Khazar-khum posted:

Wedding rings go way back. She always wore one, he might or might not, depending on time, place and culture.

Khazar-khum posted:

No, what got these graduate students excited was the idea that you could walk into a store, get fabric, and then make something out of it. Not a single one of them had ever sewn anything in their lives, nor had the slightest idea that it was possible for someone to do so.

CommissarMega posted:

No offence, but this sounds like stdh stuff- where else would clothes come from? Did they think they sprang from the heads of tailors, fully formed? Trees that grow hoodies? Spontaneously generated out of the aetheric tides? Nope, nobody can be that daft, I refuse to believe it. Sorry, but this poo poo did not happen _{Please say it didn't happen.}

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

I've had friends who assumed that all their clothes were made entirely by robots, not by miserable workers in a sweat shop in Bangladesh. I've also had housemates confused that I would repair torn hems and torn-off buttons on shirts instead of buying a new one. The idea that sometimes people will make a whole outfit out of lengths of fabric, for fun, really is beyond some people's imagining. Especially if they've led a very sheltered life up to that point.

Hardcordion posted:

I'm pretty sure they were just trying to say that its impressive that you made a renaissance costume yourself, not that they literally cannot understand how cutting and sewing fabric together makes clothes. I mean, I know they're just stupid millennials but give them a little credit.

Ytlaya posted:

Because the letter was written by the poster to put on the internet and they want to remain anonymous.

Decrepus posted:

hogmartin posted:

Whenever I see one of these that isn't a mess of JPEG compression artifacts it triggers the nagging feeling that it may actually have happened. A story being nearly illegible from horrible compression artifacts is like the Pinocchio nose of STDH and when it's not there (and when it's not an iPhone screenshot) it makes me wonder.

ElGroucho posted:

What the gently caress is this

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

This post on my feed gave me a bit of a smile. good on ya

Hardcordion posted:

I'm pretty sure they were just trying to say that its impressive that you made a renaissance costume yourself, not that they literally cannot understand how cutting and sewing fabric together makes clothes. I mean, I know they're just stupid millennials but give them a little credit.

Ravenfood posted:

stdh. But in case you missed it, its quoting some really awesome voice acting from Deus Ex that I definitely wouldn't have recognized if someone had started asking me about my mechanic, and I played the gently caress out of that game.

Khazar-khum posted:

Grad Students. At the University of California, which requires high GPA plus the GRE to enter.

I wonder if they were trying to be 'sophisticated' and deny knowledge of sewing in case it made them look 'low class'. However, they didn't understand that anyone who could follow a pattern could also make something, even them. I think it was willful denial. My family, who should know better by now, are routinely startled to see that a pile of fabric somehow turned into a garment. It's magic, like sweeperbravo said.

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Ok well… This wasn’t in high school.. and nor was it a teacher. But close to one.

I was in 6th grade when I did this. And I was the only one who stood up to that mean old lady that no one could ever stand up to. Now, I wasn’t the jock of the school, but she really angered me that day and I thought why not give her a taste of my medicine. Again, I wasn’t the jock, but if you did something I didn’t like, you’d best bet I’d be coming back and stinging you like you wish you hadn’t done anything (It’s a thing I have. I normally don’t publicize it. But this day was the best day of my entire middle school years because I did and nobody dared mess with me ever again) Now, I do realize that this might have gone on my file that they see. But I’m not ashamed ONE SINGLE BIT! I’m quite proud actually. And I started bragging it all to my mom.. I did get in trouble by my mom but I was totally ok with it. As long as I got what I needed to do. Ok let me stop talking and get to the story already

It was Monday and we had an assignment due for science and I was screwed cause I didn’t do it. Cause I’m lazy sometimes like that. Now we were outside for recess and they blew the whistle for us to go inside and eat. So I went. Did the usual. Got school lunch (I got pb&j and chocolate milk. Don’t ask. I have really good memory of things but it’s hard to explain) then I sat and started doing my homework (that would have only taken me 5 minutes in reality) but I wasn’t really hungry so I didn’t eat anything. The old lady (lets call her Vanessa) comes over and finds me doing my homework. Now it’s been long so I don’t remember every single little detail but it went something a bit like this..

Vanessa: “Put your homework away. It’s lunch time.”

Me: “Excuse me, but I didn’t ask for your consent on what I should do”

Vanessa: Shouting “PUT YOUR HOMEWORK AWAY THIS INSTANT!”

now at this point the whole cafeteria was looking at me and her. Now what’s coming up soon I have to explain before I finish. So my mom always told me, if you’re not doing anything wrong and a teacher threatens to bring the principal, don’t be scared. Say “If you bring the principal, I will bring my parents along with the police” (something along those lines. Again, it’s been long)

Me: calm “I’m sorry, but are you my parent? Can you tell me what to do? I don’t think so. So please leave me alone and I will go back to minding my own business” continues to do homework

Vanessa: Still shouting “I WILL BRING THE PRINCIPAL IN HERE AND I WILL HAVE YOU EXPELLED!”

Inside I was scared. But I couldn’t show that ONE SINGLE BIT! And I didn’t. I can not surrender to what she has already done. Which is invading my privacy when I did nothing to her. I can never show my weak side. Never. It’s a rule of thumb for me.

Me: On my edge trying to keep calm but ended up yelling “BRING THE PRINCIPAL IN HERE! I’D LIKE TO SEE WHAT SHE’D DO TO ME! AND IF I DO GET EXPELLED AT LEAST IT’LL BE BETTER THAN SEEING YOUR UGLY NASTY FACE YELLING AT ME LIKE THIS! Oh and by the way, if you bring the principal, I will get the police AND MESS UP YOUR ENTIRE loving FAMILY!”

Vanessa: calmly “Come with me”

and I went. I shouldn’t have. I should have said, “I won’t listen to an ignorant woman like you”

She put me in a small room and said “Do your work in here”

and ever since then, no one bothered mess with me again.

tacodaemon posted:

What is up with the repeated non sequitur "I wasn’t the jock" thing

Tracula posted:

I have never heard of a school forbidding people from doing homework at lunch time. What the christ.

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Got school lunch (I got pb&j and chocolate milk. Don’t ask. I have really good memory of things but it’s hard to explain)

tacodaemon posted:

What is up with the repeated non sequitur "I wasn’t the jock" thing

hogmartin posted:

Not sure why this is the one thing that gets me from that story, but you could throw a dart at my life from ca. 1984 up to about 1992 and have about 85% odds that I was having PBJ and chocolate milk for lunch. It's not a stark crystallized moment in time, it's kid's food for a kid.

oldpainless posted:

I figure putting in a random "fact" like that is seen as some way to prove the story.

hyperhazard posted:

Quora: Have you ever seen the teacher get completely roasted by a student in high school?

Zamboni_Rodeo posted:

Sweet Jesus, if you're writing an STDH text, you should at least make yourself look good. This rear end in a top hat just sounds psychotic.

baquerd posted:

It's probably just that it's coming from a 12-yr old without the best understanding of the world.

puck puck goose posted:

Does the whole jock/nerd dynamic even exist anymore

puck puck goose posted:

What if there are jocks on the internet

puck puck goose posted:

Does the whole jock/nerd dynamic even exist anymore

oldpainless posted:

More popular kids still make fun of and pick on kids who have no friends/are nerds/are really really different than other students if that's what you're asking.