Scott_of_the_Arctic @ Scott_of_the_Arctic @lemmy.world

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It doesn't really matter if the schools do. And the bully's parents are where they get it from. Kids don't care about branding unless they're instructed to do so by their families. I was bullied by a guy for years at school. Several adults tried to intervene, but it only stopped after I embedded a knife in the wall next to his head from across the room. Bullies like a reaction unless they think there's a legitimate chance you'll snap and murder them. Unfortunately that's not advice you can pass to your children.

Bullying like that can be extremely traumatic for kids. Yeah it's a shit situation, but I understand why they wouldn't want to deal with it. kids are generally shitty people in middle school and use any excuse to bully each other. You basically have 3 choices 1) give in and get the thing, 2) let them get bullied for the rest of middle school, 3) harden them to the point where the other kids are fucking terrified of them.

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You don't have Plumbo or equivalent?

That's smart. Then you have a steady supply of fresh fish.

All fun and games until you have a fender bender and soak the interior of your car and everything you're wearing in cold piss.

92 % of the population lives in either California, new York or Texas?

Ass

To be fair, German public transport (and I admit that I've only taken it around Berlin) is about average for Europe. Better than Norway not as good as the Netherlands.

From my limited travel around the states I can say that availability of public transport varies a lot from town to town.

Local transport: San Fransisco has a lot of public transport and its pretty reliable. I spent over a week in Shreveport Louisiana and I only saw a bus once. maybe I wasn't in the right place at the right time of day but it wasn't everywhere like in a European city. I haven't been to New York, but I have a new Yorker friend who says the subway stations are essentially a place for homeless people to masturbate when they get banned from the library. The entire state of Wyoming doesn't seem to have any public transport.

Intercity transport: The greyhound busses are used almost exclusively by people who are not legally allowed to drive (full of meth heads and schizophrenic nuns) the drivers were obviously whichever mentally ill passenger was closest to the front when the previous driver overdosed. They'll do things like throw their hands in the air and say don't worry jesus is protecting us! That's if there is a bus between cities. There isn't a bus between salt lake city and park city next door for example. The trains have been reduced steadily to the point where the majority of us cities don't even have a train station.

So yes Germany has excellent public transport, with the exception of having to validate your ticket before you get on the train (That's an inefficient waste of time).

I'm the only person in my family who drinks coffee. I'm not going to buy an espresso machine. But yeah if I went to a cafe, restaurant or petrol station I'd get espresso.i just don't have a proper espresso machine at home.

I knew I wouldn't be able to afford a vacation so I moved to a scenic tourist destination with a view of the fjord and drink coffee on my balcony. That way I can pretend. I also get one of the kids to throw a dishtowel over their arm and carry a small notebook while they ask me how I take the coffee thats been sitting in the pot for a half hour already.

I'm going to be the first to eat a Human omelette.

It's around 2.5 per 100 000 in Norway.

they have extremely flexible spines compared to most other animals

Who confuses chlamydia and clematis? They don't even sound similar.

Astrophysicists would be happy with a 1 ohm resistor.

The 10 year old has emotional regulation issues. Good kid but very volatile.

It's always been mum and dad. My kids call me dad/daddy/dumb ass/fucker.

I use celsius. Triple digit temperatures would kill me.

But after a quick conversion, still single digit. Its pretty standard winter temperature just a little bit inland from where i live. I like it best between -15 and -5 °C (5 - 23F)

There's no directionality to my hair growth whatsoever. So no matter which way I'm shaving I'm going against the grain. I blame the 1/64 Papuan DNA.