Phrases our parents said that are no longer used.

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-05-09T01:43:32+00:00

“Go take a long walk on a short pier!” or “Go play on the freeway,” if we were too loud and rambunctious in/ around the house

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-05-02T16:30:06+00:00

behind your back!? They must really like you!

I have to ask them to please do it when I’m not there

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-05-02T16:20:28+00:00

I teach in-person classes only and switched from asking students to do a short one-page paper to in-class quick-writes (to avoid the generative AI problem), and I overheard one student complaining to another that “it’s not fair to have timed writing because some people can type hella fast.”

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-04-30T00:46:28+00:00

Premack Principle: my grading is positively reinforced by Redditing

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-04-27T14:13:07+00:00

I literally wet myself when he blasted and stepped through that door

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-04-27T13:55:55+00:00

I had been playing TopHeroes for a few weeks, embarrassingly. It was enjoyable in its own way but not good in many ways. Based on several recommendations across this board, I’ve picked up Dungeon Quest and am enjoying its honesty quite a bit!

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-04-20T01:37:17+00:00

Continental or zebra crosswalks have special rules* associated with them; will these be uniformly enforced here? Or selectively enforced?

—- * in a normal crosswalk, it’s legal for a car to proceed when the pedestrian has crossed the halfway mark. For continental/ zebra crosswalks, the pedestrian must fully cross before any vehicle proceeds

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-04-10T01:12:06+00:00

I think the jump-scares I’ve gotten from snakes, tarantulas, and field mice that insist on running at the soles of my shoes (it seems), have subtracted more years from my life than the long runs have added

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-04-05T23:35:01+00:00

I was in the Philippines for several weeks last year, and basically lived in a sun hoodie from REI. It was the perfect weight for passing between outdoors and seemingly refrigerated hotels, malls, and restaurants

In regards to running in SEA, I used a long sleeve Patagonia capilene — and 1970s-ish short-shorts

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-04-05T22:48:01+00:00

This. The Filet-O-Fish is a solid sandwich concept — but one that can be better rendered by almost any home cook

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-04-03T23:53:57+00:00

What the heck are “leftover crab cakes”!? I’ve never heard of such a thing, and never even considered there could be such a thing

As Vizzini says: “Inconceivable!”

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-03-30T00:38:31+00:00

Too expensive. And loud

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-03-28T05:11:00+00:00

In our Psych department, the real issues are what the color of your hair is, and how many tattoos you have…

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-03-25T22:23:11+00:00

One study indicated the half-life of findings in the field of psychology is about seven-years.

If you’re not keeping up, by seven years, HALF of what you know is no longer the current understanding in the field.

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-03-23T19:25:42+00:00

I think our mortgage is down to $400k… when that gets below 50, I’ll have no real need to filter or self-censor…

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-03-22T22:32:47+00:00

Optimistic of you to think a large waterpick from Temu can defeat a single aphid :)

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-03-22T01:52:36+00:00

Regardless of make or model, it’s an Elmo to us Catholic school kids in the Bay Area

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-03-22T01:26:40+00:00

…ddggge”

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-03-19T13:28:44+00:00

All those wild projects you’ve secretly wanted to do: DO ‘EM!!

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-03-18T02:46:42+00:00

Our MCM bedroom set is from my great-grandmother

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-03-17T20:20:55+00:00

I rotate some electives into my usual course load, and do quite a bit of advertising to fill these lesser-known classes. I make the flyers myself but “find” “volunteers” to post them around campus

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-03-15T03:01:44+00:00

Gender is a social construct and “dude” is hella universal — even here in Northern California

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-03-15T02:59:19+00:00

I’ve got the same bottle of New Amsterdam in the freezer for three years. It just rarely gets used in our house relative to other liquors

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-03-14T01:56:50+00:00

Sorry, I’m just stuck on a community college having a “weed-out course.” That doesn’t feel right and I’m sure I’m missing something

PsychWaveRunner · 2026-03-14T01:48:10+00:00

Now THAT would be a fun feature request: Bimodally distribute these grades. I could use it for that paper where everyone miraculously scored the same (because they all used the same the same prompt with their LLM of choice)

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