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There is nothing more rage inducing for me than receiving a text message when Iām overstimulated. Feeling my phone vibrate when Iām barely clinging on and internally Iām like āI HATE PHONES. I HATE THEM. AGHHHHH WHY DOES EVERYONE ALWAYS WANT SOMETHING FROM ME, EVERYTHING IS SO FUCKING DIFFICULT- Oh, my mommy is asking me what kind of aftershave I want for my birthday.ā
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this is the funniest overlap to me. elsa killed those guys
ultimately the truth about frankenstein is that we are all grotesque amalgamations of the best and worst parts of everyone who came before us. and sometimes the people who are supposed to love us because of and in spite of this will not. and we can kill them with hammers for that. and i think thatās beautiful
my brother in christ frankenstein is the title of the book
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well i canāt argue with that one
Ah yes, Mary Shelleyās monster.
no mary shelley is the name of the monster not the doctor
common misconception! mary shelley's monster was actually lord byron
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Elodie I don't know you and I may have wildly misjudged this ask but from one beleaguered parent to another, I have to know your thoughts on the Octonauts. I am losing my mind during a sick child TV day. Why do none of them know anything about marine life. Does Captain Barnacles imply the existence of the navy. Why are all creatures sentient but only some wear clothes. ARE FISH BISCUITS MADE OF FISH AND IF NOT WHY DO CARNIVORES EAT THEM. Anyway if your kids are not Octonauts kids feel free to disregard. I feel slightly better for sending this ask. Time for Episode 3 Billion of the weekend I guess.
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this is from a "manipulation advice" video and it's just so fucking funny to me. why didn't I think of responding to insults like this
I canāt remember where I got the information now, but apparently if you stare silently for at least 4 seconds it triggers a feeling of rejection which I donāt have to tell you is uncomfortable and makes most people backpedal pretty quickly and awkwardly.
Immediately going concerned/extremely polite always throws people off their game, it's beautiful.
The Quiet Stare Of Disappointment is also super effective, indeed .
My sister and I were walking across a car park.
Random bloke: Maybe if you walked more you wouldnāt be so fat
My sister stops dead, stares him in the eye and goes: Is everything alright at home?
Iāve never seen a manās face turn to horror so fast
We just walked to her car and drove off
The silent stare is so effective. I learned about it in social psychology in undergrad, and have often used it to great effect. Probably the best example is when I went to sign the papers on the car I was buyingāI had already worked out a price and my trade-in with the salesmen the day beforeāand they decided they were going to take $1000 off the value of my trade-in. (I want to emphasize that I was buying a 10+ year old car; I ended up paying $8k total.)
"No," I said. "That doesn't work for me. If you're unwilling to honor the deal we made, I'm not buying a car from you."
Well, they talk for a living. So they talked. Here I am, a young woman on my own, and these two men at the dealership are giving me all the reasons they couldn't possibly honor the deal we made yesterday.
So I sat. I didn't say a word. I just stared at them.
They kept talking, trying to get a reaction out of me. After about 10 seconds, they abandoned all pretense of logical arguments and started hammering pathos. They weren't even buying my old car from me for the dealership; it was a personal favor for which they were using their own hard-earned money to help this poor guy at church who just got out of rehab and his house burned down and his children exploded and his dog left him for another man, etc etc
I didn't say a word. I just stared at them.
They began falling apart. They continued trying to hustle me, but their confidence left them. I think they might have been sweating.
Within five minutes they caved and signed the papers for our original deal.
I have been told for years I am intimidating, and by people who had never even seen me angry. Just in general, intimidating. This absolutely baffled me until a friend one day pointed at me and said ā āThis! Right now! Youāre being intimidating!ā
Friends, I was staring silently at someone while inwardly flailing desperately to come up with a response to something theyād said that wasnāt overly rude but also was holding my ground. In my mind, I was being hellishly awkward. I couldnāt summon any charm, I couldnāt figure out a sentence to string together. Silence spooled out horrifyingly between us as I got farther and farther away from being articulate and became more and more flustered by this failure to respond. From the outside, I guess, I just looked like a stone cold bitch waiting for them to get their shit together, lol.
I still donāt think Iām intimidating but you know Iāll take it.
a huge part of appearing intimidating is simply being obviously willing to no bluff just walk away
conveying wordlessly their unimportance
...Wait, so I can just do the Mom Look on full-grown people? The look I give my five-year-old when he starts to do something he knows he shouldn't... I can do that to normal adults when they do something THEY know they shouldn't?!
Goddamn, I'm gonna have to try that!
remembering that time i got drunk and told a guy he looked like a wrought iron gate
he didnt respond to my observation. just sorta stood there
... much like something else i know of
happy pride
okay so spock (the alien in blue) essentially goes into heat. like literal heat like an animal. Anyway, spockās in bloodlust in this episode and must go back to vulcan to have sex with his finace (or someone. but its supposed to be his fiance) or heāll literally die. this is called pon farr and some backstory spock is half human and thought he wouldnt go through pon farr so he abandoned his HOT fiance to fuck around in space except oops pon farr happens so. he and kirk (in yellow getting his tits cut open, heās also spocks captain and best friend) and their other friend mccoy go to vulcan so he can have sex with his fiance or get married or whatever so he doesnāt die. but then spockās fiance (tāpring) is like no i dont want to marry spock i want to have him fight someone to death (which she can do) and spock at this point is fully in the āblood lustā and is basically not in his right mind and doesnt get whatās happening. and tāpring picks kirk to be her āchampionā in the fight (her logic is that if spock dies in the fight she doesnt have to marry him and if kirk dies, spock will be so upset with her he wonāt marry her anymore anyway). anyway kirk doesnt know that its a fight to the death and so heās like of course iāll do this fight if itāll help spock and then he gets told itās a fight to the death and he goes WHAT and right afterwards spock slices his titties open like in the gif. also eventually spock and kirk roll around in the sand and kirk fakes his death and THIS somehow knocks spock out of his blood lust and he goes back to the ship super sad bc heās killed his ābest friendā only to discover kirkās alive and we see one of his biggest smiles of the series (a big deal bc spock is vulcan and they dont show emotion). anyway this aired as the season opener in 1967. know your history and all that happy pride
To summarize, star trek invented fuck-or-die and spock attempted to resolve this by giving kirk a boob window and wrestling with him half-naked in the sand
The fact that this is accurate is fucking killing me
btw, it is widely acknowledged that this episode and particularly this scene is what spawned the first housewife trekkie fans and spock/kirk shippers as we know them, which in turn shaped fandom culture as a whole for generations to come. no, seriously, modern fandom culture and art including fanfiction as we know it today only exists because of the creative efforts of 1960s/70s housewives and a whole lot of the inspiration behind that passionate collective effort came from the homoerotic spock/kirk shippers, most of whom experienced their awakening with this exact episode. truly a historical moment.
just cast the fire spell. dip shit
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I used to be mad about "whole language" reading approaches in theory but now I work with school-age kids and I am mad about it in practice.
the word is "commute"
kid: complete?
me: do you see a P in that word?
kid: uh.... compare?
me: where are you getting a P??? sound it out.
kid: com... complete?
me: is that a P after the M? sound it out.
kid: *stares blankly*
me: [oh right, nobody taught them how to do this. fucking hell...] okay, we'll do this together [like it's kindergarden even though you're thirteen years old...]. what sound does C make?
I am not a reading teacher or a dyslexia specialist but I'm having to do remedial phonics instruction for middle schoolers because nobody ever taught them how SO THEY CAN'T FUCKING READ
I cannot overstate how much these kids are just making wild guesses when I ask them to read something. Because that's what they were taught to do. If you don't know a word, use context clues and make a guess at what you think the word might be.
Which is a fucking insane approach to reading, by the way, and I could rant about this forever because this makes absolutely no sense and I cannot figure out how the entire educational field was duped into thinking that this makes a lick of sense.
But I also want to emphasize that even kids who are decent readers have this problem. I work with some kids who straight-up can't read, but even my kids who absolutely can read will just guess wildly at an unfamiliar word. Those kids will go back and sound it out if I force them to, because they can read, so they have the necessary decoding skills. But they have to be pushed to do it and reminded several times to quit fucking guessing and read the actual letters on the page, Jason.
For example. I have a kid who is actually a pretty strong reader - probably one of my best.
The word was "disagreement."
He made a couple of guesses - some nonsensical, but after pushing him to sound out the word, he got closer. He kept saying "dis-age-ment" and "dis-argue-ment."
And I said okay, let's break this word down. Is there anything in here you recognize?
"The beginning is 'dis' and the end is 'ment' like argument, but I don't know the middle."
Great! Let's pull the middle out. I wrote the word "agree" on the page. Do you know this word?
"Age? Argue?"
SOUND. IT. OUT.
"Ag... agriculture?"
Jason the love of god. I drew a line in the middle. Ag/ree. Sound out each part.
"I don't know."
JASON. I wrote them out on opposite sides of the paper. Ag...........ree. What sound does ag make?
"Ag?"
YES GREAT FANTASTIC. Now come all the way over here. Ree. Sound it out.
"Are?"
JASON. R. E. E.
"Rey? Ree?"
Yes, thank you, it's Ree. Put it together.
"Ag...ree? Oh! It's disagreement!"
YES. EXCELLENT. THANK YOU. WHY WAS THIS SO HARD?
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have
#however the situation is better in liberal states that invest substantially more money into education than conservative states
As much as I wish that was the case, "Jason" and all of his classmates are students in a strongly blue state with some of the highest educational spending per student in the country.
I'm not saying the situation is better in red states - I've seen what my friends who are teaching in Texas are dealing with and the situation is dire. I'm just saying it's less of a red/blue or funding issue than you might imagine.
If you are an educator who has discovered you were taught the whole language approach in sum or in part, SUNY is offering a 45-hour online microcredential in the science of reading that is free to educators in NY and MD, and only $50 for everyone else everywhere else. It is comprehensive, straightforward, and will absolutely get you and your students on the right track.
If you, like OP, are a teacher of older children and find yourself needing to know how to teach remedial phonemic awareness and phonics skills without knowing where to start, this microcredential will give you what you need so you can help your students.
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I did not know this.
I see this at a farm nearby where I like to hang with the goats, but the only time Iāve seen it captured on film was in that recent episode of Itās Always Sunny In Philadelphia where Sweet Dee got trampled in the petting zoo. I guess it is deeply disturbing and kind of underutilized in horror, but I still wish my eyes did that.
Like, seriously, why isnāt this in more movies? Why did I have to make the .gif myself?
In all fairness, human eyes do this tooā¦itās just harder to tell because we have round pupils instead of horizontal pupils.
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pope Francis literally rose from the deathbed just to tell JD Vance to eat shit and then died on Easter. a true diva until his end.
