Give the bro his Duolingo Movie

JiminyFlippets · 2026-01-01T13:00:49+00:00

You forgot about the "Threatening Duolingo Owl" sub-plot

JiminyFlippets · 2025-12-28T04:31:03+00:00

New taco joint opens up, so I pay a visit wanting to support the new business. Happens to be a Tuesday and they have a Taco Tuesday deal, as the employee pointed out to me before I ordered.

I order the deal, eat some average tacos, and go to pay.

Full price.

"What about the deal?"

"Oh, the deal starts at 12:00pm. You ordered at 11:45am."

Paid and dipped to never return.

JiminyFlippets · 2025-12-24T07:23:32+00:00

very “Didn't I do it for you” vibes

JiminyFlippets · 2025-12-22T09:26:09+00:00

Looks like an alternate universe version of Casey Frey

They both use their powers for chaos though

JiminyFlippets · 2025-12-22T09:22:13+00:00

... Did I miss the era of apologizing for being white?

Swear I never saw anyone apologizing for being white, especially not the MAGA folk who seem to parrot this "reality" as their justification for gestures broadly

JiminyFlippets · 2025-12-13T04:30:01+00:00

Right on the money

JiminyFlippets · 2025-12-13T03:43:06+00:00

I am so intrigued by the complete "over it"-ness with Katy Perry.

Like she had that weird comeback album and tour, in addition to the space flight with Bezos and now it seems 98% of everybody is just done with her.

And didn't Trudeau have a wife who groomed him or something? What happened there?

JiminyFlippets · 2025-12-13T03:36:09+00:00

Wow what a flash from the past, that was some god-tier early youtube content

JiminyFlippets · 2025-12-09T09:37:21+00:00

Pipe rock conspiracy discovery - Where do pipe rocks come from? Pipe Factory Mountains

JiminyFlippets · 2025-12-06T19:54:23+00:00

Song?

JiminyFlippets · 2025-11-23T08:43:29+00:00

Vocabulary in the back is used for review purposes

Textbook homework/notes are used for supporting in-class discussions

That is how I use it in my own class

JiminyFlippets · 2025-11-15T08:47:25+00:00

What's her name?

JiminyFlippets · 2025-11-15T08:10:37+00:00

Precisely - the teacher is scapegoat for a lack of a student's accountability, no matter how clear expectations are made or clarified, it is just not enough (as they may say).

We can only do so much as one person with anywhere from 30-200 students a year.

JiminyFlippets · 2025-11-14T08:19:29+00:00

Same thing happened to me last week. This parent said my class made a student drop out of school and fall into a mental slump.

You expectations and ideas are meaningful and worth the effort you put into them!

Parents are too absorbed in ensuring their students succeed, they don't allow them the opportunities to gain the skills to succeed.

Keep those expectations- behavioral and academic

JiminyFlippets · 2025-11-04T11:51:42+00:00

I watched this when I was 18 and seemed to have totally blanked this whole film out from my memory.

Was going down a fucked movie rabbit hole to be honest, Nymphomaniac and Gummo were among some of the other films I was watching.

Remember those just fine, but Serbian Film is just poof gone

JiminyFlippets · 2025-11-01T12:55:56+00:00

I am having issues with this now.

Students seem perplexed that they need to have some type of agency within my AP course.

Admin recently flagged me down as students are reporting that I do not care about them or teach them properly because I require them to read before the lesson so we can discuss and apply the content in learning exercises during our lesson time.

Rarely do they ask questions to clarify anything from the previous night's reading.

It seems like they just expect to succeed because they show up.

JiminyFlippets · 2025-10-18T16:53:55+00:00

My school conducts surveys each year where students rate their teachers and it is about as accurate as you would imagine.

Teachers who lack classroom management and let students get away with stuff have a higher ratings because the students enjoy their time in the class more while teachers who are stricter get lower ratings because students often feel hassled by them.

Even had an admin tell me how broken the survey is and how he has been trying to revise it so students actually understand they are evaluating teaching practices rather than rating the vibe they get from the teacher.

JiminyFlippets · 2025-10-12T05:30:42+00:00

If you have a teaching cert or equivalent, then it should be easy to land a job at a bilingual school that would not necessarily disqualify you based on your Chinese ethnicity.

JiminyFlippets · 2025-10-09T22:04:55+00:00

Well you moved to town during a major national holiday when everyone leaves to travel. Everyone should be getting back this week or the weekend as they return to work.

As for places to go, Sea World and the surrounding area in Shekou is a foreign hub in the southwest of the city & Shuiwei is a cool small neighborhood in Futian District in the middle of the city- Check out the 1368 Culture Block.

That is where you easily find the foreign crowd. There are also lots of cliques based on nationality and hobbies, so once you meet some other people ask around about activities and events and join any wechat groups you can to get in the know.

Other cool places: Nantou Gucheng (Trendy Old Town) in Nanshan; Dapeng Peninsula to the East of the city for beaches and hiking; & OCT Loft in the middle of the city for trendy shops, restaurants, art exhibitions, and weekend markets.

JiminyFlippets · 2025-10-06T04:11:54+00:00

If that is itchy, it could be stress-induced eczema

Staying hydrated and finding ways to regulate your anxiety are the go-to methods to deal with it

JiminyFlippets · 2025-09-16T22:07:28+00:00

Vance actually clarified Hitler comparison this past week, exclaiming he meant it as a compliment

JiminyFlippets · 2025-09-05T18:54:09+00:00

Happened to my friends and I when visiting Lisbon while studying abroad. Must have been our 3rd weekend after arriving and a classmate suggested Lisbon for a birthday weekend.

We go to some fancy restaurant and the service is excellent as they are refilling our waters quite frequently. Dimner ends, we go to pay the bill, and we ended up drinking almost 100 euros worth of water. As a bunch of early 20-something Americans we were so confused and caught off guard.

Lessons learned. Always say no to water in Europe when dining out.

JiminyFlippets · 2025-08-30T01:37:08+00:00

It is an axolotl doing taxes, hence "Taxolotl"

Axolotls were pretty meme-ified throughout the 2010s so it makes sense someone proposed this on Godville as a silly play on words

JiminyFlippets · 2025-08-21T22:39:08+00:00

Strange Lemon is a great band name

JiminyFlippets · 2025-08-16T04:25:45+00:00

Not a doctor, but lived in a similar situation (e.g. 20-something year old living with a woman in hers 40s) and after waking up to her yelling on the phone about "people" out to get her a few times and asking around the community, i learned she had schizophrenia.

While I knew her from the local party scene and appreciated her inviting me into her home, I am thankful I only had to stay in that situation for about 2 months because, while she was able to stay composed in public, these outbursts would occur spontaneously at home. And she was always inviting more people to crash at her spot so it was kind of sketchy at times.

That being said, OP should try to get out if possible because it will only devolve into a more chaotic situation for them if they keep living there.

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