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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 120 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How old are they that they called labeled as ableist? This would not have happened in 2000s elementary

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I don't know - the term "ableist" has certainly spiked in popularity in the last ten years or so, but even in the 90's you'd get a bollocking for throwing around the terms "mong" or "spaz" or "flid" within earshot of a teacher.

I mean, I can see why - I hate the terms myself now. but when you're in single digits of age, it's just used as another derisory term rather than a specific slight at someone's physical or mental development challenges.

It still got you in hot water if you were daft enough to get caught shouting it though.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 27 points 1 year ago

I'm not native and I discovered the word by reading a Lemmy community's rules.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had a teacher in the 90's call me a spaz.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Spaz was very mild in the US and very serious in the UK. Meant kinda different things too.

The opposite for extremity in these countries at the time was fanny. Meant completely different things.

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[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 5 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Were you in a big city? Mine was pretty small. I wonder if that has to do with it? I never heard the word until maybe high school or college

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nah I was in a pretty small town, semi-rural but not buttfuck-nowhere either.

It certainly wasn't labelled "ableist" then, it was simply "being a little shit" - I only really learned of the term ableism around 10-15 years ago.

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hm.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=ableist&year_start=1990&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3

They could be in 4th grade in 2010, and be 25 now posting this. I could also believe that elementary school teachers could be among the first 5% of people to adopt a new super-inclusive type of brand new lefty language that's just starting to be used for a new type of friendly inclusiveness in 2000.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Makes sense.

I'm about 10 years older and have never heard the term in person, only in lefty online communities like Lemmy. I even took an ASL class from a deaf person (highly recommend, though maybe my teacher just rocked) as an adult with my SO, and we didn't even use the term "ablism," but instead just "hearing" to describe people who aren't deaf (so the concept, not the term). That would've been mid to late 2010s, IIRC.

Couple that with the claimed suspension in 4th grade, and I have serious doubts any of this happened. To get suspended, you need to be starting fist fights or something, even cussing or intentionally insulting people would probably only land normal detention.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could be that they didn't say ableist at the time it happened but anon remembers it that way it just tells it that way.

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[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 86 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Anon after getting back:

The name’s Richard

Retarded Richard

[–] M137@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Nems Bernd, Jeums Bernd.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 57 points 1 year ago

Principal:

"OK this kid is fucking based, I'll reward him with a week off"

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When I went to school, one kid during that exercise said that his name was so-and-so, and one thing he liked to do was stick his thumb up his ass.

He was known as "Thumbs" for the next four years, possibly longer. I actually don't think I ever learned his name, he was just Thumbs.

[–] superduperpirate@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I knew a kid who was caught beating his meat on a school trip, and was thereafter known as Spanky.

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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Definitely a learning experience for that kid.

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can see it now... I'm called first; I don't know what an adjective is (I still struggle); I panic from the social anxiety of stage fright; I awkwardly try to say anything at all, so I can sit the fuck down and move on; so I say, "Really Richard"

I'm told that's an adverb, and I need to use an adjective. Now I'm pale as a ghost and about to faint from the panic. I stutter, "Richmond Richard?". I'm informed that's a proper noun, so I quickly try again (visibly sweating) spouting, "Reading Richard!"... and am told to sit down, because that was a noun and I've now been assigned extra homework on grammar.

Someone snickers and says "Retarded Richard" in a low voice. The entire class laughs, the teacher is doing their best not to crack a smile (but I can tell), and I am henceforth known as "Retarded Richard" until graduation and beyond.

Adverbs, adjectives, verbs... prepositions! I'm in a living nightmare. There is no waking up from this. I am, forever, "Retarded Richard"

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[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Why your screenshot looks more beautiful than usual greentexts?

edit: is it a custom font?

[–] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They used an AI upscaler to enhance the details

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

What is my purpose?
You enhance shitposts.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
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Zoomed in before screenshotting

[–] MintyAnt@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This actually happened, btw

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

...Richard?

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

a 9 yo kid getting a week suspension at the start of the school year simply and only because he called himself ~~redacted~~.. idts

(it filters the word here)

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's dumb dick to his friends

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

crummy cock to his acquaintances

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I wonder what Zelda came up with for that introduction

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"Xylophone Zelda". Really fucked over Xenias introduction

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Uh, xylophone doesn't start with Z, back to kindergarten until you learn your letters.

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[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Gotta be xenophobic Xenia now, sorry, I don't make the rules

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[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

depending how she's feeling, zany, zen or zealous?

Or zonked, if she smoked a fat dart beforehand

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 8 points 1 year ago
[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Zooted Zelda (she on coke)

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[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

As an outsider, it's wild to me that you can/could get suspended from school so easily.

[–] MintyAnt@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm concerned but someone must tell you: Greentexts are not real stories

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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I can't come up with anything better, can anyone else?

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 13 points 1 year ago

We had a dude called Richard in primary school that went blank at the thought of a nickname. Obviously, as responsible classmates we helped him out, and he was christened Romanian Richard.

Richard was not Romanian, nor did he have any ties to the fine country of Romania.

Whatever inexplicable logic that was at play here, directed that he should have the last ten seconds of the Taz-Mania theme sung to him repeatedly, sorta like:

"Richard Romanian,

Richard Romanian,

Richard Romanian,

We mean you!"

Before making the appropriate Taz noises finishing with a raspberry in close proximity to his face. What was really weird, was that Richard didn't appreciate this new fame and form of address, which was a real shame because everyone else did and it was highly entertaining before teachers got involved, parents got called, and it was saved for the days when Richard was really being a oil-fired arsehole.

These were the days before we drew the line from Richard to Dick, you must understand.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reliable

Respectable

Resplendent

Remarkable

Relativistic

Reprehensible

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Reasonable Richard

[–] Hoimo@ani.social 6 points 1 year ago

Rich Richard too obvious for you ri**ards?

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] jimmux@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They called him Rich-tard for short.

But he got the last laugh when rich 'tards ruled the country.

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