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[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 97 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is genuinely hilarious. I hope they're dressed like greasers too.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago

Depends wether they flip heads or tails as they put on their school uniforms

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

I thought we were doing the roaring 20's and not the 50's? I want IT Girls and flappers not coin boys.

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 96 points 1 year ago (2 children)

your high school career

I mean this sincerely, eat shit

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That sub is genuinely a distilled stew of the clueless cruelty of school teachers in the imperial core

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 90 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Glad someone is fighting the good fight against the greatest enemies of the proletariat: teachers and bed times

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The sub is legit weird. It's an odd mix of overly-exploited teachers with a kind heart and a good head on their shoulders sharing trauma or challenges or the frustration about systemic issues and then just old-school regan-era "kill the fuckers" type republicans complaining about adhd

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its not that weird when you understand it mostly functions as a vent sub for teachers. I used to be subbed, and it was sometimes cathartic, but eventually it was just too doomery

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get the venting part, it's just weird to me that the mix doesn't seem to lead to conflicts

[–] MoreAmphibians@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

They're probably used to dealing with almost that exact mix in school when they're in the teacher's lounge.

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lmao, me too. Never mind, carry on comraderat-salute

[–] Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

Its an honourable fight. My teachers made me miserable by bullying the shit out of me and my parents sent me to bed at 7pm until i was 18.

I will continue fighting until teachers and bed times are abolished.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's be fair, excessively punitive teachers can really fuck kids over

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[–] Fuckass@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Almost every post I’ve read on there was about being underpaid, having no support for failing and disruptive students, sexist boys who praise Andrew Tate, and having no respect by anybody - students, parents, or admin

Like, yes, death to all the stooges defending the Vietnam and Iraq war and demonizing Malcolm X, but seriously? I don’t think those guys are on there, at least from what I’ve seen.

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

IME the sub is filled with libs with a purely individualist perspective on the behaviour of the students they whine about. There is no conception that there are greater material and social forces that might maximize the chance that certain kids act out while other kids are polite and do all their homework without asking. Instead they're putting the blame on literal children and then don't understand why that might actually make at-risk kids display antisocial behaviour.

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[–] Egon@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah it's such a weirdly tight-assed response to some obviously funny tomfoolery. All it would take is for the teacher to be in on it as well. Start flipping your own coin, start calling heads or tails.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Right, the teachers joining in on it and trying to be cool would be the quickest way to make them stop doing it.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would literally just get a two heads sided coin and flip it myself.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah it's practically a given that I would flip a coin to determine the lesson plan, then just do what I was going to do anyway because it's not like any of them could see how it landed.

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[–] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Get a fresh quarter you can feel the orientation of in a closed fist and either flip over onto palm or open your hand to match your call.

E: teach em early why the nfl toss is like that.

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[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 79 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Can't wait till they start putting on poisoned lipstick and kissing politicians to death.

Or wearing a big fish bowl over their heads and robbing banks to fund prolonging the life of their cryogenically preserved wives.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They'll start off simple, like asking the teacher riddles, but it'll soon get out of hand

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

Trying to do Riddler, but its just increasingly problematic Jim Carry impersonations.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Hey, if they can find a Lazarus Pit, I am for it

[–] muddi@hexbear.net 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Live by the roll die by the roll

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Teach the kids GURPS while they're young and have them roll 3D6

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[–] Zymi@hexbear.net 69 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nothing to worry about until they also show up with a cattle gun and ask the teacher to "call it" imo.

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[–] judgeholden@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

what's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?

[–] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

im a coin toss hustler. I get people in bars to wager on a coin toss and if i lose i just pull the old, “what do you say we up the ante?” then i just rinse and repeat until theyve thrown away thousands.

my trick: i act like a novice, but ive been flipping coins since I was 5

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

Twoface mfers

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a teacher, I've seen much worse fads than this. This is fine.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean yeah, I'd take a class entirely of "coin boys" over having two Tate fans.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Imagine the cascading tinging sounds of coins tossing up and down all class, with all of them collectively distracted by their adherence to a shared collective habit.

Still way better than even one domestic violence and human trafficking LARPer.

[–] buh@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

At least it’s not the kind of coin I was assuming from the title

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

This is chuuni-ism but western. They're harmless kids roleplaying to be cool and completely not understanding that it's not really cool. They're hurting nobody though so ehhh let them be.

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[–] booty@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

Where my coin boys at

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

I really hope this dies off soon. I haven't seen anything online about this when I googled it, so I'm guessing it's just a local friend group thing, unless one of you has some more info...

It's like the Hexbear signal lit up the sky! hexbear-chapochat We are called!

[–] mazdak@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

‘Live by the coin, die by the coin’ That’s great. 😂 It sounds like a kind of nihilistic embrace by someone that feels like they have no agency anyway. Certainly something I noticed working in developing countries is that people who haven’t had a lot of control over their lives and have suffered for it, often tend to take a fatalistic attitude towards life. Given the onset of climate change and decreasing living standards, I wonder if that’s what’s happening here. Or maybe it’s just kids being kids, I dunno.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 1 year ago

I support the coin boys. Concentsus is teach can suck our pennies.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago
[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is a shockingly vanilla fad. Kids were doing this with Batman Forever because Two Face did it. Do better teens.

[–] SmokinStalin@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Coindexter: the school years

[–] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is most of the way to being an I Think You Should Leave sketch.

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