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    GF @Wizz
    last edited by 22 Jan 2024, 15:32

    @Wizz same on all fronts.

    I guess no one will do it unless I do. I should learn how to organize communities. No doubt my exquisite social skills will make me the best leader ever, heh.

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      TNP
      last edited by 23 Jan 2024, 02:27

      Really, this says it all.

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        SpaceKhomeini @Wizz
        last edited by SpaceKhomeini 23 Jan 2024, 02:53

        @Wizz

        I mulled over saying this at all at the risk of sounding like the keyboard Marxist I am but at this point we have to be willing to engage in behavior that could be deemed risky, potentially illegal, and destructive (at least to economic output on a large scale).

        Even worse, we have to be willing to face these things for each other, and the ruling class has done a hell of a job flooding the zone with an endless torrent of culture war bullshit reasonable people in positions of nominal power all have to prioritize cleaning up the damage from first (and mind you, a lot of that is heinous).

        We’re just not there. Not by a longshot. I’m definitely including myself here.

        I woke up feeling so good, I think I’d better call in sick/ I need a personal trainer to help me hold my drink
        I plan to be spontaneous next time we meet/I’m putting off procrastinating until next week
        I’ll get onto it when I give a shit

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          sao
          last edited by 24 Jan 2024, 20:03

          PERIOD STARTING THE NIGHT BEFORE JURY TRIAL STARTS

          THIS IS MISOGYNY

          let it be a challenge to you

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            Pavel @sao
            last edited by 25 Jan 2024, 01:44

            @sao Really clotting up the legal system, there.

            He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
            BE AN ADULT

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              sao @Pavel
              last edited by 26 Jan 2024, 13:28

              @Pavel got an acquittal tho. It’s probably blood magic.

              let it be a challenge to you

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                Pavel @sao
                last edited by 26 Jan 2024, 13:30

                @sao said in RL Peeves:

                @Pavel got an acquittal tho. It’s probably blood magic.

                Lawmaturgy.

                He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
                BE AN ADULT

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                  RightMeow
                  last edited by 1 Feb 2024, 02:42

                  I have had my hair professionally dyed for years (rainbow was my fav). I’ve decided to attempt to dye my own hair. I’m just sitting here looking at all the dye and the things. I’m more than a little nervous to do it.

                  My peeve is … it’s just hair. I can get it covered if it turns out bad. I use to do this before I could afford to get it professionally dyed. It’s. Just. Hair.

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                    Snackness @RightMeow
                    last edited by 1 Feb 2024, 02:48

                    @RightMeow You can do it!

                    rainbow

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                      RightMeow @Snackness
                      last edited by 1 Feb 2024, 04:26

                      @Snackness

                      I did it. It’s all a bright auburn now. It covered all the blue and purple (yay color theory)

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                        junipersky Administrators
                        last edited by 27 Feb 2024, 14:18

                        Rather than hire subs for the day our district has opted for one sub per building that is there 100% of the time. It is supposed to foster relationships and cut down on behaviors because the kids know they will see her again and also that their teacher will communicate with her.

                        She’s insufferable though. She has an early childhood education degree (prek-3), but hadn’t passed her assessments nor finished her English as a second language or reading requirements for licensure. She hasn’t student taught. (Some COVID nonsense allowed her to graduate without it.)

                        But she ~insists~ she is a ~real teacher~ and it drives me BONKERS. She has zero classroom management skills, and when she is “teaching” often gets small but significant facts wrong that will lead to serious misconceptions later. All new teachers do this, but the mark of a good new teacher is that they listen to feedback and do better. She shrugs off all corrections and keeps insisting she knows best. It has gotten to the point I refuse to have her touch my reading groups because I know she will teach them an error it will take me forever to undo. She never follows the plans the teachers leave and has favorites among the kids. She has even requested one out special needs 6th graders be pulled out of class and sent elsewhere whenever she covers that level. (Um, feels illegal to me, but I have no idea.)

                        Then last night she was going on and on about ADHD and how she has it and so she knows what parents should/shouldn’t do about it and I wanted to go “IT DOES NOT MATTER. YOU ARE NOT A TEACHER LET ALONE A PSYCHOLOGIST.”

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                          Pyrephox Administrators @junipersky
                          last edited by 27 Feb 2024, 14:42

                          @junipersky Oh god. She sounds like a nightmare. I love the idea of having a building sub or two who can be consistent for teachers and students but man, when you get stuck with a BAD one…ugh.

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                            Pavel @junipersky
                            last edited by 27 Feb 2024, 18:12

                            @junipersky Zero classroom management skills, teaching leads to small but significant mistakes, plays favourites (like, we all have students we like more than others, we just don’t let that impact the lesson/class structure)…

                            Sounds like someone headed right into administration to me. 😛

                            He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
                            BE AN ADULT

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                              Faraday @junipersky
                              last edited by Faraday 27 Feb 2024, 18:20

                              @junipersky said in RL Peeves:

                              She has even requested one out special needs 6th graders be pulled out of class and sent elsewhere whenever she covers that level. (Um, feels illegal to me, but I have no idea.)

                              Details matter, of course, but on the surface - yep, sounds like a likely violation of IDEA laws.

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                                GF
                                last edited by 2 Mar 2024, 22:13

                                I am becoming more emotionally immature.

                                I just got into an internet argument I’m gonna vague post about. They came to me out of nowhere, never having spoken to me before, to get homophobic at me while claiming their own vector of oppression justifies their homophobia. There’s no discussion to be had there, no reconciliation possible: the only thing for me to do is let the little weirdo have the last word and not let them trick me into making their problems my problems.

                                I know that. I do. And there’s a time when I would have already let this go.

                                But god do I want to go back and let them have it. Worse, this isn’t a one-off: I can remember a dozen times in the recent past I not only gave in to those childish temptations, I didn’t even have enough self-awareness to notice I was doing it.

                                Working on yourself never ends.

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                                  Deviant @GF
                                  last edited by 3 Mar 2024, 01:10

                                  @GF

                                  Like I was telling someone earlier, sometimes we just make bad decisions that feel good. You don’t always have to justify eating an entire pint of Phish Food because you skipped breakfast and lunch getting into an argument online with an internet troll. Sometimes, it’s just the thing that makes you feel better. Embrace it, even if it’s not logical.

                                  Not everyone likes me, but not everyone matters.

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                                    GF
                                    last edited by 15 Mar 2024, 12:15

                                    People who treat the shoulder of the road like a right turn lane. You’re not getting out of anyone’s way! Your vehicle’s ass end still swings out into my lane when you make the turn because of how sharp you gotta cut the wheel on account of that NOT being a turn lane! Just–ugh, stop it!

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                                      DrQuinn
                                      last edited by 15 Mar 2024, 12:34

                                      Fucking old townie racists that insist on bringing up the old (replaced) racist mascot again and again, start threatening people who point out that it’s racist and they need to stop, and then threaten and deadname the high schoolers who chime in to tell them to knock it off.

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                                        Deviant @DrQuinn
                                        last edited by 15 Mar 2024, 13:13

                                        @DrQuinn Baseball bat

                                        Not everyone likes me, but not everyone matters.

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                                          mietze
                                          last edited by 16 Mar 2024, 19:15

                                          When you are middle aged so its harder to tell if you are experiencing a medication effect, you are just out of shape so of course you can’t do easy semi mobile yardwork without sweating like you’re competing in Ironman, you are just feeling like a bitch, you look pale because you’re still recuperating from a procedure or maybe its also just stupid fun hormonal bullshit.

                                          I had my older three kids relatively young so wasn’t going through this when they were teens/at home unlike a lot of my mom friends, I really can’t imagine dealing with that level of hormone clash on the daily.

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