Yeah, which also goes along with the people who complain that their English teacher pointed out that the curtains were blue and that meant the character was sad. I know there are shitty teachers out there who maybe read out of a teachers guide that blue curtains = sad and that’s as far as the lesson went, but I bet in most cases the class was about noticing motifs and subtext and the only thing they came away with was “lol my teacher thinks curtains means something deep”.

And then those are the kind of people to complain later that the country is going to shit because no one teaches critical thinking these days, like you said.

You should check out Gahan Wilson

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gahan+wilson+comics&ia=images&iax=images

The way I see it, you’re probably freest from the ages one to four
Around the age of five you’re shipped away for your body to be stored
They promise education, but really they give you tests and scores
And they predictin’ prison population by who scoring the lowest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd7fb5oQhVg

There are so many people online with no pedagogical training who rail against common core, but a lot of it is trying to bring education standards to be more skills based rather than whatever they were doing back in the day. Like high school English classes have standards like “can cite textual evidence to support identification of the theme of a text”, rather than shit like my old essays that teachers marked up like “missing comma, minus 0.5 points”.

Watching that and Taskmaster NZ makes me think there are like 2 dozen comedians in the entire country and they just run around doing different TV shows where sometimes they’re the guest and sometimes they host. And occasionally there aren’t enough people so they have to import some from Australia.

all of the effort to coordinate a spelling bee on a wide scale could’ve been used to develop and standardize a more phonetic writing system

You say that like it hasn’t been tried a bunch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_reform

Beyond disappointed that none of our resident fart accounts have commented in this thread. Clearly the clarion call of the wind broken by the fart golems haven’t yet echoed deep enough into the halls of lemmy to reach their noses.

@Fartswithanaccent@lemmy.world
@Fartographer@lemmy.world
@I_fart_glitter@lemmy.world
@Satansmaggotycumfart@lemmy.world

Customer base most likely to hate nazis: people who buy EVs.

Customer base most likely to love nazis: people who buy trucks that get 2 mpg.

Guess the pedo genius found that math problem a little too difficult.

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The French é is very close to the vowel sound in “say” in English.

News, everyone.

But he could totally identify which one was the elephant, and didn’t confuse it with the rhino or the camel even once. I’m pretty sure that qualifies anyone to be the bigliest president.

believes in things beyond her own self enrichment

I’m not convinced. If her kids weren’t facing higher health care costs she probably wouldn’t care about it. Republicans have time and again shown that they’re incapable of supporting issues that don’t directly affect them. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a farmer that she knows personally who’s been affected by diarrhea don’s policies.

A greater tragedy my eyes have never beheld. Welp, into the terlet.

https://youtu.be/U1y22TfG8wg?t=57

Those poors shoulda planned for this by not being poor

Good, maybe they’ll stop voting for republicans

I dunno, English is pretty good at stealing bits of other languages.

Didn’t Groundskeeper Willie say this too?

I hadn’t seen this comic before so I went to his site and found a hell of an introduction to his work. I’ll definitely be reading this guy now

https://www.kohney.com/

gallumph