If you think this is tragic, wait till you get to the end of the episode when space aliens steal his dongle.
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He got it back. He even got a girlfriend out of it
Less less embarrassing then 'I only speak one language'
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"
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Kid: I don’t care about ordinary people Same kid: immediately cries at reaction of ordinary people
Do it with confidence and you'll be the cool kid from day one
Anon is Haruhi Suzumiya ...
Thought for sure this was Ken Takakura
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.
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.
Man, kids at your school were fucking stupid. That kid had shittons of rabbits that needed petting.
So many school problems could have been solved by saying "you guys are dumb fucks."
I mean the teacher saying that.
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
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.
I absolutely hate those "let's go around the circle and introduce ourselves" exercises. Making children do them seems especially cruel.
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.
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.
Don't you think it's good to train children to be able to talk to strangers, in public and introduce themselves? I know it's stressful but I think it is useful.
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. But there is no "training" in this, it's just, either you can already do it or you can't.
It would be possible to coach kids about what to say in such situations, make them prepare and practice in private, let the teacher hear the introduction before anyone else, give feedback, and then put them in front of the class. And afterwards, talk about how it went, what went well, what to improve. Does any of this happen? If no, then it's no training.
It’s not training though, you get thrown into the real thing immediately that decides the rest of your social time at school.
Aren't you exaggerating a little? Kids get to know each other better with time too.
Agreed with doing it with guidance and feedback.
That's just not how people introduce themselves out in the real world though.
work is the real world and i have some news
The problem is the lack of structure.
I organize a lot of workshops involving people from experts to executives, where you always need an introduction round, and I give them a structure to follow. Makes the task it easier, but it’ll also be much more useful for the group, as we’ll focus in the aspects of a person that matter for the context of the workshop.
For a class intro in primary school, it could be:
- name and age
- nickname you’d like others to call you
- favorite subject
- favorite hobby / free time activity
I just made this up, but a teacher could probably come up with something even more fitting.
The point is, always give people structure or guidance, you’ll get much more out of similar introduction rounds.
Sure but in the real world you will sometimes get this and sometimes get no structure. It's been about 50/50 for me so far. Being able to do either on the fly is good.
What do you think is different compared to when you join some new company, training or club and you are asked to present yourself to the group?
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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.
Introducing yourself to others is like the basis of all socialization. 🤔
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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
Well for starters, it’s a show specifically about a girl who is friends with an alien, an esper, and a time traveler.
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