Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent

[Herja]

@Tez

[Pavel]

How the fuck is a RULER a fashion item?

[junipersky]

@Tez

They put them on //everything//now and I had a literal nightmare that included them.

Don’t get me wrong! I have a very cute dolphin pop it in my fidget box for babies who need it*. Great tools.

THEY DO NOT NEED TO BE ON RULERS AND PENCIL BOXES AND PENCILS/PENS.

deep breath

• I have strict rules with my fidget box. 1. Only one fidget at a time. 2. Fidget must remain under the level of the desk/out of sight of the person using it. 3. You drop/throw it? You have to wait till a transition to pick it up. 4. Fidget can only be in your non-writing hand.

[Testament]

@Pavel said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:

How the fuck is a RULER a fashion item?

The only kind of rulers that are a fashion statement are the snap bracelets that look like rulers.

Hello, I’m from the 90s and am old.

[IoleRae]

@Pavel

It’s a fashion item like the PeeChees were a fashion item like the covers for your textbook were a fashion item. As in ‘self-expression’, rather than ‘clothing’. The folders with the bright colors and cartoons on them, the pencil cases with cartoon characters, etc – all of these are fashion items.

[Pavel]

@IoleRae said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:

@Pavel

It’s a fashion item like the PeeChees were a fashion item like the covers for your textbook were a fashion item. As in ‘self-expression’, rather than ‘clothing’. The folders with the bright colors and cartoons on them, the pencil cases with cartoon characters, etc – all of these are fashion items.

See, I had none of those things growing up. Brown wooden ruler, or clear plastic when I was older, brown paper and clear contact over my notebooks, plain white or blue folders for book storage…

[Testament]

[hellfrog]

@Testament in my day, slap bracelets had just the thinnest of coverings over the sharp material and could cut you

[GF]

@Pavel said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:

@IoleRae said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:

@Pavel

It’s a fashion item like the PeeChees were a fashion item like the covers for your textbook were a fashion item. As in ‘self-expression’, rather than ‘clothing’. The folders with the bright colors and cartoons on them, the pencil cases with cartoon characters, etc – all of these are fashion items.

See, I had none of those things growing up. Brown wooden ruler, or clear plastic when I was older, brown paper and clear contact over my notebooks, plain white or blue folders for book storage…

It might be a girl thing, an American thing (am I right in inferring you’re pretty far east of Murica based on some stuff you’ve said about the time where you are?), or both.

[Third Eye]

I 'member 90s snap bracelets and 100% accidentally cut myself using them on more than one occasion.

Oh the times.

[Testament]

@Third-Eye I still miss my Trapper Keeper with the low 90s geometric CGI.

[Pavel]

@GF It’s more likely that I was just raised in an austere environment. Soviet-era Russian parents (then moving to northern England) will do that.

[junipersky]

Snap bracelets as rulers are still a thing! And absolutely banned from measuring ANYTHING.

[Pyrephox]

@junipersky said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:

Snap bracelets as rulers are still a thing! And absolutely banned from measuring ANYTHING.

I like snap bracelets.

I should also not be allowed to have them, because the click-snap of hitting them against your wrist over and over and over again is very soothing to me, and absolutely infuriating to anyone near me.

[junipersky]

@Pyrephox

You just defined all fidgets ever. X.x

(Not saying they don’t have a place! See my post about fidgets and my Amazon Prime Day deal of 35 fidgets in a nice box for $15.99.)

[Pyrephox]

@junipersky said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:

@Pyrephox

You just defined all fidgets ever. X.x

(Not saying they don’t have a place! See my post about fidgets and my Amazon Prime Day deal of 35 fidgets in a nice box for $15.99.)

The little flick spinny things don’t seem too annoying! Maybe they are, I dunno. But I like things that make NOISE.

[junipersky]

@Pyrephox

Fidget Spinners.

My husband got really into his when they became a fad until his boss told him to knock it off.

[Duke Whisky]

I got one of these from work as I need to shuffle around in my seat during meetings. It is like a bunch of macaroni tubed up. You can pop it apart and click it together, doesn’t make much noise, but mostly you can roll it around.

[junipersky]

@Whisky

This is my favorite fidgit as a teacher!! They can be hard for little fingers to pop apart, and since that is really the only sound they make it doesn’t bother mw.

[Duke Whisky]

@junipersky Yeah and having broken enough pen lids bending it during a meeting…

It has been a DELIGHT to use. Sadly this one has lost it’s “crunch” when you twist it since I twist it a lot.