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@acrow "on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being 'not at all' and 10 'absolutely', how would you describe the following aspects of your school experience today?" "Now I want you to think about the classroom(s) you used today. Please tell me which of the following adjectives you would use to describe them." "I need you to answer those short questions so that I can understand your experience of school and make it better, I strive to continuously improve my sending-you-to-school experience!"
I think it's a bit harsh to submit them to the hard truth of the world and its annoying satisfaction surveys when they're still so young...
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@remi said in
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on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being 'not at all' and 10 'absolutely', how would you describe the following aspects of your school experience today?
Curiously, I've never seen one where 'taking this test' was one of the aspects.
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@PleegWat Probably for the same reason (*) that you see some websites slapping you with one of those "how did you find our site today?" survey on your very first visit to the very first page of the site. Whenever I get those, it's always a toss between closing the page immediately and actually answering the survey truthfully ("did you find what you looked for? no. How can we improve? show me the fucking page rather than your survey.").
(*) "stupidity"
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@remi said in
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and actually answering the survey truthfully
I'm getting so tempted to start answering all of them with the lowest scores possible. And with a comment "I gave the lowest score possible because I'm sick and tired of being surveyed for every single transaction I make".
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@acrow said in
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@boomzilla said in :>baby_symbol: Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@dcon yeah, looking forward to hearing about it this afternoon, though it'll probably just be a shrug and, "OK."
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More seriously though, I hear you're supposed to ask them more specific questions. Apparently "how was your day" is too broad, they struggle for a moment on how to describe a full day's experience in few sentences, and finally settle for "OK".
I've tried with:
What did you learn today?
Nothing, I knew it all, already.
Who did you play with?
When she is in person, I get a little bit here.
I think it is adorable when she feels the need to whisper that a friend sad a bad (after I've given her permission to say it) or mean word.What was the best thing that happened?
I get a bit here.
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And show-off time.
My 7 yo got her yellow belt (other kids got a yellow stripe) in TKD, and a medal for Best Kick.
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I went shopping today in Aldi and i was behind a grandfather and his badly-behaved grandson. He has his hands full with the child screaming for sweets, biscuits, all sorts of things.
The granddad is saying in a controlled voice: “Easy, William, we won’t be long . . . easy boy.”
Another outburst and I heard the granddad calmly say : “It’s okay William. Just a couple more minutes and we’ll be out of here. Hang in there, boy.”
At the checkout the little horror is throwing items out of the trolley. Granddad says again in a controlled voice : “William, William, relax buddy, don’t get upset. We’ll be home in five minutes, stay cool William.”
Well, i was really impressed, so i went outside to where the grandfather is loading his groceries and the boy into the car. I said to the Grandad “It’s none of my business, but you were amazing in there. I don’t know how you did it. That whole time you kept your composure, and no matter how loud and disruptive he got, you just calmly kept saying things would be okay. William is very lucky to have you as his granddad.”
“Thanks,” said the Granddad. “But I am William. The little bastard’s name is Kevin.”
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@abarker said in
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How could you not provide the link?
Is this a serious question?
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@boomzilla said in
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@abarker said in
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How could you not provide the link?
Is this a serious question?
Nah. Rhetorical.
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~3:15am, Lil'Dude wakes up and comes to our room. Unusually, both of our dogs and the two foster Pit Bulls are sleeping in our bed. Lil'Dude doesn't dislike dogs, but that is too much for him. So he wants mommy to come sit in his room until he falls back asleep.
I charitably offer to take her place:
"Hey buddy, how about daddy comes and sits with you? Would that work?"
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Yeah, I just want somebody to be with me."
"Okay buddy, I will be in there in a moment. Let me get some water."
"Okay."
"And don't worry, I will bring all the doggies with me also."
"Noooooooo, I don't want that at all. No dogs. Doggies stay here!"
"Okay, maybe just two doggies?"
"No doggies!" -stomps down hallway-
-stiffling laughter- "You're just torturing him. That's not funny."
"It's actually is though."
-yells from down the hall- "IT'S, NOT, FUN, NY!"
"Oh, but it is."
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@Polygeekery said in
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~3:15am, Lil'Dude wakes up and comes to our room.
That's better than my 4:30a wakeup call today. The sound of a dog about to puke. "Get off the bed!" (status: hardwood floor has been cleaned. Sleep resumed.)
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@dcon said in
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That's better than my 4:30a wakeup call today. The sound of a dog about to puke. "Get off the bed!"
I've had those wakeups. I did not handle it so gracefully though. Mine was more of a kick/shove off the bed than a request/command.
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@Polygeekery said in
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@dcon said in
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That's better than my 4:30a wakeup call today. The sound of a dog about to puke. "Get off the bed!"
I've had those wakeups. I did not handle it so gracefully though. Mine was more of a kick/shove off the bed than a request/command.
It was more of a "I'm going to have to cleanup - better just head to the bathroom now" at which point he jumped off. (It's the "Daddy's up! Daddy's up!" dance - "we're going somewhere!")
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@dcon said in
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he jumped off. (It's the "Daddy's up! Daddy's up!" dance - "we're going somewhere!")
followed closely by
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@Polygeekery said in
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@dcon said in
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he jumped off. (It's the "Daddy's up! Daddy's up!" dance - "we're going somewhere!")
followed closely by
Preceded.
- I sit up
- He jumps off
- I pull covers back
- He
- I start walking to bathroom "I wonder where i..." - oh.
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@boomzilla said in
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Ugh, haven't heard that song in a while.
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@mikehurley I hear it in my head every time I read the words "Father Abraham".
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@HardwareGeek said in
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@mikehurley I hear it in my head every time I read the words "Father Abraham".
The ear worm didn't fully kick off until I read the whole headline.
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For my daughter's birthday, she wanted me to braid her hair:
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@izzion said in
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My brain thought the kid initially said, "that way I only do half the work". Because you are 90% done 50% of the time.
I know the math doesn't complete make sense.
This is why you let them suffer the natural consequences.
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At least a year ago the oldest and I were talking about something and I brought up the movie "Brewster's Millions".
If you haven't seen the movie, "Brewster" (played by Richard Pryor, yes I know that it was preceded by a full half dozen other films based off of the same novel) finds out that he had a rich uncle that recently died and he is the only heir to the fortune. He is given a choice between receiving $1M no strings attached or if he can spend $30M in 30 days and have nothing left to show for it. He has to receive value for his money, he cannot destroy anything that he purchases and he cannot give it away or tell anyone about what he is trying to do. He is allowed to gamble no more than 5% and he can give another 5% to charity. If he does so, he gets the full $300M estate. The idea being that his uncle wants him to be sick and tired of spending money before giving him the $300M so that he will be a good steward of the fortune.
Our oldest is a born rules lawyer. Ever since I brought this up, the oldest brings it back up at random intervals and will discuss it on length. This entire summer every time I pick him up from camp it is the first thing he mentions. This has been going on for weeks. Imaginative ways to win the contest. I really never would have guessed that a 60 second explanation of a movie plot from 35 years ago would capture his imagination in such a way.
If you've never seen it, it is a pretty good 80's movie and Richard Pryor is a national treasure as always. It's no "Citizen Kane" by any stretch, but it is entertaining. John Candy also has a pretty good part in the film. Again, no "Uncle Buck" but an entertaining character.
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@Polygeekery said in
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It's no "Citizen Kane" by any stretch
I can see only positives in that. Citizen Kane is the most over-celebrated film of all time.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/oetogw/pardon_beggar/
That parent needs to learn the value of “neither”
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@Polygeekery said in
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If you've never seen it, it is a pretty good 80's movie and Richard Pryor is a national treasure as always. It's no "Citizen Kane" by any stretch, but it is entertaining. John Candy also has a pretty good part in the film. Again, no "Uncle Buck" but an entertaining character.
We recently watched See No Evil, Hear No Evil (Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder) with the kids. Good fun.
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@izzion said in
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https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/oetogw/pardon_beggar/
That parent needs to learn the value of “neither”
And maybe tell the kid that there's no money to buy either. Kid needs a life lesson.
EDITed to remove bad ideas.
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@Dragoon said in
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@Polygeekery said in
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It's no "Citizen Kane" by any stretch
I can see only positives in that. Citizen Kane is the most over-celebrated film of all time.
It has a half-dozen "firsts" for various film techniques.
Which guarantees that you've seen every single technique it uses, done much better elsewhere.
Great piece of cinematic history? Absolutely. Comparable to anything more modern? Not particularly. Leave it to the cinematic history nerds.
Edit: also: there's a point in one of the Callahan's stories where some character makes everyone's jaw drop by pointing out a small plot hole in Citizen Kane. Apparently, the author really liked that movie, and decided to have every single one of his characters love it, too.
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Tonight I watched some "8-Bit Guy" videos with our oldest. He asked me if I actually ever used "one of those old computers". So I dug a Commodore 64 out of storage.
I imagine the looks he gave me were not significantly different than the looks I gave the Amish when I first saw them in real life.
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@Polygeekery said in
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He asked me if I actually ever used "one of those old computers".
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@Polygeekery said in
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Tonight I watched some "8-Bit Guy" videos with our oldest. He asked me if I actually ever used "one of those old computers". So I dug a Commodore 64 out of storage.
I imagine the looks he gave me were not significantly different than the looks I gave the Amish when I first saw them in real life.
I can't wait for questions like "what was your favourite Minecraft mod when you were my age"
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@Jaloopa said in
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@Polygeekery said in
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Tonight I watched some "8-Bit Guy" videos with our oldest. He asked me if I actually ever used "one of those old computers". So I dug a Commodore 64 out of storage.
I imagine the looks he gave me were not significantly different than the looks I gave the Amish when I first saw them in real life.
I can't wait for questions like "what was your favourite Minecraft mod when you were my age"
Back in my day, my parents didn't let me play Minecraft because it would steal my soul
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@PotatoEngineer said in
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@Dragoon said in
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@Polygeekery said in
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It's no "Citizen Kane" by any stretch
I can see only positives in that. Citizen Kane is the most over-celebrated film of all time.
It has a half-dozen "firsts" for various film techniques.
Which guarantees that you've seen every single technique it uses, done much better elsewhere.
Great piece of cinematic history? Absolutely. Comparable to anything more modern? Not particularly. Leave it to the cinematic history nerds.
Edit: also: there's a point in one of the Callahan's stories where some character makes everyone's jaw drop by pointing out a small plot hole in Citizen Kane. Apparently, the author really liked that movie, and decided to have every single one of his characters love it, too.
Some of the costcutting measures still hold up, given the decrease in dark B&W filming.
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@Polygeekery said in
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So I dug a Commodore 64 out of storage.
Did it boot?
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@acrow yeah. I had to splice in a 5V power supply because the Commodore power supply was putting out roughly twice that on the 5V pin. So it did boot, but wouldn't have if I hadn't checked it with a multimeter first, and it never would have booted again.
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@Polygeekery Good thinking. Though it might fail to boot next time anyway.
I had this one Sega Mega Drive 2 (Genesis 2 for the Americans) that I fired up again after some years. And it played nicely for that day. But the very next day it was stone cold dead. And I never quite figured out why.
(Wasn't the PSU; I measured that too, though only after the console had already failed, I must confess. This was before I'd gone through university, so I couldn't troubleshoot it much further.)
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My daughter wanted me to send a message to her teacher that she was having trouble with connecting to some of the apps for her summer work.
She was looking over my shoulder, and pointed out that I missed a word.