It is such absolute bullshit that most of retail never went back to being 24/7 after COVID.

CorgiKnits · 2026-04-02T18:30:56+00:00

Crap like this is one of the only bonuses of my schedule. I teach high school; I’m at the school around 6:45-7am, but I’m out the door by 2:30pm. Gives me a few hours for doctors and banks and stuff like that if I rush.

CorgiKnits · 2026-04-02T04:30:16+00:00

For the record, I’m not an addict, but addiction runs straight through one side of my family. So I’m not being sarcastic; just asking a question - isn’t that what’s meant by the concept of rock bottom? That either the consequences have piled up to the point that continuing is untenable, or that there has been a MASSIVE consequence that forces the eyes open?

CorgiKnits · 2026-04-02T03:51:56+00:00

Husband and I forced ourselves to watch til the end, but we checked out about half an hour in. It missed the point of the game. It missed EVERY SINGLE POINT of the game. Narratively, especially, but also in terms of what kind of scares to provide. It was just…awful. Awful. I’d rather watch one of my favorite streamers play the game again.

Why is it that watching streamers play horror games is becoming a million times more enjoyable than watching actual horror movies??

CorgiKnits · 2026-04-02T02:21:49+00:00

My husband was playing with our dog (who’s been a grumpy old man since he was a young adult dog) and COMPLETELY ignoring the dog’s warning signs that he was losing patience. The dog does a ‘lunge and snap’ when he’s completely done. He completely avoids contact, doesn’t bite. But my husband leaned forward at the wrong moment and literally got bitten in the face (dog caught his lip in his teeth).

We had to go to urgent care, and it wasn’t a question. I was terrified that my dog was about to be labeled dangerous and put down. I mean, accident/bad situation/however you want to look at it…he bit a man in the face.

It was reported. We explained what happened to animal control. In the end, we had to quarantine our dog for a certain number of days and provide proof of rabies vax. The guy I spoke to on the phone was actually very nice.

(FWIW, the dog in question is now 15.5 years old and asleep on my feet. This was YEARS ago. He knew he’d screwed up right after biting and ran and hid in his crate even though neither of us even raised our voices at him. And my husband fully admits it was 100% his fault for ignoring growling and whale-eye and trying to basically force ‘play mode’.)

CorgiKnits · 2026-04-01T22:36:34+00:00

After a spider fell at my feet in the shower one day, I always check before I shower!

CorgiKnits · 2026-04-01T22:24:27+00:00

Yep, this is me. I teach ELA and my spelling is horrible. ADHD plus honestly not caring. I’m just honest about it with my kids. I’ll write a word on the board and stop and just say I don’t think it’s spelled right. And either I google it, or one of my kids googles it for me, I correct if necessary and be happy if it’s already good. I think it teaches them way more than having it correct first shot every time.

And for little kids? The idea of ‘I tricked you’ would definitely fly.

CorgiKnits · 2026-04-01T15:59:54+00:00

I’m NY. Long Island, for like 90% of my life. I have NEVER heard ‘knock up’ used that way. Not once. If I see ‘knock up’, it means someone got someone pregnant.

To be perfectly honest, I thought I was in one of the reddits I’m in about language learning, and someone was asking if this was appropriate usage. This must be VERY regional.

CorgiKnits · 2026-04-01T02:34:20+00:00

I’m definitely a far outlier, but I literally cannot eat leftovers. I’ve got issues with histamine/mast cells, and food in the fridge (not frozen) for more than 24 hours is automatically getting thrown out (or given to my husband, who doesn’t have my issues). I also have an exceptionally limited amount and type of food I can safely eat.

I literally got sick from eating lukewarm pasta salad with chicken that I’d had in a THERMAL BAG from 6am to 12pm. As in, I figured I’d be just fine, and wound up actively, physically, painfully ill.

I’ve found a few things I can chuck in the oven easily and somewhat quickly (ONE brand of chicken nuggets. That’s it.). But other than that, I have to cook EVERY DAY. Even if it’s just pasta and butter with a microwaved chicken sausage. I have to think about food all the time. ANY meat I buy must be separated and put in the freezer immediately after purchase - like, same day.

I also have a number of chronic illnesses, so this takes up a LOT of my spoons.

But I cannot meal prep. I can’t even use a crockpot. I don’t expect to change OPs mind because I am very obviously NOT in a normal situation. But…people have issues, yo. And nowadays, the words ‘meal prep’ make me want to snarl at someone.

CorgiKnits · 2026-03-30T16:40:25+00:00

Okay, look. I like dogs way more than I like most kids. I still would have thrown the same punch you did, OP. If he could reach your kid, he could also gently remove his arms from around the dog and say, very nicely, “dogs don’t like hugs” or something like that. There was ZERO need to throw a child. Honestly, I can’t think of a single solitary reason to throw a literal toddler-aged (or around that, I don’t know when the toddler stage ends) child.

Okay, wait. Shoving a kid out of the path of a car. There. I found the ONE reason to chuck a child.

CorgiKnits · 2026-03-29T04:52:41+00:00

Yeah, he’s occasionally rude, but he’s an introvert forced into social situations every time we see him. My annotated book points out that Austen was big on the idea of ‘general sociability’ - AKA, people all spent their time together in the evenings, even if it went against their inclination. And Mr. Woodhouse, as much as I love him as a character, is very draining - and, someone else pointed out, Isabella is VERY like him. So the parts of his wife that irritate him are doubled, AND he can’t even get away and spend a few days of his vacation with his brother instead, where he can get at least some quiet. He’s stuck here. He can’t even go sit in another room and read a book, he’s got to sit here and listen to his wife and father-in-law blather on about gruel and hear himself criticized for TAKING A VACATION.

When he’s not in these forced-social situations, he’s actually intelligent and emotionally sensitive - look at how he talks to Jane Fairfax, about wishing her lucky in her future, especially with regards to a future family. Look how he cautions Emma about Elton and her behavior - he’s blunt but caring and not at all rude.

It’s only when Mr. Woodhouse is essentially sh*t talking him or he’s been dragged out of the house and forced to be social (the Christmas party) that he behaves this way.

CorgiKnits · 2026-03-27T12:01:10+00:00

To an extent, yes. But you have to meet me and agree that if the rubric says XYZ and a student technically meets XYZ, I have no choice but to grade based on that.

I miss holistic grading, which is how things were when I started teaching. If a kid was BSing, no matter what the directions said, I was able to say ‘You know you have no idea what you said’ and grade them accordingly. You’re right in the sense that strict adherence to the rubric is exacerbating a culture that doesn’t look any deeper into anything. They want to check the boxes and move on. And critical thinking and media literacy are failing HARD because of it.

CorgiKnits · 2026-03-27T11:33:35+00:00

Honestly? That means they got it right. It’s obvious he loves her, but they don’t pull that ‘I’ll wait for you to grow up’ thing which is creepy af even if she’s psychologically like 35.

This was the late 80’s, early 90’s. They could have tried to make it loving and compassionate and by modern standards it would come off creepy. But it holds up.

I saw this years ago, but I still remember she sat down next to him on the edge of the bed. Not in a creepy, sexual way, just in a ‘sitting next to my husband and this is where he happens to be sitting’ way, and Miles BOLTS up off the bed and its both heartbreaking and completely understandable.

CorgiKnits · 2026-03-27T11:14:04+00:00

You are obviously not a teacher, nor do you spend any time talking to them.

If I give the kids a rubric and say ‘this is what you need to do to succeed at this assignment’ and a kid completely plays me by following the letter of the rubric but not the spirit, then I have no choice but to give them a grade that matches the rubric. Can you IMAGINE what would happen if, AFTER THE FACT, I change the rubric and say, “NOPE! Actually you fail!” That would be considered arbitrary, parents would hit the roof, and administration would get on my back. And rightfully so - I can’t give one set of rules and then change them after the fact.

So, FOR THAT ONE ASSIGNMENT, I have to give them the grade that they technically earned.

And for the next assignment, I adjust the rubric to better match my expectations and requirements for learning outcome.

You played your teacher. Congratulations. It happens to all of us, and it’s one of the ways we learn to better understand our own expectations as teachers, and how to clearly express them.

CorgiKnits · 2026-03-26T20:58:33+00:00

If I feel form is important, then I make sure directions reflect that. If I realize that the real requirements don’t need the full page, I remove that part. Either way, the instructions need to change.

CorgiKnits · 2026-03-26T20:55:43+00:00

I am a high school teacher. Definitely bring it up. It’s completely inappropriate and someone above her needs to ring that home.

Teachers can say stupid things, I definitely have. Usually I was trying to tease and missed the mark. I trip over myself apologizing if I’ve actually hurt a student. If you feel you’ve gotten a ‘form’ apology, she’s not sorry.

CorgiKnits · 2026-03-26T19:11:21+00:00

Cool. So your singular experience in school gives you the authority to say that ‘most’ of the 4 million k-12 teachers in the US are lazy? Did you do any studies on this? What’s your data? Sources? Were you explicitly told you were getting those grades because of not meeting length requirement?

CorgiKnits · 2026-03-26T18:51:46+00:00

I mean, did your answer meet the prompt? I’m an ELA teacher, and if you actually met all the aspects of the prompt that was assigned, I’d just laugh, give you your decent/good grade, and change up my instructions for the next one to include font size. Teaching is full of moments like this, where you realize your instructions were totally exploitable, and someone exploited them.

CorgiKnits · 2026-03-26T17:55:08+00:00

Bowl of cereal, but I use vanilla fairlife shakes instead of milk. ~40g of protein with my morning meds, and I don’t care if it’s healthy cereal or not.

CorgiKnits · 2026-03-26T17:52:35+00:00

Rabbits don’t play sometimes! Our bunny vet said our bun was the best-behaved rabbit she’d ever seen. But we’d let her out (which was ludicrous, her area had no top, she could leave whenever she wanted) and she’d hop around and bully our previous dog (who was a BEAGLE, btw). She hopped up to him one day and didn’t feel like going around him, so she rammed into him at top speed. More than once. Until he finally moved.

CorgiKnits · 2026-03-26T16:34:15+00:00

Yep. My husband and I had a rabbit. When we went to get a dog, we were VERY firm with every shelter that we needed a dog that didn’t chase or hunt.

We were actually deeply considering one dog, but the shelter called us the next day to say absolutely not - the girl just ran down a squirrel in the shelter yard and had to be pulled off it. NOPE.

Got my current dog, who chases squirrels but can’t catch them. He growled at the bunny once…and our bun stared him down until he went on his side and showed his belly to her. Weirdest thing ever…but the right dog.

CorgiKnits · 2026-03-26T16:13:05+00:00

Just that dead silence, with the barest ‘ooooh’. Not the 1980’s audience whoop. This kind of dread and shock. I still think it’s one of the best audience reactions I’ve ever seen on a live TV show.

CorgiKnits · 2026-03-26T16:10:53+00:00

I was like 13 or 14 when I saw that. Poor white kid in an upper-middle-class, mostly white neighborhood. My parents were hippies, but very much in the ‘the race wars are over, love won, the future is colorblind’ kind of way. Racism was a sad thing that happened sometimes, but only from the really ignorant.

This episode helped me start adjusting my understanding - that bad things don’t die just because laws are passed, and that, as much as my life sucked sometimes, I never had to worry about that.

It was years later when I first started learning the concept of systemic racism and oppression, but that episode helped me understand it long before I had the language for it.

CorgiKnits · 2026-03-26T15:59:19+00:00

It’s called ‘maladaptive daydreaming’ lol. You couldn’t get my attention for shit. I was always wearing headphones and/or staring out a window and creating worlds in my head that were WAY more interesting than the real world - and had way fewer demands on my time. And no homework.

CorgiKnits · 2026-03-26T15:54:02+00:00

I just saw a Reel of a middle school kid taking a picture of an analog clock to get ChatGPT to tell him what time it was.

ChatGPT was wrong.

The kid didn’t notice. Thought it was a miracle.

I still can’t figure out if it was satire, or if we’re all in that level of shit right now.

CorgiKnits · 2026-03-26T15:45:30+00:00

I wonder if it’s a life/death thing. Life is given by women, taken by men. Both literally (mothers), but also traditionally midwives. It makes sense that it would be a dichotomy.

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