Hard work will always lead to success, which is why anyone can be president.
Some really solid teachers in high school were able to cover why that was bullshit just by proper framing of the material.
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With liberty and and justice for all.
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"When you grow up, you can be anything you want to be."
I wanna be a homeowner.
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Trade schools are for those who couldn't make it into college.
I would have absolutely gone into welding if I had been told the honest truth about what the trades can earn.
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"You'll become more conservative as you get older."
I have consistently grown more and more leftist as I've grown older. Rent goes up faster than taxes. [redacted] your landlord.
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I was little and going through that "ask an unending stream of questions to figure out how the world works / determine the limits of your parent's patience" phase. At one point during this my mother, who had up until this point used this as an opportunity to teach me how to research things and overall handled it with grace, began to hit her limit. And so one fine morning when I had perkily jammed myself underneath the toilet in a way that startled the living daylights out of her when she came in and I asked how toilets worked, she said in great exasperation "toilet gnomes, and you shouldn't be down there bothering them". This of course made perfect sense to me - someone had to crew the little boat, and humans would never fit in there.
I maintain to this day that it was an act of class solidarity that I shouldn't be mocked for when, several days later, she found me pooping in the yard because I "didn't want the gnomes to work too hard".
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- It's illegal to turn the interior light on in the car while driving.
- If you make that face, it'll stay like that.
- Sitting too close to the TV will give you square eyes
- If you lie, you get spots on your tongue (would then ask to show you your tongue when they asked you if you telling the truth)
- The Square box in that corner (the maximize window button on a PC) is a camera and we can watch what you do.
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My health class was taught by our gym teacher and she was terrible at it. Some points I remembered being taught:
- Hypertension is when the hamstrings of your legs shrink because you don't stretch every morning. Hypertension can kill you, so make sure you stretch.
- All drugs make you hallucinate. Every single one of them. Usually dragons. People die on drugs because they're trying to get away from the dragons and jump off buildings or run into traffic.
- Babies have super suction power which they use to breastfeed. An adult cannot get milk from a breast because they can't suck hard enough.
I learned these were wrong after starting secondary school where biology was taught by someone who studied biology. Except for the breastfeeding thing. That one was through personal research.
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"I will love you no matter what"
That changed real fuckin fast when i came out as trans
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My parents told me they put our cat up for adoption (it was a feral cat that only liked me) after I left home for university. My brother later accidentally let it slip they had the cat put down. I’ve never really forgiven them for that.
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The classic "if you eat watermelon seeds, one will grow in your stomach."
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