August's Pink Plushy and Phantasmagorically Random Banter Thread #166

[Mutant Sheep]

I recall that we could not take backpacks to class in middle school. I don't remember what the rationale for the rule was. So we don't strain our backs, maybe?

I remember my 8th grade teacher, she refused to let us use our backpacks even as she was "preparing us for High School" and was being insane about homework. I prefer the scramble to find my class and being late to said class than to be in her class. Cant imagine how you dealt with your insane head-demon Moon.

[Ranger Mattos]

So instead, you'd have to carry it in your hands/arms. Those people aren't only mentally challenged, they know nothing about ergonomics either.

Exactly.

Their justification was that hoodies, especially oversized ones, could be used to hide contraband, such as scissors and lighters.

Again with the scissors. What's their problem with scissors?

My middle school had a similar policy. I had to carry everything in my arms. Though they never gave a reason why. In high school I could use a backpack. In middle school the rule was just sort of...there.

Oooooh, sig it! Getting sigged twice in a couple days will be a record for me!

Reminds me of how my elementary school sometimes tried to discourage games that required any sense of competition, because if somebody lost they would feel bad. Yes, and the better alternative was teaching children that engaging in worthless and meaningless activity with no real results was a good use of time. I loathe how wussified school got sometimes.

See the major problem people had with it was that the high school and middle school are the same building.

As you wish.

Seriously? And then they expect these kids to play sports in high school?


Also, relevant.

[Tragic_Comedian]

Again with the scissors. What's their problem with scissors?

I guess they figured that we, being the monstrous creatures we were, could only be expected to use them for vicious, destructive purposes.

[DraPrime]

See the major problem people had with it was that the high school and middle school are the same building.

As you wish.

Seriously? And then they expect these kids to play sports in high school?


Also, relevant.

Yeah, it was a stupid school system. While I went to what was the best public school system in the state, the value of it's intellectual side was ruined by stupid stuff like that. The ridiculous policies still affect me to this day because every time I see something that contradicted that absurd ideology a small part of me still revolts against it, even though I know that small part of me is being an idiot. So I give it a mental punch in the stomach and keep moving.

The whole "we should never cause any offense or imply that some people are more capable than others attitude" thing was just weird. In the name of safety they also insisted that we changed the names of some things. There was a popular game that involved throwing a ball against a wall called "suicide" (it's related to the nature of the game). It bothered the teachers that the kids called it such a name, even though every fourth grader knew what suicide was and hardly needed protection from it. It also just made the kids resent the teachers, so we stubbornly went on calling it "suicide" no matter how many times we got scolded.

All this ultra-safe junk is bad because it makes students resent the faculty for it's stupid policies, and it flat out messes with their outlook later on in life. I've seen some people (products of schools like mine) flat out advocate that we shouldn't have any competitive sports even in high school, and that doing stuff like putting your son into Little League is somehow abusive because he'll either feel bad because he's not the best at baseball or he'll be making others feel bad with his baseball skills. Yeah, because it's not like in real life people are expected to try to be better rather than having society cater to their every slightest imperfection.

[AsteriskAmp]

I now feel happy that my school is only slightly academically disfuncitonal...
Though I'm in the private system which in here is a radical difference between exiting High-school knowing pre-calculus and exiting high school without knowing how to properly add.

In here there is the opposite of the no-competition rule. There is competition for everything, from Band and Orchestra to Academic Placement, along the way there are several competitions and bimestral awards, and science fair can get insane.

[MoonCat]

I guess I'm lucky, the FTS was only horrible in every other way.

[Tragic_Comedian]

The only ban on competition I've ever seen in school was the prohibition of Yu-Gi-Oh during my elementary school days.

[AsteriskAmp]

The only ban on competition I've ever seen in school was the prohibition of Yu-Gi-Oh during my elementary school days.

Beyblade were forbidden at elementary school for me, but that was because they were used as weapons and beyblade fights were rather literal.

[Tragic_Comedian]

Well, this was because everyone always agreed to give up their rarest card when they lost, but then started crying when they had to.

Oh, the joys of youth.

[Blue Ghost]

Well, this was because everyone always agreed to give up their rarest card when they lost, but then started crying when they had to.

Oh, the joys of youth.

I can see why that's a problem. That could fall under gambling.

ION: Typing with an ice cream cone in my hand is hard.

[AsteriskAmp]

I can see why that's a problem. That could fall under gambling.

It isn't gambling, you are just giving the winner a gift as an act of respect and symbolizing both are still friends despite the battle that has just occurred....

[Tragic_Comedian]

I can see why that's a problem. That could fall under gambling.

ION: Typing with an ice cream cone in my hand is hard.

The crying was the problem. They didn't care about anything else.

I'll bet it is.

It isn't gambling, you are just giving the winner a gift as an act of respect and symbolizing both are still friends despite the battle that has just occurred....

Theoretically. No one ever had a problem with it when they won.

ION: Writing continues to be hard.

[LaZodiac]

Hahaha, wow. I just got a warning for accidental thread necromancy. I completely forgot to check the date of the thread XP

Just bringing it up because I am amused at just how fail I can be sometimes. Hope that's aloud >_>

[Blue Ghost]

It isn't gambling, you are just giving the winner a gift as an act of respect and symbolizing both are still friends despite the battle that has just occurred....

So that makes it okay to claim as a gift the souls of people whom I beat in a children's card game. Yay!

[DraPrime]

I can see why that's a problem. That could fall under gambling.

ION: Typing with an ice cream cone in my hand is hard.

Heh, that reminds me of how in high school my friends and I specifically used M&M's during a poker game on school so we wouldn't get punished for engaging in gambling. We still were forced to end the game.

[Mutant Sheep]

Hahaha, wow. I just got a warning for accidental thread necromancy. I completely forgot to check the date of the thread XP

Just bringing it up because I am amused at just how fail I can be sometimes. Hope that's aloud >_>

Oh, oh! I made an accidental double post once! And I did something else too.It was white text (Yay first page!) Shoulda guessed it counts as spam >_>

ION: Typing with an ice cream cone in my hand is hard.

My Klondike bar laughs at your inferior ice cream!

[AsteriskAmp]

So that makes it okay to claim as a gift the souls of people whom I beat in a children's card game. Yay!

Yes it does.

Heh, that reminds me of how in high school my friends and I specifically used M&M's during a poker game on school so we wouldn't get punished for engaging in gambling. We still were forced to end the game.

People in my class play poker during the hour change, they bet homework answers. Even when they get caught since there is no visible pool there is no gambling going on and they just have to stop, the worst they've gotten has been a friendly teacher warning.

[Ranger Mattos]

The whole "we should never cause any offense or imply that some people are more capable than others attitude" thing was just weird. In the name of safety they also insisted that we changed the names of some things. There was a popular game that involved throwing a ball against a wall called "suicide" (it's related to the nature of the game). It bothered the teachers that the kids called it such a name, even though every fourth grader knew what suicide was and hardly needed protection from it. It also just made the kids resent the teachers, so we stubbornly went on calling it "suicide" no matter how many times we got scolded.

Why was it called that? Was the objective to hit yourself in the face or something?

Heh, that reminds me of how in high school my friends and I specifically used M&M's during a poker game on school so we wouldn't get punished for engaging in gambling. We still were forced to end the game.

Heh, me and my friends do that during lunch. If we get caught we just say we're sharing snacks. Because it's lunch. We haven't been forced to stop yet.

Which reminds me, I hope me and my friends are in the same lunch this year.

[DraPrime]

Why was it called that? Was the objective to hit yourself in the face or something?

Well the way you played the game was that you had a tennis ball, and one person throwing it against a wall from a distance. Everyone else tried to grab the ball before it got back to the person throwing it, and you could only catch it after it had bounced back from the wall. The one throwing it tried to keep the ball for themselves as long as possible. So it was called suicide because if you lost the ball, it was because you yourself threw it.

Heh, me and my friends do that during lunch. If we get caught we just say we're sharing snacks. Because it's lunch. We haven't been forced to stop yet.

Which reminds me, I hope me and my friends are in the same lunch this year.

Yeah, well the cards kind of gave us away so we couldn't pull that trick. Also, it wasn't lunchtime.

[Eon]

Gah, post explosion right after I had to go for a few hours!


Mutant: Haha... I bet I won't. I'm foreseeing all my hard classes ending up all at once...

YPU: Well, when teachers start to realize that most of the things they try teaching, I already know, some of them start to not like me. Usually not the most fun of things.

Mattos: Pretty much. I have a few things against the school district for nonsensical decisions on their part.

Comedian: Same in mine.

@Backpacks: Wait... What? I've always had a backpack. I couldn't carry it between classes until High school, but our lockers were usually around our classes, or on the way.

@Scissors: Oh yes. Last year our Social Studies teacher was making fun of all of us getting the little safety scissors.

@Hoodies: We just can't wear hats/hoods. Mostly so they can identify us and know we are paying attention.

@Competition: Pfft, it seemed our teachers tried to make it competitive. Just about every game we played (We played a lot in Elementary and slightly less in Middle school [I got sick of games and sometimes lost on purpose so I could go back to reading])

@Games banned: We could do pretty much whatever we wanted during Recess, except have snowball fights. That was veeeeerrrryyyy dangerous apparently.

[LaZodiac]

People tend to put rocks in snowballs, so no snowballs fights aloud.

Of course, in my school none of this was realy banned. But then my elimentry school kinda sucked. And I have no idea what was or wasn't banned in High School because I didn't really pay attention to things people did anymore. I wasn't involved, so I had no reason to try.

[Tragic_Comedian]

People tend to put rocks in snowballs, so no snowballs fights aloud.

No reading aloud, either.

[Mutant Sheep]

Gah, post explosion right after I had to go for a few hours!
.

Yeah, it always happens. I decide to watch some DC Online cut scenes because nothing is happening and two pages of stuff appears in 30 minutes.

Which reminds me, I hope me and my friends are in the same lunch this year.

Shockingly, all my friends from my elementary school share the same lunch period. Even that kid who transferred in 6th grade is in my lunch period! My brother didn't share any classes or lunch with his, so I wasn't expecting it. Hope you get lucky too.

[LaZodiac]

No reading aloud, either.

Now, the mentaly challanged were allowed to do that. Really annoying though.

[Rawhide]

No reading aloud, either.

That's definitely not allowed.

[Mutant Sheep]

That's definitely not allowed.

I just realized I know nothing about you besides you are trapped in the Caribbean.

[AsteriskAmp]

No reading aloud, either.

WHAT!?
This is madness!

[Eon]

People tend to put rocks in snowballs, so no snowballs fights aloud.

Of course, in my school none of this was realy banned. But then my elimentry school kinda sucked. And I have no idea what was or wasn't banned in High School because I didn't really pay attention to things people did anymore. I wasn't involved, so I had no reason to try.

See, that would be understandable. Of course, then the teachers didn't care if you pushed people off (I never did this) a snow bank onto asphalt. The snow banks were about as tall as us in Elementary school.

I just go to my classes in High School. I pretty much stopped paying attention after I realized how much drama popped up EVERY. DAY.

Yeah, it always happens. I decide to watch some DC Online cut scenes because nothing is happening and two pages of stuff appears in 30 minutes.

Shockingly, all my friends from my elementary school share the same lunch period. Even that kid who transferred in 6th grade is in my lunch period! My brother didn't share any classes or lunch with his, so I wasn't expecting it. Hope you get lucky too.

So not fair.

I usually have one or two friends at lunch at least. I've been lucky so far.

[Tragic_Comedian]

Oh, how I love wordplay.

WHAT!?
This is madness!

No, this is Patrick.

ION: Action scenes are so difficult to write, because action, I think, should be immediate and direct by definition. But it takes more than one or two words to convey meaning most of the time. Text, not a good medium for action.

[LaZodiac]

WHAT!?
This is madness!

THIS! IS! MEMETOWN! *Nyan Cat's into the sky

@Eon: I totally wanted to get involved in the drama. My life was...well, dead inside. Having stuff happened was fun, evn when it was bad stuff.