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My German teacher loved telling tales from being an exchange student in Germany (he's from the US). He said that the first time after he gave a presentation everyone started slamming their desks with one hand. He thought his project was so aweful that they sentenced him to some kind of heinous fate and the slamming was their way of saying they're out for his blood.
I went to a doctor and I told her that I am a trans male and mention that I wanted to get top surgery. Her first question was "well what does your boyfriend think about that?" She didn't even know I had a boyfriend. When both of my exes got a vasectomy, their first question wasn't "Well what is your significant other think?", It was all about them (which it should be)
I was told that I needed to lose weight before I could get top surgery 😅 In my country every goes on BMI and to get to the right BMI I would have to lose like 40kg... I work out as much as I can and have a Normal amount of body fat (roughly 30% last time I checked), according to my BMI I should be very obise
For the getting over someone (I think this applies to any kind of relationship lost, not just romantic) the best thing to remind yourself is “I don’t miss you, I miss who I thought you were/who you pretended to be.” So often things fall apart because the person doesn’t match the idea, and it’s ok to admit you miss the idea. Or in other words “sometimes I miss you, but then I remember you were an asshole. F**k that noise.”
“When she gave everyone hugs but only ever offered me a high five” Okay but I used to have a squish on my friend (mistook for a crush but I’m aromantic, it was actually purely platonic) I took years before I could hug them. I hug them every time I say goodbye to them now but I couldn’t hug them I felt so embarrassed & it felt so intimate, I couldn’t do it lol. Still get the awkward feeling sometimes but we’re like.. besties like we’re basically the same person & I love them 😌😌
1:06:32 Dude, The Last Unicorn kinda scarred me. As a toddler I had a potable mini dvd player and that was one of the movies I would watch. My parents just saw the cutesy rainbow cover and apparently I never mentioned how mildly traumatic and weird it was (I only remember bits and pieces but it was a LOT). My parents didn’t know about it until recently lol Should probably rewatch it
You definitely should. My kids watched it in VHS (because I decided I wanted my kids to have that experience for some reason 🤣) but after they started school, not as toddlers, and they watched it in repeat until they burned out the tape and STILL talk about how much they love it. I would love to hear how you feel after watching it now in conjunction with you having that experience as a toddler (If anything is phrased oddly or misspelled I apologize; I'm literally half asleep and using only one eye 😅)
Big rumour in high school was I overdosed on heroin n died, I started smoking weed n ditched school because of bullying, still haven't even seen heroin
I had an eating disorder and was in the hospital ( my heart wasn't coping well) The cardiologist on shift that day told me I weighed too much to have an eating disorder. I was in daily out patient treatment for it.
I have a few for the doctor, one 12: while at the doctor to get a refill on my asthma medication, my dad brought up the concern that my 9yo little brother was getting fat. The doctor came over to where I was sitting hunched over on the table, grabbed my stomach and said "looks like you're getting a little chunky too." 18: had a spontaneous really bad breakout of cystic acne. Went into get looked at, first thing out of the doctor's mouth was "what happened to your face?!" 27: best friend of 15 years had unalived herself 3 months earlier, and I had gone in for a prescription refill on my anxiety/ depression meds. Doctor said that I still shouldn't be so upset because "at least it wasn't your father, mother or child." These were all different doctors by the way
A graduate heard that I was expelled for flashing my chest at a group of students after being accused of having baloney nipples. In his defense, it does sound like something I would do, but no one had ever called me baloney nipples, sooooo 🤷🏻
Actually, in some countries it's the norm to put your baby in their stroller and leave them to nap outside, especially if it's chilly... But I assume now they *at least* watch them on camera...
have you ever held a grudge against a teacher. mine was my 7th grade home room teacher. She hated me from day one no clue why and tried to make my yr 7 and 8 in grade school hell. So I became best friends with her son just to piss her off and proceed to refuse to call her by her last name when ever I came over to his house to hang out. We're off school Grounds "Karen" I'm not calling you Mrs. W. Still call her by her first name 30+ years later and she still hates me.
the being single one kinda hurt me lmao, i broke up with my bf today for mental health reasons 😭 we'll still be friends bc we really love each other but we aren't in a good situation mentally + i moved across the country so it became really difficult for us :( so yeah i hope we can get back together soon
18:24 My head cannon is that this is actually a story a mother is telling to her child in a way more advanced future but this is still consider sci-fi fantasy to these future people.
On the 'small x on mobile ads' thing: I have had nothing but ads I have to click like 6 different buttons on to actually close recently and it's getting very irritating. Gotta wait for 5 seconds and hit a >> and then wait for ANOTHER 5 seconds to hit an X and then it lpens another blank overlay with the ad's icon and a big blue button that says 'download now' with ANOTHER X 5 seconds later AND THEN THAT ONE OPENS UP A HALF-SCREEN GOOGLE PLAY WINDOW THAT I HAVE TO CLOSE AS WELL. Just to get part a single freaking ad.
One of my brothers use to watch The 10th Kingdom from the time he woke up till he went to bed. The other watched Shrek the Musical every single day for like 4 years. He couldn't sleep if it wasn't playing either.
one way to politely end a conversation with a person who won't stop talking, before You go out somewhere stop by the dollar store & buy a bunch of socks. Every Time You need to leave just hand Them a sock & just leave.
I had the same prom experience. This was when I was a junior. I wasn't ditched right away but she did have a talk with the guy she just broke up with and suddenly it was just the two of them for the rest of the night. I was so crushed that the following year in the senior prom, another girl who was apparently genuinely into me got upset because I thought I was being pranked or her asking me was a dare or something. I just came to hang out with the homies anyway. High school experience was pretty bad for me but I guess it taught me a thing or two going into uni since I was able to graduate without any drama, though that's partially also because the people around me were also more mature.
21:47 There were, like, 6 of me dating/liking another kid. It was my first year at that school, and I was an idiot. Half of the kids were just being nice to me. The other half was the other way around. I have never had a crush before. People also thought (before he died his hair) that a (now ex-) friend was my brother because we looked so similar.
54:51 Starship Troopers. What Heinlein envisioned as a merit-based society at war with Communist aliens was turned into a farce about living in a Fascist nation. The powered armour was nowhere to be seen, the Bugs lacked any technology. In the book, a small squad of Mobile Infantry can hop around, laying waste to anything in their path. The book features dozens of lightly-armed soldiers getting torn about by each Bug. It's like turning The Moon is a Harsh Mistress into a first-person shooter game.
23:55 - It was made by the grain company, or whatever. So of course they're going to tell you to eat a lot of grain products! You don't need that much grain.
1:10:22 "forgive and forget" I will forgive you if you make an honest apology and an effort to change. But if you break my trust or hurt me.... i can't forget that
We have absolutely zero night life during the week, and barely any during the weekend But, that doesn't stop anyone from partying until whenever We just don't do it in the streets nowadays
"You have to watch one movie for 24 hours straight or your family dies" Guess I'm not looking at movies for 24 hours! Bye bye, see you in hell! (If I had to watch the same movie for 24 hours for a million dollars, I'd be torn between any Paw Patrol movie, Ponyo, My Neighbor Totoro, and Isle of Dogs.)
Yeah so uh 2:40 it’s probably not the same type of magpie. Australian magpies are actually vicious and have killed. The swoop anyone too close to their nest and can remember you for years and will tell other magpies about it too. If you get swooped once you’ll almost definitely be swooped again. They use their claws and even if you don’t get hurt it’s still scary as fuck.
I’m single because the great love of my life passed away suddenly 4 years ago. I’m too old to bring that kind of baggage into someone else’s life. I’ll never get over it. The doctor thing; I was having serious gyno problems. I had PCOS and a large cyst burst. I ended up in the ER and my abdomen was full of blood and fluid. I didn’t have insurance, so there was nothing they could do for me. The hemorrhaging kept up. Not heavy hemorrhaging, but even a small amount isn’t good. The tests they ran in the ER showed a large tumor on my left ovary that appeared to be malignant. The ACA happened a few weeks later. By then I was in so much pain that I could barely stand. Ovarian cancer is hard to beat, even if it’s caught early. The stupid insurance company my ex husband picked sent me to an OB/GYN. I had all the paperwork that showed the hemorrhaging and the tumor and all the problems I was having with it. She never even looked at it. She asked me if I was sexually abused. “Who hasn’t?” She handed my papers back to me and told me to get counseling. I got divorced and got my own insurance. My doctor took one look at the paperwork, repeated the tests, and told me I needed surgery immediately. The tumor was malignant, but it wasn’t ovarian cancer. It happened to be malignant endometrioma, which fused my ovary to my pelvis. It was a mess. There was a lot more and another year later it spread and I had a full hysterectomy. If I’d listened to Counseling Lady, I’d be dead.
1:54, I'm in the US and I don't think the other lunch periods do this. My lunch period is the band lunch period (because I'm a band kid) and whenever they drop a pan or plate in the kitchen area we all clap, bang on the tables, and cheer.
I'm from Ukraine. Lots of stuff are now normal that are unheard of in XXI century Europe, mostly messed up, but sometimes glorious. Or just weird, like, recepies for the Molotov cocktails are normal thing to talk about. Also, unrelated to the war, Easter and spraying girls with water is a tradition here (not sure about sticks), it's done in the Monday after and is considered a good luck. But I guess these days it's mostly done as an activity during festivals, so everything is consensual. St. Andrew's day though... There is a tradition that if any woman in the household is looking for the marriage, all boys around are completely justified to still something from the household (preferebly something absurd) and hide it in a random places. It's considered a sign of affection. I haven't ever seen people doing it, and I'm pretty sure it's something that only happens in small communities (otherwise somebody definitely will less than appreciate it and call the police), but apparently it's still a thing or at least was in early 2000-th, and I'm not sure it only affects people who are looking for marriage.
11:00 id say smoking since i get a really bad headache from the smell and having to be around someone who constantly smokes would be a deal breaker for me.
13:32 once i was in new york just swinging on a swing then there was a tree abive me. I got so high up that i was close to the tree. I was yelling the whole time “I MADE IT TO TREE LEVEL!!!!!!”
australian magpies are completely different birds than eurasian magpies, they just happen to share a name. eurasian magpies are in the corvidae family and are related to crows and ravens. australian magpies are in the artamidae family and are related to butcherbirds.
My dad leaves the bathroom door unlocked or open when he's using it, then one of us opens the door or walks in only to awkwardly back out. I know we're adults now BUT DAD WE DO NOT WANNA SEE YOUR DING DONG. DO YOU NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR OWN PRIVACY? Annnnnddd then he complains when we knock and go into his room when he's naked during the day. Mum also spends all her time in there, why wouldn't you expect us to come in often? When we all move out and you're maybe still alive, then you can sprawl your body for all to see.
53:03 "Have you ever held a grudge against a teacher you still think of today? How did they wrong you?" Not exactly a grudge... Every (high school) teacher that acted inappropriately toward students, whether friend or foe (does Not matter). Especially those taking advantage of the smitten ones & the creeps who'd look down shirts, pretending to check work. Any teacher/coach/etc. who thinks it's fine & that it makes them the "cool" or "sexy" or "young-minded" or w/e teacher: Know that the vast majority of us look back in disgust, with laughter, pity or all 3.
51:15 SPOILERS FOR HFJONE Basically any of the deaths in hfjone, but mainly Liam and Bryce’s death. Episode 13 just came out and I had just gotten into it. I don’t even know what it was,, it just made me really emotional for some reason
Something cool but weird, for less then a week Brazil's flag was a copy of the USA flag, but blue, green and yellow, i find it funny because since years ago Brazil has something that reminds about USA
Middle school, 4th year teacher, (I was 11yo) told me "your family didnt survive the Titanic disaster, you can't find their names on the list"... I was 11, couldn't remember and had photos and items belonging to them!
53:23 a teacher divided the classe in two teams for a game, skipped my teams turn took a my answer as out of them punished my team gave the point to the other team, scolded me in front of the class and made half of my class hate me I was 7 my entire self worth was destroyed i still have problems with public speech and I could never make friends trough out school It took years and learning a new language to me to be able to even comment on things online
Thing I hate most from a dr in my past was “you might not want kids but what if your future husband does” like dude… who gives a crap about what a spouse you haven’t even met yet has to say when it’s your health on the line.
Literally any total drama drama series I'll just watch them on her p whenever I came home from a long trip from Boy Scouts, I would always rewatch one of the series.
oh handing change to me as receipt, notes, then coins tell me you are new to retail. coins in their hands first, then stack the notes on top of the receipt and hand them over in 1 move.
I have actually seen the movie it happened one night it’s an amazing film. Go see it immediately. If you have not seen it, Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, Steve Colbert’s grandmother, phenomenal actresses and actors in the movie. Such a good movie even though it’s Kai it’s not that kind of weird I watched it because I saw on the sex and the city movie and I thought it would just be really a good movie to see I was right it’s an amazing fucking love story.
On the forgetting peoples name thing- it might be too late for this now but when Facebook was THE place to be on social media I would work that in and go “Hey can I add you on Facebook? How do you spell your name?” (Never admitting “I have zero clue what your name is” 😂) That said, I made the mistake of asking someone this whose name was like Sarah Clark and she looked at me like I was nuts but if the name is that common might as well hand your phone over and ask them to find their own profile amongst the dozens of folks also named the same thing.
