Flashback to a kid in my class who ruined his entire highschool time by saying “my name is [name] and I breed rabbits” during the first 10 minutes of school.
Anon introduces himself
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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
webadict@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Man, kids at your school were fucking stupid. That kid had shittons of rabbits that needed petting.
BanMe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So many school problems could have been solved by saying “you guys are dumb fucks.”
I mean the teacher saying that.
0ops@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Oof, that’s rough. Was it an urban school? I grew up in an agricultural area and I swear pretty much everybody was breeding something
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yes it was. It was also the early 00’s and we were a bunch of 12 year old shits, and he was (in hindsight) rather on the spectrum.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Kid: I don’t care about ordinary people Same kid: immediately cries at reaction of ordinary people
pennomi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Meron35@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nuzzle nuzzle
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
I remember this meme. My friend really like this show back in the late 00’s. I don’t know anything about it other than this song, which I am not very fond of
pennomi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well for starters, it’s a show specifically about a girl who is friends with an alien, an esper, and a time traveler.
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Upvote for the Haruhi reference cringe or not.
yakko@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
It’s no better or worse than going with the usual Egon quote about collecting fungus, molds, and spores. That’s how nerds find each other, one of them fires off a signal flare, revealing their location and putting themselves in danger, and other misfits sit next to them at lunch so they can all get hazed together.
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
I never realized that when I was thrown into a locker, it was actually a giant allegory for a ‘gathering the group’ montage.
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
What the hell are you even talking about?
remon@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Anon is Haruhi Suzumiya …
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thought for sure this was Ken Takakura
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Would have been pretty funny (to those in the know) if he managed to do it with confidence. Shame.
Also damn, this Greentext is 10 years old. Doing this nowadays in highschool would definitely net you a room full of blank stares even if you don’t botch the delivery.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fun fact: this practice hasn’t changed in the hundreds (thousands?) of years we’ve been asking kids to introduce themselves to a group
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yeah, but this is a specific quote from an anime. The practice still exists I’m sure, but would anyone get the reference?
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
Truly God helps those that help themselves.
Bazell@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Villain arc anlocked.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you think this is tragic, wait till you get to the end of the episode when space aliens steal his dongle.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
He got it back. He even got a girlfriend out of it
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Anon was HONEST
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Was he really? He cried right afterwards, showing how much he cares what ordinary people care about him.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s just from psychological stress of delivering a presentation facing a room full of unfamiliar beings. He only interacts with aliens, time travellers and espers!
spirinolas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Do it with confidence and you’ll be the cool kid from day one
steeznson@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I remember signing end of elementary/primary school leaving shirts with my email at the time instead of my name because i was certain that my handle would be (in)famous. The email misspelt “requiem” as “requim”
shudders
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Less less embarrassing then ‘I only speak one language’
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
I am hella lucky with my highschool experience. No one really gave a shit about the typical highschool stuff. People could also eat anywhere in the school, since there was not enough room in the cafeteria.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I absolutely hate those “let’s go around the circle and introduce ourselves” exercises. Making children do them seems especially cruel.
oce@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
Don’t you think it’s good to train children to be able to talk to strangers and introduce themselves? I know it’s stressful but I think it is useful.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That’s just not how people introduce themselves out in the real world though.
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It’s not training though, you get thrown into the real thing immediately that decides the rest of your social time at school.
If you were encouraged and made to practice in private before, then I would agree with you.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
It’d just be a lot less horrible if you don’t have to come up with something to say about yourself. Kids are RUTHLESS and if you’re not quick on your feet, or even if you are, but the thing you say can be taken wrong, you will be bullied for the rest of your time in school over it. Unless you luck out and someone else’s thing is even worse.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Introducing yourself to others is like the basis of all socialization. 🤔
frog@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Introducing yourself to others is normal. Speaking infront of a group is not. Both can bring out social anxiety but public speaking is different than socializing with a small group.
taxon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes, but some people, myself included, find forcibly requiring individuals to introduce themselves in succession to be disingenuous.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yeah, but there’s something about forcing people to do it that just removes the fun from it all.
x00z@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
One could say it’s healthy for a growing child to occasionally be put in awkward situations where they have to define themselves. It’s not fun but it helps shape personality.
Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I’m 44 and I used to hate those too. But there is one fun fact about these. If you go first, you can fill it in as you want and every one will follow your format. Quite funny once you notice this.
Anyway next time I have one of those, I’ll make sure to add “favorite dinosaur” to it.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Is it cruel?
I don’t agree, I think if you force a crying child to say their name — that’s obviously going too far. But it is important to get kids used to socializing, human beings need other human beings ultimately.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
i’m sorry you experienced that. if it’s any consolation, the only times anyone gets forced to do anything at my wife’s program is for safety reasons. like, get out of the burning building! don’t elope from the classroom to the street with busy traffic or the shooting range just o’er yonder! life and death stuff. i want to say teachers have learned better, but i also want to say teachers have seen just that specific bullshit and been appalled by it. y’know, because they’re human like you and most of me have empathy.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
i do too. I have 3 believable truths 3 unbelievable truths, 3 believable lies, 3 unbelievable lies, 7 “interesting facts” about me (i used to have 8 but one of them, uh it required me to tell a joke and that does not work at 8 AM so now it’s gone. I don’t function 8 AM well before.) and i can pick and choose between my pre-prepped bullshit based on my audience and how awake and healthy i feel.
worst part is i used to do improv so for the longest time i would just wing it and did fine. then they started doing them before coffee. now i gotta copy my bullshit offa my phone onto cue cards if i have one of those things