• HouseWolf@pawb.social
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    My entire school had a banned words list they put on a board near the main door.

    I remember walking in past the board one morning only to get pulled back by a friend, he didn’t say anything just stood pointing at the board…They added ‘Milf’ to the list of banned words.

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    I was already gonna make fun of the useless red circle, you didn’t need to misplace it lol

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    Looks like they banned how to use image editing software as well.

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    This must be out of date, there’s no big back or turning Ohio or anything. Not even a “ACkShuLly it’s GNU…”

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      My kid and his friends didn’t make up big back?? This list is old? Fuck. I’m at that point… I know nothing.

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        Nah this list is up to date. Italian brain rot is still fresh, fresher than any Ohio meme

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      My friend, sorry to break it to you. But you are the one out of date. Big back and turning Ohio are long gone. Those kids are already on the “I’m too cool to like my childhood things anymore” stage.

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    The concept of “banned words” (other than the offensive stuff, of course) in a classroom is so funny to me. There is no way that the person who came up with that wasn’t the sourest loser ever.

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        I’m a school bus driver and we’re supposed to not allow foul language. It’s only a problem on the middle school runs, and it’s not really worth the effort on my part to do anything about it. I’m just happy when I can unload all the kids and nothing has been set on fire.

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          School bus driving— Mixing truck driving with zoo keeping…

          Good Luck out there! Keep your sanity! I’m pulling for you!

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            School bus driving— Mixing truck driving with zoo keeping…

            That’s a great description - except zoo keepers have bars and glass plates to protect them from the animals.

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          “What’s the matter Lisa? You’re usually the first one out of this deathtrap!”

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        Nah few teachers are actually serious about it. My cousin is a school teacher, she takes all these a little too seriously

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          I taught math for a couple of years in my local rural school. The fastest way to get kids to stop using certain annoying words or phrases was to start using them myself. It absolutely ruined the vibe they were going for. Particularity if you used them wrong.

          Still, it seems kids need that type of ‘creative’ outlet.

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      I always assumed (hoped) these were put up as jokes by the teachers. “Dang it Jeremy that’s another one for the board!” type of banter.

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        It often is. Teachers understand those kids need to have something that they can call their own. Every generation does these things with language.

        But I’m sure there are some teachers out there that foolishly try to squash the words.

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      Plus kids will find a way. Our english teacher didn’t want us to say ‘shit’, but to use ‘sugar’ instead.

      There was a lot of ‘bullsugar’ and similar in that class.

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        I remember that the vice principal of our Christian high school was annoyed with us saying ‘gosh darn’, and made the mistake of telling us, “If you’re going to say ‘gosh darn’, you might as well say ‘god damn’, because that’s what you really mean, and the Lort knows your heart.”

        … We all just started flat-out saying ‘god damn’ like we were told.

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        yeah this just basically “come up with a bunch new things that’ll annoy us”

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    It says words, not phrases. So you’re not allowed to use “I,” “use,” “by,” “the,” “way,” or “and.”

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    Funny. I use arch by the way… 😉