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wdym?? yeah there’s lipstick on the mirror!! yeah i got inspired haha so i wrote the lyrics to my obituary!!
Fun fact: I was delivered holding scissors. (I also live deliberately, which means that I am, in fact, a quitter).
yeahh i don’t think i’m gonna follow my dreams… they keep making me wake up screaming :(( remember kids! there’s no i in team!
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i swear it would be easier to explain if someone looked over my shoulder and saw me watching porn than to explain some of the posts on my damn dashboard…this being one of them
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As someone who ran track and cross country for 4 years in high school, this always fucking mystified me the most out of all the insane shit PE had us do.
Track and field club taught all new runners how to properly warm up, stretch, pace, etc. Its a process, and doing it properly takes 15-20 minutes to make sure your body is ready so you dont hurt yourself.
PE didnt do jack shit, they just said "go run a mile" so 70% of the fucking kids sprinted flat out the first lap and basically walked the other 3. Multiple people did it in boots or tennis shoes. I'm amazed more of them didnt pull a muscle or worse in the process.
I dont know what the purpose of PE was, but it sure as shit wasnt proper exercise. And I think a lot of people suffered for that. If they spent the time teaching us about the importance of physical health, proper nutrition, how to safely stretch/exercise, etc, we would all be better off now.
Let's be real, PE exists to shame and torture the fat kids, and for pretty much no other reason.
this one?
the purpose of PE, as it currently exists in the American school system, is to prepare kids to join the military. that's not some sort of moral-panic hyperbole. that's...pretty explicitly the purpose.
most of the prominently nightmarish features of PE, such as running the mile or doing sit-ups, originate with the Presidential Fitness Test. This test, which president Eisenhower implemented in schools in 1956, was created after a different fitness test (the Kraus-Weber test) revealed that Americans were less fit than Europeans -- specifically the Swiss.
The difference between the Kraus-Weber test and the Presidential Fitness test is that the Presidential Fitness test was specifically designed to test military fitness. While the Kraus-Weber test measured total fitness by testing things like core strength and flexibility, the Presidential Fitness test doesn't really make much sense in the context of ordinary fitness -- only in the context of military fitness. Do you remember being tested on how far you could throw a softball? That test mimicked throwing grenades. And it's pretty easy to see why Eisenhower went this direction. In 1956, the Cold War was in full swing and WWII was barely in the rear-view mirror. There was a real possibility that we would be at war with parts of super-fit Europe in the near future. Eisenhower wanted the nation's children ready to fight in that war.
The main issue with the Presidential Fitness test is that, as pointed out above, it really doesn't teach kids how to stay fit or incorporate physical activity in their day-to-day lives. A soldier at war might need to run a mile with no warm-up, or perform a pull-up, but for the average middle-schooler? The tests were just kind of...pointless exercises in misery. You're only really good at the Presidential Fitness Test if you've been practicing the specific exercises tested. And what 12 year old child is doing pull-ups for fun and pleasure? So instead of inspiring America's children to train themselves into a super-fit army, it just humiliated kids who didn't perform well.
There's been a recent push for PE classes to focus more on life-long fitness (things like actually teaching kids to warm up, exposing them to different types of physical activity, etc). Unfortunately, the Presidential Fitness test has already done its damage. It continued to be used in schools until 2013. That's 60 years of teaching kids to associate physical activity with shame and dread. The idea of military PE classes is pretty much baked into our cultural memory, giving us all a background dread of physical activity. and guess what, eisinhower?? that's just going to make people less likely to be physically active!! Maybe if we're trying to emulate the fitness of the SWISS, we shouldn't have gone with MILITARY TRAINING FOR CHILDREN!!
anyways. take some comfort in the fact that nobody will ever judge you for your mile time again. and if they try, ask to see them run a mile. directly away from you.
fucked up onion my belothed
...You know, this explains why there was a marching band except for PE in all 3 districts I was in growing up better than anything else.
Ironically, I never did master the art of rope-climbing until I joined the Marine Corps, and my drill instructors showed me the proper way to do so.
Because I sure as shit did not learn it from my PE instructors in 6 years of PE class!
😂🤣😂
I will be forever grateful for my two high school gym teachers in the 1990s, a butch lesbian and a campy gay man both out of the closet, for actually recognizing my cerebral palsy and allowing me to "just walk the mile as well as you can while we cheer you on" and letting me go to the PT weight room rather than participate in gym sports that might damage me (I did like badminton tho). I watched every other kid in my class be given a gentle pass to only run at their own pace. Because those two teachers knew that we were just kids and most of us wouldn't be going into the military.
Oh shit, PE in the US sounds fucking awful, over here PE is just the class we fuck around and play a few sports, some people don't even do that
Oh cool, another reason to hate the US military!
I had panic attacks almost every time I did P.E in middle school because my body just couldn't handle it. I naturally have a weak stomach, so running whole miles with no warm ups beforehand had me gagging and sometimes throwing up. I got painful cramps every time I ran, and other activities like running up stairs and ramps weren't much better. My glasses always fell off, and I would feel so drained by the end, which put me in a bad mood for my following class. Being AFAB, most of the coaches also didn't give two sh*ts about my period either. Not to mention that I have anxiety, and near the end of 8th grade was a peak of my insomnia, so gym class should be the literal least of my worries. Furthermore, oftentimes if people weren't able to run fast enough, or long enough, our punishment would be more running (sometimes double what they made us run before). They'd expect us to have more energy to run after we already tried our hardest to run a lap around a soccer field in 30 seconds. If you were one of the kids who were slower, everyone else would look at you sideways and get mad at you for making the rest of the class run more.
I don't want to sound like a wuss or anything, but for someone like me, gym class was a nightmare, and I know a lot of other kids who had asthma, or were overweight, or struggled with other things had it much worse. I always just thought I was lazy or out of shape when other kids were getting better mile times, or not gagging or crying after every lap around the field. Now I realize that this isn't how it should be. Gym class should be fun for everyone, and nobody should view it as torture.
Maybe this is why I blocked out most of middle school from my memory.
Look at the center of this image for 30sec, then watch Van Gogh’s *Starry Night* come to life
(via TumbleOn)
Whoa..
What the actual fuck, I thought it was gonna make the lines in the painting kinda wiggly and stuff but holy SHIT.
MY SCREEN IS WOBBLY HELP
i love hallucinating
oh it’s still blurry wheee
It fucking breathing
This post has 1 set of parentheses. Living parentheses.
woah ma screen is weirddd
woah
i do not like
i like :D
Idk what's wrong with me, but this chain of events happened recently:
"I have to animate that thing"
and then I begin animating
but then I read a post on tumblr (because I already got distracted by tumblr) that reminds me about a project I worked on and I go,
"I should check back on that project"
and now I'm looking at the project on canva, which leads me to look at other projects on canva
and now I remember that when I was in class working on that project, I was also infodumping to my friends about Mormons (I just think they're interesting)
So now I'm on the LDS church website watching videos about Joseph Smith
and now I'm watching the BYU welcome video
and now I'm reading the BYU honor code
I am not Mormon btw, and have no intention of going to BYU
and I then remember Brandon Sanderson is Mormon so I look on his blog
and now it's been over an hour and I forgot I need to animate the thing, but now I have no motivation because I'm tired and my brain has moved on.
someone help.
LDS here, I also think you're interesting
Oh cool! :D
when she says she doesn’t send nudes
when guys objectify women and expect them to send nudes
when someone asks you about your nuclear plans for russia
When Russia sends you nudes
This is my favorite post in all of tumblr
reminder that this post is now illegal in Russia
reblog it, because Russia can´t
Thanks Obama
When Russia makes this post illegal
I HAVE ONLY SEEN THIS IN SCREENSHOTS
I will reblog this every goddamn time I find it on my dash
I have a piece of tumblr history on my blog now
What the-
I haven’t seen this in about 4 years. I’m glad it’s back.
