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Arsenic Lupin posted:Consider all the jobs -- warehouse, factory, cleaning, and so on -- that are ill-paid and where employers don't allow time spent wandering around with your kid. Maybe this is just the slackass safety practices of the 70s/80s, but as a youngster I recall visiting various relatives/parents' friends at work in warehouses, factories, and construction sites. I even got to visit my dad when he worked at the factory that made Quaaludes!
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Then I'll add this to the Cultural differences between America and The UK/Europe. Thank you.
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The other sitcom thing I always wondered about was the one where they pair off kids and make them look after a fake baby. Because if that's real then it's pretty hosed up.
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That is still very real. They even have high-tech ones that cry unless you hold a key in place and go off randomly at all hours.
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Here in Scotland we had work experience when I was in high school in the early 00s, and I think they still do, where we spent a week in, I think, second year of high school working at an office, factory, restaurant, shop etc instead of school. It wasn't anything to do with our parents though, it was arranged by the school. I worked at a volunteer organisation that made audio cassettes and CDs of newspapers and magazines and such for the blind, the whole process of which would probably fit this thread to a tee.
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Sweevo posted:The other sitcom thing I always wondered about was the one where they pair off kids and make them look after a fake baby. Because if that's real then it's pretty hosed up. In my highschool they got individual electronic babies (with the key, as mentioned) and it was only for a very small group of students in a super remedial program called "life skills training" which I can only describe as being for anyone who was barely going to graduate or was just not going to. My science teacher banned them from his class, the robot babies.
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We just looked after an egg and pretended it was a baby. My randomly assigned partner broke it when it was her weekend to look after it.
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we had bags of flour because eggs were too easy to
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Sweevo posted:The other sitcom thing I always wondered about was the one where they pair off kids and make them look after a fake baby. Because if that's real then it's pretty hosed up. In my high school, all sophomores had to take a health class. Two different teachers taught it. To my rural high school’s credit, the classes were co-ed and the sex ed unit covered safer sex practices. How they followed up sex ed went differently. Students in the male teacher’s classes were assigned a report about a venereal disease that would rot out your genitals. Students in the female teacher’s class were assigned robot babies. The depressing conclusion about the consequences of unprotected sex depending on childbearing ability will be left as an exercise for the reader. Students weren’t paired up for a robot baby, thus presenting an even more realistic picture of what it would probably be like to be a teen parent - the only thing they missed out on was fighting over a custody agreement. Anyway, nobody wanted to end up in the female teacher’s class solely because of the robot baby, so I guess at the very least everyone got the basic gist of the idea that you should avoid having a babby as a teen. I would be very interested to know the teen pregnancy statistics of each cohort though.
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Blue Moonlight posted:
Lol about that.... https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/26/12658162/robot-babies-teen-pregnancy-abortion-study
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Alterian posted:Lol about that....
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Sweevo posted:The other sitcom thing I always wondered about was the one where they pair off kids and make them look after a fake baby. Because if that's real then it's pretty hosed up. We did this with an egg or something, so my teammate who didn’t do sports simply went home and put it in her home desk. We just had our parents sign off on the transfer/“custody” stuff. The North Tower fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Jul 2, 2021 |
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Alterian posted:Lol about that.... There were a few students at my school (all girls to my recollection) who took it very seriously. It’s an interesting study. I’d be interested to see a follow up that explored the length of time being assigned the robobabby (my school assigned them for a week to each kid), or male participation in the program overall.
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Here's one that just came up in the newspaper comic strip thread: licking the tip of a pencil before you start to write. The Internet's best guess seems to be that pencils used to be crappier, with a binder that was slightly water-soluble, so wetting it would give you a darker line. (In the interest of science, I've just tried it with a modern pencil, and I see no difference in the mark left by a licked or un-licked pencil.) e: Fixed link to the post in other thread Powered Descent fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Jul 2, 2021 |
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It's muscle memory from licking a pen tip/quill to get it started. Don't overthink it.
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Yup, it's a two layers deep archaism. People in old media licked pencils to evoke people in older medis licking quills. Very thread appropriate.
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I just like how graphite tastes.
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It’s not just quill pens. Fountain pens can dry out, and ballpoints didn’t murder them till the nineteen sixties.
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Platystemon posted:It’s not just quill pens. SHHH! Don't type that too loudly, the A/T fountain pen thread will hear you.
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I actually miss my fountain pen. I loved writing with it
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BattyKiara posted:I actually miss my fountain pen. I loved writing with it Same. It felt super nice. A thin sharpie pen is functionally perfect, but there was something about the feel and sound of that fountain pen that just made it a joy to use.
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I have a fountain pen and green ink that I use on special occasion letters and it makes me feel cool as gently caress
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Fountain pens are lovely, and there's a nice thing where a pen you've had for a while gets its nib shaped by how you hold the pen, so it becomes entirely personalized to you.
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Rohan Kishibe posted:Here in Scotland we had work experience when I was in high school in the early 00s, and I think they still do, where we spent a week in, I think, second year of high school working at an office, factory, restaurant, shop etc instead of school. It wasn't anything to do with our parents though, it was arranged by the school. Yeah in England here and we had two weeks of work experience in high school, I actually did go to work with my dad and I know a few people went with their parents if they could get away with it. I think I went for a day or two and after that he just let me stay at home.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:SHHH! It's already begun
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Bring your son to work can be all the time for lower class single parents. I spent a lot of time playing Gameboy and learning to be quiet in the corner as a kid.
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Gaius Marius posted:I spent a lot of time playing Gameboy and learning to be quiet in the corner as a kid. That's just because nobody liked you.
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My stepdad is a machinist/welder and my mom is a kindergarten teacher and I went probably spent countless hours at their workplaces as a kid because usually school was over before their workday was and sometimes I forgot the key to the apartment. My actual dad is a fisherman I never went to his workplace as a kid for obvious reasons (the sea is a harsh mistress).
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FreudianSlippers posted:My stepdad is a machinist/welder and my mom is a kindergarten teacher and I went probably spent countless hours at their workplaces as a kid because usually school was over before their workday was and sometimes I forgot the key to the apartment.
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Yeah, my dad taught college and my mom was a school librarian, so I spent a lot of time in both of their offices sitting on the floor reading. (Because the floor was more comfortable than an office chair, that's why.)
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Splicer posted:When your mom said he was "off with his c-word mistress" that's not what she meant. What if his dad was banging a selkie??
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Splicer posted:When your mom said he was "off with his c-word mistress" that's not what she meant. 
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My dad worked at a Gold's Gym in Kansas for a bit and I caught a lot of pokémon and built a lot of DBZ models in his office They had a kid's playplace area for parents working out but I was too much of an rear end in a top hat to go there. I wanted to hang out alone in the special cool office.
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The printer’s key came up today. I think this has always been confusing to students. The reasons that historically made the “number line” cryptic no longer apply with modern methods of printing, but tradition carries on.
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Splicer posted:When your mom said he was "off with his c-word mistress" that's not what she meant. But Brandy is a fine girl?
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Gaius Marius posted:Bring your son to work can be all the time for lower class single parents. I spent a lot of time playing Gameboy and learning to be quiet in the corner as a kid. I played a lot of Everquest on the computer of whichever one of my mom’s coworkers wasn’t at work at the time.
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RCarr posted:I played a lot of Everquest on the computer of whichever one of my mom’s coworkers wasn’t at work at the time. "this PC has performed an illegal operation" oh gently caress the cops are coming for me, the seven-year-old
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Do people still say, "Oh well, back to the drawing board."? Would anybody younger than a certain age get the reference?
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“Well back to FILE and then NEW. A blank PNG like new fallen snow.”
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