DFBs early stuff was much better than Skibidi Toilet.
But yes, every country will have differing approaches to education and it's priority in the grand scheme of things. My personal opinion is that education and healthcare should be top any country's list but I'm not naive enough to think there's not... "competing pressures" on where to spend taxpayer money.
I think it's easy to get caught up in the negative news that naturally floats to the top of most algorithms these days.
Primary and secondary schools are doing a lot more than they used to, and with an ever decreasing budget too. The quality of teaching is largely better, and the teaching career is becoming more "professionalised" by the year, for better or for worse - the constant wave of bureaucracy surround evidencing decision making and CPD is driving loads of great teachers away from the profession.
I've gone back to higher education and I've been surprised at the sheer range of support networks and services available to those who need them. I'm lucky enough to largely have my shit together (even if it is held together with sellotape, chewing gum, and prayers) - but there's not many places quite like this establishment where I could turn and access such a range of guidance and support nowadays. As usual though, most of these ideas and developments have been written in blood after failings have been exposed in the past, which is a huge shame. Even socio-economic barriers are starting to be broken down - I'm getting spanked monthly for tuition fees but I've applied for grants that I'm ethically not entitled to and I've been given them no questions asked.
That said, the problems are outside the school these days. Mobile phones and social media are the big driver of this - in my day (and I'm decidedly middle age - not young, not old) if you were having a hard time; getting grief off bullies; or made an embarrassing fuckup... that was it, it stopped at 3:15pm and it would have been old news by 9am. Now, shit follows you home and shit sticks when digital media exists of it. It's fucking horrendous from that aspect and I think now the genie is out of the bottle, only education and common sense can mitigate it - both of which are bottom of your interest list when you're in your teens!
In short, school experiences seem to be trending upwards, but outside of school is a lot more hairy.
As always, YMMV and I'm in the UK.
Now that's something I'd have expected to see a wave of now, and a comm called jesuswithajob or something. lols.
My academic institution took the more sensible approach of just making the exams open book, and adjusting the questions to demonstrate understanding and application of the concepts, rather than just recite stuff.
In the late 90s, there were some monitors in our school library that had some serious grounding problems. You could literally touch the screen with one finger, touch your victim with the other hand, and have your pal repeatedly turn the monitor off and on rapidly at the physical spring-loaded switch - and at some point, they'd get an uncomfortable-but-not-painful shock.
Highly entertaining, guaranteed a bollocking, and after that it was back to the degaussing CHUNNNNNNNGUNGUNGUNG sound. Satisfying as fuck.
Tinnyday. Comes before or after Wednesday depending on daylight savings, encourages a beer or a wine (or whatever beverage of your choosing) to relax. Business hours the following day do not start until 10am.
Delivery fees from online retailers are ineligible to charge delivery fees, local food orders must include a free canned beverage, people working in entertainment venues get double time.
The HAMBOTVER of the 2000s!
My first thought was: "I must try this". I need to read my house insurance policy first.
Curiosity got the better of me when I waved an alcohol wipe over an open flame. There's still a dark mark on the office carpet tile from where I had to stamp it out.
I was wondering why the Patron membership list hadn't been updated! 😂
Take your time dude. The app will always be here. Get yourself in a good headspace first. Take care.
Slightly off topic: is this in her book?
I'd be a bit fucked off if I'm going to read her "tell-all" memoir sometime and she's got proper juicy stories hidden up her sleeve, like book DLC.
When you give your counter var a fire name
That's beautiful. I love a bit of personal standards to fuck someone else's day up.
I typically change my responses on the form to Calibri if using MS Office. It's not enough to pique anyone's interest, but it's different enough to spot what I've added to a form rather than the usual Arial additions if you've been told about it.
Someone at my office tried to say I'd said something on a form when I hadn't, and took great delight pointing out the slight difference in typeface on the field that wasn't my edit.
It's satisfying as fuck coming back at someone with receipts.
My job is half field based, half desk based. That, and I study part time too, so the simple unhelpful answer is the same: I don't.
Recently I've taken to building a list of five or six games I'm interested in, booking a week or two off work in the summer, buying a month of Game Pass and just hooning through the games, and if I've got any time left then I'll smash through some Doom WADs and that's me.
Otherwise, I try and stay away from screens and try to read or run more.
James Pond 2 springs to mind.
Didn't one of the Spring Yard acts in Sonic 1 have a spreedrunner-friendly red spring too?
Fuck me, that's kinda awesome... buuuut...
For fuck's sake, Limited Run Games? Will the discs be on CD-Rs and the floppies be of the 5.25 variety just to really fuck people off? I really like the idea of Limited Run but their attitude to consumers is fucking awful.
I've got a massive id collection (up as far as Quake 4 anyway), but I'm really torn on this one.
A bit of both for me. Whenever I dropped a bollock in work or whereever, my head used to go down and I'd be waiting for the hairdryer treatment like I was waiting outside the headmaster's office.
Now, if some cockwomble decides to mass-email someone with a passive aggressive email about "could the person who..." and it's quite clearly my mistake, I take great pleasure in absolutely owning it, smashing that reply-all button, and explaining in painful detail how yes it was my fuck up; yes I did do it with good intentions but hey things go sideways sometimes; and yes abso-fucking-lutely thank you for your shitty email that has had all the effect of a silent fart.
I think the best part of adulting is that you can make no mistakes and still lose (yeah Picard boiiii), and realising that nobody's going to care about it in a week's time.
nice one cheers mate, didn't want to get in trouble with the law there
That, or bearing one of his children already.
Probably both.
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A colleague of mine is a nice bloke, but proper stuck in his ways.
He's done well for himself, lovely family, and has saved enough to treat them all to nice holidays across the world... but all he does is eat burger and chips while he's there.
He's been across Route 66, been to Rome, Paris, and some of the Baltic states... even been on cruises to faraway places, but trying some of the amazing local cuisine is just a step too far for him.
It's wild. That said, he enjoys himself so good on him I guess.
Weirdly, we are at (trade) war with Eastasia.