Aesthetics and memes

i regret nothing

Hey. Take my hand. I feel like if 4chan can afford to keep running since 2009 despite having an unmarketable shitty userbase then whatever may happen to tumblr will not be our fault.

Okay so 4chan just died

what ppl defending kids on ipads don’t seem to understand is that there are other ways to keep kids occupied. my mom had a whole bag full of little toys and games for me to play with while waiting in lines at disney world. once your kid is like 7 or 8 they can read a book. they can color. or they can literally just sit there and imagine things. i did that a lot as a kid.

thanks for putting your wrong and bad commentary in the tags where i still have to read all of it. most of what you said is untrue.

OP: giving children too young to process things so much access to ipads isn’t good for them maybe.

People in the notes: So you hate moms??? You’re ableist?? You think we should go back to the Dark Ages?? (My personal favorite because it makes no sense) you’re poor shaming??

Why is it so difficult to explain that children not developing fine motor skills and losing their attention spans is bad actually??

Genuine question? Why do IPad parents act like there's nothing else you can give your child to play with. Ok maybe they don't like reading, or coloring and want to play something. Tetris consoles are still available, so are those handheld water game thingies ( where you have two buttons and the air pushes plastic rings around). These will occupy your kid for longer but still it won't make them what to rip your throat if you decide to take it from them.

Like your child should learn how to be bored but if you truly need a break there are better options than allowing them access to endless TikTok videos.

Know what's cheaper than an IPad? A fuckin etch-a-sketch, a little fidget toy, a stick.

TWIGGY & WOODY ALLEN My Generation (2017) dir. David Batty

"His first question was: 'Who's your favourite philosopher?' My heart sank. I wanted to run off and burst into tears. I didn't know any philosophers. And he probably knew I didn't. When I said so, he replied, 'Oh come on, everyone has a favourite philosopher.' It was such a cruel thing to do to a young girl."

"I was desperate and trying not to cry but I turned the tables on him and asked him to come up with some names - but he couldn't think of any either! Then he said to me, 'I suppose you've read Dickens,' thinking I hadn't. So I said, 'Yeah, I read him at school.' In the end he said, 'Oh, I can't interview her,' and left the stage." 

-Twiggy

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bartender who’s just trying to do their minimum wage job: ?

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For those who might not know the term: Social hierarchies are stuff like “you should always treat your elders with respect 'cos they're your elders”. Or the asinine games you have to play in the work world "office politics" is a social hierarchy.

Basically it's social rules for behavior that have very little to do with things like earned respect, personal merit/ability (on the job), or one's actual duties. Like "respect your elders" but what if your grandmother is a racist jerk who verbally abuses your mixed race children? "Treat your boss with respect" and it doesn't matter if the boss is a useless piece of shit who doesn't actually understand anything about the work is done by the people they supervise.

Social hierarchies tend to be about protecting the feefees of the most powerful person in the room at the time. It's not about getting the work done, or supporting each other as a family. It's about making sure auntie doesn't get all upset because one of the kids didn't hug her. It's not about how well you do your job, or things you know the company could do to improve things. It's about protecting the feefees of the department manager who put in place the procedures that are actually not working as intended, but no one can tell them that because they'd pitch a fit and accuse everyone of doing it wrong. Or fire people.

Yep. "Respect your elders" should mean to have consideration for people struggling with The Horrors of Aging, not tolerance for a healthy 45-year-old's bullshit based on some imagined chronologically-conferred authority.

And god, school was the fucking worst. A perfect storm of EVERYTHING.

We've lost some of the greatest posters of our generation to employment

and with the help of president trump's recession, we may get them back

my theory is only some stuff happens to some people sometimes

A spoon's only objective in life is to make soup go upwards, and it knows this. That's why when you put one under a running tap it blasts the water way high. The spoon thinks there's suddenly TONS of soup to deal with and it freaks out.