#should be taught in schools

[just-your-average-cryptid]

most of us have heard of the red car game. you’re on a road trip, you’re bored, you start looking for red cars to do something.

and then they’re everywhere. you notice them nearly every few minutes.

there aren’t suddenly more red cars now, of course. you were seeing them already, but you weren’t noticing. you weren’t looking.

I am noticing things.

there is a plant I notice everywhere now, a small bushy plant in suburbs, along streets, by shops on the highways. dwarf umbrella bush is what the internet tells me when I look for it’s name. I did this because I wanted to know why,

every time I ever saw it, every place,

it was always dying. always the leaves turning yellow, the branches small and scraggly. inside out - nitrogen deficiency. their soil drained.

I am noticing how many of these landscaping plants are yellowing, how small and sickly they look in just a few years. I am noticing how often the grass outside the house is replaced when it once again turns brown and dry, how the type never changes and the cycle starts again. I am noticing how the unmowed, unkempt spaces on lakesides and roadsides look more alive than this. how the preserve I grew up next to was miles of “messy” unmanicured nature and the ground was covered in leaves instead of grass and there was life.

I am noticing the birds that come by the lake. there was a flash of blue wings and red chest - eastern bluebird, male, relatively common. I had never seen one before. there is a family of ducks that appear every spring; i cannot say if it’s successive generations or different ducks, but I can always look forward to ducklings. there are little brown birds with white heads whose names I do not know - are they some kind of piper? why don’t I already know?

why is it so hard to learn about my native plants (accurately, that is)? why are so many gardening sites littered with people who think a plants value is based on how pretty or useful it is to them, who think a tree shedding leaves is “messy”?

why is knowing about the world we live in so… odd? why is it a hobby and not vital knowledge? I learned about polar equations. I taught myself about mycorrhizal networks and species of insects.

(did you know there are shiny green bees? a special species of wasp pollinating figs? that white flowers bloom at night for moths? do you know? have you looked?)

I cannot look at a lawn and see life anymore. it is a wasteland, devoid of life, dying slowly itself. everywhere is grass, grass, doused in water that runs over into storm drains, soaked in fertilizer and pesticides and a hundred other poisons and sending one clear message:

this is a place of death. life is not welcome here.

I do not think I could live in a city. too loud, yes, too busy, yes, too many people, yes, but the plants would bother me. a tree allotted only a convenient square, surrounded by dead stone and metal.

a forest cleared for this, for burning asphalt streets and racing cars and shops whose bathrooms are “for paying customers only”.

this is a place of death. life is not welcome here.

and now I am noticing.

#it speaks #idk man this is stream of consciousness and it’s midnight lol #I’m having thoughts about plants and people and how much I hate lawns #anti lawn #firmly believe that nature knowledge should be taught in school #yeah there’s biology but biology won’t teach you what plants are edible or deadly #or what birds live/migrate in your area and what they depend on #they teach civics bc even if you’re not politically active you should know how the government works #if you live in a world you should know how it works #bc even if it feels like it doesn’t matter. it does. it will. and if you notice it now you can do something about it

[rickybaby]

I don't think the level of hate towards Daniel would reach the level of calling him Nepo baby. Just because a Christian likes him, f1tiktok is really pathetic.

The Daniel who had to wait tables at 17 to raise money for him to go to Europe? The Daniel whose parents managed to raise just enough funds to send him to Europe for a year and he knew he had to do everything to get spotted by Red Bull if he ever wanted to continue racing? The Daniel who didn’t get paid in his first year racing in F1 because Red Bull somehow had to get back their investment? The Daniel who got braces only after he got his first pay check in F1? That Daniel they’re calling a nepo baby??

They also forget even Christian who apparently likes Daniel so much, was unwilling to pay Daniel the same amount of money as a much younger less experienced Verstappen in 2018 until Dietrich Mateschitz put that offer on the table …

#I grew up in the era where they taught you how to look up words in a physical dictionary at school #I think they should start teaching that skill again #because so many people no longer know the meaning of words #causally throwing words like misogyny or ableism around to attack a person you don’t like #does MORE harm than good for these very real actual issues #it dilutes the seriousness of the problems that exist #anon ask

[spitblaze]

if you're in college you are morally obligated to bully business students. its your divine mandate to make them embarrassed to pursue an MBA

#spitblaze says things #im only like half joking #im starting to wonder if we should just. start advocating against the existence of business schools #or at least the way its taught. idk what goes on in there i was an art student

[lesbianyosano]

its always ‘who in the pm taught kyouka to drive’ but i think itd be x10 funnier if it was someone in the ada

#like kunikida was sooo unconcerned in dead apple #and hes crazy enough to have taught her himself #'im only 14' 'that when you should start' #absolutely not based on my dads approach to teaching me when i was still in middle school btw #also off topic but i think kunikida would know how to hot wire a car. and build a pile bomb too #txt.

[vsaintsin]

I spent all of Draft One completely ignoring the uncomfortable situation I had going with 's vs s' when it comes to singular and plural nouns and my sudden inability to comprehend how they function. I kept going "No, don't get hung up on the issues, that's what editting is for, just get through the draft and leave the treasure hunting for later".

Guys. I'm having a fucking meltdown. There is no standard. There is no standard?! You're telling me I could say Ceres's or Ceres' and both are right? You're telling me it's supposed to be boss' but we all hate that so it's boss's? You're telling me that punctuation is actually just vibes and you can actually legally make it up as you go because it's all hocus pocus and nobody knows what they're talking about?

This is liberating, actually. I will be abusing this information.

Any other fun tidbits of English that we know about that seem made up? I'd like to know just how much I'm allowed too break this bastard language before it's actually a crime.

#vbabbles #nothing is real i guess #Like yes I understand completely that everything ever is actually just made up #and things are only as real as we decide that they should be #but sometimes I struggle with something for a while and make myself feel badly about it #only to remember that it doesn't matter because its not real at all actually #something to remember the next time you're struggling with something #It's probably not real in the first place #If I was the only one that didn't know this #I remember being taught this information in school like it was law

[exmojoe]

mormon parents signing you out of sex ed in school because “that’s something parents should teach you”:

mormon parents when it comes to teaching you about sex: 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 sex = bad 🙅‍♀️🙅‍♂️🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗

#my mother literally spends so much time complaining about anything sex being taught in school #like she was pro don’t say gay #for the reason that ‘that kind of thing needs to be taught in the home’ #and I’m like ma’am I am your adult child and I never learned diddly squat about sex or queerness from you #she should be glad I wasn’t a rebellious child and had terrible anxiety #because I was literally taught nothing. ever about sex #exmo #exmormon #ex mormon #ex fundie #ex cult #ex evangelical #ex christian

[batfam-nalu-onepiece]

Teaching in Gotham is hard

Teacher: Ok everyone, what do we wear in the summer?

Kindergartener: *raising hand enthusiastically* Snow pants!

Teacher: no dear. It doesn’t snow in the summer, it’s too hot!

Kid: but..It was snowing this summer for like 4 days!

Teacher: *thinking back how Me.Freeze tried to make an everlasting Winter in Gotham last Summer* well.. that was a special situation.

Another kid: *raising their hand* Gas masks!

Teacher: *Joker Gas and Fear Toxin always a threat and keeps a gas mask in her bag* umm that’s not mainly for summer though. You can have gas masks all year round.

Kid 3: oh! My mommy and daddy have gardening gloves and belts with weed killer stuff on it!

Teacher: Good! Lots of people do gardening in the summer! What do your parents grow?

Kid 3: oh they don’t grow anything. It’s for when those plants come alive and take over the city. There are vines and cool flowers all over the house! Mommy doesn’t like them though. So they need to get their tools to get rid of them

Teacher: *under her breath* god damnit Gotham.

#it must be hard being a teacher in Gotham #you’d think summer clothes is an easy topic #Ok kids what does a Penguin look like? Kis- A small man in a suit and a penguin! teacher-Sighs #Philosy class is just debating on which Gotham Villains have a good point #Pamela Ivy comes in to teach kids about the importance of keeping the Earth clean and gardening #having to explain who Harve is called Two Face and not Half Face #teaching lessons to get rid of stains incase the Condiment King attacks #there just…so many lessons I can think of that should be taught in schools in Gotham #original content #Gotham #batman #batfamily #only in Gotham

[zhongrin]

"i really hope you don't have any more work for the rest of this year. fingers crossed [client] isn't giving us more work, but if they do i'm dumping it to january."

"here's my performance evaluation for the team this year: you guys didn't take enough day offs, so make sure to do so next year."

"friendly reminder to remember to log out from all work apps when you go on your holidays!"

"cancelling this meeting session because of festive season. happy holidays all!"

;w; dear gods, i love my coworkers and the working culture in this company so much

#rin rambles #(these are all said by 4 different people btw) #this is my payment for sticking by a company who made me do deployment till 4am in the office and calls back in at 9am the same day #for a whole 5+ years #work to live not live to work #i dont even need titles atp i can live comfortably enough and i'm satisfied #well for most months #and that's enough #which reminds me #i should use that dental and specs insurance next year hskdjskdj #i would fail so hard at being a mom how tf do you research on which dental ppaces are good but also within budget and #dont fking pressure you into filling every single spot on your teeth #neither school nor my family taught me about the importance of proper health care and it's such a sad reality sometimes

[oifaaa]

in united states public school we learn about the american revolution and the first three presidents (minus the fact that they had slaves and abused their families bc how dare we portray them as anything but heroes on a pedastal) every year from when we're 8 to when we're 14, we have one year for generalized world history and if you're lucky one year to learn about a very white-centric view of pre-1700's north america and prehistory

Doesn't that get a bit boring? Now I'm thinking about it tho I think I'd say 95% of my history classes would have been modern history basically anything from the industrial revolution onwards like the world wars, the Russian revolution followed by the cold war including modules on the Vietnam war and Korean war, and then obviously American civil rights movement, the Irish famine, Irish war of independence, irish civil war and finally a lot about the troubles - in fact I think the only two times I can remember learning about anything older is in primary we learnt about ancient Egypt and in first year of secondary we learnt about the native Americans

#ask #Meep-the-froggy #Wait what's pre-history? #Like pre historic dinosaurs? #That's cool #I'm curious tho if it was just my school that focused more on modern history? #Bc to be fair #Not a lot happening in Ireland pre 1800 #Like you know #Besides the English taking land #But yeah #Think the thinking was #a lot has happened #In the last 100 to 200 years #That still affect the world #And we'd prefer to teach you that then things that happened #500 years ago that doesn't effect you anymore #And like that way I kinda get why Americans are taught about your founding fathers #But on the other hand #Maybe you guys should be taught more modern history and not about about the same dudes for several years in a row #Like they shouldn't be that important by now

[humandisastersquad]

fellow aussies, know your rights as a consumer and don't let stingy companies get away with selling you shitty products and services without consequence

#auspol #anyway just sent a lengthy complaint to a company who sent me some really shitty masks and threw the ACL and a deadline at them #'If I do not hear from you within 10 days I will lodge a formal complaint with Consumer Affairs in my state.' #which is verbatim from the ACCC complaint letter sample #excellent sentence to wield against a company and get them to take you seriously #anyway thank u to The Checkout for teaching me about the ACL + other important shit that should be taught in school #gone but never forgotten o7

[esleep]

it makes me sad how often textile arts are ignored as actual art forms, and are relegated to the disregarded realm of 'old lady hobbies'. there is so much skill involved, such a broad diversity of forms, but so many people straight up do not think of things like crochet or quilting as art.

#i mean apprenticing with a textile artist as a teen definitely changed how i view quilts and tapestries #before then i had never really realized what was possible or what was involved in creating these things #but i think everyone should at least be taught how to sew and either knit or crochet as a child. #that should just be part of standard school curriculum. #textile art should be taught as a unit in art classes right alongside oil painting - the history of goes back even farther and is so #culturally important to literally every culture in the world and yet it is almost never considered academically the way paintings are.

[folkloregirlfriend]

why did i leave dance classes

#i did not like it but mom forcefully got me into one of them when i was a kid okay those classes were bad i admit #because she also got me into singing lessons at the same academy and that was. not good im sorry i do not sound good it was a nightmare #but then in seventh grade i again started dance classes and the exercises were ruthless but i had so so so much fun once i adjusted #because i got the hang of it and i was kinda good #it was so fun atleast something out of the house #but then we had one show and i left the academy or maybe the moved but i did not go back and i miss it so much #the two guys who taught us were so. idk weird and now that i look back at some things also kinda inappropriate 👁️ maybe idk #but other than that i had so much fun going out for practicing on the stage etc etc socialising too i miss it so much #it was mostly contemporary and western #dad used to say i should learn khatak too but then i used to hate it #if only i had given a chance to kathak and continued with contemporary atleast i'll have something 😭 #and yesterday i was thinking about that dance performance in school and i remember i did not want to do it because i was scared i had lost #that whatever. idk #i miss it now i'm the awkward dancing cousin at weddings because i hate everyone there and i lost the practice 😭 #they moved**

[oatbugs]

oh my god ! haha . anyway a bit buzzed perhaps. anyway here's what happened on the date

#at some point i took the earrings off. the metal clanging was screaming their name too loud and it #was 6 knives to the throat and he confirmed it so. here's the kicker. you can be taught a lot and you can have their hands on your thighs #and you can kiss them but even if they pray even if they tell you about the bible looking into you like really they lost what they believed #in a pennsylvania countryside catholic schools with a protestant family since joining the london school of economics #even if they pray for you to stay the whole way even though their hair was softer than hers you think of her and he thinks of someone else #and be tells you none of it will make sense. they smile and they say what a shame you might miss the train but they hold onto you #the entirety of you - like a religion or a polite insistence or something to keep. #you learned they were used to losing everyone they felt bound to love. they said they got really good at letting go. you were told #you think he's being epistemologically #irresponsible and he tells you he carries a massive task. he tells you the responsibility is monumental #and he feels responsible for defining responsibility. he shows you songs and his poetry. my eyes feel on fire. #she doesnt know this. this is marylebone. the next station is edgeware road. everyone here looks happy and high and clear of the doors. #he says tell me when you get to the station and very especially tell me if you don't. the next station is paddington. please mind the gap #between the train and the platform. you say this to him. he says i minds the gap between you and i. i mind it so much that i need you to #come back. he says this because you kissed him briefly but you kissed him well. she says you're a good kisser but he says you have him #stunned. he asks you who decides the truth. he tells you you decide the truth without his mouth. you're fast enough to make it there before #the wheels do. this world is lit by glass and light and people with a pact to fall in love with the abstractions more than each other. #he tells you to be committed to your various intangible loves more than anyone. you both have to be. they love each other anyway. #i was supposed to find a persian poetry book with her on our fourth date except she was hours late. i found it with him. he didnt give up #he should be perfect and i should really like him.

[royallyprincesslilly]

Me sitting here like a mom watching the kids open presents on Christmas morning as I watch the MANY videos, jokes, commentary, memes and tweets about this beautiful racially satisfying moment.

#Riverfront WWF Takeover #Racially satisfying moments #That get back hits you hard #Shout out to Nathaniel Alexander for inventing the folding chair 🙌🏾 #I hope those people learned a lesson #A family who provokes and bullies and assults together gets their shit rocked together #Granny can get it too #I just know all the poor slaves that lost their lives at this location were helping #How else did that chair magically appear? #They really thought they would get away with it too #You can see by how they still stayed there not expecting any consequences #I wish a long and prosperous life for everyone that is black there #The internet is FAST cause these memes have me DYING! #Lets label this event Augfifth ✊🏽 #And it should be a statewide Alabama holiday and taught in schools #Okay I'm done though I can go on and on #Montgomery riverfront

[whitestopper]

Heartstopper deleted scene: Elle embarrassing herself during her first game of netball at Higgs because she's used to playing basketball at Truham.

#it mine #heartstopper #elle argent #in case this differs outside of uk: netball is taught in girls' schools while basketball is taught in boys' schools #(as is usual with 'girl things' vs 'boy things' #basketball is sometimes played in girls' schools while netball is virtually never played in boys' schools) #netball contains restrictions such as 'no moving once you get the ball' and 'you must be here if you want to score' #and 'certain players cannot go in certain parts of the... pitch? field? court.' #i should just let elle be good at sports. that's what her rewrite arc can be.

[derpinette]

english used to be the normie filter & how you could tell someone was a Trve Internethead but after the DAMNED 2020 quarantine for obvious reasons EveryBody & They Momma is acceptably fluent so now i have to learn swedish or something. -_-

#already been spending time this past year & a half i only need someone to actually speak it with IRL for maximum efficiency #technically i want to say 2019 people were already turning to english at least in my city. 7 year old me would be so happy but #ARRRRRRGHHHHHHH #YOU ARE POSERS I HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON WITH YOU & I NEVER WILL. has me feeling so ♯DECEIVED #native english speakers will probably never understand this feel #speaking english now is just as cringe as i thought being francophone was a decade ago Yes even as a child i was against normies #i was forcibly taught.by my millennial older brother i had no choice but to abide by that line of thought & so here i am today #well he was right. not anymore he ain't but he used to be #but technically you can say this new wave of self taught anglophones are going against the current & remnants of colonialism so well #it is a good thing objectively i just miss the ease of recognizing Real back in the day TT_TT like you just KNEW they shared your interests #& weirdness they knew your references it said something about what their social status likely was too ETC ETC. But not anymore... #i enjoyed it tho i had a bestfriend whom i mostly spoke english with & we were known for it we were outcasts #i distinctly remember this fag who got so mad at us & harassed us for it during middle school recess. like fluency was a bad thing #we were not even gossiping about him Altho we should have been. & that was the best part is that it was a barrier #so you could talk about anything out loud & nobody would be able to understand you & at the time it was just us & our older siblings #+their friends