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[–] 93 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Of all the silly trends this one sounds very benign. They aren't hurting anyone. No one is bullied. They don't sound particularly loud or distracting to others not interested.

Coin boys, keep doing your thing. Even if I'm not into it, be the most awesome Coin boy you can today.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I'm going to bully them so this statement isn't true

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Good luck. Coin boys live by the coin and die by the coin, or so I'm told.

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    [–] 85 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Kids have always had a thing. This is not new. When I was in school 40 fucking years ago, Christ I’m old, there was a yo yo phase, a rubber band / paperclip phase, a bloody knuckles phase. I’m sure more that I’ve forgotten.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    "Pencil Break" was the hot shit for about a year in middle school. This was right on the edge of when mechanical pencils started to replace wooden ones in school (not completely, I'm sure kids still use wooden #2s.)

    It was stupid, but so many people would take turns slapping pencils together to see which ones would break. Obviously brand new pencils out of the box snap the easiest, while worn down nubs are impossible to break. The school eventually banned it and briefly flirted with banning wooden pencils after parents and teachers complained that all the really dedicated students had no writing instruments left.

    Nation of geniuses over here.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    At my school there was a group of students who would steal unattended pencils and hoard them in a huge pile in a hole in the woods behind the school. Eventually they got caught but for a while it was easy to make the excuse that you couldn't do schoolwork because the pencils were gone.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I forgot about the bloody knuckles. You either got good at spinning a quarter, or you got good at taking pain.

    There's a YT channel MrRebootFTW that Google fed to me where a guy goes through all of the old school tricks and how to do them. It's silly. Things like spitball guns, shooting paperclips or folded paper with rubber bands, rubber band guns with old mechanical pencils, and a bunch of other things. It's a fun nostalgia watch if you're into it.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago
    [–] 43 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    At least it’s better than stealing cars or ripping sinks off the wall.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I'm afraid to ask what the second thing is...

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Not sinks, but somee asshat in my high school wrecked two entire bathrooms, one boys one girls, by throwing a chunk of sodium down a toilet while it was flushing. The sodium exploded and blew all the toilets off the wall. This was back in 94-96.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    That is amazing.

    Best we had was some idiot who thought he could get away with smoking in the bathroom like the jocks in an 80's movie... Someone walked in, and he threw his cigarette butt in the trash can, where it started to smolder.

    A lot.

    All told, it was a pretty boring fire. No real damage, but the school was closed for a couple of days while they cleaned up the soot.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Fuck Reddit and fuck Spez.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    What is this, 1928 Boston?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    power move would be to get one of those kennedy 50 cent pieces or a silver dollar and learn to do that knuckle thing

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    [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Don't these fools know that with each flip they are creating new alternate timelines? This is extremely reckless...

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    You're telling me that someone who has been teaching for 10 years uses the abbreviation "s2g"?

    Fuck am I that old?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Millennials are ~30-45 now, and we pretty much invented text abbreviations like that 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    GenX’er laughing at the cute millennials that think we weren’t abbreviating shit on BBS forums and usenet.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    As someone who loves random chance, I would gladly take that over them filming themselves on social media committing crimes like the average teenage t|kt0k user loves to do from what I hear, I swear.

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    How unoriginal and droll. Let us know when they can confidently predict 95% of their coin flips and then I might be interested.

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    They must love this guy then.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I have to say, I kind of dig this.

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  • When I was a kid all we did was wear nWo t shirts and play Pogs

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