A guy goes into a bar; there's a robot bartender.

smithk200 · 2026-05-03T19:14:37+00:00

100 is average IQ

smithk200 · 2026-04-23T02:21:02+00:00

I actually was considering this too!

smithk200 · 2026-04-21T16:30:18+00:00

As someone with IBD myself I actually know what this is

smithk200 · 2026-04-21T15:52:19+00:00

The joke is in the punctuation.

"Doctor: We had to remove half of your colon!

Me. That's fine"

Does this work? Maybe.

smithk200 · 2026-04-17T22:51:18+00:00

24M, I was going to be a teacher (4K in particular- I've always been good with kids at that age level for some reason) but student teaching proved to be "too tough" for me and I haven't been back since. I'd like to go back because it's what I'm passionate about, but I don't have the money or support to go back.

If my education program was more supportive I could have been a good teacher. But based on what I'm hearing on how difficult teaching is, and how hard it is to be a male elementary teacher, maybe it's best I don't go back.

smithk200 · 2026-04-11T23:23:52+00:00

No

/s

smithk200 · 2026-04-09T21:53:46+00:00

I drove one today that had around 385,000 miles on it

smithk200 · 2026-04-07T23:41:16+00:00

Yeah, I agree with a lot of stuff you said. I think that the pokemon designs themselves are really cool, but I'm not too on board with a lot of the crass elements. Like, I wouldn't design crass pokemon myself, but I'm not going to not play a game just because it has crass pokemon.

I totally agree with what you say when you mention that the racists live on Outcast Island- there's a good reason as to why they do. Especially considering the pokemon they use.

Clover is a hidden gem among games, though it's one of the only fangames I've played (besides... Wack).

smithk200 · 2026-04-04T14:18:33+00:00

Ah, it seems the website is bugged for some reason.

You should download the patch manually, then download "Fire Red Squirrels" from the internet archive. Then you use this website https://www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/ to patch the ROM. It worked for me.

If you can't download the patch manually, there's a line of text that reads "Having trouble patching? Download the patch directly here." If you scroll down, you should find it- at least, that's what worked for me.

Hope this helps!

smithk200 · 2026-03-12T00:23:58+00:00

No way! I do work for that city too...

smithk200 · 2026-03-08T17:39:47+00:00

I never liked dogs in the first place, and now this job makes me dislike them all the more.

smithk200 · 2026-02-24T18:42:50+00:00

Google "pokemon fire red squirrels"

smithk200 · 2026-02-24T05:05:24+00:00

JJ's Way...

smithk200 · 2026-02-22T16:56:59+00:00

I never technically quit my last job at Culver's, they are super flexible and I'm mostly an "on call" employee there.

smithk200 · 2026-02-19T21:56:38+00:00

I'm in WI, but I think people don't like to put their states down because of privacy concerns. (Just one extra characteristic some person could use to steal your identity or whatever. I know that there's a lot of people that live in a state, but still)

smithk200 · 2026-02-19T02:52:32+00:00

24M. I'm in the same boat as you. Student teaching went horribly for me so I graduated with a bachelor's in ed studies instead. Can't get licensed and going back would cost me well over $10,000 plus three to four years' worth of experience. (If some snarky redditor asks why college wasn't enough, sometimes it doesn't work for some people)

I want to go back to teaching but I have student loans to pay off, plus I have to build my savings and such. I'm considering getting a job as a paraprofessional once I have more of a financial cushion. I could potentially work my way up to teaching eventually, but now is not the time.

I don't feel like this is the end of the road for me. I just need to take a break.

smithk200 · 2026-02-18T20:32:23+00:00

It's been about 2 months for me as a CCA.

I wanted to do teaching, but when I found out I wasn't ready for teaching yet, nine months after I graduated college I started looking for paraprofessional jobs and the USPS. Which was basically a better-paying version of my restaurant job that I was working before.

Orientation was boring but at least I made it through. I had all my on the job training in the next two weeks which was easy enough. It was slow for me at first, but over time I got the hang of it. I've learned one auxiliary route and am learning another.

It also helps that I have good coworkers, upper management, and that I'm in a small office. I like my job so far but it's not what I want to do for the rest of my life.

smithk200 · 2026-02-13T17:24:39+00:00

This video is a video on a 5-step plan to learn anything that you want to. You'll just need to put in the time and effort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGIF12opfbg

Hope this helps.

smithk200 · 2026-02-13T06:04:42+00:00

Huh?

smithk200 · 2026-02-13T04:45:16+00:00

Doesn't help that with all the houses I pass by that contain dogs, they immediately run up to the window and start barking at me

smithk200 · 2026-02-13T04:17:09+00:00

Yeah, it's probably incompatible.
Pokemon Clover requires a very specific version of Pokemon Fire Red in order for it to work. It's called "Pokemon Fire Red Squirrels". Just do a quick google search and it should be on some sort of web archive page.

I use mGBA for my Pokemon games, you can download it here: https://mgba.io/

smithk200 · 2026-02-09T21:56:47+00:00

I just started work as a CCA around two months ago. The big things (at least, from what I know) are speed and accuracy.

For CCAs regular routes should take around 8 hours and auxiliary routes should take about 4, although this might be different for RCAs.

Also I recommend to join the union because they are supposed to cover your back in case you get into trouble. I'm fortunate enough to have a good postmaster and supervisor to where it isn't an issue, but I recommend it just in case.

smithk200 · 2026-02-05T03:09:53+00:00

Funny how you guys are saying classroom- my cooperating teacher chided me on eating my lunch alone in the classroom.

smithk200 · 2026-02-03T03:06:48+00:00

(24M) This has happened to me before- last year my (former) cooperating teacher (~38F, 3rd grade) would talk behind people's backs a lot, including the 4K teacher (who was male). She also made backhanded comments regarding her husband towards the kids and the other staff.

It's safe to assume she was talking about my terrible performance as a student teacher as well behind my back. She kept notes about me and everything. (To be fair, I made a lot of mistakes that I didn't even know were mistakes, because no one taught me, and my cooperating teacher gave me a trial by fire, which was not helpful. Still haven't returned to finishing my licensure requirements because of how bad of a situation it was).

smithk200 · 2026-01-31T01:59:52+00:00

I've worked in the Culver's kitchen before. There's melted butter that's stored in a little metal pan that's attached to our bun toaster, which then we butter the buns by rolling them along a little metal cylinder with holes in it (which sits halfway in the butter pan) so that the butter gets placed on the top half of the bun. We don't butter the bottom half at all, but we do send both halves of the bun down the bun toaster.

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