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Hopping on the Vine compilation bandwagon, part 1/?
Oh god, I lost it at the Tim Hortons one.
I never saw the cheating test questions sequel before now and it did not disappoint.
It was a simpler time
This comp is a perfect mix of classics and hilarious ones that somehow Iāve never seen before
Happy 100th Birthday to Winnie the Pooh!!
Ive been counting down the days until I could reblog this
Happy Orgasm Day! I wish you a satisfying day!
If orgasms are a thing you enjoy, may your day be productive š
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Iāve said it before and Iāll say it again: public libraries are the only place where people are allowed to just exist in public anymore without spending money. Thank goodness they already exist and have for so long because they would be denounced as socialism if we tried to implement them now.
This is UK, but the only parts of this that donāt apply to the US are things that ought to.
Libraries and library workers are the best
āIāve been a massage therapist for many years, now. I know what people look like. People have been undressing for me for a long time. I know what you look like: a glance at you, and I can picture pretty well what youād look like on my table. Letās start here with what nobody looks like: nobody looks like the people in magazines or movies. Not even models. Nobody. Lean people have a kind of rawboned, unfinished look about them that is very appealing. But they donāt have plump round breasts and plump round asses. You have plump round breasts and a plump round ass, you have a plump round belly and plump round thighs as well. Thatās how it works. And thatās very appealing too. Woman have cellulite. All of them. Itās dimply and cute. Itās not a defect. Itās not a health problem. Itās the natural consequence of not consisting of photoshopped pixels, and not having emerged from an airbrush. Men have silly buttocks. Well, if most of your clients are women, anyway. You come to male buttocks and you say ā what, this is it? Theyāre kind of scrawny and the tissue is jumpy because itās unpadded; you have to dial back the pressure, or theyāll yelp. Adults sag. It doesnāt matter how fit they are. Every decade, an adult sags a little more. All of the tissue hangs a little looser. They wrinkle, too. I donāt know who put about the rumor that just old people wrinkle. You start wrinkling when you start sagging, as soon as youāre all grown up, and the process goes its merry way as long as you live. Which is hopefully a long, long time, right? Everybody on a massage table is beautiful. There are really no exceptions to this rule. At that first long sigh, at that first thought that āI can stop hanging on now, Iām safeā ā a luminosity, a glow, begins. Within a few minutes the whole body is radiant with it. It suffuses the room: it suffuses the massage therapist too. People talk about massage therapists being caretakers, and I suppose we are: we like to look after people, and weāre easily moved to tenderness. But to let you in on a secret: Iām in it for the glow. Iāll tell you what people look like, really: they look like flames. Or like the stars, on a clear night in the wilderness.ā
ā What People Really Look Like
consider: teenagers arenāt apathetic about everything theyāre just used to you shitting all over whatever they show excitement about
Teen: *gets a job*
āI GOT THE JOB!ā
Parents: Well, when I was your age, I already had 5 jobs and was supporting my family
Teen: *gets all Aās*
āI worked really hard!ā
Parents: Well, of course you did, this is the expectation, not a celebration.
probably why so many teens take to social media where they can enthusiastically share their interests and achievements and get positive feedback that their parents never gave
A LITTLE LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
I remember once, when I was in my early 20s, I was an afternoon supervisor at my job, and I worked with mostly teenagers, and the one day this one kid, who was like 15, was bored so I suggested he could clean out the fridge. He did and when he was done I said he did a good job.
After that, this kid was cleaning out the fridge at least once a week, and I was like, āwhy are you always cleaning the fridge?ā Like, I didnāt mind, but it seemed odd. And he said, āone time I cleaned the fridge and you said I did a good job. I wanted to make you proud of me again.ā
Literally, I changed the entire way I interacted with teenagers after that. I actually got a package of glitter stars and I would stick them on their nametags when they did a good job, and they loved it.
My manager had commented on how hard these kids work and I said, ātheyāre starved for positive feedback. They go to school all day then come to work all evening and no one appreciates it because itās expected of them, but theyāre still kids. They need positive feedback from adults in their lives.ā
Like, everyone likes feeling appreciated. Everyone likes being complimented and having their efforts be noticed. Another coworker (who was a mother of teenage children), hated that I did this, and said they were too old to be rewarded with stickers, but likeā¦ it wasnāt about the stickers. The stickers were just a symbol that their effort was noticed and appreciated. I was just lucky that I learned this at a time when I was still young enough to remember what it was like to be a teenager. I was only 2 years out of highschool at that point and highschool is fucking hard. People forget this as they get older, but ask anyone and almost no one would ever want to go back and do it again, but they expect kids to suck it up because theyāre young so they should be able to do school full time, plus homework, and work, and maintain a healthy social life, and sleep, and spend time with family, and do chores and help out at home, and worry about college and relationships and everything else, and then just get shit on all the time and treated like theyāre lazy and entitled. And then they wonder why teenagers are apathetic.
For a german exam I had to argue against an article that was essentially ākids these days, they donāt care about anything and are constantly on their phonesā and really it was the easiest essay Iāve ever written.
Teens donāt talk to adults bc adults only ask āso, howās schoolā to then interrupt them two sentences in. And because they canāt engage in a conversation about buying houses and working in a bank. I wouldāve loved to talk about philosophy and politics and history with family the way I did with friends and in class but because I was young no one took what I had to say seriously.
And no, teens arenāt always on their phone. Theyāre on their phone when theyāre bored. You think Iām on social media when Iām with my friends? When Iām talking about something Iām interested in?
Maybe the reason kids are so distant and always on their phone during family parties and the like is because youāre failing to engage and include them.
Whoop there it is
When you respect kids, they really respond and learn from you. But if you treat kids like ātheyre just a kid, what do they know??ā then youāll never find out.
As a Disneyland Cast Member, Iāll add my own experience onto this ā
Very frequently, when I first speak to a child while Iām at work, theyāll kind of withdraw and act uncomfortable and shy. Their parents will then rather frequently tell them to not be shy and try to coax them to talk to me ā whenever that happens, I always, without fail, politely dissuade the parents from pressuring them.
āIām a stranger,ā Iāll tell the kidās parents. āI donāt blame them for not talking to me ā if they were anywhere else, theyād have the right idea, to not immediately trust me.ā
I cannot tell you how many times Iāve seen that same kid ā simply after hearing their initial reaction being validated, instead of reproached ā immediately open up to me after that. I also cannot tell you how many times that child and I would go on to start a frigginā marathon conversation, and I got to hear all about how great their day was or what their favorite Disney movies were or what rides they liked and didnāt like or how much they like a certain Disney character or songā¦all from me validating that initial feeling and showing genuine interest in what they had to say.
This isnāt just young children, either. I will always remember being positioned outside the Animation Academy one day and starting up a conversation with a young lady, perhaps 12 or 13, who joined the line with her father a full 25 minutes before the class was supposed to start. Now keep in mind, we do a drawing class every 30 minutes: there was no one else in line at that point, and no one else joined the girl and her father in line for a full fifteen minutes. So I could tell pretty quickly that this girl was very emotionally invested in getting a good spot for the drawing class: a conclusion all the more bolstered by the fact that she had a notebook under her arm. I asked her if she was an artist ā she said yes, but seemed uncomfortable at the question, so I skipped even asking her if I could see her work, instead admitting that I myself wasnāt very good at art, but that Iām trying to get better and that I love the history of Disney animation. On the screens around us was video footage of different Disney concept art and animation reels, so I pointed one of them out (for Snow White) and asked if she knew the story behind the making of the movie. Upon confirming that she didnāt, I proceeded to get down on the floor so I could sit next to her and her father and dramatically tell the whole story of how āUncle Waltā created the first full-length animated motion picture, even though everyone and their mother thought he was an idiot for even trying, and how the film ended up becoming the first Hollywood blockbuster. After the story was over, the girlās father said that his daughter really wanted to be an animator when she grew up, and she finally felt comfortable enough to open her notebook and show me some of her artwork. It was wonderful! Every sketch had such character and you could tell how much work she put into it! And I could tell how much telling her that ā and sharing that moment with her, where we got to connect over something we both really enjoyed ā had meant. And after the class was over, she sought me out to show me what she and her father had drawn ā and sure enough, hers was great! (Her fatherās was too, really. XD)
People, kids and teens included, love sharing what they love and how they feel with others. You just have to give them the chance to show it.
A LITTLE LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!
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I feel like I am obliged to add one more thing: donāt ever think that the kids wonāt feel your unspoken judgements cause they do!
I felt always like a āproblemā in my family, until I was about sixteen, I got this teacher who was litterally the first to tell I was worthy. He changed my life up till this day.
Also how do grown ups imagine how āweā will ever learn to engage in conversations with adults properly if you donāt teach us?
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I told one of my new coworkers (who is 26) that he was doing really well and that I was proud of him and his progress. I thought he was going to start crying for how quietly he saidĀ āreally?ā.Ā
Positive feedback makes the biggest difference to everything.
iām extremely lucky that iāve always gotten positive feedback and proper attention + engagement from my parents.
i can count on one hand the times iāve gotten it from anyone else.
teenagers are so attached to their phones at school because itās one of the only things we have all day that makes us feel vaguely alright
Zare why would you hide this nugget of glorious truth in the tags this is literally everything I want to say but couldnāt figure out words for it
When I ran up to my parents with my nigh-perfect grade school grades and they responded by going āI see, thatās niceā, that didnāt spur me to work harder. It fundamentally and permanently changed my relationship with them for the worse.
I was 15 years old and my conclusion was that these people didnāt have my best interests at heart.
They went from āmy parentsā to āthese peopleā
Kids know
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This screenshotted thread by sensitivity reader elainesoup with recommendations for picture books with fat representation can be read on Twitter here:Ā https://twitter.com/elainesoup/status/1450176697156866051
My partner brought up an excellent point - these books hardly represent any boys!! in much of childrenās media (and media in general) men arenāt allowed to be fat unless theyāre funny, evil, pathetic, and so on.
Fat men need positive and realistic representation too. ā¤ļø
Kellogg to permanently replace striking employees as workers reject new contract
Dec 7 (Reuters) - Kellogg Co (K.N) said on Tuesday a majority of its U.S. cereal plant workers have voted against a new five-year contract, forcing it to hire permanent replacements as employees extend a strike that started more than two months ago.
Temporary replacements have already been working at the companyās cereal plants in Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Tennessee where 1,400 union members went on strike on Oct. 5 as their contracts expired and talks over payment and benefits stalled. [ā¦]
this is some kind of commentary on how sometimes a compromise between two things just results in something useless for any of the original intentions.
youāve seen a sporkā¦ now get ready for the foon
