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[–] [email protected] 117 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

How old are they that they called labeled as ableist? This would not have happened in 2000s elementary

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I don't know - the term "ableist" has certainly spiked in popularity in the last ten years or so, but even in the 90's you'd get a bollocking for throwing around the terms "mong" or "spaz" or "flid" within earshot of a teacher.

I mean, I can see why - I hate the terms myself now. but when you're in single digits of age, it's just used as another derisory term rather than a specific slight at someone's physical or mental development challenges.

It still got you in hot water if you were daft enough to get caught shouting it though.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not native and I discovered the word by reading a Lemmy community's rules.

[–] _stranger_ 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I had a teacher in the 90's call me a spaz.

[–] MutilationWave 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Spaz was very mild in the US and very serious in the UK. Meant kinda different things too.

The opposite for extremity in these countries at the time was fanny. Meant completely different things.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Were you in a big city? Mine was pretty small. I wonder if that has to do with it? I never heard the word until maybe high school or college

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Nah I was in a pretty small town, semi-rural but not buttfuck-nowhere either.

It certainly wasn't labelled "ableist" then, it was simply "being a little shit" - I only really learned of the term ableism around 10-15 years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Hm.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=ableist&year_start=1990&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3

They could be in 4th grade in 2010, and be 25 now posting this. I could also believe that elementary school teachers could be among the first 5% of people to adopt a new super-inclusive type of brand new lefty language that's just starting to be used for a new type of friendly inclusiveness in 2000.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

elementary school teachers could be among the first 5% of people to adopt a new super-inclusive type of brand new lefty language

Elementary school teachers are also more likely to crack down on any sort of insulting language in general. I remember when I was a kid in the 4th grade, our teacher would punish us for asking, "So?" So was short for 'So what?' At the time it was (sometimes properly, give me a break, Mrs. H) a way to insultingly say that someone else's statement was meaningless.

It wasn't because it was ableist, or anything else you could point a finger to except insulting, and teachers head that sort of interaction off early.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Could be that they didn't say ableist at the time it happened but anon remembers it that way it just tells it that way.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Anon after getting back:

The name’s Richard

Retarded Richard

[–] M137 5 points 2 weeks ago

Nems Bernd, Jeums Bernd.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 weeks ago

Principal:

"OK this kid is fucking based, I'll reward him with a week off"

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

When I went to school, one kid during that exercise said that his name was so-and-so, and one thing he liked to do was stick his thumb up his ass.

He was known as "Thumbs" for the next four years, possibly longer. I actually don't think I ever learned his name, he was just Thumbs.

[–] superduperpirate 31 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I knew a kid who was caught beating his meat on a school trip, and was thereafter known as Spanky.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Definitely a learning experience for that kid.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I can see it now... I'm called first; I don't know what an adjective is (I still struggle); I panic from the social anxiety of stage fright; I awkwardly try to say anything at all, so I can sit the fuck down and move on; so I say, "Really Richard"

I'm told that's an adverb, and I need to use an adjective. Now I'm pale as a ghost and about to faint from the panic. I stutter, "Richmond Richard?". I'm informed that's a proper noun, so I quickly try again (visibly sweating) spouting, "Reading Richard!"... and am told to sit down, because that was a noun and I've now been assigned extra homework on grammar.

Someone snickers and says "Retarded Richard" in a low voice. The entire class laughs, the teacher is doing their best not to crack a smile (but I can tell), and I am henceforth known as "Retarded Richard" until graduation and beyond.

Adverbs, adjectives, verbs... prepositions! I'm in a living nightmare. There is no waking up from this. I am, forever, "Retarded Richard"

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[–] serenissi 34 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Why your screenshot looks more beautiful than usual greentexts?

edit: is it a custom font?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They used an AI upscaler to enhance the details

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

What is my purpose?
You enhance shitposts.

[–] Klear 11 points 2 weeks ago
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Zoomed in before screenshotting

[–] MintyAnt 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This actually happened, btw

[–] rtxn 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

...Richard?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

a 9 yo kid getting a week suspension at the start of the school year simply and only because he called himself ~~redacted~~.. idts

(it filters the word here)

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[–] captainlezbian 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's dumb dick to his friends

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

crummy cock to his acquaintances

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I wonder what Zelda came up with for that introduction

[–] FooBarrington 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

"Xylophone Zelda". Really fucked over Xenias introduction

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Uh, xylophone doesn't start with Z, back to kindergarten until you learn your letters.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Gotta be xenophobic Xenia now, sorry, I don't make the rules

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

depending how she's feeling, zany, zen or zealous?

Or zonked, if she smoked a fat dart beforehand

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Zooted Zelda (she on coke)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

As an outsider, it's wild to me that you can/could get suspended from school so easily.

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[–] MintyAnt 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm concerned but someone must tell you: Greentexts are not real stories

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

The schools I as at growing up you wouldn't have gotten this as a punishment until like your 10th strike. You'd get increasingly severe suspensions. One to five days in school suspension then one to five days out of school suspension. Then you got expelled. It's possible OP doesn't remember correctly how long they were suspended. It's also possible this post is a lie, but I'm being generous.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I can't come up with anything better, can anyone else?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

We had a dude called Richard in primary school that went blank at the thought of a nickname. Obviously, as responsible classmates we helped him out, and he was christened Romanian Richard.

Richard was not Romanian, nor did he have any ties to the fine country of Romania.

Whatever inexplicable logic that was at play here, directed that he should have the last ten seconds of the Taz-Mania theme sung to him repeatedly, sorta like:

"Richard Romanian,

Richard Romanian,

Richard Romanian,

We mean you!"

Before making the appropriate Taz noises finishing with a raspberry in close proximity to his face. What was really weird, was that Richard didn't appreciate this new fame and form of address, which was a real shame because everyone else did and it was highly entertaining before teachers got involved, parents got called, and it was saved for the days when Richard was really being a oil-fired arsehole.

These were the days before we drew the line from Richard to Dick, you must understand.

[–] Agent641 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Reliable

Respectable

Resplendent

Remarkable

Relativistic

Reprehensible

[–] FooBarrington 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Reasonable Richard

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Rich Richard too obvious for you ri**ards?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They called him Rich-tard for short.

But he got the last laugh when rich 'tards ruled the country.

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