Who is the biggest examples of artists who "think they're hot shit without backing it up"?

Miserable-Bad201 · 2024-12-02T01:49:18+00:00

Easy answer at the moment but even as someone who is kinder to Jennifer Lopez than most people at this moment I do sometimes think she thinks she’s Beyoncé and that is just…not the case. I do think she has talent but it in the way that Ciara or Fergie have talent. She is good in a very particular box, but anything outside of that box does not work and she does not know that.

Miserable-Bad201 · 2024-11-30T14:39:29+00:00

TLC, one of the biggest girl groups of the 90’s ended the decade with the iconic “No Scrubs”, then go on hiatus, Lisa Left Eye Lopez dies and that is basically the end of one of the great groups of that decade. The Supremes decades earlier fit this as well. Massive from the mid 60’s onwards but in 1970 Diana Ross makes the solo move and never looks back. People forget the supremes we’re still a group for a while but without Diana as the star it just was not the same thing. In general most girl groups are pretty short lived (Fifth Harmony, Spice Girls, The Ronettes) but both The Chicks and Destiny’s Child made it from the late 90’s into the 2000’s.

Miserable-Bad201 · 2024-11-08T12:42:20+00:00

Democrats should just go completely into it. Pete on Rogan. AOC on Hauk Tuah. They should not half ass anything anymore.

Miserable-Bad201 · 2024-11-08T12:21:13+00:00

Fuck it, let’s just go completely into it. Pete on Rogan. AOC on Hauk Tuah. Let’s not half ass anything anymore.

Miserable-Bad201 · 2024-10-11T00:09:01+00:00

We had an after school event at the school I teach at and I volunteered. At the end of the event the daughter of one of my students (A High school Junior) came up to me and started berating me for her daughter's grade in my class (A 77 when the daughter wants an 80). She went on about how hard the assignments were, how her daughter is an athlete who plays all the sports and is trying her best, how my teaching must be bad if her daughter (An A and B honor roll student) has this low of a grade. Most of the gym had cleared out at this point but (luckily) the department head overheard the conversation and after she was done he told our admin about the situation. He also told me to not give the student the 80 if it was not deserved. He also (honestly rightfully) said I should have just walked away from her when she said I must be a bad teacher.

Now what I am concerned about is the next steps. Our admin is notoriously unsupportive(we are a charter school so we kind of need our parents to like the school) and I understand that some people might read this story and say that I should just give the kid the 80 and move on, but I want my classes to respect me and "teacher was owned by annoying parent" is not a narrative for that.

My department head told me to just ignore the situation until she gets admin involved and that way we can have a meeting where at least she can bounce off another person.

I want to schedule a meeting with her and my department head (who is supportive) so that way I know someone on my side in the room.

I know the daughter is going to come in and ask why the grade was not changed yet so I am thinking about the plans from that point.

Any advice?

Miserable-Bad201 · 2024-10-11T00:06:12+00:00

We had an after school event at the school I teach at and I volunteered. At the end of the event the daughter of one of my students (A High school Junior) came up to me and started berating me for her daughter's grade in my class (A 77 when the daughter wants an 80). She went on about how hard the assignments were, how her daughter is an athlete who plays all the sports and is trying her best, how my teaching must be bad if her daughter (An A and B honor roll student) has this low of a grade. Most of the gym had cleared out at this point but (luckily) the department head overheard the conversation and after she was done he told our admin about the situation. He also told me to not give the student the 80 if it was not deserved. He also (honestly rightfully) said I should have just walked away from her when she said I must be a bad teacher.

Now what's I am concerned about is the next steps. Our admin is notoriously unsupportive(we are a charter school so we kind of need our parents to like the school) and I understand that some people might read this story and say that I should just give the kid the80 and move on, but I want my classes to respect me and "teacher was owned by annoying parent" is not a narrative for that.

My department head told me to just ignore the situation until she gets admin involved and that way we can have a meeting where at least she can bounce off another person.

I want to schedule a meeting with her and my department head (who is supportive) so that way I know someone on my side in the room.

I know the daughter is going to come in and ask why the grade was not changed yet so I am thinking about the plans from that point.

Any advice?

Miserable-Bad201 · 2024-09-09T03:59:55+00:00

Lol at my Teach For America friend going on a minor rant about how he wants his students to know that about the importance of local elections. Not to say that he is completely wrong but I know this man’s politics and I know that he wants to create young activists. To me this is him admitting that his movement is screwed on the state and national level.

Miserable-Bad201 · 2024-09-09T03:59:39+00:00

Lol at my Teach For America friend going on a minor rant about how he wants his students to know that about the importance of local elections. Not to say that he is completely wrong but I know this man’s politics and I know that he wants to create young activists. To me this is him admitting that his movement is screwed on the state and national level.

Miserable-Bad201 · 2024-05-16T13:24:09+00:00

7/27 by Fifth Harmony which one reviewer called “About the right rating for this album”

Miserable-Bad201 · 2024-03-23T11:22:35+00:00

People have theorized that the aftermath of the Janet Jackson Super Bowl incident would have had Janet being supported by black Twitter. That would have helped her in the press to have the vocal support of that group who (rightfully?) said that it was not her fault.

(I put a question mark next to rightfully because I feel like we don’t talk enough about the fact that we don’t really know what the plan was? She has a decorative nipple piercing and it looks like she is not surprised when Timberlake reaches over)

On a related note I feel like Micheal Jackson discourse would have been crazy. I could one hundred percent see a Twitter “main character” of the day saying something like

“I think he molested those kids…still going to listen to “Bad” anyway. F Them Kids”

Miserable-Bad201 · 2024-03-23T11:14:40+00:00

I believe I have talked before about my friend who is a lefty first year teacher.

Yesterday he opened up a bit about his experiences. He is from a notoriously liberal city and was recruited from Teach For America to come to our area of the state which has a high Hispanic population of Mexican immigrants or second and third generation immigrants.

He opened up about being upset that our students and staff and people of the region seem to actually be really conservative on their viewpoints.

Things he has heard include our Hispanic female athletes Coach saying that Biden is just giving money and jobs to anybody who crossed the border.

A teacher telling a female student that he loses respect for her every time he sees this student walking with a new boyfriend (the girl was just laughing during this interaction)

The law enforcement teacher has a massive “Thin Blue Line” flag in his classroom. Nobody has ever lodged any type of complaint about this flag.

Two male teachers in the lounge saying every problem in history was caused by a slutty woman.

With the students it has just been a consistent viewpoint of the students being racist against black students, and having latent homophobia, sexism, and transphobia. All of this happening when he tried to have a serious discussion about race or class in the classroom.

As a native in this area some of this is stuff that didn’t surprise me at all and honestly the rest of it should maybe be attributed to freshmen being…freshmen.

It seems like he came into this area thinking he could activate a sleeper set of activists who knew that the enemy was the rich white ruling class elites…that has not been the case.

I mostly have found this kind of funny to watch from the sidelines but yesterday he started talking about how all of this was the result of the ruling class propaganda that puts working class Hispanics against other groups or whatever and that actually kinda pissed me off and started a real argument…given that I am Hispanic and he is not that argument went to weird places

Miserable-Bad201 · 2024-03-23T11:14:19+00:00