I WAS feeling happy for a person who got in early...until I found out she was secretly happy that everyone who didn't get in didn't. I'll never forget the time when, in front of students who didn't get in, she made a fistbump to do another accepted student and loudly shouts "Accepted Club!" I saw the surrounding students' smiles fall into frowns of anxiousness and loss. When I pulled the person aside and reminded them to be aware of how others feel, she said "why are you even here?! How dare you listen to my conversation."
For the past month, she would not stop talking about how she "doesn't want" to be the valedictorian(hasn't even been decided yet... and most likely going to be this other student) to invoke a reaction from other students...She "fears" that their valedictory address is going to be too unique from previous years and that the "students and faculty will not be ready for the moving speech." She frequently puts down other kids for not being "smart" or invalidates their extracurriculars because she thinks they're meaningless. But in front of any faculty member, she is the sweetest person ever. I know she is fully capable of being a nice person, and there's no doubt that she's academically intelligent (got into Brown ED).
I attend a public school where matriculation to Ivies is inconsistent, so she obviously enjoyed sitting atop a throne of superiority after earlier. She's also under the impression that every person loves her, even the ones she disrespects regularly. This girl behaves like a four-year-old who runs around and calls everyone "idiots" and "stupid"(but really means it) and expects everyone to think the behavior is adorable/likable and forgive her. Her recommenders were fooled.
I was incredibly happy for them initially, but I feel like getting an admission does not mean someone has "won," rather, this is only the beginning. It's all about how you use this admission and opportunity, to better yourself or help other people (this is corny but I mean it genuinely). If and when I get into schools RD(btw I did not get into my ED), I just want to stop having the doing-stuff-for-college mentality. I want to tutor as many kids on the east side of my town(very poor) as I can for free—this is something I have never shared before. I've lived for college apps for as long as I remember, and I'd forgotten to genuinely love to do something without the thought of needing to get into a prestigious college looming over me.
As much as I should
... keep reading on reddit ➡I guess the concept didn't work
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Hello
This post was originally submitted to r/badhistory, but it was not a fit for that subreddit given that it involved literary themes. As such, the mods here have allowed me to post it.
The focus is going to be a blog post called Dear Tolkien Fans: Black People Exist:
https://www.publicmedievalist.com/tolkien-fans-black-people/
Besides having a title that completely generalizes a group of people and presupposes their opinions, I want to examine a series of claims it presents. The author first says:
'The Lord of the Rings is full of Tolkien’s racist and colonialist attitudes. As scholars such as Helen Young have discussed in detail, Orcs in Middle-Earth are frequently coded as Black and shown to be irredeemable. Tolkien explicitly describes them in a private letter (published in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien) as “squat, broad, flat-nosed, sallow-skinned, with wide mouths and slant eyes: in fact degraded and repulsive versions of the (to Europeans) least lovely Mongol-types”’
The badhistory in this case comes from incorrectly presenting J.R.R Tolkien's views, which are made quite clear in his non-fiction writings. On the subject of Colonialism, Tolkien said in 1945 to his son, Christopher:
‘Though in this case, as I know nothing about British or American imperialism in the Far East that does not fill me with regret and disgust, I am afraid I am not even supported by a glimmer of patriotism in this remaining war.’
Tolkien is obviously against British dominion in Asia, which is a thoroughly colonialist enterprise. Similarly, in 1943 Tolkien also said to Christopher:
‘For I love England (not Great Britain and certainly not the British Commonwealth (grr!))’
In an individual supported colonialism, would not their attitude to the Commonwealth, or at least Britain maintaining some kind of hegemony, to be a positive one? When it comes to racism, we find similar protests against the idea. In 1944, Tolkien said:
‘There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper course after military victory: because, if you please, they are rattlesnakes, and don't know the difference between good and evil! (What of the writer?) The Germans have just as much right to declare the Poles and Jews exterminable vermin, subhuman, as we have to select the Germans: in other words, no right, whatever they have done.’
I find
... keep reading on reddit ➡Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
Do your worst!
How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?
Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.
But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.
He lost May
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
And now I’m cannelloni
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
But that’s comparing apples to oranges
And boy are my arms legs.
Put it on my bill
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
They’re on standbi
A play on words.
Calcium, nickel, neon
