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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm a high school teacher and I recently was discussing this. Protip: don't talk to 14 year olds about how if something is in between hard and soft, it's firm. πŸ™„

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There’s a surprisingly more expansive demographic that pro tip applies to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You called out β€œtip”, but you left β€œexpansive” just lying there helpless?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Don’t worry, it’ll rise to the occasion

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yepp, just the tip.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm 41f (going on 13 at times), and this is why my husband hates(loves) having me around the shop - all the mechanical everything is full of euphemisms and innuendo. "mating surfaces" πŸ˜‚

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are emojis acceptable here? Because I’d like to insert the hand raise one here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think yes, let’s make a new culture of restrained emoji use πŸ™Œ

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh were they referring to praise hands? I thought they meant πŸ™‹

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was high fiving their raised hand

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like you should really have seen that one coming.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

coming for sure

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago