r/FacePalm - "BAN THE BUTTS" 

The "white people shouldn't speak spanish that's cultural appropriation" argument is SO weird given the fact that those cultures speaking spanish is because of Spanish colonization

"This person should be fired/banned because I'm sexualizing them." Yeah that makes perfect sense. No flawed logic here.

OF COURSE those kids who got married at age 12 are still married, I'm fairly sure they can't legally get divorced until they're 18

"Kids can't be trans, they are just babies!!!!!" "Kids should be married off at 12"

At my Sr. Prom I went with another girl. We both were wearing dresses but got kicked out for attending as two girls and not as a male and female couple. Some twenty odd number of our friends left with us in solidarity upon seeing us get kicked out. We all decided to go out to dinner and one of our group of friends called their parents and explained to them what happened......said friends mom and dad told us we could all go out to their family camp on a near-by Lake and throw our own party...... We all danced around a huge campfire told ghost stories and played music till like 1am and then went swimming in the Lake.....best "prom" ever!

I was told when I was 13 to “cover up more” because friends of my parents and grandparents had “impure thoughts” about me. I was wearing a tshirt and jeans. I had the “nerve” to tell them I was a CHILD, and they were ADULTS, and they had to control THEMSELVES.

Fun animal fact when red pandas feel threatened they stand up to seem more intimidating and it is adorable.

Fun fact: Marry Shelly originally had to publish Frankenstein under her husband's name because the publishing house refused to publish a woman's works.

About the trans woman in the marathon- she was running as a _general participant,_ so even if she was first, she wouldn’t have won anything. She got a participation medal. And she was raising money for kids in wheelchairs. And bigots are mad about it🙃

That transgender runner story makes me so annoyed everytime not only was she not even in the top 6000 of 20000 but the medal she recieved was a participation medal that all 20k people got and it wasnt even an all female race literally anyone was allowed to run!?!? There is not a single thing you could possibly find to even slightly incriminate this woman who ran the whole marathon for charity and yet there have been more news articles about her than the actual winner!!!

The disgusting thing is... that senator WAS NOT citing a statistic. He was citing an anecdote to defend child marriage in his state.

"I like the idea of a cellar for storing food but it's not exactly groundbreaking" Digging a food cellar is literally ground-breaking

The child marriage thing is like "Murder is fine. Murdered people are still dead. They would become alive again if they did not like it."

Even if AI detectors were genuinely 98% accurate, that means 1 out of 50 accused would be completely innocent and still get punished.

The funny thing is P!nk isn’t even a lesbian, she has a husband and two kids 💀

Ah, the big booty teacher. So some very much needed context there: They weren't calling for her to be fired because 'she thicc', they were calling for her to be fired because she was having pictures taken of her watching her *preschool* students, during work hours, on the preschool grounds, with the students in shot. She was then posting those pictures *with the kids still in them* in some cases, with no attempt to crop or blur them out, onto her public thirst trap Twitter and Instagram pages. She was purposely sexualizing herself during work hours in front of children too young to know what was happening, and posting pictures of those kids online without the parents' knowledge or anyone's consent. Having a big butt is not a fireable offense. But there were several bad decisions in the way she was going about posting it online. Honestly, if people weren't so quick to jump to her rescue about this because news outlets spread the story as "Protect this woman, they're shaming her big butt!", most people would be at risk of not just losing their job/career, but potentially facing charges, worst case maybe even getting put in The Registry.

16:35 The worst part about the guy threatening to shoot the kid for ringing his doorbell is that she was looking for her lost kitten. He continued to defend himself and say that the kid was in the wrong and he’d call the cops if she did it again after threatening her to her face and making her cry.

Child marriage in America is unfortunately 100% a thing. As long as one parent gives permission. My aunt got married when she was 15 to a man who was in his twenties. They are not married anymore because he did bad touchy things to another child. I wonder if there were any red flags that they missed? 🤔

if butts were banned in jobs, I'd be getting a raise 💀

People going straight to a lawsuit for something as minor as forgetting a condiment completely boggles my mind. Got lunch from my local store on monday, and when I got home I found out that because they'd left the burgers on the bottom of the warming cabinet, the plastic had melted and stuck to the burger. Just returned it, politely explained the problem and got a refund. And they gave me extra chips and tenders as an apology in the replacement lunch I bought. No drama, just an honest mistake quickly and easily resolved.

As an American I can agree that the metric system is better than whatever America has going on

Small note: the “tipping culture” in America is due to the fact that our politicians refuse to let tip workers have the same minimum wage as everyone else, meaning they typically have to make a living based purely on tips. Yes, I also agree it is stupid

we hate the tipping system, too. It's just an excuse for restaurants to pay less than minimum wage

I love when wild animals remind people they're wild (without the animal getting killed for defending itself)

Day 96 of asking for OT, Jammidodger, TheClick and TheLexiKitty to collab

i really hate that there are laws and school rules in the USA about "cross dressing" now like bro let guys wear dresses and girls wear suits and vice versa plus it's super transphobic of them to do so. thank god there hasn't been any school rules like that near me (i hope at least)

I feel so bad for people who go out with manipulative people like the "split the bill" girl. Don't ask questions you don't want the answer to! Don't offer a solution you don't want to go through with! If I offer to split the bill it's because I want to help. If my date says no to splitting, then that's very kind of them. If my date says "yes" then I go through with splitting the bill, zero hard feelings because I was literally the one who offered to split it! Don't trick people. How tf are you supposed to have a healthy relationship if the smallest interactions are based on manipulation and testing to see how much you can get away with?? This sort of "pass/fail" testing" of others over ultimately trivial things is toxic. Man I don't even wanna date and I have more sense.

for the doorbell guy it's not that he doesn't want people ringing his doorbell, it's that he's so hungry to use his gun he's looking for any excuse to do so, and that attitude is becoming very common in the US

The soap lady killed me when she had that moment of realization. That conversation turned unexpectedly wholesome with her trying to process that new information. 💜

I disagree with Click about the cellar being groundbreaking. You LITERALLY have to break ground to make one. It’s called digging

It's ironic how it's bad to see lady butts, but it's all good to see guy's butts. Society is secretly gay confirmed!

The trans runner thing broke my heart a little, even before the truthful headline was shown. The whole thing is so pointlessly cruel and these kinds of lies get people killed.

I wouldn't doubt it if the ladies who accidentally swapped babies are friends who chose to dress their babies the same. When the one comes over to take the baby out of the others arm, neither seem too particularly concerned.

You can prove you did write your work yourself by filming the entire process of writing. Let them watch 20 hours or however long it takes you to write shit. Better than failing for no reason.

For splitting the bill with a potential date is more of me protecting myself from creeps. If they don't buy me anything, then I don't owe them anything. I want to get to know you, not feel gaslit into saying yes to activities that I don't want.

I'm in HS, and the idea that schools pad grades to pass all the kids makes SO MUCH SENSE!!!! SOME IF THE KIDS IN MY CLASS CAN BARELY WRITE A SENTENCE!!!

That post from the guy warning people not to ring his doorbell and threatening that he was loading his gun is especially eerie (and familiar) because recently in America a man did shoot a child who came to his house by mistake when trying to pick his little brother up from a friend's house. People like that having weapons is truly terrifying- more so than any boogeyman scenario they can make up to justify having a gun in the first place.

Just yesterday a teacher said she was "disappointed" in me because her software said my essay was "10% written by AI". Luckily enough, I could convince her it was actually me who had written my own essay because the number is so low, but I am scared of the next few years. What if this happens with my Bachelor's thesis? How do I prove I didn't use sth? My uni doesn't even have regulations on AI yet, so nobody knows what teachers are even allowed to do based on their suspicions. It is the wild west out there, man. Thanks for talking about this, made me feel a lot better to see your support in this, Click.

A few days ago, my mom and stepdad found out that I'm agnostic, and we got into a huge fight over this. I will say that this isn't because she wants to control me. It is because they are legitimately worried for me, and are afraid that if I'm not Christian, I won't go to Heaven, and does legitimately come from their love towards me. I went to bed crying because of how frustrated I was about them not listening to me. There is a good thing to this story though. My brother talked to me about it afterwards and was taking the time to ensure that i know it's okay to be who I am (I already felt okay with who I am but it is still touching) and we had a great conversation regarding how it's hard to have progressive opinions and views since the area where we live is so completely conservative (by which I mean the weord American versions that are loterally flipped from what they originally were) and how he's one of the only liberals here, and most importantly, he made the point to be clear that even if I annoy him, he'll always be there to support me. My point to this is that even when it's hard and pretty much everybody seems to be against you, you can still find people who will support you wholeheartedly and that this can help make things if not okay, better than they are.

Man, that thing about the marathon reminds me of the woman who WON the race she was in, then complained that a trans woman was also competing.

My favorite reddit story I have found about the whole "speak english" Karen's, was OP's aunt expecting a Gaelic town in Ireland to speak English. Claiming it was "like being in a foreign country."

Once I was in a food line at a mall with my kids, absent-mindedly petting the hair of the one standing with me while I debated. The lady in front of me was giving me the weirdest look. I glance at "my" kid who's hair I was playing with. It was her kid. Mine were both standing behind me watching me lovingly touch a stranger's kid and saying nothing, and the kid said nothing either. Worst thing was how the woman kept giving me stank eye afterwards when I acknowledged and apologized for the mix-up. Like, lady, you see I have kids the same height and hairstyle with me, your kid was standing with me not you, and I freaking apologized. Do you not touch your kids or something, for a motherly action to be that weird to you???

Building a cellar is literally a ground breaking concept

The girl that was shocked over how to properly use a bar of soap killed me. I may have replayed that a few times just for her reaction. Like, I usually take the bar of soap, wrap my washcloth around it and get the washcloth all soapy and then wash myself like that. Like with the loofah ball, I put some liquid bodywash on it and use that poofball on my body. You don't need to take the bar of soap on a journey like that lol

As a Canadian, I have a true respect for all moose.

LOL Click has no idea how messed up the American school system is. We live in a country where many children only show up to school because that's the only place they can get a steady meal. And some people want to take that away. LOL We're so screwed.

For context, the woman divorcing the football player was quite accomplished in her own right. She had a successful career and it's not super unusual to ask for a 50/50 split. She lived this lifestyle where her and her husband had daily access to things that she assumed were in her husband's name. We don't know if or how much money she put towards those purchases. Poor woman is being made out to be a golddigger when her husband was the one who purposely lied to her about finances.

After we moved to Texas, my children attended a very conservative school. My oldest child (AMAB) was only there for ½ of their senior year. They went to prom in a beautiful prom dress and went with a friend (AFAB) who wore a tux. The school would not let either of them in until they switched outfits. They did, because they felt they had already made their point. I was so damn proud that day of them standing up and creating a path for others.

As for the teacher's butt, she got in trouble because she was including children in her photos and refused to stop, not because of her butt.

it's still hilarious to me that native english speakers (mostly americans lbh) are so privileged that other countries teach English as a second language so we don't have to learn another one and instead of being like wow that's great I'm so lucky they're like actually no it's racist to learn other languages 💀

That plagiarism detector can be a real issue; some people in my college facebook group were talking about how their papers were flagged for plagiarism, but what was flagged were properly cited parts of the paper, or very generic statements, especially when it came to labs where you should be getting specific results. If a teacher doesn't review it and goes based on the color, it can cause someone to fail a class. I've had turnitin flag cited sources, the sources themselves in the bibliography, and statements such as "x war was in x year" or someone in a group saying "I am a white woman married to a Hispanic man", because she is a white woman married to a Hispanic man and we were supposed to say a little about ourselves and why the topic we were covering was relevant to us; imagine your life being copyrighted because someone else has a similar coupling and mentioned it in their paper. I understand plagiarism is a problem, but man, teachers really need to consider the tools they are using and actually go over them to make sure they aren't falsely flagging things. And seriously, get rid of the issues with labs that hundreds are doing a year that are supposed to all have the same results, FFS; that is a no-win situation.

I actually had something similar happen to me. I was in high school and came up with a cool story in a post-apocalyptic future, where man had eliminated all plants, and everyone had to wear an oxygen mask. The plot was that there was a company with the monopoly for artificial oxygen, and a bunch of kids found dandelions. A couple of years later, I found out a writer called Dr Seuss had already written a story like that. True, mine didn't have magic, and it had lots more trauma, drug abuse and the like, but it still discouraged me from writing the only original piece I had come up with. There's a guionist book that starts with "everything that could be written already has been, so write on!" But it's still disheartening when this happens

To many people have lost their lives this year due to "stand your ground" people thinking it means they can shoot anyone that enters their property, regardless of their age or reasons for going on their property. A 14 year old girl that was playing hide and seek with her friends got shot by one of these psychopaths, thankfully, she survived, despite being hit in the head. This behavior is insane.

They wouldn't let me go to prom in a kilt (I'd have worn shorts under) to my prom. Notably, this would have been above the expected dress code. Jokes on them though, I wear skirts all the time now without the excuse of prom

Do they realize that natural born Spanish speakers can be dark skinned, light skinned and even Asian in appearance?

The dumbest thing I got "in trouble for" was throwing a water balloon on a kid while we were having a water balloon fight after school (on school property) during a heatwave on one of the hottest days of the year. Note, it wasn't actually a balloon cuz we couldn't afford them, so we used small sandwich bags to fill water. No one was hurt, lol. My mom read the note my teacher sent home, rolled her eyes and called my teacher some words I can't repeat here.

I'm trans. Since I've started my transition my butt has gotten bigger. I got called into my managers office at work because my "new" pants are too revealing. I was told that I should use the pants i had been using before because those were fine. They are the same pants 🤦‍♀️

Sorry Clicky, the post said "my *SOLAR* and electric car" The guy has solar panels at his home and can generate his own electricity off-grid. That's the face-palm moment.

21:41 I once got failed in a Theology class because my Professor had a policy of using a plagiarism detection bot, which he refused to even check the logs of what they claimed was "plagiarized." My essay on Judaism was flagged as taken from a protein smoothie website... He was fired the next year.

"She's CURED"...while having ham on her face. I cracked up

The Hakimi thing is blatant misogyny disguised as misinformation. Hakimi is getting divorced, but the reason why is because Hakimi is facing a r*pe charge.

16:35 I heard about this one. The context is that it was a little girl, she was looking for her kitty, she was apparently black, he threatened to rip her "nasty hair" out if she rang his bell again, and he actually had the cat because he stole it. He kept doubling down hard core about what he said and that's how all the details got spilled, because for some reason he thought it made him look better.

Ok wait, I have to correct you on one thing!!! A cellar is INDEED ground breaking!!!

As a Canadian, watching people mess with wildlife is infuriating. And I want to ride a moose that is awesome and terrifying 😂

My face palm of the day was me getting called a "rampant sexist" because on a post on how to draw human anatomy, I said that men shouldn't called ugly for having bulges. I was almost called a "fucking moron" because I stated that women don't have crotches like a barbie doll.

as someone who lives around twitchy cops, if they tell you the radio is a breathalizer, then it's a breathalizer. better to have them laugh at you than beat you half to death because you resisted a drug test.

I have had the same female moose coming around for 20 years. She is cool and doesn’t fuck with me or my dogs, but if she is outside we go inside. She has a baby every 2 years. A few years ago her male yearling (she had already sent him packing) was just chowing down on my garden and was acting super aggressive. When he saw me he put his ears down and started grunting. I was trapped in my house. The males are way scarier than females, and the females are already scary as hell. She is well over 6 feet tall at the head. I would never approach a moose on purpose.

I actually once got into a plane's cockpit (kind of) . But that was only because I was an unaccompanied minor, so I had to board the plane first together with a flight attendant. The cockpit was not locked yet since boarding hadn't officially started for everyone else yet. The captain was really nice and asked me if I wanted to come in and look around for a while. Sadly I was really shy so I said no.

The not failing students thing is so hard to imagine. They do know that often repeating the grade will benefit the student? My best friend repeated 1st grade bc she had a chronic ear infection and was temporarily hard of hearing. So she barely caught anything of what the teacher was saying. She can hear perfectly fine now and has since graduated, but imagine if she hadn't had the oportunity to repeat the grade where you literally learn all the basics to later funtion as a human being, because of some 'statistic'.

Why is no one freaking out about the new intro? It’s absolutely adorable

To defend the lady in the soap conversation, I have seen plenty of soap commercials where the model rubs the bar on their body. Irish Spring is a great example of this. I wouldn't use someone else's bar soap just out an abundance caution anyway.

32:15 The mother owning all of the assets in order to protect them: my parents almost did something like this to protect our family's assets from a wrongful lawsuit brought by greedy people. My dad owned and operated a successful business for 30 years starting in the '80s. Unfortunately success can attract dishonest people who want what isn't theirs. My dad was always an upstanding and honorable businessman, and always kept his word AND his contract terms with customers/clients. To put it simply, when I was growing up there were people who filed a frivolous lawsuit against our family's business and used every underhanded trick in the books to manipulate the court/justice system to try and take what wasn't theirs, including my family's assets outside of the business even down to our home and my parents' retirement savings. When things got to their worst, my parents actually had a kind of "nuclear option" plan that they were going to do in order to protect the family if it became necessary: my dad would transfer absolutely everything outside of the core finances of the business into my mom's name, and then they would divorce so those other people couldn't touch any of it because their suit was against my dad specifically. Then once everything was settled, they'd remarry. It thankfully didn't come to that and my dad ended up winning the lawsuit because, again, it was frivolous and he hadn't done anything wrong. But that contingency plan is still legendary within the family. My parents will celebrate their 57th wedding anniversary in August. Which makes it even funnier that at the time they were discussing the divorce-then-remarry plan, my mom had teased my dad saying "Well yeah, _if I take you back."_ 😂

For some reason, meme compilations are notorious for leading people down a right wing pipeline. I guess it's because of all of those "triggered feminists get OWNED by Ben Shapiro" type things

I remember having to get a doctor's note to wear flats to high school graduation because girls were required to wear heels (A, I'm nonbinary, and B, I have joint deformities that, among other things, means my legs can't support my weight when in certain positions. So I can't even stand up in heels, hence the doctor's note)

Fun anecdote: when I was small my mum saw me from behind walking towards my school way too late and more than an hour after school started. She knew it was me, because I was wearing that dress that day and was clearly me from behind. She got out of the car, grabbed my arm and nearly smacked my backside when "I" said: "Auntie xxx, what are you doing?" Turned out that my best friend was wearing the same dress and had just come from the dentist. How's that for mistaking your child? 😂

Coming up with a frankenstien independently is actually really impressive because it's in so much of media. How did you completely miss that media?

8:10 Speaking on 12 years of experience as a local public pool lifeguard... The people I've had to jump in after *most* have been full-grown men in our diving well. Kids who are obviously poor swimmers will avoid the deeper ends of the pool. Kids who are on the fence usually either play it safe themselves, have one "close call" prompting us to warn them off entering deeper waters, or have a guardian there to keep them cautious. Grown adults, who can stand in all other areas of the pool, will find themselves pushed to jump into the deep end by their kids or their friends, and since they *USUALLY* stay in water they can either comfortably stand in, or push off the floor from after jumping in to "jump start" their swim, the moment they suddenly realize they *can't* reach the floor, the panic sets in and even those who know the basics of how to float and swim may instead panic and flail. The man in this video is, from what I see, a "kick-start-glide" type. He's likely used to pushing off from the floor in order to angle himself into a partially effective float while likely NOT utilizing his legs well and focusing on use of his arms to direct and "swim" about for a few feet, before dipping down and kicking off again. A LOT of people with larger upper body muscle mass do this, especially men. It's really common for this type to fool themselves into thinking they can swim well enough to handle deeper water. Also, I *DO NOT* recommend water wings (arm puffs) unless they are specifically the type that attach to a vest or body-piece. People often wear the basic water wings incorrectly, causing them to slide down the arms as they move through water. You'd be surprised how many toddlers and small children I've had to grab because parents who thought they were safe let their kid jump in water and the wings just came right off, leaving the kid submerged... And all those instances were while on VACATION, not at my job, as my local pool straight up bans water wings. If you need flotation aids, choose a vest.

Recent FacePalm moment, courtesy of my sister: So my sister ordered new seat covers for her car. After a few days, it said they were delivered to our house, but there was no sign of them. She looks at the tracking, and FedEx has a photo showing the proof of delivery of the package... at a completely different house. She spends days going back and forth with FedEx and the USPS, trying to see if she could be refunded, with FedEx saying they delivered it to the address given (the address she gave was the correct one, the email receipt proves this) and once it's marked as received, there's nothing they can do. Still, she was determined to find out where the package was actually delivered. After a bit of Sherlock level detective work (the novel version, not the BBC one) she found the house. Turns out the street address was the same name as our town. They somehow managed to mix up the town name and street address. Luckily, the online retailer where she bought the seat covers were able to refund her after being shown they never arrived, and she reordered them through a different site. Just amazing.

I was the one with the identical babies before and remembered when I took my niece to the waterpark. She was four and I lost sight of her. I had to describe her and it was like "Four year old girl in pink Minnie Mouse bathing suit." Yeah, because there are no other 4 year old girls in pink Minnie Mouse bathing suits! She was pretty much right behind me the whole time. It was like Where's Waldo. So I bought a bright green fancy synchronised swimmer headband for her. I thought it'd be a fight to get her to wear it but she LOVED it! So much easier to find in a crowd!

Someone please send the soap lady a bar with a FLARED BASE for her own safety! 🤣🤣🤣

Moose and Zebras. The perfect examples of not all animals being domesticatable. Even if theyvare related closely to some of the most domesticatable animals out there.

Middle school P.E. story: One day my class had a substitute gym teacher. The game was pickleball and I was playing as I usually did; serious and focused. For some reason the substitute called me to the side and ordered me to start doing push-ups. I asked him how many, and he replied, "until I'm tired of looking at you". Apparently, he liked me very much because I was doing push-ups until my arms collapsed. The next day the principal told me the substitute was reprimanded for his unjust action and was removed. Sadly, I wasn't informed as to why he did that to me in the first place.

I’m pretty sure I heard about that curvy teacher one. Apparently it wasn’t about her curves, but about taking pics of herself showing off those curves next to children and posting them. I actually agree with that one. You can’t take pictures of kids like that and post them online.

So... Imagine if the mom who found the girlfriend out with some other guy wasn't aware that the couple were poylgamous and it was completely fine in both of their minds and the mom just walked in and berated her son's girlfriend and in turn her son for doing nothing wrong?

18:58 The woman in these photos was Photoshoping her body to look that way, posing for inappropriate photos in class, and told students to follow her Instagram. If it was real then I get that her body is out of her control, but she is not innocent in the slightest. Parents were not complaining about her body, they were upset over the fact that she was posting these inappropriately altered photos pf herself with their children in them.

The one with the teacher with the huge butt. The controversy was actually that she was taking suggestive photos to post to her twitter for soft core p. DURING CLASS TIME. she needs to be put on a list.

I love how over time his intro character gets more and more furry-esque 😂😂😂

The moose part was good. The fact that the guy with the camera was just like, welp, and started cheering for the moose was perfect. XD

With the airplane story: "level flight" doesn't mean straight like a line. It means "whatever keeps the horizon in the same spot". If you trim the plane to very gently nose downwards, it will nose down at the same rate as the Earth curves, and that will keep the horizon in the same spot. And that's effectively what the pilots do -- if they notice the horizon going down, they can correct the pitch and then trim the plane to nose down more. If the horizon is going up, they can correct the pitch and then trim the plane to nose down less. Modern planes use an inertial navigation system to keep track of orientation, and it very much needs to accommodate the curvature of the earth because the pilots need instruments such as the artificial horizon and heading indicator to have the same practical meaning anywhere on the planet.

Hi y’all, in case no one has reminded you yet today, you are awesome and haters can suck on an egg.

Ok the soap story near the end is some peak comedy. Both can laugh about what is not a big deal in the end. Bravo.

At the begining of this school year I was failing because of the plagiarism detectors built into my online schools program. I tried to plead my case because I know I didn't cheat. I took a look at what was said to be pagerised and....it was the teachers "Origainal" instructions, not my work. so me and most likely many other kids were failing because nobody checked their "Super smart and reliable" plagiarism detector. 💀

One dumb thing I got in trouble in school for was not playing the game telephone properly. I'm deaf in one ear-Teacher wouldn't let me switch to a side where I'd be able to hear (she knew I was deaf on that side). I got blamed for ruining the game and not being a team player.

I used to work at a water park The amount of people who visited and can't swim is actually quite high. We heard life guard whistles all day long because people keep almost drowning It's baffling and every time I worked there I lost more faith in humanity. Not ALL attractions required swimming, but you'd think they would ask before they hop on one and drown

The baby mix up reminded of when my youngest sister, who was 3/4 at the time, had a friend who was her literal and figurative doppelganger. People were absolutely convinced they were twins, or that my dad had cheated (he hadn't). In the start of the 90s, kids all tended to have similar clothing, if not identical, because there weren't as many options as there are today. One gorgeous summer day, my sister, and her friend (I can't recall the girl's name, but her mum's was Sharon and she was a nasty piece of work), were playing together in front of our close (Scottish term for flats／apartments/condo). Both were wearing identical outfits - pastel rainbow shorts, and white t shirts with rainbows to match. (All three girls in my family had the same bloody outfit. Hated the t-shirt - triggered my sensory issues so very terribly🤬). Anyway, with me being the eldest, I'm on babysitting duty as usual. Sharon calls my sister's pal in for lunch, and we also head in for a snack. My dad was playing bowls (sometimes called carpet bowls) that day. A couple of hours later, he comes home, carrying a bawling kid - one who looked like my sister from behind - scolding her for being out in the big park alone, how she could have been hurt etc. My mum said to my dad my sister was sleeping on the couch. There's no way she'd gotten out. Dad refused to believe her, until he walked into the living room and saw my sister, sound asleep, on the couch. Mum got one of us older kids to run across to Sharon's to let her know her daughter was safe. Sharon was so out of her face on drugs, she didn't even know where her kids were let alone at least one had decided to venture on a solo walk. She came over, picked up her kid, and started screaming at her full blast. Someone finally called social work on her, and her kids were taken away for a while.

I am so happy to discussed the schools letting kids pass without turning in homework and getting zeros. I was victim to this, growing up I never faced any repercussions when not turning in homework, this landed me tones of zeros but I still got to the next grade. I am now trying to get ahead and understand all in which I ignored in order to improve my life. Schools need to fix themselves, I doubt I’m the only one who’s fallen victim.😔

To be fair, most of us are never properly taught how to clean ourselves. We're taught *to* do it, but like, I wasn't taught the proper methods to shampoo/condition my hair. You learn the true way, wild panic in your late 20s

21:25 reminds me of how my mom accused me of writing incest because I had a guy kiss his younger brother on the forehead. How is that incest? My mom used to kiss me on the lips whenever I left for school and kissed me goodnight the same way, which kinda makes me worry about the implications. I only hope she was just looking for a reason to yell at me. Either way, I will not stop with the forehead and cheek kisses between family members, because it's too cute and wholesome to not write/draw.

my school has stuff on a lockdown browser so that if you open any new tabs it logs you out of like essay writing, this lead to me having to explain why i kept getting logged out in grade 7 because I would open the writing tab only for a new tab to open telling me lock down browser was turned on and logging me out

Can confirm. The coronation *was* on all the main channels on tv at the same time, but unlike in Big Brother, it was possible to turn the tv off, or watch something else. Also, people did not have to go to the coronation unless they wanted to.