was "plagiarized." My essay on Judaism was flagged as taken from a protein smoothie website... He was fired the next year.

[@jacthing1]

...from a protein smoothie website??? What was "plagiarized"? "They will" or something like that?

[@VenathTehN3RD]

...I can't deny that I'm genuinely curious just what the hell a plagiarism bot could have possibly picked up in an essay on Judaism for a Theology course that it also found on a protein smoothie website. I mean, I'm sure there are some common words used in both, but I genuinely have no idea what word combinations or similarities in phrasing could have been significant enough to raise red flags on that one. Like was it some kind of Jewish-themed smoothie website, or...I dunno.

[@MrOblivionoverlord86]

​@@VenathTehN3RD This was several years ago by now but if I remember right, the bot had taken random chunks of sentences, mostly picking up on the word "mystic" (I used in reference to Jewish Mysticism)

[@VenathTehN3RD]

​@@MrOblivionoverlord86 That...huh. Yeah, I guess that actually sounds about right for some of these plagiarism detection systems. Who cares what the context was so long as the words were technically in both pieces of writing. After all, "Final Fantasy is a videogame series from Japan that rapidly rose to popularity worldwide on its release" and "The story of Alexander the Great became so legendary that it sometimes toes the line between fantasy and reality, and is still a widely recognized tale worldwide even centuries after the final days of his empire" are basically the exact same thing. I mean, they both include the words "final," "fantasy," and "worldwide" so how could it possibly NOT be plagiarism?

[@ClownHoundII]

My face palm of the day was me getting called a "rampant sexist" because on a post on how to draw human anatomy, I said that men shouldn't called ugly for having bulges. I was almost called a "fucking moron" because I stated that women don't have crotches like a barbie doll.

[@w.reidripley1968]

Moron or not, f$cking would definitely clue ya.

[@w.reidripley1968]

Sometimes, bulge-wise, it's kind of fun explaining how a man can sit a horse and not wince.

[@tcf_iceland]

Ok wait, I have to correct you on one thing!!! A cellar is INDEED ground breaking!!!

[@katmustang7666]

After we moved to Texas, my children attended a very conservative school. My oldest child (AMAB) was only there for ½ of their senior year. They went to prom in a beautiful prom dress and went with a friend (AFAB) who wore a tux. The school would not let either of them in until they switched outfits. They did, because they felt they had already made their point. I was so damn proud that day of them standing up and creating a path for others.

Using code so you know who's in your group and who is outside. Typical cult behavior.

[@cijmo]

I was the one with the identical babies before and remembered when I took my niece to the waterpark. She was four and I lost sight of her. I had to describe her and it was like "Four year old girl in pink Minnie Mouse bathing suit." Yeah, because there are no other 4 year old girls in pink Minnie Mouse bathing suits! She was pretty much right behind me the whole time. It was like Where's Waldo. So I bought a bright green fancy synchronised swimmer headband for her. I thought it'd be a fight to get her to wear it but she LOVED it! So much easier to find in a crowd!

[@ipso2815]

The not failing students thing is so hard to imagine. They do know that often repeating the grade will benefit the student? My best friend repeated 1st grade bc she had a chronic ear infection and was temporarily hard of hearing. So she barely caught anything of what the teacher was saying. She can hear perfectly fine now and has since graduated, but imagine if she hadn't had the oportunity to repeat the grade where you literally learn all the basics to later funtion as a human being, because of some 'statistic'.

[@hymol_1316]

Yes, losing a year is actually overdramatised. I dont think its much of a deal though I havent repated a grade never

[@electrowave114]

Unfortunately, schools lose funding in the USA if a student fails a grade. The higher the pass rate, the more funding the school gets, the lower the pass rate, the less funding the school gets. It goes back to some very poorly thought out laws that were passed decades ago.

[@dyingeating7533]

That's first grade, what happens when you're a senior in highschool and you get left behind? All your friends move on and you get left behind discouraged. Even in other cases where you're still in the same school it makes it harder and harder to see old friends and make new ones. Being held back a year may seem insignificant but if they allow it once will they allow it again and again? There should be other signs that someone has something preventing them from learning to the best of their ability. The teachers and other school staff are responsible for catching the students that are failing. Perhaps even the parents should know something is off with their own child. Repeating a grade isn't necessary to identify issues.

[@ipso2815]

@@dyingeating7533 I met my best friend in 1st grade. I moved up a grade and she stayed and yet 13 years later we're still best friends. And our school system didn't have any classes shared by different grades. Sure, it sucks not being able to graduate with your friends if the finish line is already in sight, but in the long run it's probably best to take the time to learn and understand the material that you for whatever reason couldn't learn before. And repeating a grade isn't the 'sign' that something is wrong. There might be signs throughout the year, that a student isn't performing as well as they could. And yes, then it's the job of the teacher to catch it and support the student. But sometimes that doesn't make up for what the student has missed/didn't understand/couldn't study for in time for them to move up a grade and it's best to take the time. Sometimes it's simply that you were sick for a very long time and playing catch up for the last month of the school year would completly overwhelm the student. Also, even if problems are caught early, finding solutions can take some time. It's really sad how repeating a grade is so stigmatized. Many kids who have to repeat a grade are very smart, but have medical issues, mental illness, learning disabilities, etc. that make it hard for them to learn. And they just need more time to figure out how they learn best.

[@electrowave114]

@@dyingeating7533 Sometimes, failing a grade provides incentive for someone who _doesn't_ actually have issues. NTs can and do fail grades through nothing more than their own fault. Some people just need consequences, not specialized tools. And I speak as someone who the school system failed epically, being extremely ND. Sure, I got through grades, but that didn't help (and I kept losing tons of friends anyway due to moving around a lot - grades aren't nearly as much of a friendship killer [I often had friends in grades both well below and well above mine] as changing locations is). All passing me through grades did was frustrate me, because I still couldn't get anything to make sense and shit just got harder. And I had a whole bunch of supposed 'aides' that were supposed to help, but never did. What I needed was completely tailored education, and the public school system is never going to do that. Especially for someone from a poor family who doesn't have the money for tutoring. These days, I can read and comprehend at the university level, understand complex medical terminology (among other things), and read medical science journals for fun. Through teaching myself, more or less, because the school system was utterly useless for anything more than training on "how to ignore bullies." Also, most people don't retain most friendships from their school years, I've found. Sure, it sucks to lose friends, but at the end of the day, life moves on and whether or not you pass or fail a grade isn't that big a marker on friendships - and _real_ friendships meant to last would not be particularly bothered by being in separate grades (many friendships survive that just fine).

[@oakenshadow6763]

I love that the life guard just picks him up and carries the guy while underwater. 8:11

[@18Hongo]

I've been a pool lifeguard: that is how you're supposed to move people when they get into difficulty in the water. If you can't put your feet on the floor, you put the person on your hip and swim beneath them. Also, you would be AMAZED at how many people go to water parks/pools when they don't know how to swim. My brother and I have both been on jobs where we were in the water every few minutes because idiots who couldn't swim would go down water slides or something, assuming that the lifeguard would pull them out. Sometimes, they'd splash into the water and just float there, under the surface, not even trying to swim, waiting for someone to come and get them. Some jobs can make you REALLY big fans of natural selection.

[@jamester3484]

​@@18Hongo Don't lump us up with those who don't know their limits. I don't know how to swim, but I've never had a problem around water because I understand what I can and can't do. It's not really fair to be like that for all people who can't swim when it's only the few dumbasses who don't understand the definition of mortality.

[@18Hongo]

@@jamester3484 I didn't say that all people who don't know how to swim do this. I said that you'd be amazed by the number of people who don't know how to swim that do this. Congratulations for having some basic survival skills: you are rarer than you realise.

[@AhavaMath]

When I was a teenager I trained as a lifeguard, and that is not how they taught us to rescue people. They taught us to swim on our backs, with them on top, and protect their heads and tell the person to kick if they are able, to assist.

[@jamester3484]

@@18Hongo My bad, sometimes I don't understand people's comments correctly. It could also be that I grew up in a family where most of us don't know how to swim. It's pretty much ingrained in my head to avoid places that I know I can't resurface in.

[@Avrian_Skyes]

my school has stuff on a lockdown browser so that if you open any new tabs it logs you out of like essay writing, this lead to me having to explain why i kept getting logged out in grade 7 because I would open the writing tab only for a new tab to open telling me lock down browser was turned on and logging me out

[@linkscarlet9094]

They wouldn't let me go to prom in a kilt (I'd have worn shorts under) to my prom. Notably, this would have been above the expected dress code. Jokes on them though, I wear skirts all the time now without the excuse of prom

[@deathofallthingspotato9919]

Skirts are great.

[@leopardspheel3638]

I've always wanted to try skirts but I am too young to go out and buy some or even order them without my parents knowing, not to mention I am WAY to embarrased about it to even think about buying at a store or talking to my mom.

[@shadowking278]

I know right. Some skirts are so pretty. I’ve only worn a skirt once because I was curious how it felt. But i know my parents would not be okay with me wearing them. The struggles of being a trans female with anti LGBTQ parents. 😔

[@deathofallthingspotato9919]

@@leopardspheel3638 Try buying them online - clothes stores aren't bad for that.

[@KleioChronicles]

Must not be in Scotland, that’s a non-issue here. Even if you wear it about on an average day people aren’t going to say shite about it. I remember some people wearing it to our “prom”.

[@Account_Not_Applicable]

Recent FacePalm moment, courtesy of my sister: So my sister ordered new seat covers for her car. After a few days, it said they were delivered to our house, but there was no sign of them. She looks at the tracking, and FedEx has a photo showing the proof of delivery of the package... at a completely different house. She spends days going back and forth with FedEx and the USPS, trying to see if she could be refunded, with FedEx saying they delivered it to the address given (the address she gave was the correct one, the email receipt proves this) and once it's marked as received, there's nothing they can do. Still, she was determined to find out where the package was actually delivered. After a bit of Sherlock level detective work (the novel version, not the BBC one) she found the house. Turns out the street address was the same name as our town. They somehow managed to mix up the town name and street address. Luckily, the online retailer where she bought the seat covers were able to refund her after being shown they never arrived, and she reordered them through a different site. Just amazing.

[@bombus1340]

Selective reading seeems to be a thing, the exact opposite happened to me. I found a package in front of my door that wasn't for me. The recipient's fist name was my last name and some parts of the street address were identical, bu they lived on the other side of town. Called DHL to (very rudely) be told I should drop it off at a DHL station (what if I was physically unable to do so/ why should I waste my time for someone elses mistake?) otherwise it would be the recipients problem. And we all know how "easy" it is to prove you never got your package... Since I was going to go past that house the next day anyway, I dropped it off at the right address.

[@janemiettinen5176]

When zip code is only a suggestion..

[@CloverField83]

I once had Ubereats send me a picture of my order sitting on a front step that wasn't mine.

[@ndawn90]

We live on a named street which is rare for the area we live in, on one of two parallel streets called Eastwood and Westwood. For some reason, they gave the same house number to a house on each street, so say we're 100 Eastwood, there's a house literally one block over that's 100 Westwood. Guess who gets 100 Westwood's mail and vice versa all.the.damn.time!!! The names aren't even remotely similar, either, but it's also just a bad layout. Everywhere else in the state, the numbers are on a grid, so this can't happen.

[@waffles3629]

Yep. I had a packaged marked delivered to a person with a GPS stamp....in another state. Yeah, I totally accepted a package at home in another state. 🙄 Still got argued with that I'd received the package.

[@MrHypnofan]

To defend the lady in the soap conversation, I have seen plenty of soap commercials where the model rubs the bar on their body. Irish Spring is a great example of this. I wouldn't use someone else's bar soap just out an abundance caution anyway.

[@jasperjazzie]

yeah, i honestly thought that's how you used bar soap until just now, although i also have pretty much always used the liquid soap, so there's that...the conversation was kinda wholesome though, he didn't make fun of her, he just was incredulous and explained it to her

[@seigeengine]

There is nothing wrong with rubbing a bar of soap on your skin... just maybe don't share your bar of soap with strangers. If you live with the person, you're getting the full soup no matter what. And to that dude acting like her skin would be dry, the fuck do you think putting it on your hands does to stop soap from stripping the oils off your skin? That's literally what soap do.

[@sarahr8311]

I run the bar on my skin, so... yeah, totally understandable.

[@elizabethbertucci9313]

This is such a weird thing to say there is only one way to do. I grew up using a washcloth. Lather up the cloth and use the soapy cloth to wash. Has more friction to clean better. 🤷‍♀️

[@seigeengine]

What if you lather yourself, and then scrub it away with the cloth?@@elizabethbertucci9313

[@CommissarMitch]

Ok the soap story near the end is some peak comedy. Both can laugh about what is not a big deal in the end. Bravo.

[@austinharbourn1045]

Middle school P.E. story: One day my class had a substitute gym teacher. The game was pickleball and I was playing as I usually did; serious and focused. For some reason the substitute called me to the side and ordered me to start doing push-ups. I asked him how many, and he replied, "until I'm tired of looking at you". Apparently, he liked me very much because I was doing push-ups until my arms collapsed. The next day the principal told me the substitute was reprimanded for his unjust action and was removed. Sadly, I wasn't informed as to why he did that to me in the first place.

[@John_Weiss]

That sub damned well deserved to be kicked out so hard that he left fscking skidmarks all the way to the Atlantic coast. It doesn't matter what his reasoning was, no reasoning justifies making a middle-schooler do push-ups until they can non longer use their arms.

[@GuiSmith]

Sounds about right. Those that use pushups as a punishment tend to not be very good at counting, too. Even when a maximum dozen push-ups was a punishment or extra credit for something in my gym class, it was disallowed because it was a form of physical punishment. It’s worth noting the dozen push-ups were not just once per class, if you infracted horribly the teacher would make up excuses throughout the class to make you do more. One kid got to 36 during indoor football. That teacher almost made me do push-ups on my leg with a strained tendon because I “was off the crutches too fast.” A strained tendon in the knee should be walked on lightly to reshape itself and grow to match your muscle tone after just a week. Thankfully the other teacher was there to say he’d done exactly the same thing pitching in baseball.

[@John_Weiss]

@@GuiSmith Your parents had a potential lawsuit against the school. Dunno if you're here in the US, but there are plenty of "ambulance-chaser lawyers" here that would look at a teacher making a kid exercise on a strained tendon, and start going 🤑🤤.

[@tummytub1161]

Or you weren't in the best shape? Ofcourse I'm just kidding

[@lindenbree9188]

I used to work at a water park The amount of people who visited and can't swim is actually quite high. We heard life guard whistles all day long because people keep almost drowning It's baffling and every time I worked there I lost more faith in humanity. Not ALL attractions required swimming, but you'd think they would ask before they hop on one and drown

[@mangaanimefan3089]

Exactly! I can't swim so water parks aren't all that fun for me(yes, I know I need to learn!). I can go on maybe 2 rides where the pools are shallow enough to stand in and eat over-priced, though tasty, I will admit, food. That's it. I wouldn't go near any ride that requires me to swim or tread water.

[@SmokeyChipOatley]

I think basic swimming skills should be mandatory learning for school aged children. The lack of swimming skills leads to so many deaths it’s not even funny. I understand when people reach adulthood and don’t know certain basic skills that the majority of people learn in childhood (ie riding a bike, snow boarding, skateboarding etc). It’s unfortunate but you can get by with not knowing how to do those things. That being said, reaching adulthood and not being able to swim or at the very least tread water is absolutely irresponsible. I’m no lifeguard but have friends who’ve done it and it’s ridiculous how many people refuse to learn and just casually throw themselves into the deep end of a pool or large body of water then immediately panic.

[@ethribin4188]

Moose and Zebras. The perfect examples of not all animals being domesticatable. Even if theyvare related closely to some of the most domesticatable animals out there.

[@feuerling]

They can't really be _tamed_ in their wild state, but they could still be _domesticated_ with a few hundred generations of selective breeding or genetic modification for the right docile mindset so they're relatively safe to be around. Wild boars are extremely dangerous animals, yet some pig breeds can be kept as pets, and obviously no sane person would keep a wolf, but dogs are perfectly fine with appropriate training. The magic of millennia of inbreeding for human contact. The main problem is that it would take way too long and be way too expensive.

[@mangaanimefan3089]

​@feuerling Some people do actually have wolfdogs. And not where it's just 50/50. Like it's 60/40 or 70/30. Whether or not it's sane...ehhhh. 🫤

[@feuerling]

@@mangaanimefan3089 I know some people have those. And all too often it ends in tragedy for the poor animal.

[@chaiwolfen]

Around 20:00 I have been homeschooled since the second grade because of bullying issues. When I was 14 my family moved and we discussed me going to a public highschool. The school nearest my house was rated 5 stars everywhere, reviews said all of the children got good grades and graduated, so we decided that I'd spend a year there and see if I wanted to stay. I only lasted three months. It was a living nightmare. Only a few teachers genuinely cared about their students and the students themselves were all awful. I was getting bullied again and my mental health declined rapidly. I went back to being homeschooled and I graduated last December. I don't remember learning anything beneficial from that school.

[@JhericFury]

To be fair, most of us are never properly taught how to clean ourselves. We're taught *to* do it, but like, I wasn't taught the proper methods to shampoo/condition my hair. You learn the true way, wild panic in your late 20s

[@seigeengine]

The correct way is obviously to add oil. Canola will do.

[@qwinlyn]

I had to learn from The Good Place that you’re supposed to actively wash your feet in the shower. The joys of having to parent yourself as an adult. Yay.

[@LandofCadence]

I always just washed my feet. My legs I rarely ever wash, only if like I went swimming in a pool or went to the beach (sand is so horrible)

[@klikkolee]

With the airplane story: "level flight" doesn't mean straight like a line. It means "whatever keeps the horizon in the same spot". If you trim the plane to very gently nose downwards, it will nose down at the same rate as the Earth curves, and that will keep the horizon in the same spot. And that's effectively what the pilots do -- if they notice the horizon going down, they can correct the pitch and then trim the plane to nose down more. If the horizon is going up, they can correct the pitch and then trim the plane to nose down less. Modern planes use an inertial navigation system to keep track of orientation, and it very much needs to accommodate the curvature of the earth because the pilots need instruments such as the artificial horizon and heading indicator to have the same practical meaning anywhere on the planet.

[@deathofallthingspotato9919]

Yeah, it's such a dumb point. It's about as dumb as asking why you don't feel the bump as your car pitches down while driving.

[@MrDeathpilot]

ALSO: You don't need to make corrections "at regular intervals" to follow a consistent curve. Anyone who's ever driven a car should know this, but flerfers aren't known for having deep thoughts.

[@Hair8Metal8Karen]

You actually feel and see them correcting it when you're in your seat. That post really made my head hurt

[@MrDeathpilot]

@@Hair8Metal8Karen This isn't even just one dumb person... I've seen many flat-earthers make this same stupid point. They even have memes about it. 🙄

[@tummytub1161]

And if you stay a certain altitude as in distance from the ground. It doesn't matter if it's flat or round

[@paulhammond6978]

Can confirm. The coronation *was* on all the main channels on tv at the same time, but unlike in Big Brother, it was possible to turn the tv off, or watch something else. Also, people did not have to go to the coronation unless they wanted to.

[@dmgroberts5471]

And people who insult or deride the Royal Family don't suddenly disappear off the face of the Earth, never to be seen again.

[@Skullhawk13]

It’s still stupid that the government wastes so much money on Royalty. At least in America the corruption tries to be slightly hidden. Like isn’t approval rating of Royalty around 20% for people under 40? How do they get that big budget

[@jacthing1]

​@@dmgroberts5471 or get shot by Ork snipers

[@Fledhyris]

@@dmgroberts5471 No, but legal protesters who have arranged with police beforehand still get arrested and detained so they miss the ceremony!

[@paulhammond6978]

@@dmgroberts5471 Ah, that one however, does have a touch more truth to it.

[@Imsimplyaskeleton]

The moose part was good. The fact that the guy with the camera was just like, welp, and started cheering for the moose was perfect. XD

[@LB0206]

8:00 I love how the lifeguard brought the guy to the edge of the pool. Just walking underwater

[@Alresu]

Well, yeah. The lifeguard can't swim either.

[@Akselerati0n]

At the begining of this school year I was failing because of the plagiarism detectors built into my online schools program. I tried to plead my case because I know I didn't cheat. I took a look at what was said to be pagerised and....it was the teachers "Origainal" instructions, not my work. so me and most likely many other kids were failing because nobody checked their "Super smart and reliable" plagiarism detector. 💀

[@braydenmurnain3626]

Fun story, at my graduation party a close friend of mine shown up in a suit as well. She actually went above and beyond with the suit though. The whole set was covered head too toe in the Symbol For Weed. She was awarded The Best Dressed for the night. She was so cool

[@PenguinLord10]

I hope that person is still your friend, they sound great.

[@braydenmurnain3626]

@@PenguinLord10 we haven't spoken in sometime, but last we did speak. She and I are still close

[@kriscynical]

32:15 The mother owning all of the assets in order to protect them: my parents almost did something like this to protect our family's assets from a wrongful lawsuit brought by greedy people. My dad owned and operated a successful business for 30 years starting in the '80s. Unfortunately success can attract dishonest people who want what isn't theirs. My dad was always an upstanding and honorable businessman, and always kept his word AND his contract terms with customers/clients. To put it simply, when I was growing up there were people who filed a frivolous lawsuit against our family's business and used every underhanded trick in the books to manipulate the court/justice system to try and take what wasn't theirs, including my family's assets outside of the business even down to our home and my parents' retirement savings. When things got to their worst, my parents actually had a kind of "nuclear option" plan that they were going to do in order to protect the family if it became necessary: my dad would transfer absolutely everything outside of the core finances of the business into my mom's name, and then they would divorce so those other people couldn't touch any of it because their suit was against my dad specifically. Then once everything was settled, they'd remarry. It thankfully didn't come to that and my dad ended up winning the lawsuit because, again, it was frivolous and he hadn't done anything wrong. But that contingency plan is still legendary within the family. My parents will celebrate their 57th wedding anniversary in August. Which makes it even funnier that at the time they were discussing the divorce-then-remarry plan, my mom had teased my dad saying "Well yeah, _if I take you back."_ 😂

[@wallcoconut9634]

One dumb thing I got in trouble in school for was not playing the game telephone properly. I'm deaf in one ear-Teacher wouldn't let me switch to a side where I'd be able to hear (she knew I was deaf on that side). I got blamed for ruining the game and not being a team player.

[@akitokutikabanae7010]

This one... Is just hateful and mean. I have no word. You deserved better, i hope it didnt hurt you too bad to forger that you matter and are precious. Love 💜

[@wallcoconut9634]

@Akito Kutikabanae That's sweet of you to say. It did bother me for a long time, but therapy has really helped. Now, when I think about her, I think about how sad it was that she had to bully children to make herself feel better.

[@Makuto66]

Do they realize that natural born Spanish speakers can be dark skinned, light skinned and even Asian in appearance?

[@hymol_1316]

No cus people are dumb

[@janemiettinen5176]

Of course not, because the world around America is just a myth to most of these peeps. Now even internet is American 😵‍💫

[@fancydeer]

Spain is literally a European country inhabited by white people that colonized half the world. Saying white people can't speak Spanish is like saying white people can't speak French or English it makes zero sense.

[@lick3227]

Shhhhhhhh~ don't bother

[@leanykakicsi6152]

Or even Europeans! I know you comment included them too but there are Americans who legit don’t know about Spain

[@MissCaraMint]

I’m pretty sure I heard about that curvy teacher one. Apparently it wasn’t about her curves, but about taking pics of herself showing off those curves next to children and posting them. I actually agree with that one. You can’t take pictures of kids like that and post them online.

[@platinum_noelle]

And iirc, the images were edited before she posted them, which made it more weird.

[@YouKnowMeDuh]

Wait, so SHE was taking photos of herself in the classroom? Well, clearly her mind was not on teaching the children, as is hinted by the extremely casual attire, and she was fired rightfully. I'm only 26 and yet, not a single one of my teachers from elementary through college dressed the way she does. What's even more interesting is that some schools normalize extremely casual attire, with one school a friend subbed for having female teachers dressed in crop tops and leggings as if they're going to go work out.

[@MissCaraMint]

@@YouKnowMeDuh The biggest issue is that there are people online who sexualize children. Taking sexualized pictures with children openly visible and then posting them online is scummy.

[@ansrfururactions]

So basically, the TEACHER was the one in the wrong, not the staff. Now im questioning who to trust.

[@krazycats564]

Coming up with a frankenstien independently is actually really impressive because it's in so much of media. How did you completely miss that media?

[@ojrmk1]

Sorry Clicky, the post said "my *SOLAR* and electric car" The guy has solar panels at his home and can generate his own electricity off-grid. That's the face-palm moment.

[@theaterfalls]

I was scrolling through these comments just to find someone who commented this!

[@malkat8914]

I feel it was more the guy saying about fossil fuels (which I wonder what oil could be) running out

[@lynnalu]

I scrolled for this comment too. The guy has solar to power his electric car. That means he doesn't need or use fossil fuels or oil or any of those finite resources we are all burning through on this planet. So, the commenter taunting the op about fossil fuels was the face palm. Like the video I saw several weeks ago with a lady yelling at a guy for idling his car and ruining the environment, and he responded that his car was a Tesla. She didn't care, and kept at him... It was so funny and cringe and facepalm.

[@tim_the_traveler]

It's ironic how it's bad to see lady butts, but it's all good to see guy's butts. Society is secretly gay confirmed!

[@randomcdude4430]

Nothing like good old, wholesome plumber's crack.🇺🇲

[@picklesandnori]

i mean im not complaining about some guy ass `,:)

[@shadowking278]

🫡

[@GoldAxoMC]

ya bro there's a guy at my school who is more caked up that every girl in the school combined

[@tim_the_traveler]

@@GoldAxoMC to be fair, if he does a lot of leg exercises, that would explain it.

[@SpagettiSpeltWrong]

18:58 The woman in these photos was Photoshoping her body to look that way, posing for inappropriate photos in class, and told students to follow her Instagram. If it was real then I get that her body is out of her control, but she is not innocent in the slightest. Parents were not complaining about her body, they were upset over the fact that she was posting these inappropriately altered photos pf herself with their children in them.

[@samcass67]

I was gonna talk about the title for the news article being dumb but then i thought about it and it's probably on purpose. If you say "Teacher fired for taking photos with students and posting them online without consent." Or a shortened version of that, then people just go "oh, thats fucked up." And move on. If you say "teacher fired for having a BODY!!" Then more people are probably going to read it.

[@SpagettiSpeltWrong]

@@samcass67 Yeah, I just think it's really gross that people are making it seem like the teacher was the victim in this situation when she literally used children in her sexual photos. Not to mention the images of her are clearly shopped. Like her proportions are completely off. She does this on purpose and it's disgusting

[@samcass67]

@@SpagettiSpeltWrong i agree aswell, theres a lot of messed up stuff when it's kids being posted on the internet. It disgusting because the kids either dont get consent or are too young to understand.

[@CuppycakeWillow]

Someone please send the soap lady a bar with a FLARED BASE for her own safety! 🤣🤣🤣

[@andreaj4445]

28:50 "Omg my soap got stuck in my ear canal" - best The Click quote May 2023

[@AlexgroovingDoodvin]

I am so happy to discussed the schools letting kids pass without turning in homework and getting zeros. I was victim to this, growing up I never faced any repercussions when not turning in homework, this landed me tones of zeros but I still got to the next grade. I am now trying to get ahead and understand all in which I ignored in order to improve my life. Schools need to fix themselves, I doubt I’m the only one who’s fallen victim.😔

[@hymol_1316]

I just cant deal with the excesive amount of homework. People at my class had complained for a long time about being overhomeworked. The teacher didnt reduce it so students dont do homework anymore.

[@d_lynn421]

My ex is a HS teacher. They're told to 'make it work' ie pass kids no matter what... or lose your job. 😢

[@chatboulon743]

Especially in the US, Covid really fucked the system up even more. Kids being out of school for several months, then doing distant learning or zoom classes. Even at home, their parents don't make them do any work, and they're pissy about "why isn't my child smarter?" Which, school systems in general are pffft. The curriculum is so outdated and bland and doesn't inspire them to want to learn anything. School doesn't have to be lectures and essays. It can be hands-on experience and life lessons they can use in adulthood. I'm kind of tired of teachers taking the blame for everything, when a majority of it is the parent's and the child's fault too. The teacher is doing the best with what they're given, but if the child has been raised by lazy/entitled parents... guess what, that laziness/entitlement passes to the child.

[@probablyapenguin5296]

Same thing for my school. Tons of homework assigned from teachers, then their grading system changed to 90/10, meaning hw is graded at 10% or your overall grade and tests/projects are graded at 90% of your grade. Then everybody started not doing homework and all the teachers were super pissed about it

[@plantainsame2049]

You shouldn't have had any homework to begin with homework was devised as a Punishment by the inventor of homework

[@osheridan]

31:35 This is very anecdotal but I heard a story about a woman whose baby was lost by the hospital, but luckily they found him on a doorstep. Years later, when he was an adult and DNA testing was more of a thing, they found out he wasn't genetically hers at all

[@noodlepoodlegirl]

Jesus. That's a way to mess everyone up emotionally for a long time. What happened originally? Really interesting story. My gosh.

[@Fledhyris]

Shit guys, better go out and get a new baby cuz we've lost this one! People do that with pets... not usually babies.

[@Emerald.She-Ra]

The baby mix up reminded of when my youngest sister, who was 3/4 at the time, had a friend who was her literal and figurative doppelganger. People were absolutely convinced they were twins, or that my dad had cheated (he hadn't). In the start of the 90s, kids all tended to have similar clothing, if not identical, because there weren't as many options as there are today. One gorgeous summer day, my sister, and her friend (I can't recall the girl's name, but her mum's was Sharon and she was a nasty piece of work), were playing together in front of our close (Scottish term for flats／apartments/condo). Both were wearing identical outfits - pastel rainbow shorts, and white t shirts with rainbows to match. (All three girls in my family had the same bloody outfit. Hated the t-shirt - triggered my sensory issues so very terribly🤬). Anyway, with me being the eldest, I'm on babysitting duty as usual. Sharon calls my sister's pal in for lunch, and we also head in for a snack. My dad was playing bowls (sometimes called carpet bowls) that day. A couple of hours later, he comes home, carrying a bawling kid - one who looked like my sister from behind - scolding her for being out in the big park alone, how she could have been hurt etc. My mum said to my dad my sister was sleeping on the couch. There's no way she'd gotten out. Dad refused to believe her, until he walked into the living room and saw my sister, sound asleep, on the couch. Mum got one of us older kids to run across to Sharon's to let her know her daughter was safe. Sharon was so out of her face on drugs, she didn't even know where her kids were let alone at least one had decided to venture on a solo walk. She came over, picked up her kid, and started screaming at her full blast. Someone finally called social work on her, and her kids were taken away for a while.

[@Warpenguin55]

The twitter added context feature is the best thing ever added to social media

[@readingdino711]

21:25 reminds me of how my mom accused me of writing incest because I had a guy kiss his younger brother on the forehead. How is that incest? My mom used to kiss me on the lips whenever I left for school and kissed me goodnight the same way, which kinda makes me worry about the implications. I only hope she was just looking for a reason to yell at me. Either way, I will not stop with the forehead and cheek kisses between family members, because it's too cute and wholesome to not write/draw.

[@osheridan]

I've had people accuse my writing if being incest for the wildest reasons. I feel people are kind of overly keen to call everything Alabama-

[@readingdino711]

@@osheridan Yes, it's so annoying. I wish people just understood what the word "platonic" meant.

[@clockside]

There are a lot of cultures where family members giving a simple kiss on the lips is completely chaste and normal. Even in white American homes, there's a lot of variation in whether lips are "off-limits" for parents when kissing their kids. It's just often a family culture difference here where every family just does things their way tbh. People who grow up with parents who weren't very open with their affection or who were weird about physical displays of affection (like hugs and kisses) tend to have more trouble feeling comfortable with stuff like family kisses on lips, but that's very much a them problem, not a problem with the kiss. (I say that as someone who still actively works to be more okay with platonic physical affection myself.)

[@readingdino711]

@@clockside I know, but my mom calling a forehead kiss incest just gives me weird vibes. Especially considering the amount of anime she recommended me that have incest in them, which she actively supports in cases such as Brothers Conflict and Vampire Knight.

[@feuerling]

Your mom would probably explode if she found out that in some cultures, kissing friends and family on the cheeks as a greeting is completely normal.

[@JonathanMandrake]

About tips: The problem is that restaurants can pay below minimum wage as long as the tips make up for it or something akin to that. So servers rely on tips to even make minimum wage, which is still to low to afford what you need to live

[@flawedmind]

Yeah. Wages here (in the US) are so screwed up we need a complete overhaul.

[@Tha-mountain]

@@flawedmind overhaul revolution same thing

[@ProtoV33MK1]

@@Tha-mountain I like the way you think >:3

[@Tha-mountain]

@@ProtoV33MK1 give it some time

[@ProtoV33MK1]

@@Tha-mountain I'll be one of the first to join in the revolution

[@KitsuneFyora]

22:30 this actually happened with me at my previous college. They were using some sort of AI Anti-plagiarism detector for our essays. I would write 85-90% of the essays myself and the rest would be quotes or references. Unfortunately the AI thought I was a complete plagiarizer and kept almost failing my essays 😮‍💨